John Huston

Where the Botched Children's Book Adaptations Are

For every Coraline or The Iron Giant, there’s a rash of beloved children’s stories that lost their charm en route to the big screen. still in theaters and director Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox opening Friday in limited...

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Turn your computer into an art house

Have you thought about your computer as an art-house movie theater, a showcase for classic silent films, unusual documentaries, a wide range of horror flicks and more? A few Internet sites make it possible to check out early...

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Choose between 'Oz' and 'Annie'

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "The Wizard of Oz" (1939, TBS) or "Annie" (1982, ABC Family), 8 p.m. It's family-movie-musical night on cable, with two choices. "Oz" is the great one, a classic that offered the perfect blend of star (Judy...

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Blu-ray releases: You'll always remember these firsts

Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape won plaudits at Cannes You never know about a director's first feature film. Next Tuesday brings the Blu-ray release of two first films that worked. The determinedly lower-case sex,...

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D.C. Going Out Guide events: Nov. 12-18, 2009

Nov. 12 SHORT WAR FILMS "Our America at War" (1941), John Huston's "The Battle of San Pietro" (1944), "UN Offensive" (1950) and others. Noon. National Archives, Constitution Avenue and Seventh Street NW. 202-357-5000 or...

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ChrisJarmick says "Best Movies Hitchcock, Peckinpah, Aldrich gems are highlights" about Classic...

Turner Classic Movies gives us 3 more Grace Kelly movies on Thursday November 12th. Then, on Friday the 13th the primetime focus is on Westerns with manly men going for the gold followed by a rare cult type movie that's...

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Best Cult Holiday Movies

Christmas Films for Cult-, Camp-, and Independent-Movie Fans For people looking to celebrate the season with movies that aren't traditional classics, try cult holiday movies that feature idiosyncratic views and odd characters....

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ChrisJarmick says "Worst of the Worst Movies. The ones to avoid." about Worst Movies Bad Films...

Welcome to Part 11 of my round up of some of the Worst Films ever made. These are not the kind of bad films that are fun to watch. These are just terrible films possessing such little entertainment that in my opinion they are...

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The Old Horse Home

The West has been home to wild horses since the days of the conquistadores. In 1971, the federal "Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act" outlawed rounding up horses for slaughter. Afterwards, an annual quota of mustangs was...

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Producers enlist for Murphy biopic

Exclusives: 'Beyond the Sea' duo nab rights to 'Name on the Bullet' -- Producers Arthur E. Friedman ("Beyond the Sea") and Steven Jay Rubin are developing an Audie Murphy biopic, buying rights to Don Graham's biography "No Name...

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