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If you find summer Sunday evenings are too nice to spend inside, but you're in the mood to see a movie, head for Barracks Square.

DVD Features include: 16:9 widescreen format, 5.1 Dolby stereo surround sound, bonus song: "Rollin' in My Sweet Bay's Arms"- sung by George to Margie , " Flying By " alternate ending performance and montage, "A Film Conversation" - Jim Amatulli , Christopher Chomyn and Howard Heard discuss the production challenges , interactive menus, scene ...

Yikes, darlings! I watch a lot of old movies on TCM, mostly because TCM are my initials.

From left: chef Jody Adams, UNICEF CEO and President Caryl Stern, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, and wife Jeannette, Actor Ben Affleck was scheduled to make a surprise appearance at a UNICEF dinner last night honoring Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his wife, Jeannette .

Seen any good movies lately? If current films about talking Chihuahuas or saw-wielding killers don't spark reel excitement, here's your ticket to check out some classics from Hollywood's golden past.

Admission: Opening night: $20-$30 , evening shows: $10, matinees/short films: $6. Group discounts for three or more Information and full schedule: www.worldfest.org, 713-965-9955 Patricia Neal, who won an Oscar in 1964 for her role in Hud , will be at the opening night of the 42nd WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival for the ...

Out on DVD this week is the Doris Day Collection . National treasure Doris Day hadn't yet found her cinematic footing in many of these sparking musicals/ comedies offered here, but the vivacious blonde is always appealing and a delight to watch on the screen.

Although the movie Alien Trespass is a very funny movie, the director and cast insist that the 1950s throwback to B sci-fi movies would be played seriously by the actors.

Great news for Disney fans: Disney is finally turning loose of one of their postwar films made in Britain.

JOHN LOVES MARY is a silly, mildly amusing piece of fluff about a newly returned WWII vet's complicated marriage plans.

Breakfast at Tiffany's DVD Review Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 01.08.2009 Audrey Hepburn's iconic role gets the Centennial treatment from Paramount, but is it worth the potential double-dip? Directed by: Blake ...

Reviewed by Richard von Busack Posing as "John Carpenter" a diffident alien, Klaatu, played by Michael Rennie, lands his flying saucer in the middle of some baseball fields near the Washington.

Keanu Reeves portrays Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval.

This week, we review the remake of the science fiction classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still," the Holocaust drama "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," and the Latino comedy-drama "Nothing Like the Holidays." ...

The 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still was grounded in realism and engendered by topical events .

"Klaatu barada nikto." Science-fiction buffs will recognize this as the phrase alien Klaatu teaches his earthling friend Helen in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," meant to prevent the menacing robot Gort from ...

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Heck, I'm not the least bit bitter about the fact that I wasn't invited to the press screening for The Day the Earth Stood Still .

There must be legions of classic-film fans gleefully sharpening their knives for 'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' a remake of the 1951 cult science-fiction favorite. That movie, starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal, and directed by the great all-rounder Robert Wise, helped define not just a genre but an entire era, with its allegorical critique of Cold War politics. Surely a remake has Wise spinning in his grave!

Well, yes and no. While the new version, which stars a punch-line-ready Keanu Reeves, is likely to make audiences pine for the meta-irony of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000,' it's not a complete failure. It will shock few to learn that Reeves is uniquely well suited for the role of Klaatu, the alien life form that takes on a human body to warn earthlings of the coming apocalypse unless they change their ways.

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