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Halloween Horror Movies 2013 - Day 28 - ALIEN

           A monster stalks a group of people who are trapped in an enclosed area with limited places to hide and few options of escape.  They are killed one by one until only the nubile young hottie...

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Halloween Horror Movies 2013 - Day 29 - THE EVIL DEAD

         It used to be that the “B movie”, particularly “B” Horror movies, were a sort of minor leagues for emerging filmmakers.  It was an area of film where a director could, on a modest budget, cut...

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Halloween Horror Movies 2013 - Day 30 - PRINCE OF DARKNESS

         The Religious Horror sub-genre rarely works for me.  I usually don’t find it credible, much less scary (a strange stance, I know, for someone who loves supernatural Horror, but there it is)....

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Halloween Horror Movies 2013 - Day 31 - HALLOWEEN

          Today is the day, and this is the movie for it! The sire and still best of all the slasher films, John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN broke the mold of the psycho-killer movie and remade it in its own...

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Somehow, 3 of my "12 Essentials of Christmas" diaries posted prematurely.   I took them down...Consider it a preview, I guess... :-[

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 1 - THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

            In 1982, Disney had a surprise success with a stop-motion animated short called VINCENT, which was the brainchild of one the many animators on their payroll.  This animator had another idea...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 2 - RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER

             On Sunday, December 6th of 1964 children across the country settled in around their TV sets to watch a new, eagerly awaited Christmas special.  It was a special which told the story of a...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 3 - HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

             The idea of the “Christmas redemption” is almost as old as the modern Christmas itself.  The most obvious example (and the most often imitated)  is A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and though many...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 4 - DIE HARD

             A movie set on Christmas Eve was released in the Summer of 1988.  It is not very often that such a thing happens - movies with Christmas settings invariably getting a December release....

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 5 - ELF

                Earnest Christmas movies are not easy to make these days.  We live in times when irony and jadedness seem more authentic than earnestness.  Innocence is sneered at.  Joy is seen as...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 6 - Blackadder's Christmas Carol

              Humor is one of those things that defines a nation.  Every culture’s sense of humor is distinctive, and every one a bit of a mystery; you either get it, or you don’t.  One culture whose...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 7 - HOME ALONE

            In 1990, a holiday movie was released that received roundly negative reviews.  Almost unanimously, critics around the country, while acknowledging some of the film’s merits, panned the...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 8 - BLACK CHRISTMAS

            Christmas has always had a freely acknowledged dark side.  Though for most, it is a time of togetherness and joy, for many it is a time of great loneliness and depression.  When our holiday...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 9 - THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL

        The 1970’s were, one could say, the golden age of cheesy television.  While it was the era of undisputable classic TV shows like “M.A.S.H.” and “All in the Family”, it was also the era of...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 10 - THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

             Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL is probably the best known and most beloved of all Christmas stories.  The tale of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge is as resonant today as it was when...

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A Gift for the Kos Community - My Family's Wassail Recipe

As some of you may know, I enjoy posting diaries about movies during the various holiday seasons.  It started as a Halloween thing, but has since spread to Christmas as well.  In my most recent diary,...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 11 - A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS

             The 1960’s was an awesome decade for the Holiday TV Special.  The Grinch and the majority of the Rankin/Bass specials came along in the ‘60s - establishing seasonal television traditions...

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12 Essentials of Christmas - Day 12 - A CHRISTMAS STORY

             What better movie for Christmas Eve than arguably the greatest Christmas movie ever made?  A CHRISTMAS STORY captures the essence of the holiday like no other film.  It is a movie that...

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Thoughts about the murder of Kelly Thomas

And make no mistake. It was murder.Two Fullerton Cops were acquitted for the beating death of Kelly Thomas.  A young schizophrenic man.  This comes in the wake of story after story of young people with...

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Halloween Horror Movies 2014 - Day 1: DRACULA

              For me, a proper celebration of the Halloween season really begins with my annual October 1st viewing of DRACULA.  Even now,  82 years since it was first released, director Tod Browning’s...

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