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Soundtracking: May All Your Christmases Be Alt

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Die Hard ? Gremlins ? Batman Returns ? What makes a Christmas movie a Christmas movie? Does a song have to be Christmas-themed to become a holiday classic? Here are five unlikely music moments that have helped define alternative Christmas movies.

Toronto Screening Calendar: December 2018

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Cinemas are offering a lot more than just Die Hard and It's a Wonderful Life screenings this month (though there are plenty of those as well). See it all in December's Toronto screening calendar!

Unsung Anniversaries #2: Blank Check

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For our second installment of Unsung Anniversaries we take a look back on the 20th anniversary of the decidedly less than rad Home Alone knock-off Blank Check and just how a movie like this ends up getting made in the first place.

This Week at the Bloor 12/23/13

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The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema closes out their programming year with the stunning and thoughtful Expedition to the End of the World and the problematic Maidentrip . We also look at a bunch of special screenings happening over the holiday season, including the quadruple-feature of holiday classics going down today!

This Week at The Bloor: 12/6/13

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A trio of new films hit The Bloor this week: Jingle Bell Rock is a well made bit of holiday nostalgia. The Italian Character can never quite find an even handed way of showcasing one of the world's best orchestras. And InRealLife is a well made, but oddly fear mongering look at how teenagers approach the internet.

Interview: Patrick Read Johnson

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That Shelf talks to Patrick Read Johnson about his long in the works autobiographical film 5-25-77 and it's long road to the big screen despite being a small film about how he got started as a filmmaker growing up in small town Illinois. Johnson opens up about growing disillusioned with the studio system (working with John Hughes on Baby's Day Out , turning down the chance to do Home Alone , and the troubled post production on Angus ), the good along the way, and bringing his work-in-progress film to the TIFF Next Wave Festival this weekend.