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Plus, check out 25 Christmas movie soundtracks below. Note: the Cinemagic special and the list below include some different music).

25 Christmas Movie Soundtracks 25. The Polar Express (2004)

Composer: Alan Silvestri

This visually stunning film is accompanied by a soundtrack full of soaring orchestral music and seasonal classics. Alan Silvestri’s score, paired with the unforgettable vocals of Tom Hanks (who voices several characters in the film), creates an atmosphere of wonder and awe, making it a holiday favorite.

24. Love Actually...

By Todd Garbarini

High school friends Enid Coleslaw (Thora Birch) and Rebecca Doppelmeyer (Scarlett Johansson) absolutely cannot wait to be free of the prison of school, defiantly flipping the bird and squashing their mortarboards following their graduation. Enid isn’t off the hook just yet: her “diploma” is instead a note informing her that she must “take some stupid art class” (her words) if she hopes to graduate. Their fellow classmates are caricatures of everyone we all knew during our adolescence. Melora (Debra Azar) is inhumanly happy all the time and oblivious to Enid and Rebecca’s sense of ennui and contempt. Todd (T.J. Thyne) is ultra-nervous to talk with the insouciant Rebecca at the punchbowl. Another bespectacled student sits off by himself. Enid and Rebecca are at both an intellectual and emotional crossroads. They want to share an apartment; however, they seem unaware of the amount of money they...

Daniel Clowes’ comics creation receives an A-Plus film adaptation through the directorial filter of Terry Zwigoff. The show has more going for it than the bleak alienation of disaffected quasi- gen-Xers — the script offers a depth of character revealing the insecure, hopes and fears behind all the insulting attitudes and behaviors. It’s caustic, funny and also strongly affecting.

Ghost World

Blu-ray

The Criterion Collection 872

2001 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 111 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 30, 2017 / 39.95

Starring: Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Bob Balaban, Stacey Travis, Teri Garr.

Cinematography: Affonso Beato

Production Designer: Edward T. McAvoy

Art Direction: Alan E. Muraoka

Film Editors: Carole Kravetz, Michael R. Miller

Original Music: David Kitay

Writing credits: Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff from the comics by Daniel Clowes

Produced by Pippa Cross, Janette Day, Lianne Halfon, Barbara A. Hall,

John Malkovich, Russell Smith

Directed by Terry Zwigoff

Enid:...

Nettwerk Music Group is set to release the Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project. The album will be released on October 4, 2011 and will be available digitally, as well as a On-Demand CD on Amazon (pre-order the CD here). The musical fundraising project was originally designed to help the people of Haiti in their desperate time of need. A year after the terrible earthquake which has destroyed the lives of thousands of Haitians, the need for assistance is even greater than ever. Symphony of Hope is a collaboration by 25 of today’s leading Oscar-, Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning composers to benefit Haiti Earthquake Relief. The “Symphony of Hope” begins with an original Haitian melody, then each composer contributes an additional 8-32 bars of music to the piece and then passes it along to the next composer. Among the participating composers are Nathan Barr, Tyler Bates, Jeff Beal, Christophe Beck, Bruce Broughton,...

On this date in...

1952: Radio soap opera Lone Journey ended its run after 12 years.

1966: Dark Shadows debuted on ABC and would go on to become a cult classic.

1969: NBC soap Hidden Faces aired it's final episode.

Celebrating a birthday today are:

Julia Duffy (ex-Karen, One Life To Live; ex-Penny, The Doctors; ex-Gerry, Love Of Life) - 61

Robert Newman (ex-Josh, Guiding Light; ex-Kirk, Santa Barbara; ex-Prescott, General Hospital) - 53

J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer, Lost; Fringe) - 45

John Driscoll (Chance, The Young And The Restless; ex-Coop, Guiding Light) - 30

Ed Westwick (Chuck, Gossip Girl) - 24...

In Match Cuts, we examine every available version of a film, and decide once and for all which is the one, definitive cut worth watching. This week, in honor of Jake Kasdan's bad teacher movie "Bad Teacher," we're looking at Terry Zwigoff's bad Santa movie "Bad Santa."

Editions:

-Theatrical Cut (2003): 91 minutes

-Unrated Cut (a.k.a. "Badder Santa") (2004): 98 minutes

-DIrector's Cut (2006): 88 minutes

The Story:

Career small-time criminals Willie "Tugboat" Soak (Billy Bob Thornton) and Marcus "The Prince" Skidmore (Tony Cox) perform an ingenious annual hustle: they get jobs as a mall Santa (Willie) and his elf (Marcus, who's a little person), then rob their employer blind after everyone else goes home on Christmas Eve. Willie's a good safecracker and a terrible human being: a cruel, vulgar, self-centered sex-addicted, alcoholic mess. In Phoenix for the holiday season, Willie finds his dark worldview lightening thanks to...

William Ross has been hired to score the comedy A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas. The second sequel in the series is directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson and Kal Penn, John Cho and Neil Patrick Harris are reprising their roles from the previous movies. They are joined by new cast members Patton Oswalt, Tom Lennon and Danny Trejo. Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg are once again writing the screenplay and Greg Shapiro returns as the producer. The movie follows the pair on a journey through New York City on Christmas Eve in search of the perfect Christmas tree after inadvertently burning down Harold’s father-in-law’s prize tree. Ross is the third composer working on the comedy series, following David Kitay (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) and George S. Clinton (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay). The movie is also the first one shot in 3D. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas...

Opens

Nov. 26

If "Elf" proved too nice for the naughty set, "Bad Santa" should handily fit the bill.

Quite likely the most subversive Santa movie ever made, this twisted take on conventional holiday fare stars Billy Bob Thornton as a defiantly slovenly man in the red suit -- a perpetually soused department store Kris Kringle who likes kids only slightly better than he cares for his own miserable life.

While that less-than-cheery tone shouldn't exactly come as a surprise given that it was directed by Terry Zwigoff ("Ghost World", "Crumb") and based on a one-line concept by the Coen brothers, not everybody's going to be prepared for the kind of unmistakably R-rated brand of take-no-prisoners comedy that would have made Scrooge blush.

Fortunately, it also happens to be extremely funny -- at times sidesplittingly so -- thanks to Zwigoff's way with raw irreverence and Thornton's perfectly pitched, ready-for-anything performance.

But even with Zwigoff's following, Dimension's marketing department has a tough job to do. "Bad Santa" is the kind of film that's going to rely heavily on positive word-of-mouth to build its audience, not to mention the fact that, aside from maybe the successful "Bad Boys" and "Bad News Bears" movies, having the word "bad" in your title isn't usually a good idea.

Displaying a deviously mean-spirited streak that they didn't exactly hint at in "Cats & Dogs" and "Looney Tunes: Back in Action", the screenwriting team of John Requa and Glenn Ficarra have cooked up a clever little bit of business here.

Each holiday season, safecracker Willie T. Stokes (Thornton) partially emerges from a hazy, booze-induced hibernation to team up with 3-foot-tall mastermind Marcus (Tony Cox) and, under the benevolent cover of Santa and Elf, clean out the particular department store in which they happen to be employed.

But this year, Marcus has more to contend with than the distinct possibility of Willie either being passed out cold behind the fake snow or giving female customers an early present in the fitting rooms.

First of all, there's the nosy highly methodical store manager (John Ritter in his last role) who reports his suspicious findings to his intrepid mall detective (Bernie Mac).

Meanwhile, Willie becomes distracted by the perky Sue (Lauren Graham), who has a major Santa fixation (she makes him do it while keeping his hat on), and, unwittingly, by a pudgy, snot-nosed 8-year-old (played by natural-born scene-stealer Brett Kelly), who invites the unpleasant Santa to live with him and his grandmother (Cloris Leachman) in their big, empty house.

It is to Zwigoff's credit that, despite all the shocking bits, he manages to pull off key moments of syrup-free pathos where they count, but the casting is what makes "Bad Santa" sing.

Summoning up the late, great curmudgeonly Wallace Beery (or at least Beery unencumbered by the Hays Code), Thornton's Willie T. Stokes is a comic blast, especially when he lets loose with the ennui-dripping sarcasm.

Even more potent are his interactions with Cox as his abusive partner in crime and, especially, newcomer Kelly, who willingly endures all of Thornton's profane diatribes without the slightest blink of an eye.

Production values reflect the desired dispirited tone, from Sharon Seymour's humbly tacky production design and costume designer Wendy Chuck's sad-looking, understuffed Santa suit to David Kitay's quirky, not-exactly-festive score.

Bad Santa

Dimension Films

Dimension Films presents a Triptych Pictures productionA Terry Zwigoff film

Credits:

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Screenwriters: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

Producers: John Cameron, Sarah Aubrey, Bob Weinstein

Executive producers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Director of photography: Jamie Anderson

Production designer: Sharon Seymour

Editor: Robert Hoffman

Costume designer: Wendy Chuck

Music: David Kitay

Casting: Mary Vernieu, Felicia Farsano

Cast:

Willie T. Stokes: Billy Bob Thornton

Bob Chipeska: John Ritter

Gin Slagel: Bernie Mac

Marcus: Tony Cox

Sue: Lauren Graham

Grandmother: Cloris Leachman

The Kid: Brett Kelly

Lois: Lauren Tom

Running time -- 94 minutes

MPAA rating: R...

Add the words "Till It's Over" to the title of this stale house party celebrating high school graduation, and you'll get a gauge of audience reaction to this dumb and dull comedy.

Decked out as a wild-and-crazy, end-of-school-year party-rama, "Can't Hardly Wait" has many of the same decorations and trappings as "American Graffitti" and "House Party", but it's one dreary carbon of a celluloid.

Luckily, its target teen audience may be too wet behind the ears to have ever viewed this Sony release's wilder, woolier and funnier antecedents. Factor in a so-so opening weekend at the boxoffice, but word-of-mouth will be failing. Still, based on the recognition value of its youthful cast, this comic cut-out may chalk up some decent grades as a video rental, perfect as background noise at slumber and pizza parties but not distracting enough to intrude on more adventuresome late-night activities.

In this hodgepodge of party hijinks, writer-directors Harry Elftont and Deborah Kaplan have crammed together a cluster of kids -- all stereotypes -- and jammed them into, basically, a single-set situation. Unfortunately, this class is not nearly as edgy and charismatic as those at Ridgemont High. They are, left to right in the yearbook: Mike, a callous, handsome jock (Peter Facinelli), Amanda, the class beauty and Mike's porcelain girlfriend (Jennifer Love Hewitt); William, a National Merit Scholar geek (Charlie Korsmo); Kenny, a kooky shortboy who thinks he's a homeboy (Seth Green); Preston (Ethan Embry), a moony nondescript who pines for Amanda, and Denise, a sullen outsider (Lauren Ambrose). It all swirls around the fact that Mike and Amanda have broken up. Oh, there's other people too: a pair of nerds on the roof and a gushy girl who wants everyone to sign her yearbook. Interesting? Not even.

Unfortunately, Elfton and Kaplan, while stringing out predictable plot dots for these character cliches, have not even connected the basic linear points with any verve or originality. The narrative is merely a scattergun smear of lame sight gags and disjointed, dimwitted vignettes, camouflaged shrewdly by some quick-cut edits and jumpy swerves.

Overall, "Can't Hardly Wait" is about as much fun as listening to a valedictorian drone on about the future, all puff and predictability. It's an underachiever on all comic fronts -- poorly structured gags, underdeveloped plotting, dropped comic opportunities, witless dialogue, a band that doesn't play, etc.

Yet, amid its overall sloppiness, there is some merriment, supplied largely by Green for his wonderfully goofy performance as a nerd who tries to overcompensate for his lack of cool by affecting black, homey behavior.

In addition, Ambrose brings a vital sense of alienation to her role as class cynic. They are the only two characters who muster any empathy or interest.

CAN'T HARDLY WAIT

Sony Pictures Releasing

Columbia Pictures

A Tall Trees production

A Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont film

Producers: Jenno Topping, Betty Thomas

Screenwriters, directors: Harry Elfont,

Deborah Kaplan

Director of photography: Lloyd Ahern

Editor: Michael Jablow

Production designer: Marcia Hinds-Johnson

Music: David Kitay,

Matthew Sweet

Executive music producer: Ralph Sall

Costume designer: Mark Bridges

Co-producer: Karen Koch

Casting: Mary Vernieu,

Anne McCarthy

Color/stereo

Cast:

Amanda: Jennifer Love Hewitt

Preston: Ethan Embry

William: Charlie Korsmo

Denise: Lauren Ambrose

Mike: Peter Facinelli

Kenny: Seth Green

Girl Whose Party It Is: Michelle Brookhurst

Running time -- 96 minutes

MPAA rating: PG-13...