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Review | The Men Who Stare at Goats (R) **

Super soldiers in Iraq have nothing to do
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Review | Disney's A Christmas Carol (PG) ***

Classic Christmas tale retold with eye-popping effects
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Review | The Box (PG-13) ***

Eerie morality tale may well push your buttons
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Review | The Fourth Kind (PG-13) **

Alien goings-on in Nome, Alaska
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Review | The Baader-Meinhof Complex (R) ***�

The birth of modern terrorism as a thriller
WEB HORROR SERIES

Corman, Netflix get interactive in 'Splatter'

When it came to making movies quickly and cheaply, it was hard to beat Roger Corman, who once joked that he could make a film about the Roman Empire with two extras and a sagebrush. He directed 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors in two days.
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Essay inspired an instant classic

Everything about An Education, the story of a 16-year-old girl's affair with a 30-year-old man in London in 1962, comes together in a way that gives the movie the feel of an instant classic.
SCREEN GEMS

Coming this week at the movies and on TV

BIG SCREEN The Box (PG-13): -- After the spectacular failure of his ambitious second film Southland Tales, writer-director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) goes the simpler, high-concept route with this thriller adapted from a tiny Richard Matheson short story, about a married couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) given a wooden box. Push its button, and you become instantly wealthy -- but someone, somewhere, drops dead. Would you do it? Come on, you know you would.
DVD SCANS

DVD review | 'Orphan': Modest little picture's a frightful romp

A fiendishly clever twist on the ''evil child'' genre of horror films, Orphan (Warner Home Entertainment, $29 DVD, $34 Blu-ray) was unceremoniously dumped into theaters this summer with little promotion. But the movie, produced by Joel Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment, which specializes in modest little B-pictures (House on Haunted Hill, Ghost Ship), deserved better.
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Review | Michael Jackson's This Is It (PG) ***

The King of Pop is back for one last show