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Blu-ray Review: Home Alone 2 Lost in New York
14 December 2009 11:19 AM, PST
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Not many sequels can get away with (critically, at least) almost step-by-step rehashing the entire plot of the original film and simply transposing it to a new setting. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York doesn’t really get away with it either, but as a kid, the film’s target audience, I never seemed to mind when the holiday flick was released in 1992. It was more of a smartass kid kicking the crap out of two clown burglars who can take as many shots as Wile E. Coyote, this time in the Big Apple.
Home Alone 2’s formula is so close one must wonder if they simply used the same script. The McCallister’s Chicago household is bustling again, as the holiday season is upon them, and against all common sense following the previous year’s exploits, they are planning another holiday trip for the entire family. Kevin (Macaulay Culkin
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Blu-ray Giveaway: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
13 October 2009 8:10 AM, PDT
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Now available from Fox Home Entertainment on Blu-ray Disc and joining its predecessor in high definition is Home Alone 2: Lost in New York with Macaulay Culkin once again squaring off against
Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.
There are five Blu-ray versions of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York here to be issued to five lucky readers. You can take a shot at winning one by sending in the completed entry form below. Optionally return any or every day thereafter and enter again to increase the odds of winning with each additional entry. Good luck!
Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin,
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This Week on DVD: Year One, Trick ‘r Treat, Anvil! The Story of Anvil
6 October 2009 10:23 AM, PDT
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What do the DVD release gods have in store for us today? This week's biggest releases would have to be the Jack Black/Michael Cera comedy Year One and Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray, but looking beyond that there are a handful of smaller movies worth checking out. Both Trick r' Treat and Assassination of a High School President are movies that ended up going direct to DVD despite fairly positive reviews, so now is your chance to check them out. Also out this week are two amazing documentaries, Anvil! The Story of Anvil and Not Quite Hollywood, plus Blu-ray releases for Audition, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and some holiday classics including A Charlie Brown Christmas. Will you be buying or renting anything this week?
Year One [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2])
My Life in Ruins [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4])
Trick 'r Treat [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6])
Assassination of a High School President [7]
Seventh Moon [8] (DVD,
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- Sean
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It's Macaulay Culkin's Birthday, But Whatever Happened To Kevin McCallister?
26 August 2009 2:00 PM, PDT
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Although he's hardly as well known today as he was back in the '90s, Macaulay Culkin is nonetheless one of the most memorable child actors of our time -- but today is Culkin's 29th birthday, which makes it almost twenty years since "Home Alone" first hit theaters. Aside from feeling incredibly old, the time lapse got me thinking: whatever happened to Kevin McCallister?
No, I'm not talking about Culkin himself, who is still acting thanks to projects like "Saved!" and "Kings." Even if I don't know where he is specifically, I have an idea of where Culkin is as an actor -- but what I'd really like to know is, where would his "Home Alone" alter-ego be today? Whatever happened to Richie Rich? Where are these iconic characters on their 29th birthdays?
Sadly, we'll never know the answers... but that's not stopping me from wondering! If I had to guess,
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- Josh Wigler
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Psycho named UK’s top movie shower scene
14 August 2009 4:13 AM, PDT
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Here at Boxwish we love that movies can inspire you to try new things. Right now many Us cinema-goers are having a go at cooking the recipes of celebrity cook Julia Child thank to the new movie Julie and Julia, but the message can work both ways – sometimes cinema can put you off certain things. Remember how Jaws scared you from swimming in the sea or how Enduring Love had you quaking at the thought of hot air balloon trips? Well, Psycho and its iconic shower scene must surely be one of the most powerful film deterrents (hands up who took a bath rather than a shower after watching Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) kill Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) in his Bates Motel bathroom?) and the potent power of this horrifying visual has helped it secure the number one spot in a new poll to find the most memorable movie shower scene.
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John Hughes Said He 'Stumbled Into Teen Films'
7 August 2009 8:35 AM, PDT
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In a 1992 interview with MTV News for 'Home Alone 2,' the late director explains his unintentional specialty.
By Jocelyn Vena
John Hughes speaks to MTV News in 1992
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In 1992, while promoting "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," legendary director John Hughes, who died Thursday of a heart attack at the age of 59, spoke to MTV News about how he wound up specializing in iconic teen flicks like "Pretty in Pink" and later kid-friendly movies, like "Home Alone."
Hughes recalled that as he was finishing up his John Candy/ Macaulay Culkin movie, "Uncle Buck," he realized that he liked the kids' voice in the movie. "I always took the teenage point-of-view [earlier], and when I did 'Uncle Buck,' I took the uncle, Candy's point-of-view. And while doing that ... I really had fun working with a boy," he said of Culkin, who was 9 when "Uncle Buck" came out.
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R.I.P. John Hughes
6 August 2009 9:06 AM, PDT
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Eighties writer/director mastermind John Hughes died early today of a heart attack while taking a morning walk. A National Lampoon writer from the rag's glory days, his work on the screnplay for National Lampoon's Vacation brought him his first screen success and soon after he was directing his own script, the coming-of-age classic Sixteen Candles. The movie was a success and set down what it meant to be a Hughes film, filled with contemporary alt rock, teenage angst, and a stunning clarity for what it felt like to grow up in America.
Following his first success, Hughes continued in the same pattern with Pretty In Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and his masterpiece Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Though he skipped between writing, directing, and producing, his films still felt like Hughes regardless of what role he was playing in their production.
In the late
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Steve Martin, Matthew Broderick, More Pay Tribute To John Hughes
6 August 2009 5:20 AM, PDT
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'The man who spoke for geeks way before anyone else did,' writer/director Kevin Smith tweeted.
By Eric Ditzian
John Hughes in 1984
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In the hours since legendary comedy writer and director John Hughes passed away at the age of 59 from a heart attack, tributes from actors who worked with him over his decades-long career have poured in.
"I am truly shocked and saddened by the news about my old friend John Hughes," Matthew Broderick, who starred in Hughes' "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," said in a statement. "He was a wonderful, very talented guy and my heart goes out to his family."
Macaulay Culkin rose to fame in the Hughes-scripted blockbuster "Home Alone" and went on to appear in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" two years later. "I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person," Culkin said in a statement.
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Home Alone 2 Springing onto Blu-ray
16 July 2009 11:00 PM, PDT
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Home Alone will not be alone on Blu-ray for much longer with news that Fox Home Entertainment has officially confirmed Home Alone 2: Lost in New York will arrive in high definition on October 6.
Home Alone 2 comes to Blu-ray in a bare bones edition with no supplemental features. Video will be standard 1080p high definition with 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio.
Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won.t be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget!
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Set Visit: I Love You, Beth Cooper Finds Its Heart in Vancouver
18 June 2009 2:45 PM, PDT
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"This is like an adolescent version of The Passion of the Christ" - Paul Rust, 2008
I Love You, Beth Cooper. Page 89. Earlier in the day, class valedictorian Dennis Cooverman emphatically proclaimed his love for Beth Cooper in the middle of his graduation commencement speech. Though she doesn't know it yet, she is the love of his young life. Sweet, yet almost too pretty for the room, Beth accepts these words and agrees to meet Dennis at his graduation after-party. It is now 10 pm that night. After waiting for what seemed like an eternity, Beth has finally arrived at Dennis' house with her two friends Treece and Cammy. They are known as the Trinity, and neither Dennis nor his pal Rich, can believe they are actually here, hanging out with them.
After one little mishap with a champagne bottle that sees the cork nailing Dennis in the eye, the party actually picks up,
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