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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

With apologies to those readers who don't celebrate Christmas, I'm going to indulge myself a bit here. I love just about everything about Christmas. I actually enjoy Christmas shopping, stressful though it may be. (Which reminds me of the one thing I really don't love about Christmas: my January credit card bill.) I love all kinds of Christmas music, classical, the Bing Crosby standards, and Christmas rock. I also (Amazon).

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Most Likely to Rule: The Rape of Europa - Joan Allen narrates a documentary about the art destroyed and displaced by the Nazis during WWII, and the attempts - which began then and are still going on today - by museum officials and art historians to rescue and return said art. Sounds totally fascinating, and the reviews are very good. And given the slim pickings this...

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this holiday weekend (all of these movies open today). Most Likely to Rule: I'm Not There - An "unconventional" biopic of Bob Dylan wherein six different actors play him at various stages in his career. Said actors include Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, and Heath Ledger. Also in the cast (but not playing Bob) are David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, and Julianne Moore. We could see how this...

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains - A documentary by director Jonathan Demme following Jimmy Carter on his recent book tour for his controversial book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. A great director and an interesting subject should make for a good film. Trailer Showing at: Ritz at the Bourse Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten - Another documentary opening at the Ritz at the Bourse this weekend...

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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

What's new and/or interesting at Philly theaters this weekend.

Judging by the, as of this writing, abysmal freshness rating of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, a lot of people don't agree with me, but I thought The Invasion was a pretty good movie. It's apparently the fourth film adaptation of a story originally told in a Collier's magazine serial (and which was later turned into a novel), but the only other movie version I've ever seen was the first one - 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That film, which is quite excellent, used the concept of a secret invasion of plant-like aliens who could replace humans with not-quite-perfect-replicas while they were asleep as a metaphor for Cold War paranoia. The 2007 version of the film takes the horrifying concept of our loved ones - and ourselves - becoming weird emotionless others that we don't recognize, and goes off in an entirely different direction with it, using it as a stepping-off point to examine humanity and its relationship to violence, and concluding finally that the lasting terror will come not so much from outer space, but from ourselves.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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