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Thn Advent Calendar Day Five: Bad Santa

4 December 2011 11:13 PM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

Welcome to The Hollywood News Advent Calendar! Join us for the next 24 days as we run down the top Christmas movies and guide you to the perfect festive viewing. Featuring some of your favourite Christmas movies and some you’d probably forgotten (maybe even on purpose), but hey, it is Christmas after all… to see the calendar so far, click here.

Billy Bob Thornton’s unexpected meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom first began with a supporting role in Carl Franklin’s effective1992 independent thriller One False Move (co-written by Thornton himself) in which he played the psychotic villain opposite a brilliant Bill Paxton. It wasn’t until his incredible turn as mentally-challenged murderer Karl Childers in Sling Blade five years later – a role originated from the short film Some Folks Call It A Sling Blade which Thornton wrote and directed – that the actor began to turn heads. The role won »

- Craig Hunter

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Match Cuts: "Bad Santa"

23 June 2011 10:26 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

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 »

- Matt Singer

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Trick 'r Treat News: Their Twitter Page Teases Trick 'r Treat Sequel?

2 April 2011 10:44 AM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »

The Twitter page for Trick 'r Treat teases us with this: "Sam Will return..." The original 2007 movie was Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband. It starred Quinn Lord as Sam (Peeping Tommy) with: Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Lauren Lee Smith, Moneca Delain, Tahmoh Penikett, Brett Kelly, Britt McKillip, Isabelle Deluce, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Alberto Ghisi, Samm Todd, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox and Leslie Bibb. LEEE777 - I really enjoyed the first one and remember them saying they wanted to do one annually, but that never happened, so fingers crossed. »

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Trick 'R Treat News: Their Twitter Page Teases Trick 'R Treat Sequel?

2 April 2011 10:44 AM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »

The Twitter page for Trick 'R Treat teases us with this: "Sam Will return..." The original 2007 movie was Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband. It starred Quinn Lord as Sam (Peeping Tommy) with: Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Lauren Lee Smith, Moneca Delain, Tahmoh Penikett, Brett Kelly, Britt McKillip, Isabelle Deluce, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Alberto Ghisi, Samm Todd, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox and Leslie Bibb. LEEE777 - I really enjoyed the first one and remember them saying they wanted to do one annually, but that never happened, so fingers crossed. »

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