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Gift Guide: The Frederico Fellini Horror Film You Haven’t Seen

From Movieline’s 2010 Holiday Gift Guide In 1968, filmmaking giants Frederico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim all contributed an Edgar Allen Poe adaptation to a mostly-forgotten horror omnibus called Spirits of the Dead . It’s been unavailable in the U.S. for a long time, but Arrow Films has finally released a new region-free Blu-ray of the film. And while Malle and Vadim’s entries are a bit underwhelming, Fellini’s psychedelic, totally insane take on Never Bet the Devil Your Head starring Terence Stamp makes this Blu-ray an essential for cinephiles and horror buffs alike.

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Gift Guide: The Frederico Fellini Horror Film You Haven’t Seen

Gift Guide: No Kid (or Geek) Can Resist a Spinning Lightsaber

Another Movielne HQ favorite from the Hasbro shipment: the Spinning Electronic Lightsaber. Here’s the problem with your normal, run-of-the-mill lightsaber — it doesn’t spin. Now, I’m not exactly sure why the lightsaber needs to spin, but it does make a pretty nifty light up effect as it does. And it gets better…

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Gift Guide: No Kid (or Geek) Can Resist a Spinning Lightsaber

Gift Guide: Sick of Stupid Movie-Star Gowns? Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Style Is for You

Movie-star style is an enduring source of fascination, though today it seems to find its greatest expression in mostly run-of-the-mill (if jaw-droppingly expensive) red-carpet gowns: When you’ve seen one exquisitely draped Marchesa confection, you’ve seen them all. If you’re as sick of stupid gowns as I am, you’ll love Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Style, a coffee-table extravaganza filled with pictures of a woman who, off-duty and on-, really knew how to dress — and there’s not an overpriced, overdesigned Louboutin in sight.

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Gift Guide: Sick of Stupid Movie-Star Gowns? Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Style Is for You

Gift Guide: Michael Giacchino Takes Us Back to Lost

In the years to come, the most indelible impression Lost may leave on the pop culture landscape — besides forcing all twisty, mythology-heavy television shows to be referred to as “The next Lost ” — is making Michael Giacchino a household name. Well, just as long as your household is the type that geeks out on composers and movie soundtracks.

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Gift Guide: Michael Giacchino Takes Us Back to Lost

Gift Guide: The Toy Story Trilogy is For Everyone (But Armond White)

Unless you’re shopping for Norbit lover Armond White — and since this is the holiday season, here’s a link to that Eddie Murphy classic on Blu-ray if you are — you probably couldn’t go wrong in getting someone you love Toy Story 3 on Blu-ray or DVD. But why stop with just the latest — and possibly greatest — of the Pixar megafranchise, when you can get all three films together in one cardboard toy chest?

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Gift Guide: The Toy Story Trilogy is For Everyone (But Armond White)

Gift Guide: The AT-AT the Size of a Pony

Somewhere, in the archives of Eldon, Missouri’s local newspaper, the Advertiser , there’s a photo of a 7-year-old me with my favorite toy at the time, the All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) from The Empire Strikes Back . For this gift guide, Hasbro sent me the updated version of the AT-AT — which may be about the same size that I was at age seven.

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Gift Guide: Remember Rita Hayworth (With a Few Famous Fans)

One for the pre-order pile, this collection of five Rita Hayworth films — three of them new to DVD — will not be released until Dec. 21. Those into suspense as well as Cover Girl will definitely want to take a look.

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