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	With Joe Hilliard
Saturdays from 9am-Noon on News Talk 1440 KEYS AM MOVIE HOUR - 11AM-Noon
SWEET SIXTEEN ARCHIVE Email us a Sweet Sixteen Film Topic

Once a month or so on KWM we will do a 'Sweet Sixteen.' We pick a genre and then attempt to identify the 16 best films in that genre. Typically it involves arguments, crying and fistfights. Then the 16 films are paired up to go head to head in sudden death elimination. After 4 rounds (16 down to 8; 8 down to 4; 4 down to 2; 2 down to the winner), we've found the BEST of that genre....or not..

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CHRISTMAS FILMS, December, 2006
Best Film set during Christmas/about Christmas/concerning Christmas in some way. Guests were Heidi Hovda and Joel Earley

Round One	Round Two	Round Three	Round Four
Match A:
It's A Wonderful Life
Trading Places	Match I:
Match B:	It's a Wonderful Life
Love Actually	Love Actually
Charlie Brown Christmas		Match M:
Match C:		It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street		Grinch
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)	Match J:
Match D:	Grinch
Scrooged	Rudolph
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (animated)			FINALS
Match E:			It's a Wonderful Life
Christmas Vacation			A Christmas Story
Elf	Match K:
Match F:	Elf
The Preacher's Wife	Polar Express
Polar Express		Match N:
Match G:		Polar Express
A Christmas Story		A Christmas Story
Edward Scissorhands	Match L:
Match H:	A Christmas Story
Home Alone	Home Alone
Die Hard

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SPORTS FILMS, November, 2006
Topic: BEST SPORTS FILM EVER - Winners in individual matches are in bold; overall winner: VOTE NOW

Round One	Round Two	Round Three	Round Four
Match A:
Hoosiers
Major League	Match I:
Match B:	Hoosiers
Raging Bull	Raging Bull
Tin Cup		Match M:
Match C:		Hoosiers
Bull Durham		Hoop Dreams
Hoop Dreams	Match J:
Match D:	Hoop Dreams
Caddyshack	Brian's Song
Brian's Song			FINALS:
Match E:			Hoosiers
Field of Dreams			The Natural
Chariots of Fire	Match K:
Match F:	Field of Dreams
The Natural	The Natural
Karate Kid		Match N:
Match G:		The Natural
Rocky		Rocky
Pride of the Yankees	Match L:
Match H:	Rocky
Remember the Titans	Remember the Titans
Rudy

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HORROR, October, 2006
Topic: SCARIEST MOVIE EVER - Winners in individual matches are in bold; overall winner: THE SHINING

Round One	Round Two	Round Three	Round Four
Match A:
The Shining
Nosferatu (1922)	Match I:
Match B:	The Shining
The Evil Dead	The Evil Dead
The Omen		Match M:
Match C:		The Shining
Halloween		Halloween
Rosemary's Baby	Match J:
Match D:	Halloween
Poltergeist	The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project			FINALS
Match E:			The Shining
Dawn of the Dead			The Exorcist
The Thing (1982)	Match K:
Match F:	Dawn of the Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre	Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Event Horizon		Match N:
Match G:		Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jaws		The Exorcist
Suspiria	Match L:
Match H:	Suspiria
The Exorcist	The Exorcist
The Haunting (1963)

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Blank Sweet Sixteen Template

Round One	Round Two	Round Three	Round Four
Match A:
Film #1
Film #2	Match I:
Match B:	Winner Match A
Film #3	Winner Match B
Film #4		Match M:
Match C:		Winner Match I
Film #5		Winner Match J
Film #6	Match J:
Match D:	Winner Match C
Film #7	Winner Match D
Film #8			FINALS
Match E:			Winner Match M
Film #9			Winner Match N
Film #10	Match K:
Match F:	Winner Match E
Film #11	Winner Match F
Film #12		Match N:
Match G:		Winner Match K
Film #13		Winner Match L
Film #14	Match L:
Match H:	Winner Match G
Film #15	Winner Match H
Film #16

E-mail suggestions for a film series

At any given moment we are probably in the middle of a film series on the KEYS WEEKEND MAGAZINE Movie Hour: 11-Noon every Saturday on 1440 KEYS AM. They typically consist of 4 films--one every two weeks--that fall under a genre, time period, or the work of a specific director or star. Joe and his guests discuss the films on air on the dedicated date.

With the goal of creating a real film community in CC, we work as hard as we can to have public screenings of the films when possible. Get involved. Watch the films. Listen and call in to share your viewpoint. Spread the word.

Our Current Film Series THE FILM CREW'S GUILTY PLEASURES Guests for this series were Eric Boyd, Yadie Gonzalez, Ethan Thompson and Carl Yowell Show Date Film/Director Joe Eric Yadie Ethan Carl June 16, 2007 Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982 Amy Heckerling July 7 2007 Weird Science, 1985 John Hughes July 14, 2007 Valley Girl, 1983 Martha Coolidge July 28, 2007 Armageddon, 1998 Michael Bay

Upcoming Film Series KINGS OF THE 70s Part II Dates TBD - Polanski's Chinatown, (1974) Dates TBD - Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, (1975) Dates TBD - Speilberg's Jaws, (1975) Scorsese's Taxi Driver, (1976) Email us your future series suggestions.

Past Film Series

AFI'S CLASSIC COMEDIES Comedy. The most subjective film genre of all from a critical standpoint. The American Film Institute (AF)I has ranked the top 100 'funniest' American movies of all time. Full list here. We discussed 4 of the top 5.

Guests for this series were Eric Boyd, Yadie Gonzalez, Ethan Thompson and Carl Yowell

Show Date	Film/Director	Joe	Eric	Yadie	Ethan	Carl
March 24, 2007	Duck Soup, 1933 Director
April 7, 2007	Annie Hall, 1977 Woody Allen
April 21, 2007	Dr. Strangelove (or How I...), 1964 Stanley Kubrick
May 5, 2007	Some Like it Hot, 1959 Billy Wilder

ROBERT ALTMAN RIP American landmark director Robert Altman passed away on Nov. 20, 2006. We created this series immediately to discuss his work. We had discussed M*A*S*H in our previous series, Kings of the Independent 70s (Part I)

Guests for this series were Ethan Thompson and Carl Yowell

Show Date	Film/Director	Joe		Ethan		Carl
Jan 27, 2007	Nashville, 1975
February 17, 2007	McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 1971
March 3, 2007	The Player, 1990

WESTERNS Four Seminal Westerns

Guest for this series was Bill Tinney

Show Date	Film/Director	Joe		Bill
Nov. 11, 2006	Stagecoach, 1939 John Ford
Dec. 2, 2006	My Darling Clementine, 1946 John Ford
Dec. 16, 2006	High Noon, 1952 Fred Zinnemann
Jan. 6, 2006	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Sergio Leone

OCTOBER HORROR MADNESS

Guest for this series was Yadie Gonzalez

Show Date	Film/Director	Joe		Yadie
Oct. 7, 2006	Night of the Living Dead George A. Romero
Oct. 14, 2006	Ringu Hideo Nakata
Oct. 21, 2006	Texas Chainsaw Massacre Tobe Hooper
Oct. 28, 2006	Halloween John Carpenter

Kings of the Independent 70s (Part One) Films that Mattered from Directors who Revolutionized Hollywood

Guests for this series were Carl Yowell and Yadie Gonzalez

Show Date	Film/Director	Joe	Carl	Yadie
Aug. 5, 2006	MASH Robert Altman
Aug. 19, 2006	The Last Picture Show Peter Boganovich
Sept. 2, 2006	The French Connection William Friedkin
Sept. 16, 2006	The Godfather Francis Ford Coppolla

"The Cannolis" Kings of the Independent 70s Awards Joe Hilliard Yadie Gonzales Carl Yowell Best Picture The Godfather The Godfather The Godfather Best Actor Al Pacino, The Godfather Al Pacino, The Godfather Gene Hackman, The French Connection Best Actress - - Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show Best Supporting Actor Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show Best Supporting Actress Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show - Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show "Most 70s" Cinema Moment The Quiet, Slow Pace of The Last Picture Show The French Connection: the car chase; those 70s cars, scenery, and clothes...very Welcome Back Kotter Ditto Joe

John Hughes Mini Festival Tie in to Twenty Years of Teens Screening

Guest for this series was Eric Von Wade

Show Date	Film	Joe	Eric
Jun. 3, 2006	Sixteen Candles
Jun. 10, 2006	Breakfast Club
Jun. 17, 2006	Ferris Beuller's Day Off

The KEYS Weekend Magazine
	With Joe Hilliard
Saturdays from 9am-Noon on News Talk 1440 KEYS AM MOVIE HOUR - 11AM-Noon
ROCKBUSTERS ARCHIVE Email us Rockbusters ideas We can't stress enough that Rockbusters is STOLEN. Rockbusters was created by Ricky Gervais on his English radio program. Do yourself a HUGE favor and get into The Ricky Gervais Show Podcast. How to Play: Each week around 9:30 AM Joe gives the initials of two bands or musical artists along with a 'cryptic' clue that relates to the band or musical artists' names. Example: Initial is B; Clue is 'Put some shrimp, minnows and worms in there and turn it up to 350.' Shrimp, minnows and worms are 'bait'; Something you put things into and turn up to 350 is an 'oven'. You got yourself a 'bait oven'...or....Beethoven Horrible. Another example: Initials are LB; Clue is 'This roll is too soggy to eat.' Synonym for roll that start with B? 'Biscuit'. Another word for soggy? 'Limp'...kind of. 'Limp Biscuit' or Limp Bizkit Ugh! Here are the Rockbusters we've done on the show so far. Click and drag over the answers you want to see.

Date	Initial(s)	Clue	Answer
12/16/06	P	In women's fashion this period rose from the 60's women lib movement	Pantera
12/23/06	TFT	Big, Hat, Coat, Notch	The Four Tops
	CC	1 raven, 2 ravens, 3 ravens, 4 ravens	Counting Crows
12/16/06	P	In women's fashion this period rose from the 60's women lib movement	Pantera
	WW	On the playground this ranks between the atomic wedgie and an indian burn	Wet Willie
12/9/06	TSP	These guns fire hot lovin	The Sex Pistols
	BB	If The Omen had a twin	Beastie Boys
12/2/06	NR	Mr. Norris only works in the evening	Night Ranger
10/7/06	K	After a ribbit, the frog let out a huge profanity	Krokus
11/18/06	N	That will be a quarter....ah you gave me thirty cents	Nickleback
	TC	For minor infections it's antibioticstd>	The Cure
11/11/06	LF	The guy's 6'5' but he wears size 6's	Little Feat
	TDB	Her two sons always have the best weed	The Doobie Brothers
10/7/06	C	after the snowball fight let's build a snowman and go sledding....wheeee!	Coldplay
	C	i'll take a little...i don't like it black	Cream
9/23/06	D	The boat is pulling is currently pulling into the pier.	Dokken
9/16/06	B	Put some worms, shrimp, minnows in there and heat it to 350	Beethoven
9/9/06	BC	Those Houseguest were the worst!	Bad Company
	AIC	She'd tell you exactly what to do with her grits if she wasn't currently bound	Alice in Chains
8/26/06	JP	Turn it to the chapter on Hoffa	Jimmy Page
8/19/06	A	The lone sheep bleated once	Abba
	DD	The condensation trickled down the two blades of grass	Duran Duran
8/12/06	W	The cobra took a dip in Clorox	Whitesnake
	TD	French, Dutch, Screen, Sliding	The Doors
8/5/06	TL	Little Elizabeth has really lost some weight	Thin Lizzy
	BJ	The sequel to 'Folk Guitar 4'	Bon Jovi
		More Coming Soon!	Answer

FILM SERIES FOR REST OF 2006

Here is the film series schedule for the rest of the year.

Our next film series: OCTOBER HORROR
Oct. 7 - Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Oct. 14 - Horror Movie #2
Oct. 21 - Horror Movie #3
Oct. 28 - Horror Movie #4
Email or Post your horror picks.

In October we are doing one HORROR film a week. Which 4 should we do? Which 4 horror films are either the best ever, or which 4 boil down the horrorgoing universe. We need your picks. Email them or post them at the dedicated forum.

Then a topic that, like horror, may have some serious deriders: WESTERNS. We have to admit we are out of our league here since we're not huge western fans. Many of you, though, are. What are the 4 westerns that you would take with you to the desert island..THE BIG 4!!! What are they? Email them or post them at the dedicated forum.

Look forward to your picks.

I'm loving a new show on AMC called Movies that Shook the World. Each Friday at 9PM Central they take an in depth look into a movie that changed everything about films and filmmaking and in some cases, was a social touchstone. The first two episodes were about The Graduate and Birth of a Nation. Tomorrow's is Fatal Attraction and next Friday's is The Exorcist. Fitting since next Sunday (10/30) we are screening The Exorcist at TAMUCC. I hope you all go to that event co-sponsored by Matinee Cafe--more info.

Also, on newsstands now (try Barnes and Noble) is a magazine really worth picking up for both active and armchair filmmakers: MovieMaker Magazine's annual Filmmaker's Guide. This is a great magazine and a great issue.

Here it is folks. Your go to place for Corpus Halloween fun. Please email us with missing items. Click: info@corpuschristifilmsociety.com

Film Events
10/29, Sat - Rocky Horror Picture Show at Yin Yang Fandango - More info click here
10/30, Sun - The Exorcist screens at TAMUCC - More info click here

Haunted Houses:
Found two more haunted houses...I think. (10/27)

Now we're talking! Nothing beats a well made, well run haunted house. Coming from Houston I've seen some killers. The local haunted house I went to last year left a lot to be desired. Here are the few that I know about. If there are more out there or if you have been to one of these and can report on it, let me know.
Fright Night Haunted House - Promising web site for this haunted house near Bill Witt Park that's been around in some incarnation since 1984 $10
Haunt - The newest haunted house in town. Can't miss the looming beast at the corner of Everhart and SPID. Their beast has gathered a few complaints that made the news. $8
Al Amin Shrine Haunted House - Located at I-37 and Suntide at the Shrine Temple. $5
Shipwreck of Horror - New haunted house in Flour Bluff - In the mini mall behind Funtrackers $?
Harbor Playhouse - October 27 - 31 - It runs Thursday through Monday, 7 to midnight. The theme is called "An Ode to Horror Films," and it is SPECTACULAR! Seriously, it's really scary. I walked through the final dress rehearsal this afternoon. The tour walks through three floors of the building and uses talented actors and LOTS of gore. I am very impressed.
And finally, someone told me about a haunted house on the 2nd floor of Sunrise Mall. If you know more about it, let me know.

Halloween Alternatives
If ghouls and goblins aren't your thing check out these Halloween alternatives geared toward kids.
First Baptist Church - Noah's Ark Party - 10/31 - 5:30-8:30 - more info

Costumes and Decor:
Spirit Halloween - 4428 Kostoryz Road @ Gollihar
Party City - Moore Plaza
Spencer's Gifts - Padre Staples Mall
What did I miss? Email me more if you have them

Horror on TV
I'm not a fan of watching movies on channels that edit them for TV normally, BUT Halloween is the exception for me because you see films only once a year on these stations that wouldn't normally air them. So you can really cram a lot of movies in and save money on rentals with these horror marathons. Here is some notable programming:

AMC MONSTERFEST
For 200 nightmarish hours, we're showing the scariest, the creepiest, the best horror movies on the planet. From Sun., Oct. 23 to Mon., Oct. 31, come indulge your love of the macabre – just don’t blame the ensuing insomnia on us.
Click above or here for full schedule and cool games and links

Bravo
Bravo has great horror programming that runs a few times during the month. Last year's special was The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments, a five part series that counts down the most bone-chilling moments in cinematic history. Featuring interviews, film clips, and production stills, Bravo's series of fright nights looks at scenes from a variety of movie classics. Schedule.

This year's new show is Greatest Movie Monsters. This three-part Bravo original special looks back at the most memorable and most feared monsters ever put on film. Watch as nature goes bad in the form of creatures from the deep, from the sky and men transformed into primal monsters. Then continue with a review of cinema's favorite supernatural terrors: ghosts, vampires, zombies, and forces from beyond the grave. Conclude the afternoon by watching technology run amock.

Turner Classic Movies
TCM's website is thorough but hard to navigate. Check out these two great articles: 1, 2. Both list movies, but not their times. There's a Hammer Horror series, a Hitchcock series and more. If you can find an easy to read thorough horror festival, let me know.

Showtime
Showtime presents a new series called Masters of Horror. 13 1-hour short films from 13 different masters of horror: Coscarelli, Carpenter, Hooper and more.

More on the way.....

As you may have noticed, the new site is finally live! There are lots of new features and functionality -- everything we need to make our little community grow bigger and stronger.

If you want to learn more about CCFS and this site, visit our FAQ and News areas. For businesses and film professionals, there's the Local Production Guide where you can add yourself or your business to the list. For you chatters out there, we have the new and improved Chat Forums, where you can discuss news, movies or anything else that comes to mind. Best of all, once you've registered and joined the site, you can sign up for the new and improved CCFS Newsletter.

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