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Get a free movie poster opening day of The Divide on Jan. 13 with canned food donation

Bring a donation of canned food to the first-day showing of The Divide, and get a free limited edition poster for the film by street artist “Jock”.  The Divide is a disturbing, fascinating film about a group of New Yorkers who escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the basement of a high-rise [...]

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See Mary Poppins for $6 at Lincoln Center, two shows daily through 12/30

Take the kids to Lincoln Center to see Mary Poppins, the super-cala-fragalistic-ex-pialidocious 1964 film starring Julie Andrews as the airborne nanny and Dick van Dyke as the chimney sweep.  Screenings are at the Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center in Lincoln Center, daily, through Friday, December 30th, at 10:30 AM and 2 PM each day.  [...]

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Get Netflix free for one month: unlimited movies on-demand

Netflix lost millions of customers, and its stock lost millions of dollars, when they raised their prices earlier this year.  The good news is that they still offer movies on-demand on your TV for $7.99 a month — and the one month FREE trial offer remains valid.  Click here to sign up on the [...]

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Movies on the cheap: Breaking Dawn, Puss n Boots vacation sweepstakes

These discount offers from Fandango last as long as they last — when the available tickets are sold out, they are gone.

The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part One [...]

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Margaret Mead Film Festival at AMNH starts Nov. 10th

The 35th Annual Margaret Mead Film Festival is November 10-13 at the American Museum of Natural History, featuring daily films and lectures about international cultures, plus a restrospective on   Margaret Mead, who pretty much invented the field of cultural anthropology.  Ticket prices start at $12 for museum members, seniors and students, and there’s [...]

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Movies on the cheap: Breaking Dawn, Tower Heist, Puss n Boots vacation sweepstakes

These discount offers from Fandango last as long as they last — when the available tickets are sold out, they are gone.

Tower Heist comedy starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy– –

Buy tickets to Tower Heist on Fandango for opening weekend and get the convenience charge waived.  Offer expires November 6th.

The Twilight [...]

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Anime night at the NYPL: free screening of a Kenichi + Miu adventure

Anime is short for ‘animation’,  a style of Japanese animation that pre-dates Disney and Pixar.  Anime also has a core of devoted fans.  The NYPL Mid-Manhattan branch has a FREE screening of Kenichi The Mightiest Discipline, a story about this kid who gets picked on at school and then becomes a tough guy thanks [...]

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NYC free events: Swedish festival includes Ingmar Bergman movie screenings

Sweden is celebrating its Gotland region in NYC with a week of free events at Scandanavia House that include free screenings of Ingmar Bergman movies.  The Gotland in New York Festival is today through Saturday, November 5th.  There are exhibits of Scandanavian textiles, furnishings and architecture along with the films.  The screenings of Ingmar [...]

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Free and cheap NYC Halloween 2011 events for adults

Halloween falls on a Monday this year, which means celebrating scary is a three-day weekend in NYC.  Here are some FREE and cheap NYC events for Halloween 2011  — nothing more than $10 per person — plus, of course, whatever your costume and fake blood costs.  These Halloween happenings are for adults only.

Metropolis [...]

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Free movie passes to advance screening of Martha Marcy May Marlene

Sign up for a chance to get two free passes for a pre-release screening of a new film with lots of advance buzz.  Martha Marcy May Marlene is about a  woman who struggles to re-assimilate with society after fleeing a cult, who is haunted by her experiences and terrified that the vicious cult leader [...]

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Friars Club Comedy Film Festival through Sunday features short, funny movies

The Friars Club Comedy Film Festival is through Sunday, October 16th, featuring more than two dozen short and funny films with titles like Drop your Shorts and Clown.  Because I’m a longtime tree-hugger, I’m recommending Committed, a  short film by actress and environmentalist Aisha Tyler, about chasing a polluting plastic water bottle, and getting [...]

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Movies on the cheap: half off AMC Theatre tickets, free soundtrack for Footloose, advance tickets for new Twiglight Saga

Let’s go to the movies — without paying as much as $15 per ticket.  Here are two cheap deals for movie theater tickets to get your weekend started for less –

AMC Theatres — Pay just $13 for two AMC Silver Experience movie tickets with this voucher deal. Value to $24, depending on theater [...]

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