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  • The home-movie format made the story of spirits haunting a young couple look all too real – or at least more real than what The Fourth Kind looks like.

    WOLFMAN MOVIE POSTER, ‘AVATAR’ TV SPOT, AND OTHER MOVIE NEWS FOR 11/07 | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009

  • A young white man in a clerical collar climbed up a utility pole and held a small home-movie camera.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Yet the film opens almost quaintly with what looks to be a Super 8 home-movie sequence of a very young Mr. Senna, in his first race abroad, steering a squat little go-kart around a European track.

    'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • At 70 or 80 minutes, reduced to crazy fans, backstage atmosphere and home-movie footage of Mr. Bieber playing hockey and pounding the drums, "Never Say Never" could have been entirely satisfying.

    Who Is Justin Bieber? Here's Your Guide Jordan Zakarin 2011

  • A young white man in a clerical collar climbed up a utility pole and held a small home-movie camera.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • The series also highlights forgotten works by women filmmakers, such as Svilova and Esfir Shub, including Shub's "The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty" "Padeniye Dinasti Romanovikh," 1927, a grim chronicle of the collapse of czarist Russia that juxtaposes salvaged newsreel and home-movie footage of the Imperial elite with scenes of the hardworking poor.

    Visualize a Soviet Utopia Kristin M. Jones 2011

  • A young white man in a clerical collar climbed up a utility pole and held a small home-movie camera.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • An entire Office episode built around a screening of Michael's tacky home-movie melodrama Threat Level Midnight?

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

  • In an interview Monday, Mr. Hastings brushed off the challenge posed by Lovefilm and instead took aim at a bigger beast: British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, the U.K. pay-TV behemoth that has long served as kingpin in Britain's home-movie market.

    Netflix Streams Into U.K., Ireland Paul Sonne 2012

  • At 70 or 80 minutes, reduced to crazy fans, backstage atmosphere and home-movie footage of Mr. Bieber playing hockey and pounding the drums, "Never Say Never" could have been entirely satisfying.

    Who Is Justin Bieber? Here's Your Guide Jordan Zakarin 2011

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