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Saturday Cinema: Holiday Films and a DVD pick

Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, home alone
Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci in 'Home Alone'
© 1990 20th Century Fox.

Saturday Cinema begins with Flicks in Five and the 1990 holiday classic, Home Alone. John Williams provides a sentimental and lovely score to accompany John Hughes' screwball comedy about a kid left alone at home at Christmastime.

The hour continues with the scores from holiday films.

And if it's just too cold to venture out to a cinema, MPR's Cube Critics offer up this review of the recently released DVD of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's comed, The World's End.

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