Jim Ryan

Home Alone -- When little Kevin McCallister is accidentally left behind when his family dashes off on a Christmas trip, he is left to defend his family's home from two bumbling burglars until the relatives return.

A cabbie has a chance meeting with an embittered TV exec, both of whom make assumptions about each other that do not even begin to probe the twist-filled truth. Anxiety and fear still grip post-9/11 New York City in this fresh political thriller from IFC. A 2007 Spirit Award nominee for Best Screenplay and Best Female Lead-Robin Wright Penn.

Meticulously tracing the process by which media has distorted and often dismissed actual news events, this film presents a riveting and eloquent mix of media professionals and leading intellectual voices on the media. Among Pappas’ subjects in Orwell Rolls In His Grave are Charles Lewis, director of the Center for Public Integrity, Robert McChesney, media historian and author, Vincent Bugliosi, former L.A. prosecutor and legal scholar, film director Michael Moore, Rep. Bernie Sanders, Danny Schechter, former producer for ABC and CNN, and Tony Benn, formerly of the British Parliament.

Adorable as she is ambitious, Kate (Jennifer Aniston) is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and equally determined to tries snare Sam (Kevin Bacon), the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending to get married to Nick (Jay Mohr), a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to meet Nick, sending Kate's personal and professional worlds spinning out of control.