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I’m not sure what to make of this – but this year Top 20 batch of film’s have death as a focal point in the plot or use bereavement thematically: death of a dream, death of a soul, death out of defiance and death of a culture, society and way of life. I don’t really have a fascination with death, but I’ve noticed that my own mortality and the eventual passing of my loved ones seem to have embedded itself in some aspects of my daily routine.

IONCINEMA.com's IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on the filmmaking background of a particular filmmaker and the nuts and bolts of that person's upcoming feature film release. This month we feature: The Lodger's David Ondaatje.

I asked David Ondaatje the filmmaker behind The Lodger [Sony's Stage 6 Films: 01/23/2009] the incredibly arduous task of naming me what his top ten films all time were.

In the end though, it would appear that Mother Nature was the big winner this weekend. With most of the eastern portion of North America covered in snow, the big showdown between Jim Carrey and Will Smith got lost in the blizzard.

Aliens may have descended upon the box office this weekend but it was the art house and wards contenders that brought on the major invasion.