Here we go again with another monthly list of excellent films on cable that have been passed over for stateside ancillary distribution. The best that can be said about this December's cable schedules is that, despite every Christmas movie and special imaginable, none of the networks appear to be showing Albert Zugsmith's yuletide-themed schlockfest Dondi or the Star Wars Holiday Special. The stations are, however, programming some equally obscure finds that actually deserve attention, such as a long-forgotten Hollywood effort by the legendary Jacques Demy, a critically-praised Jennifer Jones comedy by Ernst Lubitsch, and other treasures - the finest of which I've included in this list. So keep your remotes and DVRs handy and get ready for some channel surfing.

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In the realms of horror, cult, sci-fi, and even plain old comic-bookish nerdery, there's one name (and one chin) that unites every faction -- and that name is Bruce Campbell. From the Evil Dead series to those amazing Old Spice commercials, Campbell has developed a hyper-masculine persona tempered with just enough satire for nobody to know where the fake Bruce ends and the real one begins. In his new movie My Name is Bruce, Campbell plays himself -- enlisted to help save a town infested with demons, by a kid who doesn't quite get that Campbell is just an actor. This doesn't help to clarify the issue of Campbell's true identity, so AllMovie's own Jason Buchanan had no choice but to go one-on-one with the genre-rific hero, in an interview that would hopefully put all (or at least some) questions to rest.

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