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	<title>BeyondHollywood.com &#124; Movie News, Reviews, and Opinions &#187; Andrew Mackenzie</title>
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		<title>Exodus (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 2006, UK television company Channel 4 began to hype a film that ostensibly had the power to revolutionise the British movie industry.  The film, tentatively called “The Margate Exodus” was set to break new ground.  Director Penny Woolcock was at the helm of one of the biggest cinematic undertakings in British history; shooting entirely in the aforementioned seaside town, and using a cast composed almost completely of untrained local actors, she set out to create a bleak vision of Britain’s future.  By re-telling the biblical story of Exodus, Woolcock also aimed to highlight problems of racism and intolerance in British society. 
TV documentaries, newspaper spots and youtube videos were all released in the follow months, hyping “Exodus” up beyond all belief.  In addition to this, UK Arts Company Artangel commissioned a live festival during the film shoot, culminating in an 80-foot tall statue made from Margate’s garbage being burned “Wickerman”-style. 
So what happened to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phantom Love (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At its base level, Nina Menkes&#8217; &#8220;Phantom Love&#8221; draws a line between introspective art and unbearable pretentiousness.  Although the rich visuals and beautiful photography may create a vivid cinematic world, there are no real characters to fill it.  Although the heavy visual metaphors are designed to provoke thought, the complete lack of story provokes nothing but boredom.  In aspiring towards Lynchian weirdness, the filmmakers somehow forgot to make an enjoyable film.  Despite all its artistic flair and panache, &#8220;Phantom Love&#8221; is essentially a bad film that fails to justify its 84-minute running time.
To try and conventionally review this film is an exercise in futility.  There is no real plot to speak of, and due to the lack of any narrative structure, I had to visit IMDb to find out the lead character&#8217;s name.  I&#8217;ll try to explain the storyline as best I can: Lulu (Marina Choif) is a rather reclusive woman, who slips into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Toybox (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 18:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh unbounded joy, another low-budget British horror DVD presents itself to me for review. Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love watching and reviewing movies, and I am a big advocate of British cinema, but if you&#8217;ve ever endured films like &#8220;The Witches Hammer&#8221; then you&#8217;ll excuse me for being a little jaded. &#8220;The Toybox&#8221; is a title that has made some waves since its release in 2005, most notably winning &#8220;Best Foreign Film&#8221; at the San Fernando Valley International Film Festival that year. However, I cannot fathom how &#8220;The Toybox&#8221; was given such an accolade. Sure, it&#8217;s a bizarrely humorous little piece with potential cult appeal, but that doesn&#8217;t change the fact that it is, in essence, a bad movie.
Let me backtrack a little here: &#8220;The Toybox&#8221; is certainly not the worst movie I&#8217;ve seen, and not as bad as many of the Brit-horrors out there. It just seems to be caught between a tongue-in-cheek spoof and an ultra-weird [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is England (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 19:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of the many filmmakers working in Britain today, Shane Meadows can be seen as the only one making films about Britain. With &#8220;This Is England&#8221;, he transports the viewer into the seedy world of inner-city gangs, just as he did a decade ago with &#8220;TwentyFourSeven&#8221;. However, the world of skinheads and working-class thugs is a world that Meadows knows all too well. &#8220;This Is England&#8221; is a blunt and realistic retelling of his childhood experiences as part of a skinhead gang. He paints a picture of 1980s England with a strange mixture of fond nostalgia and abject glumness, begging the viewer to ask: &#8220;What is England?&#8221;
The film starts with 12-year old Shawn Field (an obvious Shane Meadows pseudonym) confiding in a group of skin-headed teenagers after being bullied at school. Finding friends within the gang, he soon dons the mob colours and joins them in their nefarious activities. However, when the older, overtly racist skinhead Combo is released from prison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, every now and then, a movie comes along with imagery and tone so solid that it makes me say, &#8220;Yeah&#8221;. I say it with a sort of nonchalant awe and relaxed wonder, not unlike the reaction Shaft would give upon seeing a UFO landing and a super fine alien chick stepping out. The first ten minutes of Miike&#8217;s &#8220;Dead or Alive&#8221;, the battle of Helm&#8217;s Deep in &#8220;The Two Towers&#8221;, and the end of &#8220;Akira&#8221; have all evoked this reaction from me. And, I&#8217;m pleased to say, sitting in the darkness of the cinema watching Danny Boyle&#8217;s new sci-fi piece &#8220;Sunshine&#8221; gave me the same feeling.
&#8220;Sunshine&#8221; is set 50 years in the future, at a time when the sun is dying. Mankind&#8217;s fate rests in the hands of eight young astronauts and physicists, piloting what is essentially a giant bomb into the centre of the sun in an attempt to create a &#8220;star within a star&#8221;. However, as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Fuzz (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hot Fuzz&#8221; is the latest offering from the writer/director team of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, whose last collaboration was 2004&#8217;s brilliant zombie-romantic comedy &#8220;Shaun of the Dead&#8221;. This time the duo turns to lampooning the police buddy action genre, but they also have an ulterior motive: to create a British-made action movie that&#8217;s actually worth watching. Unfortunately, in attempting to conflate laugh-a-minute parody with explosively stylish action, Pegg and Wright have only succeeded halfway.
The plot should be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with police movies: hard-edged cop Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is busted down from the squad in London and relocated to the much more mundane town of Sandford in the heart of the British countryside. There, he is teamed up with the gormless, childish police constable Danny Butterman (Nick Frost). However, when a series of mysterious murders shock the village, the mismatched officers become unlikely friends while attempting to get to the bottom of the killings.
In terms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Witches Hammer (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Witches Hammer&#8221; is, in essence, a low-budget British take on the &#8220;babe with a blade&#8221; vampire movie formula. Over the last few years, the likes of the &#8220;Underworld&#8221; movies, &#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221; and &#8220;Bloodrayne&#8221; have all tried to lend a feminine edge to the vampire/martial arts sub-genre that &#8220;Blade&#8221; pioneered in 1998. The problem with this is that &#8220;Blade&#8221; nailed the genre precisely, leaving very little for later titles to improve upon. As a result, each of these &#8220;neo-vampire&#8221; flicks has fallen flat and added nothing new to the genre.
So really, &#8220;The Witches Hammer&#8221; exists only as an example of the terrible things that happen when filmmakers are heavily influenced by Hollywood. Although the likes of &#8220;Underworld&#8221; were not great movies, they had enough panache to make up a watchable 90 minutes. &#8220;Hammer&#8221; does not. It instead has the look and feel of made-for-school anti-drug vignettes and TV infomercials. Add in very poor acting and gallons of candy-apple red blood and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saw III (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When &#8220;Saw&#8221; came on the scene in 2004, it delivered a much-needed jolt to the limp body of American horror. Working with a relatively small budget, James Wan and Leigh Whannell created a visceral yet psychological character-driven horror movie, eschewing the generic slasher flicks and anemic Japanese ghost story remakes that plagued the industry. They instead delivered a disturbing serial killer movie, harking back to the likes of &#8220;Se7en&#8221;. And, while not entirely original, &#8220;Saw&#8221; was a massive step in the right direction at the time.
&#8220;Saw&#8217;s&#8221; unprecedented box-office success insured that it would get the sequel treatment, and this is where the saga fell short. James Wan, for whatever reason, wanted no part in directing &#8220;Saw II&#8221;, and instead the reigns were passed on to Darren Lynn Bousman, who also co-wrote the project. The changes resulted in a &#8220;Saw II&#8221; that, although entertaining, lost the cerebral intelligence and tension of its predecessor. Not that the original &#8220;Saw&#8221; was particularly tense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One would think that &#8220;Run Lola Run&#8221; director Tom Tykwer would have approached the task of adapting Bernd Eichinger&#8217;s novel &#8220;Perfume&#8221; for screen with a sense of trepidation. Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick had all been approached at one time or another to direct this tale of a killer with an ungodly sense of smell, and all had turned it down, each claiming it was &#8220;unadaptable&#8221;. So in this respect, Tykwer has done a stand-up job in dealing with a theme as translucent and intangible as scent, by creating a vision of 19th century Paris so vivid that the audience can practically smell it.
&#8220;Perfume&#8221; tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw, &#8220;Layer Cake&#8221;), a man born into destitution with nothing but a heightened sense of smell. Outcast and ostracised for his gift, his olfactory talent soon becomes an obsession. He joins master perfume maker Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman), and begins to learn the delicate science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See No Evil (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;See No Evil&#8221; is a movie designed essentially to showcase WWE wrestler Kane. Proof of this comes about thirty seconds in, when &#8220;produced by WWE films&#8221; appears on screen. Oddly enough, &#8220;See No Evil&#8221; was also produced by Lionsgate, a company that has been fairly consistent in pushing some of the best American horrors to have come down the pipe in recent years. It&#8217;s hard to believe that the same company who produced &#8220;Saw&#8221; and &#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Rejects&#8221; would have anything to do with something as dull and generic as &#8220;See No Evil&#8221;.
The skeletal plot sees a bunch of twentysomething prison inmates take part in some forced community service cleaning up an abandoned hotel for re-opening. Unfortunately, these youngsters, along with their chaperoning police wardens are set upon by Jacob Goodnight (the aforementioned Kane), a 6&#8242;10&#8243; Geinesque serial killer with a penchant for ripping the eyes out of his still-conscious victims. Kane is, however, reluctant to maim and slaughter attractive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karla (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you will probably know Laura Prepon as &#8220;the redhead&#8221; from the popular Fox sitcom &#8220;That 70s Show&#8221;, and after seeing her play girl-next-door Donna Pinciotti for eight years, it&#8217;s kind of hard to accept her as a peroxide-blonde accessory to the rape and murder of three schoolgirls. &#8220;Karla&#8221; is based on the true story of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka (Prepon), a couple who kidnapped, tortured, raped, and killed three girls, including Karla&#8217;s little sister, Tammy. 
Through a series of flashbacks, we see these events as an incarcerated Karla describes them to a psychiatrist (Patrick Bauchau) that is considering her application for parole. Laura Prepon&#8217;s Karla is a down-to-Earth, stoic woman, whose honesty and forthrightness helps to charm the psychiatrist, and flashbacks show Karla to be completely under Paul Bernardo&#8217;s control. And although she is passive to her partner&#8217;s frequent rapes of strangers, Karla never actually partook in the murder or torture of any of the girls. Or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snakes on a Plane (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, the aptly titled &#8220;Snakes on a Plane&#8221; began life when studio execs tried to come up with the worst movie concept ever: a myriad of venomous and very angry snakes are released on a plane while in mid-air and start attacking passengers. As a joke, they put this idea on a website, to see what the public reaction would be. However, in a surprising twist, people loved it, and began to post up ideas for scenes and casting on internet forums. Even the odd &#8220;fan fiction&#8221; script was written. &#8220;Snakes on a Plane&#8221; (or &#8220;SoaP&#8221; for short) quickly became the biggest goldmine in   Hollywood   for years. And, with the script being translated more or less exactly from fans&#8217; ideas and Samuel L. Jackson cast as lead, &#8220;SoaP&#8221; was championed as the film that would save America&#8217;s waning movie industry. So, with millions of fans and a wealth of hype behind it, only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How is Your Fish Today? (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How Is Your Fish Today?&#8221; began life as a British-commissioned Chinese documentary about Mohe, a small village in the northernmost part of   China   , lying on the Russian border. However, when the crew reached Mohe, a supposedly mystical town where it&#8217;s light twenty hours out of the day and the aurora borealis sweeps across the sky, they discovered that it is nothing but a poor fishing village where people live just above the poverty line. Rather than abandon the film due to lack of footage, director Xiaolou Gou synergised what she had filmed with a script written by a friend about a screenwriter searching for inspiration by travelling to Mohe. The result: a film that confidently occupies the shadow land between fiction and reality.
We follow screenwriter Hui Rao (who is actually played by the film&#8217;s writer) as he starts work on a script where the protagonist is Lin Hao, a man who has just killed his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BloodRayne (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you not already familiar with director Uwe Boll, let me bring you up to date: Boll is a German doctor of literature, who, ever since 2003&#8217;s &#8220;House of the Dead&#8221; has made a name for himself by buying the rights to videogames, bastardising their plots, concepts and characters for the screen, hiring the cheapest screenwriters he can find to pen the scripts, then churning out terrible films. All his videogame-to-movie transfers have been funded by a string of investors (and occasionally Boll himself) and released under his German production company Boll KG as, in   Germany   , a bizarre loophole in the law awards tax exemption to films that perform poorly at the box office.
Thankfully, in January of this year, the German government closed up this loophole, and disgruntled film fans like myself rejoiced at the thought of Dr Boll being brought to a stop. Unfortunately, he has now made such a name for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultraviolet (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his filmmaking career, director Kurt Wimmer has been pretty unlucky. His films have something to say, but have suffered from bad fortune in the process of conception to realisation. His 2002 sci-fi piece &#8220;Equilibrium&#8221; (in my opinion a very innovative movie with brilliant action and a strong message) was released during the frenzy created by the &#8220;Matrix&#8221; sequels, and so went largely unnoticed. His latest film &#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221; creates a similarly bleak vision of the future, however this time suffers not from an unfortunate release date, but rather from Milla Jovovich&#8217;s bad acting and over-involvement from a controlling studio.
Set in the late 21st century, &#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221; paints a picture of a society torn by a war between hemophages (read: vampires) and humans. These hemophages are basically humans that have been infected with a virus created by the government to administer some sort of bizarre population control. People who become hemophage are hunted down by said government and either taken to concentration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reeker (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s safe to assume that almost everyone in the developed world is overly familiar with the slasher movie formula. Normally, a group of promiscuous high school/college students travel into the mountains or countryside for some reason, get lost, then all but one or two of them are horribly killed off. This formula has produced some modern classics (&#8221;Texas Chainsaw Massacre&#8221;), but has also been responsible for some horrendously bad films (&#8221;Jeepers Creepers 2&#8243;). Because the structure of the common slasher flick is so recognisable, the only merit a slasher film can really obtain is how innovative it can be within the confines of that given structure. If there&#8217;s one thing that can be said for &#8220;Reeker&#8221;, it&#8217;s that it at least tries to do something new.
&#8220;Reeker&#8221; starts off in a familiar way: a group of college students head off into the Nevada desert for a party at Area 52 (apparently Area 51 was booked that weekend). Among the group are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kidulthood (2006) Movie Review</title>
		<link>http://www.beyondhollywood.com/kidulthood-2006-movie-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gritty&#8221; is a word used far too often to categorise films. It appears that anything vaguely realistic or that plays outside of the regular rom-com or blockbuster format of   Hollywood   is labelled &#8220;gritty&#8221;, regardless of importance or quality. To give Menhaj Huda&#8217;s &#8220;KiDulthood&#8221; such a label would be in contradiction to the film&#8217;s values; it aims to be a blunt, stark, and realistic portrayal of life for kids in the rougher parts of West London by showing the audience some of the things that go down, as opposed to shocking them with the type of sensationalism that has earned several films the dreaded &#8220;gritty&#8221; label. And, for the most part, it delivers.
The format of &#8220;KiDulthood is similar to that of Larry Clark&#8217;s &#8220;Kids&#8221;: a group of arrogant teenagers leave school for the day after a girl they knew committed suicide as a result of bullying, and engage in violence, sex and other activities that will most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skrypt (2004) Movie Review</title>
		<link>http://www.beyondhollywood.com/skrypt-2004-movie-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  can safely say that &#8220;Skrypt&#8221; is the only Austrian film I&#8217;ve ever reviewed, seen or known to have existed. And, from what I can tell, the Austrian film market isn&#8217;t exactly booming. However, being from   Scotland   myself, criticising another country&#8217;s film industry is literally the equivalent of throwing stones while in a glass house, so I shan&#8217;t say anymore.
&#8220;Skrypt&#8221; is essentially about a mysterious manuscript that, when read, causes mental deterioration and eventual insanity. It was my introduction to Austrian cinema, and I have to say that it was a good one. Three men meet &#8212; one to deliver this manuscript, the other two to collect it and use it for their own nefarious purposes. However, unconvinced that the script is the real thing, the two &#8220;baddies&#8221; ask the messenger to read it and prove its authenticity. And with the messenger&#8217;s slow descent into insanity, things start to get weird.
&#8220;Skrypt&#8221; certainly looks good. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Aristocrats (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On paper, the concept of &#8220;The Aristocrats&#8221; sounds terrible: it is, essentially, 90 minutes of comedians being interviewed about a very dirty joke with the titular two-word punch line, &#8220;The Aristocrats&#8221;, and the role said joke plays in the comedy community. From this, one would deduce that the movie would get tiresome after about ten minutes and three different variations of the same joke. However, &#8220;The Aristocrats&#8221; is in fact a very interesting, philosophical and &#8212; above all &#8212; funny film that knows just what it&#8217;s doing.
As mentioned before, &#8220;The Aristocrats&#8221; brings together 100 comedians (including the likes of Billy Connelly, Penn and Teller and Robin Williams) to tell their various versions of the same joke, and then talk about its origins. And, as I also mentioned before, it somehow never manages to get boring. The quick cutting and occasional comic genius gracing the screen manages to keep the pace rapid and capture the viewer&#8217;s attention all the way through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King Kong (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not envy Peter Jackson. Since 1996, when work began on the &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy, the man has been consistently taking on some of the most arduous cinematic tasks in history. When &#8220;Return of the King&#8221; came out,   Jackson   said he wasn&#8217;t going to work on another big-scale, CGI-laden movie for years. But then Universal offered him the chance to remake &#8220;King Kong&#8221;, a dream that he has harboured since the age of twelve. The result: a blood, sweat and tears movie; a true labour of love that, despite the director&#8217;s supposed ill health, has won over critics and moviegoers alike, and convinced the world that CGI monsters can act, too.
Remaining true to the original version, Jackson&#8217;s remake is set in the 1930s, and sees over-zealous filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) traveling to the ominously titled &#8220;Skull Island&#8221; on a fishing boat to film some sort of jungle love story amongst the island&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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