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	<title>BeyondHollywood.com &#124; Movie News, Reviews, and Opinions &#187; Brian Holcomb</title>
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		<title>Che (aka The Argentine / Guerrilla, 2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adapted from the famous T-shirt, &#8220;Che&#8221; is director Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s massively long, two part movie about professional revolutionary Ernesto &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara. A much more covert revolutionary himself, Soderbergh has shrewdly designed his career around the Scorsese Model of &#8220;one for them, one for me&#8221;. So an &#8220;Oceans&#8221; caper with George Clooney will be alternated with something more experimental like &#8220;Bubble&#8221; or &#8220;Full Frontal&#8221;. This one is definitely FOR Soderbergh, questionably for me, and probably NOT for most audiences. At least not those seeking the cinematic equivalent of light reading.
&#8220;Che&#8221; tries to transcend its genre but it&#8217;s still clearly a biopic. The main problem of biopics is that a film cannot easily present the totality of a person in such a brief running time. Che Guevara presents an even larger problem as he&#8217;s become less of a human being in the passing years than a marketable symbol. It&#8217;s a great irony that this communist revolutionary would end up being swallowed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Backwoods (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Boorman&#8217;s &#8220;Deliverance&#8221; gave birth to a new subgenre of films featuring middle class white men who desire the stoicism of life in the wild and of a more direct conflict for survival outside of the office cubicles and golf courses. It also established the genre&#8217;s archetypal characters: the posturing weekend warrior outdoorsman who talks a good game lifted from Reader&#8217;s Digest versions of &#8220;Walden&#8221;, and the indecisive, liberal leaning hero for whom the adventure plays as a bildungsroman towards his regression into murder. Both of these archetypes are front and center in Koldo Serra&#8217;s debut film &#8220;The Backwoods&#8221; with an extra dollop of Peckinpah and Polanski just to spice up the proceedings. 
Serra&#8217;s film is set in 1978 and is about two couples traveling to a remote house in the woods of Northern Spain. The house is owned by Paul(Gary Oldman)who sees himself as a kind of Hemingway figure, leaving London to fix up the rustic cottage and go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Kings (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movies like &#8220;Street Kings&#8221; are sitting ducks in a shooting range for film critics who laugh all through the movie only to condemn it for being so damn entertaining. Most movies are so sedated by studio interference, creative indifference, or artless craft that when a movie comes along with style and a real no prisoners attitude, it&#8217;s looked upon like a neighbor whose party went on past midnight. Well, &#8220;Street Kings&#8221; is the kind of movie that parties past dawn, turning the volume way up, and apologizing for nothing. 
This is a movie written with a hammer and chisel by neanderthal men about a bunch of other neanderthal men in the LAPD. Kurt Wimmer, inventor of that particular modern day killing system known as &#8220;gun kata&#8221; and auteur of such cult classics as &#8220;Equilibrium&#8221; and &#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221; worked on the screenplay along with the &#8220;demon dog&#8221; himself, novelist James Ellroy. Both men are not exactly known for their subtlety. The third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweeney Todd (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Helena Bonham-Carter have made so many films together that they’re starting to resemble each other. Depp has now made 6 films with Burton and it always seems as though he’s playing some hyper-real and slightly paler version of the ghostly director. As for Bonham-Carter, this is either her fourth or fifth round with Burton depending on whether you consider her voice acting in “Corpse Bride” an appearance and as his “life partner” and mother of his two children, she’s on her way to becoming the living embodiment of one of his cadaverous drawings. 
All three seem like a traveling band of Grand Guignol performers just looking for the right gloomy play that requires frizzy black hair and dark circles under the eyes. Luckily, they found Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant 1979 musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and lucky for Sondheim that he found them. Not since Francis Ford Coppola signed to direct “The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Stoppard once wrote a one act play called &#8220;The Fifteen Minute Hamlet&#8221; which was, as you can probably guess, a pretty incoherent version of &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; performed in 15 minutes. You can imagine that much would have to be left out and that what was once dramatic and tragic would be renderned pointless and hilarious. Well, I don&#8217;t know if Robert Zombie knows his Stoppard from his Shakespeare as well as his KISS from his Blue Oyster Cult, but I&#8217;ll be damned if he didn&#8217;t end up with a lame 15 minute cover version of John Carpenter&#8217;s classic.
Now to be fair, Zombie has not made a short film. Instead, he&#8217;s made three separate short films all tied together with the last 40 minutes or so devoted to some alternative universe version of the events in the original &#8220;Halloween&#8221;. This is the part he clearly has no real interest in since it features the least White Trash of all three.
What he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Invasion (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked. I knew going in about the production troubles and the massive reshoots ordered by the studio honchos to &#8216;fix&#8217; the film, but I thought I could give it a fair shake anyway. I mean, it&#8217;s got Nicole Kidman, who usually only strips down for quality, and 007 himself, Daniel Craig. The credited director is Oliver Hirschbiegel, a German filmmaker highly praised for his Der-Fuhrer-fillum &#8216;Downfall&#8217; several years back. This is his American debut. He must&#8217;ve been the draw for the great cast, which also wastes the great Jeffrey Wright, Roger Rees and Jeremy Northam in roles that wouldn&#8217;t challenge a mannequin. Normally, I would say that the studio ruined a great director&#8217;s work, but I really don&#8217;t think this was ever any good to begin with.
This &#8216;Invasion&#8217; is, of course, yet another adaptation of the 1955 Jack Finney novel that inspired the Don Siegel classic, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 50 years from now and once again mankind faces extinction. Not from a meteoric Armageddon, or the inconvenient truth about the environment, but from the death of the sun itself. A second ice age threatens to end life as we know it and so mankind looks to its last hope for survival, a spacecraft christened the &#8220;Icarus II&#8221;, which carries a nuclear device the size of Manhattan intended to be fired into the center of the dying star to relight the burner. 
Since the &#8220;Icarus I&#8221; clearly failed in its maiden attempt, only a single nuclear device remains. If the crew of the &#8220;Icarus II&#8221; fails as well, there will be no more chances. Understandably, the weight of this responsibility hangs heavily on the multi-racial multi-national crew. These seven men and women know that they are nothing BUT expendable. It causes them to question every decision in the light of a philosophical context. Anything or anyone who stands in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rescue Dawn (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please do not confuse &#8220;Rescue Dawn&#8221; with a mid-80s Cannon Group production of a Chuck Norris film. This isn&#8217;t the movie where Chuck emerges from a river firing a water logged AK-47 in super slow motion. Nor is it the one where soulman C. Thomas Howell models for I. Goldberg and yells out, &#8220;Wolverines!&#8221; Sorry, that was &#8220;Red Dawn&#8221;. Still, no one can really be blamed for this confusion, given the generic action film title and the hard sell trailer that advertises explosions. This is actually a Werner Herzog film and no matter how MGM wants to misrepresent it, there&#8217;s no way to turn this unique Vietnam war drama into anything else.
That&#8217;s because there is no one in the world like Werner Herzog. Yes, it&#8217;s true that we are all unique in some way, but Herzog must really be the first and last of his kind, a &#8220;Herzogian&#8221; perhaps. As a filmmaker, he fits into no real category with films [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hostel: Part II (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eli Roth has the touch of the sophomore prankster. The lasting effect of all three of his films is a certain kind of Grand Guignol &#8220;Punk&#8217;D&#8221;, in which the &#8220;mark&#8221; is not only embarrassed, he&#8217;s also cut to pieces. You half expect Roth to pop up just as a character is having his face sliced off to yell, &#8220;You&#8217;ve just been Punk&#8217;d, Bitch!&#8221; 
E.C. Comics stated that irony &#8220;was good for your blood&#8221;. Roth has certainly taken this to heart in his films, layering his blood with irony and generous helpings of parody and homage as well. He shares this prankster attitude with his friend and producer Quentin Tarantino, but the thing that separates Tarantino from the pack is his overall moral vision of the world, where the bad boy behavior has to eventually reap what he sowed and learn the consequences of his actions. Roth is a bit more nihilistic and certainly more misanthropic in his storytelling. For one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Book (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Verhoeven is a filmmaker who takes no prisoners. He wants nothing more than to fracture reality through his particularly pulpy cinematic lens and to project this grotesque image in front of as many spectators as possible. He makes no excuses for his excesses and this is one of the reasons why he has been marginalized by much of the mainstream media. They have comfortably divided his career into two convenient phases: on the one hand, he is the Dutch art filmmaker who received worldwide acclaim for his &#8220;complex&#8221; films such as &#8220;Turkish Delight&#8221;, &#8220;Soldier of Orange&#8221; and &#8220;The Fourth Man&#8221;. On the other, he is the tabloid Hollywood sensationalist who glorified sleazy sex and extreme violence in such films as &#8220;RoboCop&#8221;, &#8220;Total Recall&#8221;, &#8220;Basic Instinct&#8221; and his American albatross, &#8220;Showgirls&#8221;. The division is merely convenient and nothing more than an illusion. All of the films mentioned, Dutch and American, are the work of a singular, brilliant filmmaker whose work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grindhouse (2007) Movie Review #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had &#8220;Grindhouse&#8221; been made by some up and coming neophyte filmmaker it would&#8217;ve been cut to shreds by the critical establishment. But the critical blank check given to Robert Rodriguez, and especially Quentin Tarantino is cashed in at this grindhouse, which is a very mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. The two films that make up &#8220;Grindhouse&#8217;s&#8221; double feature, Rodriguez&#8217;s &#8220;Planet Terror&#8221; and Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Death Proof&#8221;, are perfect examples of directorial sophistication over directorial skill. Neither filmmaker is willing to actually make a real grindhouse pic, and instead come up with anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation. 
Both Rodriguez and Tarantino obviously love these crazy flicks, and yet feel that the subjects are below them as artists. They both feel the need to present themselves as &#8220;superior&#8221; by fashioning the stories as campy nonsense. However, each employs a different tactic in order to dance on this volatile volcano. Since &#8220;Grindhouse&#8221; is one long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lookout (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elmore Leonard has a lot to answer for in regards to the current state of crime cinema. Thin, almost non-existent plots are given the power of verite when they are driven by Leonard&#8217;s oddball characters, with their pop culture obsessions and mental hang-ups. The stories seem like Hammett and Chandler rewritten by the crime beat reporter for the New York Daily News. Double crosses and secrets unfold effortlessly, as though noir had never been invented, as though femme fatales were nothing but tanned beach babes 10 years past their prime looking for a sugar daddy to pay for their fix, or worse, a young fool looking for sincerity and love. He may be the quintessential fall guy ready for the picking, but in Leonard&#8217;s stories, as in Scott Frank&#8217;s assured directorial debut, &#8220;The Lookout&#8221;, he may not realize that he&#8217;s supposed to lose.
It&#8217;s the loser, the sap, and the fall guy that drives most of noir fiction. He&#8217;s really us, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Messiah of Evil (aka Dead People, 1973) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A horror gem by the writing and directing team behind &#8220;Howard The Duck&#8221;? Hard to believe, but this is the genuine article, a largely forgotten early &#8217;70s classic filled with moments that are so uncanny, the term &#8220;Lynchian&#8221; would be perfect had the David Lynch brand been invented in 1972. Available under your title of choice, from &#8220;Dead People&#8221; to &#8220;The Second Coming&#8221; and &#8220;Revenge of the Screaming Dead&#8221;, &#8220;Messiah Of Evil&#8221; is a peculiar film by any name. 
The story takes place in the California coastal town of Point Dune, where a reclusive artist named Joseph Lang (Royal Dano) lives and works in a large house on the beach. His daughter, Arletty (Marianna Hill), having received a series of increasingly strange letters from the old man, has come to Point Dune to check on his condition. The letters and his diary all lead us to believe that he has either gone insane or has been taken over by evil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Silence (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horror genre seems to be at a crossroads these days. Following the whole post-modern &#8220;Scream&#8221; cycle, the long haired ghosts from Japan and the final deluge of bind, torture, and kill films initiated by the release of &#8220;Saw&#8221;, there seems to be a clear confusion as to where to go next. Normally, the next trick up the sleeve is to mix and match the various popular subgenres in the hopes of shaking up a Molotov cocktail of scares that seem new but are really very old. This usually amounts to putting lipstick on a corpse. Grandpop may look fresh, but he&#8217;s dead inside. 
This was clearly the problem facing James Wan and Leigh Whannell when contemplating their first &#8220;Saw&#8221;-less feature film. Originally titled, &#8220;Shhhh&#8221;, &#8220;Dead Silence&#8221; takes a different route. It brings everything in the genre back to zero in what seems like a desperate attempt to hit the reset button. Wan and Whannell&#8217;s new film is not going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salvage (aka Gruesome, 2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The freedom and accessibility of digital video has unleashed a tidal wave of unwatchable horror movies by directors who would have difficulty chronicling a birthday party, let alone a cinematic narrative. This army of camcorder auteurs is seriously giving Ed Wood a run for the money, not to mention making Uwe Boll look like Stanley Fucking Kubrick. But every once in a while, there comes a movie that proves this newfound freedom is worth the trouble. &#8220;Salvage&#8221;, by the Crook brothers, is just that exception. In fact, it&#8217;s more than an exception, and doesn&#8217;t need an excuse for its lack of budget or stars. &#8220;Salvage&#8221; is low budget horror at its best, a throwback to the salad days of regional horror filmmaking, when a Romero in Pittsburgh, or a Herk Harvey in Utah could create a movie that was not easily forgotten.
&#8220;Salvage&#8221; played the festival circuit in 2005 under its original title, &#8220;Gruesome&#8221;. Even though the budget was low and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inland Empire (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Lynch is one suave motherfucker. He lives life and makes movies on his own terms and he certainly knows what he likes. One of these things is coffee. He says he drinks about 15 cups of it a day and is now selling his own brand, the &#8220;David Lynch Signature Cup&#8221;. At a minute shy of three hours, &#8220;INLAND EMPIRE&#8221; is one movie where you could really use a couple cups of coffee to help you make it across the finish line. That&#8217;s not a criticism, just reality. &#8220;INLAND EMPIRE&#8221; is one crazy late night roller coaster ride through Lynchland, the kind of movie you might half dream between an all night marathon of noir and slasher films, your heart pumping with caffeine.
Any attempt to write a conventional review for this movie is absurd. Not because it is &#8220;plotless&#8221; or &#8220;incomprehensible&#8221; or the other thousand patronizing adjectives critics normally apply to Lynch&#8217;s films. I think I know exactly what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Host (2006) Movie Review #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A monster rises out of the Han River and attacks Seoul, South Korea like Godzilla armed with really good special effects. Bong Joon-ho, the director of the serial killer thriller &#8220;Memories of Murder&#8221;, follows that one up with this straight up monster flick, a thrilling popcorn selling horror movie in the tradition of &#8220;Jaws&#8221; that even echoes the post-Watergate politics of Spielberg&#8217;s film with its own post-9/11 vibes. But don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any kind of Jack Handy deep thoughts here; &#8220;The Host&#8221; really is just a monster picture.
The film starts unconventionally for a monster movie, in that it starts immediately. Part of the tradition of monster movies is that since the monster looks so ridiculous, a good part of act one has to be built on foreshadowing and suspense trickery in order to keep the rubber puppet offscreen until as close to the fade out as possible. The skill of a monster movie director is normally judged on how well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horrorfest: 8, uh, 3 Films to Die For! / Reincarnation (2005), The Abandoned (2006), The Gravedancers (2006) Movie Reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would guess that by now most of you caught the frenetic commercials for this unique horror &#8220;fest&#8221; that appeared to be a scary new ride at Great Adventure. The fest played at only 500 venues across the United States from Friday November 17th to Tuesday the 21st. I originally planned on seeing all eight films advertised, but life being as busy as it is (and my lack of interest in &#8220;Snoop Dog&#8217;s House of Horror&#8221;), I had to make do with three. Luckily, they were the three I most wanted to see. 
I must say that as an idea, Courtney Solomon&#8217;s concept for a new indie release strategy is a clever one. Take several small budget horror films that would never get a theatrical release on their own and collect them together as a group to increase their market value. It&#8217;s like those DVD horror packs you see in the Wal-Mart bins, only slightly more helpful to the filmmakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casino Royale (2006) Movie Review / &#8220;007 and Counting&#8221;: The Life and Times of the James Bonds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Michael Winterbottom&#8217;s &#8220;24 Hour Party People&#8221;, a film about the London music and club scene of the 1970s and 80s, the Tony Wilson character claims that it was the invention of broccoli that funded the James Bond films. Believe it or not, there is supposedly some truth to this: Albert R. Broccoli, who with partner Harry Saltzman, bought the initial rights to the Fleming novels, is supposedly a descendent of the Broccoli family of Calabria, Italy. According to New York Times articles at the time of his death, his family &#8220;&#8230;crossed cauliflower and rabe and named the new vegetable after themselves,&#8221; and &#8220;Mr. Broccoli said one of his uncles brought the first broccoli seeds into the United States in the 1870s.&#8221; Following Saltzman&#8217;s bankruptcy and sale of his shares in the early 70&#8217;s, Albert R. Broccoli has been the sole producer of the Bond films, finally turning over the reigns to his daughter Barbara and his step-son Michael G. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beat the Bastard Down (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Duke Traynor makes some bold claims on his website, including having made 114 movies in 12 years in all genres. If true, this would place him in the running for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Marathon. He states that his filmmaking style is most often compared to Alfred Hitchcock and James Cameron, two directors whose exacting compositions and editing seem to have had no influence on Mr. Traynor. In the case of this &#8220;Bastard&#8221;, Traynor also claims to have made the movie in 32 hours without a script. It goes without saying that these two elements do not often result in watchable movies, so to say my expectations were low would be an understatement. That said, &#8220;Beat the Bastard Down&#8221; was more than watchable, and it appears that Jimmy Traynor may actually be able to stand behind his bold claims.
In &#8220;Beat the Bastard Down&#8221;, Steve Kovalic plays Phil, a fast-talking, womanizing real estate agent who appears to use his day [...]]]></description>
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