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		<title>The Fall (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best known for directing commercials and music videos (‘Losing My Religion’ for R.E.M. is perhaps his most famous effort), director Tarsem Singh (just Tarsem to you and me) applies his photographer’s eye and considerable imagination to his latest project, “The Fall.”  A film of audacious visual exuberance, “The Fall” is that rare thing: a film that exists solely to be looked at.  No, I don’t mean one of those sfx extravaganzas that can only hope to be pretty because their narratives are so hopelessly underdone.  This film’s raison d&#8217;être is to be pretty, and the narrative exists solely to give it motion.
The film opens with a deliberately interminable slow-motion sequence that turns out to be the aftermath of a failed movie stunt that leaves stuntman Roy (played by Lee Pace, who’s a dead ringer for John Cusack in both looks and mannerisms) an apparent paraplegic and bedridden at a California hospital.  One day he meets a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted (2008) Movie Review #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the rate that Hollywood is cranking through comic books to fill up its studios, film worthy comics may soon become as scarce as crude oil.  The latest entry is “Wanted,” helmed by Russian action golden boy du juor, Timur Bekmambetov (director of the currently in progress “Night Watch” vampire trilogy).  Based on yet another in a long line of anonymous action comics, “Wanted” is a hard edged, no holds barred action romp like everything we’ve seen before.  Given the paltry success rate in page-to-screen comic book adaptations, Hollywood may be turning more frequently to retreading their past failures like what was just attempted with The Hulk.  “Wanted” does nothing to stem that tide.
The movie introduces us to Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy, “The Last King of Scotland”), a harried and henpecked accountant whose life has hit such a level of insignificance that his name doesn’t bring up any hits on Google.  Wesley’s father disappeared when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kite Liberator (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 03:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original “Kite” was a controversial, yet fascinating exercise in style and mood.  Thematically similar to Luc Besson’s near-classic “Le Femme Nikita,” which was, at its core, a remake of the classic tale ‘Pygmalion,’ “Kite” explored the dark and seedy subjects of child abuse, emotional deconstruction, sexual perversion and revenge.  The ugly thematic content was emphasized by layers of raw, graphic violence and fairly gratuitous hentai content which guaranteed the film’s notoriety.  A decade later, director Yasuomi Umetsu revisits some of these themes with “Kite Liberator.”
This latest film is not a direct sequel, but rather a spin-off that borrows the basic themes of the original as a launching pad for its story.  This time, the adolescent femme fatale is a girl named Monaka.  By day she’s high school student who works part time as a waitress at a seedy bar.  By night, she’s a deadly assassin, known as The Angel of Death, whose calling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iron Man (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 02:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood has been mining the comic book shelves for quite some time, but has been hitting it particularly heavily over the last decade.  Everything from the classics to the new-age stuff has been tapped at one time or another (several times, even), but they’ve met with mixed results.  For every “Batman Begins,” there are a handful of “Spawn”s and “Hulk”s.  The latest entry into the genre is “Iron Man,” based on the 1960s Marvel Comics series.
“Iron Man” tells the story of genius billionaire weapons designer Tony Stark who, after a horrific turn of events, changes the focus of his energies from the business of destruction to doing good.  The film opens with Stark (Robert Downey Jr., “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”) trekking through Afghanistan with a US military convoy, mercilessly belittling his uptight escorts with his aloof wit and playboy charm (he apparently scored with all twelve Maxim Magazine cover models in one year).  That is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doomsday (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of the world has been a popular topic in Science Fiction and Fantasy films for as long as we can remember.  But while the topic is well worn, the subject has been kept relatively fresh as the causes of our demise have evolved with popular politics – nuclear holocaust, alien invaders/Communists, wayward meteors and Global Warming.  The disaster du jour happens to be plagues and the latest entry into this post-Apocalyptic action genre is “Doomsday.”
Directed by Brit Neil Marshall (“The Descent”), “Doomsday” presents us with a near future Scotland that has been overrun by a vicious virus called ‘Reaper’ which causes its victims to die horrible, blood-spurting deaths.  When things get out of hand, a gravelly voice-over tells us, Scotland is completely walled off from the rest of Great Britain to allow nature to take its course and the plague victims to die out.  That was in 2008.  Fast forward 30 years and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rambo (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sylvester Stallone’s latest attempt at career resuscitation comes to us in the form of “Rambo,” the fourth installment of the action series.  The last time we saw John Rambo, he was busy helping the Taliban overthrow the Soviets.  That sure worked out great.  This time, Stallone takes us to the less incendiary geopolitical hotspot of Burma, where the ruling military junta has been waging a brutal 60 year civil conflict against the Karen ethnic group.
As the movie opens, we catch up to Rambo who now makes a living rustling snakes for a village sideshow in western Thailand.  He’s sunk so low that when a missionary group led by the condescending Michael (Paul Schulze, ‘Journeyman’) asks for a ride up-river to Burma so that they can bring aid to the suffering, Rambo rejects him, scolding him for believing that he can make a difference.  But after some pleading by pretty missionary Sarah (Julie Benz, ‘Dexter’), he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloverfield (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shrouded in secrecy and a pervasive viral marketing campaign, prolific television producer J.J. Abrams&#8217; (‘Alias,&#8217; ‘Lost&#8217;) latest film, &#8220;Cloverfield,&#8221; lands in US theaters at a rather curious time.  Mid-January is typically when movie studios flush the crap out of their dumpsters and into the cineplexes, so I was surprised that a film with an A-List pedigree would be released now.  I suppose the producers were banking on effective buzz allowing them to get the drop on a soft box office.  From the looks of it, the gamble will pay off.  The word-of-mouth buzz I had heard prior to seeing the film indicated that it was &#8220;Godzilla&#8221; meets &#8220;The Blair Witch Project&#8221; and the stern warning about the potential induction of motion sickness posted at the theater ticket counter reinforced that assessment.  After seeing the film, I can say that it does play out pretty much as advertised, but that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing.
The film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Country for Old Men (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul.  In the case of Anton Chigurh, those windows open upon nothingness.  In fact, his faded blue eyes seem to suck the very souls from those unfortunate enough to fall under their gaze.  He is a psychopathic hit man who kills his victims with a compressed air powered cattle stun prod.  Played with petrifying intensity by noted Spanish actor Javier Bardem (&#8221;Before Night Falls&#8221;), Chigurh is one of the most terrifying and memorable movie bad guys in recent memory.  One part Michael Meyers, one part Pinhead and one part void, Chigurh emits an aura of evil so strong you get the feeling that plants would wilt as he passed by.  He is the lynchpin of the Coen Bros. fascinating new film &#8220;No Country for Old Men.&#8221;
The first time we see Chigurh, he&#8217;s strangling a Sheriff&#8217;s deputy with his own handcuffs; the distant, almost orgasmic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elite Squad (aka Tropa de Elite, 2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has long been known as a city precariously balanced on the edge of chaos.  A city of vibrant culture and life, it is also one of the most dangerous cities in the world.  The majority of its population lives in one of 70 slums, known as favelas, which are ruled by violent drug gangs.  These heavily armed gangs routinely engage in pitched gun battles with the police, with the city&#8217;s residents often caught in the crossfire.  
With the police force under funded, under equipped and rife with corruption, the drug gangs pretty much have their way within the confines of the favelas and frequently outgun the police when fighting spills over into the city proper.  The situation is bad enough that the government created a special paramilitary force known as BOPE (Battalion for Special Police Operations) charged with dealing with the drug gangs.  With their symbol being a skull flanked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karas: The Revelation (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I previously reviewed &#8220;Karas: The Prophecy,&#8221; I noted that it was a visually spectacular film that suffered from a criminally underdeveloped plot and slap-dash execution.  There were so many good parts to what made up the first film: the brilliant conceptualization of near-future Tokyo, the virtually seamless melding of traditional, hand-drawn cell animation with cutting-edge CGI, the stunning detail of the visual compositions and the excellent musical score.  That it was all in service of a story that seemed like it was developed by an elementary school child and edited together with a meat cleaver and Scotch Tape made the viewing experience terribly disappointing.  However, I did cut the film some slack because it was the first half of a two-part series (or more correctly, parts 1-3 of a 6-part OAV) and thus could not be entirely faulted for its apparent incompleteness.  So it was with at least a dull sense of anticipation that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Days of Night (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;30 Days of Night&#8221; has been billed as a new take on the Vampire movie.  After watching it, the only &#8216;new&#8217; element I can identify is that the vampires are full-on bad guys this time around.  None of that tortured soul, conflicted motivations, touchy-feely nonsense.  Just hard core, mean spirited blood sucking and mutilation.  Sounds good, right?  A horror movie that actually has detestable bad guys.  That paints in black and white rather than shades of grey.  A purveyor of old-school ultra-violence for the Type-A personality.  Well, in theory, yes.  But theory and reality are often quite different.
&#8220;30 Days of Night&#8221; is the sophomore effort from director David Slade, who&#8217;s debut feature, &#8220;Hard Candy,&#8221; was a wicked, if overly ambitious, little psychological thriller.  In &#8220;30 Days of Night,&#8221; he&#8217;s gone fully main stream with a fairly formulaic vampire romp.  The film begins with a few informative notes about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kingdom (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my review of &#8220;Syriana&#8221; last year, I noted that many viewers who were apparently befuddled by that film were probably expecting an action movie since there was an explosion in the film&#8217;s trailer.  &#8220;The Kingdom&#8221; would have been that film.  Not to be confused with Lars von Trier&#8217;s hospital horror mini-series of the same name, this latest effort from former Soap Opera heart throb turned big screen actor/director Peter Berg (&#8221;The Rundown&#8221;) is a rather disorganized jumble of Rambo-style action and 21st century sham diplomacy.
The film begins with a slick opening credits sequence that gives us a quick potted history of US-Saudi relations, starting with the discovery of oil on the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s through the current post-9/11 conditions.  It then cuts to an American housing compound in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where the residents are chillin&#8217; and grillin&#8217; at a softball game.  This suburban solitude is rudely interrupted by a gang of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastern Promises (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that &#8220;Eastern Promises&#8221; is a David Cronenberg film, one shouldn&#8217;t be entirely surprised that it opens with a vicious throat slashing and a fourteen year old girl hemorrhaging in a drug store.  The girl in question dies soon after while giving birth to a baby girl under the care of midwife Anna (Naomi Watts, &#8220;King Kong&#8221;).  In an attempt to reunite the baby with her family, Anna has the girl&#8217;s diary translated, the contents of which get her embroiled in the affairs of the Russian mafia.
The mafia here refers to the Vory V Zakone crime syndicate, run by the grandfatherly Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl, &#8220;Shine&#8221;) along with his effete son Kirill (Vincent Cassel, &#8220;Derailed&#8221;) and his mysterious driver/enforcer Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen, &#8220;A History of Violence&#8221;) out of an upscale Russian restaurant in London.  As Anna persists in her efforts to uncover the truth behind the girl&#8217;s death, the true nature of Semyon&#8217;s criminal activities becomes apparent; something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3:10 to Yuma (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the outset, director James Mangold&#8217;s (&#8221;Walk the Line&#8221;) latest film, &#8220;3:10 to Yuma,&#8221; has two strikes against it: it is a Western, a genre that has been dying a slow death over the past 25 years, and it is a remake.  That it succeeds is a testament to the performances of the two leads, Russell Crowe (&#8221;Gladiator&#8221;) and Christian Bale (&#8221;Batman Begins&#8221;).
Crowe plays Ben Wade, notorious bank robber and vicious killer of men.  The film begins with Wade and his motley gang of thugs waylaying a Railroad Company payroll coach guarded by Pinkertons (led by a grizzled Peter Fonda).  In the process of pulling off this heist, Wade runs across Dan Evens (Bale), a one-legged rancher and former Union soldier who&#8217;s fallen on hard times.  The two men part ways over steel-eyed glares, but as if guided by fate, they run into each other again later that day in town.  This time, however, Wade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original &#8220;Die Hard&#8221; was a blast of superheated fresh air when it descended upon unprepared moviegoers in the summer of 1988. That film introduced us to wisecracking, gun-toting southpaw NYPD Detective John McClane, who has become an American institution. It not only established TV heartthrob Bruce Willis as a major action star, but more importantly also demonstrated that action films could be intelligent and engaging beyond the requisite mountains of bullet-riddled corpses. The film&#8217;s runaway box office success spawned the inevitable pale sequel and even a surprisingly good third installment. But you know that it&#8217;s tough to keep a hard man down and John McClane is about as hard as they come. After retiring to the comfortable confines of the 5-day rental racks at Blockbuster for the last 12 years, he&#8217;s back and busted up as ever.
The fourth installment, &#8220;Live Free or Die Hard&#8221; (as if &#8220;Die Harder&#8221; wasn&#8217;t embarrassing enough) sees our favorite urban dinosaur finally making the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Night of the Sunflowers (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the residents of a declining little village in northern Spain comes across an ancient cave in the nearby hills. Hoping to revitalize the town through the potential touristic possibilities of a prehistoric cave, the locals call upon Speleologist Esteban (Carmello Gomez), who arrives in the region to investigate the cave with his assistant Pedro (Mariano Alameda) and girlfriend Gabi (Judith Diakhate). However, while waiting for Esteban and Pedro to return from the cave, Gabi is brutally assaulted. Delirious with rage, Esteban and Pedro set out in search of Gabi&#8217;s assailant, but a case of mistaken identity leads to a tragic act of violence. 
The fallout from this spins the protagonists&#8217; lives out of control, particularly after they run across opportunistic cop Tomas (Vicente Romero) and his straight-arrow, world-weary boss Amadeo (Celso Bugallo, &#8220;The Sea Inside&#8221;), who also happens to be his father-in-law. Thus begins &#8220;La Noche De Los Girasoles&#8221; (&#8221;The Night of the Sunflowers&#8221;), the debut feature film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grindhouse (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Grindhouse was a sub-genre of exploitation films that were generally deemed too extreme and cheap for the mainstream, and there wasn&#8217;t much genre segregation with regards to what got heaped into this pile. The only qualifications were that it had to be strange, violent and of poor quality. Everything from Herschell Gordon Lewis&#8217; &#8216;pioneering&#8217; horror films to the incomprehensible works of Alejandro Jodorowsky, from Italian zombie/cannibal films to Sonny Chiba and Bruce Lee Kung-fu movies, were included in this designation. The Grindhouse made up its own little cottage industry of midnight screenings and Drive-In fare from the late `60s through the `70s, and managed to generate a small, but rabid fan base. 
But as slicker productions became cheaper and more widely available to the moviegoer, the kitschy quality of Grindhouse films became more of a novelty, and the genre eventually died out. However, two of Hollywood&#8217;s most vocal B-movie junkies, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, have put together an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>300 (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a blurb I wrote in my &#8216;Best of 2005&#8242; list, I declared &#8220;A Bittersweet Life&#8221; to be &#8220;one of the slickest pieces of stone-cold machismo to slide across the silver screen since &#8216;Scarface.&#8221;&#8216; Well, I think we have a strong challenger for that title in Zach Snyder&#8217;s &#8220;300.&#8221; The latest film adaptation of a Frank Miller limited series comic book, &#8220;300&#8243; tells the tale of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., where a small contingent of 300 Spartan warriors held the mighty Persian army at bay for three days, enough time to allow the rest of Greece&#8217;s bickering city-states to assemble a united front, in particular Athens&#8217; navy, in defense of their nation.
The film opens with a brief tutorial on the Spartan way of life. We learn that newborn male Spartans not deemed perfect are tossed over a cliff to their death, and those that are spared are trained to kill from the time they can walk. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Snake Moan (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;God put you in my path, and I aim to cure you of your wickedness.&#8221; There are only a handful of actors who can utter that phrase and make us believe it, and Samuel L. Jackson is on the top of that list. In &#8220;Black Snake Moan,&#8221; the latest offering from &#8220;Hustle and Flow&#8221; director Craig Brewer, Jackson plays Lazarus, a burnt out and love-sick Blues guitarist turned farmer. After his wife runs off with his brother, Lazarus is on the slow boat to depression when he crosses paths with Rae (a tarted up Christina Ricci).
Now Rae is a real piece of work. Afflicted with nymphomaniacal fits when faced with a crisis, she&#8217;s left groaning and convulsing on the ground till she can find a handful of pills, a bottle of booze, and a man to have sex with. Naturally, this sort of behavior leads to many encounters with the wrong kinds of men. Which brings us back to Lazarus. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gopal&#8217;s Top 10 Movies of 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several outstanding films rolled out of 2005, 2006 has been a bit of a downer. With a few notable exceptions, I didn&#8217;t come across any films that really stood out as exceptional. There were certainly some good and entertaining movies, but even they were of the deeply flawed variety. Still, thinking back through the films I saw in `06, I was able to come up with ten worthy ones to put on a list. So, in no particular order and without further ado:
&#8220;The Proposition&#8221;
A film of unflinching savagery and mind-boggling brutality, John Hillcoat&#8217;s Australian western takes us back to the bad old days of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. Treading through the blackest recesses of the human heart, this is a film where even the good guys would make baby Jesus cry. But despite all the soul crushing amorality, the film is unsettlingly lyrical and undoubtedly powerful.
&#8220;The Host&#8221;
An old-fashioned monster movie with an Asian twist. This Korean genre entry [...]]]></description>
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