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		<title>G.I. Joe: Resolute (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Guest Movie Review by Dedpool)
In case you missed it when it was being aired on the internet, and again when Cartoon Network aired it at a midnight showing, &#8220;G.I. Joe: Resolute&#8221; was an 11 episode animated series based on the cartoons and comics of the 1980&#8217;s. It was written by Warren Ellis, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, and produced by Sam Register. And it was absolutely amazing and it&#8217;s the superior of the G.I.Joe releases that hit DVD on November 3. I&#8217;ve seen them both and well you&#8217;ll just have to keep reading to find out more. 
Well I&#8217;ll start off saying I enjoyed Stephen Sommers&#8217; &#8220;G.I.Joe: Rise of Cobra.&#8221; I also enjoyed Michael Bay&#8217;s &#8220;Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen.&#8221; Both could&#8217;ve have been much better, and &#8220;G.I.Joe&#8221; definitely had more potential and more done right than &#8220;Transformers 2,&#8221; but something felt a little off in the film. I think it was Snake Eyes&#8217; lips. They were SO damn distracting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coraline (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Guest Movie Review by Dedpool)
I was looking forward to this as soon as it hit theatres. Unfortunately my busy schedule prevented me from getting to see it and oh how I regret it. Coraline, directed by Henry Selick (of Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach fame)is an amazing journey of one lonely, misunderstood, and grossly ignored young lady, who find&#8217;s everything she&#8217;s ever wanted in &#8220;Other World.&#8221; &#8220;Other World&#8221; is a mirror image of our own world that Coraline finds one night behind a wallpapered door, which was formerly bricked up when she discovered it earlier in the day. In this world there are &#8220;Other&#8221; versions of all the people she has just recently met, except with one difference, they are overly attentive to Coraline (even getting her name right, which no one , save for her parents can seem to do), and they all have black buttons for eyes. That is the first hint that something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninja (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Review by Sherman Chin &#8211; POSSIBLE SPOILERS)
I have to state that I&#8217;m a movie buff and an Asian martial artist so my review might be a bit critical as evidenced by the lively teenagers who were gleefully shaking the cinema (&#8221;Ninja&#8221; is shown in Malaysian theaters instead of direct-to-dvd like in the US) seats as blood was splashing and heads were rolling. &#8220;Ninja&#8221; (2009) isn&#8217;t as hyped up as &#8220;Ninja Assassin&#8221; (2009), which came up as my first Google search when I had tried to ascertain what the movie was about after seeing its enigmatic cinema poster ad depicting a stereotypical ninja with the backdrop of New York city. So, I went into the cinema without much expectation.
The movie started out well enough with a quick historical overview of Ninjas in Japan followed by a beautiful take of a Japanese dojo showing  martial artists performing their &#8220;kata&#8221; or set moves. As most of the actors were Japanese, it felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Guest Movie Review by Dedpool) 
So it&#8217;s finally here. DC Animated&#8217;s and Warner Premiere&#8217;s newest direct to video release, “Green Lantern: First Flight” has finally touched down and oh what a ride it was. Timed almost perfectly with DC Comic&#8217;s summer long Green Lantern centric, universe wide crossover &#8220;Blackest Night&#8221; and the revelation that Ryan Reynolds will be playing Silver Age GL, Hal Jordan in the upcoming live-action release, “First Flight” sets the stage for all those unfamiliar with the emerald ring slinger, and gives something long overdue to fans of the character. 
Without giving too much away, the movie goes like this: Hal Jordan, a cocky but fun loving test pilot is whisked away to the crash site of dying alien Abin Sur. Sur is a member of the intergalactic police force known as &#8220;The Green Lantern Corps.&#8221; After bequeathing his ring to Jordan (the first human ever to be chosen by one of the rings), he tells him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Anthony Casella) On their way to counseling, young, pretty couple Jack (Reynaldo Rosales) and Stephanie (Heidi Dippold) take a few wrong turns and end up getting lost on a desolate, country road. After some petty bickering and painful exposition on the duo and their problems, the couple eventually gets directions from a menacing sheriff (Michael Madsen) and stumbles onto an eerie uninhabited inn (the kind that solely exist in crappy horror films).
The establishment, all shadowy passageways and terrible customer service, is run by a baleful woman (Leslie Easterbrook) and her horny, homicidal son (Bill Moseley). Soon, Jack and Stephanie, along with another stranded, vacant-eyed couple, find themselves haunted by past sins and a masked psycho who demands one dead victim by sunrise. Considering Jack is a writer and Stephanie is a moderately successful local musician, it&#8217;s a surprise these creative minds couldn&#8217;t write themselves into a better thriller. 
&#8220;House,&#8221; adapted by Rob Green from best-selling authors Ted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;Around (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Anthony Casella) For a movie about a wannabe filmmaker struggling to find inspiration for his movie while in New York City, there&#8217;s seemingly little having to do with subject of celluloid in &#8220;&#8230;Around,&#8221; produced, written and directed by David Spaltro. Instead, tired clichés and a predictable ending take up most of the generally uninspired running time, with only a handful of bright spots along the way.  
The film is centered on Doyle Simms, a hardened high school grad who leaves his rough home life and perpetually angry mother in Jersey City to pursue his dream of attending film school in the Big Apple. After some unsuccessful loan applications, resulting in zero money and no place to live, Doyle&#8217;s forced to sleep in a train station and take a job at a café to earn money when he&#8217;s not attending class. Then, like most stories that feature the protagonist pushed into a world he or she&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fissure (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Dan MacIntosh) The plot for Fissure works on several different levels: First, it takes our commonly held concept of time, and turns that on its head. Detective Paul Grunning (played by James MacDonald) is the film’s main character who inadvertently walks into a scientific experiment where time has mysteriously been divided and reshuffled, much like a deck of cards. The main trouble with the timing of Grunning’s science party crash is that it happens simultaneous to his investigation of a domestic disturbance case. And wouldn’t you know it, the case just happens to take place at the epicenter of this unusual experiment. Furthermore, this so called “domestic disturbance” call actually turns out to be a murder case; one where the murder victim is also our time-twisting scientist. Of course, as with all murder investigations, a proper event chronology is essential. But the whole sci-fi monkey wrench thrown into Grunning’s job makes it nearly impossible for him to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Laurence Bush) The film, Red, turns good and evil inside out.  Everyone loves Avery.  He is a dog-lover, war veteran, fisherman, beer drinker, and widower living in a typical small American town.  He has a kind, sincere face, weathered by life and soulful eyes that belie a secret tragedy.  Three teenaged boys accost him while he’s peacefully fishing at his favorite spot.  When Danny, the main bad boy, shoots his beloved dog, Red, in cold blood and for no apparent reason, it’s repulsive.  Even more so, when Avery tracks down the boy’s rich father, he denies it and uses his influence to stop Avery from getting any sort of justice.  
In the finest American tradition Avery does not give up.  He recalls his Army service in Korea, where he fought with whatever he could lay his hands on and he learned that “the world rolled over” whoever didn’t try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Dustin Adrian) In the 70s Dario Argento&#8217;s films married two unlikely things-lurid violence and gorgeous visuals. His vibrant set design, use of color and imaginative direction made him a hit with both horror fans and critics.  Many believe his best film is Suspiria, the story of a young girl trapped in a dance school where strange events are happening; the film is both beautiful and terrifying. It&#8217;s the stuff nightmares are made of, and to this day, is considered one of the scariest films ever made. He followed that up with the sequel, Inferno. The film lacks the originality of Suspiria and suffers from a weak script but still manages to deliver some chilling moments. Now, 30 years later, the 68 year old director has finished his trilogy with his film The Mother of Tears AKA The Third Mother. 
The film opens with a construction worker driving his bulldozer into a 3 foot wide hole and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Blueberry Nights (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Kevin Nickelson) Have you ever been to a coffee shop or diner and noticed one of the desserts under glass that’s never been touched? The donuts that look like they’ve been there a few days? Or, maybe it’s a blueberry pie that stands alone, ignored by the very suitors it targets, the hungry human patron. It seems like a metaphor should be inserted here. Ok, the pie is a metaphor representing every boy or girl forced to walk as a victim away from a busted relationship. They feel abandoned and emotionally drained. They question their ability to love again and whether they feel they can be loved again. At least that is the theme heavily explored (a blueberry pie even shows as a symbol in some scenes) by Chinese director Kar Wai Wong in “My Blueberry Nights”, a 2007 release from Studio Canal, Block 2 Pictures, and Jet Tone Production.
The story revolves around Elizabeth (a surprisingly charismatic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed Racer (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Laurence Bush) &#8220;Speed Racer&#8221; is a visual oil spill, lushly colored, slick and thin.  Doing a live action, big budget version of a 1960&#8217;s Japanese animated series sounds doomed to failure.  The original Speed Racer comic books had some depth and characterization, but the anime, especially the American culturally neutral version was just ocular fun: bright colors, speeding exotics, ingenious gadgets.  With the anime as a departure point, the writers/directors Wachowski crashed the plot into the fiery wall of cliché death, but it wasn&#8217;t all bad &#8211;really.
The fight scenes, a Wachowski specialty, and the special effects were gaudy, comic bookish and extreme but that was the intent. They are clearly the best bits of the film, and the attention to graphic detail made fine results.  Even this is a let down in the end, because the effects did not look significantly better than the previews on a big screen television, and they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hammer (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Wes Topher) “Some guys don’t know their destiny till it hits them in the face.&#8221;
Can the currently reigning King of the Unibrow really make a decent movie? YES, quite actually.
I’m sure that I am not alone when first hearing that former Loveline / The Man Show “co-host” Adam Carolla was bringing his vision to the silver screen. Give me a break, how can this smarmy self worshipping turd put together an entire feature film that could possibly entertain anyone beyond drunken frat status? First by getting our attention on the TV hit “Dancing with the Stars”. In this case I believe that his dance partner, the incredibly gorgeous Julianne Hough was the true star, but Adam managed to charm the masses with his wit and one liners. He also showed some true humbleness and self deprecation that enabled everyone to relate to him as an everyman. These emotions were successfully carried over into his first feature film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Drink With Me (1966) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Kevin Nickelson) Remember those days when you went through the junk in your attic and stumbled across a piece of treasure that you’d forgotten about. Maybe it was an embarrassing photo of a drunk family member at a party, or a sterling silver Buddha with the clock in the belly. The one you won at the last beer chug-a-lug contest you had in college. These are treasures to you, anyway. For me it was finding the wonderfully orchestrated 1966 martial arts thriller “Come Drink With Me” amidst a massive amount of wasted viewing time donated to mediocre and worse kung fu adventures.
Directed and written by King Hu, the man behind such classic fist-flying action films as “Dragon Inn” (1967) and “Touch of Zen” (1971), “Come Drink With Me” effortlessly combines stunning visuals, smart dialogue, poignant drama, and precision-choreographed action set-pieces to make high entertainment for fans. And Hu manages to do this without resorting to over-use of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Bond: Devil May Care (2008) Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Book Review by Wes Topher) In celebrating the centennial of literary legend Ian Fleming’s birth, the trustees of the author’s estate appointed one of Britain’s most popular novelists to revisit the world’s most famous secret agent. Their choice is nonetheless exquisite.
Sebastian Faulks takes us back to the James Bond of 1967; there are no cell phones and illicit gadgetry beyond imagination. He delivers the clean cool persona and charm that reflect the hero as he was intended to be. The villains and henchmen are stoically in place; the seductive heroines with the Fleming-esque names are omnipresent. And of course Bond’s teammates- M (the original male version) and Moneypenny are along for the ride. 
It begins with a brutal drug induced, back alley Paris murder and takes us to a sober Bond, struggling with the aspect of retiring from the realm of agent. He is on an appointed leave of absence that smoothly transitions him from his last Fleming adventure. James [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under the Same Moon (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Dan MacIntosh) Those of us living in Southern California cannot escape the illegal immigration issue. Whether it is men in The Home Depot parking lot looking for work or the busboy at our favorite restaurant, citizens from the other side of the Mexican border have become a permanent part of our lives. And as the economy falters, talk radio takes even sharper aim at these “aliens” for using our medical facilities without paying taxes. When things get bad, it’s not unusual to look for someone to blame. And that makes these Mexicans easy targets.
The trouble with trying to understand these complicated issues &#8212; based solely upon the brown faces we see in our midst and the loud voices we hear over the airwaves &#8212; is that real people are conveniently ignored in the equation. We get a whole lot of statistics, but very little humanity. This is why Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) is such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contour (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by James D. Bass) What if you took a group of American Martial Artists, gave them the green light on a picture, and let them run the entire production with no regard for script, casting, or other marketable angles for the picture?  You would end up with the Indican Pictures recent release to DVD… Contour. 
There are three movie types that seem to need little reason or plot in order to exist.  They are Porno, Action, and Martial Arts films.  The argument could be made that the only real reason for a plot in these genres is to separate one movie to the next and allow them to be titled and referenced later.  The Martial Arts genre suffers even more degradation in the translation process from foreign languages of the East.  Many times, the dubs are so humorous as a result that many serious plot lines transform into comedy material. 
Writer, Director, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heroes of the East (1979) Movie Review</title>
		<link>http://www.beyondhollywood.com/heroes-of-the-east-1979-movie-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Kevin Nickelson) Have you ever visited a home where the décor wildly differs from room to room? There is the main living room, usually reserved for guests, decked out in something vaguely similar to Victorian style. You move to the kitchen, which is 90’s glass and wood panel. Turn left down the hall and you go face-to-face with the kids’ bedroom, done in the best goth style a minimum wage, part-time job can buy. Yet it all seems to come together when you look at it as a whole. That is exactly the feeling you get watching Lau Kar Leung’s “Zhong hua zhang fu (Heroes of the East)”. Produced in 1979 by the martial arts movie icon Shaw Brothers of Hong Kong, “Heroes of the East” is an odd but ultimately exciting mix of broad “Taming of the Shrew”-type comedy, culture clash dramatics, and stunning action sequences.
Gordon Liu stars as Ah To, a Chinese martial arts expert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Echo (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Movie Review by Lance Curtis &#8212; Twitch.com says it is the most &#8220;art-house oriented film&#8221; to come out of Vertigo Entertainment, the producers behind horror films The Ring, The Grudge, and now The Echo.
The Echo, directed by young filmmaker Yam Laranas, certainly comes as a surprise to even those horror fans who claim to have seen everything. The film manages to be both artistic and terrifying. A rare and strangely powerful combination.
With hardly any special effects, Yam Laranas uses his mastery of lights and shadows to turn the most innocuous everyday objects into the stuff of night terrors. The hallway. The door. The window. The closet. The garbage shoot. Everything looks ominous in the world he&#8217;s created out of the simplest camera gestures and shifts in light.
The main character Bobby (played by Jesse Bradford)  likewise achieves the most effect with minimalist dialogue and a total absence of typical horror theatrics.
He is an ex-con returning to the apartment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Movie Review #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Dustin Adrian) So who is Indy battling in the new Indiana Jones movie? The Nazis? The Russians? No &#8212; it’s fan expectations. There are two Indiana Jones movies in theaters right now &#8212; there’s the film that has received bad web buzz and negative reviews and then there’s the actual movie. Which one you see when the lights go out is entirely up to you. The good news is that the actual movie is entertaining and fun.   
We catch up with Indy 20 years after his last crusade &#8212; through a rather neat reveal shot that echoes the beginning of “Raiders of the Last Ark.” This time it’s the Russians that are after a device that will rule the world. They are searching for a Crystal Skull that baddie Agent Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchette) believes has psychic powers. Along for the adventure this time are Indy’s old love from “Raiders,” Marian Ravenwood (Karen Allen), her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undoing (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 04:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by James D. Bass) The genre of Noir in filmmaking is receiving a resurgence of popularity due primarily to the fascination with most audiences towards it’s capacity to promote ambiguity of social and moral values within the lives of the characters and stories.  “Undoing” from Indican Pictures presents a stylish version of “Neo Noir” by combining some unique twists with very homogenized elements that results in something that is simultaneously appealing and disappointing.  A result that is almost iconic of the characters that make up a classic narrative meant to blur the lines between right and wrong, good and bad, light and dark.  
And while most entertainment is expected to stir some strong emotional response, convey a message, or engage viewers in a satisfying tale… Chris Chan Lee’s independent production leaves a sense of wonder that borders on bewildering.  And delivering as many questions as answers.  After viewing the 90 minute widescreen edition [...]]]></description>
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