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	<title>BeyondHollywood.com &#124; Movie News, Reviews, and Opinions &#187; Jodie Bass</title>
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		<title>Elsewhere (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran cinematographer Nathan Hope tries on his Writer and Director caps with &#8220;Elsewhere,&#8221; a small town thriller released in theatres in January and already out on DVD and Blu-Ray. To be blunt, he really shouldn&#8217;t quit his day job. While the production values are high and the acting is adequate, there is nothing about this film that can make up for the hackneyed plot elements, lackluster characters and awkward, and almost laughable, tension.
The story takes place in the real town of Goshen, Indiana.  A farm town that doesn&#8217;t seem to offer much to it&#8217;s teenagers except, perhaps, the opportunity to discover some of it&#8217;s tantalizingly dark secrets.  Every small town in America has deep, dark secrets just waiting to swallow another victim, right?  The movie centers, exclusively, on Sarah (Anna Kendrick from Twilight) who is best friends with the rebellious Jillian (Tania Raymonde from Lost) who constantly rages against their bucolic surroundings.  Sarah is the bright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News From Development Hell: The Brazilian Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode of Development Hell, we have The Brazilian Job, the sequel to the remake The Italian Job (2003) with an all-star cast including Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, Mos Def and Edward Norton.]]></description>
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		<title>Actor David Carradine, 72, found hanged in Bangkok hotel.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well known actor, David Carradine, was found hanged in a hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand yesterday. According to his manager, Carradine, who is most famous for his role as Qwai Chang Caine in the 1970s TV series Kung-Fu, was in Thailand shooting his latest movie.]]></description>
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		<title>The Way of War (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Way of War&#8221;, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and JK Simmons (Spider Man, Juno), seems, at first blush, to be another action movie about a rogue covert operative trying to stay alive while uncovering a government conspiracy at the highest levels.  Unfortunately, if you examine closely, you&#8217;ll find that it doesn&#8217;t get any more original. 
&#8220;The Way of War&#8221; probably looked really, really good on paper, because the potential is everywhere.  Many of the characters have a hidden, but sadly untapped, depth.  In trying to be original some things are explained in odd ways, like a cassette tape with the main character speaking to what seems to be his father, but end up just being distracting and confusing.  A few subplots only deepen the confusion and make the main character more muddy and indefinable. 
The opening credits run over quick cut scenes from the entire movie, beginning to end, with moody drum beats and electronic orchestral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holly (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Livingston vs. Cambodia.]]></description>
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		<title>Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even people who absolutely hate modern musical movies, like Rent or Chicago, will appreciate the amount of effort put into Repo! The Genetic Opera.  It&#8217;s not some backyard film disguised as nothing more than an extended music video.  While it has some of the same visual production elements it carries none of the preconceptions about genre or propriety.  It borrows from so many places that, somewhere along the way, it grew an original energy of it&#8217;s own.  Unfortunately, the brazen ego and over-confidence imbued in it never fully allow the entire production to get out of it&#8217;s own way.  The final product turns out to be a confused and muddy mix of too many brilliant colors that could have been so much more with just a little less. 
Repo! The Genetic Opera written &#038; composed by Darren Smith and Terrence Zdunich started out as a ten minute &#8220;cabaret&#8221; piece, performed in small venues.  Once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Spirit Movie Visual Companion by Mark Cotta Vaz</title>
		<link>http://www.beyondhollywood.com/book-review-the-spirit-movie-visual-companion-by-mark-cotta-vaz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no denying the hard work. talent and sheer enthusiasm author Mark Cotta Vaz pours into his movie companion books.  The Spirit: The Movie Visual Companion is definitely some of his best work, to date.  It could be said that Mark&#8217;s biggest passion lies with animation.  One of his earlier books chronicled the first fifty years of the Batman empire.  He clearly understands the creative arc as a story goes from a poorly received graphic novel to a media blockbuster and what it takes to translate that from page to screen to book.  His appreciation is obvious but his desire to sensationalize the efforts of director Frank Miller and producers Deborah Del Prete and Michael Uslan tends to lean toward fawning regard. 
The book opens with an introduction from Frank Miller.  It&#8217;s a damn good thing that Frank didn&#8217;t try to write the entire book himself.  Frank obviously considered Will Eisner to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hulk vs &#8230; Wolverine/Thor (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many men started out as young boys who dreamt of being heroes&#8230; super heroes.  Marvel knows it&#8217;s target audience but, seemingly in an effort to push the envelope, they seem to miss the mark with too little story and too much violence. 
The first of the DVDs is Hulk Vs. Wolverine.  Inspired by the very first appearance Wolverine ever made (The Incredible Hulk issue number 180, released in 1974) the story takes place in a Yukon wilderness where Hulk appears to have gone on a crazed rampage.  &#8220;Department H&#8221; calls in Wolverine to help stop him.  Unfortunately for everyone involved, some of Wolverine&#8217;s past, namely the villains from the Weapon X project that bonded the adamantium to his skeleton and tried to turn him into a weapon, show up and capture both Wolverine and Hulk.  One would be bad but both, together, turn out to be downright disastrous.
On the second of the two DVDs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulse 3: Invasion (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the third, and supposedly final, installment in the Pulse trilogy of movies the world has shunned technology and learned to live in a world without any communications devices.  A world, ironically, that would not have been able to view this straight-to-DVD release.  Truthfully, they would have been better off. 
Starring newcomer Brittany Finamor and Rider Strong (from Boy Meets World), the story takes place seven years after the first movie.  Billions have died from the &#8220;plague&#8221; brought on, originally, by viewing the dead on the internet.  Each new death only adds to the dead&#8217;s ability to reach those on the other side and suck the life force from their bodies.  In desperation the survivors have left the cities and built ramshackle communities where they teach their children to fear all technology.  Each township brutally punishes anyone reckless enough to flirt with any devices discovered strewn about.  Of course, young Justine who, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Longshots (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like eating a familiar dish you&#8217;ve had a hundred times before, The Longshots, a true story inspired film starring Ice Cube and Keke Palmer (Akeela and the Bee), is a pretty standard recipe. Also, like good comfort food, it has just the right amount of all the usual ingredients that help make family movies satisfying and enjoyable for a wide audience. It&#8217;s obvious that writer Nick Santora and director Fred Durst (yes, THE Fred Durst, from Limp Bizkit) weren&#8217;t shooting for an Academy Award with this one. With a little comedy, a little drama, a dash of innocent romance and a whole lot of inspirational situations this movie should succeed with a wide range of viewers and offers an entire town of characters to identify with and care about. The only real surprise may be the subtle way that it deals with harsh issues like adolescent angst, single parent homes, racial stereotypes and small town poverty and still maintains a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renaissance Village (2008) Movie Review</title>
		<link>http://www.beyondhollywood.com/renaissance-village-2008-movie-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good documentaries provide the viewer with an intimate perspective of a person, place, event or period of time. A great documentary either simply educates, if unbiased, or improves social awareness by immersing people in the world being documented. Renaiassance Village, while admirable in it&#8217;s intended goal, ultimately fails to adequately tell the complete story, thereby threatening to leave the viewer feeling confused and phlegmatic&#8230; much like the people it portrays. The effect Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had on New Orleans, and the surrounding areas, went way beyond tragic. It was a disaster of biblical proportions. Millions were left homeless and with very few options. Some had very little, or nothing at all, before they were displaced by the storm. Eventually, those poor souls are the ones that this movie is really about.
The movie opens with a short clip of a young, freckle-faced boy of about eleven talking directly to the camera. &#8220;Can I swear?&#8221; he asks, candidly. He then, suddenly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Way Down TV Series (2007) DVD Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With so much reality television favoring conflict and situations that seem to bring out the worst in people it&#8217;s refreshing to discover a documentary about a &#8220;couple of mates&#8221; who find their friendship strengthened in the face of adversity.  In Long Way Down, the sequel to the popular BBC miniseries Long Way Round starring Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, the pair intend to ride their motorcycles fifteen thousand miles from John O&#8217;Groats, Scotland to Cape Town on the southern most tip of the African continent in just eighty-five days.  For star struck McGregor fans even his winning smile and boyish charm lose a lot of their novelty after the first couple of hours.  However, both McGregor and Boorman prove themselves to be far more than their star status as they encounter some of the most memorable, and notably respectable, people ever captured on camera. 
The dynamic stars are also reunited with producer Russ Malkin and director David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hell Ride (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few true bikers.  There are only a few more people who know real bikers.  No, you aren&#8217;t one of them.  If you were, you wouldn&#8217;t be sitting in front of a computer reading this review.  You&#8217;d be too busy removing glass from your scalp from the beer bottle a guy broke over your head just before you beat the crap out of him and stole his wallet and his girlfriend.  The biker subculture can only be inhabited by those committed enough to spend countless hours traveling from small town to small town through endless miles of mountains and deserts listening to nothing more than the throaty rumble of a V-twin engine.  Larry Bishop, son of Rat Pack comedian Joey Bishop, is a rare breed of man who has actually lived in that world and also makes movies about it.  Hell Ride is his homage to the legendary biker movies of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wasting Away (2007) Movie Review</title>
		<link>http://www.beyondhollywood.com/wasting-away-2007-movie-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People think that every angle on the zombie movie has been covered. Zombies attack small farmhouse&#8230; check. Zombie menace from outer space invades a tiny town and then threatens a small farmhouse&#8230; check. Satanic cult performs unholy ritual and causes corpses to rise from their graves and enact revenge on their landlord for not fixing the leaky toilet in a small farmhouse&#8230; check. Voodoo priestess turns an entire village into zombies who dance and sing their way through a graveyard on their way to attack a small farmhouse&#8230; double-check. Yep, that&#8217;s one tapped out genre. Wasting Away proves just how wrong that theory is. In true independent film style Sean and Matthew Kohnen have given the zombie idea a completely unexpected twist and breathed undead life into it. 
Wasting Away starts with a familiar opening. An army documentary film of an experiment with a new drug, expected to create super soldiers, goes awry turning their guinea pig into a flesh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morgan Spurlock, the man famous for putting on the pounds eating McDonalds three meals a day for thirty days in Super Size Me, is back and he&#8217;s on a mission, a global one this time. He&#8217;s decided that he doesn&#8217;t want to bring his unborn child into a world where the US can&#8217;t find one lone man who is spreading terror into the hearts and minds of millions&#8230; billions, really. Spurlock has decided to take his quest to the wide, wide world and ask everyone he finds, &#8220;Where In The World Is Osama bin Laden?&#8221;
Spurlock is famous for turning his documentaries into a personal issue, including everyone around him, even to the point of including his own wife (who was his girlfriend/fiance in Super Size Me). So, in that spirit, I&#8217;ve decided to include my own family in this review, Spurlock-style.
Knowing that the subject would be a little heavy, my wife and I started our adventure by explaining to our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kung Fu Killer (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kung Fu Killer, much like it&#8217;s name, is a seriously flawed blend of quality elements that just don&#8217;t mix well. David Carradine isn&#8217;t a great actor but in the right role, like his plausible bad guy in Kill Bill, he&#8217;s near perfect. Daryl Hannah, too, can be charming and captivating in the right environment. Neither quite fit into the non-specific, early 1900s, rough and tumble Shanghai world of SpikeTVs new miniseries, airing in two parts on Sunday, August 17th and Monday, August 18th as the latest installment in their &#8220;Spike Guy Movies.&#8221;
Already broadcast in the UK in February the show was nominated for two Leo awards for editing and the soundtrack. Unfortunately, many may feel those are the only redeeming qualities in the entire project. The story, which is rather obviously two movies thinly disguised as a miniseries with the second night a barely plausible sequel to the first, is almost mediocre and more than a little ridiculous. The bland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Inquiry (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, an admission right up front, this review contains spoilers for the film The Final Inquiry.  Here it comes&#8230; Ready?  Jesus dies.  If that doesn&#8217;t shock or surprise you then absolutely nothing else about this movie will.  It is, very nearly, the most mediocre film, ever.  It&#8217;s not good, it&#8217;s not bad, it&#8217;s just barely okay.  It tries to be something fresh and engaging and ends up doing nothing more than getting your hopes up only to dash them on the jagged rocks of predictability, barely adequate production values and a thinly disguised Sunday morning sermon.
Just looking at the DVD sleeve will have you believing that having phenomenal actors like Max von Sydow and F Murray Abraham immediately improve the chances that the relatively unknown principles have a lot to live up to.  Instead you get leading roles played by pretty foreign film stars that suffer through banal dialogue, almost laughable voice overs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Adams (2008) TV Mini-Series Review</title>
		<link>http://www.beyondhollywood.com/john-adams-2008-tv-mini-series-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historians have, for two centuries, portrayed the men who signed America&#8217;s Declaration of Independence as proud figures standing alone in their greatness and grand ideals.  Many of the documentaries about history spend a great deal of time on the momentous events that defined the course of history but few accurately depict the lives that were a part of those events.  The HBO miniseries, John Adams, due out on DVD June 10th does, basically, the opposite.  
This miniseries centers around the later life of a single, only slightly more than ordinary, man who became the voice of thirteen colonies struggling for their rights and for liberties that they believed should be recognized as self evident.  Executive producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, the same duo behind the Emmy award winning HBO miniseries about World War II, Band Of Brothers, have teamed up with Writer/Producer Kirk Ellis.  They have valiantly taken on the task of telling the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Andromeda Strain (2008) TV Mini-Series Review</title>
		<link>http://www.beyondhollywood.com/the-andromeda-strain-2008-tv-mini-series-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 02:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science-fiction movies have a few rules they generally must adhere to in order to be considered &#8220;science&#8221; fiction.  First, they must revolve around a science, whether that&#8217;s physics, astronomy, biology, quantuum mechanics, geology or any of a multitude of fields of study.  Really good science fiction includes more than one of the sciences.  Second, they have to stretch the currently accepted &#8220;absolutes&#8221; and propose ideas that, though unproven, allow you to believe in new concepts that might be possible.  It&#8217;s not as easy to do as it sounds.  Consider that we currently take for granted so many things that people thought wildly impossible only fifty years ago.  Communications lasers, biological warfare, weapons satellites, DNA mapping, space stations, microscopic memory chips, bionic implants and nanotechnology to name only a few.  Science fiction stories introduce new theories that, though implausible by today&#8217;s standards, inspire a belief that it might just be possible.  
The original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal (2008) Book Review</title>
		<link>http://www.beyondhollywood.com/seagalogy-a-study-of-the-ass-kicking-films-of-steven-seagal-2008-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 06:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many categories of fans.  Take the average sports fan, for example.  A sports fan, if he’s dedicated, can quote a plethora of statistics about his favorite team, highlight the strengths and weaknesses of individual players, where they attended college, what teams they’ve played for and even give you a historical summation of his team’s accomplishments, successes and failures.  Movie fans are a different breed, altogether.  Most movie fans know that the main actor/actress starred in this or that blockbuster last year and they used to date some gorgeous supermodel before they realized they were gay and, to satisfy their parental urge, adopted an entire Southeast Asian village.  You’d be hard pressed to find a single fan who knows what school(s) their favorite action hero attended, what kind of work they did before they became successful and do a movie by movie breakdown of their entire career, to date, comparing, contrasting and finding [...]]]></description>
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