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		<title>Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[True story: a week or so ago I am walking through my apartment complex when the obligatory early stage Alzheimer&#8217;s victim/tenant, a nice elderly woman who is constantly asking for someone named Richard, stops me and says to me, &#8220;You know, you look just like that actor.&#8221; Bewildered, but flattered because of my extreme vanity, I ask, &#8220;Which one?&#8221; She replies with excusable confusion, &#8220;You know, the one with a mustache, he is an actor but a comedian&#8230;his movie is all over the TV right now&#8230;&#8221; I had no clue what the fuck she was talking about, maybe Tom Selleck&#8230;or Geraldo? Then it hit me. Borat. Now, I&#8217;m no Adonis, but come on, Borat? I think I&#8217;m going to call adult protective services and have her taken away to a cozy institution out in the mountains somewhere.
Likeness or not &#8212; though curiously enough I am half Armenian and much Armenian is spoken by Borat in the film &#8212; I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You for Smoking (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personally, I am an enthusiast of satirical films which don&#8217;t necessarily condemn the subject of the satire. Of course, it&#8217;s all up to the subjective perceptions of the viewer, but a film like &#8220;Thank You for Smoking&#8221;, with its superficially audible overtones of &#8220;everyone in the tobacco industry is a soulless, money grubbing murderer&#8221;, really never points a finger or makes an overt moral judgment. It just tells the story of tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) and his preternatural ability to distort and even re-invent established truths in order to sway public opinion. His tobacco cohorts are exaggerated, yes, as is their fickle profiteering off of death and the like, but I never felt I was supposed to hate smoking or the business behind it. And who really wants to watch more people whining about cigarettes anyways? Light &#8216;em if you got &#8216;em I say; everybody needs a good vice. 
Based on the novel by Christopher Buckley, and adapted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Departed (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The departed&#8230;what was their name?&#8221; asks Sergeant Collin Sullivan (Matt Damon) about a gruesome photo of a recently deceased mobster. That&#8217;s what &#8220;The Departed&#8221;, Martin Scorsese&#8217;s interminable bloodbath of a film, is all about: dead people. Or, more specifically, people who are living their lives alongside caustic men with guns who will soon be dead if their parts aren&#8217;t played to perfection, i.e. the memorable quote, &#8220;Cop or criminal, with a gun in your face, it&#8217;s all the same.&#8221;
For Scorsese fans like myself, &#8220;The Departed&#8221; is a welcome breath of fresh blunt force trauma and skull shattering bullet wounds. Following up the legendary director&#8217;s foray into the not unmemorable, wide-scoped Leonardo DiCaprio starring epics &#8220;Gangs of New York&#8221; and &#8220;The Aviator&#8221;, and his acclaimed documentary on the life and music of Bob Dylan, &#8220;No Way Home&#8221;, Scorsese, aided by a brutally funny and fork tongued script courtesy of William Monahan (&#8221;Kingdom of Heaven&#8221;), returns to the dramatic, mob-fueled violence of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bukowski: Born Into This (2003) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike documentaries on musicians and even visual artists, docs focused on major literary figures are far and few in between. Of course, there are the obligatory A&#038;E spotlights on Mark Twain and Shakespeare, but when I am scouring my online movie provider of choice and can&#8217;t find anything on Dostoevsky, I start to wonder. Is the public still moved by fiction, or just celebrity memoirs and diet books? And some authors, especially in the last century, lived some absurdly reckless lives comparable with the content of their work. Recently, I watched a doc on William S. Burroughs and fell asleep within thirty minutes. If filmmakers can&#8217;t make an interesting piece about the mind that produced &#8220;Cities of the Red Night&#8221;, which is the most utterly insane novel I have read besides Ellis&#8217;s &#8220;American Psycho&#8221;, then something is very wrong.
Whether because of better funding or a higher level of self-investment, director John Dullaghan and crew did a bravura job of chronicling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LoveCracked: The Movie (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, ideas are birthed that are sound, insightful, and even mature, but when implemented in the physical world they deflate like a sulky blow-up doll. Asking your girlfriend to have a threesome, for instance. Homer Simpson once put Communism into this category; I will add to it, &#8220;LoveCracked! The Movie&#8221;.
Produced by Biff Juggernaut Productions (?) &#8212; in the vein of independent, low budget, horror/comedy, Troma-esque ventures only to be found lurking near the handicap bathroom stalls of the world wide web &#8212; &#8220;LoveCracked&#8221;, on paper, is a historical psychoanalysis of writer H.P. Lovecraft, a fairly obscure writer of dark fiction who lived in the early 1900&#8217;s. While you may very well be unfamiliar, as I was, with this liaison to many a horror flick, check up on old H.P. on wikipedia where you will find some surprisingly profound, existential quotes, which got me interested. This supposed &#8220;anthology&#8221;, however, does little more than to make one ideate about suicide.
To achieve this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It really pays to be born a woman with a genotype predestined for phenotypic cuteness; that is, if you are misfortunate enough to have to be born at all. What can&#8217;t they get away with saying? Who is going to persecute them? Men? An attractive woman could call almost any man by his racial slur-name and they probably wouldn&#8217;t react with offense. Women? Well, they usually have a problem with each other anyways. Hence, &#8220;Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic&#8221;, an extremely obscene, frontier pushing comedy act by quirkily sexy comedienne Sarah Silverman.
Unlike other stand up films, like say, my personal favorite, Martin Lawrence&#8217;s &#8220;Runteldat&#8221;, where Martin lucidly enacts the sticking of his head into his wife&#8217;s v**ina to tell his yet unborn child not to f**k with him, Sarah Silverman mixes live footage from a show in Hollywood with skits and music videos. &#8220;Jesus is Magic&#8221; is more Tenacious D &#8220;The Complete Masterworks&#8221; than it is Eddie Murphy&#8217;s &#8220;Raw&#8221;, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Footsteps (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  am not certain about the cultural prevalence of snuff films in countries outside the   U.S.   , but I am  rather certain that, even in this debauched land, snuff remains a seedy underground taboo which rarely, if ever, pokes its horrific organs through a hernia in the mainstream. Sure, you and your black metal friends may have watched with sadistic curiosity some sketchy clips online when your parents were sleeping; you may have even stumbled across the film &#8220;8mm&#8221; or maybe you are just a fan of Nine Inch Nails and their early snuff-y videos. But snuff has not reached household name status and probably won&#8217;t unless Lindsay Lohan becomes the star of one.
And with that off color comment, let&#8217;s introduce the British film &#8220;Footsteps&#8221;, which was written and directed by G.H. Evans. Oh, but first, the essentials of snuff. Basically, snuff films are the exponential extreme of pornography; girls, and I assume guys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Da Vinci Code (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look at the sheer numbers of it, you might think to yourself, &#8220;Why would anyone need to write a review about a movie which is about a book which sold over 40 million copies?&#8221; Yea, I&#8217;m reviewing the film version of Dan Brown&#8217;s &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221;, but we&#8217;ll get to that; the book is all about numbers, right?
So, 40 million copies of the book were sold and I&#8217;d say, conservatively, we can extrapolate from that figure and estimate that the book has had a readership of 60-70 million, as those book buyers have families and friends and co-workers and extra marital affairs, etc. Then, count in all the documentaries which advertise, fallaciously, that they are &#8220;solving&#8221; or &#8220;uncovering&#8221; the code and all the hype the book received from the media in general. I&#8217;d venture to say that four to five times as many people that have read the book at least know its premise. Now we&#8217;re up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leonard Cohen: I&#8217;m Your Man (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing gets me more hype than finding out that a musician I am a fan of is really as fucking weird as I imagined them to be. For instance, Prince. Now, if you&#8217;re a rabid Prince enthusiast like myself, you will have watched posted interviews and all of his videos on launch.com at every party you have ever been at where there is a DSL connection and people under the influence to indulge you. Maybe part of my fascination with Prince is that I like to make fun of how ridiculous he is, but empirically speaking, his videos are  pretty out there (I recommend the video for &#8220;My Name is Prince&#8221;). After hearing Kevin Smith&#8217;s Prince story in &#8220;An Evening with Kevin Smith&#8221; however, it was demonstrated to me that the chain links he wears over his face in the aforementioned video are not to hide blemishes, but rather his utter egomaniacal insanity. 
Leonard Cohen, for me, doesn&#8217;t reside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brothers of the Head (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In no way do I wish to encourage film makers, or film goers, to indulge in any more &#8220;mockumentaries&#8221;. &#8220;Spinal Tap&#8221; is an inanely brilliant comedy, but beyond that, all the fake interviews where people act serious but say stupid shit and the humor is dryer than the deserts of the Sudan is just too Mad TV on a bad night for me. And, does the world at large need more movies dealing with the ultra-rare genetic phenomenon that is conjoined twins? The Farrelly Brothers&#8217; &#8220;Stuck On You&#8221; made me chuckle in spite of my preconceived cynicism, but aren&#8217;t Siamese twins kind of freakish and truly demonstrative of humanity&#8217;s impotence in the face of Mother Nature and her sociopathic caprices?
It would seem that directors Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton felt that two wrongs would make a right, as their film &#8220;Brothers of the Head&#8221; is a mockumentary about a set of conjoined twins. The directors&#8217; incorrigibility in the face of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Munich (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 07:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the heels of the international Tom Cruise cash cow &#8220;War of the Worlds&#8221;, uber director Steven Spielberg blessed the world with &#8221;   Munich   &#8220;, a film of the quality and depth one would expect from an industry force with more platinum hits than Elvis. &#8220;Munich&#8221; encompasses and disgorges visual and emotional power, not to mention the allegorical nature of Tony Kushner and Eric Roth&#8217;s scripting of a true life massacre which bludgeons the very sensitive moral fiber of terrorism on racial/religious grounds and post 9/11 culture. Any moviegoer who has seen &#8220;The Terminal&#8221;, &#8220;Catch me if you can&#8221; or the dopey, previously mentioned Cruise alien face off may never have guessed that Spielberg made this film if his name hadn&#8217;t been the main selling point.
&#8221; Munich &#8221; tells a version of the true story surrounding the assassination of 11 Israeli athletes at the hands of Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brokeback Mountain (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 07:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So yea, this one was a little late coming, but its coming was inevitable. For me personally, buying into the media/word of mouth propaganda barrage surrounding the release of last year&#8217;s &#8221;   Brokeback   Mountain   &#8221; was not worth a ten spot when I computed the cost/benefit analysis. The film was purportedly an immediate classic, and controversial, with performances so telling of the human condition and our inherent need for love &#8212; whatever the kind, whomever the denomination &#8212; that audiences everywhere had  to see it. But after actually seeing it, the hoopla now subsided and the film ousted from pop culture&#8217;s short term memory only to be recalled for comic bits on late night shows, I feel that the hype was embellished, spurious and prefabricated well before the final edit.
&#8221; Brokeback Mountain &#8220;, as those who did and did not see the film well know, was directed by Ang Lee (&#8221;Hulk&#8221;) and tells [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 07:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a rare and triumphant occurrence when a film, especially one categorized into the genre of Action/Comedy, makes you say, &#8220;That is one of the best movies I&#8217;ve seen this year&#8221;. Or last year, for that matter, as I mouthed a phrase similar to that when I left an opulent theatre in   Burbank  ,  California   after seeing the scarcely advertised, though seemingly big budget flick &#8220;Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang&#8221;. Personally, I only went to see this movie because I have a healthy affinity for Val Kilmer &#8212; see &#8220;Spartan&#8221;, &#8220;The Doors&#8221; and &#8220;Heat&#8221; &#8212; and a good review in the LA Weekly shed a revelatory light on the few mysterious twenty second trailers I caught playing at horrible ad times on TV. Luckily, my faith in Val paid off; author Philip K. Dick would correct me by saying I had had faith in &#8220;VALIS&#8221;. Don&#8217;t mind that dorky literary allusion.
&#8220;Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Attractions: The Movie (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only in   Hollywood   would you see gorgeous women, aspiring to be something, showing off their slinky bulimic figures at a screening for a film the likes of &#8220;Coming Attractions&#8221;. Ah, the sycophants never miss an opportunity to self aggrandize and network in this rundown promise land, no matter how ridiculous their efforts look to the modest outside observer. Nestled in the semi-circular lounge seats of Cinespace, I overheard agents being name-dropped and entertainment companies hyped; if you have never visited   Hollywood   , just watch &#8220;Swingers&#8221; or another parody of the lifestyle for it is very sobering to actually uncover the ramped existence of this stereotype. The irony of some of those aforementioned succulent attendees being present at this screening was the fact that the movie being shown was extremely low budget, grainy, unglamorous and seemingly still in the editing process.
&#8220;Coming Attractions&#8221;, written and directed by Jason Bunch, is a puerile amalgamation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The straight to DVD genre of films has never appealed much to my appetite for cinematic intake. Not like every film that makes it to theatres is a masterpiece, but most of the time I am just never satisfied or nourished by movies of this nature, unless they star famous hip hop artists whose music I enjoy and whose attempts at acting I enjoy laughing at. The scriptwriting found in the genre is always a hokey, embarrassing abortion and the acting falls somewhere below that. I am left ruminating on such questions as: do the people responsible for these films have some serious psychological diagnoses that have gone undiagnosed their whole lives, and more importantly, when they watch the final cut of their work do they proclaim &#8220;this is fucking incredible&#8221;?
In many aspects, Josh Logan&#8217;s hitchhiking psycho-drama &#8220;Family&#8221; is a color by numbers straight to DVD nightmare, though somehow, as a whole, it is a decent film. And I mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2006 05:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a musician, I truly savor films which are made in effigy, in historical retrospect or just in plain celebration of the lives and artwork of other, considerably better known musicians. And the musician or band in question does not play into this fascination; it is becoming acquainted with small pieces of the people, and their experiences that aided in producing unforgettable songs and cultural movements, which renders me indiscriminate. Basically, I&#8217;m open to watching any musical documentary and when asked if I would review &#8220;Townes Van Zandt: Be Here to Love Me&#8221; I hastily approved the request.
Not immediately familiar with his work, I cued up one of his songs, &#8220;To Live is to Fly&#8221; and heard a beautiful guitar being plucked under a sweet melancholy voice which sang, &#8220;Living&#8217;s mostly wastin&#8217; time/ and I&#8217;ll waste my share of mine/ but it never feels to good/ so let&#8217;s don&#8217;t take too long.&#8221; This callous, poetic sentiment, which was paradoxically betrayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Food (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides all of the generous plants who give us oxygen, photosynthesis which makes that possible, and the 99.5% reliability of the TV turning on everyday if our cable bills have been paid, there is nothing we over-nourished Americans take advantage of more than food. Most of us eat with our eyes; we choose meals and food products that have the shiniest advertisements, the end caps at our nearest super market, or like my mother, we simply buy whatever is on sale.
&#8220;The Future of Food&#8221; is an informative, well-paced and sometimes appalling documentary that lets even the health conscious consumer know that reading the sodium and saturated fat contents of a product is not enough anymore. Written and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, the documentary deals with a new and disturbing trend in the food industry that is much more pervasive than the quote un-quote irresponsibility of fast food chains targeted in the popular &#8220;Super Size me&#8221;. That trend is genetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Libertine (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first saw commercials for &#8220;The Libertine&#8221;, not only the title, but the way Johnny Depp looked made me think of a cheesy metal band that I secretly enjoy called Cradle of Filth, and by the end of the film, the overall likeness between Depp and ghoulish Cradle of Filth lead singer Dani Filth was uncanny. If you need Google image search to understand this reference, please use it both before and after seeing &#8220;The Libertine&#8221;.
&#8220;The Libertine&#8221; is the film version of the play by Stephen Jeffreys and is directed by first timer Lawrence Dunmore. Though written in the 21st century, the language is inspired by Shakespearean era Britain . This aspect of English theatre always adds a barrier to understanding both the subtle and obvious points conveyed by the characters, and while this particular adaptation has a similar crux, the aide of rich visuals, cinema speakers and clear cut performances help overcome it.
A libertine is defined as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hostel (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creative advances in the use of gore, a plethora of perky breasts and entrepreneurial spirit gone horribly wrong all intermesh to form &#8220;Hostel&#8221;, the backpacking sophomore effort from writer/director Eli Roth (&#8221;Cabin Fever&#8221;). In an attempt to nudge ticket sales in the upward direction, Quentin Tarantino is acknowledged front and center as &#8220;presenting&#8221; the film. Tarantino&#8217;s influence can be felt in the film&#8217;s overabundance of blood, unique violence, truly memorable characters and sex, but Roth lacks the other director&#8217;s strength for catchy dialogue and innovation. Roth does explore his own distinctive set of themes in &#8220;Hostel&#8221;, many of which were also present in &#8220;Cabin Fever&#8221;, though here the ideas are better connected and the plot much tighter and more coherent.
Warning: if you are a single male and planning to take a trip to Europe any time soon, specifically with the design of looking for easy women, backpacking, taking illicit drugs and staying in cheap lodgings, you may want to think [...]]]></description>
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