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		<title>Pixar&#8217;s Up (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 14:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>endymion</dc:creator>
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Pixar goes about making movies in a different way than the vast majority of movie studios do these days. For one thing, these movies take a very long time to make. Pixar says that &#8220;Up&#8221; took five years to put together and of course, &#8220;Up&#8221; cost a fortune. Because Pixar only puts one movie out a year, the combined time, costs, and stakes of each release forces John Lassiter, the big guy in charge at Pixar and the rest of the creative and technical team of each movie to get it right before they begin.
That means you start with a really good story to tell. For the most part, this is backwards to the way many movies are made these days where scripts are at best hurried, sometimes written as the filming is underway or, as you, fellow movie goers can testify, not really written at all. Pixar knows that once the animation and all the nerdy technical processes of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t keep a good zombie down. Well actually you can, with a perfectly placed shot to the forehead, but that’s easier said than done. Just ask the residents of Raccoon City, the fictional town that was laid to waste when the Umbrella Corporation’s experiments went bad and produced flesh-eating zombies. That was the plot of the “Resident Evil” games from Capcom, and to an extent, the plot of the three live-action “Resident Evil” movies. Capcom is back with their never-say-die (literally, in this case) moneymaker, this time in the form of a completely CG original movie called “Resident Evil: Degeneration”. In the grand ol tradition of the RE games, “Degeneration” features everything gamers worldwide have loved about the franchise: zombie shooting sprees, seemingly impossible boss fights, corporate conspiracies, and oh yeah, characters with improbable names and even more improbable family ties.
“Degeneration” doesn’t waste a whole lot of time getting to the good stuff: after a brief montage of news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kung Fu Panda (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Kung Fu Panda” is the story of a fat (is there any other kind?) panda that dreams about being an awesome kung fu warrior, and when given the chance, rises to the occasion. In-between those moments, we get plenty of fat jokes at the panda’s expense, and enough cartoon kung fu violence to, possibly, convince parents this may not be the right movie to be taking your very impressionable kids. Especially if said kids have a bad habit of using little sis as a punching dummy to try out his new “moves”.
The above said, Dreamworks’ “Kung Fu Panda” is a fun little movie, although “little” may be a bit of an exaggeration. Take a look at the voice cast: Jack Black as Po the panda, Angelina Jolie as Tigress, Jackie Chan as Monkey, Dustin Hoffman as Shifu, and of course, the always incredible Ian McShane (of Deadwood fame) as the villainous Tai Lung. Which reminds me:  I was never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gumby: The Movie (1995) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Movie Reviewer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie Review by Dan MacIntosh) You may approach Gumby: The Movie with some trepidation, and rightly so. After all, that little green glob of clay might represent a memorable period in your early television watching days. And who would ever want to stain such a sacred viewing landmark? The good news is this Gumby revisit does not replace the Play-Do boy we’ve grown to know and love with a new and (not) improved modern version. He’s still that same old friend with the bellbottom legs.
Art Clokey’s involvement insures that this Gumby update stays true to the character’s original image and behavioral characteristics. Clokey, who created Gumby in the first place, wrote the film with his wife Gloria and also directed it. Furthermore, Gloria wrote the lyrics to every vocal song in the film. So even though Gumby is relatively modernized as a pseudo-heavy metal guitar hero, along with his band The Clayboys, he’s still the same innocent adventurer, along with [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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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>Princess (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the enduring popularity of Eastern style anime and manga, Denmark probably isn&#8217;t the first country to spring to mind when considering adult themed animation. Step forward then Danish director and comic book creator Anders Morgenthaler, whose &#8220;Princess&#8221; is easily one of the most challenging, thought provoking and entertaining examples of the form in recent years. Now released on DVD through Tartan, the film has already earned itself a cult reputation, having played and won awards on the fantasy festival circuit where it emerged as a firm fan favourite. 
The plot is pretty grim stuff, following a priest called August (voiced by actor Thure Lindhardt, who recently had a small role in Sean Penn&#8217;s &#8220;Into the Wild&#8221;), who returns home from missionary work abroad after the drugs related death of his porno-queen sister, the Princess of the title. Grabbing her five-year-old daughter Mia from the brothel owner she was left with, August takes her under his wing and attempts to [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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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>Stolen Life (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest project from Nanoflix Productions is a full-length feature film that uses the AG Engine, the latest in a computerized animation process, widely called Machinima, to bring to life what has been hailed as a film-noir-esque, science fiction.  This &#8220;future-noir&#8221; mystery, set on, and in, a lonely asteroid in deep space, weaves a tense tale and stars self-aware (artificially intelligent) robots.  They mine the ice the asteroid is made of and convert it to hydrogen and oxygen to refuel ships that stop at the outpost.  The movie is a unique project that shows so much promise, with top quality voice work (voice direction by Jackie Turnure) and a Vangelis-style soundtrack (composed by Phillip Johnston), but, as a whole, tends to fall short in too many ways. 
The opening credits roll over mundane visuals of a spacecraft making initial landing procedures (possibly an obscure nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey) and activating the lone robot attached to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Invincible Iron Man (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you enjoyed Marvel&#8217;s initial ventures into direct-to-DVD animation with &#8220;The Ultimate Avengers&#8221; and its sequel, then the company&#8217;s third offering, &#8220;The Invincible Iron Man&#8221;, will probably go straight into your DVD collection. And why not? It&#8217;s everything you could possibly want from your comic book movie, animated or otherwise, filled with healthy doses of superhero heroics, world-saving battles, and even a plot twist or two just for kicks. As with its previous two films, Marvel continues to aim its animated line towards a more adult audience, which means you won&#8217;t feel pressure to call the kids over to watch the movie with you in an attempt to justify your purchase of a &#8212; gulp &#8212; &#8220;cartoon&#8221; movie.
&#8220;The Invincible Iron Man&#8221; tells the origins of ol Shellhead well before his recruitment into the Avengers, or even before he ever thought about doing anything superheroic with his high-tech inventions. The Tony Stark we are introduced to (voiced by Marc Worden) is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karas: The Prophecy (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Karas: The Prophecy&#8221; is, bar none, the most visually spectacular animated feature I have ever seen. It is also the most idiotic, poorly constructed, convoluted, and pointless film I have ever seen. It is a triumph of technical skill, meticulous attention to detail and computing horsepower; and the melding of CGI and hand drawn animation is virtually seamless. It is a quantum leap ahead of what was hinted at in past efforts such as &#8220;Blood: The Last Vampire&#8221;, and even outshines recent releases in the &#8220;Ghost in the Shell&#8221; series. The film has visual style and flair in spades, but all is for naught as they are in service of a script that seems to have been put together by a random number generator.
The plot of &#8220;Karas&#8221; is so jumbled and the narrative so incoherent that I had to watch it a second time just to pick up the names of the characters. Even then, I had to look the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renaissance (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As computer processing power has increased over the years, we&#8217;ve seen more and more creative integration of CGI into film. For the most part, the technology has been restricted to rendering ever more convincing F/X for sci-fi and fantasy films. However, over the past few years we&#8217;ve seen the technology being used as the very foundation upon which films are being created. Recent films such as &#8220;Sin City&#8221; and &#8220;Casshern&#8221; have shown us that it is possible to create worlds totally within a computer and have actors interact with them. The latest in this new technical sub-genre is the French production &#8220;Renaissance.&#8221;
&#8220;Renaissance&#8221; incorporates the latest revision of a technique called &#8216;rotoscoping,&#8217; whereby the movements of real actors are traced over with animation. This allows realistic motion to be overlaid with whatever the animator desires. The technique was most recently showcased in Richard Linklater&#8217;s &#8220;A Scanner Darkly,&#8221; but while &#8220;Darkly&#8221; employed a full color palate, &#8220;Renaissance&#8221; uses strictly black and white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther&#8221; is the sequel to Marvel&#8217;s first line of animated direct-to-video superhero franchise, &#8220;Ultimate Avengers&#8221;, which pitted a team of superheroes led by a resurrected World War II supersoldier named Captain America against alien invaders. That same alien menace returns in &#8220;Rise of the Panther&#8221;, this time in the isolated African nation of Wakanda. Led by their own version of a supersoldier named Kleiser, who has apparently taken to liking his Nazi garb (the alien having surfaced during World War II like the good Captain), the aliens are after something underneath Wakanda that the natives are unwilling to give up, having based much of their technology, as well as defenses, from it.
After his father, the Black Panther, is killed by Kleiser, young T&#8217;Challa assumes the throne, as well as the costume. T&#8217;Challa seeks help from Captain America , who has faced Kleiser before in World War II, and indeed still fears the seemingly unkillable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Scanner Darkly (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s odd when you realize that the novels and short stories of Philip K. Dick have been adapted to the screen almost as frequently as that of Stephen King or John Grisham. Odd because, unlike the pulpier writing of both King and Grisham, Dick&#8217;s stories are quite cerebral and, in the most traditional  Hollywood  sense, uncinematic. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown: &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; (1982), &#8220;Total Recall&#8221; (1990), the French film &#8220;Confessions De&#8217;un Barjo&#8221; (1992), &#8220;Screamers&#8221; (1995), &#8220;Impostor&#8221; (2002), &#8220;Minority Report&#8221; (2002), &#8220;Paycheck&#8221; (2003), &#8220;A Scanner Darkly&#8221; (2006), and the now in-production adaptation of &#8220;The Golden Man&#8221;, since retitled &#8220;Next&#8221; starring Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore.
In most cases, Dick&#8217;s dense and paradoxical plots are used as nothing more than loose pretexts for standard Hollywood action adventure stories. These often feature more proactive heroes in place of the meditative and often reality challenged protagonists of Dick&#8217;s original stories. Clearly, Arnold Schwarzenegger in &#8220;Total Recall&#8221; wasn&#8217;t going to waste time with philosophical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ultimate Avengers: The Movie&#8221; is apparently Marvel Comics&#8217; first salvo at the direct-to-video market, having conquered theaters with one successful comic book movie after another. The plan, it seems, is to release one major DTV animated movie every year or so, using the Ultimates comic book line as source material. (For those who don&#8217;t know, the Ultimates line is Marvel Comics&#8217; &#8220;re-imagining&#8221; of their popular characters; basically a grittier rebirth of traditional staples such as the Avengers, etc.) From everything that I&#8217;ve read, &#8220;Ultimate Avengers&#8221; the movie is very much a faithful (plot-wise) adaptation of the source material, except with much of the R-rated themes that the Ultimates line is known for excised in order to achieve the financially desirable PG-13 rating.
Opening at the tail end of World War II, &#8220;Ultimate Avengers&#8221; finds Stars and Stripes superhero Captain America jumping into action against the last German stronghold. Those rascally Germans, very much sore losers it appears, are in cahoots with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Leaves (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Over the top&#8217; is an expression loosely thrown about by film critics to describe anything a little too far out of the ordinary in terms of violence, sexual content or any other thematic material of a transgressive nature. However, in the case of the Japanese animated film &#8220;Dead Leaves,&#8221; &#8216;over the top&#8217; doesn&#8217;t even begin to cover it. More like &#8216;over the edge and into the never ending abyss.&#8217; &#8220;Dead Leaves&#8221; is faster, louder and crazier than just about anything I&#8217;ve ever seen. Looking at the credits, it&#8217;s easy to see why. The director is Hiroyuki Imaishi, who was the animation director for the brilliantly empty &#8220;Fooly Cooly&#8221; series, so viewers should have a pretty good idea of what they&#8217;re in for. My advice? Just have your Dramamine handy.
The film is about two bizarre looking characters, Pandy, a girl with a pink patch around her left eye, and Retro, a guy with a TV set for a head. The two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence Jack (1986) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anime is seen by many a film enthusiast as a deep form of cinema, on par with the noirs and cult classics of the world. And with films like &#8220;Akira&#8221;, &#8220;Perfect Blue&#8221;, &#8220;Tokyo Godfathers&#8221; and &#8220;Spirited Away&#8221;, it&#8217;s hard to disagree with the fan base. However, for each of these four great movies there are a thousand sub-par, derivative B-movies to further encourage the myth that anime is nothing more than animated pornography masquerading behind a veil of unconvincing apocalyptic plotlines and viewed by tubby nerds whose only female influence in their life is their mother. It is fair to say that &#8220;Violence Jack&#8221; hurts perceptions of the genre more than it helps.
Very similar to &#8220;Fist of the North Star&#8221;, &#8220;Violence Jack&#8221; is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where a series of earthquakes and natural disasters have ravaged the world, leaving the few survivors to live in slums and underground colonies. It is with these earthquakes that God is supposedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Movie Reviewer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Movie Review by Alex Lui For followers of the Final Fantasy games, &#8220;Advent Children&#8221; comes as a reward for those long hours spent in front of the TV pushing buttons and ignoring a social life. For everyone else, this is pure eye candy, especially since the film has a story continued from the game, with no background setup whatsoever for anyone not already familiar with the movie&#8217;s world. Since I have never played a &#8220;Final Fantasy&#8221; game, the only question running through my mind after the movie finished was, &#8220;Uh&#8230;what just happened?&#8221;
The plot of &#8220;Advent Children&#8221; takes place two years after the events of &#8220;Final Fantasy VII&#8221;, wherein a disease called &#8216;Seikon-Shoukougun&#8217;, or &#8216;Geostigma&#8217;, believed to have been caused by the body fighting off foreign material from two years earlier, is becoming a pandemic, and has affected many orphans. An ex-soldier named Cloud Strife (Takahiro Sakurai) has also been afflicted with the disease, resulting in his decision to live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it laugh out loud funny? That depends. Do you like &#8220;The Family Guy&#8217;s&#8221; brand of over-the-top and sometimes over-the-line sense of humor? If the answer is Yes, then Yes, you&#8217;ll find the direct-to-video feature-length &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; movie &#8220;Stewie Griffin: The Untold Funny&#8221; to be laugh out loud funny. 
As with the show, the film&#8217;s best moments are its quick takes on popular culture, such as Peter&#8217;s version of &#8220;Family Feud&#8221;, Jesus entertaining the masses, Stewie as fugitive Saddam Hussein, and Elmer Fudd finally nailing Bugs Bunny. Like in the show, these quick takes are just that &#8212; &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; creator Seth MacFarlane&#8217;s drive-by at American pop culture.
As to the story, &#8220;Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story&#8221;, as the title may imply, is all about megalomaniacal tyke Stewie, who goes on a quest for answers after a near-death experience at the public pool. To this end, Stewie and talking family dog Brian rides cross-country with pervert Quagmire to San Francisco, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Disney and Pixar firmly entrenched on the side of CGI for their animated efforts, it looks like Japan and the FOX Network are the last bastions of hand drawn animation. Perhaps the most revered name from this old school is Hayao Miyazaki, best known in the US for &#8220;Princess Mononoke&#8221; and the Oscar-winning &#8220;Spirited Away&#8221;. Miyazaki&#8217;s latest effort is &#8220;Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle&#8221;, and like his other films, there is an astonishing level of detail to behold, but unfortunately the film is lacking elsewhere.
The first image we see is of the titular castle, a clanking, lumbering behemoth that looks more like a giant garage sale propelled by metal chicken legs than your typical fairy tale castle. It is a wondrous contraption, complete with interior spaces that can be changed at will, a magic door that can open to any location, and a wisecracking fire demon named Calcifer (voiced by Billy Crystal) that provides the power to run the castle. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices of a Distant Star (2003) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2005 02:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erick Kwon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Voices of a Distant Star&#8221; is a movie unique in a number of ways, starting with its creation. You don&#8217;t think of animation as a one-man operation, but writer/director Makoto Shinkai created his short film almost exclusively on a Mac G4 computer using mostly off-the-shelf software. As a result, &#8220;Voices of a Distant Star&#8221; impresses immediately just on the basis that it was ever made in the first place, and like Robert Rodriguez&#8217;s &#8220;El Mariachi,&#8221; &#8220;Star&#8221; is a testament to talent and determination over money. However, those elements, while a welcome change in today&#8217;s cinema, isn&#8217;t a guarantee of good entertainment, but in the case of &#8220;Star&#8221;, Shinkai has pulled it off, effectively marrying entertainment with nobility.
It&#8217;s 2039, and enigmatic aliens called Tarsians have attacked and utterly decimated human settlements on Mars. By 2046, the U.N. Space Army has built up a sizable force of spaceships and robot fighters utilizing knowledge gleaned from captured Tarsian technology and are ready to [...]]]></description>
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