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		<title>Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 14:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s obvious to anyone who doesn’t have his head stuck up his ass that you don’t go into a movie called “Lesbian Vampire Killers” expecting the second coming of “Citizen Kane”. While the threshold for “success” is undoubtedly set very low as a result, there are nevertheless expectations that must be met. In the case of Phil Claydon’s “Lesbian Vampire Killers”, I would have to report in the affirmative. Yes, indeed, the film certainly lives up to its title of delivering lesbians who are also vampires. The other thing that makes the British horror-comedy a success is that it’s just funny, and a lot of the jokes actually work thanks to co-star James Corden, who easily steals the show and is actually more leading man than co-star Mathew Horne. The film even manages to buck genre conventions by keeping Horne’s character mostly inept for much of the film, while the bumbling, quipping Fletch (Corden) pretty much saves the day.
The film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cottage (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bodhi Grrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British already know that writer-director Paul Andrew Williams is one to watch. His feature film debut, &#8220;London to Brighton&#8221; (2006), saw him being nominated for a BAFTA, as the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer. He may have lost out on that one to Andrea Arnold for &#8220;Red Road,&#8221; but he didn&#8217;t have to nurse his wounds. He had plenty of other nominations and wins to make him smile, including, in the latter category, the Edinburgh&#8217;s International Film Festival&#8217;s New Director&#8217;s Award, the Evening Standard British Film Awards&#8217; Most Promising Newcomer, and the Raindance Film Festival&#8217;s Jury Prize for UK Feature. Since &#8220;London to Brighton&#8221; has yet to be released State-side, we have to experience Williams through his sophomore effort, &#8220;The Cottage,&#8221; a horror-comedy about a kidnapping gone horribly wrong.
In the film, David (Andy Serkis) convinces his brother Peter (Reece Shearsmith) to help him kidnap Tracey (Jennifer Ellison), the stepdaughter of a mobster. The men stand to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baker (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quirky hitman movies are nothing new, and unfortunately the plots themselves are, well, never anything overly original. After all, there are only so many twists you can come up with when the premise must always revolve around a killer who, for one reason or another, begins to question his profession. Some movies manage to find new twists, like a killer in witness protection, another going to his high school reunion, or the one who ends up in AA. In the British comedy &#8220;The Baker&#8221;, the killer tries to start a new life as a baker in a quaint Welsh town, where, as it turns out, the locals are more bloody thirsty than he is.
&#8220;The Baker&#8221; has the added novelty of starring two European actors who have since made themselves household names in the U.S. with separate high-profile TV shows. Star Damian Lewis, here playing Milo, the hitman who decides to call it quits, is currently defending truth and justice in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exodus (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 2006, UK television company Channel 4 began to hype a film that ostensibly had the power to revolutionise the British movie industry.  The film, tentatively called “The Margate Exodus” was set to break new ground.  Director Penny Woolcock was at the helm of one of the biggest cinematic undertakings in British history; shooting entirely in the aforementioned seaside town, and using a cast composed almost completely of untrained local actors, she set out to create a bleak vision of Britain’s future.  By re-telling the biblical story of Exodus, Woolcock also aimed to highlight problems of racism and intolerance in British society. 
TV documentaries, newspaper spots and youtube videos were all released in the follow months, hyping “Exodus” up beyond all belief.  In addition to this, UK Arts Company Artangel commissioned a live festival during the film shoot, culminating in an 80-foot tall statue made from Margate’s garbage being burned “Wickerman”-style. 
So what happened to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zombie Diaries (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to make a zombie movie and have it stand out nowadays, which is probably why British writers/directors Michael Bartlett and Kevin Gates decided to make a zombie movie that is shot exclusively from the perspective of handheld video camcorders. The premise is a simple one: It is the early days of a zombie virus outbreak in the UK, and &#8220;The Zombie Diaries&#8221; follows three separate groups of survivors in the aftermath of the epidemic. Each story is separated into &#8220;diaries&#8221;, and opens with a group of documentarians heading to the countryside for an interview before realizing that the problem they&#8217;re trying to document has already spiraled out of control, and that zombies now roam the countryside.
The film then jumps to a second group of survivors &#8212; three to be exact, as they scavenge the same area of the countryside for sustenance a month after the outbreak. The third and final group consists of disparate individuals making a last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Toybox (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 18:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh unbounded joy, another low-budget British horror DVD presents itself to me for review. Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love watching and reviewing movies, and I am a big advocate of British cinema, but if you&#8217;ve ever endured films like &#8220;The Witches Hammer&#8221; then you&#8217;ll excuse me for being a little jaded. &#8220;The Toybox&#8221; is a title that has made some waves since its release in 2005, most notably winning &#8220;Best Foreign Film&#8221; at the San Fernando Valley International Film Festival that year. However, I cannot fathom how &#8220;The Toybox&#8221; was given such an accolade. Sure, it&#8217;s a bizarrely humorous little piece with potential cult appeal, but that doesn&#8217;t change the fact that it is, in essence, a bad movie.
Let me backtrack a little here: &#8220;The Toybox&#8221; is certainly not the worst movie I&#8217;ve seen, and not as bad as many of the Brit-horrors out there. It just seems to be caught between a tongue-in-cheek spoof and an ultra-weird [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is England (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 19:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of the many filmmakers working in Britain today, Shane Meadows can be seen as the only one making films about Britain. With &#8220;This Is England&#8221;, he transports the viewer into the seedy world of inner-city gangs, just as he did a decade ago with &#8220;TwentyFourSeven&#8221;. However, the world of skinheads and working-class thugs is a world that Meadows knows all too well. &#8220;This Is England&#8221; is a blunt and realistic retelling of his childhood experiences as part of a skinhead gang. He paints a picture of 1980s England with a strange mixture of fond nostalgia and abject glumness, begging the viewer to ask: &#8220;What is England?&#8221;
The film starts with 12-year old Shawn Field (an obvious Shane Meadows pseudonym) confiding in a group of skin-headed teenagers after being bullied at school. Finding friends within the gang, he soon dons the mob colours and joins them in their nefarious activities. However, when the older, overtly racist skinhead Combo is released from prison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, every now and then, a movie comes along with imagery and tone so solid that it makes me say, &#8220;Yeah&#8221;. I say it with a sort of nonchalant awe and relaxed wonder, not unlike the reaction Shaft would give upon seeing a UFO landing and a super fine alien chick stepping out. The first ten minutes of Miike&#8217;s &#8220;Dead or Alive&#8221;, the battle of Helm&#8217;s Deep in &#8220;The Two Towers&#8221;, and the end of &#8220;Akira&#8221; have all evoked this reaction from me. And, I&#8217;m pleased to say, sitting in the darkness of the cinema watching Danny Boyle&#8217;s new sci-fi piece &#8220;Sunshine&#8221; gave me the same feeling.
&#8220;Sunshine&#8221; is set 50 years in the future, at a time when the sun is dying. Mankind&#8217;s fate rests in the hands of eight young astronauts and physicists, piloting what is essentially a giant bomb into the centre of the sun in an attempt to create a &#8220;star within a star&#8221;. However, as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Fuzz (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hot Fuzz&#8221; is the latest offering from the writer/director team of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, whose last collaboration was 2004&#8217;s brilliant zombie-romantic comedy &#8220;Shaun of the Dead&#8221;. This time the duo turns to lampooning the police buddy action genre, but they also have an ulterior motive: to create a British-made action movie that&#8217;s actually worth watching. Unfortunately, in attempting to conflate laugh-a-minute parody with explosively stylish action, Pegg and Wright have only succeeded halfway.
The plot should be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with police movies: hard-edged cop Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is busted down from the squad in London and relocated to the much more mundane town of Sandford in the heart of the British countryside. There, he is teamed up with the gormless, childish police constable Danny Butterman (Nick Frost). However, when a series of mysterious murders shock the village, the mismatched officers become unlikely friends while attempting to get to the bottom of the killings.
In terms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Witches Hammer (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Witches Hammer&#8221; is, in essence, a low-budget British take on the &#8220;babe with a blade&#8221; vampire movie formula. Over the last few years, the likes of the &#8220;Underworld&#8221; movies, &#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221; and &#8220;Bloodrayne&#8221; have all tried to lend a feminine edge to the vampire/martial arts sub-genre that &#8220;Blade&#8221; pioneered in 1998. The problem with this is that &#8220;Blade&#8221; nailed the genre precisely, leaving very little for later titles to improve upon. As a result, each of these &#8220;neo-vampire&#8221; flicks has fallen flat and added nothing new to the genre.
So really, &#8220;The Witches Hammer&#8221; exists only as an example of the terrible things that happen when filmmakers are heavily influenced by Hollywood. Although the likes of &#8220;Underworld&#8221; were not great movies, they had enough panache to make up a watchable 90 minutes. &#8220;Hammer&#8221; does not. It instead has the look and feel of made-for-school anti-drug vignettes and TV infomercials. Add in very poor acting and gallons of candy-apple red blood and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children of Men (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Children Of Men,&#8221; the latest film from rising Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron (&#8221;Y tu mama tambi&#8217;n&#8221;), asks a very curious question: What would the world be like if we could no longer have children? Pretty crappy, it seems. The film takes place in London in the year 2027, 18 years after the last child on earth was born. The Earth has been inexplicably stricken by total infertility, and faced with the very real prospect of extinction mankind has torn itself apart. Global society has crumbled to the point where England remains the last place with a working government.
Now, when I say &#8216;working government&#8217; I mean that in the loosest sense. England is a &#8220;1984&#8243;-style police state where armed troops patrol the streets rounding up immigrants and stuffing them into cages for relocation to internment camps. London is a crumbling ruin, with garbage piled high on every street corner, and riots and bombings are a daily occurrence. The only respite is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casino Royale (2006) Movie Review / &#8220;007 and Counting&#8221;: The Life and Times of the James Bonds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Michael Winterbottom&#8217;s &#8220;24 Hour Party People&#8221;, a film about the London music and club scene of the 1970s and 80s, the Tony Wilson character claims that it was the invention of broccoli that funded the James Bond films. Believe it or not, there is supposedly some truth to this: Albert R. Broccoli, who with partner Harry Saltzman, bought the initial rights to the Fleming novels, is supposedly a descendent of the Broccoli family of Calabria, Italy. According to New York Times articles at the time of his death, his family &#8220;&#8230;crossed cauliflower and rabe and named the new vegetable after themselves,&#8221; and &#8220;Mr. Broccoli said one of his uncles brought the first broccoli seeds into the United States in the 1870s.&#8221; Following Saltzman&#8217;s bankruptcy and sale of his shares in the early 70&#8217;s, Albert R. Broccoli has been the sole producer of the Bond films, finally turning over the reigns to his daughter Barbara and his step-son Michael G. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stormbreaker (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood has cornered the market on teen spy movies for a while, and now the British are getting in on the action with their own version. Enter Alex Rider, junior secret agent. Or, actually, reluctant junior secret agent. Based on the series of adventure novels by Anthony Horowitz (who also pens the screenplay), &#8220;Stormbreaker&#8221; is, alas, an ultimately drab affair that, even at under 90 minutes, seems much longer. Maybe it&#8217;s a British thing, or just uninspired direction by Geoffrey Sax (&#8221;White Noise&#8221;), but &#8220;Stormbreaker&#8221; barely breaks a sweat, and in the process, barely elicits more than a couple of mild chuckles.
The film stars Alex Pettyfer as 14-year old Alex Rider, a blonde haired, martial arts expert whose uncle is, unbeknownst to him, a secret agent for MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA. You know, the same agency that James Bond works for? Before the credits even roll, Alex&#8217;s uncle (Ewan McGregor in a 2-minute cameo) is killed during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last King of Scotland (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late 1960s through the 1970s were a tumultuous time for central Africa. It was during this span that the European powers gave up and/or lost their colonial possessions on the &#8216;Dark Continent.&#8217; But what could have been a golden opportunity for progress quickly spiraled into chaos as the ethnic divides cultivated by the Colonial regimes gave way to a seemingly endless series of violent military coups, as the various former rebel leaders tried to cut themselves a slice of the action against the backdrop of global Cold War politics.
Perhaps the most notorious of these &#8216;evil African dictators&#8217; (it&#8217;s telling that the phrase has become a caricature of itself) was Uganda&#8217;s Idi Amin. A rotund, boisterous and almost buffoonish figure, Amin was one of the most vicious dictators the world had seen post-WWII. Depending on the source, anywhere from 80,000 to 500,000 Ugandans were killed during his eight year reign. The killings were so brazen that the capital, Kampala, periodically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Queen (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Movie review by John C. Ford) In 2003, a well-regarded director of independent films spun Oscar gold from a wisp of a storyline &#8212; a tone poem about a woman and a man from different generations who make a faltering, elusive connection in an exotic setting. And now, it has been done again. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present you with &#8220;Lost in Translation: The Royal Edition&#8221;.
Okay, the title under discussion is actually &#8220;The Queen,&#8221; and the movie transforms the above elements into a character study quite different than &#8212; though equally compelling as &#8212; Sofia Coppola&#8217;s surprise hit. Here, the elder character is not a Hollywood actor on retreat in Japan, but rather Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) on retreat at her Balmoral Estate in Scotland. And whereas Bill Murray&#8217;s brittle character melted by way of flirtations with Scarlett Johansson, the Queen has a dalliance of a different nature &#8212; with the modern world itself, embodied here by British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Severance (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Severance&#8221; is the latest from British horror hope Christopher Smith, who had a hit in 2004 with his excellent tube-bound chiller &#8220;Creep&#8221;. Here, Smith tackles something a little more ambitious, attempting to work in satirical humour and even social commentary amongst the ever rising corpse count. Of course, comedy and horror are not necessarily the best of bedfellows, though Smith largely manages to avoid the pitfalls of the genre and produces something which is both amusing, frequently in a surprisingly sophisticated manner, and thrilling, packing a real visceral punch.
The plot is a prime set up for woodsy slaughter, following a busload of workers for multi-national weapons company Palisade Defence who go on a team building exercise in the wilds of Hungary . Unfortunately, they are diverted en route to their lodgings by a mysterious roadblock, and the usual bickering and one-upmanship soon gives way to a desperate struggle for survival as they are hunted down and killed by mysterious assailants.
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		<title>Wilderness (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wilderness&#8221;, Michael Bassett&#8217;s follow-up to his World War I horror movie &#8220;Death Watch&#8221; can best be described as &#8220;Lords of the Flies&#8221; meets &#8220;Friday the 13th&#8221;. The film concerns an intrepid band of delinquent teens who, after one of their own commits suicide due to bullying, are sentenced to become one with nature at a remote island. They are watched over by Jed (British genre horror mainstay Sean Pertwee), who soon takes a couple of crossbow bolts to the body and is dispensed with.
This leaves the delinquents and a couple of female counterparts whose own chaperone, the seriously sexy Louise (Alex Reid, &#8220;Arachnid&#8221;) has already taken a dive off a cliff (a dog&#8217;s teeth attached to her neck, no less) and presumed dead. With a brutal hunter skilled in ambush and military Special Forces training after their tail for reasons unknown (but I&#8217;m sure you can figure it out, or if you can&#8217;t, the film tells you at the 40-minute [...]]]></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>Brothers of the Head (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Kidulthood (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gritty&#8221; is a word used far too often to categorise films. It appears that anything vaguely realistic or that plays outside of the regular rom-com or blockbuster format of   Hollywood   is labelled &#8220;gritty&#8221;, regardless of importance or quality. To give Menhaj Huda&#8217;s &#8220;KiDulthood&#8221; such a label would be in contradiction to the film&#8217;s values; it aims to be a blunt, stark, and realistic portrayal of life for kids in the rougher parts of West London by showing the audience some of the things that go down, as opposed to shocking them with the type of sensationalism that has earned several films the dreaded &#8220;gritty&#8221; label. And, for the most part, it delivers.
The format of &#8220;KiDulthood is similar to that of Larry Clark&#8217;s &#8220;Kids&#8221;: a group of arrogant teenagers leave school for the day after a girl they knew committed suicide as a result of bullying, and engage in violence, sex and other activities that will most [...]]]></description>
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