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		<title>The Piano Teacher (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love and violence may seem axiomatically opposed, but in the movies they share a common bond – they’re both difficult to depict on screen without attaching any sense of thrill to their meanings. And yet The Piano Teacher, a French film from director Michael Haneke, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, depicts its love scenes as disturbing and awkward.
Isabelle Huppert plays Erika Kohut, a piano teacher whose competence is complemented by an icy, stone-faced self-control that merely hides violent and repressed sexual fantasies. The camera always seems to find her face, taking in her whole implacable being; it’s to her credit that her emotions still come across so easy and apparent. Erika has a kind of masculine confidence and certitude. Like a man, she strides aplomb into a porn shop, never concerned outwardly with how people come to regard her in the situation. She attempts to elicit control over her lovers, treating sexual encounters like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fermat&#8217;s Room (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish “Fermat’s Room” is the latest in the enduringly popular puzzle thriller genre, which sees characters trapped and being forced to solve enigmas in order to avoid inventively gruesome fates. Here, writers and directors Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña (previously better known for their television work) do take a slightly different route, by attempting to work mathematics and philosophy into the mix, while trying to keep viewers on the edges of their seats. The film is being released on region 2 DVD by Revolver, and comes complete with deleted scenes, making of featurettes, plus special features on the film’s effects. 
The film introduces its four main characters, all of whom receive a challenge to solve a complex mathematical problem, which if solved will result in them being invited to an exclusive and remote gathering. All are given the names of famous mathematicians – Galois (Pedro Almodóvar regular Alejo Sauras), Pascal (Santi Millán, “Idiot Love”), Hilbert (Lluís Homar, another Almodóvar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexy Killer: You&#8217;ll Die for Her (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish horror has been prominent on the international scream scene of late, with the likes of “REC” and “The Orphanage” offering another alternative to the increasingly bland tide of remakes flowing sluggishly from Hollywood. “Sexy Killer”, from director Miguel Martí (previously responsible for comedies such as “Fin de curso” and “Slam”) sees the country taking an enthusiastic stab at that most notoriously difficult to nail of subgenres, namely the comedy horror. Hitting the right balance between laughs and scares, whilst delivering enough gore groceries to keep the fans happy is no easy task, though Martí manages to pull it off thanks to a sense of wild abandon, and an anything goes approach which mixes genre references with pop culture campery and a charmingly psychotic sensibility. 
The film gets off to a good start, with a little bit of homicidal role reversal as a “Scream” mask wearing would-be peeping tom ends up being brutally dispatched whilst trying to scare some naked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banlieue 13: Ultimatum (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been three years since the events of “Banlieue 13”, and the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or gotten worst, actually. The wall that separates the slums of District 13 and the more civilized (i.e. less tattooed) populace of Paris has not been torn down as promised, and the alleyways are still choking with violent gangs, separated into different AK-toting factions. The residents of the slums have a ceasefire with the cops, but that’s about to change when a third party led by sleazy Government official Gassman (Daniel Duval) enters the picture, determined to instigate an all-out civil war designed to bring down District 13 once and for all.
It’s up to nomadic District 13 warrior Leito (David Belle) and supercop Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) to save the day. Of course, that’s just become a tad more difficult when a frame job puts Damien out of commission. Leito, meanwhile, comes into possession of an important piece of evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macabre (1980) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 16:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Macabre” was originally released back in 1980 and marked the debut of Italian horror director Lamberto Bava. The son of the legendary Mario Bava, who was responsible for countless influential genre classics including “Black Sunday” and “Black Sabbath”, his works were always somewhat overshadowed by those of his father, though he did manage a few gems himself, including Giallo thriller “A Blade in the Dark”, the “Demons” films, and of course, “Macabre”. A truly bizarre and unsettling film drawing upon both psychological suspense and exploitative shocks to entertain, it has at last been given a proper UK release on DVD through Arrow Video and their Masters of Giallo series, complete with featurettes on the director and the production. 
Opening with the claim that it was inspired by true events, the film begins in New Orleans as housewife Jane (Bernice Stegers, from Federico Fellini’s “City of Women”) leaves her two young children at home while she heads across town for an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martyrs (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 16:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Hollywood horror slowly drowns in a mire of teen friendly remakes, over the last few years, it is arguably the French who have given genre addicts their much needed fixes, including such gruesome gems as “Switchblade Romance”, “Frontiers” and “Inside”. Following these comes “Martyrs”, from “House of Voices” writer director Pascal Laugier, which has been one of the most talked about horror films in years, gathering praise and shocked awe from festivals around the world. Controversial and challenging, it is easy to see why the film has been grabbing so much attention, though perhaps less easy to understand why it has apparently been picked up for a needless US makeover. The film now arrives on UK DVD via Optimum, and comes with several extras including a making of featurette and interviews with Laugier and make up artist Benoit Lestang. 
Without wishing to give away too much of the plot, the film begins as a 10 year old girl called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepless (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Sleepless” was originally released in 2001 and saw legendary horror director Dario Argento returning to the Giallo form in an attempt to reverse what had seemed for many years to be the irreversible decline of his once glorious career. Perhaps inevitably receiving mixed reactions from critics and fans expecting, or at least hoping for another “Deep Red”, the film is now an interesting candidate for re-evaluation. Arrow Video are offering UK viewers a chance to do just that with this new release, which is part of their Masters of Giallo series, and which comes with new specially commissioned artwork, a short documentary film on the modern Italian Giallo, a featurette on the making of the film, plus the usual trailers and press materials. 
The film has Argento working with veteran actor Max Von Sydow (best known to most genre fans as “The Exorcist” himself), who stars as an insomniac detective called Moretti investigating a brutal string of murders in Turin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The House by the Cemetery (Uncut, 1981) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 15:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK gore and horror fans have real reason to rejoice as Lucio Fulci’s 1981 gut muncher “The House by the Cemetery” has at last been passed uncut by the dreaded BBFC. The film now returns to DVD in all its gruesome glory via Arrow Video as part of their Masters of Giallo series, and comes complete with trailers, a deleted scene and a pleasant, if not exactly earth shattering short feature on the legendary Italian director’s career. A fair amount of work has also gone into the packaging, with the original artwork being accompanied by some specially commissioned lurid art that nicely capture the spirit of the film. 
The film is set in New England, as the unfortunate Dr Boyle (Paolo Malco, also in Fulci’s notorious “New York Ripper”), his wife Lucy (Catriona MacColl, another Fulci and Italian horror veteran, also in “The Beyond” and “City of the Living Dead”) and their odd looking son Bob (Giovanni Frezza, “Manhattan Baby”) [...]]]></description>
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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>Dead Snow (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think horror, you think Norwegians. Okay, maybe not so much, but the Norwegians sure are making a nice little name for themselves producing some interesting ditties to the horror genre. They’ve already offered up two of the more notable slasher titles of recent years in the “Cold Prey” series (read our James Mudge’s review of “Cold Prey 2” here), and now comes their entry into the ever-expanding Nazi zombie horror niche with “Dead Snow”. You wouldn’t think such a limited niche could yield so many offerings, but then you’d be wrong. Hey, it beats yuppie zombies, right? At least the Nazis are easy to root against. Plus, they’re zombies. No one ever roots for zombies.
“Dead Snow” starts out like your everyday horror movie, with a group of friends heading out to the countryside for a little R&#038;R, only to inadvertently stumble across an age-old evil that is unwittingly awakened. In this case, eight medical students are taking a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Prey 2 (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Norwegian slasher “Cold Prey” was released back in 2006, it was hailed by some as being the best example of the form for some years, being a back to basics slice of gory fun and genuine tension. Given its success, “Cold Prey 2” was always inevitable, and the film now arrives on region 2 DVD via Momentum, handily packaged in a box set with the original. This time around director Roar Uthaug has been replaced with debut helmer Mats Stenberg, who does his best to serve up a similar helping of snow bound scares. Strangely, the film has been lumbered with a most unnecessary title suffix, as ‘resurrection’, whilst perhaps technically appropriate is unlikely to mean anything to anyone, whether they have seen its predecessor or not. 
The plot takes its cue from “Halloween 2”, following immediately on from the events of the original as lone survivor Jannicke (a returning Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) is found wandering in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear(s) of the Dark (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[French black and white animation has been growing increasingly accomplished and popular of late through the likes of the science fiction themed “Renaissance” and the Oscar nominated “Persepolis”. Offering something a little different and far more disturbing is “Fear(s) of the Dark” (“Peur(s) du Noir”), a collection of shorts from noted animators and cartoonists Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti and Richard McGuire, edited together by Etienne Robial. Having enjoyed a successful run of festival screenings, including a well received showing at Sundance 2008, the film has now been issued on region 2 DVD via Metrodome. 
Clocking in at 82 minutes, the film basically consists of 6 interwoven brief pieces. The first of these is from Blutch, and is arguably the most disturbing of the bunch, a period set short following a depraved nobleman who strides through the countryside and villages, setting his vicious pack of hounds on the innocents who cross his path. Next from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mongol (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bodhi Grrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Mongol” was nominated for a 2007 Academy Award, but it only just started making the festival rounds earlier this year, beginning at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and most recently screening at the Wisconsin Film Festival. Its limited cinematic release began on June 6, and since I live dead center of the United States, it took another month to hit my city. Why it is being handled in such a manner is beyond me, because “Mongol” is a masterful five-star effort.
Co-written and directed by Sergei Bodrov, “Mongol” is the supposed first part of a trilogy depicting the life of Temudjin, the man who would come to be known as Genghis Khan. The story begins in the Year of the Black Rat (1172 C.E.) A 9-year-old Temudjin (Odnyam Odsuren) is told by his father, Esugei (Ba Sen) that it is time for him to pick his bride. Because his father had abducted the wife of a warrior from a rival [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Right One In (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dejan Ognjanovic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are special effects that no Hollywood blockbuster can create, and magic that no money can buy. It is the magic of humanity that no CGI can recreate or substitute – the magic of perfectly cast actors whose alchemy transcends (and renders laughable) the puerile &#8220;special effects&#8221; of the generic horror products. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN lets the right kind of magic into its horror story and transcends the genre. It is immaterial whether you like horror or not: it is simply a great film.
Kåre Hedebrant plays Oscar, a blond bullied boy who dreams of revenge: the first words we hear from him are: &#8220;Squeal now. Squeal like a pig.&#8221; Later he will re-enact the &#8220;Are you talking to me&#8221; routine from THE TAXI DRIVER. But he&#8217;s not a psycho: he&#8217;s just trying to survive and remain sane in the cold, unfriendly environment.
Lina Leandersson, as raven-haired Eli, comes to the rescue. She warns him right from the start that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighter (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aicha loves kung fu, and has been learning at an all-girls club after school for the last three years, until the instructor “introduces” her to a higher level of kung fu after an altercation with a fellow student. (Aicha also has a bit of a temper.) Alas, this higher level involves co-ed kung fu training. You know, with guys. That isn’t such a big deal for all you MTV kids out there, except Aicha is from a Muslim Turkish family with a very traditional father who believes Aicha’s big goal in life is to go to medical school just like her big brother, but before that, not to mess up the family’s chance of marrying into a richer family. 
Not surprisingly, Aicha’s family is opposed to the idea of the teenage girl joining a mixed martial arts class. Of course, this little bump in the road isn’t going to stop our spunky girl, especially after Bruce Lee shows up on [...]]]></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>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 Backwoods (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Boorman&#8217;s &#8220;Deliverance&#8221; gave birth to a new subgenre of films featuring middle class white men who desire the stoicism of life in the wild and of a more direct conflict for survival outside of the office cubicles and golf courses. It also established the genre&#8217;s archetypal characters: the posturing weekend warrior outdoorsman who talks a good game lifted from Reader&#8217;s Digest versions of &#8220;Walden&#8221;, and the indecisive, liberal leaning hero for whom the adventure plays as a bildungsroman towards his regression into murder. Both of these archetypes are front and center in Koldo Serra&#8217;s debut film &#8220;The Backwoods&#8221; with an extra dollop of Peckinpah and Polanski just to spice up the proceedings. 
Serra&#8217;s film is set in 1978 and is about two couples traveling to a remote house in the woods of Northern Spain. The house is owned by Paul(Gary Oldman)who sees himself as a kind of Hemingway figure, leaving London to fix up the rustic cottage and go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morgan Pålsson &#8211; World Reporter (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every country has their lovable, bumbling idiot.  America has Jerry Lewis (though France would rather claim him), Mexico has Cantinflas, England has Peter Sellers as the unforgettable Inspector Clouseau and so on.  The latest to join this august chorus of ineptitude appears to be Swede Anders Jansson who wrote and stars in Morgan Pålsson &#8211; Världsreporter, a slapstick comedy suitable for the whole family directed by Fredrik Boklund.  Anders reprises his role from the 2002 hit &#8220;Vaktmästaren och professorn&#8221; (Caretaker and professor) along with Johan Wester as Morgan&#8217;s wiley cameraman, Robert Flycht.
Morgan Pålsson is a self absorbed Swedish television journalist (yes, it&#8217;s redundant) with a knack for getting himself kicked from the frying pan, directly into the fire.  The movie opens with Morgan and Robert setting up in Klaipeda, Lithuania on a dock awaiting the arrival of several dignitaries including the Prime Minister of Sweden.  Pålsson quickly points out to Flycht that while he&#8217;s a [...]]]></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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