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		<title>Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Night of the Bloody Apes&#8221; is a slice of schlock horror from 1968 which has long enjoyed a cult following, not least due to its high quotient of sex and violence, which actually led to the film being banned in the UK during the 1980s when it was listed as one of the dreaded &#8216;video nasties&#8217;. It was directed by Ren&#8217; Cardona, a Mexican genre master whose incredibly prolific output during his long career also includes such classics as &#8220;Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy&#8221;, and several films featuring the legendary masked wrestling hero Santo. 
The plot is classic stuff, managing to cram in a number of top trash motifs, with a doctor attempting to cure his son&#8217;s leukemia through the brilliant move of giving him an ape&#8217;s blood and heart. This has the unfortunate side effect of transforming the poor lad into a bestial monster who escapes from his father&#8217;s lab and goes on a blood-hungry, sex-crazed rampage. Also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1930s were a terrible time in Spain. Mired in a vicious civil war that saw both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia use Spain as a practice ground for WWII, the country descended into Fascist repression under Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Against this incendiary backdrop, we have Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s &#8220;Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth,&#8221; a visually arresting film about the power of imagination and the strength of youth. 
The film opens with eleven-year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) traveling with her pregnant mother to meet Ofelia&#8217;s new stepfather, an army captain named Vidal (Sergi Lopez, &#8220;Dirty Pretty Things&#8221;) at a military camp deep in the Spanish forests. During the trip, we learn that Ofelia really likes reading fairytales, something her mother chides her about, but which will soon become her greatest weapon. Upon reaching the camp, Captain Vidal is revealed to be an intimidating and cruel lout who wants nothing to do with Ofelia, and is more concerned with killing leftist rebels than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cronicas (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s world of around the clock global news coverage, one gets the sense that all too often the news media has been growing desperate for material to fill airtime, and that this has given rise to an increasingly graphic and questionable predatory style of journalism. And as much as we, the audience, wag our fingers in disdain and repugnance, we show our tacit acceptance by watching it endlessly. In the film &#8220;Cronicas&#8221;, director Sebastian Cordero takes aim at this new brand of journalism, exploring the nature of truth in reporting and the media&#8217;s ability to color the perception of that truth.
Chameleon actor-comedian John Leguizamo (&#8221;Spawn,&#8221; &#8220;Summer of Sam&#8221;) plays Manolo Bonilla, a Miami-based reporter for a Spanish-language tabloid news show called &#8220;An Hour With The Truth.&#8221; Manolo is the kind of reporter who fancies himself an adventurer, and likes to have his face on camera with fantastic events taking place behind him. When the film opens, we see Manolo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amores Perros (2000) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2005 23:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Amores Perros&#8221; (which roughly translates as &#8216;Love&#8217;s a bitch&#8217;) was the feature debut of Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who later went Hollywood with the gritty gloom of &#8220;21 Grams&#8221;. The film has earned a great deal of praise from critics around the world, as well as picking up awards at numerous festivals, most notably Cannes and Venice, and was also nominated in the &#8216;Best Foreign Film&#8217; category at the Oscars. A gritty urban drama that is essentially a collection of three stories with interwoven plots, &#8220;Amores Perros&#8221; has won some obvious comparisons with Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221;, though Inarritu&#8217;s film is a far more emotional tale, and is told in a style which though technically accomplished and visually rich, is less dependent upon flashy gimmickry and narrative tricks.
&#8220;Amores Perros&#8221; features a genuine attempt to explore the darker side of the human condition, primarily through the effective use of dogs as metaphors for the animalistic behaviour in man which so often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Sangre (1989) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amongst the innumerable film directors that have come and gone over the roughly 100 years of motion picture history, there have always been a few who have stood out for being mavericks. Directors such as Samuel Fuller, Orson Welles, Robert Altman and Sam Peckinpah made names for themselves by going against the established studio system, turning out films that expressed their personal passions rather than what the studios wanted. That&#8217;s not to say their counter-culture films were all good, but by the sheer fact that they were subversive to the &#8217;system&#8217;, they gained notoriety amongst the self-proclaimed cinematic cognoscenti. 
Perhaps the most maverick of these maverick directors is Alejandro Jodorowsky, a Chilean who operated mostly in France and Mexico, and was the consummate artiste. In a career dating back to the mid-1950s, Jodorowsky has been a puppeteer, a circus performer, a mime, a playwright, a film director, a novelist and a comic book author. Prolific as he may be, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alfonso Cuaron&#8217;s &#8220;Y Tu Mama Tambien&#8221; (aka &#8220;And Your Mother Too&#8221;) is a simple Road Movie, and as such, it has all the right combination of character and revelations one expects from a movie in this particular genre. Newsmedia articles I have read on the movie have tended to focus on its stark look at the sexuality of its two main stars (both male teenagers); although considering that the movie is not exactly brimming over with sex, I don&#8217;t know what the fuss is about. (Can you say, &#8220;Product of a good P.R. machine?&#8221;) 
&#8220;Mama Tambien&#8221; is about childhood friends Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael Bernal), two oversexed highschoolers who, like all oversexed highschoolers are want to do, are only concern with sex, drugs, and more sex. Trapped in the tedium of home life during the summer break and with their respective girlfriends abroad on vacation, the two are bored out of their minds. They spend their time masturbating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil&#8217;s Backbone (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2002 20:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s &#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Backbone&#8221; wants to be an old-fashioned ghost story, but it&#8217;s really just old-fashioned, with some excellent special effects making intermittent appearances to liven things up. For its first 50 minutes or so, &#8220;Backbone&#8221; plays out like a generic ghost story, with all the filmmaking conventions of the genre followed to the letter. 
There&#8217;s the usual slow pans to reveal the ghost; the ghost that appears behind a character; and of course, the now-you-see-him-now-you-don&#8217;t trick, where a character sees a ghost, is distracted by something offscreen, only to look back and the ghost is gone! (Sigh. I really wish someone would retire this particular gimmick.) Because the film handles its ghost elements so poorly, &#8220;Backbone&#8221; loses any right to call itself &#8220;scary.&#8221; Director/co-writer Guillermo (&#8221;Blade 2&#8243;) might have fare better if he had chosen to make &#8220;Backbone&#8221; a dramatic film with some supernatural elements instead.
The film is about an orphan name Carlos (Fernando Tielve) who is [...]]]></description>
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