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		<title>Running Turtle (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rather oddly titled “Running Turtle” sees Kim Yoon Seok following up his award winning role in “The Chaser” by playing another down and out cop working outside the law to track down a murderer. The film was written and directed by Lee Yeon Woo, who was previously responsible for “2424”, and is a decidedly lighter affair than Na Hong Jin’s grim crime thriller, adding in a little humour and family drama amidst all the usual fugitive chasing and cat and mouse games. The mix was certainly a successful one, and the film was a hit at the domestic box office, pulling in more than three million admissions. 
Kim Yoon Seok (who also impressed in the excellent “Tazza: The High Rollers”) takes on the role of Pil Sung, a rather useless detective in a small provincial town, who spends most of his time trying to make money on the side by turning over pimps. Unfortunately, after a suspect has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24 City (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“24 City” is the latest offering from sixth generation Mainland China director Jia Zhangke and sees him continuing to explore themes of the country’s modern history and economic progress. Here, he does this through a semi-documentary that focuses on the story of a munitions factory, once moved across the country and now being demolished to make way for the titular residential development, named after a quote from a Tang Dynasty poem. Jia is easily one of China’s most interesting and challenging directors, and so it should come as no surprise that the film is a complex affair which works on many levels, both metaphorical and intimate. He is also one of the country’s most acclaimed and award winning overseas exports, and as well as performing well at the domestic box office, the film enjoyed a successful run at overseas festivals, screening in competition at Cannes in 2008, with Jia being nominated for the prestigious Golden Palm. 
The film relates the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oppai Volleyball (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All that most male viewers probably need to know is that “Oppai Volleyball” translates as ‘breast volleyball’ and that it stars the gorgeous swimsuit model turned actress Haruka Ayase as a teacher who tries to inspire a young school boy volleyball team by promising she will show them her breasts if they manage to win. Adapted from a novel by Mizuno Munenori and supposedly based upon a true story, the film was directed by Hasumi Eiichiro, previously responsible for “Umizaru” and ski comedy “Season of Snow”. Surprisingly, despite its potentially sleazy premise, the film is actually a light hearted mixture of underdog sports story and coming of age journey – albeit with probably more mentions of the word ‘boob’ than in any other respectable production in recent memory. 
The film is set in back the 1970s and begins as a young female teacher called Mikako (Ayase, who recently also headlined “Ichi” and “Cyborg She”) starts at a new high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sisters on the Road (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Sisters on the Road” marks the debut of female writer director Boo Ji Young, and as the title suggests, is a drama following two sisters on a voyage of discovery and an exploration of their shared pasts. The film has an impressive cast, with the two siblings in question being played by actresses Shin Min Ah (recently in “The Naked Kitchen”) and Kong Hyo Jin (superb in the award winning, Park Chan Wook produced “Crush and Blush”), and has enjoyed success at festivals, premiering at Pusan in 2008. 
The film starts with young Seoul businesswoman Myung Eun (Shin Min Ah) travelling to Jeju Island for the funeral of her mother, having not been home for some years. Although she had effectively cut herself off from her family, when she meets her older fishmonger half-sister Myung Ju (Kong Hyo Jin) again, this brings back her insecurities at her father having abandoned her as a child. Rather than returning to the big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whispering Corridors 5: A Blood Pledge (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The landmark Korean ghost series “Whispering Corridors” returns for its fifth instalment with “A Blood Pledge”, marking the debut of director Lee Jong Yong, an interesting choice for the helm, given his previous work under Park Chan Wook on the likes of “JSA” and “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”. The film continues very much in the tradition of its predecessors, being set at an all-girls school, dealing with contemporary themes and concerns of friendship, and of course presenting a new set of up and coming young actresses no doubt hoping to follow in the footsteps of former “Whispering” alumni Kim Min Sun, Kim Ok Bin, Kim Kyu Ri, Seo Ji Hye, and Choi Kang Hee. Interestingly, the film not only performed well at the domestic box office, but is the first of its brethren to have been mooted for a possible Hollywood remake. 
The plot begins in suitably morbid fashion, as a young girl called Eon Joo (Jang Kyeong Ah) throws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally unleashed back in 1984, “Silent Night, Deadly Night” was the subject of great controversy due to its premise of a serial killer dressed as Santa Claus, with outraged authorities and parents protesting its US release. The film encountered similar moral panic in the UK, where the ever-wise British Board of Film Classification refused it a certificate, effectively banning it. Inevitably, this has led to it building up a considerable cult following over the years, with many fans considering it one of the better films of the golden age of mid-80s slashers, and with it inspiring no less than 4 sequels of variable quality and tenuous linkage. Now, the film is finally available on region 2 DVD in its most complete form, just in time for Christmas, thanks to Arrow Video, coming with a jolly host of extras including an interview with director Charles E. Sellier Jr. and a booklet containing various pieces of production information. 
The film starts with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raging Phoenix (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t blame the Thais for continuing to produce action movies like “Raging Phoenix”. There are basically only two genres coming out of Thailand that sells nowadays – martial arts movies and horror films. Everything else just doesn’t translate very well. One of the industry’s newest import is female ass kicking wonder Jeeja Yanin, who burst onto the scene last year with “Chocolate”, directed by “Ong Bak” head honcho Prachya Pinkaew. The film benefited greatly from Yanin’s unassuming features. For “Raging Phoenix”, we already know the deal, so director Rashane Limtrakul and action choreographer Panna Rittikrai (another “Ong Bak” vet) had to throw us a twist – a new form of martial arts that combines Muay Thai with breakdancing. Or at least, that’s the idea.
The plot for “Raging Phoenix” is as superfluous as they come – neglected rich girl Deu (Yanin) spends her time playing (badly, I might add) drums for a pop band, when she’s nearly abducted one day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lake Placid 2 (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gazz Ogden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FADE IN:
INT: Sony Pictures offices.
A studio head sits at his desk and ushers in another man
Man:  I&#8217;ve got a pitch for a new horror film.
Sony Man:  Go for it.
Man:  It&#8217;s about crocodiles!
Sony Man:  Next.
Man: Killer crocodiles.
Sony Man:  Been there, done that.
Man:  Umm, it&#8217;s a sequel to Lake Placid!
Sony Man:  Who wants to see a sequel to that?
Man:  Err, everyone?
Sony Man:  NEXT.
Man:  Um…there&#8217;ll be two crocodiles this time…
Sony Man:  Big wow.  Next.
**SPOILER WARNING**
Man:  OK THERE&#8217;LL BE FOUR FUCKING CROCODILES.
**END OF SPOILERS**
Sony Man:  This will be the greatest film in the history of everything.
If you&#8217;ve seen Tobe Hooper&#8217;s &#8220;Crocodile&#8221; then chances are you&#8217;ve seen &#8220;Lake Placid 2&#8243;, even though you may not know it.  The reason for this is that they&#8217;re pretty much the same film, only one has MORE CROCODILES.  Still, &#8220;Crocodile&#8221; was disposable fun; sure it was a long way from &#8220;Alligator&#8221; and &#8220;Lake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lala Pipo: A Lot of People (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been scripted by Tetsuya Nakashima, the award winning writer director of the excellent “Kamikaze Girls” and “Memories of Matsuko”, it comes as no surprise that “Lala Pipo” is another slice of colourful Japanese pop culture craziness. Marking the directorial debut of Nakashima’s assistant Miyano Masayuki, the film is based upon a short story collection by noted author Okuda Hideo, its odd title being a phonetic Japanese pronunciation of an observation by an American tourist that Tokyo does indeed have a ‘lot of people’. Although it revolves around the Japanese sex industry, the film is brash, bawdy and cheerful rather than sleazy, being very much in Nakashima’s surreal, cartoonish style. The film is being released in the UK via Third Window Films, with a November run in selected cinemas before arriving on DVD. 
The plot follows a collection of 6 characters in Tokyo, all of whom end up connected to the sex industry in one way or another, and whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palisades Tartan&#8217;s Asian Horror: Essential Collection Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for Halloween, Palisades Tartan has grouped together three of the most successful Asian horror films of recent years in one region 2 DVD collection. Although terms such as ‘essential’ are woefully overused when it comes to such compilations, in this case it certainly rings true, as the three titles are arguably among the most important and influential examples of the modern Asian genre – not least since two of them have been the subject of markedly less successful Hollywood remakes. The films in question, “Audition”, “Dark Water” and “The Eye” also provide a showcase for three highly acclaimed directors in the ever prolific Takashi Miike (still best known in the West for his infamous “Ichi the Killer”), The Pang Brothers (who recently headed for the US themselves with “The Messengers” and a remake of their own “Bangkok Dangerous”) and Hideo Nakata, whose “Ringu” launched the new wave of Eastern horror. 
First up is Miike’s “Audition” which, simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninja (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Movie Reviewer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Review by Sherman Chin &#8211; POSSIBLE SPOILERS) I have to state that I&#8217;m a movie buff and an Asian martial artist so my review might be a bit critical as evidenced by the lively teenagers who were gleefully shaking the cinema (&#8221;Ninja&#8221; is shown in Malaysian theaters instead of direct-to-dvd like in the US) seats as blood was splashing and heads were rolling. &#8220;Ninja&#8221; (2009) isn&#8217;t as hyped up as &#8220;Ninja Assassin&#8221; (2009), which came up as my first Google search when I had tried to ascertain what the movie was about after seeing its enigmatic cinema poster ad depicting a stereotypical ninja with the backdrop of New York city. So, I went into the cinema without much expectation.
The movie started out well enough with a quick historical overview of Ninjas in Japan followed by a beautiful take of a Japanese dojo showing  martial artists performing their &#8220;kata&#8221; or set moves. As most of the actors were Japanese, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paranormal Activity (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The buzz surrounding writer/director Oren Peli’s popular 2007 &#8220;found footage&#8221; horror outing &#8220;Paranormal Activity,&#8221; has been, in a word, astronomical. In addition to the countless testimonials I&#8217;ve read on message boards and entertainment websites alike, scores of people from all walks of life have told me how brutally intense and genuinely frightening this film is, which may help to explain my reluctance to experience it for myself. Truth be told, my stance on public opinion isn&#8217;t what you&#8217;d call positive, especially when it comes to mainstream American horror. I believe the word I’m looking for is “jaded,” though I’m sure others would probably call it “unchecked film geek snobbery.” 
Simply put, &#8220;Paranormal Activity&#8221; just isn’t that scary. Unnerving and a little eerie, yes, but definitely not scary. It&#8217;s kind of like the television series &#8220;Ghost Hunters&#8221; without the remote possibility that these supposed supernatural events are, in fact, the real deal. Take reality out of the equation and all you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The Men Who Stare at Goats”, starring and produced by George Clooney, is an adaption of Jon Ronson’s 2004 nonfiction book about alleged psychic experiments conducted by the U.S. military. Like “The Informant!”, another Clooney-produced movie, “Goats” is ostensibly based on true events, but has clearly stretched the facts for the sake of getting laughs. The movie aims to be a “Catch-22” or “Dr. Strangelove” style spoof of the absurdities of military bureaucracy, but ultimately it’s more of a gentle, loving send-up than the sharp satire it could have been.
Ewan McGregor is Bob Wilton, a stand-in for author Ronson, who’s a down on his luck newspaper reporter in Michigan. Wilton’s wife has left him for another man (who wears a prosthetic arm apparently borrowed from Dr. No), and he’s not exactly getting the plum assignments these days. For one of his stories, he interviews an eccentric guy (Stephen Root) who claims he killed his hamster just by staring at it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staunton Hill (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As his father continues to attempt to rejuvenate his seemingly never-ending “Dead” series, Cameron Romero follows up his debut “The Screening” with another slice of familiar horror in “Staunton Hill”. Although this may sound a little cynical, the film really is pretty basic stuff, being a by the numbers “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” knock off, with youngsters being chased and killed by psychotic rednecks in the rural backwoods. Still, Romero shows himself to be a better director than most, and the film benefits from a decent cast of half recognisable faces, if not names, including Cristen Coppen (“Road Trip”), David Rountree (“XXX2”, and who also scripted), Kiko Ellsworth (from the television series “Heroes” and “Dexter”) and Charlie Bodin (briefly in “Transformer”). 
The plot is familiar to say the least, set in Virginia in the autumn of 1969 and following five student types who are hitchhiking their way across country to the political rallies taking place in Washington. After finding themselves ditched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knife Edge (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Knife Edge” sees the return to the horror genre of director Anthony Hickox, who back in the late 1980s and early 1990s turned out a string of popular, offbeat favourites including “Waxwork”, its sequel “Lost in Time”, and “Sundown: the Vampire in Retreat”, the latter two featuring the legendary Bruce Campbell. Although Hickox did have a stab at the relatively big time with “Hellraiser: Hell on Earth”, since then he had stuck mainly to television affairs and standard action films, such as the Eddie Griffin vehicle “Blast” and Steven Segal’s “Submerged”. With his being one of the more creative genre directors, who always managed to bring a certain sense of ghoulish fun to his productions, fans should certainly be glad to see him coming back to the fold, and although “Knife Edge” is not a particularly great film by his standards, it is still a cut above the usual direct to DVD drudgery. 
The plot follows a Wall Street stockbroker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like You Know It All (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cinematic medium can make for a fascinating subject, especially in the hands of a director willing to explore it through personal insights. This is certainly the case with “Like You Know it All” from Hong Sang Soo, one of the current champions of the Korean independent film scene, whose previous works such as “Women on the Beach” and “Woman is the Future of Man” have offered fascinating and offbeat looks at modern life and relationships. This, his ninth feature, screened as part of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival&#8217;s Directors&#8217; Fortnight, and features a host of former collaborators including Kim Tae Woo, Ko Hyun Jung and Uhm Ji Won. 
Aptly enough, the film’s protagonist Ku (Kim Tae Woo, who featured in both “Women on the Beach” and “Woman is the Future of Man”) is an independent film director who has long enjoyed the adoration of the critics without ever being able to produce a box office hit. Although he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells” is the latest effort from noted Korean independent director Jeon Soo Il, who previously won praise and prizes for his “With a Girl of Black Soil”. This time, he heads to the wilds of Nepal for a minimalist, yet grand tale featuring some truly breathtaking scenery and a documentary style look at the local culture and way of life. The film is arguably somewhat of a step up the industry ladder for Jeon, with the presence of actor Choi Min Sik, here taking on his first role since Park Chan Wook’s “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance” back in 2005, likely meaning that it will reach a far wider audience than most indie features. 
The plot is fairly simple, following Choi Min Sik as Choi, a middle aged businessman whose job looks to be in trouble. After he hears that a Nepalese worker called Dorgy has died at his brother’s factory, he decides to return the man’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tournament (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Mann’s “The Tournament” looks and feels like an ‘90s action movie, the kind that relies on an overly simplified premise that is supposed to pass for a storyline, but is really just an excuse for a whole lot of wanton bloodshed. Mind you, not that that’s a bad thing. In this case, it just feels a little bit overdone, and after a while all the shooting, eccentric characters, and violence dulls the senses and makes you question the meaning. Naaaaaaah. Kidding, kidding. It just gets tedious after a while, that’s all, which is something you don’t want an audience to say especially when things (and people) are blowing up every other minute in your movie. In fact, if not for Robert Carlyle as a drunkard priest, the film feels more like 90 minutes of bullet squib practice for an actual movie that hasn’t been greenlit for production yet.
“The Tournament” has one of those premise that fits on a movie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landscape No. 2 (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are very few instances in my life where I&#8217;ve felt overwhelmingly stupid while watching a motion picture. Not because I think of myself as some sort of worldly savant, mind you, but because most movies simply do not require much brain power on part of the audience. Slovenian director Vinko Moderndorder&#8217;s strikingly intelligent 2008 thriller &#8220;Landscape No. 2&#8243; (aka &#8220;Pokrajina St. 2&#8243;), in addition to making me feel both uncultured and pathetically ignorant, completely discredited my snobbery, and indirectly suggested that I spend more time reading books than staring blankly at my television screen.
It&#8217;s not that the film is ridiculously hard-to-follow, or that its IQ is so astronomical that my tiny mind had great difficulty wrapping itself around the concept. What it proved, I&#8217;m sorry to say, is that I&#8217;m an insolated, culturally-inept American who is painfully unaware of the historical gravity of anything beyond my country&#8217;s borders. Truth be told, I knew next to nothing about Slovenia, its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7eventy 5ive (aka Dead Tone, 2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gazz Ogden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Se7en&#8221;, &#8220;s1m0ne&#8221;, &#8220;Thr3e&#8221;, &#8220;Thir13n Ghosts&#8221;, and now &#8220;7eventy 5ive&#8221;. All movies bafflingly fond of placing needless numbers in place of letters in their titles. A moot point yes, but an important one, for apart from &#8220;Se7en&#8221; (also notably the first film to start this trend), the quality of the aforementioned movies must surely be seen as on the lower end of the spectrum. So, what of &#8220;7eventy 5ive&#8221;? Is it better than &#8220;s1m0ne&#8221;, &#8220;Thr3e&#8221; and &#8220;Thir13n Ghosts&#8221;? Just about. Is it as &#8216;dynamic&#8217; as its title? Unfor7unately n0t.
&#8220;7eventy 5ive&#8221; concerns a gang of college students known as (wait for it) &#8216;the 75&#8242; who engage in a game which involves prank calling random numbers and aiming to keep the other person on the line for seventy five seconds without them laughing or hanging up. Of course they inevitably prank call the wrong trucker person and soon an axe-wielding maniac is on the loose and picking them off one by one at [...]]]></description>
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