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		<title>The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The midnight showing was sold out and electricity rocketed through the air from the excitement. It was as if a viewer was attending a midnight mass for a Goth Christmas, and when everyone got home, Edward and Jacob would have visited and left presents under the posters bearing their likeness. BOOYAH!! Everyone at Hot Topics is gettin&#8217; laid tonight!
The amazingly rampant popularity of the &#8220;Twilight Saga&#8221; more or less makes the plot summary of this review obsolete. But for those who have lived in blissful ignorance, here is the obligatory recap.  
Fearing he&#8217;s become a danger to Bella, Edward dumps her and decides he can&#8217;t live without her. So he travels to Italy to see the Volturi, the powerful vampire ruling class. He&#8217;s got a bizarre suicide plan where he&#8217;s hoping the Volturi will put an end to him once and far all. Bella meanwhile, occupies her spare time by becoming a daredevil adrenaline junkie. During this trying period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The St. Francisville Experiment (2000) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with any massively profitable film, &#8220;The Blair Witch Project&#8221; quickly became the foster parent to a legion of parodies and imitations trying to cash in on the hype. It didn&#8217;t matter that the franchise quickly had its&#8217; wings cut and was buried in a shallow grave under tons of unsold merchandise bearing a stickman logo. &#8220;The St. Francisville Experiment&#8221; is one of the better knockoff, mainly because it never pretends to be anything more than it is&#8211;a low budget horror film dressed up as a documentary that promises a creepy time. Albeit a blatant ripoff, it&#8217;s at least somewhat better than what you would expect.
There is a house in St. Francisville, LA with an unspeakable history, one whose past darkness is flowing onto the present. During the 1800s, the house had a cruel mistress of the manor, who tortured and conducted sadistic medical experiments on her slaves. Her evil didn&#8217;t die with her, and the house is said to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bronze Medalist (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its inspirational sports time again with “Bronze Medallist” (a.k.a. “Lifting King Kong”) from Korea, marking the directorial debut of Park Geon Yong, who had previously worked on the blockbuster “Typhoon”. Although its themes are common enough, the film earns extra points both for having been inspired by a true story, and for the fact that it focuses on a rather obscure sport in women’s weightlifting. With popular actor Lee Bum Soo (recently in “More Than Blue” and the teen horror “Death Bell”) in the lead role, the film also features a number of up and coming young actresses as his charges, including Jo An (“Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait”), Lee Yoon Hoi (“Perfect Couple”), Choi Moon Kyung, Jeon Bo Mi, and Kim Min Young, all getting their chance to show off their strength. 
The film begins with weightlifter Ji Bong (Lee Bum Soo), nicknamed King Kong, injuring himself at the 1988 Olympics and only managing to win Bronze as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Far Cry (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unadulterated anger directed towards German filmmaker Uwe Boll is, for the most part, warranted. Simply put: The man doesn&#8217;t make good movies, and people tend to hate him for it. However, despite Boll&#8217;s dedication to impossibly bad taste and his penchant for taking popular videogames and completely reworking their core storylines to suit his ambitions, I am hopelessly drawn to the man&#8217;s body of work. No matter how wretched or downright pathetic his latest endeavor may be, I always seem to come back for more whenever the Gods of Celluloid graciously allow him to create another feature-length abomination. I like to call it cinematic masochism. Old-fashioned stupidity works, too.
Boll&#8217;s latest direct-to-video release, the 2008 buddy action flick &#8220;Far Cry,&#8221; is, perhaps, his most accessible film to-date, though probably not for the reasons the universally-loathed filmmaker had originally intended. As a life-long fan of silly Italian shoot-em-ups and anything released by Media Home Entertainment during the 80&#8217;s, I can genuinely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Box (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re a fan of writer-director Richard Kelly, or even just mildly interested in his career, the trailers for “The Box” might convince you it’s the kind of movie everyone was waiting for him to make. After two confusing and overindulgent films (cult favorite “Donnie Darko”, and the not-so-cult favorite “Southland Tales”), “The Box” promised to be a smart, simple, taut thriller that wouldn’t take an advanced degree to fully comprehend. 
Unfortunately, it’s really just another trademark Richard Kelly film, drowning in oblique excess. Kelly has turned a simple premise into a wild conspiracy yarn involving the Viking Mars mission, sinister public libraries, the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, mysterious nose bleeds, amputated toes, and towering blocks of CGI Jell-O that allow you to briefly pass through the afterlife. It’s almost as hilariously muddled as “Southland Tales”, with the key difference being that “Southland Tales” was trying to be funny.
In “The Box”, James Marsden and Cameron Diaz are a hardworking couple [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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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