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		<title>The Locals (2003) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2004 04:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing you notice about Greg Page&#8217;s &#8220;The Locals&#8221; is this: cinematographer Bret Nichols has no idea how to light a movie, much less a horror film.
Our New Zealand film opens with urbanites Grant (John Barker) and Paul (Dwayne Cameron) on their way to the coast for some surfing, with Paul hoping to help alleviate buddy Grant&#8217;s love pains. After an accident leaves their car stuck in a ditch in the countryside at night, the duo stumbles onto a murder while seeking help. If that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, it seems everyone in this backwoods town (i.e. the locals) are after our heroes to, one assumes, silence them. Then again, maybe they just like riding around in a pick-up truck in the middle of the night.
Back to my original notion, which is that cinematographer Bret Nichols has absolutely no idea how to light a horror movie. This is made perfectly clear 20 minutes into the film, after the boys have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King (2003) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;The Return of the King&#8221; is certainly a marvel of moviemaking, it lacks the newness of &#8220;The Fellowship of the Rings&#8221; and the proper narrative structure (and flow) of &#8220;The Two Towers&#8221;. I suppose it was too much to hope that &#8220;ROTK&#8221;, the final piece in Jackson&#8217;s 3-picture, 3-year enterprise, would top the two previous installments. While it does wow with its dynamic and monstrous battle scenes, there is something clumsy about the whole thing. To wit: the film has one epic battle too many and goes on for about 30 minutes too long, adding scenes involving the Hobbits that should have been saved for one of those loaded &#8220;special edition&#8221; DVDs. 
&#8220;ROTK&#8221; takes place days after the epic battle for survival at Helm&#8217;s Deep, with Sauron&#8217;s forces now gathering to plunder Gondor and its major city, Minas Tirith. There are some problems for our defenders of Middle-Earth: one) Minas Tirith is currently ruled by a psycho [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scarfies (1999) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand movie &#8220;Scarfies&#8221; is a good movie only if you can forgive its farcical and truly terrible ending. The film, about 5 college students who discover an elaborate marijuana stash growing in the basement of their rundown house, requires you to take one big leap of faith. It&#8217;s this: Upon discovering the marijuana, our students, one of whom wants to attend law school, decides on the spot &#8212; and I mean on the spot &#8212; that they should sell the pot, thus officially becoming drug dealers. Now, if this seems completely beyond the realm of reason to you, then the rest of &#8220;Scarfies&#8221; will be irrelevant. 
Jon Brazier plays Kevin, the rundown building&#8217;s original owner, who returns from whereabouts unknown to discover his stash gone. Making matters worst, the rightfully ticked off crook finds out that the college kids have sold his plants at a discount! And before you can say, &#8220;Wait a minute, didn&#8217;t I see this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers (2002) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&#8221; (aka &#8220;LOTR 2&#8243;) is an astounding film. I am utterly amazed that director Peter Jackson could have constructed such a film at all, but taking into account that the movie was shot back-to-back-to-back with two other parts, and it&#8217;s quite impossible not to look on the name Peter Jackson and marvel at the man&#8217;s commitment and talent. Like its predecessor (&#8220;LOTR&#8221;), &#8220;The Two Towers&#8221; is a mammoth undertaking, a film that is epic in scope and gloriously breathtaking in visuals. 
The movie opens where the first film left off, with hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) separated from their comrades (the &#8220;fellowship&#8221; of the original) but still determined to destroy the ring in order to keep it away from the resurrected Sauron. Meanwhile, Sauron and his human ally, Saruman (Christopher Lee), seek to wipe out mankind from Middle Earth, and have created a massive army of Orcs to do it. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2002 04:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring&#8221; is an amazing film to behold. Consider that the movie, the first in a trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien books, is probably the most ambitious filmmaking project in the history of film, and that it took 2 years and $300 million to make, and you know you&#8217;re dealing with someone with guts. Besides being shot back-to-back-to-back, &#8220;LOTR&#8221; looks gorgeous, which bodes well for its two sequels, to be released in the next two years, with one movie per year.  
&#8220;LOTR&#8221; follows Frodo (Elijah Wood), a young hobbit (a race of beings about half the size of man) who has just inherited a plain-looking but extremely powerful (and evil) ring from another, much-older hobbit name Bilbo (Ian Holm). The ring was forged by and belongs to an evil entity called Sauron, a &#8220;dark Lord&#8221; who attempted to take over Middle Earth (the movie&#8217;s name for its world) thousands [...]]]></description>
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