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    <title>Hollywood Product: 2012</title>
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        Director Roland Emmerich is the John Holmes of disaster porn...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Disaster movie on a planetary scaleTHE PITCH: Technobabble about solar flares plus mumbo-jumbo about Mayan predictions equals catastrophes that could destroy all life on Earth, even movie stars. A White House science advisor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a novelist/limo driver (John Cusack), his ex-wife (Amanda Peet), and a shaggy conspiracy theorist (Woody Harrelson) all try to keep ahead of the fireballs and falling skyscrapers.MONEY SHOTS: Director Roland Emmerich remains the John Holmes of disaster porn. Highlights include the heroes out-driving a
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    <category>Movies &amp;amp; TV/Hollywood Product</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Sandra Bullock Blind Sides Atlanta</title>
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        Film fumbles a potentially intriguing story of a nouveau riche family who adopts a future NFL star...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      The prologue to the warm-n-fuzzy sports story The Blind Side plays so well, it&rsquo;s like seeing a team return an opening kickoff to score a touchdown. A Southern-accented Sandra Bullock narrates an insider&rsquo;s perspective on the five fateful seconds that cost the Washington Redskins&rsquo; Joe Theismann his career. Michael Lewis&rsquo; book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game provides the film with tasty tidbits about football machinations on and off the field, but director John Lee Hancock fumbles the rags-to-riches
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Messenger delivers stark lesson about casualties of war</title>
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        Drama about the U.S. army's casualty notification team falls short...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) receives new orders in the first scenes of The Messenger. Will endured injuries to his eye and leg in an Iraqi firefight, and has the wounds and decorations to prove it, but his latest assignment will leave its own kind of scars.Will finds that becoming part of the U.S. Army&rsquo;s casualty notification team is the toughest job he&rsquo;ll ever loathe. Will joins the soldiers tasked to regretfully inform the closest relatives of their loved
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product The Twilight Saga: New Moon</title>
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        <i>Twilight</i> sequel rises above expectations...
       
      
        By Edward Adams
      
      
      GENRE: Supernatural teenage drama THE PITCH: To prevent a frenzy for Bella&rsquo;s (Kristen Stewart) blood, the Cullens, including her soulmate Edward (Robert Pattinson), cut all ties and leave Forks, Wash. Devastated Bella eventually turns to longtime friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) to mend her broken heart, unintentionally stoking Jacob&#39;s fiery passion for her and uncovering his true nature. Unable to forget her first love, Bella sets off a reckless chain of events that ultimately sends her on a mission to
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Five Minutes of Heaven goes mano a mano with Northern Ireland conflict</title>
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        Liam Neeson gives a complex performance as a repentant Irish terrorist in an intimate drama from the director of <i>Downfall</i>...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      Even if you&rsquo;ve never heard the name Oliver Hirschbiegel, there&rsquo;s a strong chance you&rsquo;ve seen his work. The German filmmaker directed Downfall, the superb 2004 drama about the Third Reich&#39;s final days. Last year, a clip of Bruno Ganz&rsquo;s Hitler chewing out his underlings became a YouTube hit when an online prankster rewrote the subtitles so the scene depicted then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton raging against her campaign staff. Now you can find dozens of remixes that show Adolf hating on,
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    <category>Movies &amp;amp; TV/Movie Review</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Capsule reviews of recently released films</title>
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      &nbsp;&nbsp;OPENING FRIDAY&nbsp;THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY&nbsp;(R) A sequel to the indie cult-classic The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day&nbsp;continues the saga of the MacManus brothers who have been hiding out in Ireland. &nbsp;They return to Boston to avenge the death of a beloved priest.&nbsp;&nbsp;FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN 3 stars (R) See review.GENTLEMAN BRONCOS (PG-13) Jared Hess, director of&nbsp;Napoleon Dynamite&nbsp;and&nbsp;Nacho Libre&nbsp;visits more badly-dressed social misfits in this tale of a home-schooled would be fantasy author (Michael Angarano) who sees
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Seriocomic Loose Rope seeks bovine intervention</title>
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        Two friends face misadventures in the big city in this likable dramedy...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      Following on the hooves of The Men Who Stare at Goats, the Iranian culture-clash dramedy Loose Rope depicts young fellows transfixed by other kinds of livestock.Part of the High Museum&rsquo;s 12th annual Iranian Film Today series, Loose Rope gets a lot of mileage from the easy interplay of Mikhail and Asgar (Babak Hamidian, Keramat Roudsaz), two pals who deliver animals in the rural outskirts of Tehran. With Mikhail as a mature, ambitious man of few words and Asgar as an
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    <category>Movies &amp;amp; TV/Brief</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Capsule reviews of recently released films</title>
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      &nbsp;&nbsp;OPENING FRIDAY&nbsp;ANTICHRIST 2 stars (NR) See review.&nbsp;THE BOX&nbsp;(PG-13) In this horror/thriller based on a 1970s short story by Richard Matheson, a couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) is visited by a stranger with a mysterious box containing a button. The stranger tells them that if they press the button they will receive $1 million dollars but someone they don&#39;t know will die. They have one choice to make: Should they press the button and risk the consequences?THE DAMNED UNITED 4
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Damned United and An Education pit youthful smarts against English establishment</title>
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        Two terrific English period pieces upend sports, rom-com clichés...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      The establishment seems more firmly established in England than anywhere else. Two terrific new British films depict prodigiously intelligent characters who challenge entrenched English institutions and nearly outsmart themselves along the way. The protagonists of the soccer movie The Damned United and the coming-of-age romance An Education fit in the rebellious, angry young man tradition of English drama &mdash; although Michael Sheen&rsquo;s Brian Clough isn&rsquo;t exactly young, and Carey Mulligan&rsquo;s Jenny is most definitely not a man. Both learn the
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Ben Loeterman appeals The People vs. Leo Frank</title>
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        Loeterman’s half documentary, half re-enactment refreshes Georgia’s most infamous murder trial...
       
      
        By David Lee Simmons
      
      
      The Leo Frank case has been examined and re-examined over the years. It&#39;s been the subject of four film works and numerous books, the most recent of which put into even clearer perspective the trial that eventually re-energized the Ku Klux Klan and emboldened the Anti-Defamation League.So it&#39;s a pleasant surprise that The People vs. Leo Frank &mdash; writer/director Ben Loeterman&rsquo;s half documentary, half re-enactment &mdash; still feels fresh in its depiction of Georgia&rsquo;s most infamous murder trial.Part of it
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Campy White Zombie harks back to pre-Romero living dead</title>
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        Plaza Theatre's Silver Scream Spook Show books cinema's first zombie movie starring Bela Lugosi...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      Zombies have become so popular that the corridors of our pop culture resound with ravenous moans for &ldquo;Braaaiinns!&rdquo; White Zombie, screening Saturday at the Plaza Theatre&rsquo;s Silver Scream Spook Show, offers a kitschy reminder that the living dead weren&rsquo;t always the decomposing cannibals of George Romero.Follow the trail of body parts back a few decades, and you&rsquo;ll find the origins of zombies in Haitian folklore. White Zombie shouldn&#39;t be mistaken for a documentary about voodoo traditions, though. Filmed in 1932
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    <title>Antichrist canonizes genital mutilation</title>
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        Gore and heavy-handed symbolism weigh down Lars von Trier's well-acted portrayal of marital disintegration...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      I can&#39;t truly say I enjoyed watching a man nail his penis to a wooden board in the 1997 documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. I can&rsquo;t even truly say I saw more than brief glimpses before I averted my eyes, as if confronted by a solar eclipse. Nevertheless, the close-up atrocity summed up the obsessions and life experiences of a self-punishing performance artist with a fatal case of cystic fibrosis and a surprisingly tender marriage.Lars
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    <title>Grim Precious treasures passionate actresses</title>
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        Oprah's film has enough sorrow for several Greek tragedies...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      Though only 17 years old, Clareece &ldquo;Precious&rdquo; Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) suffers enough misfortunes for several Greek tragedies remounted in 1987 Harlem. Precious&rsquo; title character endures obesity, illiteracy, a baby with Down syndrome and a sociopathically hostile, selfish mother (Mo&rsquo;Nique) &mdash; and those are just the preliminaries. When Precious gets warmed up, it becomes almost unbearably grim, but its passionate performances raise it above contemporary motivational melodrama clich&eacute;s.Though she can barely read, Precious exhibits a talent for math. When she becomes
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    <title>Too baaad Goats falls flat</title>
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        <i>The Men Who Stare at Goats</i> comedy about psychic soldiers fails to mesh with Iraq War satire...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      The Men Who Stare at Goats begins with a wonderful disclaimer: &ldquo;More of this is true than you would believe.&rdquo; Most films use phrases like &ldquo;Based on a true story&rdquo; or &ldquo;Inspired by actual events&rdquo; as a fig leaf for outrageous liberties with little connection to reality. The real incidents behind The Men Who Stare at Goats indeed seem stranger than fiction, but the demands of formulaic three-act screenwriting sabotage the film&rsquo;s mission.Based on the book of the same name
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    <title>Hollywood Product: A Christmas Carol</title>
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        Disney's remake of a holiday classic hits a flat note...
       
      
        By Edward Adams
      
      
      GENRE: CGI holiday drama THE PITCH: Disney gives Charles Dickens&rsquo; classic holiday tale an animated makeover. Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) is visited by ghosts who show him glimpses of his past, present and future in efforts to save his soul before Christmas. MONEY SHOTS: It&rsquo;s hard to pull away from the visual effects each of the ghosts utilize to show Scrooge various moments in time. Ghost of Christmas Past (Carrey) uses slingshot-ish flight sequences to take Scrooge to parts
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