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		<title>Iron Man 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<i>Iron Man 3</i> kicks off what Marvel Studios has dubbed Phase 2 of their superhero series after Phase 1 successfully concluded with last years <i>The Avengers</i>.  It is fitting that Phase 2 should kick off with a new Iron Man movie since it was the 2008 original that first kicked off the series.  Jon Favreau, the director of the first two films, takes a back seat here as a supporting player and hands over the reins to writer/director Shane Black.  Black previously worked with star Robert Downey Jr. on 2005’s <i>Kiss Kiss Bang Bang</i> and he puts his stamp on the franchise early as Downey opens the film with a voiceover narration that sounds suspiciously similar to the one from their previous film together.]]></description>
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		<title>Pain &#038; Gain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After exploding and demolishing everything he could over the past six years with his <i>Transformers</i> films, director Michael Bay decided to scale it back some.  The result is <i>Pain &#038; Gain</i>, a low-budget—by Bay’s standards—black comedy based on an outlandish true crime story, which proves that Bay can still tell a story with human characters and not just robots.  Well, human may be somewhat of a stretch.  The three main characters of <i>Pain &#038; Gain</i> are members of the human race, for sure, but they are so far out there it is hard to imagine them being based on real people.]]></description>
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		<title>Oblivion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on his own graphic novel, director Joseph Kosinski’s new movie <i>Oblivion</i> is, by all accounts, a post-apocalyptic tale.  But just watching the trailer for the movie one can easily find one obvious difference between it and other movies dealing with life after an apocalyptic event: it’s bright!  Usually these movies are dark, taking place under a scorched sky as gray as the ash that is constantly falling.  That is not the case in <i>Oblivion</i> and you might not even know that a devastating event had taken place were it not for the now mostly buried New York landmarks sticking out of the desert floor.]]></description>
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		<title>42</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been nearly 66 years to the day that Jackie Robinson first stepped onto the field as a Brooklyn Dodger, breaking major league baseball’s color barrier, so it’s fair to say that <i>42</i> is a movie that is long overdue.  It is only the second big screen movie about the life of the only man whose jersey number is retired across all of major league baseball and the first since 1950, when the hall-of-famer was still young enough to star as himself.  The film is a relatively safe biography, but a loving salute to a man who faced more adversity in one year than most of us will face in our lifetimes.]]></description>
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		<title>Room 237</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching <i>Room 237</i> is like listening to the late night radio talk shows where listeners call in with outlandish conspiracy theories that at first sound ridiculous, only to progressively make more sense the longer you listen.  The movie that is called a documentary, but isn’t really, dissects legendary director Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror movie <i>The Shining</i> from the perspective of five or six unseen narrators who have seemingly spent their entire lives pouring over the movie looking for hidden meaning.  The result is a fascinating analysis of a movie that definitely appears to be more than it seems.]]></description>
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		<title>Olympus has Fallen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this age of incredibly realistic-looking special effects that can convince audiences that super heroes live among us and the major studios’ desire to appeal to wider audiences (read: maintain a PG-13 rating), there is a certain kind of movie that we just don’t see that often anymore: the violent and bloody action thriller for adults.  These movies were hugely popular in the eighties and nineties, but have all but disappeared in the new millennium.  Heck, even the Bourne movies were rated PG-13.  Sure, we get the occasional throwback like <i>The Expendables</i>, but few that take themselves seriously.  <i>Olympus has Fallen</i> does take itself seriously... even if that is sometimes a little too seriously.
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		<title>Admission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a movie that strives for both comedy and drama, <i>Admission</i> has some good talent both in front of and behind the camera.  The movie is directed by Paul Weitz, who co-helmed <i>About a Boy</i>, and it stars Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, two comic actors who have had some decent success in recent years.  Unfortunately, in attempting to provide both comic and dramatic elements, the movie ends up somewhere in between the two; giving us neither enough comedy, nor enough drama.  The result is a movie that just kind of sits there, giving us very little to take away from it.]]></description>
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		<title>Oz the Great and Powerful</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Any movie inspired by L. Frank Baum’s <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i> is immediately behind the eight ball because the definitive film version already exists.  It’s impossible to think of Oz without visualizing the beloved 1939 Judy Garland classic, despite the fact that there have been many versions since.  The latest attempt is Sam Raimi’s <i>Oz the Great and Powerful</i>, which takes the never-before-tried approach of telling the story of how the Wizard first found himself in the land that shares his name.  It’s the Wizard’s origin story, so to speak, and it’s gloriously filmed and quite entertaining.]]></description>
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		<title>Jack the Giant Slayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Walls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It may not be time for the summer blockbusters yet, but the release of <i>Jack the Giant Slayer</i> certainly marks the beginning of what might now be called the spring blockbuster season.  It used to be commonly accepted that the big budget movies didn’t hit theaters until May, but over the past few years, movies like <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> and <i>The Hunger Games</i> have made the month of March a popular one to release big budget spectacles.  <i>Jack</i> certainly has all the elements: a fantasy story, plenty of action mixed with comedy, and lots and lots of computerized effects.]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Day to Die Hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detective John McClane’s world is ever-expanding.  After first being trapped in an office building, he was then granted an entire airport to roam and destroy, followed by the entirety of New York City, and then most of the Eastern Seaboard.  Now in his fifth cinematic outing, A <i>Good Day to Die Hard</i>, he is thrown into an entirely different country... much to the chagrin of innocent Russian motorists who are about to find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.]]></description>
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