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	<title>Moon Men: The Twilight Saga&#58; New Moon presents a clash between the book&#39;s self&#45;righteous morals and movie marketing</title>
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Film: Better than the first one&#46; Still sucks&#46; That&#39;s the distilled version for those who are sick and tired of hearing about &#34;The Twilight Saga&#34; and vampires &#40;other than True Blood&#44; of course&#41; and debates over which side you play for &#45;&#45; Team Edward or Team Jacob&#46; Taylor Lautner Everything about New Moon&#44; the second film based on Stephanie Meyer&#39;s Twilight book series&#44; screams self&#45;awareness&#46; The first time Edward &#40;Robert Pattinson&#41; appears on the screen&#44; he&#39;s walking across a parking lot and a slow&#44; knowing grin crosses his face&#46; It&#39;s like he can hear the girls screaming at the top of their lungs in the theater&#46; Boys are all that&#39;s needed to make New Moon&#39;s audience come back for more &#45;&#45; and the film delivers in spades&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Tears Worth Shedding: Precious documents an adolescent life in a hellish world&#44; yanking on heartstrings and finding hope in the end</title>
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Film: When it comes to the word precious and movies&#44; it&#39;s tough not to think of a kidnapped girl trapped in a hole trying to lure a small dog over the edge&#46; &#39;&#39;Here Precious&#44;&#39;&#39; she calls out in The Silence of the Lambs&#44; a movie still terrifying today&#46; While vastly different films&#44; Precious is just as frightening&#44; and the title character suffers just as much as that poor&#44; kidnapped woman&#46; In fact&#44; it&#39;s arguably worse to watch Precious&#39;s plight&#44; for she&#39;s a captive of not just one lunatic&#44; but her family&#44; a city&#39;s bureaucracy&#44; and her own&#44; crippling self&#45;doubt&#46; Precious The full title of the film is Precious&#58; Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire&#44; but the phrase &#39;&#39;Presented by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry&#39;&#39; receives equal billing in the advertising&#46; If this seems like name&#45;dropping&#44; after seeing the film&#44; you&#39;ll understand why they want to put their stamp of approval on it&#46; It&#39;s one of those rare films not weighed down by its enormous buzz&#46; The viewer&#39;s only dilemma is that it&#39;s so tough to watch&#44; you can only hope that it&#39;s worth the tears&#46; It is&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Parting Glances: Michael Jackson&#39;s This Is It is nothing less than a gift to fans&#44; allowing a rare glimpse at Jackson the mortal</title>
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Film: Even in his final days&#44; Michael Jackson&#39;s crotch grabs were awkward and excessive&#46; And the man came across as a bit creepy and gangly &#38;ndash&#59; he was a pale&#44; ghostly&#44; gaunt figure in the last decades of his real life&#44; not just in Thriller&#46; This is It This Is It&#44; the documentary film about what was to have been a final series of concerts from Jackson&#44; doesn&#39;t gloss over his flaws and foibles&#46; Instead&#44; the real Jackson emerges&#44; warts and all&#46; &#40;Not all his warts&#44; of course&#58; The repeated allegations and scandals of improper behavior with children have no place being discussed here&#44; and they&#39;re not&#46;&#41; You might not have been fully aware of it&#44; but Jackson had a touch of the diva in him&#44; too&#58; He was a perfectionist to his core&#44; though an exceedingly polite one&#44; always expressing his strong convictions and demands as nicely as possible&#46; Early on in the film&#44; Jackson tells his bass guitarist that the groove he&#39;s playing isn&#39;t funky enough&#46; &#39;&#39;It&#39;s all from love&#44;&#39;&#39; Jackson says after lodging his critique&#46; At another point&#44; the sound is too loud in his ear&#46; Jackson asks his production crew to turn it down a notch&#44; but not without adding that he&#39;s making the request &#39;&#39;with love&#46; L&#45;O&#45;V&#45;E&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Freak Show: The Vampire&#39;s Assistant tries to be funny&#44; dark&#44; lighthearted and macabre &#45;&#45; all at once&#46;</title>
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Film: As the vampire&#45;version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#39;s Willow liked to say&#44; &#39;&#39;Bored now&#46;&#39;&#39; Maybe that&#39;s not completely true for every minute of Cirque du Freak&#58; The Vampire&#39;s Assistant&#44; but it certainly applies more often than not&#46; Continuing the trend of digging up anything vampire&#45;related and dragging old texts into the light of day&#44; Darren Shen&#39;s &#34;Cirque du Freak&#34; series&#44; first published in the UK in 2000&#44; has been updated for the post&#45;Twilight world&#46; The Vampire&#39;s Assistant&#44; not to be confused with the television show The Vampire Diaries&#44; also based on books aimed at teens a decade ago&#44; tries to be funny&#44; dark&#44; lighthearted&#44; and macabre &#45;&#45; all at once&#46; As with any project that attempts to be all things to all people&#44; it has its moments of success and its moments of failure&#46; Cirque du Freak&#58; The Vampire&#38;rsquo&#59;s Assistant Darren &#40;Chris Massoglia&#41; is your typical good kid&#44; while his best friend Steve &#40;Josh Hutcherson&#41; is the bad influence&#46; But you wouldn&#39;t know these distinctions when the duo sneaks out to attend the traveling freak show&#44; and one steals a spider while the other begs to be turned into a vampire&#46; In their tiny little town&#44; once quaint but now surrounded by strip malls&#44; the supernatural almost seems natural&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Ungrateful Dead: Zombieland is so entertaining it&#39;s hard to care about the huge plot holes&#44; while Fame is a useless&#44; pointless wreck</title>
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Film: I&#39;m gonna live forever&#46; Baby remember my name&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; In a cutthroat world where luck is just as important as skill&#44; only a few survive&#46; And when every day is a struggle&#44; the hope of finding some happiness along the way just seems unobtainable&#46; Yet it&#39;s this one simple&#44; common goal &#45;&#45; wanting to make it in a world that&#39;s harsh and unforgiving &#45;&#45; that unites a group of strangers&#46; No&#44; they&#39;re not a bunch high school kids at a performing arts school&#46; They&#39;re the sole survivors of the human race when everyone else is either dead or the living dead&#46; Zombieland Columbus &#40;Jesse Eisenberg&#41; thinks he&#39;s alone in the world after an infected gas&#45;station hamburger sets off a chain reaction resulting in zombies taking over the world&#46; Only a shotgun and a long list of rules &#38;ndash&#59; plus irritable bowel syndrome &#38;ndash&#59; is keeping him alive&#46; So when Columbus meets up with odd duck Tallahassee &#40;Woody Harrelson&#41;&#44; he decides that a crazy companion is better than no companion at all&#46; Each is called by his destination city &#38;ndash&#59; because learning someone&#39;s name just makes losing them to a zombie more painful &#38;ndash&#59; but really they&#39;re aimless&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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