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  <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Superhero Flick, Cuckold Chick | Able to crush tall buildings in a single reboot]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[So, who knew we needed another Superman origin story? After 2006's Superman Returns turned into box-office kryptonite, one would have thought that Warner Brothers would take pause about giving it another go less than a decade later. But alas, the mega success of the Marvel films (and the name recogn... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Real Life, Fake Strife | Flicks on opposite ends of action and writing spectra]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[True story: My most memorable Greta Gerwig moment involves Ben Stiller going down on her in Noah Baumbach's 2010 dark comedy, Greenberg. It was an awkward scene not only because of its context in the film (Stiller plays an Aspergian mental case who meets the sweetly na&iuml;ve Gerwig and essentially...]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[M. Night's Bad Decade | A dad makes his kid rich, and a doc about the rich]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's pretty rare that an auteur filmmaker with inherent talent who comes out of the gate with a mega-hit winds up flaming out as spectacularly as M. Night Shyamalan has. Everyone loved The Sixth Sense because it was memorable, well-made, creepy and had a great twist ending that became a sort of cult... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Fast Cars and Furious Farmers | Without a strong script, you totally need explosions]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There was a time when the musclehead charms of the Fast &amp; Furious films were lost on me, when I never would have believed that the 2001 original, The Fast and the Furious would spawn five increasingly popular sequels that would (over time) start to grow on me.

That largely had to do with direct... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Star Trek Into Pointless | Plus, The Admiral Twin brings home nostalgia]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[First and foremost, there is a major spoiler in this review.

You have been warned.

Back in 2009, geek-icon J.J. Abrams, already a god amongst genre hounds for the hit television series Alias and Lost, made his first foray into the Star Trek universe. The franchise had grown long of tooth after The... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Animated Pasts | Two period films that abandon routinesBy Joe O'Shansky]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Never, ever underestimate the power of DiCaprio. Women want him, men want to be him, and if he's opening something, even a film as apt toward failure as The Great Gatsby has been three times over (this being the fourth iteration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved novel), then it's a safe bet that asse...]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[An Early, Black Christmas | Breathing new life into a franchise]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Shane Black coming into the Iron Man franchise always sounded like a good idea. You've felt the pen of the famed screenwriter before, in his credited filmography (including the Lethal Weapon franchise, The Long Kiss Goodnight and the geek favorite The Monster Squad) to the many scripts which he's po... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The 2013 Summer Movie Preview | Sequels, reboots and a few films to get excited about]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[May 3

Iron Man 3: The latest annual entry into the Marvel cinemaverse finds our titular hero, Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) protecting the love of his life, Pepper Potts (Gwenyth Paltrow) and the rest of the world from The Mandarin (the decidedly not-Asian Sir Ben Kingsley). The addition of direc... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Nightmares, Dreams and Dreamers | Two films that couldn't be more different]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It was not long after the initial wave of success by the 90s metal band White Zombie that their front man, Rob Zombie, started directing the band's videos. Already possessed of a love of filmmaking (and horror flicks, in particular) Zombie eventually graduated to feature films in 2003 with House of... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Mobius Fates and Political States | Two Very Different Films that Take Scenic Route]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There's something to be said for an unhurried, languorously novelistic film. It shows a confidence on the part of a director and, when done right, pulls you into the world that the storytellers are deftly painting. Even when the pace is unhurried, the narrative current never dives down into the chil... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Here There Be Monsters | Menace overwhelms the blandBy Joe O'Shansky]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There was a typical outcry of geek rage when it was announced that Sam Raimi's low-budget, cult hit The Evil Dead was being remade. It's something that happens over and over when the seminal properties of an American sub-culture get co-opted because of name recognition and a studio betting on an aud...]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Beat This | Counterculture, conflict hit the screen]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jack Kerouac wanted Marlon Brando to play Kerouac's libertine muse, Neal Cassady, all the way back in 1957, for a film adaptation of his seminal Beat novel, On the Road. Vastly influential, Kerouac's book set the tone for a generation of writers, thinkers and dreamers.

A chronicle of the '50s subcu... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Bad Girls | Make for a pretty good movie]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Harmony Korine has always been a divisive filmmaker, at least as far as his 1997 debut film, Gummo, is concerned. A Larry Clark-esque leer at a group of backwoods, Ohio teens -- bored, high and stuck in what seems like the skeeziest ring of Hell, Gummo's guerilla aesthetic and figuratively doomed ch... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[No Laughing Matter | A moving documentary and a subpar comedy]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sometimes people know more about what they are told than what they actually know. It's kind of scary when you think about it, particularly in 2013. So many people engrossed in the day to day of just getting by, sheltered by ideology or walled-off by certainty, don't have the resources or time to be... By Joe O'Shanskey.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Oz the Okay and Passable | Nothing great, but still watchable]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Please, Disney, please don't turn Sam Raimi into Tim Burton. The parallel tales of two highly-stylized, semi-cult filmmakers whose individual visions became progressively more watered down have seemingly collided in the Mouse House. And while Oz the Great and Powerful never even approaches the depth... By Joe O'Shansky.]]></description>
      <category>Cinema/Cinema</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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