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	<title>Star Trek Returns: J&#46;J&#46; Abrams&#39;s latest has plenty of bang&#44; but also rekindles the franchise&#39;s noble roots</title>
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Film: Star Trek&#58; Into Darkness What does it mean to make a Star Trek movie&#63; Director J&#46;J&#46; Abrams skirted this question when he brought the U&#46;S&#46;S&#46; Enterprise back to life four years ago&#44; plotting a new origin story for Captain James T&#46; Kirk that was engorged with interstellar combat&#44; death&#45;defying stunts and an endless parade of fistfights&#46; The revival was a delight&#44; of course &#38;ndash&#59; but at what cost&#63; It seemed less a Star Trek movie than a sci&#45;fi action romp that just happened to be set against a familiar backdrop&#46; Star Trek Into Darkness&#44; presumably Abrams&#39;s last volley in this galaxy before he rockets off to direct a forthcoming Star Wars movie&#44; is innately concerned with these sorts of creeping temptations&#46; While less consistently enjoyable than the last &#38;ndash&#59; and more prone to clumsy narrative lapses &#38;ndash&#59; it challenges militaristic violence with surprisingly thoughtful criticism&#46; Abrams is rekindling the ethnographic idealism that sustained Kirk and crew for nearly half a century&#46; He hasn&#39;t made an outright pacifist movie&#44; but he&#39;s made a sensible one&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Wretched Excess: Baz Luhrmann tromps across Fitzgerald&#39;s &#39;&#39;The Great Gatsby&#44;&#39;&#39; all too eager to interpret subtle tension as over&#45;the&#45;top melodrama</title>
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Film: What kind of maniac tries to adapt The Great Gatsby&#63; Few books are legitimate touchstones in American culture&#44; and for better or for worse&#44; F&#46; Scott Fitzgerald&#39;s sits atop that very short list&#46; It&#39;s a perennial bestseller and a staple of high school English classes across the country&#44; and yet in all of its years&#44; it hasn&#39;t spawned a single decent movie&#46; The Great American Novel can&#39;t seem to inspire The Great American Film&#46; Despite director Baz Luhrmann&#39;s manic attempt to will Fitzgerald&#39;s words to screen&#44; The Great Gatsby &#40;in 3D&#33;&#41; has about as much success fulfilling that wish as its titular&#44; tragic hero does with his own&#46; Both desperately try to recreate a beautiful thing of the past&#44; but only in Luhrmann&#39;s case does failure feel so bloodless and forged&#46; Gatsby meets a tragic end&#44; shot dead in a pool after being abandoned by the love of his life&#46; Luhrmann merely leaves us with a glittery&#44; three&#45;dimensional proscenium and a Jay&#45;Z soundtrack&#46; The Great Gatsby ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Texas Hold &#39;Em: Yen Tan&#39;s &#39;&#39;Pit Stop&#39;&#39; offers a story about rural gay life</title>
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Film: A decade ago&#44; when Texas&#45;based filmmaker Yen Tan regularly commuted between Dallas and Houston&#44; he wondered if he was alone out there&#46; Pit Stop&#58; Marcud DeAnd and Bill Heck &#39;&#39;I would stop at gas stations and wonder if there were gay people living in these small towns between the cities&#44;&#39;&#39; Tan says&#46; His latest film&#44; Pit Stop&#44; reflects what he uncovered&#46; The evocative film tells the fictional story of two gay men struggling to move on from past relationships&#44; each wondering if there&#39;s hope for love again&#46; Played by Bill Heck and Marcus DeAnda&#44; the two men live on opposite sides of the same small town&#46; They only meet during the course of the film for a hookup&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Flash over Substance: All of Iron Man 3&#39;s potential for meaningful moments goes up in a box&#45;office bang</title>
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Film: Let&#39;s just get this out of the way&#58; Robert Downey Jr&#46; is&#44; and always will be&#44; magnificent as Tony Stark&#46; The character&#39;s cocky wit blends so pleasantly with the actor&#39;s anxious charm&#44; it seems impossible to pull one from the other&#46; He clearly relishes the role&#44; and races toward the spotlight it creates with unmatched vigor and enthusiasm&#46; Stark has made Downey millions&#44; but Downey made Stark a cultural icon&#46; He is the reason people will watch Iron Man 3&#44; even when his charisma occasionally fades to shtick&#46; Everything that surrounds him &#45;&#45; or rather&#44; encases him &#45;&#45; is polished&#44; volatile window dressing&#46; At what point&#44; however&#44; does it all become too bloated for him to carry on his own&#63; Iron Man 3 ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Puzzles: &#39;&#39;Trance&#39;&#39; is a sexy&#44; violent revenge fantasy and a letdown from Danny Boyle&#44; while &#39;&#39;Room 237&#39;&#39; guides &#39;&#39;The Shining&#39;&#39; down a loony&#45;tunes path</title>
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Film: I want to like Trance&#46; It&#39;s a mostly good&#45;looking movie&#44; with talented actors and a talented crew&#44; all attempting to do something bold within the confines of a story that&#39;s seemingly generic&#46; This isn&#39;t director Danny Boyle&#39;s most ambitious movie &#45;&#45; not by a long shot &#45;&#45; but it&#39;s no simple feat&#44; either&#46; Trance is a heist movie that aspires toward the taut psychological thriller&#44; and if not for a few gargantuan missteps&#44; it might have straddled the two brilliantly&#46; Trance &#40;Photo by Fox Searchlight Pictures&#41; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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