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	<title>The Lonely Guy: The American is less about action and thrills and more about one lonely man questioning his life&#39;s choices</title>
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Film: The American&#46; It&#39;s rather a bland title&#46; But if you bring a star&#39;s name into it &#45;&#45; for example&#44; &#39;&#39;George Clooney is&#38;hellip&#59;The American&#39;&#39; &#45;&#45; you get a bit of a rush&#46; But it still seems understated&#46; And if you look at the marketing for the film &#38;ndash&#59; the trailer is filled with drawn guns&#44; scantily clad women&#44; and ominous men lurking in shadows &#38;ndash&#59; you wonder why it&#39;s not The Assassin&#46; Why pick the milquetoast title instead&#63; Because it fits the film&#46; The American &#40;Photo by Giles Keyte&#41; Jack &#40;Clooney&#41; is a hatchet man&#46; But instead of flying around on airplanes firing people&#44; he fires at them&#46; When&#44; in the film&#39;s opening moments&#44; a pair of Swedes attacks trained assassin Jack&#44; his methodical and sure&#45;handed elimination of the would&#45;be killers will make you think that Jason Bourne&#39;s brother has been hiding in the snowy mountains of Italy&#46; However&#44; after this brisk slaughter of rival professionals&#44; Jack becomes a little more meek&#46; Aided by a handler Pavel &#40;Johan Leysen&#41;&#44; Jack seeks sanctuary in a tiny Italian town where he can pass the nights in a diner&#44; question whether his soul can be saved&#44; and dispatch the occasional man&#46; Call it Eat Pray Kill&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Pilgrimage: Based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O&#39;Malley&#44; Scott Pilgrim vs&#46; the World is every dork&#39;s wet dream</title>
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Film: In Shaun of the Dead&#44; director Edgar Wright reanimated the zombie movie&#44; and in Hot Fuzz he blew up action film stereotypes&#44; both with hilarious results&#46; Now&#44; with Scott Pilgrim vs&#46; the World&#44; he&#39;s trying to put the joy back in joystick and restyle video games as hip and cool&#46; Flashy&#44; yet familiar&#58; Cera Scott Pilgrim &#40;Michael Cera&#41; is a slacker &#38;ndash&#59; listless&#44; moping through life&#44; and far from the model of masculinity&#46; Thankfully he&#39;s in a band &#45;&#45; it&#39;s about the only cool thing he&#39;s got going&#46; &#40;At least his high school&#45;aged girlfriend &#38;ndash&#59; he&#39;s 23&#44; she&#39;s 17 &#38;ndash&#59; thinks it&#39;s cool&#46;&#41; To make matters worse&#44; Scott is sharing his bed with his gay roommate Wallace &#40;Kieran Culkin&#41;&#44; and there&#39;s nothing like seeing how often your gay roommate is getting laid to remind you how often you&#39;re not&#46; Yet somehow Scott&#39;s endless stammering and boyish charm catches the eye of new hottie Ramona Flowers &#40;Mary Elizabeth Winstead&#41;&#46; However&#44; there&#39;s always a demon to slay&#46; For Mario to get Princess Toadstool&#44; he had to contend with Bowser&#46; For Scott to get Ramona&#44; it&#39;s seven evil exes&#46; Based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O&#39;Malley&#44; Scott Pilgrim vs&#46; the World is every dork&#39;s wet dream&#46; The hot girl is obtainable&#44; superpowers do exist&#44; and you get to play bass guitar in a band&#46; So it should come as no surprise that there&#39;s no sense of reality in the film&#46; In Scott&#39;s world&#44; the surreal is blended with the real &#38;ndash&#59; like a video game&#46; Scott can survive being thrown across a field into the side of a castle and still be able to kiss the girl&#46; And&#44; when he defeats someone&#44; they turn into quarters &#38;ndash&#59; great for video games or laundry day&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Life Changing: Ryan Murphy&#39;s movie adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert&#39;s Eat Pray Love promises to transport you&#44; if not transform you</title>
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Film: Who should star in a movie about your life&#63; Inspirational writer Elizabeth Gilbert now joins Erin Brockovich in getting to say Julia Roberts&#46; Eat Pray Love &#40;Photo by F&#46; Duhamel&#41; Often found in the Religion &#38; Spirituality section of the bookstore&#44; Gilbert&#39;s 2006 memoir&#44; Eat Pray Love&#44; has urged millions&#44; mostly women&#44; to dream of changing their lives in profound ways&#46; Those who have imagined following her lead but who haven&#39;t booked that trip yet can now get one step closer to recreating her life&#45;changing experience by seeing the film&#44; which promises to transport you if not transform you&#46; Recently divorced and desperate to break her pattern of serial relationships&#44; Gilbert packs her belongings into storage and begins a year&#45;long&#44; three&#45;country quest to learn about herself through different cultures&#46; Director Ryan Murphy&#44; creator of Glee and Nip&#47;Tuck&#44; leaves behind all the sarcasm and angst that these shows are renowned for to create a movie that&#39;s simply told and completely earnest&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Salt Deficiency: Very little makes Salt stand out from other spy&#45;espionage&#45;conspiracy films&#44; except its star Angelina Jolie</title>
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Film: There is a type of book that only seems appropriate to buy in airports&#46; Typically it&#39;s filled with action scenes&#44; very little character development&#44; writing simple enough that you can skim it&#44; and it has to be something you can leave in the seatback at the end of the flight&#46; Also&#44; often about 50 pages in&#44; you find yourself wondering if you haven&#39;t read it already&#46; Salt &#40;Photo by Andrew Schwartz&#41; The new Angelina Jolie vehicle&#44; Salt&#44; is the cinematic equivalent of that book&#46; Very little makes it stand out from other spy&#45;espionage&#45;conspiracy films&#44; except its lead star&#46; Evelyn Salt &#40;Jolie&#41; is strong&#45;willed&#44; beautiful&#44; inexplicably blond&#44; and can remain tight&#45;lipped under torture&#46; Two years after a brief and bloody opening scene set in North Korea&#44; Salt seems to have recovered from her time in captivity and created a life in the District with her arachnologist husband &#40;August Diehl&#41;&#46; After expressing an interest to leave CIA fieldwork behind&#44; Salt takes on the equivalent of &#39;&#39;one last assignment&#39;&#39; by agreeing to interview a possible Russian defector &#40;Daniel Olbrychski&#41;&#46; She&#39;s thrown for a loop when he implies that she&#39;s a double agent&#44; and she runs when the Agency turns against her&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Camp Celluloid: Atlas Summer film series celebrates camp classics</title>
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Film: &#39;&#39;The first time I ever went out in drag was as Patty Duke&#46; So I have this thing&#46;&#39;&#39; That &#39;&#39;thing&#39;&#39; is why Valley of the Dolls is one of Scott Kenison&#39;s favorites among films he helped select for the Atlas Performing Arts Center&#39;s &#39;&#39;Gay 101&#39;&#39; film series&#46; Others in the Thursday night summer series include Where The Boys Are&#44; All About Eve&#44; Cabaret&#44; Mommie Dearest and Steel Magnolias&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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