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		<title>Hirsch&#8217;s Bully Reviewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi -  The documentary Bully opens with footage of David Long of Murray County, Georgia watching home video footage of his son, Tyler. Initially, David claims, Tyler was a bright and vibrant little boy. But as he grew older, something in him changed. He became more and more withdrawn from other kids his age, preferring to be alone. Gradually, David and his wife, Tina, became aware that he was being picked on in school. In all likelihood, they didn’t know the full extent of their son’s physical and emotional torment until after he committed suicide in October of 2009. He was only seventeen years old. “If there is a heaven,” says David, bravely keeping his emotions in check, “I know that Tyler’s there. What keeps me going is the blind faith that I’ll see him again. That, and my wife and my other kids.” The Longs take action, organizing a town-hall meeting to address the ways in which the school system failed to protect their son. Later in the film, we meet Perkins, Oklahoma residents Kirk and Laura Smalley as they attend the funeral of their eleven-year-old son, Ty, who also committed suicide after years of bullying. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrath of the Titans &#8211; Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi - I think what I appreciated most about Wrath of the Titans is that, unlike its 2010 predecessor, I wasn’t forced into making comparisons between versions. Clash of the Titans was, of course, a remake of the 1981 film of the same name. Many people thought I was insane for liking that film. Many more were angry that I had the gall to say the remake was better than the original. As much as I don’t like to fan flames, there’s really no getting around this: It was better. It utilized actors capable of real acting, thereby giving performances that were decent. Its plot, while silly, was vastly more entertaining. And there’s absolutely no convincing me that Ray Harryhausen’s crude, amateurish claymation effects can even remotely hold a candle to the slick, smooth CGI available to us today. The 1981 film was thirty years too early. Now we have Wrath of the Titans, and because it’s a sequel and not a remake, all the pressures that come with distinguishing one version from another have been taken off me. I was free to enjoy the film for being no more or less than what it was: A fun and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detachment: Film Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi -  I had no idea how ill prepared I was to experience Detachment. Here is a film that plunges headfirst into the depths of disillusionment, despair, and failure and almost never resurfaces for air. You will experience emotions normally repressed during movie watching. You will be saddened, shocked, and above all, angered. You will see things you wouldn’t ever want to see and hear things that should never be heard. You will wade through a sea of bleakness, desperately searching for some small shred of hope to cling on to. At the end of it all, you will be so psychologically drained that, for a time, it may seem as if you will never be happy again. At the same time, you will also get to thinking, and that’s exactly why I’m recommending this movie so highly. &#160; A few months ago, I snubbed my nose at the critically acclaimed thriller The Grey, an equally hopeless and depressing but also nihilistic story about men who must fight against wolves, and themselves, in the snowy Alaskan wilderness. Unlike that film, which reduced its compelling ideas into a cheap and shallow thriller, Detachment uses its desperation and despondency to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies: The Hunger Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi -   That The Hunger Games is so timely and intelligent is precisely the reason why it’s also so frightening. It depicts a time and place in which the failures of mass society are exploited for the entertainment of the privileged few. In this case, it’s in the form of an annual competition to the death, one that’s captured via hidden cameras and aired for the rest of the world to see. Whatever they call it in this alternate reality, it would be called reality TV in ours. Thank God, we have not devolved to the point of watching people kill each other. We have, however, sunk to some pretty low depths. We celebrate people like Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsay, who achieve notoriety by being bullies. We watch as groups of men or women vie for a marriage proposal from a woman or man they know nothing about. We witness Kim Kardashian earn millions for doing nothing, apart from looking beautiful. &#160; Adapted from the novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games is set in an unspecified future time, at which point a new nation has developed from the wreckage of North America. This nation is presided over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Movies: Casa de Mi Padre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi -  Casa de Mi Padre is the most tedious film of its kind since MacGruber – a strained effort that has little to go on apart from its one-joke premise, namely a Spanish-language American production that parodies Mexican telenovelas. When it had finally gone through all of its eighty-four minutes (which, by all accounts, is a very short running time), I had the unshakable feeling that the exact same story could have been told as a five-minute Saturday Night Live skit, one that might not have been funnier but at least would not have its visual and verbal gags stretched beyond the breaking point. Watching this movie plod through its tiresome, repetitive, and occasionally self-referential scenes is a little like trying to drive cross-country on only a quarter tank of gas. It could be that I’m not the right person to review this movie. As someone who hasn’t seen a single telenovela, from Mexico or any other Latin American country, I probably failed to notice the ways in which their plot devices were satirized in Casa de Mi Padre. Having said that, I did catch onto several non-cultural, non-genre specific cinematic spoofs, including intentional continuity errors, grainy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21 Jump Street Reviewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi -  21 Jump Street treads on thin ice in an early scene where it’s explained that the police department has revived a specialty division that started in the 1980s, that it’s part of a trend of resurrecting and modernizing old programs due to a lack of original ideas, and that they’re hoping the public won’t notice. Nothing threatens to ruin a movie faster than winking at the audience in a showy display of self-referential humor. Fortunately, the filmmakers had the foresight to get this out of the way as quickly as possible. The rest of the film is a surprisingly entertaining romp, one that has an emotional core despite being pervasively crude and at times highly violent. The filmmakers even work in two unexpected but very welcome cameo appearances. No, I won’t say who makes them. Full disclosure: I have not watched a single episode of the original TV series. According to Wikipedia, it was a police drama in which young-looking undercover police officers infiltrated high schools and colleges to investigate crimes. Thankfully, that tidbit of information tells me everythingI need to know. Although utilizing the exact same premise, this film adaptation has been transformed from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review &#8211; Kid with a Bike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi - If The Kid with a Bike were an English language film, chances are it would be structured so that the title character wouldn’t find his father until the end, at which point there would be some kind of emotional climax and narrative resolution. But this French-speaking drama is directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and his brother, Luc, who are known for stark, naturalistic films devoid of sentiment. Through their telling of The Kid with a Bike, the title character finds his father within the first third, at which point it’s made abundantly clear that the latter wants absolutely nothing to do with the former. The kid must therefore navigate the rest of the film in search of an entirely different emotional climax – assuming that there is one to find. Even if there is, it will not present itself in a moment of sweeping melodrama. The kid’s name is Cyril (Thomas Doret), a troubled eleven-year-old boy in foster care. He refuses to believe that his father would simply abandon him, despite the fact that he has never called, visited, or even lived up to his promise of returning for him after only one month. In the opening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: The Decoy Bride</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi -   The Decoy Bride is a romantic comedy, so already you know that there’s nothing particularly original about the story. Then again, there’s nothing particularly original about most stories, so what I’m I complaining about? As with most such films, what it lacks in breaking new ground is made up for in humor, warmth, and the charm of the actors, all of whom have decent onscreen chemistry. And despite the filmmakers’ best efforts to depict a Scottish isle as rainy, gray, and almost entirely devoid of modern life, its green pastures and craggy seaside cliff defy the drabness. Most of the locations are quaint, in that irresistible old world kind of way. The only exception is an isolated bathroom stall, which, according to local legend, is haunted. It looks like it barely survived a nuclear holocaust. Two characters are established during their own opening segments. The first is Katie Nic Aodh (Kelly MacDonald). She returns to her home village, the isolated island of Hegg, after a disastrous breakup with her fiancé. On the basis of how the locals speak in her presence, it would seem that this isn’t the first time this has happened to her. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: Silent House</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi -  For the first hour or so if it’s highly publicized eighty-eight minutes, Silent House had me hook, line, and sinker. But then I reached the climactic surprise twist, and something changed. In part, it had to do with not wanting the mystery to be solved; I appreciate a good explanation as much as the next moviegoer, but I also believe that situations are infinitely more frightening when they happen for no apparent reason. Mostly, however, it had to do with characterization and logistics, neither of which made it seem likely that the story could lead to this particular turn of events. I’m not going to say that the filmmakers cheated, since the intention was to make a psychological thriller. I will say that, given what had already transpired, they didn’t try hard enough with the ending. &#160; Having said this, I refuse to forget about the events leading up to the ending. In my humble opinion, the first hour of Silent House represents some truly great horror filmmaking. The big selling point is that it consists of one continuous, uninterrupted shot, allowing the story to unfold in real time. While I initially dismissed this as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: A Thousand Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Chris Pandolfi -  A Thousand Words is a film that strains mightily to be both funny and heartfelt but never manages to be either. And yet, like an underachieving high school student, I could see the potential. I just know that buried somewhere within this narrative catastrophe is a rich, complex fable with the power to register emotionally. The points are all there; what’s missing is an appropriate, plausible way to make them. This could explain why the film was shelved after principal photography wrapped in 2008. The official reason for the delayed release is that it got lost in the shuffle when DreamWorks separated from Paramount and Viacom. While I have no doubt that this was a contributing factor, I can’t help but feel that the film itself created a whole host of problems, ones the producers were worried couldn’t be fixed. If this is the case, then it turns out they were right. It tells the story of Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy), a Los Angeles literary agent. He’s mean-spirited, demanding, and manipulative, and he talks nonstop at a hundred miles an hour. He’s also a workaholic, although he makes it a point to not read the manuscripts [...]]]></description>
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