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		<title>&#8216;The Fifth Patient&#8217; (2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I watched The Fifth Patient, I couldn&#8217;t help but think that the gamesmanship of writer/director Amir Mann resembled that of Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000).  Both films use amnesia as a plot-point and in both films there&#8217;s a point at which overthinking gets in the way of understanding the movie. Nick Chinlund is John Reilly (a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cineblog.us/2010/08/the-fifth-patient-2007/</link>
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		<title>Short Cuts:&#8217;The Honeymoon Killers&#8217; (1969)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freaky. They refer to Albany N.Y. as &#8216;the big city&#8217; here. If you aren&#8217;t aware of the plot, it&#8217;s a late, experimental variation on noir, about 2 grifters in the Hustler-Older Woman game. For reasons that seem to make no amount of sense, real life con-artists/lovers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez posed as brother and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cineblog.us/2010/08/short-cutsthe-honeymoon-killers-1969/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Lists: 2000-2010 &#8211; Sci-Fi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just this past week, I stated seeing &#8216;Best of&#8217; lists all over the place, specifically, the &#8216;Best&#8217; science-fiction of the last decade. Typically, such all of the lists I found looked something like this: 1. &#8216;Children of Men&#8217; 2. &#8216;Moon&#8217; 3. &#8216;District 9&#8242; 4. &#8216;A Scanner Darkly&#8217; 5. &#8216;Avatar&#8217; 6. &#8216;Donnie Darko&#8217; 7. &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Predators&#8217; (2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw it and I was impressed. And I say that as someone who falls squarely on the Alien side of the fence when it comes to &#8217;80s high-concept horror. The problem with both previous Predator flicks were that there was very little high-concept. In both preceding entries (Predator and Predator 2), the Predators and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Shutter Island&#8217; (2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[WARNING:Uncharacteristically, this review is all SPOILERS, but this film is so well put together that you should consider my spoilers a feature, rather than a bug.] Operation Paperclip Nazis working in criminal sanitariums off the coast of Washington State? Mind control? A WWII veteran and widower with PTSD? Visuals by David Lynch. It&#8217;s 1951 in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cineblog.us/2010/06/shutter-island-2010/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Watchmen&#8217; (2009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the publication of Watchmen in 1985, comic books took a sudden, dark and grity turn, similar to police drama after Steven Bochco&#8217;s &#8216;Hill Street Blues&#8217;. Like Grant Morrison&#8217;s &#8216;Doom Patrol&#8216;, and later, &#8216;The Authority&#8216; and Marvel&#8217;s &#8216;Ultimates&#8216;, &#8216;Watchmen&#8217;, the book is not about about capes and tights, but rather the misfits who choose to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cineblog.us/2010/02/watchmen-2009-4/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Pandorum&#8217; (2009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s unofficial, but the disappointment that was &#8216;Event Horizon&#8217; (1997) now has a sequel. The misguided mash-up that resulted in Hellraiser &#8212; in Space&#8230; by Executive producers Paul W.S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt have now given us Alien-meets-Serenity-meets-The Descent-meets-Defying Gravity-meets-2001:A Space Odyssey-meets-The Abyss-meets-Cube-meets-Sunshine, allowing the worst aspects of each film a moment for a pirouette [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cineblog.us/2009/09/pandorun-2009/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;District 9&#8242; (2009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All the reports that I&#8217;ve read have said that director Neill Blomkamp and Wingnut Films elected to do &#8216;District 9&#8242; while they were in a holding pattern while they were waiting on a green light from Microsoft to do a live-action adaptation of the Halo video-game. Imagine a couple million dollars of filmmaking equipment, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cineblog.us/2009/08/district-9-2009/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Up&#8217;* (2009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pixar&#8217;s tenth film in 15 years, &#8216;Up&#8217; charms with its tale of Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner (voice)), an old man befuddled and disgusted by the changes around him, and Russell (Jordan Nagai (voice)), a wilderness scout bent on earning his last badge for &#8220;assisting the elderly.&#8221; Threatened with the forcible removal from his house, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&#8217; (2009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t read &#8216;X-Men&#8217; as a kid (I was more of a &#8216;Fantastic Four&#8217; nerd myself) so I can only judge this film based on how well it hews to the bible it has already set up in the first three &#8216;X-Men&#8217; films. By that standard, &#8216;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&#8217; succeeds&#8230;mostly. Wolverine is by far one [...]]]></description>
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