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	<title>Daily Trojan &#187; Film</title>
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		<title>Stars brings endearing quality to film’s cliché premise</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/09/07/stars-brings-endearing-quality-to-film%e2%80%99s-cliche-premise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drew Barrymore and Justin Long lead a cast of quirky, hilarious characters.]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Rodriguez’s film delivers imaginative action</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/09/07/robert-rodriguez%e2%80%99s-film-delivers-imaginative-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[danny trejo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jan brewer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[machete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert rodriguez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machete features a creative cast, bloody scenes and obvious political statements. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wacky characters and plot infuse life into movie</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/09/02/wacky-characters-and-plot-infuse-life-into-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soul Kitchen focuses on restaurant-owner Zinos’ many  recently formed complications. ]]></description>
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		<title>Latest from Pixar is a real keeper</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/06/22/latest-from-pixar-is-a-real-keeper/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/06/22/latest-from-pixar-is-a-real-keeper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[toy story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that the only thing the gifted storytellers at Pixar Animation Studios can do better than craft a gorgeous and heartfelt narrative is introduce new strains of guilt to moviegoers.]]></description>
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		<title>Remake of hit show from the 1980s misses the mark</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/06/15/remake-of-hit-show-from-the-1980s-misses-the-mark/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/06/15/remake-of-hit-show-from-the-1980s-misses-the-mark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the A-Team]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood has been catering to 1980s nostalgics lately. With its recent remakes of and belated sequels to ’80s films, Hollywood has been looking backwards, hoping to capitalize on childhood nostalgia with increased ticket sales. The latest example of this trend is Joe Carnahan’s The A-Team, and while it might not be the finest film ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spin-off fails to recapture Brand’s eccentric humor</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/06/08/spin-off-fails-to-recapture-brand%e2%80%99s-eccentric-humor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Forgetting Sarah Marshall made for another hit in the series of Judd Apatow-produced comedies. Penned by star Jason Segel, the film introduced audiences to the rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand). With its witty jokes and subtle gags, Forgetting Sarah Marshall proved hilarious and showcased Brand’s scene-stealing Aldous as a breakout character. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disney action-adventure flick falls short of precedent</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/06/01/disney-action-adventure-flick-falls-short-of-precedent/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/06/01/disney-action-adventure-flick-falls-short-of-precedent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[prince of persia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dailytrojan.com/?p=14601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From its aggressive advertising campaign to the conspicuous use of a colon in its title, it’s obvious that Disney hopes to create another Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster franchise like Pirates of the Caribbean with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The May 28 release combines flashy visual effects, chiseled muscles and vaguely Arabic imagery to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No fairy tale ending for film franchise</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/05/25/no-fairy-tale-ending-for-film-franchise/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/05/25/no-fairy-tale-ending-for-film-franchise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Friday’s release of Shrek Forever After — according to the film’s promotional subtitle, “The Final Chapter” in the hugely profitable four-part franchise — DreamWorks proves itself not above kicking a dead donkey. Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas return to give voice to their now-familiar characters in the fourth installment in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reprise pairing of actor and director works again</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/05/18/reprise-pairing-of-actor-and-director-works-again/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/05/18/reprise-pairing-of-actor-and-director-works-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 01:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago this month, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, that year’s Academy Award winner for best picture, first appeared in theaters. So if Friday’s release of Robin Hood — another action-adventure period piece starring notoriously temperamental Australian thespian Russell Crowe, with Scott again at the directorial helm — awakens in you an uneasy sense of decadal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korean western film takes pastiche to another level</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/28/korean-western-film-takes-pastiche-to-another-level/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/28/korean-western-film-takes-pastiche-to-another-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dailytrojan.com/?p=14334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Good, the Bad, the Weird really moves. Oozing style from every frame, Kim Jee-woon’s Korean western starts with a thrilling train robbery in Japanese-occupied China and rarely slows down. Here is a film that understands the simple pleasure of a moving camera and moving characters. Kim’s movie is an absurd, gorgeous mash-up of Western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indie film Paper Man should be recycled</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/27/indie-film-paper-man-should-be-recycled/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/27/indie-film-paper-man-should-be-recycled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paper Man is a movie about emptiness. Though it’s not really a good film, it’s not really a bad one either, and that might be the point. Jeff Daniels plays Richard, the film’s main character who has a few problems. He is trying to write a novel after the complete failure of his last one, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Action film blends humor and smarts</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/25/action-film-blends-humor-and-smarts/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/25/action-film-blends-humor-and-smarts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[andy diggle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you do to get your life back? Would you steal it? The Losers would. For the special operations team codenamed “the Losers,” it was an average mission — survey an arms dealer’s Bolivian compound for an air strike and come back home. When its CIA handler Max (Jason Patric) betrays it, though, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remake gives Death new life</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/19/remake-gives-death-new-life/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/19/remake-gives-death-new-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With uniqely American humor, Death at a Funeral makes the dark comedy accessible for all.]]></description>
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		<title>In Theaters Today</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/15/in-theaters-today-10/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/15/in-theaters-today-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kick Ass Directed by Matthew Vaughn, this parody of the superhero genre is based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita. Aaron Johnson plays a teenager pondering the life of a superhero and ends up joining forces with superheroes Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and his daughter Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argentine film explores power of memory</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/15/argentine-film-explores-power-of-memory/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/15/argentine-film-explores-power-of-memory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Memories are all you end up with,” Ricardo Morales says as he ponders the assault and murder of his wife 25 years earlier. “At least pick the nice ones.” The Secret in Their Eyes, the 2010 Academy Award winner for best foreign language film, follows the efforts of former Buenos Aires criminal investigator Benjamín Espósito [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daughter exploits family secrets for film</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/13/daughter-exploits-family-secrets-for-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phyllis and Harold Kleine were married 59 years. For nearly six decades, Harold believed his marriage was the best thing that ever happened to him. Unbeknownst to him, his wife believed the exact opposite. Chronicled through old home videos and interviews complied by their daughter, filmmaker Cindy Kleine, Phyllis and Harold is a train wreck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carell and Fey prove married life is far from boring</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/12/carell-and-fey-prove-married-life-is-far-from-boring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moviegoers might have been surprised this weekend to hear that a comedy about a bored married couple’s night out on the town was neck and neck with the epic Clash of the Titans at the box office. However, once you suspend your disbelief that two yuppies like Phil and Claire Foster could get caught up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doors documentary breaks on through</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/08/doors-documentary-breaks-on-through/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors' tells the band’s story its own way.]]></description>
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		<title>Class gives film students a taste of real life</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/06/class-gives-film-students-a-taste-of-real-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In CTPR 480, cinema production majors work overtime on their movies.]]></description>
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		<title>Action and politics Clash in latest film epic</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/04/action-and-politics-clash-in-latest-film-epic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clash of the Titans opens with images of constellations and a voice explaining how stories are written in the stars. The revelation is both concise and seemingly profound; it marks the end of the movie’s overt poetry. On the surface, the remainder of Clash of the Titans looks just like any other action movie. Like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film explores emotion across spectrum</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/01/film-explores-emotion-across-spectrum/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/04/01/film-explores-emotion-across-spectrum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s difficult to say whether grief or love is the greatest emotion one can experience. Both are overwhelming, full-body sensations that tend to linger long after the damage is done. So it’s no surprise, then, how one can replace the other over time. In The Greatest, a character-driven family drama that premiered at the 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First foray into filmmaking needs work</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/31/first-foray-into-filmmaking-needs-work/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/31/first-foray-into-filmmaking-needs-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don McKay is writer/director Jake Goldberger’s feature film debut. The independent film premiered almost a year ago at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and is finally getting a wider release in Los Angeles, New York and Boston this week. Starring Thomas Haden Church (Sideways), Elizabeth Shue (Leaving Lost Vegas) and Melissa Leo (Frozen Rivers), the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Nicholas Sparks adaptation is almost touching</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/30/new-nicholas-sparks-adaptation-is-almost-touching/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/30/new-nicholas-sparks-adaptation-is-almost-touching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Sparks’ novels are formulaic, simple and cheesy, but girls love them. Adaptations of Sparks’ novels have the potential to be transformed for the screen into an epic love story, like The Notebook, but they can just as easily fizzle out into Razzy-worthy trainwrecks. The movie version of The Last Song was a giant “almost” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film school students showcase mid-semester collaborations</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/22/film-school-students-showcase-mid-semester-collaborations/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/22/film-school-students-showcase-mid-semester-collaborations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cinema-television production majors enrolled in CTPR 310 screen shorts produced after winter break. ]]></description>
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		<title>South Korean film finds humor in cruelty</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/10/south-korean-film-finds-humor-in-cruelty/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/10/south-korean-film-finds-humor-in-cruelty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mothers are strange beasts. Their relationships with their children are far more complex and imperfect than most realize until they are parents themselves. Some women come to hate their children while others, like the older lady at the center of director Joon-ho Bong’s Mother, develop an unhealthy obsession with their offspring. Bong’s first South Korean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burton presents new vision of old territory</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/04/burton-presents-new-vision-of-old-territory/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/03/04/burton-presents-new-vision-of-old-territory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For seasoned filmmaker Tim Burton, negotiating the fine line between his role as a sweetheart of Hot Topic patrons and a director exploring the boundaries of commercial viability is a full-time job. Alice in Wonderland’s wide release opening today marks the director’s most recent effort to darken the silver screen. In the film, Burton tells [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shutter Island is good, but not Scorsese’s best</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/22/shutter-island-is-good-but-not-scorsese%e2%80%99s-best/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/22/shutter-island-is-good-but-not-scorsese%e2%80%99s-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, the question here isn’t whether or not Shutter Island is a good film — because it most certainly is. The question, given the director’s glowing repertoire and ’06 masterpiece, is whether or not Shutter Island is a great film. All things considered, Shutter Island finds Martin Scorsese sorely out of his element. Teddy Daniels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unsophisticated ploys cheapen latest Polanski thriller</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/18/unsophisticated-ploys-cheapen-latest-polanski-thriller/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/18/unsophisticated-ploys-cheapen-latest-polanski-thriller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ghost Writer, controversial Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski’s newest film, was made under intense personal stress. Filmed in exile, edited under house arrest and released during complicated legal troubles, the resulting film is a claustrophobic, compelling thriller that feels only a little bit rushed. Some guys can’t write five-paragraph essays after their girlfriends break up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remake offers classic horror thrills for modern audiences</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/16/remake-offers-classic-horror-thrills-for-modern-audiences/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/16/remake-offers-classic-horror-thrills-for-modern-audiences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1941, Universal Pictures released the archetypal werewolf movie, The Wolf Man. Chilling and atmospheric, the film told the story of a man (Lon Chaney Jr.) who, upon returning to his father’s home in Wales, was bitten by a werewolf and inherited the now-infamous curse. In addition to providing moviegoers with 70 minutes of fright, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Award recognizes novelists behind films</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/07/award-recognizes-novelists-behind-films/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/07/award-recognizes-novelists-behind-films/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 22nd Annual Scripter Awards honors both the screenwriters and book author of Academy Award-nominated Up In The Air.]]></description>
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		<title>Chadha’s latest film is not so Wonderful</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/04/chadha%e2%80%99s-latest-film-is-not-so-wonderful/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/04/chadha%e2%80%99s-latest-film-is-not-so-wonderful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2002, British director Gurinder Chadha delved into the complex world of the Indian ethnic identity in present-day England. Bend It Like Beckham — a film about a talented young Indian woman living in London with impressive soccer skills — places the main character’s European-influenced social life against the strict religious expectations of her Indian-born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspense flick relies on tension not action</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/03/suspense-flick-relies-on-tension-not-action/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/03/suspense-flick-relies-on-tension-not-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frozen
Rating: R
Length: 94 min.
In theaters Friday
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		<title>Disney rom-com sticks to the formula</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/02/disney-rom-com-sticks-to-the-formula/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When In Rome
Rating: PG-13
Length: 91 min.
Now playing
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		<title>Gibson emerges a shadow of former self</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/02/01/gibson-emerges-a-shadow-of-former-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edge of Darkness
Rating: R
Length: 117 min.
Now playing
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		<title>USC at Sundance</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/01/27/usc-at-sundance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, members of the Trojan Family descend on Park City, Utah for the movie industry’s biggest independent film festival.]]></description>
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		<title>Ford’s directorial debut shows the beauty in sadness</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/01/13/ford%e2%80%99s-directorial-debut-shows-the-beauty-in-sadness/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/01/13/ford%e2%80%99s-directorial-debut-shows-the-beauty-in-sadness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FILM
A Single Man
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		<title>Poor execution stakes vampire movie</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2010/01/13/poor-execution-stakes-vampire-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rpflores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the number of vampire films emerging from the recent craze, it has been hard to find a true vampire story. While vampire movies released lately do pertain to blood-sucking creatures, they lean toward one of two ends of the vampire myth spectrum. On one end of the spectrum are the Anne Rice and Twilight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A decade of maverick filmmaking</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/03/a-decade-of-maverick-filmmaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hedwig and the Angry Inch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[memento]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the descent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia states that to be considered an independent film, half the film’s budget must come from a source besides a major studio. But to hipsters everywhere, “indie” can either be annoying and pretentious or nihilistic and edgy. In any case, so-called indie film has come a long way in the last 10 years. This list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reitman fails to ground himself in reality</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/02/reitman-fails-to-ground-himself-in-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/02/reitman-fails-to-ground-himself-in-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up in the Air ignores any statutes of limitation on making fun of the American economy and goes straight for the jugular — finding veins of comedy and drama within the plight of the American worker. With a director like Jason Reitman at the helm, Up in the Air is hardly typical as satire, and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USC professor gives Avatar aliens a voice</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/02/usc-professor-gives-avatar-aliens-a-voice/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/02/usc-professor-gives-avatar-aliens-a-voice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Na’vi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Frommer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[James Cameron turned to USC for help in creating a unique language for his newest film.]]></description>
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		<title>Festival celebrates true ‘indie’ films</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/02/festival-celebrates-true-%e2%80%98indie%e2%80%99-films/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/02/festival-celebrates-true-%e2%80%98indie%e2%80%99-films/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2007, Brad Bores, Rich Hooban and two other idealistic filmmaker friends piled into a 1988 Caprice Classic with an Eclair 16mm camera and drove from Ohio to New Mexico filming Soda Can Love. For two weeks, the crew took turns acting (as versions of themselves), filming (on re-canned stock) and watching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reitman finds himself on the ascent</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/01/reitman-finds-himself-on-the-ascent/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/01/reitman-finds-himself-on-the-ascent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oscar-nominated director  further hones his comedic ability with Up in the Air.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Red Cliff&#8217; presents a return to form for acclaimed director</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/01/red-cliff-presents-a-return-to-form-for-acclaimed-director/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/12/01/red-cliff-presents-a-return-to-form-for-acclaimed-director/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When word got out that John Woo was making a historical war film, few knew what to expect. An army of white doves? Close-quarter crossbow shootouts? Instead, the director of Hong Kong gangster classics such as Hard Boiled delivers an intense retelling of The Battle of Red Cliffs in ancient China. Though not a perfect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instead of new tricks, &#8216;Dogs&#8217; plays dead</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/30/instead-of-new-tricks-dogs-plays-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/30/instead-of-new-tricks-dogs-plays-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In comedy, the rule of three proposes that things become funnier if they occur three times. After two successive gags involving golf balls to the groin, one can only wonder if a third would have made any difference. Old Dogs, which opened Nov. 25, fails to learn any new tricks. The film centers upon Dan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filmmaker relives his &#8216;Hell&#8217;-ish experiences in latest book</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/30/filmmaker-relives-his-hell-ish-experiences-in-latest-book/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/30/filmmaker-relives-his-hell-ish-experiences-in-latest-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film Is Hell: How I Sold My Soul to Make the Crappiest Movies in History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Howe uses his painful past for comedic effect in the nonfiction novel Film Is Hell.]]></description>
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		<title>Unlike Keitel, Cage makes being &#8216;Bad&#8217; look good</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/23/unlike-keitel-cage-makes-being-bad-look-good/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/23/unlike-keitel-cage-makes-being-bad-look-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicolas Cage’s character in 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call' New Orleans sheds any sympathy once evoked by 'Harvey Keitel' in 1992.]]></description>
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		<title>Adaptation takes viewer down a harrowing &#8216;Road&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/23/adaptation-takes-viewer-down-a-harrowing-road/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/23/adaptation-takes-viewer-down-a-harrowing-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often quoted and always relevant whenever the apocalypse enters a discussion, T.S. Eliot wrote in The Hollow Men: “This is the way the world ends/not with a bang, but a whimper.” As seen in the success of Roland Emmerich’s eardrum-shattering 2012, people love a good world-destroying bang. The Road, John Hillcoat’s thrilling, faithful adaptation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herzog, Cage go off the deep end in &#8216;Lieutenant&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/19/herzog-cage-go-off-the-deep-end-in-lieutenant/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/19/herzog-cage-go-off-the-deep-end-in-lieutenant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take an eccentric director, add an eccentric star, and what’s the outcome? A truly bizarre film. In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, the combination of Werner Herzog’s zany, metaphor-rich directing and Nicolas Cage’s over-exaggerated characterization produces a ludicrous yet somewhat fascinating film that both entices and befuddles the audience. Love or hate him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comedy highlights quirky ensemble cast</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/18/comedy-highlights-quirky-ensemble-cast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer, director and producer Sebastian Gutierrez adds indie comedy to his long résumé of thriller and horror films with Women in Trouble. Premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival, Women in Trouble, which was shot in only 12 days, captures the modern dilemmas of women in an almost satirical manner. Gutierrez uses the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political thriller builds to a suspenseful &#8216;Endgame&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/17/political-thriller-builds-to-a-suspenseful-endgame/</link>
		<comments>http://dailytrojanbeta.com/2009/11/17/political-thriller-builds-to-a-suspenseful-endgame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In South Africa, a race is under oppression, lashing out violently against the harsh constraints placed upon it. In the midst of these clashing sides, one man is drawn into the events. These are the ingredients for one of the year’s most compelling films. No, not District 9. I’m talking about Endgame. The latest film [...]]]></description>
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