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	<title>RopeofSilicon.com Movie News, Trailers, Reviews and More &#187; Brad Brevet</title>
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		<title>Oscar Update: New Predictions after Seeing &#039;Up In the Air&#039; and &#039;A Single Man&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/oscar-update-new-predictions-after-seeing-up-in-the-air-and-a-single-man</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Single Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Me and Orson Welles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Young Victoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Up In the Air]]></category>

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It feels good to know it will only be a matter of weeks before I will have seen all the major Oscar contenders as my prediction charts are starting to be less about buzz and the opinion of others and I can finally add my own personal opinion into each. Of course, I still have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Me and Orson Welles (2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/movie-review-me-and-orson-welles-2009</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Me and Orson Welles]]></category>

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Christian McKay in Me and Orson Welles
Photo: Freestyle Releasing


Richard Linklater&#039;s Me and Orson Welles is a hard one to put your finger on. It&#039;s got comedic elements, a baseline dramatic framework and then doesn&#039;t fully dedicate itself to being a coming-of-age story. However, despite my inability to nail it down in a nutshell, it&#039;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: The Road (2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/movie-review-the-road-2009</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Road]]></category>

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Robert Duvall, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Viggo Mortensen in The Road
Photo: Dimension Films


Cormac McCarthy&#039;s &#034;The Road&#034; is a book I can&#039;t recommend often enough and if you have a free afternoon, pick it up and give it a read. Trust me, it won&#039;t take you any longer than that as a destroyed and ashen world is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Ninja Assassin (2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/movie-review-ninja-assassin-2009</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/movie-review-ninja-assassin-2009#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ninja Assassin]]></category>

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Rain in Ninja Assassin
Photo: Warner Bros.


To imagine James McTeigue could make something so intelligent and entertaining as V for Vendetta and then devolve into the pile of garbage that is Ninja Assassin is staggering. Vendetta is one of my favorite comic book/graphic novel adaptations and yet McTeigue&#039;s sophomore effort makes it seem like he learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five More Pics from &#039;Nine&#039; and Another Poster</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/five-more-pics-from-nine-and-another-poster</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/five-more-pics-from-nine-and-another-poster#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pictures and a Paragraph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nine]]></category>

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Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine
Photo: The Weinstein Co.


I am finally seeing Nine on December 8, the same week I am seeing Clint Eastwood&#039;s Invictus as well as Avatar. It very easily could be the greatest week of movie watching I have experienced in a long while and my fingers are crossed it turns out just that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trailer for &#039;The Last Station&#039; Pulls In for a Viewing</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/trailer-for-the-last-station-pulls-in-for-a-viewing</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/trailer-for-the-last-station-pulls-in-for-a-viewing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visit to the Trailer Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Station]]></category>

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Christopher Plummer in The Last Station
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics


The film that once was set to star Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep now stars Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren and is supposedly a serious Oscar contender. That film is The Last Station and it&#039;s set to hit theaters in New York and L.A. on December 4.

Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandma Gets Bloody in New Clip from &#039;Legion&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/grandma-gets-bloody-in-new-clip-from-legion</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/grandma-gets-bloody-in-new-clip-from-legion#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[R-Rated Madness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sony Pictures just unveiled a new restricted clip from their upcoming supernatural religious thriller Legion starring Paul Bettany as the Archangel Michael who sets out to help a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner after God loses faith in mankind and sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse.

The clip featuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest MPAA Ratings: BULLETIN NO: 2097</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/latest-mpaa-ratings-bulletin-no-2097</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/latest-mpaa-ratings-bulletin-no-2097#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ratings Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's Complicated]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leap Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category>

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Here are the new MPAA ratings from BULLETIN NO: 2097.

The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It
Rated R For pervasive strong crude sexual content, nudity, language and drug use.


Avatar
Rated PG-13 For intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.
Release Date: December 18, 2009


Carnera: The Walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#039;Lovely Bones&#039; Clips, Poster and a Handful of Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/new-lovely-bones-clips-poster-and-a-handful-of-reviews</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/new-lovely-bones-clips-poster-and-a-handful-of-reviews#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Clips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Posters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lovely Bones]]></category>

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I am seeing The Lovely Bones soon enough and I don&#039;t want to cloud my judgment by reading a bunch of reviews, but that doesn&#039;t mean you have to live by the same rules as five have found their way online.

Mike Goodridge at Screen Daily (positive)
Xan Brooks at The Guardian (pan)
THE SNEAK at The Sun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurosawa&#039;s &#039;Ran&#039; Will Still Find Its Way to Blu-ray</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/kurosawas-ran-will-still-find-its-way-to-blu-ray</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/kurosawas-ran-will-still-find-its-way-to-blu-ray#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Video News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ran]]></category>

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Those upset (myself included) that Criterion had to withdraw their planned Blu-ray edition of Ran due to a rights issue can cheer up as the holder of those rights was making the same plans. Lionsgate Home Entertainment in cooperation with StudioCanal are set to release Ran as well as 1955&#039;s The Ladykillers starring Alec Guinness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Greenberg&#039; and &#039;Letters to Juliet&#039; Trailers</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/greenberg-and-letters-to-juliet-trailers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/greenberg-and-letters-to-juliet-trailers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Visit to the Trailer Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters to Juliet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following trailer for Greenberg, a new comedy starring Ben Stiller and directed by Noah Baumbach, debuted on Apple just yesterday, but I&#039;m not getting around to writing about it until today. It&#039;s making quite the impression around the Internet as it tells the story of Roger Greenberg (Stiller), a man at a crossroads in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Hangover&#039;? &#039;Nine&#039;? What Films Should be Nominated for Golden Globes Comedy/Musical?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hangover-nine-what-films-should-be-nominated-for-golden-globes-comedymusical</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hangover-nine-what-films-should-be-nominated-for-golden-globes-comedymusical#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Golden Globe Award News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[500 Days of Summer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Serious Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the Loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's Complicated]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie & Julia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Informant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Men Who Stare at Goats]]></category>

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Photo: Warner Bros.





  

Okay, so when other sites started passing around the above advertisement Warner Bros. put together to beg for a Golden Globe nomination for The Hangover in the category of best comedy or musical I didn&#039;t think much of it. I mean, there isn&#039;t a news story there, but then Sasha over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: November 24, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/this-week-on-dvd-and-blu-ray-november-24-2009</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/this-week-on-dvd-and-blu-ray-november-24-2009#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[This Week On DVD and Blu-ray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angels and Demons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Christmases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funny People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gomorrah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janky Promoters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[






DVD LINKS: DVD NEWS &#124; RELEASE DATES &#124; NEW DVDS &#124; REVIEWS &#124; RSS FEED





Gomorrah (Criterion Collection)







I just published my review of this one and the film certainly holds up to repeat viewings and left an even greater impression on me than it did when I wrote my &#034;B&#034; review last year. The presentation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blu-ray Review: Gomorrah (Criterion Collection)</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/blu-ray-review-gomorrah-criterion-collection</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/blu-ray-review-gomorrah-criterion-collection#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Video News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gomorrah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my &#034;B&#034; review of Gomorrah last December I opened saying &#034;its dedication to [Roberto Saviano's non-fiction story] causes the film to lack focus as it spreads itself too thin by telling five separate stories.&#034; After seeing it a second time I still stand by this statement, but not as adamantly as I did before. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blu-ray Review: Four Christmases</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/blu-ray-review-four-christmases</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/blu-ray-review-four-christmases#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Video News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Christmases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What was I thinking?! Almost one year ago exactly I gave Four Christmases a &#034;C+&#034; review and after 15 minutes I wanted to toss my Blu-ray player out of the window as I tried to watch this one a second time. Granted a &#034;C+&#034; isn&#039;t exactly a great grade, but it does imply this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fergie, Penelope and Kate Featured on Yet Another &#039;Nine&#039; Poster</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/fergie-penelope-and-kate-featured-on-yet-another-nine-poster</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/fergie-penelope-and-kate-featured-on-yet-another-nine-poster#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Posters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hate it when studios do this in an effort to milk the blog process, but since I don&#039;t do this very often I will dedicate one more headline to Rob Marshall&#039;s Nine as MSN&#039;s blog has scored the following poster from the film featuring Fergie, Penelope Cruz and Kate Hudson. Of course, this leads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Road&#039; Poster, Maguire on &#039;Spider-Man 4,&#039; Shatner in &#039;Star Trek&#039; and &#039;Thor&#039; Casting</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/road-poster-maguire-on-spider-man-4-shatner-in-star-trek-and-thor-casting</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/road-poster-maguire-on-spider-man-4-shatner-in-star-trek-and-thor-casting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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First off, a new short arrives on the heels of the short for Up I posted earlier. This time it&#039;s the fifth in a series of Cars shorts directed by John Lasseter called &#034;Unidentified Flying Mater.&#034;

Moving on, TrekMovie has the as scripted scene from Star Trek had William Shatner as Captain Kirk been included. Read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scripts for &#039;Moon,&#039; &#039;An Eduction&#039; and &#039;Parnassus&#039; Brings the Total to 19</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/scripts-for-moon-an-eduction-and-parnassus-brings-the-total-to-19</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/scripts-for-moon-an-eduction-and-parnassus-brings-the-total-to-19#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[An Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broken Embraces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sugar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Damned United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The White Ribbon]]></category>

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Photo: Sony Pictures Classics


Yet another script update as Sony Pictures Classics has gone all out and made available eight new scripts for your viewing pleasure including scripts from An Education, Moon, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and The White Ribbon. With these eight new scripts we now have 19 of the potential Oscar nominees for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: Posters for &#039;Nine&#039; are Finally Revealed</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-poster-for-nine-is-finally-revealed</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-poster-for-nine-is-finally-revealed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Posters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=22195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Cinematical has also debuted a poster, both are now featured below.

Nine has already screened a few times for reviewing press, but they&#039;ve been asked to remain mum on the film. As much as I would like to hear some positive word, I&#039;m happy there hasn&#039;t been any chatter to disrupt my anticipation as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaser Trailer for &#039;Beastly&#039; Curses the Interwebs</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/teaser-trailer-for-beastly-curses-the-interwebs</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/teaser-trailer-for-beastly-curses-the-interwebs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Visit to the Trailer Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beastly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a 17 second teaser trailer for Beastly, which appears to be some silly little modern day &#034;Beauty and the Beast&#034; tale starring Alex Pettyfer as a egomaniac who, after blowing off a young lady named Kendra, finds that same young lady casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#039;Legion&#039; Stills and Posters From &#039;Salt&#039; and &#039;Kick-Ass&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/new-legion-stills-and-posters-from-salt-and-kick-ass</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/new-legion-stills-and-posters-from-salt-and-kick-ass#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pictures and a Paragraph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dear John]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kick-Ass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Paul Bettany as the Archangel Michael in Legion
Photo: Columbia Pictures


I added a few new images tonight including three new stills from Paul Bettany&#039;s &#034;angels with machine guns&#034; feature Legion, two images from the Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried romance Dear John and new posters from Angelina Jolie&#039;s actioner Salt and Matthew Vaughn&#039;s Kick-Ass.

Above is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened after Carl Floated Away In Pixar&#039;s &#039;Up&#039;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-happened-after-carl-floated-away-in-pixars-up</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-happened-after-carl-floated-away-in-pixars-up#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Up]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new Pixar short has been uploaded onto YouTube and it features the two Shady Oaks nurses that arrived to pick up Carl in Pixar&#039;s Up before he floated off to Paradise Falls. What exactly happened while Carl and Russell were off having their adventure? Find out below in the following four minute clip.




Up is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blu-ray Review: Fight Club</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/blu-ray-review-fight-club</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/blu-ray-review-fight-club#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Video News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fight Club]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=22187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#039;t until I started writing about movies online that I found a shared love with Fight Club, but it actually seems like every single movie blogger running a movie news driven website has a special relationship with this film. As a matter of fact, I thought I loved this movie, but now realize I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch James Cameron and &#039;Avatar&#039; Profiled on &#039;60 Minutes&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/james-cameron-and-avatar-profiled-on-60-minutes</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/james-cameron-and-avatar-profiled-on-60-minutes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featuring Featurettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#039;t watched this yet, but it&#039;s the talk of the Internet as Morley Safer gets the first look at how James Cameron created his $400 million 3-D fantasy Avatar on &#034;60 Minutes.&#034; And yes, those are the exact words being used, dollar figure and all.

I have included the video directly below. It runs for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #18</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-18</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what-i-watched-what-you-watched-installment-18#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What I Watched]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=22166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week wasn&#039;t as slow as it looks when it comes to movie watching as much as I saw a lot in theaters including Everybody&#039;s Fine, Me and Orson Welles, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Ninja Assassin. I also watched John Woo&#039;s Red Cliff a second time before reviewing it as well as watched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Morning Movie Jumble: November 22, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/sunday-morning-movie-jumble-november-22-2009</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/sunday-morning-movie-jumble-november-22-2009#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sunday Morning Movie Jumble]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

[jumble_form]
CLUE:

Never won an Oscar as an actor despite receiving a nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance.
Died the same day as Yul Brynner.
Declined the chance to be the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars.

ADDITIONAL CLUE:
(Highlight for the clue if you are about ready to give up)

His role as Harry Lime didn&#039;t earn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;New Moon&#039; Dominates Opening Day Record with $72.7 Million</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/new-moon-dominates-opening-day-record-with-72-7-million</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/new-moon-dominates-opening-day-record-with-72-7-million#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friday Estimates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Twilight Saga: New Moon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In telling the following news to a friend she replied, &#034;That makes me so mad, The Dark Knight deserves that record for the mere fact it&#039;s a well made film and New Moon is not.&#034; I responded by saying it won&#039;t bother me unless New Moon hangs on next weekend and continues to gain strength. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Hurt Locker&#039; Bigelow and Boal &#039;Die Comfortable&#039; Commentary</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hurt-locker-bigelow-and-boal-die-comfortable-commentary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hurt-locker-bigelow-and-boal-die-comfortable-commentary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary Track]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere directs us to the following two minute clip from The Hurt Locker with commentary from director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal.




The Hurt Locker hits DVD and Blu-ray on January 12, click here for more on each release.
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		<title>UPDATED: Video Previews for All Ten of the Animated Short Film Oscar Contenders</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/video-previews-for-nine-of-the-ten-animated-short-film-oscar-contenders</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/video-previews-for-nine-of-the-ten-animated-short-film-oscar-contenders#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: Thankfully a user has sent in the trailer for Nicolas Schmerkin&#039;s Logorama so I now have video previews (and a couple of full versions) of all ten Animated Short Film Oscar Contenders.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the ten animated short films that have advanced in the voting process for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigation Reports &#039;Tyson&#039; Not Extorted in Oscar Doc Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/investigation-reports-tyson-not-extorted-in-oscar-doc-controversy</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/investigation-reports-tyson-not-extorted-in-oscar-doc-controversy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anvil! The Story of Anvil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism: A Love Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a person that seeks out many documentaries. I enjoy watching them whenever I do see them, but I don&#039;t hunt them down the way so many others do. So, when the Academy announced the 15 documentaries that made their short list for Oscar nomination consideration I didn&#039;t even think twice about dissecting [...]]]></description>
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