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		<title>The 2008 RopeofSilicon Movie Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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Okay, so here we are. This article will basically amount to my capstone piece for the end of 2008 as I will now hand out what amounts to the first ever RopeofSilicon Awards. My hope for future RopeofSilicon Awards is that I can figure out some kind of nominating and voting system so you, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Movies of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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Top 10 Movies of 2008

Trying to figure out my personal list of favorite, top ten, exceptional, &#034;best&#034; movies of 2008 was not an easy task. 2008 was an odd year for film. So many have gone on record saying it was a down year, but I don&#039;t entirely agree with that. While 2008 didn&#039;t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How about Nine Top Critic Top Tens? From Dargis to Reed&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top tens are the &#034;thing to do&#034; as the final moments of 2008 begin to tick away. I will be offering up my personal top ten a little later this week in a Wednesday-Friday 2008 retrospective of sorts to satisfy your listing desires through the holiday weekend but for now how about taking a look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four New Critic Top Tens: St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco and Southeastern</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critic circles are going to be unveiling their top tens of 2008 at a furious clip and as evidence I have four new lists for you today over the next few pages as critics from St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco and those Southeastern folk have weighed in with their picks for the best films [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen King Releases His Top Ten Flicks of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen King has just unveiled his personal top ten list for 2008 and The Dark Knight is at the top as a film he says is &#034;the best superhero movie ever. This is to cape-and-tights movies what Godfather II was to the gangster movie: a genre-defining event.&#034; However, while his list also includes Slumdog Millionaire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Roeper Names His Top 25 of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With screeners of some of the final films I need to see in order to complete my movie watching of 2008 on their way it looks like by Tuesday of next week I will have seen it all (or enough to determine my top films of 2008), but that&#039;s in the future. For now, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Milk&#039; and &#039;Happy-Go-Lucky&#039; Win Big with New York Film Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday&#039;s surprise with the Los Angeles Film Critics bestowing the title of Best Picture on WALL&#8226;E and naming The Dark Knight the runner-up I guess it would have been too much to expect the same from the New York Critics, but they have in turn gone a different route and awarded Happy-Go-Lucky a pair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;WALL-E&#039; Voted Best Picture By Los Angeles Film Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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Photo: Walt Disney/Pixar


The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) announced their winners today and in a surprise turn the group voted to award Disney/Pixar&#039;s WALL&#8226;E as their Best Picture of 2008 and astonishingly have The Dark Knight as their runner-up. I say the decision is a surprise only because WALL&#8226;E had basically been counted out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Broadcast Film Critic Noms are In With a Couple of Big Surprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Damn, I just noticed they also snubbed Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein for I’ve Loved You So Long. Bummer.

The Broadcast Fim Critics have announced the nominees for the 14th annual Critics’ Choice Awards and I cannot manage to find any real surprises, at least in my eyes, outside of a couple. The BFCA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Magazine&#039;s Interesting Top 10 of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME has posted their top ten films of 2008 along with a variety of other &#034;Tops of 2008&#034; lists which you can find here. However, I think many will be shocked by a few of the picks especially the inclusion of Speed Racer and the absense of Oscar chasing works such as Revolutionary Road and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. Critics Vote &#039;Slumdog&#039; Big and Give Nod to Ledger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am starting to think 2009 may be the year of the little guy at the top after Little Miss Sunshine and Juno were unable to make the break in the past two years as Anne Thompson at Variety has added the awards to be announced tomorrow morning by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebert Weighs in with His Top 20 of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Ebert has gone against the negative chatter saying 2008 is a dismal year for film and declared it &#034;a great year for movies&#034; as he has unveiled his top 20 films of 2008. Why 20 instead of the traditional ten? Well, as he puts it, &#034;I am violating the age-old custom that film critics [...]]]></description>
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