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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Reginald Williams</title>
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		<title>JCVD &#8211; Jean-Claude Van Damme</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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JCVD (2008)
Direction: Mabrouk El Mechri
Screenplay: Mabrouk El Mechri and Frédéric Benudis; from an idea by Frédéric Taddeï and Vincent Ravalec
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Liliane Becker
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Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD
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Mabrouk El Mechri’s JCVD is one of the best films Jean-Claude  Van Damme has starred in for some years, equal to his more recent efforts in Wake of Death and Replicant. Van Damme really puts on his  acting cap in all three  films, though out of the three, Replicant is still the best, followed by JCVD and then Wake of Death. JCVD, however, is  the most inventive of the trio; it is also  the first film where Van Damme gets real  with his audience.
JCVD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAKEN &#8211; Liam Neeson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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Taken (2008)
Direction: Pierre Morel
Screenplay: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Xander Berkeley, Katie Cassidy, Olivier Rabourdin
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Taken, directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, is a remarkably effective action thriller. Liam Neeson stars as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA agent who quit his job so as to salvage his relationship with his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace). Bryan had already sacrificed his marriage to his (by now) ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) and doesn&#8217;t want to repeat the same mistake.
After Bryan saves a flippant singer from a would-be attacker, he encounters a situation infinitely more dangerous than his CIA assignments. Though hesitant, Bryan allows Kim to go to Paris with her friend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PURPLE VIOLETS d: Edward Burns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Purple Violets    (2007)
Direction and screenplay: Edward Burns. Cast:  Selma Blair, Patrick Wilson, Edward Burns, Debra Messing, Dennis Farina, Donal Logue.
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Writer-director Edward Burns’ perfectly watchable Purple Violets is a romantic drama  about relationships and, to a lesser  extent, the world of fiction writing. The  film&#8217;s focal point  is Patti Petalson (Selma Blair), a real-estate agent who has been married for  seven years to overbearing chef Chazz Coleman (Donal Logue) and who longs to  indulge her true passion, fiction writing. A former college boyfriend, Brian  Callahan (Patrick Wilson), is  actually living that dream, having  become a famous novelist. Brian is so  successful, in fact, that his  detective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LET THE RIGHT ONE IN d: Tomas Alfredson</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/let-the-right-one-in-tomas-alfredson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swedish Cinema]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Låt den rätte komma in / Let the Right One In   (2008)
Direction: Tomas Alfredson. Screenplay: John Ajvide Lindqvist, from his novel. Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist.
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Directed by Tomas Alfredson from a screenplay by John  Ajvide Lindqvist, Låt den rätte komma in / Let the Right One In is not only a satisfying horror film from  beginning to end &#8212; one of the best entries in the vampire genre since Blade, Interview with a Vampire, and Bram  Stoker&#8217;s Dracula &#8212; but it&#8217;s also a subtle love story,  which happens to add an intricate ingredient to the film&#8217;s memorability.
 Where 30 Days of Night was more concerned with setting up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOUNG PEOPLE FUCKING d: Martin Gero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young People Fucking  (2008)
Direction: Martin Gero. Screenplay: Martin Gero and Aaron Abrams. Cast: Aaron Abrams, Diora Baird, Sonja Bennett, Callum Blue, Kristin Booth, Josh Cooke, Josh Dean, Ennis Esmer, Natalie Lisinska, Peter Oldring, Carly Pope
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Directed by Martin Gero and written by Gero and Aaron Abrams, Young People Fucking is a film about, you guessed it, young adults engaging  in sexual intercourse,  the situations  surrounding the acts, and the lives of  the participants. The situations are: The Friends, The Couple, The First Date,  The Roommates, and The Exes. The sexual acts involved are Prelude, Foreplay,  Sex, Interlude, Orgasm, and Afterglow. 
The ballsy title alone draws one&#8217;s  attention to this romantic comedy, while  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Batman: Gotham Knight  (2008)
Direction: Shoijiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yasuhiro Aoki, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Jong-Sik Nam. Screenplay: Brian Azzarello, Alan Burnett, Jordan Goldberg, David S. Goyer, Josh Olson, Greg Rucka; based on Bob Kane&#8217;s character. Voices: Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Gary Dourdan, Corey Burton, Jason Marsden, Jim Meskimen, Kevin Michael Richardson, George Newbern
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Batman: Gotham Knight is a direct-to-DVD animated film in six segments, each directed by a different East Asian filmmaker. The animation quality, both in terms of character and environment detail, exceeds that of the animation found in all the Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and all the other Batman animated films. The fore and backgrounds aren&#8217;t after thoughts; they have as much care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEETH d: Mitchell Lichtenstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teeth (2007)
Direction and Screenplay: Mitchell Lichtenstein. Cast: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, John Pais, Hale Appleman, Lenny von Dohlen, Vivienne Benesch, Ashley Springer
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Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein&#8217;s Teeth is a horror movie with comedic elements that deals with mutation, virginity, and the the myth of vagina dentata.
Dawn O&#8217;Keefe (Jess Weixler) is a teenage girl who was born with teeth in her vagina. Dawn also happens to be a celibacy-promoting high-school student whose no-sex lifestyle is going well until she crosses eyes with Tobey (Hale Appleman) at a pro-virginity seminar. They are eventually introduced by a mutual friend and start seeing each other. Nature and hormones begin to take effect, something they both initially resist. But when one of them decides to acquiesce to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WATER LILIES d: Céline Sciamma</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/water-lilies-d-celine-sciamma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naissance des pieuvres / Water Lilies (2007)
Direction and Screenplay: Céline Sciamma. Cast: Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère, Adele Haenel, Warren Jacquin, Christelle Baras
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Writer-director Céline Sciamma&#8217;s Naissance des pieuvres / Water Lilies is a film about teens beginning to discover who they are. It is also a film that actually stars teens &#8212; as opposed to mid-twenty-year-olds playing teens &#8212; without exploiting that fact in any way. 
Set in a high-school pool, from the first scene you realize that in Water Lilies synchronized swimming is not a mere plot device; it&#8217;s an intrinsic part of the film and of the characters&#8217; lives. If you&#8217;ve never given synchronized swimming much respect as a serious sport, you may do so after seeing the amount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUNO &#8211; Ellen Page, Michael Cera</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/juno-jason-reitman-ellen-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Juno (2007)
Direction: Jason Reitman. Screenplay: Diablo Cody. Cast: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons
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Rating: 9/10
Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Academy Award-winner Diablo Cody, Juno is what most teen movies are not: non-commercial, with an &#34;agenda&#34; between its screenplay pages. Juno isn&#8217;t an excuse for promoting a soundtrack, and because of its low budget it can take risks without worrying about the bottom line &#8212; and risks it does take. 
The plot follows a high-school girl, Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), who has sex with a boy she likes, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera), and as a result of that encounter becomes pregnant. But despite the pressing issue of teen pregnancy, Juno is more [...]]]></description>
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