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    <title>Bruno, North By Northwest among DVD reviews</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      BRUNO (2009). To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen&#39;s smackdown of Dan Quayle during the 1988 Vice Presidential Debate: &quot;Bruno, I screened Borat; I knew Borat; Borat was a review of mine. Bruno, you&#39;re no Borat.&quot; At the same time, there&#39;s still plenty of laughs to be found in Borat, which finds creator Sacha Baron Cohen employing the same guerilla tactics and faux-documentary style that made Borat such an unlikely box office winner back in 2006. This time, the uncompromising comedian adopts the
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>2012 a bad year for film</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      The perfect follow-up for those moviegoers who were simply crushed when Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wrapped up at a too-brief 142 minutes, 2012 contributes another 158 minutes to the cause of wham-bam-thank-you-man cinema. No effect is too preposterous, no sound too deafening, and no clich&eacute; too enormous to be left out of the latest end-of-the-world effort from director Roland Emmerich, who there but for the grace of God goes Michael Bay. On balance, I can handle Emmerich&#39;s output better
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    <title>The Box worth opening</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      The Box is the latest picture from writer-director Richard Kelly, who with the cult fave Donnie Darko proved that he&#39;s one filmmaker able to think outside the box (ouch). Adapting Richard Matheson&#39;s short story &quot;Button, Button,&quot; Kelly has fashioned a complex tale out of a simple premise: A solemn stranger (Frank Langella) hands a married couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) a box and informs them that if they press the button on top, someone they don&#39;t know will die
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    <title>A Serious Man: Seriously good</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      Unpredictability is a constant in the Coen Brothers canon, but after the heavy lifting involved with the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, it wasn&#39;t too surprising to see them tackle lighter fare with the quirky Burn After Reading. A Serious Man, however, defies all expectations. In many ways, it feels like a minor effort from Joel and Ethan (a sensation massaged by its modest production values and no-name cast), yet its subject matter is nothing less than man&#39;s relationship
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    <title>Capsule revies of films playing the week of Nov. 18</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      AMELIA In its effort to be one of the first Oscar-bait titles out of the gate, the stately but sterile Amelia ends up stumbling over its own feet. A handsome production that fusses over every detail in order to provide the proper look, this biopic forgets to include any sort of spark necessary to get its motor running. As Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank adroitly mixes tomboy charm with feminist strength, but she&#39;s let down by a script (by Ron Bass
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    <title>Asheville&amp;#39;s annual fest will feature films galore</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      The seventh annual Asheville Film Festival will be held Nov. 12-15, meaning that it&#39;s time once again for Charlotteans not averse to road trips to get excited about seeing a wide range of potentially interesting movies. Over 90 features, documentaries, shorts and student films will be screened over a four-day stretch at various downtown venues. A trio of possible award-season contenders will be shown out of competition: An Education, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Carey Mulligan; Precious: Based on the Novel
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Up, The Ugly Truth among new DVD reviews</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      THE THREE STOOGES COLLECTION: VOLUME SEVEN (1952-1954). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment continues to release their knuckleheaded sets at a rapid clip, earning the gratitude of Stoogephiles everywhere. The third collection to be released in 2009 (following the March and June compendiums), this collects the 22 shorts that Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard made toward the end of the team&#39;s long and successful run. This volume includes Spooks! and Pardon My Backfire, two shorts originally shot in 3-D during
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    <title>A Christmas Carol: No holiday cheer here</title>
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      A CHRISTMAS CAROL (*1/2) &mdash; Officially, the title is Disney&#39;s A Christmas Carol, which is acceptable since it sure as hell isn&#39;t Charles Dickens&#39; A Christmas Carol. While it might be true that this animated version retains more of the literary classic than might reasonably be expected, it&#39;s also accurate to state that a key ingredient of the novel &mdash; namely, its humanist spirit &mdash; is largely missing from this chilly interpretation. Director Robert Zemeckis, who used to make fun
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    <title>The Men Who Stare At Goats: Loopy and lightweight</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (***) &mdash; Loopy enough to stand out from the homogenized pack but not bold enough to truly go the distance, this eccentric satire (inspired by Jon Ronson&#39;s nonfiction book of the same name) proves to be a modestly pleasing piffle in which journalist Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor, sincere but straightjacketed by an undemanding role) searches for a great story on the outskirts of the Iraq war and finds one in Lyn Cassady (George Clooney).
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Coco Before Chanel: Tattered material</title>
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      COCO BEFORE CHANEL (**1/2) &mdash; Like Young Mr. Lincoln, Butch and Sundance: The Early Years and the Che Guevara yarn The Motorcycle Diaries, Coco Before Chanel is one of those films that promises audiences a peek at the formative years of a historical figure, in that underreported stretch of life before fame (or, in some cases, infamy) came calling. Audrey Tautou plays Gabrielle &quot;Coco&quot; Chanel, who went on to become one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th
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    <title>Capsule reviews of films playing the week of Nov. 11</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      AMELIA In its effort to be one of the first Oscar-bait titles out of the gate, the stately but sterile Amelia ends up stumbling over its own feet. A handsome production that fusses over every detail in order to provide the proper look, this biopic forgets to include any sort of spark necessary to get its motor running. As Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank adroitly mixes tomboy charm with feminist strength, but she&#39;s let down by a script (by Ron Bass
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    <title>Wings of Desire among new DVD reviews</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      CHERI (2009). Michelle Pfeiffer has been excellent in all manner of movies, but in such period pieces as The Age of Innocence and Dangerous Liaisons, she has proven to be especially memorable, ably portraying passionate yet stifled women who find themselves as constricted by the mores of society as by the corsets they don under their extravagant dresses. In Cheri, the movie itself is the corset, strangling the actress and everything surrounding her until all the breath has been driven
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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>This Is It: The Music Man</title>
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      A sadness permeates the opening moments in the behind-the-scenes piece This Is It, but it has nothing to do with Michael Jackson&#39;s death. Instead, the sequence -- filmed, like the rest of the movie, while Jackson was very much alive -- centers on the talented young dancers and singers who auditioned to be a part of the King of Pop&#39;s planned series of London concerts. As each person describes the thrill of being included in the Jackson legacy -- many
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    <title>Cirque du Freak: Engaging but overstuffed</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      Based on a series of books for kids, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire&#39;s Assistant would seem to be aimed at either those young viewers with an affinity for the Twilight franchise or perhaps at those young viewers seeking an alternative to the adventures of Bella and Edward. Either way, this PG-13 confection would seem to be geared primarily at the teen crowd, with adult attendance a passing afterthought. But older moviegoers who can recall the spate of like-minded horror flicks
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    <title>Amelia has trouble getting airborne</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      In its effort to be one of the first Oscar-bait titles out of the gate, the stately but sterile Amelia ends up stumbling over its own feet. A handsome production that fusses over every detail in order to provide the proper look, this biopic forgets to include any sort of spark necessary to get its motor running. As aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank adroitly mixes tomboy charm with feminist strength, but she&#39;s let down by a script (by Ron
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