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		<title>Commentary Flashback: Raining movies</title>
		<description>Flashback to 2014: Unlike a good martini, a film festival does not necessarily have to be dry - although maybe the Cinemobile should actually be a boat</description>
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		<title>1988 Flashback: Da</title>
		<description>Flashback to 1988: Matt Clark's Da</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>1997 Flashback: Colin Fitz</title>
		<description>Flashback to 1997: Robert Bella's Colin Fitz</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Web Page Stats – August</title>
		<description>Web Site Statistics for August 2026</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: The Salt Path</title>
		<description>Belatedly released in the US</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Trainspotting</title>
		<description>30th anniversary 4K restoration re-release in the UK</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Practical Magic</title>
		<description>Re-released in the US</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Mysterious Skin</title>
		<description>Re-released in the US</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople</title>
		<description>10th anniversary re-release in the UK</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Nadja</title>
		<description>Re-released in the UK</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Power Ballad</title>
		<description>An unexpectedly familiar Power Ballad, emanating from a shopping center's sound system, spurs Rick Power to seek credit where credit is due</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Short Film Review: Confessions of a Lunar Werewolf</title>
		<description>After a dramatic physical transformation, will there be at some point Confessions of a Lunar Werewolf?</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: The Last of the High Kings (Summer Fling)</title>
		<description>In her desperate attempts to discourage her son Frankie's interest in Protestant girls, Cathleen Griffin invokes every nationalist trope, including The Last of the High Kings</description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: The Thomas Crown Affair [1968]</title>
		<description>For insurance investigator Vicki Anderson, a baffling bank robbery in Boston becomes The Thomas Crown Affair - in more than one sense of the word</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Commentary: Fossilizing at the fleadh</title>
		<description>What could be better than a film festival in a (normally) rainy city on a western coast? Maybe one near the Space Needle? In the 1980s?</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>My Inbox – Good news from Presidency</title>
		<description>Things that land in my inbox</description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Lijepa vecer, lijep dan (Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day)</title>
		<description>Like the lyrics of a popular song Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day, Lovro Horvat and his friends see life in post-war Croatia as rosy - at first</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: A. Rimbaud</title>
		<description>The transgressive Surrealist poet who signed his name A. Rimbaud led many interesting lives in many parts of the world</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Documentary Film Review: Pos Me</title>
		<description>Throughout Ireland's history, the institution of marriage and the various ways to say Pos Me have gone through many changes</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Naxos</title>
		<description>Adam's planned research project on the Greek isle of Naxos is sidetracked when he walks through an ancient portal</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Vainilla (Vanilla)</title>
		<description>Eight-year-old Roberta knows that, whatever travails and setbacks come the way of her multi-generational all-female household, there is enjoyment in Vanilla ice cream</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Documentary Film Review: Ballroom Boom</title>
		<description>The emergence of a more modern dance band musical style and the proliferation of automobiles lead to a Ballroom Boom in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Documentary Film Review: The Last First: Winter K2</title>
		<description>John Snorri and and Nirmal Purja are among the renowned mountaineers attempting The Last First in elite mountain climbing: summitting in Winter K2</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Han ye deng zhu (Light Pillar)</title>
		<description>As Lao Cha makes plans for an outer space holiday with a woman he's met online, perhaps the marvels awaiting them will include the Light Pillar phenomenon</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Short Film Review: On the Phone</title>
		<description>Social media influencers Lilly and Brandon head upstate with their dog Rory to record an ad that people will see On the Phone</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Midwinter Break</title>
		<description>Stella surprises Gerry with a Midwinter Break in Amsterdam, hoping they will be able to resolve the issues on her mind</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Short Film Review: Trench of the Damned</title>
		<description>During an uneasy Christmas truce, American soldiers Kincaid and Burke do not suspect their location is about to become the Trench of the Damned</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Commentary: Things that refuse to stay dead</title>
		<description>Unlike 1,088 people I've written about on this website, certain TV series - and even my infrequent commentaries - somehow refuse to succumb</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Hokum</title>
		<description>Fantasy writer Ohm Bauman dismisses the quaint tales he hears at the Bilberry Woods Hotel as so much Hokum, but his view on that will soon change</description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: The Girl on a Motorcycle</title>
		<description>Rebecca, The Girl on a Motorcycle, fascinates bystanders and fellow travelers as she races her way toward a rendezvous in Heidelberg</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Documentary Film Review: Mrs Robinson</title>
		<description>Ballina native Mary Bourke becomes a barrister, an activist and, as Mrs Robinson, the first female president of Ireland</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Strictly Ballroom</title>
		<description>4K restoration release in the UK</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Boogie Nights</title>
		<description>4K restoration release in the UK</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: I Shot Andy Warhol</title>
		<description>Re-released in the US</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>My Inbox – L'affiche de la 52e édition se dévoile</title>
		<description>Things that land in my inbox</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/feedback.html#mb260602</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Documentary Film Review: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert</title>
		<description>During an EPiC span of seven years, audiences in Las Vegas flocked to 636 sold-out shows starring Elvis Presley in Concert</description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Tow</title>
		<description>Now streaming in the US</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Fight Club</title>
		<description>4K restoration re-release everywhere</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Project Hail Mary</title>
		<description>Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes from a deep sleep to find himself the surviving crew member of Project Hail Mary light-years away from earth</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Short Film Review: Cut Off</title>
		<description>Hale struggles to save himself on realizing a technical glitch has Cut Off the air supply to his hermetically sealed bedroom</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>My Inbox – Discover the 2026 selection</title>
		<description>Things that land in my inbox</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: O Ultimo Azul (The Blue Trail)</title>
		<description>Now playing in the US</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain) (Amelie de Montmartre)</title>
		<description>25th anniversary re-release in the UK and Ireland</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Past Review: Stand by Me</title>
		<description>40th anniversary re-release in the US</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#stanrein</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#stanrein</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: Moulin Rouge!</title>
		<description>25th anniversary re-release in the UK</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m2.html#rouge</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m2.html#rouge</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>My Inbox – Discover the 2026 poster!</title>
		<description>Things that land in my inbox</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/feedback.html#mb260317</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/feedback.html#mb260317</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>My Inbox</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Wuthering Heights [2026]</title>
		<description>When a mortifying injury makes Cathy Earnshaw an unexpected guest at Thrushcross Grange, it provides her a chance to escape her abusive father at Wuthering Heights</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_w.html#wuthfenn</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_w.html#wuthfenn</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Commentary: Drumming the bum</title>
		<description>Poor Timothee Chalamet may have gone home empty-handed, but at least he'll be forever immortalized by his eponymous Bum Drum</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/comments/c260316.html</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/comments/c260316.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Commentaries</category>
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		<title>Oscar Predictions: The 2026 Academy Awards (scored)</title>
		<description>How did I do with my predictions for the 2026 Academy Award winners (for films released in 2025)?</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/oscar25w.html</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/oscar25w.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Oscar Predictions</category>
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		<title>Past Review: The Straight Story</title>
		<description>4K restoration re-release in the UK</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#straight</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#straight</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Commentary Flashback: Oscars letting it go</title>
		<description>Flashback to 2014: What's the fun of an Oscar telecast that you can't ridicule? (Thank goodness for John Travolta)</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/comments/c140304.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Commentaries</category>
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		<title>1987 Flashback: Summer Night, with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil</title>
		<description>Flashback to 1987: Lina Wertmuller's Notte d'estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico (Summer Night, with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil)</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_n.html#estate</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_n.html#estate</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>1997 Flashback: Peter Lichtefeld's Trains and Roses</title>
		<description>Flashback to 1997: Peter Lichtefeld's Zugvogel (Trains and Roses)</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_z.html#roses</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_z.html#roses</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Juego de amor prohibido (Forbidden Love Game)</title>
		<description>Is their teacher Don Luis playing some sort of Forbidden Love Game with them, wonder Miguel and Julia, as he keeps them prisoners in his house</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_j.html#juegdela</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_j.html#juegdela</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Vampire Circus</title>
		<description>Fifteen years after Count Mitterhaus cursed the village of Stetl, few suspect a newly arrived troop of gypsy entertainers is actually a Vampire Circus</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_v.html#vampyoun</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_v.html#vampyoun</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Sebastian</title>
		<description>London graduate student Max Williamson combines recompense with literary research, using the name Sebastian as he engages in sex work</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s1.html#sebamake</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s1.html#sebamake</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Short Film Review: Fur Elise</title>
		<description>When Ludwig plays Beethoven's Fur Elise on the piano, it prompts a conversation that becomes a turning point</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#furemark</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#furemark</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Short Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Short Film Review: Let Dan Go</title>
		<description>Some time after a mutual tragedy, Abby and Harry meet for a chat and learn that both have found their own way to Let Dan Go</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#letdcarr</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#letdcarr</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Short Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: The Martini Shot</title>
		<description>Coming to UK Digital</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m1.html#martwall</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m1.html#martwall</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: O Agente secreto (The Secret Agent)</title>
		<description>Upon returning to his home town Recife, researcher Marcelo Alves finds it necessary to take precautions, not unlike The Secret Agent of popular fiction</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_a.html#agenmend</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_a.html#agenmend</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: A Knight's Tale</title>
		<description>25th anniversary 4K restoration in the UK</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_k.html#tale</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_k.html#tale</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Sinners</title>
		<description>Reverend Jedidiah Moore proves prophetic when warning his blues-loving son Sammie that, if he congregates with Sinners, sin will follow him home</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s1.html#sinncoog</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s1.html#sinncoog</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Merge</title>
		<description>A series of vignettes pose the question, at what point do technology, in its complexity, and human beings, with their consciousness, Merge?</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m1.html#mergbapt</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m1.html#mergbapt</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: The Stunt Man</title>
		<description>4K re-release in the UK</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#stuntman</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#stuntman</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Documentary Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Song Sung Blue</title>
		<description>Under the professional name Lightning and Thunder, Mike and Claire Sardina perform covers of such popular Neil Diamond songs as 'Sweet Caroline' and 'Song Sung Blue' but always open with 'Soolaimon'</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#songbrew</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#songbrew</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Marty Supreme</title>
		<description>Among Marty Mauser's many ambitious ideas to promote his world-class table tennis career is the Marty Supreme orange ping pong ball</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m1.html#martsafd</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m1.html#martsafd</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Short Film Review: Michael Solace</title>
		<description>As his agent tries to convince him to sell his screenplay, Michael Solace has deep-rooted fears of selling his soul</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#michespe</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#michespe</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Short Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Oscar Predictions: The 2026 Academy Awards</title>
		<description>Predictions? Not really, these are just guesses about who will win the 2025 Academy Awards (for films released in 2025)</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/oscar25n.html</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/oscar25n.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Oscar Predictions</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Hamnet</title>
		<description>Agnes Hathaway and her husband William Shakespeare struggle to cope with the illness and death of their son Hamnet</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_h.html#hamnzhao</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_h.html#hamnzhao</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: French Exit</title>
		<description>Dwindling finances necessitate that Manhattan socialite Frances Price and her son Malcolm make a French Exit to avail of a borrowed apartment in Paris</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_f.html#frenjaco</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_f.html#frenjaco</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Commentary: Once more, spun out by the Globes</title>
		<description>At least when she said the Golden Globes were 'without a doubt, the most important thing that’s happening in the world right now,' she meant it ironically</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/comments/c260113.html</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/comments/c260113.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Commentaries</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Blue Moon</title>
		<description>Lyricist Lorenz Hart, whose numerous hits include the popular ballad Blue Moon, spends a long night at Sardi's, witnessing his erstwhile composing partner's new success</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_b1.html#bluelink</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_b1.html#bluelink</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Documentary Film Review: Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan</title>
		<description>His TV variety show was a Sunday Best, but The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan was his passion for desegregating America's entertainment</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#sundjenk</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#sundjenk</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Documentary Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: Sunset Boulevard</title>
		<description>75th anniversary 4K restoration in the UK</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#sunswild</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_s2.html#sunswild</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Documentary Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: Lovers and Other Strangers</title>
		<description>The occasion of Mike and Susan's wedding prompts those close to them to ponder their own roles as Lovers and Other Strangers</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_l.html#lovehowa</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_l.html#lovehowa</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Commentary: Cinema tempestuosa</title>
		<description>It would be too weird if the film playing when the roof fell in was The Perfect Storm</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/comments/c251104.html</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/comments/c251104.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Commentaries</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: One Battle After Another</title>
		<description>When Perfidia Beverly Hills is arrested and interrogated, her revolutionary compatriots know it will be One Battle After Another from here on out</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_o.html#onebande</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_o.html#onebande</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Short Film Review: Vielleicht besser so (Perhaps Better That Way)</title>
		<description>Over coffee Jule tells Clara her application was rejected, adding resignedly, Perhaps Better That Way</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#vielmark</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#vielmark</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Short Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: A Room with a View</title>
		<description>Miss Lucy Honeychurch and her chaperon are graciously offered A Room with a View in their Florence pensione by Mr. Emerson and his son George</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_r.html#roomivor</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_r.html#roomivor</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird</title>
		<description>Now playing in the UK</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_o.html#omardavi</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_o.html#omardavi</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Documentary Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: Corpse Bride</title>
		<description>20th anniversary re-release in the UK</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_c.html#bride</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_c.html#bride</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Documentary Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: Goldeneye</title>
		<description>30th anniversary re-release in the UK</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_g.html#golden</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_g.html#golden</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: Re-Creation</title>
		<description>Now playing in Ireland</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_r.html#recrsher</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_r.html#recrsher</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Feature Film Review: My Left Foot</title>
		<description>Born with cerebral palsy to a large inner-city Dublin family, Christy Brown overcomes his severe handicaps to paint, write and pen a memoir called My Left Foot</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m2.html#mylesher</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_m2.html#mylesher</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Short Film Review: Willow and Wu</title>
		<description>Virtual strangers, a wealthy businessman and his wife's assistant must work together, and by the end of the day Willow and Wu manage to make a connection</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#willmeng</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/shortrevs.html#willmeng</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Short Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: Hamilton</title>
		<description>Now playing in Ireland</description>
		<link>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_h.html#hamikail</link>
		<guid>https://www.scottsmovies.com/films_h.html#hamikail</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<author>scott@scottsmovies.com (ScottsMovies)</author>
        <category>Feature Film Reviews</category>
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		<title>Past Review: Poison</title>
		<description>Now playing in the UK</description>
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