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    <title>Star Trek Into Darkness Movie Review: Leads Into Dopiness and Damnableness</title>
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    <published>2013-05-18T01:53:00Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-18T06:28:21Z</updated>

    <summary>One of the worst movies I've seen in quite a while.</summary>
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        <name>Gordon S. Miller</name>
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        <![CDATA[Spoilers are revealed throughout about Into Darkness because they need to be addressed in order to illustrate how truly terrible the story is.  To get a sense of the reviewer's opinion without learning specifics, he paraphrases the classic two-word review of Spinal Tap's Shark Sandwich, and simply writes &quot;Shit Trek.&quot; When it was announced back in January that J.J. Abrams was going to direct Episode VII of the Star Wars saga, many Star Trek fans were disappointed to be losing the successful producer/director. After suffering through the abysmal Star Trek Into Darkness, they should hope he never returns. Forget bad Star Trek; this is an extremely bad movie. While Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman came up with a very clever way to recast the Original Series characters through the use of an alternate timeline in the previous movie, their version of the Trek universe didn't seem much like the one I knew. There was little else clever about it and it was too focused on action. This sequel is even worse. The story of Into Darkness is so poorly thought out one has to wonder if it's because of the limited abilities of the writers (who are]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Star Trek Into Darkness Never Should Have Seen the Light of Day</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1629</id>

    <published>2013-05-17T19:21:43Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-18T06:41:02Z</updated>

    <summary>Ultimately, it is poor storytelling that leads the audience into darkness. </summary>
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        <name>RonsReviews</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/ronsreviews/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[After J.J. Abrams established a new timeline with Star Trek (2009) that would allow new stories to be told with the original characters, this sequel was time for Abrams to boldly go where no one had gone before.  Or, go where we have gone before, and just make the trip a less pleasurable experience.  Nice choice, Abrams. Into Darkness opens with an action sequence that sets the audience up perfectly for what is to follow:  an overproduced segment taken straight from Indiana Jones, which features some of the worst makeup and costuming seen in science fiction in decades, and lets us know that this version of Kirk (Chris Pine) takes risks that ignore Starfleet regulations while Abrams takes risks that ignore the basic foundations of good storytelling.  Into Darkness consists of poor choices by all involved.  From Abrams; to writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof; to actors like Zachary Quinto, who manages to utter an iconic line so poorly that it is not only an insult to Star Trek fans, but to actors as well.  Benedict Cumberbatch also gives a one-dimensional performance, but it is more the writers' fault than his as he is forced to summarize the development]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate DVD Review: A Timeless Exploration of Hatred</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1627</id>

    <published>2013-05-16T14:43:51Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-16T14:55:28Z</updated>

    <summary>Bill Moyers once again provides compelling and timeless programming with Beyond Hate, a documentary that first aired in 1991. The special has been released on DVD by Athena with the bonus program Facing Hate, a 58-minute interview with Moyers and...</summary>
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        <name>Canadian Cinephile</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/canadian-cinephile/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[Bill Moyers once again provides compelling and timeless programming with Beyond Hate, a documentary that first aired in 1991. The special has been released on DVD by Athena with the bonus program Facing Hate, a 58-minute interview with Moyers and Elie Wiesel. There is also a 12-page booklet that outlines some historical context. Beyond Hate provides a lucid exploration of a complex subject, discovering hate in many forms and locations and discovering an interesting sense of continuity. Watching the documentary in 2013 reveals that little has changed in our cultural landscape; indeed, it appears we have new avenues down which we can hate and new opportunities to spread our respective messages of animosity. Moyers sets out to delve into the roots of hatred and to discover if there is a method to the madness. He ventures from South Central Los Angeles to Jerusalem, even visiting the Anatomy of Hate conference in Norway and speaking to such luminaries as Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela. But how is hate defined? To have Wiesel tell it, hate is &amp;#8220;when a person wants to aggrandize himself at the expense of the other.&amp;#8221; Hate becomes directed toward the almighty Other and the process of dehumanizing]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Book Review: Film Noir FAQ by David J. Hogan</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1626</id>

    <published>2013-05-16T14:15:00Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-16T17:36:27Z</updated>

    <summary>All that's left to know about Hollywood's Golden Age of dames, detectives, and danger.</summary>
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        <name>Chris Morgan</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/chris-morgan/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[When you flip open to the back of Film Noir FAQ, you will find out that it is one in a series of &quot;FAQ&quot; books. This may be concerning to anybody who has read one of those cheap, tossed-off books out of a series. Often you will find these books about sports teams, all basic information and spelling errors. Fortunately, those fears are unfounded. Hogan put a ton of effort and insight into Film Noir FAQ. The last thing that would be used to describe it is &quot;tossed off.&quot; Film noir is a nebulous genre, and some may argue that it isn't even a genre, but a style of filmmaking. Hogan is aware of this, and in fact calls it out in the beginning, before setting the table for what is to come. The book clarifies what it means by &quot;film noir&quot; and Hogan also decides to focus on movies of the '40s and '50s, although there is an afterword to the book as well to discuss more modern things. The chapters are broken up based on themes and characters. There's a chapter on femme fatales, on hard-boiled private eyes, you know, the usual stuff. Basically, your idea of film]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Miles Davis with Quincy Jones &amp; the Gil Evans Orchestra Live at Montreux Blu-ray Review: Sketches from Switzerland</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1614</id>

    <published>2013-05-16T06:52:00Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-16T10:42:04Z</updated>

    <summary>A wonderful bit of jazz history for a number of reasons.</summary>
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        <name>Gordon S. Miller</name>
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        <![CDATA[With a career that frequently found him spearheading new jazz genres over the course six decades, Miles Davis became one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, not just in jazz or music, but all the arts. He was a musician that constantly looked forward exploring new ideas because, as quoted in the liner notes, Miles felt that &amp;#8220;if anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change.&amp;#8221; That's why this concert, which found Miles looking back at his work with Gil Evans, was so special. The reason Miles agreed after initially turning it down isn't made clear, but it likely had to do with how special he found the relationships with the men involved. Evans died in March 1988, and Miles dedicated his next two albums to him. Miles made frequent appearances at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1991 and he had a friendship with co-founder Claude Nob. That year Quincy Jones became co-producer of the festival and &amp;#8220;had long wanted to perform on stage&amp;#8221; with his old friend. It was his idea to perform the Evans arrangements, which they did on July 8. It may also had to]]>
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<entry>
    <title>generation Um... Movie Review: Um... Well... Um... Yeah... So... Um... No.</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1625</id>

    <published>2013-05-15T23:34:00Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-15T23:39:24Z</updated>

    <summary>Speaking of boring, as characters go, John is like so many other Keanu Kreations - completely devoid of emotion to the point that you want to hold a mirror under his nose when he's not moving.</summary>
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        <name>Michael Nazarewycz</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/michael-nazarewycz/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[Every so often on my late local news (and surely this happens in every other TV market in the country), I see a report about a crime that baffles me. I don't mean the kind of crime that leaves me wondering how anyone could do something so heinous to their fellow man. I mean the kind of crime that leaves me wondering what the hell were they thinking. It's the kind of crime where three or four people hatch some hair-brained scheme to knock over a liquor store or scam a senior citizen or steal puppies from the mall or some other nonsense like that. And every time ... every time ... I have the same thought: if one guy hatches such a ludicrous plan, then fine. I mean, he's an idiot and all, but he was alone in his concept, planning, and (most importantly) execution. But it wasn't one guy; it was four. How did that meeting go? How did Criminal One frame the plan in such a way as to convince Criminals Two, Three, and Four that this plan ... THIS plan ... no matter how crazy it might have seemed, was the way to go? Such was]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Star Trek (2009) Movie Review: A Weak Story with Plenty of Action</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1620</id>

    <published>2013-05-15T05:35:00Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-15T06:44:04Z</updated>

    <summary>Will feed the hungry fans, but the meal is a bit overcooked.</summary>
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        <name>RonsReviews</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/ronsreviews/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[In 1994, Paramount transitioned the Star Trek movie franchise from the the Original Series cast to the Next Generation cast in Generations, which conveniently served its purpose.  Not a great film, but it worked.  Captain Picard and his crew followed up with the huge home run First Contact in 1996, but then killed the franchise with the two yawners that were Insurrection (1998) and Nemesis (2002). Trek fans then had little to embrace other than the under appreciated television series Enterprise which lasted until 2005. The franchise was to be reborn in 2008, but the writer&amp;#8217;s strike kept anxious fans waiting another six months. On May 8. 2009, the highly anticipated re-tooling of the Original Series hit the big screen courtesy of Paramount and Hollywood wonderboy J.J. Abrams. Much like Generations, Star Trek (2009) certainly serves its purpose in launching the film franchise in a new direction, but unlike Generations, this film tends to be a bit over produced. Star Trek reintroduces us to the original characters from the 1966 television series, in relative infancy in their respective Starfleet careers, as they set out to stop a rogue Romulan ship from destroying the planet Vulcan. Most of the new cast takes their own interpretation on the]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Hitchcock (2012) Blu-ray Review: A Legend Plays a Legend</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1623</id>

    <published>2013-05-15T05:29:26Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-15T05:39:55Z</updated>

    <summary>Hopkins shines as the master of suspense.</summary>
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        <name>Mark Buckingham</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/mark-buckingham/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[Make no mistake: Anthony Hopkins has some acting chops. He&amp;#8217;s brought to life some of the most memorable, likeable, and sinister characters in film, sometimes all at the same time. When faced with the prospect of Hopkins playing the iconic Alfred Hitchcock in a mini-biopic centered around the production of the genre-defining horror flick Psycho, and being a fan of Hitchcock myself, it&amp;#8217;s understandable to have some reservations, but fear not -- Hopkins lives and breathes the master of suspense from the opening shot to the closing credits. From the plodding gait to the bulbous posture, the pouty mouth to the subtle British accent, he brings every ounce of presence that Hitchcock had in person and in the camera frame. I avoided trailers and advertisements to go in with as blank of a slate as possible, the way Hitch would have wanted it. Can&amp;#8217;t have anyone giving away the ending! Things kick off with an introduction to &amp;#8220;The Plainfield Ghoul&amp;#8221; Ed Gein, the man whose horrific acts inspired not only Hitchcock&amp;#8217;s character Norman Bates, but also Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Jame Gumb (The Silence of the Lambs). Hitch discovers a book detailing Gein&amp;#8217;s crimes while searching for a]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Star Trek: Nemesis Movie Review: The Wrath of Bad Moviemaking</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1622</id>

    <published>2013-05-14T21:58:00Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-14T22:32:16Z</updated>

    <summary>The Next Generation crew go out with a whimper.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Gordon S. Miller</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/gordon-s-miller/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[At this point in the Trek film franchise, the makers of Star Trek had obviously given up on trying to appeal to an audience outside of the sci-fi convention attendees (referred to hereafter as &quot;Conners&quot;). It's too bad because Star Trek's strengths were in its storytelling. It used to reflect society and give us morality plays that all could identify with, but they no longer could, no longer tried, or no longer cared to go outside of what they think the Conners want to see when they finally, so we are left with this mess. Nemesis starts at a Romulan High Council meeting where everyone not in league with Shinzon (Tom Hardy) is killed, allowing a new force to move in and take over. For some reason the Romulan populace either never notices the coup, does nothing about it, or else they've all been placed in some sort of Phantom Zone because we don't see or hear from them. It is odd for a warrior race such as the Romulans to allow a coup to go unchallenged, but it starts off as a nice hook for the movie, so it doesn't have to make sense. The coup is a result of]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Beautiful Creatures Blu-ray Review: A Solid Supernatural Story Worth Watching</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1621</id>

    <published>2013-05-14T21:34:14Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-14T22:06:56Z</updated>

    <summary>An engaging plot and interesting characters elevates this about standard teen films.</summary>
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        <name>Kristen Lopez</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/kristen-lopez/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[I enjoy being surprised at a well-done movie, particularly if it&amp;#8217;s in the squalid, increasingly boring teen genre.  Having never read the original source material from which Beautiful Creatures is adapted from, I had some reservations about its story involving witches and forbidden love.  Thankfully, my hesitations were unfounded and Beautiful Creatures is one of the few enjoyable teen films out there today (sadly, its bombing at the box office will put the kibosh on future installments).  While the Blu-ray is beautiful, you need to enjoy the movie itself because the bonus features are fairly weak.  It&amp;#8217;s not a huge problem because the strong cast and script creates a motion picture worth adding to your collection. In a world of light and dark &amp;#8220;casters&amp;#8221; (aka witches), a small Southern town is rocked when mysterious Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert) arrives and falls in love with Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich).  Unfortunately, a curse is set to doom their love, and Lena must control her powers unless she wants to risk destroying the boy she loves. The world created by director/screenwriter Richard LaGravenese is what works to great effect in Beautiful Creatures.  The audience is never inundated with information, nor are we force-fed]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Star Trek: Insurrection Movie Review: New Aliens, Age-old Problems</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1618</id>

    <published>2013-05-14T07:50:00Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-14T11:23:28Z</updated>

    <summary>A mixed bag, with plenty to like and dislike.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Gordon S. Miller</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/gordon-s-miller/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[Star Trek: Insurrection was the third mission of the Next Generation crew on the silver screen. The movie found them on their own, both onscreen and off, as they rebelled against Federation plans and appeared without the aid of familiar friends (Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov in Generations) or foes (the Borg in First Contact) to help draw an audience like the previous two. On an idyllic planet in an area of space known as the Briar Patch, the android Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner) goes bezerk and exposes a surveillance program of the Ba'ku, a group of 600 humanoids who live a pastoral, technologically free lifestyle. The program is run by Starfleet in conjunction with a small group of aliens known as the Son'a, an aged race with a mummified appearance. Their leader, Ahdar Ru'afo (F. Murray Abraham), is frequently receiving facelift treatments that bring to mind the procedure Sam's mother Ida receives in Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Admiral Dougherty (Anthony Zerbe) requests Data schematics from Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) but Picard wants to see if he can figure out what's wrong with Data before allowing Dougherty to turn him off. Lieutenant Commander Worf (Michael Dorn), conveniently on leave from Deep]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Cloud Atlas is the Pick of the Week</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1617</id>

    <published>2013-05-14T05:54:00Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-14T06:47:07Z</updated>

    <summary>I'm probably not going to like it, but it just looks too damned interesting to not at least try to like it.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Mat Brewster</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/mat-brewster/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[Sometimes you gotta go with your gut. I tend to take this Pick of the Week thing a little too seriously. I spend entirely too much time debating which title I should bestow my little honor upon. I contemplate the type of film or TV show I want to highlight. I look over the extras and read reviews online.  I ponder the reaction of picking one thing over another.  Etc, etc, etc. I recognize that none of this really matters and yet each week I debate the merits of my choices like I was choosing which child is my favorite. Often I've not seen the movies under consideration so I wind up going with reviews or extras or how badly I want to see something.  In the case of this week's pick, the latter wins over the former.  Cloud Atlas is based upon a much loved, but apparently difficult (I haven't read it either) book. The movie adapted by the Wachowskis starred Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and got a lot of early buzz.  Initial previews made the film look stunningly gorgeous and showed Hanks and the rest of the cast playing multiple characters in a variety of interesting looking make-up]]>
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<entry>
    <title>North by Northwest Movie Review: A Perfectly Fine Movie but Not Legendary</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1619</id>

    <published>2013-05-14T05:51:54Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-14T06:22:05Z</updated>

    <summary>A fine thriller, but there's nothing special about it. </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Chris Morgan</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/chris-morgan/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock is a highly acclaimed filmmaker who, while he never got an Academy Award, he did get a movie about him wherein he was played by Anthony Hopkins. Plus, there was that HBO movie too with that guy who played Truman Capote. No, not Philip Seymour Hoffman. The other guy. While he has many beloved movies, 1959's North by Northwest is high on the list. It features Hitchcock working alongside one of his favorite actors in Cary Grant, and several scenes and set pieces that have become extremely famous. It probably does not require a spoiler alert to mention that Grant is chased by a plane at one point. We all know that happens. We've seen the parodies on The Simpsons. Grant plays Roger Thornhill, a suave, quippy New York ad executive. The exact kind of character he excelled at. One day, he is mistaken for a mysterious gentleman named George Kaplan, so a couple of mysterious goons kidnap him and take him to a house where he meets a mysterious man played by James Mason. After he escapes an attempt on his life, Thornhill decides to try and get to the bottom of the situation, and so begins]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Doctor Who: The Visitation Special Edition Review: Rubber Reptiles and Disco Androids Bring the Plague</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1616</id>

    <published>2013-05-14T03:34:48Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-14T05:13:01Z</updated>

    <summary>A visit to London with the Fifth Doctor and his companions.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Mat Brewster</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/mat-brewster/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[The Visitation is the fourth serial of the 19th season of Doctor Who. Though it was fourth one aired, it was actually the second one produced, and thus only the second time Peter Davison played the titular character (he briefly appeared in the final episode of the 18th season but only at the end so that viewers could get a hint of what the new Doctor looked like).  The episode was written by Eric Saward and this was his first time writing for the series.  Given the newness for both actor and writer The Visitation has something of an unfinished quality about it. Tiring of traveling with the Doctor, Tegan has demanded to be taken home.  The Doctor agrees and even promised to drop her off at Heathrow only 30 minutes from the time she left so that she can begin her job as a stewardess for Australian Air.  Par for the course when the Doctor tries to land the TARDIS at a specific place in a specific time, he gets it only half right.  They land where Heathrow should be but some 300 years too soon. Never one to let a mistake get in the way of an adventure,]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Texas Chainsaw 3D Blu-ray Review: Wither Heatherface?</title>
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    <id>tag:cinemasentries.com,2013://2.1615</id>

    <published>2013-05-14T02:35:35Z</published>
    <updated>2013-05-14T03:15:49Z</updated>

    <summary>Yes, it's good to be bad.  But this is much worse.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Luigi Bastardo</name>
        <uri>http://cinemasentries.com/writer/luigi-bastardo/</uri>
        
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        <![CDATA[While I was never a &quot;huge&quot; fan of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre series (the ones that started with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in '74), I must confess that one of my favorite LPs in my record collection is that of the soundtrack from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 from 1986. Of course, any motion picture soundtrack that contains Concrete Blonde, Oingo Boingo, Timbuk3, and The Cramps simply demands to be taken seriously - and there's even an offering from The Lords of the New Church (a group that, interestingly has a new singer named Adam Becvare) entitled &quot;Good to Be Bad&quot; - which was inspired from a line of dialogue from the film, and recorded solely for the album. My point? Well, a few years ago in the summer of 2011, a group of filmmakers decided to launch another reboot of the famed horror movie franchise - which apparently had fizzled to a halt when the 2006 prequel to the 2003 remake failed to garner enough interest to potential filmgoers (though both titles proved to be hits in theaters). Or maybe they just decided to change up the whole routine of things. Either way, they seemed to take]]>
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