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		<title>Taxicab Confession: My Brother and I Are Aliens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schneider</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As terrible as the filmmaking is, I find myself in the eye of a storm of dewy, good-ol’-days memories, an affinity for the likable cast, sympathy for the themes, and the fact that I’m a sucker for good-natured pictures about normal folks on a crazy adventure, where they end up piling in a camper with a cute dog and saving the world.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Through the Secret Door, Adventures in Otherland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schneider</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.playtime-magazine.com/press/?p=2489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind the small door in the wall, in the far corner of the Room Where No One Goes, is another world where children are not supposed to go.  Venture where you like in this disappointing world, the sad, drab, gray house, where your friends are close to you as you sleep, waving motionless from the picture frame; visit your sad, deluded neighbors, whose lives have whisked right by; avoid the boy from over the hill, who talks too much, who talks to his charcoal cat, whose old grandmother lived in your house; venture where you like, anywhere but the world behind the small door where children are not supposed to go...]]></description>
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		<title>Watchmen vs The Dark Knight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex M.</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.playtime-magazine.com/press/?p=2431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, my world just turned upside down.
Early in the year I forced myself to sit through Christopher Nolan&#8217;s painful but much hyped follow-up to the dreadfully mediocre Batman Begins.  You know Christopher Nolan, the guy who made the brilliant and ambitious movie, Memento, following it with one of the decade’s smartest American movies, The Prestige.  As a Batman fan, sitting through The Dark Knight was a physically painful affair: dire, clichéd rubbish, an overly traditional man vs terrorist setup soaked to the brim in an unquestioning philosophy a mile or ...]]></description>
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		<title>We Watched the Watchmen: A Roundtable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Playtime Staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Huge lot of comics fans that we are, the Playtime Staff sat down for a roundtable on Zach Snyder&#8217;s Watchmen (2009). Matt Kessen, our resident Watchmen expert was tapped to conduct the discussion, especially in regards to how the film differed from Moore&#8217;s graphic novel. The following takes place over the the week before and after the film&#8217;s release. If you are interested in continuing the discussion, feel free to jump into the fray on the forum.

Page One: Quis custodiet ipsos custodis? The Pre-Game
Page Two: Why I Am Not Seeing ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Dark Tale of Heroic Deeds, Presented in Glorious SNYDERVISION™</title>
		<link>http://www.playtime-magazine.com/press/2009/03/a-dark-tale-of-heroic-deeds-presented-in-glorious-snydervision%e2%84%a2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schneider</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.playtime-magazine.com/press/?p=2476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A surprisingly sturdy, mildly provocative 105 minute movie is hiding somewhere in Watchmen’s gangly two and three-quarter hours running time.  Dense with shockingly unnecessary exposition, this story about the nature of heroism and identity indulges in a great deal of introspective character study between bouts of flamboyant brutality and fleeting moments where director Zack Snyder’s technical prowess and filmmaking ambition coincide. As a messy, sprawling adaptation, the product of marketing, focus-testing, and the instincts of a young would-be visionary still learning his craft, the inchoate professionalism of the production serves the film’s gargantuan ambitions and readymade stature, rather than completely defeating it.   From the perspective of the film’s own history, it is a miracle that it got made at all. ]]></description>
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		<title>Low and Outside, Episode Two: The Calamari Wrestler</title>
		<link>http://www.playtime-magazine.com/press/2009/03/low-and-outside-episode-two-the-calamari-wrestler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Kessen</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.playtime-magazine.com/press/?p=2434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is the final moments of the championship bout of the Japanese Pro Wrestling Federation, an old-school sort of professional wrestling, from the modern American point of view: these are men in simple black trunks, using their own names, who truly appear to be giving this fight their all. The mood is tense. The wrestlers are sweaty and resolute. But then, one of them, Koji Taguchi, gets his opponent into his signature hold: the dreaded reverse-inverted full nelson. The fight is over, and Taguchi is the new champion; Federation Commissioner ...]]></description>
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		<title>Fearless Campfire Stalkers: or, Pardon Me, but Your Machete Is in My Neck</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schneider</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.playtime-magazine.com/press/?p=2346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather than a boogeyman who despises randy teens, the new Jason almost resembles an evil woodsman -- not unlike the robbers of olde, who would waylay travelers and slit their throats in the dense thickets of the forest.  Some of the cinematography  is  beautiful, capturing the haunting elegance and decay of the woods.  The way Jason’s lair is set up (he’s got a lair!), he is master of these woods.  As his Domain, he won’t tolerate trespassers or poachers -- or even dumb kids who would disturb the placid waters of his lake with a gas-guzzling motorboat, skiing while blasting ear-splitting rock music.  In a way, the modern Jason functions more like the hillbillies of Deliverance or the vengeful ghosts of Tobe Hooper’s <i>Poltergeist</i>: these people Just Don’t Belong Here, and their obliviousness doesn’t justify their punishments, but it affords a cosmically unfair (yet comprehensible) explanation for why they must die as they do.]]></description>
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		<title>Watching The Watchmen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Duesing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Few comic book properties being adapted into the medium of film draw as much fantard enthusiasm, skepticism, and scrutiny as does Watchmen, the beloved graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Gibbons about ex-costumed vigilantes searching for answers after one of their kind is murdered, only to discover that it is a small piece of something bigger and much more terrifying than they initially thought.  The book has long languished in the depths of development hell, with directors such as Terry Gilliam, Paul Greengrass, and Darren Aronofsky ...]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Ends, Adrian: Watchmen’s Implicit Aftermath</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Kessen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was almost immediately after the twelfth, concluding issue of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons&#8217; Watchmen that the popular clamoring for a sequel began. It was no wonder; this comic series had achieved legendary status in the medium by its third issue, and to this day, only Art Spiegelman&#8217;s Maus compares to it in terms of wide public respect among graphic novels.1 Moreover, for all of the depth and intricacy of its symbolism, the subtlety and completeness of its characterization, it was a superhero comic. That people expected continuing serialization ...]]></description>
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		<title>Homogenized Formula: Milk as Mainstream Product</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schneider</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Milk is of a piece with Ang Lee’s <i>Brokeback Mountain</i> in the blunt sense that it is a comfortable, digestible mainstream drama that makes explicitly gay themes more palatable to mass audience members who might defend their appreciation for the film with a phrase like, “It was a good story, even if there were homosexuals in it.”  This is important.  <i>Milk</i> is a pan-cultural call to arms for advancing gay rights – though this isn’t a “gay rights” movie; it’s a movie about people fighting for human rights]]></description>
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