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		<title>Christmas with the Kranks (2004)</title>
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Christmas is a time of tradition.  What we did last year, we do this year.  Or at least we do what we remember as being in the spirit of the season and not yucky (which is deep-sixed from memory).  Try to stray from it and watch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/christmas-with-the-kranks-2004/</link>
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		<title>Pulse (2006)</title>
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Conspiracies are almost the staff of life on the internet.  They&#8217;re pervasive.  We see them on many sites where someone thinks that one or more someone elses have done something, are covering up some event or are out to do something nefarious.  Who is doing what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/pulse-2006/</link>
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		<title>Junebug (2005)</title>
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One of the many steps we take as we grow into an adult is consider how we fit into the culture in which we find ourselves.  This is particularly the case when we move to another city, take on a new occupation and gather around us new friends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/junebug-2005/</link>
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		<title>Ultraviolet (2006)</title>
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What does it take to prove you&#8217;re human?  Violet Song jat Shariff (Milla Jovovich), a courier, discovers it takes a battery of tests.  She&#8217;s ushered into a sterile room where they immobilize her, stick probes into her bloodstream and eyes, her mouth and teeth to verify breathing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/ultraviolet-2006/</link>
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		<title>Transporter 2 (2005)</title>
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A promise is a promise.  It is easy to make one but it can be difficult to follow through.  But this doesn&#8217;t phase Frank Martin (Jason Statham).  He doesn&#8217;t make promises he doesn&#8217;t intend to keep.  Despite crazed Russian doctors like Dimitri (Jason Flemyng) trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/transporter-2-2005/</link>
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		<title>War of the Worlds (2005)</title>
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His preteen daughter (Dakota Fanning) is allergic to peanut butter.  His teenage son (Justin Chatwin) has nothing to say to him.   Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise), a divorced father, is oblivious to the lives of his children.  He doesn&#8217;t know who they are, what they like, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/war-of-the-worlds-2005/</link>
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		<title>Birthday Girl (2001)</title>
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I know a fellow who got himself a mail-order bride.  He wasn&#8217;t having any success with local ladies and really wanted to have someone with whom he could share his life. One day, he asked me to take some photos of him and was purposefully vague as to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/birthday-girl-2001/</link>
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		<title>Dead Fish (2004)</title>
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I&#8217;ve had bad days.  You&#8217;ve had bad days.  We&#8217;ve all had bad days.  Some bad days are worse than others.  We cope, we overcome, we endure.  We get past the.  We try to make the best of whatever circumstances in which we find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/dead-fish-2004/</link>
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		<title>The Devil Wears Prada (2006)</title>
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Who says fashion doesn&#8217;t influence our day-to-day life?  Not Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) who lectures her 2nd-assistant Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) on how she came to wear her blue sweater.  Starting with an Oscar de la Renta show in 2002 who did a cerulean blue collection, through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/the-devil-wears-prada-2006/</link>
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		<title>Maid in Manhattan (2002)</title>
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How culpable are you when circumstance paints you as some on you are not?   It&#8217;s often harder to explain why/what/how something happened than it is to go along.  Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) finds herself in these circumstances but she chooses not to explain because she figures [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/maid-in-manhattan-2002/</link>
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		<title>The Tuxedo (2002)</title>
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Sometimes what you think you should expect from someone can be antithetical to what they can exhibit.  (i.e. people often have hidden depths).  Del Blaine (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is a meek water scientist who wants to be a CSA field agent.  Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/the-tuxedo-2002/</link>
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		<title>Mr. Brooks (2007)</title>
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Bad guys always seem to figure that their plans will work out the way they want them to.  You&#8217;d expect they would realize that not everything is within their control.  When escaped murderer Thorton Meeks (Matt Schulze) grabs Detective Tracy Arnold (Demi Moore) off the street and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/mr-brooks-2007/</link>
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		<title>Inside Man (2006)</title>
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Sometimes a villain is just a villain.  Sometimes they&#8217;re a charmer and you wish they weren&#8217;t a villain.  Sometimes they&#8217;re doing a villainous deed for what&#8217;s thought to be the right reason.   Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) is all of theses and NYPD Detective Keith Frazier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/inside-man-2006/</link>
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		<title>The Holiday (2006)</title>
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Most everyone over 18 has gotten drunk at least once and likely done things that they can&#8217;t remember the next morning.  It is with a degree of chagrin that I must admit it has happened to me more than once.  So when Amanda (Cameron Diaz) surfaces one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/the-holiday-2006/</link>
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		<title>Material Girls (2006)</title>
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If you&#8217;re fortunate, you&#8217;ll have someone in your life who accepts you as you are with all of your faults, doesn&#8217;t pass judgement on what you do and treats you as you deserve.  If you are truly lucky that person isn&#8217;t even a family member.   For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/material-girls-2006/</link>
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		<title>A Dirty Shame (2004)</title>
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You&#8217;re too young.  Mom and dad know best.  Listen to your parents.  You have no idea what you are doing.  You&#8217;ll have to live with that if you keep it up.  Parents are always to willing to offer advice.  Even when you thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/a-dirty-shame-2004/</link>
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		<title>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)</title>
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Practically everyone has another that they imbue with the traits they admire and hope to emulate.  Not all of them live up to the standards and some pass before their admirer expects.  How do you cope with such a change?  Most go on with a pall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-2001/</link>
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		<title>Live Free or Die Hard (2007)</title>
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Plausibility isn&#8217;t often found in some movies.  One place I found it was in the characterization of a &#8216;fire sale.&#8217;  Matthew Farrell (Justin Long) uses this term to describe the plan by Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) to systematically shut down the United States infrastructure.   It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/live-free-or-die-hard-2007/</link>
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		<title>Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)</title>
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A friend of mine convinced me that we should attend our high school reunion.  Although we went to the same high school and knew one another by name, we didn&#8217;t become chums until we were in university.  We didn&#8217;t see anyone we knew from high school except [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/grosse-pointe-blank-1997/</link>
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		<title>Drop Zone (1994)</title>
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The new guy is always a target for fun and frolics.  Sometimes the tormentors make a mistake.  They pick on someone who is able to teach them a lesson in etiquette.  Pete Nessip (Wesley Snipes) drops by a jumper bar and plops himself down at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/drop-zone-1994/</link>
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		<title>License to Wed (2007)</title>
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Sadie Jones (Mandy Moore) is slated to marry Ben Murphy (John Krasinski) and she wants to be wed in the family church, St. Augustine&#8217;s, which is run by Reverend Frank (Robin Williams).  He&#8217;ll do it if they pass his patented &#8220;marriage preparation&#8221; course which involves a number of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/license-to-wed-2007/</link>
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		<title>The Crying Game (1992)</title>
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It is tough to be taken seriously when you&#8217;re blonde even in the IRA.  Jude (Miranda Richardson) decides to be a brunette when she returns to enlist the aid of Fergus (Stephen Rea).  He thought he&#8217;d shed all of the intrigue of the past.  She brings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/the-crying-game-1992/</link>
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		<title>Underworld (2003)</title>
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Have you ever met someone with whom you are certain that you&#8217;ll be with forever?  Nope, neither have I.  But watch Selene (Kate Beckinsale) step of that balcony in the rain, clad in that long leather coat and those thigh high buckle-up boots and land with such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/underworld-2003/</link>
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		<title>Hellboy (2004)</title>
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There comes a time in everyone&#8217;s life when you become the first in your lineage.  Hellboy (Ron Perlman) learns of his pseudo-dad&#8217;s, Professor Broom (John Hurt), death and cradles him in his arms, watches from afar as his casket is carried through the rain and he is uncommunicative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/hellboy-2004/</link>
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		<title>The Sweetest Thing (2002)</title>
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Why do women go to the ladies room together?  One answer is to fondle one another or, at least, that&#8217;s what two lads think as they spy upon Courtney Rockcliffe (Christina Applegate) squeezing her breasts, while another occupant wonders whether they are real, egged on by Christina (Cameron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/the-sweetest-thing-2002/</link>
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		<title>Total Recall (1990)</title>
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Memory is about all we have to distinguish us from everybody else.  We could all look like an androgynous Arnold Schwarzenegger but it would be our memories which would forge us into the persons we are.  So the implant of false memories even for something as trivial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/total-recall-1990/</link>
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		<title>Closure (2007)</title>
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Most crimes that police investigate involve ones against other persons or ones involving property.  Property can be replaced or repaired.  But what about people?  How can they be fixed?  Civilized society prescribes that incarceration is about the best they can do.  But is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/closure-2007/</link>
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		<title>Ocean&#8217;s Eleven (2001)</title>
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Do you ever wonder if some of these actors are as smart as they appear in the movies and on TV?  Or are they as dumb as a bag of rocks?  I&#8217;d imagine it is somewhere in between.  However, when Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) is picking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/oceans-eleven-2001/</link>
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		<title>Catwoman (2004)</title>
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He self-tans.  He eats vitamins like they&#8217;re Viagra.  He dates girls that were born the same day as they invented the cell phone.  He is married to Laurel Hedare (Sharon Stone).  George Hedare (Lambert Wilson) is losing it as he has discovered that his new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/catwoman-2004/</link>
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		<title>Wimbledon (2004)</title>
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 Peter Colt&#8217;s (Paul Bettany) agent Ron Roth (Jon Favreau) ducked and skipped his calls for the better part of a year.  Now that Peter is in the limelight and Ron is back to slime his way into representing him for endorsements once again. Ron seems to everywhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/wimbledon-2004/</link>
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		<title>Be Cool (2005)</title>
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Style over substance.  A mile wide and an inch deep.  Raji (Vince Vaughn) is a gangsta-rap wannabe manager but doesn&#8217;t know who the Cyprus Hill Gang is.  Sin LaSalle (Cedric the Entertainer) quotes a Dylan tune but doesn&#8217;t know its origin from the Pat Garrett and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/be-cool-2005/</link>
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		<title>Sin City (2005)</title>
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Sometimes you meet somebody who does you a good turn for no reason whatsoever.  You&#8217;re puzzled by it but you&#8217;re grateful too.  Especially if it doesn&#8217;t happen often. Marv (Mickey Rourke) is not a nice guy.  He&#8217;s been to prison for despicable acts and doesn&#8217;t see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/sin-city-2005/</link>
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		<title>My Boss&#8217;s Daughter (2003)</title>
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Tom Stansfield (Ashton Kutcher) leaves his brain in the wash when he sees an opportunity to romance Lisa Taylor (Tara Reid), his boss&#8217;s daughter.  In a foolish moment of weakness that he sees as a date and she sees as a favour, he agrees to house-sit overnight for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/my-bosss-daughter-2003/</link>
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		<title>Strange Wilderness (2008)</title>
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I suppose if I were ten, I&#8217;d think that this is one of the bestest movies ever made.  Never mind that Ecuador could sub for southern California, that none of the characters seem to be able to find their asses with radar, that their actions seem to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/strange-wilderness-2008/</link>
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		<title>Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#8217;s Chest (2006)</title>
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Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) is the captain of the Flying Dutchman, a legendary ghost ship which haunts the seas in search of cursed souls to serve upon his vessel for a century.  He was unable to bear the pain of losing his one true love so he carved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dvdredux.com/index.php/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest-2006/</link>
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