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		<title>Oscar Nominations The Practical Best Picture</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some films are required viewing for their technical brilliance and cinematic accomplishments, others capture the light just right and the beautiful imagery creates a world for our imagination where captivating characters embark on journeys of adventure, love, and triumph.  You might not escape the troubles of your here and now in films, your everyday, but through our films we have an opportunity for inward journeys where greater things happen all the time and the best we can hope for is to one day have taken similar steps on our own.  The Best Picture Nominees for 2012 are here. <a href="http://rorydean.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/oscar-nominations-the-practical-best-picture/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rorydean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13665678&amp;post=1448&amp;subd=rorydean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Above The Line 2011 Year In Review</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Above The Line Practical Movie Reviews by Rory Dean moves on into the New Year with more than a few things to say about art, movies and the art of movies. <a href="http://rorydean.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/above-the-line-2011-year-in-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rorydean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13665678&amp;post=1442&amp;subd=rorydean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years there’s been a steady upsurge in the number of big budget, high concept films fueled almost entirely on catchy, gimmick-ridden premises. We have to demand more from Hollywood or they’re going to keep shoveling us manure and laughing when we step in it and track it all over the carpets of our lives and spare them the stink. <a href="http://rorydean.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/hollywoods-blockbuster-makes-victims-of-us-all-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rorydean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13665678&amp;post=1434&amp;subd=rorydean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War Horse (2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[War Horse (2011) is effective, entertaining and at times exceedingly sentimental, yet audiences and critics seem mostly upbeat and genuinely receptive since it opened on Christmas day. If Spielberg fails at all it is that he stumbles over this romantic notion of closure and ideals - the often tidy solutions to otherwise untidy situations. <a href="http://rorydean.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/war-horse-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rorydean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13665678&amp;post=1393&amp;subd=rorydean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red State is as much a gamble as it is anything else, a departure that stands a good chance of going too far from Kevin Smith land and alienating fans and followers or not far enough and audiences figure they've had enough Clerks reboots and choose the remake of Footloose instead. <a href="http://rorydean.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/red-state-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rorydean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13665678&amp;post=1357&amp;subd=rorydean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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