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 <title>I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, Grade: B</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1188</link>
<description><![CDATA[Decisions by the Supreme Court can be predictable.  You just know well in advance, that the current court will vote 5-4 on some issues like the legality of Proposition 8 or whether corporations can donate unlimited amounts of money to candidates.  Jurors are different.  They can be unpredictable, even ignoring the law as related by the judge's instructions.  For example: let's say that in summing up a case the judge tells the jury, "If you agree that the defendant committed premeditated murder, you may vote "guilty of murder one."  Let's say you're sitting on a jury handling a case in which the defendant admittedly cut, chopped, broken and burned five men, all thoroughly planned out.  That's murder one, no? ]]></description>

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 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:50:56 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Arizona Fishing Report Sept. 1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With dove season being open  (Sept. 1), it's a good time for a cast-n-blast trip, especially along the lower Colorado River.<br />
<br />
Yuma has the prime dove hunting with all of its agricultural fields. During the past two weeks, however, I witnessed lots of doves all along the Colorado River from the Topock Gorge to Yuma (and also lots of fat quail for October fin and feather trips).]]></description>

 <category>Arizona Guide</category>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:53:30 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>THE AMERICAN, Grade: C</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's chic for a movie critic to say that "the book is better," but in this case-considering that the story is a slow-moving psychological suspense thriller-Martin Booth's 1990 novel is the way to go.  As you turn the pages you will doubtless wonder what comes next, the type of tale that intrigues on the page but comes across inert on the big screen.  As directed by Anton Corbijn, "The American" is spare of dialogue (script by Rowan Joffe and the novelist), the music by Herbert Grönemeyer either non-existent or anything but intrusive, with a landscape in Italy's Abruzzo region that's, what should we say, European?  The medieval town built on a hill, scene of most of the action, would be nice to drive through but would hardly entice tourists to stay overnight.  This is the sort of place, however, that a fellow in the service of assassins might want to live, a form of redemption that he would not likely find in his home country but rather as an expatriate living the quiet life away from what novelist Martin Booth calls "the shadow-dwellers."]]></description>

 <category>Harvey Critic</category>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:49:25 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Review: Takers, Wait for the DVD</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<br />
Jimmy Buffett wrote a song called "Overkill" and that's the word which best describes this high-powered yet formulaic heist movie that's punctuated with shootouts and explosions, particularly a stylized machine-gun gangbang with Russian mobsters that decimates a Los Angeles hotel suite.]]></description>

 <category>Susan Granger Reviews</category>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:37:18 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Believe your free? Want to stay that way?</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1184</link>
<description><![CDATA[Write just one sentence.  Just one, I dare you... I double dare you... I triple-dog-dare you!<br />
<a href="https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml"><br />
<b>WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE.</b></a><br />
<br />
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 <category>Arizona News</category>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:04:13 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Arizona Fishing Report Aug 25 - Sept 19</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1183</link>
<description><![CDATA[The predatory fish will likely feed all night, so don't expect lots of first light surface boils (although it can still happen). Typically, the good daytime bite will come in late morning, around 9-10 a.m., following a moon bright summer's night. Also keep in mind that black-colored topwater lures, including buzzbaits, can sometimes get you dramatic action at night if you can find active predatory fish from bass to pike.]]></description>

 <category>Arizona Guide</category>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:38:00 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Stallone, &quot;Bullets are easy , emotions are hard&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1182</link>
<description><![CDATA[I like two types of films, action and westerns, both with guns, balls and beautiful women.  Bullets and blood are exactly how Sly closed out his infamous Rambo franchise and as a director he has learned a vital ingredient in  filmmaking-to surround oneself with the finest in the trade that can compliment the grittiness and violence his more recent films are known for. ]]></description>

 <category>Entertainment</category>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:58:22 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1, Grade: B+</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1181</link>
<description><![CDATA["Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1," which finds Cassel's utilizing more disguises than Serpico, scores as a crime movie loaded with tension, with authentic-sounding dialogue from the pen of the director and Abdel Raouf Dafri, adapted from Mesrine's own book, "L'instinct de mort."]]></description>

 <category>Harvey Critic</category>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:16:32 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Piranha 3-D - Scary, Sicko and Chock Full O&apos;Carnage</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1180</link>
<description><![CDATA[When many critics, including me, review a movie they take into consideration how well it accomplishes what it sets out to do. If it's a B horror-flick, is it a real fright-fest? Do you cringe? Do you shriek? If the answer is yes - then it accomplishes what it's meant to do, like "Snakes on a Plane."]]></description>

 <category>Susan Granger Reviews</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:10:55 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Two Stand Up For Mel Gibson, One Rich, One Poor</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1179</link>
<description><![CDATA[Probably one of the best examples of Tourette Syndrome I can think of is the Irish bartender characterized by (<i>Gerard Parkes</i>) in Troy Duffy's directed franchise - The Boondock Saints.  Simple or complex the neurological disorder affects more people than one would imagine.  Historically having its suffers labeled with being demon possessed. ]]></description>

 <category>Entertainment</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:24:54 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>A WOMAN, A GUN, AND A NOODLE SHOP, Grade: B+</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As if to say that even the Coen brothers are too humdrum in the way they put across movies like their freshman debut offering, "Blood Simple," Zhang Yimou goes a few steps further.  "A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop" pays homage to "Blood Simple," a movie which evidently engrossed Zhang, who now puts across a film as highly stylized as Chinese opera.  (In fact, Zhang states in the press notes that he has adopted the aesthetic style of the old Chinese opera piece, "San Cha Kou").]]></description>

 <category>Harvey Critic</category>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:23:03 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>American Wins Second IRF World Championship</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1177</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rhonda Rajsich has captured her second World Championship, successfully defending the title she won in Ireland two years ago, as she defeated Mexico's Nancy Enriquez in the women's singles final at the 15th International Racquetball Federation <i>(IRF) World Championships</i> in Seoul, South Korea.]]></description>

 <category>US News</category>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:23:40 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>MONSTERS (Magnolia Pictures) Grade: C</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1176</link>
<description><![CDATA[The most important task of any sci-fi literature or movie is to entertain, but the best of the genre operates as a critique of our own contemporary society.  "Logan's Run," which featured a civilization in which everyone at the age of thirty is required to enter a machine and be dissolved has much to say about our own youth-crazy society.  "Fahrenheit 451" is an indictment of a society run by big brother but has torn-from-the-press relevance for its message about the decline of reading.  Gareth Edwards, in writing and directing "Monsters," may or may not have been thinking about the Arizona law that is meant to provide a greater check against illegal immigration.  However, given that his movie is neither here nor there-neither an effective romance nor a scary look at giant, alien creatures-it does not bear fruit as either an indictment or an effective entertainment.  To his credit, though, Edwards has put across a tale using an absurdly small budget even as indies go.]]></description>

 <category>Harvey Critic</category>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:50:07 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Grand Canyon State Games Finds Potential New Home</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1175</link>
<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX, Ariz. - Grand Canyon State Games has announced plans to relocate its operational offices from Tempe to the campus of Southwestern College in North Phoenix.]]></description>

 <category>US News</category>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:08:22 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>The Lords of Webtown</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1174</link>
<description><![CDATA["This is our playground and we play by our rules, if you don't like it you can go play in your own yard and tell your Mommy all about how we all laughed at your bell-bottom corduroys."  Personally, were not jocks or rich kids, were not popular outside of this media, although we think were pretty damn good looking were just plain everyday geeks who know what it is; that we know, about what we do.]]></description>

 <category>About Us</category>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:19:39 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Get Low - Slyly Powerful</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1173</link>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Duvall astonishes with the authenticity of his style, his skill and his overall knockout performance in this uniquely American folktale; it's an actor's showcase if there ever was one.]]></description>

 <category>Susan Granger Reviews</category>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:36:22 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>The Switch... Quirky, Implausible</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1172</link>
<description><![CDATA[Although Fox News' Bill O'Reilly gave this artificial-insemination comedy controversial publicity, it's nevertheless a formulaic and utterly predictable romance. ]]></description>

 <category>Susan Granger Reviews</category>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:23:45 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Mao&apos;s Last Dancer - Inspiring, Enthralling</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1171</link>
<description><![CDATA[Think "Billy Elliot" combined with "The Last Emperor" with a touch of "Rocky." Only a master like Bruce Beresford could envision this sweeping, audacious adaptation of Chinese ballet dancer's Li Cunxin's memoirs with such emotional resonance.]]></description>

 <category>Susan Granger Reviews</category>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:08:26 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>Nanny McPhee Returns - A Delightful Late Summer Diversion.</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1170</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rarely do sequels equal or exceed expectations but this comedy does, offering broad slapstick that's guaranteed to elicit laughter from small children and their parents. Emma Thompson reprises the magical character she created in 2005's "Nanny McPhee," based on Christianna Brand's "Nurse Matilda" books, not only starring but also writing the screenplay, as she did with the original.]]></description>

 <category>Susan Granger Reviews</category>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:31:22 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title>LOTTERY TICKET (Warner Bros), Grade: C</title>
 <link>http://www.azreporter.com/news/index.php?itemid=1169</link>
<description><![CDATA[As the TV announcer states near the opening of this movie, the chances of winning the lottery on that particular day was one in 175 million.  This sounds about right.  But movies about lottery tickets should have a better chance of being winners.  Maybe one in every five such tales on the screen would hit the jackpot.  But this is not the one.  The story reminds me of an actual event that occurred last year on August 3.  A Florida man, Louis Tolentino, bought a winning scratch-off ticket worth $500,000.  After he got it confirmed he put it in his back pocket and went straight to the nearest lottery office.  Unfortunately it was closed.  He went to a nearby gas station to ask the attendant where he could find another office, but when he left, the ticket was gone.  Tolentino believe that a man was standing behind him at the gas station.  Duh.]]></description>

 <category>Harvey Critic</category>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:34:40 -0500</pubDate>
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