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		<title>A Website and a Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;ve been a bit lax updating movies here at Contour At The Movies lately, but I&#8217;ve been making the big push to finish up  my book for Michael Wiese Publishers, &#8216;My Story Can Beat Up Your Story!&#8217; I&#8217;m having a great time writing the book, and I think that&#8217;ll show when it&#8217;s published [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/02/24/sorry-for-the-lack-of-posts/</link>
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		<title>KRAMER VS KRAMER</title>
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Overall Impression &#8211; A classic I wish I&#8217;d seen sooner.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – Ted Kramer.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: balance being a single parent with his treasured career.  Personal: develop a genuine father/son relationship.  Private: realize what his priorities in life are.
Who&#8217;s trying to stop him? – Ted&#8217;s his own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/02/10/kramer-vs-kramer/</link>
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		<title>Announcing: Contour for iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wasting no time, the geniuses (and all around good guys) over at Mariner Software have shared with me their plans to push a Contour for iPad app through their development process.  This will be in addition to the very, very, very forthcoming Contour for iPhone app.
The above is just a taste of what the iPad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/01/27/announcing-contour-for-ipad/</link>
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		<title>SHERLOCK HOLMES</title>
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Overall Impression &#8211; Unmemorable fun with a smattering of man love, a dash of anti-Semitism, and a mean hook.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – Sherlock Holmes.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Stop Lord Blackwood.  Personal: Cope with the impending marriage of Watson.  Private: Learn that emotion and feeling is just as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/01/27/sherlock-holmes/</link>
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		<title>UP IN THE AIR</title>
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Overall Impression &#8211; As smart and distant a movie as it&#8217;s main character.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – Ryan Bingham.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Keep his job, which involves helping people lose theirs.  Personal: Maintain a relationship interruptus with a fellow traveller he meets hit and miss on the road.  Private: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2010/01/26/up-in-the-air/</link>
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		<title>Why We&#8217;re Smarter Than Computers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I was checking out Roger Ebert&#8217;s online review for the the movie UP IN THE AIR (my own will be online shortly) when I got to the bottom of the review&#8217;s webpage and found this series of sponsored ads automatically pinned to the review by Yahoo&#8217;s algorithmic brain:
Why these four?  Well, &#8220;Online College Degree&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/24/why-were-smarter-than-computers/</link>
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		<title>INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS</title>
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Overall Impression – Whether you&#8217;re a fan of Tarantino or not, if you love the language of movies you must, Must, MUST see this movie.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who’s your main character? – There are really TWO stories at work here, however the main character is Shoshanna Dreyfus .
What’s she trying to accomplish? – Professional: Kill Nazis. Personal: Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/22/inglourious-basterds/</link>
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		<title>AVATAR</title>
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Overall Impression – Not the Second Coming, but it&#8217;ll do for now.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who’s your main character? – Jake Sulley.
What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Integrate into the Na&#8217;vi people to help them. Personal: Find his place in the world now  that he&#8217;s lost use of his legs.  Private: Unclear.  Possibly believe in something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/21/avatar/</link>
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		<title>IT&#8217;S COMPLICATED</title>
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Overall Impression – A movie that generates small smiles instead of big laughs &#8212; which I can only assume was not the intent of the filmmakers.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who’s your main character? – Jane (Meryl Streep.)
What’s she trying to accomplish? – Professional: Decide if she should give her ex-husband another chance. Personal: Find love.  Private: Be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/12/11/its-complicated/</link>
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		<title>PIRATE RADIO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overall Impression – A movie as slight as a one-hit wonder, but just as endearing.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – &#8216;Young&#8217; Carl.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Get his life together (at the insistence of his mother) by living on a pirate radio ship with a rowdy bunch of DJ&#8217;s.Personal: find out who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/11/27/pirate-radio/</link>
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