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		<title>TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/07/07/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totallywrite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was halfway through watching TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN in a theater in Toronto when my wife called me.  My father-in-law, who had been ill, was not doing well and she really wanted to leave for Los Angeles to see him.  RIGHT&#8230;NOW!
Sensing the urgency in her voice, I left the theater in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAKEN</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/02/25/taken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danpilditch</dc:creator>
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Overall Impression – Liam Neeson brings this slick action flick to another level.  
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – Bryan Mills.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: rescue his daughter, Kim.  Personal: rescue Kim.  Private: prove to himself that he still has a place in Kim’s life.
Who&#8217;s trying to stop him? – Members at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEFIANCE</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/02/09/defiance/</link>
		<comments>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/02/09/defiance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danpilditch</dc:creator>
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Overall Impression – An illuminating look at the tensions present amongst a totally displaced people.     
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – Tuvia Bielski.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: lead the Jewish survivors to safety.  Personal: keep his brothers together, as a family.  Private: hold onto the will to fight.
Who&#8217;s trying to stop him? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAUL BLART: MALL COP</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/26/paul-blart-mall-cop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totallywrite</dc:creator>
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Overall Impression – A big hit with small laughs.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who is your main character? – Paul Blart.
What is he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Protect the mall. Personal: Get Amy to love him.  Private: Not be the loser he&#8217;s always been all his life.
Who&#8217;s trying to stop him? – Veck Sims, the leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRAN TORINO</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/20/gran-torino/</link>
		<comments>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/20/gran-torino/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danpilditch</dc:creator>
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Overall Impression – Despite the evidence, Eastwood never gets old.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – Walt Kowalski.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: save his Hmong neighbors from the local gang.  Personal: teach Thao to be a man.  Private: find a reason to keep living after his wife’s death.
Who&#8217;s trying to stop him? – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VALKYRIE</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/14/valkyrie/</link>
		<comments>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/14/valkyrie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danpilditch</dc:creator>
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Overall Impression – A mostly solid tale about personal sacrifice… if you can forgive Germans speaking in American and English accents.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – Claus von Stauffenberg.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: assassinate the Nazi power players and stage a government coup.  Personal: free Germany from its real enemy &#8211; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATIONAL TREASURE 2: BOOK OF SECRETS</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/14/national-treasure-2-book-of-secrets/</link>
		<comments>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/14/national-treasure-2-book-of-secrets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totallywrite</dc:creator>
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Overall Impression – It&#8217;s THE 39 CLUES for adults that is so winningly cast and so slickly produced that you barely realize that nothing&#8217;s at stake.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – Ben Gates.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Find the City of Gold. Personal: Prove that his great-great-grand father was not involved in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EAGLE EYE</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/10/eagle-eye/</link>
		<comments>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/10/eagle-eye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danpilditch</dc:creator>
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Overall Impression – I don’t care what anyone thinks… I enjoyed it! Solid Spielbergian fun. ‘Nuff said.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who’s your main character? Jerry Shaw
What’s he trying to accomplish? Professional: Stop ARIA, the AI defense mainframe. Personal: win over Rachel. Private: Find out why his twin brother was killed and prove to himself that he isn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WANTED</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/08/wanted/</link>
		<comments>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/08/wanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totallywrite</dc:creator>
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Overall Impression – (Thrilling action) + (brutal violence) x (visionary director) = (visually exciting movie that depressed the hell out of me.)
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? – Wesley.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: learn how to be an assassin.  Personal: Kill the man who killed his father. Private: discover who he really is.
Who&#8217;s trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DARK KNIGHT</title>
		<link>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/05/the-dark-knight/</link>
		<comments>http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/01/05/the-dark-knight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totallywrite</dc:creator>
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Overall Impression &#8212; Words fail me.  This is one of the most relentlessly brilliant explorations of the soul of a hero I&#8217;ve ever seen.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who&#8217;s your main character? &#8212; Bruce Wayne as the Batman.
What&#8217;s he trying to accomplish? &#8212; Professional: Stop the Joker.  Personal: Get Rachel to love him.  Private: Discover if [...]]]></description>
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