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  <title>Creative Loafing Tampa: Joe Bardi</title>
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    <title>The 12 films of Christmas</title>
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        Hot prospects and smart alternatives for the holiday movie season....
       
      
        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      Hard to believe, but the holiday season is in full swing at the multiplex. The last few weeks have already seen the release of some big blockbusters (2012, A Christmas Carol) and at least one surefire Oscar contender (Precious, which had a smash limited release last weekend and was just announced for a Fri., Nov. 20 opening in Tampa bay), and Hollywood promises the best is yet to come. With six weeks until January, here are 12 must-see titles to
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Students highlight the Independents&amp;#39; Film Festival, plus Sarasota&amp;#39;s Cine-World</title>
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      It used to be that film festivals in the Tampa Bay area were a rarity. No longer. Totaling up all the fundraisers, workshops and side programming that go along with the ever-expanding number of festivals, it&#39;s clear that fest-hopping has become a year-round sport. And that&#39;s great, because we can all stand to broaden our horizons beyond the standard Hollywood pulp that fills the multiplex each Friday. In the next few weeks, there are two festivals of note: one with
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review: Outrage</title>
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      The choice of whether or not to reveal one&rsquo;s sexual preference is a private one. But what about politicians living in the closet who work to advance anti-gay-rights legislation? Don&rsquo;t they deserve to be exposed? That&rsquo;s the thesis of Outrage. The big fish, of course, is Florida Governor Charlie Crist, and while director Kirby Dick finds no smoking gun in the Crist case, he is ultimately after a larger point about the vicious cycle of our public discourse. Wed. Oct.
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Breaking up is hard to do in (500) Days of Summer</title>
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      [RECOMMENDED] (500) Days of Summer Directed by Mark Webb. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Rated PG-13. Opens Fri., July 31 at area theaters. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back. It&#39;s a formula as old as drama, but it&#39;s also sort of fanciful. In real life, the boy who loses the girl often sits brooding on the sidelines for months while his lost love lives it up with a new paramour. Enter (500) Days Of Summer,
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Sacha Baron Cohen&amp;#39;s Bruno is a funny assault on good taste</title>
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      I&#39;ve never been smacked in the face with a dick, but I imagine the experience is a lot like watching Br&uuml;no. The first 15 minutes of the movie is a penis shock-and-awe campaign, with a pink bunny-costume dick, a dick on the end of a stick and a talking dick that shouts &quot;Br&uuml;no!&quot; out of its peehole. That&#39;s in addition to the many items -- dicks, dildos, champagne bottles, etc. -- going in and out of assholes obscured only by
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Outrage exposes the pain of being secretly gay</title>
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      If there&#39;s a central message to Kirby Dick&#39;s Outrage, it&#39;s that living life denying one&#39;s sexual orientation is an awful existence. Not only is the closeted person lying to their family and friends -- often at great emotional cost to everyone involved -- they are lying to themselves. There&#39;s a lot of self-hatred hanging in the closet, and it&#39;s an old saw that the most homophobic folks are the most in denial. Still, a person&#39;s choice to keep their preference
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Thirty-somethings John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph prepare for parenthood in new movie Away We Go</title>
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      Early in Away We Go, Verona (Maya Rudolph) looks at longtime love Burt (John Krasinski) and asks, &quot;Are we fuck-ups?&quot; The pair will spend the film attempting to find out, along the way meeting couples raising children and screwing it up in unique and interesting ways. That they confront this question with wit and intelligence separates Away We Go from everything else currently in major release. But can a movie like this possibly survive in the crowded summer movie marketplace?
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Johnny Depp is a dead-on Dillinger in new movie Public Enemies</title>
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      You have to hand it to the producers of Public Enemies; their timing is impeccable. After months of watching the banks loot the nation&#39;s treasury of billions under the guise of the TARP bailout, the public is bound to be receptive to heartthrob Johnny Depp as charismatic bank robber John Dillinger. It helps that Depp is stellar here, his Dillinger a smooth cat who&#39;s quick to give a lady his coat or his word. As directed by Michael Mann (The
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>CL&amp;#39;s movie review of The Taking of Pelham 123</title>
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        John Travolta &amp; Denzel Washington shine in <i>The Taking of Pelham 123</i>....
       
      
        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      The only things for sure in this life are death, taxes and that any movie starring John Travolta as the villain will suck. Swordfish, Battlefield Earth, Face/Off, Broken Arrow, The Punisher -- the list goes on. If Travolta&#39;s playing the heavy, the movie&#39;s going to sink like a stone. Until now: With The Taking of Pelham 123, this rule finally has its exception. Travolta stars as Ryder, the leader of a crew of kidnappers who seize a New York City
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Battle of the summer blockbuster movies</title>
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      The summer movie season is already in full swing, with X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Trek racking up huge grosses. Still, the box office of those films pales in comparison to that of the biggest blockbusters of them all. But it&#39;s not all about the Benjamins, right? Some of the most financially successful films in history also happen to be some of Hollywood&#39;s most beloved. Over on the Daily Loaf blog, we&#39;re spending the next few weeks separating the great
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Classic movies on display at Tampa Theatre</title>
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      You have to give props to the Tampa Theatre. Their annual Summer Classic Movie Series is the best game in town for catching the greatest films in Hollywood history on the big screen. Past years have seen films as varied as Raiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong and West Side Story play to packed houses. And really, isn&#39;t a historic theater dating to the 1920s the best place to see a flick from the Golden Age of Tinseltown? This
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Top 10 summer vacation movies</title>
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        Stuck at home? Hollywood will have the fun for you....
       
      
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      1. National Lampoon&#39;s Vacation. Chevy Chase stars as suburban everyman Clark W. Griswold, who drags his family across the country in search of theme-park Nirvana. The trip is beset by all manner of disaster (detours, accidents, dead relatives strapped to the roof, etc.), each one funnier than the last. Vacation was directed by Harold Ramis from a script by John Hughes and might be the best work either man ever did. 2. Stand By Me. Four boys take a mid-summer
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    <title>The 2009 Creative Loafing Summer movie preview</title>
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        Sure bests and dark horses in the summer movie race...
       
      
        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      Ah, summer: Stifling temperatures, huge thunderstorms and rampaging mosquitoes sucking all the hemoglobin out of the Bay area. It&#39;s enough to drive you indoors until Halloween. Good thing Hollywood breaks out the big guns for the blockbuster summer movie season, making this a perfect time to hit the multiplex. Like most years, 2009&#39;s summer slate is heavy on sequels (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), reboots (Star Trek), kiddie fare (Up) and comedies (Funny People). Female cinephiles can take heart: It&#39;s
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The new Star Trek Re-boots and prospers</title>
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        Director J.J. Abrams scores with <i>Star Trek</i>....
       
      
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      A long time ago in a galaxy, wait -- wrong space opera. Star Trek is that other massively successful sci-fi saga that spawned 10 feature films, four TV series and all the related toys/games/fetish-wear that goes with it. Trek inspired the adoration of millions of our more interesting citizens and enjoyed a string of big-time success throughout the 1980s and &#39;90s. But then the franchise fell on hard times, the movies started to suck (see: Star Trek: Nemesis) and the
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Joe Bardi
      
      
      Ron Howard directed this excellent adaptation of Peter Morgan&#39;s Tony award-winning play recounting the historic television interviews of disgraced former president Richard Nixon by British TV gadfly David Frost. Though Howard does his usual, slick job with the film, it&#39;s the acting that&#39;s Frost/Nixon&#39;s ultimate draw. Frank Langella dominates the film, big and grand as Nixon but still granting the ex-prez a touching humanity he is often denied. (For example: Dan Hedaya&#39;s hilarious but lightweight caricature in Dick.) Michael Sheen
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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