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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: Chica Busca Chica</title>
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        By Courtney Bishop
      
      
      It&rsquo;s like The L Word with subtitles. There&rsquo;s the &ldquo;I&rsquo;m straight, but I&rsquo;m into that one girl&rdquo; lesbian; the &ldquo;I just met you but I&rsquo;m already in love with you and want you to move in with me&rdquo; lesbian; the &ldquo;I think I may be a lesbian so I&rsquo;m just gonna dive into pussy head first&rdquo; lesbian; and a few others thrown in for good measure. Sonia Sebastian&rsquo;s film is funny without being slapstick; dramatic without being Telemundo; and other
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review: City of Borders</title>
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        By Courtney Bishop
      
      
      In this documentary, Yun Suh offers a rare glimpse of the intertwining lives of a handful of gay people living near Jerusalem. The heart of the film pumps from within the Shushan, the only gay bar in Jerusalem, owned and operated by Sa&rsquo;ar, the only openly gay councilman in the city. Sa&rsquo;ar says that he opened the Shushan in order to create the image of Jerusalem that he wanted &mdash; a place where everyone could come to feel at home.
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review: I Can&amp;#146;t Think Straight</title>
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        By Courtney Bishop
      
      
      The coming-out process isn&rsquo;t easy. In fact, it&rsquo;s terrifying. Shamim Sarif&rsquo;s I Can&rsquo;t Think Straight gives viewers a glimpse of this scary time with the story of Leyla and Tala. New to London, both are from affluent families, and both are in relationships with men. And after Leyla&rsquo;s boyfriend takes her to play tennis with his friend Tala, both realize that they&rsquo;re in love with each other. Fri. Oct. 16, 7 p.m., Tampa Theatre.More reviews at the Tampa International Gay
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    <category>Movies/Movie Reviews</category>
    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 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>Movie Review: Prodigal Sons</title>
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        By David Warner
      
      
      An extraordinary documentary that begins with a trans woman&rsquo;s journey to her Montana hometown for a high school reunion and expands into a surprising, complex narrative. Filmmaker Kimberly Reed assumes that her own story will take focus; after all, most of her classmates still remember her as Paul, the quarterback all the girls had crushes on. But it&rsquo;s her adopted brother who eventually dominates; brain-damaged in his 20s in a car accident, he makes a startling discovery about his lineage
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review: Fig Trees</title>
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        By Courtney Bishop
      
      
      A documentary-opera about two men who take AIDS activism very personally. Canadian Tim McCaskell and South African Zackie Ahmet lead different, yet parallel lives. Tim&#39;s fight against major pharmaceutical companies that value profits over human lives leads him to create Aids Action Now in the late &#39;80s. Fed up with the lack of government support for AIDS treatments in South Africa, Zackie goes on a treatment strike in 1999. The story is shaped by Gertrude Stein&#39;s 1934 avant-garde opera Four
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Tampa International Gay &amp;amp; Lesbian Film Festival, 20 years out</title>
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        Tampa's gay filmfest celebrates a major milestone....
       
      
        By David Warner
      
      
      The Tampa International Gay &amp; Lesbian Film Festival changed Margaret Murray&#39;s life. How? She saw a really good movie. It was 1993. Murray had just begun to realize there was &quot;something called art film out there,&quot; something different from the multiplex fare she&#39;d grown up with. Then she went to a screening at TIGLFF &mdash; her first film festival ever &mdash; and saw Warrior Marks, Pratibha Parmar&#39;s documentary about female genital mutilation. &quot;I just sat there in the audience crying
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review: Baby Formula</title>
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        By Ryan Jent
      
      
      Baby Formula works, as a formula, in much the same way E=Mc cubed would: it doesn&#39;t. The mockumentary format leads you to believe that the actresses portraying the two lesbians who&#39;ve conceived sans sperm could be real people -- that perhaps they aren&#39;t just, well, bad actresses -- but within the first 15 minutes of the Canadian film it becomes abundantly clear that humans don&#39;t move or speak like either Athena or Lilith, and they certainly don&#39;t reproduce without sperm.
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review: Hannah Free</title>
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        By Ryan Jent
      
      
      Sharon Gless (Queer as Folk) produces and stars in Hannah Free, from an award-winning play by Claudia Allen that sadly, on film, comes across as a lesbian version of The Notebook. The story is there: two women, their decades-long romance initiated at childhood, the ridiculous (and all too true) notion that they&#39;d be kept apart in a nursing home due to lack of marriage or blood. Gless&#39; performance is there: she&#39;s unwavering, though typically feisty, but the rest of the
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review: Her Name Was Steven</title>
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        By David Warner
      
      
      If you think you know all about Susan n&eacute;e Steven Stanton, the Largo City Manager fired in 2007 after announcing that he was changing gender, think again. This CNN documentary not only recounts the now-familiar saga of his termination by the City Commission, it provides invaluable insight into Stanton&#39;s life before and after that turning point. &quot;It&#39;s a little more complicated than I initially envisioned,&quot; Stanton says early in the transition in what turns out to be a massive understatement.
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review: Hollywood Je T&amp;#39;Aime</title>
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        By David Warner
      
      
      Desolate and bored after a split with his boyfriend, sad-eyed Jerome (Eric Benets) leaves gray Paree to pursue fantasies of Hollywood fame. When he gets to L.A., the city is nothing like the glamorous spot he&#39;d envisioned; the beach is cold, the apartments are dingy and the job prospects are drab and discouraging. Actor-turned-director Jason Bushman knows his milieu -- Silver Lake trannies, green-screen commercial shoots -- and he gets excellent performances from Chad Allen as a pot dealer in
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review:Love of Siam</title>
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        By David Warner
      
      
      &quot;Do you think it&#39;s possible to love someone without being afraid of losing them? But at the same time is it possible to be alive in this world without loving anyone at all?&quot; Those questions are at the heart of the gentle, bittersweet Love of Siam. They&#39;re spoken by Mew to his best friend Tong, childhood pals who have rediscovered each other as teenagers, both having suffered wrenching losses: Mew of his beloved grandmother and Tong of his older sister,
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Movie Review: Make the Yuletide Gay</title>
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        By David Warner
      
      
      Managing to be both implausible and predictable, this slapdash little coming-out movie is diverting nevertheless, boosted by funny characterizations, cute boys and pop-cult knowingness. Big Queer On Campus Olaf &quot;Gunn&quot; Gunnunderson somehow remains closeted to his family, a fact that comes as a surprise to his boyfriend Nathan when he shows up unexpectedly at Gunn&#39;s Midwestern home during Christmas break. It&#39;s even more of a surprise to the audience, since this is the most non-threatening parental unit in the history
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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