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		<title>An Open Letter to Matt&#8217;s Minister</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/07/an-open-letter-to-matts-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/07/an-open-letter-to-matts-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Matt&#8217;s Minister,
Last week I watched with interest as a new bishop was elected for our jurisdiction. (Church politics have become so interesting to me. Just understanding the inner workings of the conference system of the United Methodist Church is a challenge.)
Judging from the vote counts throughout the two days, it&#8217;s petty clear that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Horrible: Peace (Not Literally)</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/07/dr-horrible/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/07/dr-horrible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Button Down Bits]]></category>

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		<title>Gladiator</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/07/gladiator/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/07/gladiator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A quickie today. I saw the much lauded film Gladiator a few weeks ago, and I&#8217;ve been putting off reviewing it because honestly, I don&#8217;t have that much to say about it. I went in with (somewhat) high expectations, what with it being the Oscar darling of 2000, but I have to admit that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independence Day</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/07/independence-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit late for the July 4th celebration (totally Netflix&#8217;s fault), I finally saw the film Independence Day. This is one of those popcorn movies that I don&#8217;t generally like all that much, but I figured I&#8217;d give it a shot and I&#8217;m glad I did. There&#8217;s plenty wrong with the movie, but there&#8217;s plenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WALL•E: Believe the Buzz</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/07/walle/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/07/walle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely see a movie in the theater. Now that DVDs are released so soon after the film&#8217;s premiere, I have even less reason to go spend $20 at a theater. But when I saw the first ad for WALL•E, I knew this was one I&#8217;d have to see on the big screen. So after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/06/on-the-edge-of-the-dark-sea-of-darkness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned phenomenal singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson [cref 345 last week], and I still heartily recommend his music. But today I look at another project of Peterson&#8217;s, his new fantasy children&#8217;s/young adult novel On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. (Click this link for an excerpt provided by the publisher.)
Janner, Tink, and Leeli Igiby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to AMERICA&#8217;S Neil Patrick Harris</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/06/an-open-letter-to-tvs-neil-patrick-harris/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/06/an-open-letter-to-tvs-neil-patrick-harris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear TV&#8217;s Neil Patrick Harris,
First of all, I love your work, though I realize as I type this that I&#8217;ve never seen How I Met Your Mother. One of the downfalls of not having cable/satellite, you know. I&#8217;m putting it on the top of my Netflix queue, I swear!
Anyway, I saw this awesome ad for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Shive Album Released; Title Explained Repeatedly</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/06/ben-shive-album/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever been excited about an album release and have your expectations exceeded? It&#8217;s rare, but that&#8217;s what happened this week when Ben Shive, the newest member of The Square Peg Alliance, released his first solo album, The Ill-Tempered Klavier.

I&#8217;d heard of Ben Shive before, first as a lyricist with the song Canaan Bound, from Andrew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transformers</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/06/transformers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s just get it out of the way: Transformers is the worst piece of crap movie I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. There are so many problems that I don&#8217;t know where to begin.
Okay, let&#8217;s start with this. You could lop off the first hour of the movie and you&#8217;d lose next to nothing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Philadelphia Story</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/06/the-philadelphia-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we look back to 1940&#8217;s The Philadelphia Story. Starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart, this film is a slam dunk. It has a little bit of everything and blends it all into a rare gem of a film.
The story revolves around heiress Tracy Lord (Hepburn) and her wedding to a self-made millionaire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children of Heaven</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/06/children-of-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This gem of an independent film has me completely under its spell. From Iranian director Majid Majidi, Children of Heaven (Bacheha-Ye aseman) is about a boy&#8217;s dilemma when he loses his sister&#8217;s only pair of shoes. It&#8217;s a simple story, but Ali&#8217;s problem is played with such delicacy and honesty that we are pulled into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galaxy Quest</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/galaxy-quest/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/galaxy-quest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not being a big Tim Allen fan, I skipped over Galaxy Quest when it hit theaters in 1999. I didn&#8217;t give it a second thought until someone whose taste I generally trust started raving about the film a few weeks ago. With great trepidation I put it on my Netflix queue (currently coming in at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spamalot: The Review That Goes Like This</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/spamalot/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/spamalot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 19:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Spamalot came to town a few weeks ago, so I went with a few friends. We had a lot of fun, and I returned with the following thoughts:

$85 is way too much for a ticket in the BACK ROW. I was directly in front of the sound guy, and he got paid to be there.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to That One Cashier Who Always Calls Me Honey</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/an-open-letter-to-that-one-cashier-who-always-calls-me-honey/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/an-open-letter-to-that-one-cashier-who-always-calls-me-honey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 16:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear That One Cashier Who Always Calls Me Honey,
Please stop it. Same goes for Sweetie, Darlin&#8217;, and Baby. I&#8217;m not asking you to call me Sir or anything, but you&#8217;re being a bit familiar, don&#8217;t you think?
Let me be blunt: This isn&#8217;t [cref 142 Al's Diner], and you ain&#8217;t Flo. It wouldn&#8217;t bother me as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Born Chinese</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/american-born-chinese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Book Week! To celebrate, I&#8217;m reviewing American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. It&#8217;s more correctly in the age group of “Young People” literature, but it&#8217;s my blog and I make the rules. So there. Note: Click on the images for (slightly) larger versions. For bigger versions still, go buy the book.
American Born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anchors Aweigh</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/anchors-aweigh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I sat down to watch Anchors Aweigh last Saturday, forgetting that I have to be in just the right frame of mind to watch a musical. There&#8217;s a really specific kind of suspension of disbelief that goes along with a musical and if I have trouble with that, the whole experience falls apart.
Anchors Aweigh is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Joins 21st Century; Buys iPod</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/matt-joins-21st-century-buys-ipod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it finally happened. My last CD player gave up the ghost in late March. Rather than buying a new CD player, I decided to bite the bullet and get an actual iPod. Ladies and gentlemen&#8230;it is awesome.
I decided to go with the iPod Nano (4 gig, 3rd generation) because a) it was cheaper and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/jeff-smith-bone-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, Ohio sucks for artsy stuff. Every once in a while, though, we get something good. This would be one of those times.
From May 10th through August 3rd, The Ohio State University Wexner Center for the Arts will be hosting a major exhibition of Jeff Smith&#8217;s work AND work that influenced Smith. The exhibition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3:10 To Yuma (2007)</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/310-to-yuma-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 19:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Site note: Click the images for super-wide full-size 2.35:1 versions!
I&#8217;ve been hearing good things about 3:10 To Yuma since it came out last year, so when Dan from Truth on Cinema said last week that he was getting ready to watch a film I&#8217;d just reviewed, I decided to return the favor and move Yuma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silly Signs for Download</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/silly-signs-for-download/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 18:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out how to lighten the mood after yesterday&#8217;s post, and I realized that only one thing can stand next to Godliness. Cleanliness! Duh!

Some time ago Ed Cunard (who never updates his blog anymore) sent me this picture of a sign he saw in a public restroom. Some public official had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Methodist Church Shames God</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/united-methodist-church-shames-god/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/05/united-methodist-church-shames-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t generally talk about religion or my personal life here on the blog. In fact, I work pretty hard to keep it light and fluffy. This post will be a break in that policy. If you&#8217;re looking for humor or a (hopefully) good film review, I recommend you come back tomorrow. I break this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen Kane</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/citizen-kane/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/citizen-kane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A note before we start: More than with recently reviewed films, I feel I must point out that all of the pictures within this and most posts since mid-March link to larger images showing the entire screenshot. Usually (but not always) I just shrink the 1.85:1 image to a smaller version, but a different aspect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/the-spongebob-squarepants-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I love SpongeBob. I really, really do. Like, a lot. So much so that I’ve added his name to my spell check dictionary. So much so that I have a Patrick coffee mug that I bought for double retail at King’s Island last year, and I don’t even drink coffee.
So it was with great hesitation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juno</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/juno/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/juno/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of buzz in the last year for this film. Juno is the story of a 16-year-old girl (Juno) and the effect her pregnancy has on her life. We get to know Juno&#8217;s family, friends, and the couple who will adopt her baby.
With an armful of glowing reviews and award nominations, Juno went into my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Christian Radio Station K-LOVE</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/klove-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/klove-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Christian Radio Station K-LOVE,
So I was helping clean up after my church&#8217;s Good Friday service and somebody put K-LOVE on the sound system. I don&#8217;t generally listen to your station, mostly because the song list isn&#8217;t quite to my taste, but you know, whatever.
Around 8:30 or so, your DJ person came in from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Neverending Story</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/the-neverending-story/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/the-neverending-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fair warning: This will be a rough review. All I ask is that you at least read the last sentence before you start sending me hate mail.
The Neverending Story SUCKS. It&#8217;s the suckiest suck that ever sucked. There are just so many problems and unanswered questions that I don&#8217;t know where to begin. Let&#8217;s start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Years in Tibet</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/seven-years-in-tibet/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/seven-years-in-tibet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven Years in Tibet is one of those films that I kind of knew I&#8217;d enjoy but just never got around to watching. There are a couple of reasons, chief among them being the running time. Clocking in at two hours 16 minutes, it&#8217;s a pretty hefty commitment and there always seemed to be something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to the Makers of Charmin® Toilet Tissue</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/charmin-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/charmin-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Makers of Charmin® toilet tissue,
I would like to begin by thanking you for your continued efforts to improve Charmin® toilet tissue. Having been a long time user of toilet tissue, I can honestly say that no toilet tissue &#8220;does the job&#8221; like Charmin® toilet tissue.
That said, I must confess confusion with recent marketing literature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Across The Tracks</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/across-the-tracks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I found Across the Tracks for $3 at a used DVD store. Clearly this couldn&#8217;t be a good movie, because it was, you know, on sale for three bucks. But I like Rick Schroder and I like Brad Pitt, and crappy 90s movies are fun to watch sometimes, so I figured I may as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who am I? Why am I here?</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/who-am-i-why-am-i-here/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/04/who-am-i-why-am-i-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;m writing this blog anymore. Nobody&#8217;s really reading it, and Google hates me for some reason, so I&#8217;m not getting the hits from there.
I suppose I&#8217;ll keep plugging for awhile, but really, what&#8217;s the point?
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		<title>Superbad</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/superbad/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/superbad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not exactly a prude, you know. I like a bawdy joke as much as the next guy, and swearing in a movie doesn&#8217;t really scare me off. I&#8217;m certainly not one of those &#8220;You say the F-word too much&#8221; people. The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Clerks, Space Balls, the Naked Gun flicks, they&#8217;re all fairly high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Kill A Mockingbird (film)</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/to-kill-a-mockingbird-film/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/to-kill-a-mockingbird-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Adapting a book into a film is a tricky business. Stray too far from the source material and you have readers coming at you with torches and pitchforks. Stay too true to the text and you risk having a bad movie; not everything translates, after all. But trying to have it both ways is by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Steps to Lower Gas Prices! This really works!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/five-steps-to-lower-gas-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Spring. The time when the snow melts, the robin returns, the days grow longer, and the grass grows green once again. And right on schedule, emails have been circulating about how to force gas prices down.
For the last couple years, the outcry has come in the form of not buying gas on a specified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Kill A Mockingbird (novel)</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/to-kill-a-mockingird-novel/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/to-kill-a-mockingird-novel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I read Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill A Mockingbird. I was so impressed that I immediately started going back and re-reading passages. What an amazing book.
I&#8217;ve started and restarted this post several times, and it keeps ending up like a ninth grade book report. So in the interest of not writing said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/the-assassination-of-jesse-james/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/the-assassination-of-jesse-james/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s talk about The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. (It&#8217;s a long title, but that&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s appropriate.) I had high hopes for it when I first saw the posters and online clips, and it turns out to be one darn good film.
Usually I follow that up with something negative, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Be or Not To Be (1942)</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/to-be-or-not-to-be-1942/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/to-be-or-not-to-be-1942/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an odd little movie. To call it a dark comedy is a bit of an understatement. To Be Or Not To Be starts with Jack Benny playing a Nazi officer getting information from a young boy and getting a visit from Adolf Hitler. Thankfully, there&#8217;s a quick reveal and it turns out that he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jessie&#8217;s Story: Translation Perfection</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/jessies-story-translation-perfection/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/03/jessies-story-translation-perfection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I reviewed [cref 116 Toy Story 2], I wanted to mention this beautiful song, but there just wasn&#8217;t room. I&#8217;ve found some interesting clips in my research, and decided it deserved its own post.
The song is Jessie&#8217;s Story. It&#8217;s a marvelously constructed little song called &#8220;When She Loved Me&#8221; from Randy Newman. Sarah MacLaughlin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Doesn&#8217;t Live Here Anymore</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/alice-doesnt-live-here-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/alice-doesnt-live-here-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the westerns and older classics I&#8217;ve been watching lately, I decided it was time to catch a film told from a woman&#8217;s point of view. Alice Doesn&#8217;t Live Here Anymore seemed to fit the bill pretty well.
Starring Ellen Burstyn and directed by Martin Scorsese, the film follows Alice Hyatt as she learns to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Football Fields Are For Band Practice</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/football-fields-are-for-band-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/football-fields-are-for-band-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember [cref 134 the other day] when I linked to xkcd and said how funny he is? Yeah, I thought he was awesome before, but today…

Today he moved to awesome raised to the BILLIONTH DEGREE.
My name is Matt. I&#8217;m an ex-Marching Band Kid. And that up there? That&#8217;s happened to me.

Recently. 
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		<title>The Sting</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/the-sting/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/the-sting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, The Sting is one of those films that I&#8217;ve never given much thought to watching. I always assumed it was a good film, but didn&#8217;t feel any motivation to watch it. It came out at an awkward time; when VCRs became popular a decade after the film was released, it was too recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Arrival</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/the-arrival/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/the-arrival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not quite sure what to say about Shaun Tan&#8217;s The Arrival. It&#8217;s an exceptional book, but I have neither the education nor the vocabulary to put it into words. Not that that&#8217;s ever stopped me before.
Let&#8217;s start with a summary. The book follows a man (nameless) as he leaves home to prepare a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Privacy and Us</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/online-privacy-and-us/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/online-privacy-and-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about the issue of online privacy, but other things keep stopping me from doing it. So in the interest of getting it out there, I&#8217;m re-posting a slightly edited comment of mine from August on somebody else&#8217;s blog:
I think we’re going to have to redefine the word ‘privacy’ in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toy Story 2</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/toy-story-2/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/toy-story-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, I don&#8217;t like sequels. Most sequels seem to be made to squeeze another ten bucks out of the movie goer, and that annoys me. So when Toy Story 2 came out in 1999 I stayed clear. I&#8217;d liked Toy Story quite a bit and I didn&#8217;t want to taint the memory of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/02/joyeux-noel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last December I was looking through the Netflix listings for Christmas movies to add to my queue (214 to go!), and ran across this movie that I&#8217;d never heard of. Joyeux Noël was just released in 2005 and the reviews were quite positive, so I figured I&#8217;d give it a go.
What I got when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/01/goodbye-mr-chips/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/01/goodbye-mr-chips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have an example of a teacher who was more than just an instructor, who went beyond that to become a mentor and once in a great while, a friend. It&#8217;s a rare relationship, and the character of one such teacher is explored in 1939&#8217;s Goodbye, Mr. Chips. As far as it goes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry, Wrong Number</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2008/01/sorry-wrong-number/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since starting this blog I&#8217;ve discovered that I love suspense movies. LOVE them. Can&#8217;t get enough of them. I&#8217;m not sure exactly why I never knew that. Maybe it&#8217;s because you don&#8217;t see them made that much anymore. I suppose it&#8217;s much easier to throw some gore and horror on the screen than to construct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Story</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/12/a-christmas-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[More so than with any other movie, whenever I tell people I haven&#8217;t seen A Christmas Story, their reaction is almost universally &#8220;Wha?!? ZOMG WTF YOU HAVE TO SEE IT!&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure why I never saw it. I just didn&#8217;t. I checked with the family to see if maybe they rented it years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reno 911!: Miami</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/12/reno-911-miami/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/12/reno-911-miami/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slight break in purpose today. Reno 911!: Miami isn&#8217;t important or influential. It&#8217;s simply a movie that I was looking forward to, and since I&#8217;ve got this blog thing sitting here collecting dust I figure I might as well give my opinion of it.
First of all, I love the TV show Reno 911! almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Yeller</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/09/old-yeller/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/09/old-yeller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the movies I&#8217;m almost ashamed of not having seen. I&#8217;m not really sure why I never saw it. It&#8217;s quite possible that my parents never rented it in the 1980s because of my sister&#8217;s averse reaction to Bambi. (She still refuses to rewatch it.) Whatever the reason, it&#8217;s 2007 and I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming up!</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/09/coming-up/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/09/coming-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of updates. Other things have crept in for the last week or two, so I just haven&#8217;t had time to sit down and write. I&#8217;ll be back next Monday morning with a review of Old Yeller, followed quickly by Reno 911!: Miami and Sorry, Wrong Number. In the next few weeks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Amigos</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/09/three-amigos/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/09/three-amigos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be honest with you, I was a bit down after I watched all those dramatic films from a few weeks ago. A man can only take so much drama. So when it came time to queue up a new movie, I decided I needed a good old fashioned comedy. Not some romantic comedy date [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Beautiful Mind</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/a-beautiful-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/a-beautiful-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been putting this review off for about a month now. When I first watched A Beautiful Mind, I liked it a lot. The story was engaging and moving, and I appreciate the way Ron Howard didn&#8217;t go too far into Sappyland. The big reveal (I won&#8217;t spoil it) took me by surprise, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thin Man</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/the-thin-man/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/the-thin-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cunard! Cunard! He&#8217;s our shill! If he won&#8217;t lend it, no one will!
The Thin Man was a bit of a surprise for me. Made in 1934, the film came only a few years after talkies [cref 57 picked up steam], so it was fun watching director W.S. Van Dyke play with new methods. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/speed/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/speed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been one to get excited about action movies. I&#8217;m not sure why, but they never did anything for me. (Maybe that&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t like [cref 24].) So when Speed was released, I was one of the few who wasn&#8217;t in a rush to get to the theater.  Having now watched Speed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For a Few Dollars More</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/for-a-few-dollars-more/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/for-a-few-dollars-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel bad for the second movie in a trilogy. It always has a tough go. In the first movie, we get introduced to people and ideas. The director&#8217;s style in a specific genre gets shown for the first time. It&#8217;s the first time the crew gets to show what they&#8217;ve been excited to do. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singin&#8217; in the Rain</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/singin-in-the-rain/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/singin-in-the-rain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(Thanks to puppy-rescuer and all around good guy Ed Cunard for lending me his copy of today&#8217;s film.)
Singin&#8217; in the Rain. How could I not have seen this movie before? I grew up loving musicals and somehow I didn&#8217;t see what is widely regarded as the best musical ever produced. Today, I&#8217;m adding my vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIRST!</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/collegehumor-video/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/collegehumor-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I swore to myself when I started this blog that I wouldn&#8217;t do this, but as a citizen of the web, I feel it is my duty to bring this to everyone&#8217;s attention. I have seen every single one of these comments, and I swear to Gald, if you make one of them here, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iron Giant</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/the-iron-giant/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/the-iron-giant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, some friends were talking online about animated films, and The Iron Giant came up. Most agreed that it&#8217;s on the short list of greatest animated films, while one person asked why it was so popular. Quite by coincidence, I had the disc sitting on the DVD player just waiting for me to watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fistful of Dollars</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/a-fistful-of-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/a-fistful-of-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fistful of Dollars is the first western that I&#8217;ve seen in a long time, long enough that I don&#8217;t remember the last one I saw. That&#8217;s really odd now that I think about it, since they were a particular favorite of my grandfather&#8217;s, so I was excited to sit down and watch this film. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casablanca</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/casablanca/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/casablanca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Before we begin, thanks to Ledger Domain&#8217;s Ed Cunard for lending me his copy of Casablanca. Just a few more to watch till I get off his shit list. Oh, what a day that will be!
Casablanca is an example of what film can do when the people involved want to make a good film. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amélie</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/amelie/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/08/amelie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Matt. He hates handwritten signs in gas stations, pithy sayings on church marquees, and the small nick in his windshield that is directly in front of his right eye when he is driving. Matt likes removing the UPC sticker from new books, barn swallows that dance around him in the sky while he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batman Begins</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/07/batman-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/07/batman-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I watched Batman Begins. Truth is, I was a little worried about this one. I&#8217;m a fan of comic books and while I don&#8217;t buy any of DC Comics&#8217; current Batman output, I spent more than a few bucks on them in the late 1990s. Armed with all my geek knowledge and my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raiders of the Lost Ark</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/07/raiders-of-the-lost-ark/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/07/raiders-of-the-lost-ark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s movie is the action flick Raiders of the Lost Ark, starring Harrison Ford and a creative team that includes George Lucas and director Stephen Spielberg. With a pedigree like that, this is a surefire hit, right? Add to that the 94% positive review rating at rottentomatoes.com, and you can bet that I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rear Window</title>
		<link>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/07/rear-window/</link>
		<comments>http://buttondownblog.com/2007/07/rear-window/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Algren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first film I saw for this little experiment is Rear Window. I debated for awhile whether I should get something a bit further down the list instead of going after the greats, and in the end my curiosity won out. You have no idea how glad I am for that. Rear Window is everything [...]]]></description>
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