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		<title>Moneyball</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moneyball is different for me than most movies I’ve seen recently. It’s about something I have a keen interest in, baseball, and I had read the book only a month or so before I saw the film. This seems to be both a blessing and a curse for it, since I have an appreciation of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=364&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Captain America: the First Avenger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One more in the string of summer superhero movies, Captain America (C.A.) is another of the Marvel hero’s who will eventually become part of the Avengers (a film which I am anticipating less and less every Marvel movie I see). But unfortunately C.A. carries the baggage of his creation, he is a product of propaganda. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=359&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Accomplished?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sure that I had posted this over a month ago right after Bin Laden had been shot. But I guess I forgot to hit post, it&#8217;s as true now as it was then, so here it is. Those are the words president George W. Bush said 7 years ago. Mission accomplished, we had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=353&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Lantern</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s summer so I guess there being so many new superhero movies shouldn’t be much of a surprise. With the possibility of being some of the best action movies, who wouldn’t want a superhero movie as a summer blockbuster. But unfortunately, while you may end up with with a few great ones (see my X-men [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=351&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>X-men: First Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the awful Wolverine movie, another X-men prequel, I didn’t have high hopes for this film. But it came out and had started to get good reviews, so I went in with decent expectations, and was not disappointed. Other than right near the end, which I’ll get to later, pretty much everything about the movie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=345&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hangover 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 03:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hangover 2 was a film I had been looking forward too watching. I greatly enjoyed the first one, which while not being the funniest movie ever is a great comedy which keeps you hooked. So I had been hoping that part 2 (which I saw a few days ago) would live up to the original, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=342&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt 1.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 00:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watched this for the second time, first time was in theaters, and seeing as how I enjoyed writing my Thor review I figure this is as good a film as any to try my hand at next. Films based on books are always an interesting case, it&#8217;s a chance to try and bring fiction to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=339&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Schools, public funding and bigoty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 00:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who reads the news, in Ontario, has probably at least heard in passing about the Catholic school boards and their treatment of LGBT students. The Church&#8217;s&#8217; views on homosexuality are common knowledge, and is something they are adamant about. Though they have progressed to the point that being gay in and of itself isn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=336&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thor: nothing much to see here</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 15:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thor is another in the line of comic-book superheros getting a movie leading up to next years release of The Avengers. But it seems that Marvel has either lost their way or just given up caring. In comparison with Iron Man and the Hulk reboot Thor falls flat. There are certain things one would expect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=331&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I don&#8217;t vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In essence it is a question of reform, can we reform what we have now to bring us towards a better society. The system now clearly doesn’t work, here I’m not just talking about Canada, with growing wealth gaps both nationally and internationally, and corporate abuses just as prevalent, if not more so, now than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisstevens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15067&amp;post=302&amp;subd=chrisstevens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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