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		<title>College of Our Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A movie about photography, story start from Makoto Segawa as a hopeless commercial photographer. Hating to compromise his artistry, his work is often rejected by the trite concerns of his commerce. One day he gets into a fight with an ad. exec. throws caution to the wind and decks the client with a punch. Makoto, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.gaspartorriero.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/college.jpg"><img src="http://www.gaspartorriero.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/college-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="college" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-142" /></a>A movie about photography, story start from Makoto Segawa as a hopeless commercial photographer. Hating to compromise his artistry, his work is often rejected by the trite concerns of his commerce. One day he gets into a fight with an ad. exec. throws caution to the wind and decks the client with a punch. Makoto, on the other hand, was a poor nobody harbouring dreams of becoming a professional photographer.</p>
<p>A girl named Shizuru asks Makoto to take a picture of her. They grow close, and eventually become lovers. A small rainbow at a water fountain, soap bubbles in a laundromat, a blinking traffic signal, a bright balloon caught on a wire&#8230; Makoto&#8217;s mundane world becomes filled with small wonders. Regaining his passion to capture every moment of life, he launches himself back into photography.<br />
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Although it was classified in drama movie, but the story from beginning until the end are easy to follow and very attracting. A quite touch full drama movie. Story of a boy from formal education such as Graphic Design Colleges and Photography Degree.</p>
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		<title>Leadership and sport (Coach Carter)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inspiring basketball movies, starred by top veteran movie star, Samuel L. Jackson. Story start from Coach Ken Carter who took over an unruly team of Richmond, California basketball teams. Unlike other coach, Carter teaches them how to play and behave like a champions, inside and outside of the field. He forced them increase their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.gaspartorriero.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/carter.jpg"><img src="http://www.gaspartorriero.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/carter-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="carter" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-139" /></a>The inspiring basketball movies, starred by top veteran movie star, Samuel L. Jackson. Story start from Coach Ken Carter who took over an unruly team of Richmond, California basketball teams. Unlike other coach, Carter teaches them how to play and behave like a champions, inside and outside of the field. He forced them increase their academic, before hit the gym.</p>
<p>This motivation story are based on true story, carter idea getting his boys to get to college, get defensive action from both his boys and the parents. They claimed that he&#8217;s out of his mind, and way out of the league. Instead teaching how to dunk the ball, he&#8217;s teaching academic.<br />
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One day, Carter lock the gym, because of these boys not able reaching the minimum grade to pass in their academic result. Head stone Carter talked to them, that the gym remain locked and no one allowed dribbling the ball until they passed their grades.</p>
<p>By the end those bad personality and emotionally behavior are changed bit by bit. The grades are increasing and the boys are able to play the ball again in the gym.</p>
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		<title>Appears really fashionable-Emma Watson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emma Watson Modeled for Burberry Fall/Winter 09 Collections, in these exposures, the adolescent actress appearance really chic and fashionable. Thanks to her act as Hermione in the Harry Potter films, she&#8217;s successfully decided by Burberry. These exposures are seized by fashion photographer Mario Testino in Westminster as you can see emma watson photos here.
Christopher Bailey, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.gaspartorriero.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/emma.jpg"><img src="http://www.gaspartorriero.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/emma-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="emma" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-136" /></a>Emma Watson Modeled for Burberry Fall/Winter 09 Collections, in these exposures, the adolescent actress appearance really chic and fashionable. Thanks to her act as Hermione in the Harry Potter films, she&#8217;s successfully decided by Burberry. These exposures are seized by fashion photographer Mario Testino in Westminster as you can see emma watson photos here.</p>
<p>Christopher Bailey, Creative Director of Burberry tells, &#8220;Having recognized and looked up to the adorable Emma Watson for rather a few time, visit the page about emma watson pics as she was the clear alternative for this campaign who like the figures she looks, has a classic sweetheart, a big role and an advance edge&#8230; Emma&#8217;s appeal, intellect and glorious sense of entertain attained the whole shoot sense like a picnic on the Thames River.&#8221;<br />
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Here emma watson photos she barely appears really fashionable and a bit mature in her years. Her hair is fashionable yet at the equal minute a little bit dingy (something of a vogue) and her makeup is hot without being cartoonish: gentle, smoky eyes matched with a natural lips and faces.</p>
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		<title>The Karate Kid 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a remake movie from its legendary Karate Kid 1984, but its not about karate, its more kung-fu since its in China. Starring by Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith. The story is about the kid moves to China. Starting with 12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) which could&#8217;ve been the most popular kid in Detroit, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.gaspartorriero.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/jackie-chan.jpg"><img src="http://www.gaspartorriero.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/jackie-chan-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="jackie chan" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-130" /></a>This is a remake movie from its legendary Karate Kid 1984, but its not about karate, its more kung-fu since its in China. Starring by Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith. The story is about the kid moves to China. Starting with 12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) which could&#8217;ve been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother&#8217;s (Taraji P. Henson) latest career move has landed him in China. Dre has a tough time fitting in his with new surroundings &#8211; but it&#8217;s kind of his own damn fault.  The first forty-five minutes of this three-day-long film present Dre as a prick who can&#8217;t get a break: he doesn&#8217;t pick up after himself, he doesn&#8217;t try and learn Chinese, he starts fights and obnoxiously hits on girls and, worst of all, blames his mother for ruining his life.<br />
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After a third ass-kicking, maintenance man/kung fu master Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) steps in to school the mini-Fresh Prince in respect.  Sadly, any hope Dre will &#8220;learn&#8221; has been completely lost at that point.  It&#8217;s up to training montages and discussion of ch&#8217;i to prove Dre is all grown up.  Gone is &#8220;wax on, wax off&#8221; replaced by &#8220;jacket on, jacket off, hang jacket up,&#8221; and temper tantrums by the boatload.</p>
<p>Karate Kid is easily the best work he&#8217;s done in years, throwing the audience a lifesaver from the sinking ship captained by rising star Jaden Smith.  Watching Chan deliver a quiet, subtle performance that emotionally resonates at a pivotal moment late in the film is something we&#8217;ve never seen &#8211; and a breath of fresh air.  No blooper reel at the end of this movie, folks.</p>
<p>Karate Kid is a snore and giant step backwards for the American perspective on China.  Dre doesn&#8217;t learn anything about this world, he fights through it.  Somehow, after weeks of living in China, the kid never picks up a word of Chinese.  How?!  Oh, and it may have been smart to call it something other than The Karate Kid, since Jackie Chan explicitly states that they aren&#8217;t learning karate.</p>
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		<title>The Losers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Losers

A B-minus edition of &#8220;The A-Team,&#8221; the comic-book adaptation &#8220;The Losers&#8221; drags you down to its level at gunpoint with its drooling fetishization of weaponry, its focus on Zoe Saldana in wee shorts, various and sundry assassinations designed with gamers in mind, and more rabid mistrust of the U.S. government and its freedom-destroying institutions [...]]]></description>
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A B-minus edition of &#8220;The A-Team,&#8221; the comic-book adaptation &#8220;The Losers&#8221; drags you down to its level at gunpoint with its drooling fetishization of weaponry, its focus on Zoe Saldana in wee shorts, various and sundry assassinations designed with gamers in mind, and more rabid mistrust of the U.S. government and its freedom-destroying institutions than you&#8217;d find at a tea party fundraiser.<br />
We&#8217;re about as far from the quasi-lefty &#8220;Bourne&#8221; franchise as a moviegoer can get. Here, when enemies or even collateral-damage bystanders are wiped out (sometimes with tranquilizer darts, more often with real bullets, though the film barely distinguishes between the two), it&#8217;s smirks and sub-James Bond-level wisecracks all around.<br />
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Except when children are involved. In the prologue, Jason Patric as a shadowy CIA-backed antagonist orders an assault on a helicopter full of adorable Bolivian kids. This is what sends our titular losers, Special Forces warriors assigned to wipe out a drug cartel, over the edge and off the grid. Presumed dead, the team led by Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whose blase approach to the material suggests a bearded Perry Como) vows revenge and bloodshed and &#8217;splosions.</p>
<p>With the help of a butt-kicking, butt-waving colleague (Saldana), that&#8217;s what they do and that&#8217;s what &#8220;The Losers&#8221; delivers. Director Sylvain White (&#8220;Stomp the Yard&#8221;) doesn&#8217;t edit action scenes so much as turn each micro-beat into a trading card with a fireball in the background. For all its insidious slickness &#8212; the deeply saturated, massively bright imagery comes courtesy of cinematographer Scott Kevan &#8212; the film is easier to take than, say, &#8220;Kick-Ass&#8221; or &#8220;V for Vendetta,&#8221; both of which came to the screen saddled with misguided pretentions. No pretentions here.</p>
<p>Even so, the politics are slippery. Throughout, artfully dodgy images of American flags &#8212; or, in the pointed case of its heinous villain played by Patric, a U.S. flag lapel pin &#8212; signify hypocrisy and slaughter at the ready. The movie&#8217;s laden with other hypocrisies as well. &#8220;Enough of this revenge bushwa,&#8221; says one Loser, though I may have misheard &#8220;bushwa.&#8221; It&#8217;s a punch line: The movie is all revenge, all the time. Later, a minor character from India, forced to implement a doomsday &#8220;sonic de-materializer,&#8221; decries his colleague&#8217;s &#8220;Yankee Doodle tough-guy bushwa.&#8221; And yet what would &#8220;The Losers&#8221; be without it?</p>
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