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Featured Visual Review:
Fast & Furious
David Bruce, Webmaster
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Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca once said, "The speed of the boss is the speed of the team."  He understood the connection between a speed car and life itself.

As I was viewing this film looking for review connections, it came to me that racing cars can be a metaphor of life. In fact, there are many life lessons that can be drawn from car racing, such as: preparation, practice, skill, experience, timing, team work, strategic planning, etc. 

Perhaps such connections helped this film to a whopping 74 million dollar opening, despite very bad reviews from the press.

Apparently people need such stories, as testified by the great boxoffice, even if the critics failed to see anything here.

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The Hit List:
An April Fool's Walk Down Memory Lane


The HappeningDid you ever leave a theater feeling like the joke was on you? Like the rest of the moviegoing public, and most of the critics, were in on some very grand conspiracy, with your precious time and dollars as the target?

In honor of April Fool's Day, the Hollywood Jesus Group at Facebook has come up with a list of ten movies that left us feeling like dolts...

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Beware the Ghota
Jeremy Zondlo

Urp fights an intelligent and elusive enemy, all the while trying to convince people that they are actually in danger. In the end, though, he holds on to the hope that people can actually change their minds and believe the truth.
 
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Master of Love
Jacob Sahms

Everyone thinks that Marley should "heel," but in the end, Marley teaches more than he learns. He's loyal and loving, and his example is echoed in his relationship with the Grogans, and the way they raise their children to behave.
  
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An Interview with Director Majid Majidi
Darrel Manson, 04/02/2009

"I think family is the essence of a society," says Iranian filmmaker Majidi, noting that there are great similarities between Iranian and American family values. " In a society that a family has an unhealthy life, that society loses its health."
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