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    <description><![CDATA[Those of you who love the exploratory fringes of film away from the mainstream will enjoy the answers that come from this one. Emotional baggage has never looked this beautiful or this haunting.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:08:10 -0600</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[All the dialogue is written with the emotional depth of an Etch-a-Sketch drawing, and too many of the moments meant to be scary are heavily referential to other horror films everyone already knows.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:15:10 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[All the dialogue is written with the emotional depth of an Etch-a-Sketch…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <description><![CDATA[I had a great time with this film. It combines the surreal dread of an Ari Aster film with the nervous chaotic apprehension of a Woody Allen ensemble.]]></description>
    
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I had a great time with this film. It combines the surreal dread of an Ari…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>&#x27;Undertone&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Undertone" has some moments of brilliance, and it offers a lot of commentary on the growing isolation happening in collective youth culture.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:59:03 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Undertone" has some moments of brilliance, and it offers a lot of commentary…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:duration>213</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Project Hail Mary&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Project Hail Mary" is a lighthearted, endearing, adventure film with a few moments of comedy from Ryan Gosling. He’s a reluctant hero with a casually clumsy attitude.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:36:47 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Project Hail Mary" is a lighthearted, endearing, adventure film with a few moments of comedy from Ryan Gosling. He’s a reluctant hero with a casually clumsy attitude.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Project Hail Mary" is a lighthearted, endearing, adventure film with a few…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>267</itunes:duration>






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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:33:44 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[UPR's film critic Casey T. Allen brings us his take on this year's Academy…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>300</itunes:duration>






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    <description><![CDATA[During the 93 minute run-time of watching "In the Blink of an Eye" on my couch at home, a cardinal sin swept over my mind. I wanted to check my phone…and I never look at my phone while watching a film.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:44:28 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[During the 93 minute run-time of watching "In the Blink of an Eye" on my couch…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>246</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;How to Make a Killing&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Although other film lovers might categorize this one as a comically grim twist on economic class differences, I feel more comfortable categorizing this as a bore alert!]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:55:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although other film lovers might categorize this one as a comically grim twist on economic class differences, I feel more comfortable categorizing this as a bore alert!]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Although other film lovers might categorize this one as a comically grim twist…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>280</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Wuthering Heights&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I feel this film is adequately okay. It is not a conventional period drama, but it’s also not a smoothly organized one (or a carefully designed one) either.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:17:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I feel this film is adequately okay. It is not a conventional period drama, but it’s also not a smoothly organized one (or a carefully designed one) either.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I feel this film is adequately okay. It is not a conventional period drama, but…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:duration>292</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Plague&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This film explores childhood's dark side with bullying, ridicule, exclusion, and its emotionally damaging effects.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:09:22 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Plague&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This film explores childhood's dark side with bullying, ridicule, exclusion, and its emotionally damaging effects.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This film explores childhood's dark side with bullying, ridicule, exclusion,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>231</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Twinless&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Twinless" proves Dylan O’Brien has the range to be heartbreaking and vulnerable as well as funny and clumsy. I’m so glad I have seen this film, and I hope you feel this way too.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:56:57 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Twinless&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Twinless" proves Dylan O’Brien has the range to be heartbreaking and vulnerable as well as funny and clumsy. I’m so glad I have seen this film, and I hope you feel this way too.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Twinless" proves Dylan O’Brien has the range to be heartbreaking and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>240</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Is This Thing On?&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This film is inspired by the life story of British comedian John Bishop. So sad none of this could elevate the film to something more affecting and informative.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:55:09 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2026-01-20/is-this-thing-on-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This film is inspired by the life story of British comedian John Bishop. So sad none of this could elevate the film to something more affecting and informative.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This film is inspired by the life story of British comedian John Bishop. So sad…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>247</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Marty Supreme&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Marty Supreme does not give us a role model to admire, but it does give us an engaging voice with something important to say.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:33:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Marty Supreme does not give us a role model to admire, but it does give us an engaging voice with something important to say.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Marty Supreme does not give us a role model to admire, but it does give us an…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>249</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Mastermind&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It deftly captures the disillusionment of an American generation lost to economic hardship and political unrest. And for this reason, I hope people will give this film a shot.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:09:52 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Mastermind&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It deftly captures the disillusionment of an American generation lost to economic hardship and political unrest. And for this reason, I hope people will give this film a shot.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It deftly captures the disillusionment of an American generation lost to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>209</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Jay Kelly&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Too bad the uninspired sentimentality makes "Jay Kelly" a far cry from other thoughtful films about show biz.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:01:21 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-12-15/jay-kelly-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Jay Kelly&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Too bad the uninspired sentimentality makes "Jay Kelly" a far cry from other thoughtful films about show biz.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Too bad the uninspired sentimentality makes "Jay Kelly" a far cry from other…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>276</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Eternity&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Eternity" is not something I find inspiring or even exciting, but it has notable sections that are entertaining, eloquent, and mindful.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:23:08 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Eternity&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Eternity" is not something I find inspiring or even exciting, but it has notable sections that are entertaining, eloquent, and mindful.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Eternity" is not something I find inspiring or even exciting, but it has…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>282</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Hedda&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Overall, the film does an okay job despite its many visually alluring distractions.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:34:40 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-11-24/hedda-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Hedda&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Overall, the film does an okay job despite its many visually alluring distractions.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Overall, the film does an okay job despite its many visually alluring…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>267</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Die My Love&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I didn't walk away from "Die My Love" thinking it's the artistic triumph of the year, but I'm glad I saw it, because it reminds us how films can extend beyond the boundaries of storytelling.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:21:48 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Die My Love&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I didn't walk away from "Die My Love" thinking it's the artistic triumph of the year, but I'm glad I saw it, because it reminds us how films can extend beyond the boundaries of storytelling.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I didn't walk away from "Die My Love" thinking it's the artistic triumph of the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>284</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Bugonia&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I like this film a lot. It's an odd combination of comedic, surreal, and frightening. This combination makes the whole experience of watching "Bugonia" an unpredictable one.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:28:25 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-11-10/bugonia-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Bugonia&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I like this film a lot. It's an odd combination of comedic, surreal, and frightening. This combination makes the whole experience of watching "Bugonia" an unpredictable one.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I like this film a lot. It's an odd combination of comedic, surreal, and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>253</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The ultimate message from this film is how someone can express their turmoil through the creative process and then find success. It's effectively moving and simple in many parts, but it's also disappointingly predictable in others.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:14:23 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-11-03/springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The ultimate message from this film is how someone can express their turmoil through the creative process and then find success. It's effectively moving and simple in many parts, but it's also disappointingly predictable in others.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The ultimate message from this film is how someone can express their turmoil…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>299</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Tron: Ares&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Tron: Ares" is a visual triumph and has some great moments of emotional depth to keep everyone watching.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:43:41 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-10-28/tron-ares-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Tron: Ares&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Tron: Ares" is a visual triumph and has some great moments of emotional depth to keep everyone watching.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Tron: Ares" is a visual triumph and has some great moments of emotional depth…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>352</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;One Battle After Another&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[One Battle After Another is one half an intense thriller an one half a sarcastic political commentary. The messages presented by this film are what make it perceptive, forceful, exciting, and current.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:08:37 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-10-14/one-battle-after-another-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;One Battle After Another&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One Battle After Another is one half an intense thriller an one half a sarcastic political commentary. The messages presented by this film are what make it perceptive, forceful, exciting, and current.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[One Battle After Another is one half an intense thriller an one half a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>231</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The History of Sound&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["The History of Sound" is a gorgeous slice of Americana in an era with no internet, computers, or television, making the use of music more than just a source of entertainment.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:55:33 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-10-06/the-history-of-sound-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The History of Sound&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["The History of Sound" is a gorgeous slice of Americana in an era with no internet, computers, or television, making the use of music more than just a source of entertainment.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["The History of Sound" is a gorgeous slice of Americana in an era with no…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>289</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Him&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Him" is not a travesty, nor is it a great achievement. Being too devoid of narrative content makes this just a little under an "okay" rating.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:47:16 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-09-29/him-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Him&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Him" is not a travesty, nor is it a great achievement. Being too devoid of narrative content makes this just a little under an "okay" rating.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Him" is not a travesty, nor is it a great achievement. Being too devoid of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>236</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Long Walk&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I finished this film thinking it was just okay. The messaging is clear and timely, but I couldn't let go of the fact this film is retreading very familiar ground.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:38:53 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-09-22/the-long-walk-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Long Walk&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I finished this film thinking it was just okay. The messaging is clear and timely, but I couldn't let go of the fact this film is retreading very familiar ground.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I finished this film thinking it was just okay. The messaging is clear and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>262</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Caught Stealing&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Lots of film lovers are enjoying this film saying it’s an adventurous ride of nihilistic fun. But if I’m going to have fun, I need better ideas and better storytelling.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:02:16 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Caught Stealing&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Lots of film lovers are enjoying this film saying it’s an adventurous ride of nihilistic fun. But if I’m going to have fun, I need better ideas and better storytelling.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Lots of film lovers are enjoying this film saying it’s an adventurous ride of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>275</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Night Always Comes&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Its authenticity is dark and convincing without trying too hard, and the dialogue feels mostly attentive and honest.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:05:56 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-09-02/night-always-comes-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Night Always Comes&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Its authenticity is dark and convincing without trying too hard, and the dialogue feels mostly attentive and honest.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Its authenticity is dark and convincing without trying too hard, and the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>307</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Highest 2 Lowest&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This honestly could have been one of the best films of the year. But it falls horribly flat sacrificing its authenticity & edge for the sake of shallow, sentimental, overwrought emotions.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:46:00 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-08-25/highest-2-lowest-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Highest 2 Lowest&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This honestly could have been one of the best films of the year. But it falls horribly flat sacrificing its authenticity & edge for the sake of shallow, sentimental, overwrought emotions.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This honestly could have been one of the best films of the year. But it falls…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>317</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Weapons&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Without giving anything away, I have to say the ending is strong. And the metaphor of the older boomer generation living off the livelihood, and energy, of younger people is incisive and sharp. When the climax finally arrived, I was loving it.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:24:02 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-08-20/weapons-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Weapons&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Without giving anything away, I have to say the ending is strong. And the metaphor of the older boomer generation living off the livelihood, and energy, of younger people is incisive and sharp. When the climax finally arrived, I was loving it.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Without giving anything away, I have to say the ending is strong. And the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>271</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Naked Gun&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This isn’t a great film to me, but ones like this have enough of a mixture that everyone can have a good time with a laugh.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:42:11 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-08-12/the-naked-gun-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Naked Gun&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This isn’t a great film to me, but ones like this have enough of a mixture that everyone can have a good time with a laugh.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This isn’t a great film to me, but ones like this have enough of a mixture that…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>295</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Eddington&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This film has some affecting, memorable moments in its second half. But overall it has too many ideas on manhood, politics, racism, internet deceptions, land use, and COVID shoved into its two hour and 28 minute run time.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:58:16 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This film has some affecting, memorable moments in its second half. But overall it has too many ideas on manhood, politics, racism, internet deceptions, land use, and COVID shoved into its two hour and 28 minute run time.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This film has some affecting, memorable moments in its second half. But overall…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>278</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Superman&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Maybe I just need to loosen up and try to have a good time with films like this. I did have fun in some parts of this film, but it was too trying for me to get past so much of a hurried mess.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:21:19 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Superman&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Maybe I just need to loosen up and try to have a good time with films like this. I did have fun in some parts of this film, but it was too trying for me to get past so much of a hurried mess.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Maybe I just need to loosen up and try to have a good time with films like…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>318</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;On Becoming a Guinea Fowl&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I felt totally connected with this film. It acts like a cultural vessel on the reverence for the past while also figuring out how to communicate and solve problems for the future.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:56:13 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;On Becoming a Guinea Fowl&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I felt totally connected with this film. It acts like a cultural vessel on the reverence for the past while also figuring out how to communicate and solve problems for the future.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I felt totally connected with this film. It acts like a cultural vessel on the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>247</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;F1&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The length of two hours and 35 minutes is too much for this film, because I started wondering, "How long is this?" well before the ending arrived.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:02:53 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;F1&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The length of two hours and 35 minutes is too much for this film, because I started wondering, "How long is this?" well before the ending arrived.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The length of two hours and 35 minutes is too much for this film, because I…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>243</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;28 Years Later&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I did not enjoy this film, I'm sorry to say. The technical elements are dazzling, but the story ends up being a hugely lackluster disappointment.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:51:34 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;28 Years Later&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I did not enjoy this film, I'm sorry to say. The technical elements are dazzling, but the story ends up being a hugely lackluster disappointment.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I did not enjoy this film, I'm sorry to say. The technical elements are…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>282</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Materialist&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Materialists" ends up being just okay. It's a shame all its ideas couldn't come together more successfully.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:24:16 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-07-09/materialist-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Materialist&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Materialists" ends up being just okay. It's a shame all its ideas couldn't come together more successfully.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Materialists" ends up being just okay. It's a shame all its ideas couldn't…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>243</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Phoenician Scheme&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["The Phoenician Scheme" is the closest to an action-adventure film Wes Anderson has ever made with grenades, assassins, and a climactic fist fight.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:16:45 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-07-02/the-phoenician-scheme-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Phoenician Scheme&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["The Phoenician Scheme" is the closest to an action-adventure film Wes Anderson has ever made with grenades, assassins, and a climactic fist fight.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["The Phoenician Scheme" is the closest to an action-adventure film Wes Anderson…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>250</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Bring Her Back&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It totally transported me and will be an unforgettable experience for all who watch it. Do you believe in the power of resurrection? This film might change your mind.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:29:21 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-06-18/bring-her-back-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Bring Her Back&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It totally transported me and will be an unforgettable experience for all who watch it. Do you believe in the power of resurrection? This film might change your mind.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It totally transported me and will be an unforgettable experience for all who…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>226</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Friendship&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[What makes "Friendship" such a delight is that it actually has something to say. It isn't about shocking gross outs or adult men screaming.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:22:44 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-06-03/friendship-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Friendship&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[What makes "Friendship" such a delight is that it actually has something to say. It isn't about shocking gross outs or adult men screaming.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[What makes "Friendship" such a delight is that it actually has something to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>169</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Secret Mall Apartment&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In what I think is an effort to avoid sounding preachy or bombastic, this documentary is not focused much on social justice or making an anti-establishment call to arms pushing against the greedy forces of corporate America.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 07:00:52 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-06-03/secret-mall-apartment-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Secret Mall Apartment&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In what I think is an effort to avoid sounding preachy or bombastic, this documentary is not focused much on social justice or making an anti-establishment call to arms pushing against the greedy forces of corporate America.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In what I think is an effort to avoid sounding preachy or bombastic, this…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>226</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Grand Theft Hamlet&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Grand Theft Hamlet" is a delightfully off-beat reminder that creativity is necessary for everyone and so is togetherness.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 18:36:16 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-05-13/grand-theft-hamlet-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Grand Theft Hamlet&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Grand Theft Hamlet" is a delightfully off-beat reminder that creativity is necessary for everyone and so is togetherness.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Grand Theft Hamlet" is a delightfully off-beat reminder that creativity is…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>178</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Accountant 2&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 18:36:54 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-05-12/the-accountant-2-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Accountant 2&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>


<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>233</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Sinners&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A number of film critics are calling "Sinners" the best film of 2025 and a visionary triumph. I wouldn't go that far. "Sinners" is the director/screenwriter's love letter to familial grief and the history of blues music.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:28:51 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-04-28/sinners-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Sinners&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A number of film critics are calling "Sinners" the best film of 2025 and a visionary triumph. I wouldn't go that far. "Sinners" is the director/screenwriter's love letter to familial grief and the history of blues music.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A number of film critics are calling "Sinners" the best film of 2025 and a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>241</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Drop&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Drop" ends up being a juvenile, absurd experience I could not take seriously. Comedy can have its place in a thoughtful thriller, but it has to be written smoothly enough and naturally enough.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:41:11 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-04-22/drop-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Drop&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Drop" ends up being a juvenile, absurd experience I could not take seriously. Comedy can have its place in a thoughtful thriller, but it has to be written smoothly enough and naturally enough.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Drop" ends up being a juvenile, absurd experience I could not take seriously.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>215</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Holland&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When browsing your streaming services at home, I promise you can skip this one.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:43:07 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-04-15/holland-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Holland&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When browsing your streaming services at home, I promise you can skip this one.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When browsing your streaming services at home, I promise you can skip this one.]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>193</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Rule of Jenny Pen&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It isn't every day a film is set in a nursing home and manages to be as riveting as this, so remember this title if you want some believable shocks and spooks.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:07:02 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-04-15/the-rule-of-jenny-pen-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Rule of Jenny Pen&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It isn't every day a film is set in a nursing home and manages to be as riveting as this, so remember this title if you want some believable shocks and spooks.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It isn't every day a film is set in a nursing home and manages to be as…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>228</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Tokyo Cowboy&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[If you want to feel good about the future and the transformative power of world travel, watch this film. Maybe we could all benefit from adventure by stepping out of our comfort zones.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:31:55 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-04-08/tokyo-cowboy-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Tokyo Cowboy&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If you want to feel good about the future and the transformative power of world travel, watch this film. Maybe we could all benefit from adventure by stepping out of our comfort zones.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[If you want to feel good about the future and the transformative power of world…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>225</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Mickey 17&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I walked away from "Mickey 17" thinking it was just okay. The irreverent, coarse vibe is successfully funny in some moments, but it tries too hard in other moments, making some of the actors' line readings feel forced or boring.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:37:57 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-03-31/mickey-17-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Mickey 17&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I walked away from "Mickey 17" thinking it was just okay. The irreverent, coarse vibe is successfully funny in some moments, but it tries too hard in other moments, making some of the actors' line readings feel forced or boring.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I walked away from "Mickey 17" thinking it was just okay. The irreverent,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>251</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Black Bag&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[All the main characters are so well-dressed and so casually confident in this film, I felt seduced almost immediately.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:39:11 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-03-27/black-bag-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Black Bag&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[All the main characters are so well-dressed and so casually confident in this film, I felt seduced almost immediately.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[All the main characters are so well-dressed and so casually confident in this…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>213</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Oscars 2025 review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Overall, I was happy with the Oscars ceremony. It reminded me of the many reasons why I love movies.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:02:33 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-03-14/oscars-2025-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>Oscars 2025 review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Overall, I was happy with the Oscars ceremony. It reminded me of the many reasons why I love movies.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Overall, I was happy with the Oscars ceremony. It reminded me of the many…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>284</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Flow&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[What makes "Flow" so pleasantly different is not just its plain naturalism and quiet storytelling style but also its digital look]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:34:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[What makes "Flow" so pleasantly different is not just its plain naturalism and quiet storytelling style but also its digital look]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[What makes "Flow" so pleasantly different is not just its plain naturalism and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>190</itunes:duration>
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    <title>&#x27;September 5&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Featuring an unprepared staff who throw together live news coverage without the luxury of smartphones or the internet this film reminds viewers of the importance of information in its most accurate and respectful forms possible.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:38:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Featuring an unprepared staff who throw together live news coverage without the luxury of smartphones or the internet this film reminds viewers of the importance of information in its most accurate and respectful forms possible.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Featuring an unprepared staff who throw together live news coverage without the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>226</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Girl with the Needle&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I know I don't say this a lot, but please put this film on your watch list. It will stay with you long after its hopeful conclusion.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:34:15 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Girl with the Needle&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I know I don't say this a lot, but please put this film on your watch list. It will stay with you long after its hopeful conclusion.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I know I don't say this a lot, but please put this film on your watch list. It…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>222</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Wolf Man&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When the closing credits were playing, and my friend and I were chatting about this film in the murky theater, she said, "I think I'm dumber after watching that."]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:27:06 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Wolf Man&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When the closing credits were playing, and my friend and I were chatting about this film in the murky theater, she said, "I think I'm dumber after watching that."]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When the closing credits were playing, and my friend and I were chatting about…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>235</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Between the Temples&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[You know that feeling of lightness and joy you get after watching a film or TV episode that helps you feel better? That's exactly what happened with me after watching this.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:24:47 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Between the Temples&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[You know that feeling of lightness and joy you get after watching a film or TV episode that helps you feel better? That's exactly what happened with me after watching this.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[You know that feeling of lightness and joy you get after watching a film or TV…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>231</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Maria&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This director has created similar treatments with his past biopics, Jackie (2016) and Spencer (2021) making Maria the third entry in this accidental trilogy of famous, glamorous, 20th century women.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:23:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This director has created similar treatments with his past biopics, Jackie (2016) and Spencer (2021) making Maria the third entry in this accidental trilogy of famous, glamorous, 20th century women.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This director has created similar treatments with his past biopics, Jackie…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>310</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Nosferatu&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This version of Nosferatu is clearly a triumph of cinematic technology. The acting and dialogue are a different matter.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:33:40 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2025-01-07/nosferatu-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Nosferatu&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This version of Nosferatu is clearly a triumph of cinematic technology. The acting and dialogue are a different matter.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This version of Nosferatu is clearly a triumph of cinematic technology. The…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>246</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Blitz&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Blitz tries to be a somber portrait of resilience in wartime, but its portrait is shown through such a rosy lens I started thinking this was produced by a room of executives for the Hallmark Movie Channel.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Blitz&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Blitz tries to be a somber portrait of resilience in wartime, but its portrait is shown through such a rosy lens I started thinking this was produced by a room of executives for the Hallmark Movie Channel.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Blitz tries to be a somber portrait of resilience in wartime, but its portrait…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>219</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Piano Lesson&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Not only is this film an honest look at Black American identity in the 20th century, it's a beacon for every family's heritage (both good and bad). That heritage is important, because it's inevitably part of your life today.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:16:33 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Piano Lesson&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Not only is this film an honest look at Black American identity in the 20th century, it's a beacon for every family's heritage (both good and bad). That heritage is important, because it's inevitably part of your life today.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Not only is this film an honest look at Black American identity in the 20th…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>255</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Wicked&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Musical films are horribly challenging to achieve in the 21st century, so when I left the theater feeling happy, playful, and invigorated, it felt like Wicked did the impossible.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:09:34 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Wicked&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Musical films are horribly challenging to achieve in the 21st century, so when I left the theater feeling happy, playful, and invigorated, it felt like Wicked did the impossible.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Musical films are horribly challenging to achieve in the 21st century, so when…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>268</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Gladiator II&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:00:25 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Gladiator II&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Gladiator II falls short of being a tent pole event kind of film this year, because it tries to do too much in its allotted time.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Gladiator II falls short of being a tent pole event kind of film this year,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>







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    <title>&#x27;Emilia Perez&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This is not the movie of the year for me. So many themes are only lightly explored, and the pacing is sometimes awkwardly jerky. But every viewer has to give some appreciation to this film being so unique, audacious, and daring.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:32:11 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Emilia Perez&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is not the movie of the year for me. So many themes are only lightly explored, and the pacing is sometimes awkwardly jerky. But every viewer has to give some appreciation to this film being so unique, audacious, and daring.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This is not the movie of the year for me. So many themes are only lightly…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>255</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Heretic&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Some of the conversations are interesting on the importance of belief , but Heretic doesn't quite have enough energy (or inventiveness) to keep viewers in its clutches.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:39:55 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Heretic&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Some of the conversations are interesting on the importance of belief , but Heretic doesn't quite have enough energy (or inventiveness) to keep viewers in its clutches.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Some of the conversations are interesting on the importance of belief , but…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>214</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;We Live In Time&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It's true not every film needs to be a brilliant bolt of lightning showing something new and pushing boundaries. We Live in Time is an example of this. So it will tug some heartstrings, but it isn't exactly an exciting choice for movie lovers out there.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 18:29:57 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;We Live In Time&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It's true not every film needs to be a brilliant bolt of lightning showing something new and pushing boundaries. We Live in Time is an example of this. So it will tug some heartstrings, but it isn't exactly an exciting choice for movie lovers out there.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It's true not every film needs to be a brilliant bolt of lightning showing…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>226</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Joker: Folie à Deux&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Being so different of a film, and being so especially dark and tragic of a musical film, makes this sequel something truly unexpected and unique. So it isn't a brilliant triumph, but at least it isn't boring.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:11:02 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-10-27/joker-folie-a-deux-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Joker: Folie à Deux&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Being so different of a film, and being so especially dark and tragic of a musical film, makes this sequel something truly unexpected and unique. So it isn't a brilliant triumph, but at least it isn't boring.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Being so different of a film, and being so especially dark and tragic of a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>237</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Substance&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I highly recommend this film for everyone, but only if you think you can handle the outrageous style of gore it has waiting for you, from the bodily fluids to the screams.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:24:34 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Substance&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I highly recommend this film for everyone, but only if you think you can handle the outrageous style of gore it has waiting for you, from the bodily fluids to the screams.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I highly recommend this film for everyone, but only if you think you can handle…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>244</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Apartment 7A&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Apartment 7A is an okay film. It isn't terrible or boring or lacking in a continuous narrative. It just doesn't have enough new content we haven't seen before to help it feel exciting and memorable.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:27:33 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Apartment 7A is an okay film. It isn't terrible or boring or lacking in a continuous narrative. It just doesn't have enough new content we haven't seen before to help it feel exciting and memorable.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Apartment 7A is an okay film. It isn't terrible or boring or lacking in a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>252</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;My Old Ass&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[My Old Ass is such a great mood elevator. I found myself smiling unexpectedly so many times while watching it.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:43:16 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-10-08/my-old-ass-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;My Old Ass&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[My Old Ass is such a great mood elevator. I found myself smiling unexpectedly so many times while watching it.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[My Old Ass is such a great mood elevator. I found myself smiling unexpectedly…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>204</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Uglies&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I started this film with an open mind hoping it would be fun. I don't enjoy hate-watching anything. But Uglies falls short in so many ways, I can never recommend this to anyone.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:59:39 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-09-24/uglies-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Uglies&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I started this film with an open mind hoping it would be fun. I don't enjoy hate-watching anything. But Uglies falls short in so many ways, I can never recommend this to anyone.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I started this film with an open mind hoping it would be fun. I don't enjoy…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>261</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Beetlejuice Beetlejuice&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:39:50 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It's just okay for an anticipated sequel, but it could have been outstanding.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>222</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Daughters&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[If this film is not nominated for a number of awards next year, I will be totally disappointed.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:40:55 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If this film is not nominated for a number of awards next year, I will be totally disappointed.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[If this film is not nominated for a number of awards next year, I will be…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>192</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Blink Twice&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Blink Twice is an eventful film with some exciting twists. As a darkly satirical response to the post #MeToo movement, it mixes a lot of genres together from comedy and sisterhood to bloody action and mystery.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:31:35 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Blink Twice is an eventful film with some exciting twists. As a darkly satirical response to the post #MeToo movement, it mixes a lot of genres together from comedy and sisterhood to bloody action and mystery.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Blink Twice is an eventful film with some exciting twists. As a darkly…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>231</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Alien: Romulus&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:47:56 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I'm happy to say, overall, Alien: Romulus is not terrible. It's just okay.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I'm happy to say, overall, Alien: Romulus is not terrible. It's just okay.]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>244</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Didi&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This director is smart, because this semi-autobiographical film is not just about displaying and recreating his childhood memories but about exploring the emotions and experiences in the whirlwind of adolescence.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:37:28 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This director is smart, because this semi-autobiographical film is not just about displaying and recreating his childhood memories but about exploring the emotions and experiences in the whirlwind of adolescence.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This director is smart, because this semi-autobiographical film is not just…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>222</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Trap&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Is Trap supposed to be a tense thriller or a dark comedy? After watching the one hour and 45 minutes of this film, I gave up caring about my answer.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:24:05 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Trap&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is Trap supposed to be a tense thriller or a dark comedy? After watching the one hour and 45 minutes of this film, I gave up caring about my answer.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Is Trap supposed to be a tense thriller or a dark comedy? After watching the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>217</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Deadpool and Wolverine&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[As the 34th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I walked away from this one thinking it was just okay. Not a disaster....but merely satisfactory.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:57:56 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Deadpool and Wolverine&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the 34th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I walked away from this one thinking it was just okay. Not a disaster....but merely satisfactory.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[As the 34th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I walked away from this one…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>236</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Long Legs&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The NEON studio has just released one of the best films I've seen so far this year.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:39:54 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The NEON studio has just released one of the best films I've seen so far this year.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The NEON studio has just released one of the best films I've seen so far this…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>233</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Fly Me to the Moon&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The historical fiction parts of this film are fun, being written and acted with a likable, energetic charm set against the high stakes space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The romantic comedy parts of this film are what left me feeling underwhelmed.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:49:47 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Fly Me to the Moon&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The historical fiction parts of this film are fun, being written and acted with a likable, energetic charm set against the high stakes space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The romantic comedy parts of this film are what left me feeling underwhelmed.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The historical fiction parts of this film are fun, being written and acted with…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>219</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;A Quiet Place: Day One&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A Quiet Place: Day One works successfully since it isn't just about the science-fiction violence with the aliens prowling and attacking. There's also time given to the characters' feelings and backgrounds, which takes viewers through the well-paced peaks and valleys of noisy intensity and hushed contemplation.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:30:18 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;A Quiet Place: Day One&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A Quiet Place: Day One works successfully since it isn't just about the science-fiction violence with the aliens prowling and attacking. There's also time given to the characters' feelings and backgrounds, which takes viewers through the well-paced peaks and valleys of noisy intensity and hushed contemplation.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A Quiet Place: Day One works successfully since it isn't just about the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>198</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Bikeriders&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Bikeriders is a great film to watch in the summer, because it feels distinctly American and reminds us all the importance of community.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:27:46 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Bikeriders&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Bikeriders is a great film to watch in the summer, because it feels distinctly American and reminds us all the importance of community.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Bikeriders is a great film to watch in the summer, because it feels…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>201</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Watchers&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[After watching this one, I became concerned about the overall quality of new releases in theaters today. We're approaching the edge of a content cliff resulting from the Hollywood writers and actors strike from last year.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:22:19 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-07-02/the-watchers-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Watchers&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[After watching this one, I became concerned about the overall quality of new releases in theaters today. We're approaching the edge of a content cliff resulting from the Hollywood writers and actors strike from last year.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[After watching this one, I became concerned about the overall quality of new…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>174</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Babes&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I learned pregnancy is sometimes gross and scary, but it's much more manageable with a friend.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:55:58 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Babes&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I learned pregnancy is sometimes gross and scary, but it's much more manageable with a friend.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I learned pregnancy is sometimes gross and scary, but it's much more manageable…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>196</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Atlas&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Atlas tries to be a treacherous fight for survival and a perceptive social commentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence. But it succeeds at neither because the writing is so vapid, uninteresting, and immature.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:33:24 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-06-05/atlas-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Atlas&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Atlas tries to be a treacherous fight for survival and a perceptive social commentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence. But it succeeds at neither because the writing is so vapid, uninteresting, and immature.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Atlas tries to be a treacherous fight for survival and a perceptive social…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>222</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Birth/Rebirth&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oxygen masks, internal organs, and bloody hospital gloves make Birth/Rebirth feel like a modern mix of Frankenstein (1931 and 1994) and Flatliners (1990), pushing the boundaries of life and death into unknown spooky territory.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 11:30:15 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-05-29/birth-rebirth-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Birth/Rebirth&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oxygen masks, internal organs, and bloody hospital gloves make Birth/Rebirth feel like a modern mix of Frankenstein (1931 and 1994) and Flatliners (1990), pushing the boundaries of life and death into unknown spooky territory.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oxygen masks, internal organs, and bloody hospital gloves make Birth/Rebirth…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>198</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Adagio&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Adagio is a patient neo-noir film without the expected gun fights, car chases, or mysterious women. This film is too thoughtful and too quiet for that, because it spends its time creating four human portraits of different men each with cloudy criminal pasts.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 13:34:43 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-05-20/adagio-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Adagio&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Adagio is a patient neo-noir film without the expected gun fights, car chases, or mysterious women. This film is too thoughtful and too quiet for that, because it spends its time creating four human portraits of different men each with cloudy criminal pasts.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Adagio is a patient neo-noir film without the expected gun fights, car chases,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>191</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Challengers&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Challengers is an interesting study of relationships with an arresting soundtrack of thumping, techno, dance music. Like a trend forecaster at a fashion magazine might say, Challengers is a film that feels like now.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 15:44:41 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-05-09/challengers-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Challengers&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Challengers is an interesting study of relationships with an arresting soundtrack of thumping, techno, dance music. Like a trend forecaster at a fashion magazine might say, Challengers is a film that feels like now.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Challengers is an interesting study of relationships with an arresting…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>221</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is filled with people who are not trying hard enough at all to give viewers something new, personal, or interesting.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 12:55:12 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-05-01/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is filled with people who are not trying hard enough at all to give viewers something new, personal, or interesting.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is filled with people who are not trying…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>195</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Civil War&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Don't let the previews fool you. This film is not an action-packed adventure. Civil War works to be a more human story by showing the lengths reporters and photojournalists go to simply to do their job capturing the realities of war.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:25:05 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-04-24/civil-war-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Civil War&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Don't let the previews fool you. This film is not an action-packed adventure. Civil War works to be a more human story by showing the lengths reporters and photojournalists go to simply to do their job capturing the realities of war.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Don't let the previews fool you. This film is not an action-packed adventure.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>224</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Road House&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I get the feeling this film was never about telling a unique or articulate story. Even from the beginning concept of doing this remake, it was probably all about virile men showing off how to throw a good punch.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:13:13 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I get the feeling this film was never about telling a unique or articulate story. Even from the beginning concept of doing this remake, it was probably all about virile men showing off how to throw a good punch.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I get the feeling this film was never about telling a unique or articulate…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:duration>189</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Shirley&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Shirley slips into the easy pitfalls of many biopics and history adaptations: it paints its subject as too much of a righteous saint/political figure and not enough as a human one.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:28:10 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Shirley slips into the easy pitfalls of many biopics and history adaptations: it paints its subject as too much of a righteous saint/political figure and not enough as a human one.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Shirley slips into the easy pitfalls of many biopics and history adaptations:…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>198</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&quot;Cabrini&quot; movie review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I have to say Cabrini is not a disaster. The production design, costumes, editing, and cinematography, while very plain, all look professional and consistent. And it's nice to see something in movie theaters so proudly optimistic and working to spread compassion.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:12:44 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-03-28/cabrini-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&quot;Cabrini&quot; movie review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I have to say Cabrini is not a disaster. The production design, costumes, editing, and cinematography, while very plain, all look professional and consistent. And it's nice to see something in movie theaters so proudly optimistic and working to spread compassion.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I have to say Cabrini is not a disaster. The production design, costumes,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>224</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Oscar talk with film critic Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Casey gives us his take on this year's Oscars ceremony takes a look at the big winners of the night.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:36:25 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-03-18/oscar-talk-with-film-critic-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>Oscar talk with film critic Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Casey gives us his take on this year's Oscars ceremony takes a look at the big winners of the night.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Casey gives us his take on this year's Oscars ceremony takes a look at the big…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>203</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Dune: Part Two&#x27; movie review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[An important part of any memorable sci-fi film is establishing a fictional futuristic world that is marvelous and believable, and this film delivers that like you would not believe.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:10:47 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-03-13/dune-part-two-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Dune: Part Two&#x27; movie review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[An important part of any memorable sci-fi film is establishing a fictional futuristic world that is marvelous and believable, and this film delivers that like you would not believe.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[An important part of any memorable sci-fi film is establishing a fictional…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>206</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Drive-Away Dolls&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The screenplay has so little content, it can't even fill a 90-minute runtime. Drive Away Dolls is one hour and 24 minutes, but it felt so much longer. That's a bad sign when you lose all concepts of recorded time while watching a short film.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 13:27:47 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-03-04/flix-at-48-drive-away-dolls</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Drive-Away Dolls&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The screenplay has so little content, it can't even fill a 90-minute runtime. Drive Away Dolls is one hour and 24 minutes, but it felt so much longer. That's a bad sign when you lose all concepts of recorded time while watching a short film.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The screenplay has so little content, it can't even fill a 90-minute runtime.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>172</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Lisa Frankenstein&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Maybe parts of this film are too watered down to reach a wider and less adventurous range of viewers. But it's entertaining, it will get people laughing in the theater, and it will remind viewers that love develops in all shapes and sizes.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:24:38 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-02-21/flix-at-48-lisa-frankenstein</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Lisa Frankenstein&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Maybe parts of this film are too watered down to reach a wider and less adventurous range of viewers. But it's entertaining, it will get people laughing in the theater, and it will remind viewers that love develops in all shapes and sizes.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Maybe parts of this film are too watered down to reach a wider and less…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>181</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Anyone But You&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I know my review for this one is negative, but I'm confident saying the lighthearted breezy films are just as important to watch as the more serious, heavy films are. That's why I think Anyone But You could have been so much better.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:43:23 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-02-09/flix-at-48-anyone-but-you</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Anyone But You&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I know my review for this one is negative, but I'm confident saying the lighthearted breezy films are just as important to watch as the more serious, heavy films are. That's why I think Anyone But You could have been so much better.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I know my review for this one is negative, but I'm confident saying the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>202</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Self Reliance&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Self Reliance is not an award-winning comedy, but it maintains its relaxed vibe well and it's at least fun to watch.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-02-02/flix-at-48-self-reliance</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Self Reliance&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Self Reliance is not an award-winning comedy, but it maintains its relaxed vibe well and it's at least fun to watch.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Self Reliance is not an award-winning comedy, but it maintains its relaxed vibe…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>170</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Oscar Talk</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[UPR's film critic Casey T. Allen hosts a conversation with USU Professor David Wall on this year's 96th Annual Academy Awards.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:57:24 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-02-02/flix-at-48-oscar-talk</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Oscar Talk</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[UPR's film critic Casey T. Allen hosts a conversation with USU Professor David Wall on this year's 96th Annual Academy Awards.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[UPR's film critic Casey T. Allen hosts a conversation with USU Professor David…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>489</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Poor Things&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Poor Things is like Frankenstein meets Alice in Wonderland with a heartfelt feminist core on the development of womanhood.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:09:25 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-01-31/flix-at-48-poor-things</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Poor Things&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Poor Things is like Frankenstein meets Alice in Wonderland with a heartfelt feminist core on the development of womanhood.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Poor Things is like Frankenstein meets Alice in Wonderland with a heartfelt…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>206</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: 96 Annual Academy Awards </title>
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    <description><![CDATA[UPR's film critic Casey T. Allen joins Shalayne Smith Needham during All Things Considered to talk about this year's nominees, surprises and snubs and his own predictions for the evening of Sunday, March 10.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:18:37 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-01-29/flix-at-48-96-annual-academy-awards</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: 96 Annual Academy Awards </itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[UPR's film critic Casey T. Allen joins Shalayne Smith Needham during All Things Considered to talk about this year's nominees, surprises and snubs and his own predictions for the evening of Sunday, March 10.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[UPR's film critic Casey T. Allen joins Shalayne Smith Needham during All Things…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen, Shalayne Smith Needham</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>358</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Foe&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This version of sci-fi looks inward at the emotional repercussions of future advancements in science and the ever-deepening relationships between humanity and electronic invention.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:39:58 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-01-22/flix-at-48-foe</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Foe&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This version of sci-fi looks inward at the emotional repercussions of future advancements in science and the ever-deepening relationships between humanity and electronic invention.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This version of sci-fi looks inward at the emotional repercussions of future…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>200</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Color Purple&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The songs in the film are exciting kaleidoscopes of ragtime, gospel, jazz, and blues that completely transport viewers to another emotional realm that is joyful and wounded and everything in between.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:04:14 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-01-08/flix-at-48-the-color-purple</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Color Purple&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The songs in the film are exciting kaleidoscopes of ragtime, gospel, jazz, and blues that completely transport viewers to another emotional realm that is joyful and wounded and everything in between.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The songs in the film are exciting kaleidoscopes of ragtime, gospel, jazz, and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>201</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Wonka&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Now comes my surprise saying I wasn't filled with delight or amazement when I left the theater. I walked away thinking Wonka is just okay. It's a fun option for families and children to enjoy (it's rated PG), but I don't think the film as a whole is magical enough to be memorable.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:36:27 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-01-02/flix-at-48-wonka</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Wonka&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Now comes my surprise saying I wasn't filled with delight or amazement when I left the theater. I walked away thinking Wonka is just okay. It's a fun option for families and children to enjoy (it's rated PG), but I don't think the film as a whole is magical enough to be memorable.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Now comes my surprise saying I wasn't filled with delight or amazement when I…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>200</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Eileen&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Don't watch Eileen if you want to feel hopeful and energized afterward. But you will get a fascinating peek into a woman's psychological breaking point.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:48:23 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-12-18/flix-at-48-eileen</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Eileen&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Don't watch Eileen if you want to feel hopeful and energized afterward. But you will get a fascinating peek into a woman's psychological breaking point.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Don't watch Eileen if you want to feel hopeful and energized afterward. But you…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>187</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Saltburn</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The psychological thriller half of Saltburn is terrifically, darkly exciting. Audiences will leave the viewing of this film thinking how the constant wanting of beautiful things can turn disturbing and deadly.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:50:32 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-12-07/flix-at-48-saltburn</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Saltburn</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The psychological thriller half of Saltburn is terrifically, darkly exciting. Audiences will leave the viewing of this film thinking how the constant wanting of beautiful things can turn disturbing and deadly.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The psychological thriller half of Saltburn is terrifically, darkly exciting.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>209</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: The Holdovers</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Holdovers is more than a funny, dark, heartwarming holiday treat. It's a warm hug to teachers everywhere and how they shape our childhoods (as well as our futures) for good. And who doesn't need a hug this time of year?]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:25:08 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-11-29/flix-at-48-the-holdovers</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: The Holdovers</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Holdovers is more than a funny, dark, heartwarming holiday treat. It's a warm hug to teachers everywhere and how they shape our childhoods (as well as our futures) for good. And who doesn't need a hug this time of year?]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Holdovers is more than a funny, dark, heartwarming holiday treat. It's a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>184</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: The Killer</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Thanks to David Fincher's thoughtful and cerebral direction, this film is less of an explosive action romp and more of a plaintive psychological examination of a man trying to do his job and trying to keep his head. The Killer isn't amazing or new but it's entertaining.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:15:27 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-11-17/flix-at-48-the-killer</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: The Killer</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Thanks to David Fincher's thoughtful and cerebral direction, this film is less of an explosive action romp and more of a plaintive psychological examination of a man trying to do his job and trying to keep his head. The Killer isn't amazing or new but it's entertaining.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Thanks to David Fincher's thoughtful and cerebral direction, this film is less…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>196</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: What Happens Later</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Because this film tries to lead viewers through so many different emotional hoops in a one hour and 43 minute run-time, What Happens Later is not emotionally engaging at all. It's also not emotionally realistic or creative.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:30:05 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-11-13/flix-at-48-what-happens-later</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: What Happens Later</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Because this film tries to lead viewers through so many different emotional hoops in a one hour and 43 minute run-time, What Happens Later is not emotionally engaging at all. It's also not emotionally realistic or creative.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Because this film tries to lead viewers through so many different emotional…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>183</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Killers of the Flower Moon</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[We should all be thankful this chapter of 20th century America has made it to the big screen. I thought this film tells its story expertly, and I hope many more people make the time to see it.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:09:17 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-11-08/flix-at-48-killers-of-the-flower-moon</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Killers of the Flower Moon</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[We should all be thankful this chapter of 20th century America has made it to the big screen. I thought this film tells its story expertly, and I hope many more people make the time to see it.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[We should all be thankful this chapter of 20th century America has made it to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>187</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: The Burial</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Burial is not a disaster, but it is a disappointment trying too hard to cover too many topics and clumsily mixing lighthearted humor and serious drama.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:26:06 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-10-23/flix-at-48-the-burial</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: The Burial</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Burial is not a disaster, but it is a disappointment trying too hard to cover too many topics and clumsily mixing lighthearted humor and serious drama.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Burial is not a disaster, but it is a disappointment trying too hard to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>163</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: The Creator</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The acting is solid, the story is only predictable toward the end and the cinematography is hypnotically heart-stopping. The visionary style of The Creator obviously brings to mind the look of past sci-fi gems 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Blade Runner 2049.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:21:30 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-10-09/flix-at-48-the-creator</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: The Creator</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The acting is solid, the story is only predictable toward the end and the cinematography is hypnotically heart-stopping. The visionary style of The Creator obviously brings to mind the look of past sci-fi gems 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Blade Runner 2049.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The acting is solid, the story is only predictable toward the end and the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>184</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: A Haunting in Venice</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Is A Haunting in Venice one of the best films I've seen this year? No. But it remains mostly entertaining and is a great improvement from Director Branagh's previous two Christie adaptations.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:30:19 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-09-29/flix-at-48-a-haunting-in-venice</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: A Haunting in Venice</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is A Haunting in Venice one of the best films I've seen this year? No. But it remains mostly entertaining and is a great improvement from Director Branagh's previous two Christie adaptations.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Is A Haunting in Venice one of the best films I've seen this year? No. But it…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>230</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Inside</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Inside is not a psychological thriller but is more a psychological study on humanity and our constant needs to build or destroy, to read stories or write them, to consume or to explore. The pieces of contemporary art are shot beautifully in this film, but it could be more exciting and more interesting if it didn't spend so much time trying to be such an austere, psychological daydream.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:34:27 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-09-17/flix-at-48-inside</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Inside</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Inside is not a psychological thriller but is more a psychological study on humanity and our constant needs to build or destroy, to read stories or write them, to consume or to explore. The pieces of contemporary art are shot beautifully in this film, but it could be more exciting and more interesting if it didn't spend so much time trying to be such an austere, psychological daydream.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Inside is not a psychological thriller but is more a psychological study on…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>213</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48:Bottoms</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This nihilist bent on the teen comedy feels so fresh, so crazy, and so aggressively energetic, it will delight many comedy lovers (especially dark comedy lovers.) Bottoms is a cringey, unpredictable addition to the growing wave of mainstream queer cinema that began last summer with the films Fire Island and Bros. I'm hoping this wave keeps gaining height.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:46:50 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-09-11/flix-at-48-bottoms</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48:Bottoms</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This nihilist bent on the teen comedy feels so fresh, so crazy, and so aggressively energetic, it will delight many comedy lovers (especially dark comedy lovers.) Bottoms is a cringey, unpredictable addition to the growing wave of mainstream queer cinema that began last summer with the films Fire Island and Bros. I'm hoping this wave keeps gaining height.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This nihilist bent on the teen comedy feels so fresh, so crazy, and so…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>201</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Golda</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A few artsy elements, with visual metaphors of dead birds and engulfing smoke, add some thoughtful style to this biopic. But I'm sad this one doesn't have enough fire to grab viewers' attention. Golda reminds me at least some creative license from the director is important, no matter what real-life story is being told.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:14:39 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-09-06/flix-at-48-golda</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Golda</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A few artsy elements, with visual metaphors of dead birds and engulfing smoke, add some thoughtful style to this biopic. But I'm sad this one doesn't have enough fire to grab viewers' attention. Golda reminds me at least some creative license from the director is important, no matter what real-life story is being told.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A few artsy elements, with visual metaphors of dead birds and engulfing smoke,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>216</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Talk to Me</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Talk to Me follows in the footsteps of other horror films centered around haunted objects tormenting the lives of youngsters like Oculus (2013) and Ouija (2014). A few jump scares are peppered in this film, but it's the quiet, patient moments that succeed in scaring viewers, and those are themoments I'm still thinking about today.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 12:01:29 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-08-19/flix-at-48-talk</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Talk to Me</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Talk to Me follows in the footsteps of other horror films centered around haunted objects tormenting the lives of youngsters like Oculus (2013) and Ouija (2014). A few jump scares are peppered in this film, but it's the quiet, patient moments that succeed in scaring viewers, and those are themoments I'm still thinking about today.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Talk to Me follows in the footsteps of other horror films centered around…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>196</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: They Cloned Tyrone</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I'm hoping Netflix, and all other streaming platforms out there, are ready to invest in films like this that have a pulpy grit and wonderfully three-dimensional performances.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:32:45 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-08-18/flix-at-48-they-cloned-tyrone</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: They Cloned Tyrone</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I'm hoping Netflix, and all other streaming platforms out there, are ready to invest in films like this that have a pulpy grit and wonderfully three-dimensional performances.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I'm hoping Netflix, and all other streaming platforms out there, are ready to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>179</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Oppenheimer</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This film does not tell a part of history everyone will like or even a part of history everyone will agree on. But it's not going to be a boring, thoughtless, or forgettable film this year.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:24:49 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-08-04/flix-at-48-oppenheimer</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Oppenheimer</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This film does not tell a part of history everyone will like or even a part of history everyone will agree on. But it's not going to be a boring, thoughtless, or forgettable film this year.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This film does not tell a part of history everyone will like or even a part of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>218</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Barbie</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This film is one half a plucky coming-of-age story and one half a battle of the sexes musical comedy. This isn't the movie of the year since Barbie was never a part of my childhood but it made me laugh and made me feel like I was part of an inclusive spirited party.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:50:09 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-07-27/flix-at-48-barbie</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Barbie</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This film is one half a plucky coming-of-age story and one half a battle of the sexes musical comedy. This isn't the movie of the year since Barbie was never a part of my childhood but it made me laugh and made me feel like I was part of an inclusive spirited party.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This film is one half a plucky coming-of-age story and one half a battle of the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>194</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Resurrection</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Resurrection is not a flashy or sexy film with a lot of twists or characters, but that doesn't mean it's boring or lacking anything. The artsy lens through which the conclusion is shown might be frustrating for some viewers, because important things are left unexplained. But that's part of the nefarious effect of this film. Just like the main character who fights for her life, even you will start to question what is real and what is not.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:09:32 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-07-26/flix-at-48-resurrection</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Resurrection</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Resurrection is not a flashy or sexy film with a lot of twists or characters, but that doesn't mean it's boring or lacking anything. The artsy lens through which the conclusion is shown might be frustrating for some viewers, because important things are left unexplained. But that's part of the nefarious effect of this film. Just like the main character who fights for her life, even you will start to question what is real and what is not.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Resurrection is not a flashy or sexy film with a lot of twists or characters,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>174</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Joy Ride</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Joy Ride follows in the footsteps of the other female-centered comedies released earlier this year Book Club: The Next Chapter and Polite Society. The actual logistics of travel, wardrobe changes, and flawless hair and makeup are not tethered to reality in this film. But that's not a concern for this film, and its four female stars more than make up for it with their distinct charm and commitment.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:35:42 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-07-14/flix-at-48-joy-ride</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Joy Ride</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Joy Ride follows in the footsteps of the other female-centered comedies released earlier this year Book Club: The Next Chapter and Polite Society. The actual logistics of travel, wardrobe changes, and flawless hair and makeup are not tethered to reality in this film. But that's not a concern for this film, and its four female stars more than make up for it with their distinct charm and commitment.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Joy Ride follows in the footsteps of the other female-centered comedies…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>167</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Asteroid City</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The philosophical leanings in Asteroid City are not for everyone. But this remains a fun and endearing comedy to brighten anyone's summer visit to the movie theater.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:24:58 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-07-11/flix-at-48-asteroid-city</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Asteroid City</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The philosophical leanings in Asteroid City are not for everyone. But this remains a fun and endearing comedy to brighten anyone's summer visit to the movie theater.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The philosophical leanings in Asteroid City are not for everyone. But this…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>193</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Summer sequels</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Summertime means one thing for movie lovers like me. It's the season of sequels. But this season feels depressing and monotonous to me.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:48:15 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-07-11/flix-at-48-summer-sequels</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Summer sequels</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Summertime means one thing for movie lovers like me. It's the season of sequels. But this season feels depressing and monotonous to me.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Summertime means one thing for movie lovers like me. It's the season of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>177</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: The Boogeyman</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Of course this film has jump scares and people dying, but it surprisingly doesn't have too much of that, because it remains focused on the psychological horror of grief and how that grief changes the members of this family.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:39:57 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-07-11/flix-at-48-the-boogeyman</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: The Boogeyman</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Of course this film has jump scares and people dying, but it surprisingly doesn't have too much of that, because it remains focused on the psychological horror of grief and how that grief changes the members of this family.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Of course this film has jump scares and people dying, but it surprisingly…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>171</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Master Gardener</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I'm all for films that avoid predictability, try to do something different, and push the artistic boundaries of the medium. But it turns out a film that tries too hard to be an experiment in ideas or transcendence can be just as boring as an ordinary film trying to make some money.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:41:52 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-07-10/flix-at-48-master-gardener</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Master Gardener</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I'm all for films that avoid predictability, try to do something different, and push the artistic boundaries of the medium. But it turns out a film that tries too hard to be an experiment in ideas or transcendence can be just as boring as an ordinary film trying to make some money.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I'm all for films that avoid predictability, try to do something different, and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>171</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at 48: The Mother</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Mother follows in the footsteps of past Netflix releases The Grey Man from July of 2022 with Ryan Gosling (First Man, 2018) or Lou from September 2022 with Allison Janney (Bad Education, 2019) in that it's not very interesting, fresh, or exciting.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 12:00:35 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-07-06/flix-at-48-the-mother</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at 48: The Mother</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Mother follows in the footsteps of past Netflix releases The Grey Man from July of 2022 with Ryan Gosling (First Man, 2018) or Lou from September 2022 with Allison Janney (Bad Education, 2019) in that it's not very interesting, fresh, or exciting.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Mother follows in the footsteps of past Netflix releases The Grey Man from…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>144</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The production design is grandiose and out of this world, and the special effects makeup is mostly impeccable excluding the surplus of animal heads on upright human-like bodies. But all the good things about this film aren't enough to make it terrific.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:55:33 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-06-22/flix-at-48-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The production design is grandiose and out of this world, and the special effects makeup is mostly impeccable excluding the surplus of animal heads on upright human-like bodies. But all the good things about this film aren't enough to make it terrific.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The production design is grandiose and out of this world, and the special…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>193</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Beau is Afraid</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Beau is Afraid is largely about difficult emotions and how those emotions stay with a person through different stages of life. It's a contemporary odyssey of what the world looks like through a lens of crippling anxiety, doubt, and panic.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:54:06 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-06-21/flix-at-48-beau-is-afraid</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Beau is Afraid</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Beau is Afraid is largely about difficult emotions and how those emotions stay with a person through different stages of life. It's a contemporary odyssey of what the world looks like through a lens of crippling anxiety, doubt, and panic.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Beau is Afraid is largely about difficult emotions and how those emotions stay…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>209</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Paint</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Paint ends up being an example of what happens when you don't make enough decisions in a film's focus, its direction, and its identity. Maybe I just have the "wrong" sense of humor for this one.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:11:04 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-06-12/flix-at-48-paint</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Paint</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Paint ends up being an example of what happens when you don't make enough decisions in a film's focus, its direction, and its identity. Maybe I just have the "wrong" sense of humor for this one.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Paint ends up being an example of what happens when you don't make enough…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>217</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Air</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[With an all-star cast, a true story about real people, and lots of sports statistics, the new film Air seems to have it all to be a successful crowd pleaser. I learned many new things about Nike and Michael Jordan's parents throughout this film. Air just doesn't have enough heart or feeling to make it memorable.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:35:17 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-06-09/flix-at-48-air</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Air</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With an all-star cast, a true story about real people, and lots of sports statistics, the new film Air seems to have it all to be a successful crowd pleaser. I learned many new things about Nike and Michael Jordan's parents throughout this film. Air just doesn't have enough heart or feeling to make it memorable.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[With an all-star cast, a true story about real people, and lots of sports…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>215</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Hive</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Hive is the feature film debut from writer/director Blerta Basholli who presents a realistic, unglamorous, quiet view of her home country Kosovo and the societal effects of war. The narrative is patient and plain, but the emotions it explores are surprisingly complex.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:08:55 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-06-06/flix-at-48-hive</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Hive</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Hive is the feature film debut from writer/director Blerta Basholli who presents a realistic, unglamorous, quiet view of her home country Kosovo and the societal effects of war. The narrative is patient and plain, but the emotions it explores are surprisingly complex.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Hive is the feature film debut from writer/director Blerta Basholli who…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>206</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Boston Strangler</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Moments of thrills and moments of calm. The film just doesn't fulfill its possibilities of being a more nuanced or lively version to get more viewers to watch it.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:30:52 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-06-05/flix-at-48-boston-strangler</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Boston Strangler</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Moments of thrills and moments of calm. The film just doesn't fulfill its possibilities of being a more nuanced or lively version to get more viewers to watch it.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Moments of thrills and moments of calm. The film just doesn't fulfill its…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>188</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Lush cinematography and too many social issues in &#x27;Empire of Light&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Director Sam Mendes does a diligent and heartfelt job with this love letter to the movies, but he also crams in a lot of other themes with it.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:40:18 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-03-20/flix-at-48-lush-cinematography-and-too-many-social-issues-in-empire-of-light</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Lush cinematography and too many social issues in &#x27;Empire of Light&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Director Sam Mendes does a diligent and heartfelt job with this love letter to the movies, but he also crams in a lot of other themes with it.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Director Sam Mendes does a diligent and heartfelt job with this love letter to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>209</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Bruiser&#x27; thoughtfully portrays the transition from boy to man</title>
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    <description><![CDATA['Bruiser' is not the film of the season for me. But it is good, and it lays the foundation for a promising future with the director and the actors.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:40:00 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-03-14/flix-at-48-bruiser-thoughtfully-portrays-the-transition-from-boy-to-man</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Bruiser&#x27; thoughtfully portrays the transition from boy to man</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA['Bruiser' is not the film of the season for me. But it is good, and it lays the foundation for a promising future with the director and the actors.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA['Bruiser' is not the film of the season for me. But it is good, and it lays the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>187</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Son&#x27; fails to shake off its theatrical roots</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Because this film wants the audience to be absorbed in every word, and in every subtext of those words, "The Son" has no flashy cinematography or dynamic editing. It's a film about the words.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:01:33 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-03-13/flix-at-48-the-son-fails-to-shake-off-its-theatrical-roots</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Son&#x27; fails to shake off its theatrical roots</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Because this film wants the audience to be absorbed in every word, and in every subtext of those words, "The Son" has no flashy cinematography or dynamic editing. It's a film about the words.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Because this film wants the audience to be absorbed in every word, and in every…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>181</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Infinity Pool</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The ideas and themes of Infinity Pool have been shown before in other films, like The Ruling Class (1972), Vatel (2000), or Dirty Pretty Things (2002). But the way these ideas and themes are shown made this film disturbingly unique and alluring.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:21:30 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-09-10/flix-at-48-infinity-pool</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Infinity Pool</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The ideas and themes of Infinity Pool have been shown before in other films, like The Ruling Class (1972), Vatel (2000), or Dirty Pretty Things (2002). But the way these ideas and themes are shown made this film disturbingly unique and alluring.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The ideas and themes of Infinity Pool have been shown before in other films,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>163</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: The 2023 Oscar nominations</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This week, host Casey Allen takes a look at the Oscar nominees.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:30:41 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-02-07/flix-at-48</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: The 2023 Oscar nominations</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This week, host Casey Allen takes a look at the Oscar nominees.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This week, host Casey Allen takes a look at the Oscar nominees.]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>367</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48:  &#x27;The Whale&#x27; features persistent gloominess and stellar performances</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["The Whale" is a tragic, intimate story of one man's grief and shame and how he fights against those emotions by making a grasp at redemption far out of his reach.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:33:26 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-02-01/flix-at-48-the-whale-features-persistent-gloominess-and-stellar-performances</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48:  &#x27;The Whale&#x27; features persistent gloominess and stellar performances</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["The Whale" is a tragic, intimate story of one man's grief and shame and how he fights against those emotions by making a grasp at redemption far out of his reach.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["The Whale" is a tragic, intimate story of one man's grief and shame and how he…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>175</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &quot;M3GAN&quot; is violent, predictable, and boring</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["M3GAN" presents as a mischievous satire on the growing ravenous world of consumerism, and the constant need for new toys, new advances and new ways to be entertained.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:01:53 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-01-27/flix-at-48-m3gan-is-violent-predictable-and-boring</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &quot;M3GAN&quot; is violent, predictable, and boring</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["M3GAN" presents as a mischievous satire on the growing ravenous world of consumerism, and the constant need for new toys, new advances and new ways to be entertained.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["M3GAN" presents as a mischievous satire on the growing ravenous world of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>180</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Pale Blue Eye&#x27; is an engaging murder mystery that will keep the audience guessing until the tragic end</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Director and writer Scott Cooper ("Hostiles", 2017) creates a sustained melancholy in this 19th century gothic mystery based on the 2006 novel of the same name.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-01-20/flix-at-48-the-pale-blue-eye-is-an-engaging-murder-mystery-that-will-keep-the-audience-guessing-until-the-tragic-end</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Pale Blue Eye&#x27; is an engaging murder mystery that will keep the audience guessing until the tragic end</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Director and writer Scott Cooper ("Hostiles", 2017) creates a sustained melancholy in this 19th century gothic mystery based on the 2006 novel of the same name.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Director and writer Scott Cooper ("Hostiles", 2017) creates a sustained…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>183</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Avatar: The Way of Water&#x27; tries too hard to be entertaining</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It's PG-13 and visual fun for the whole family, but this sequel is far too much for any science-fiction lover, or movie lover, to take seriously.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:32:23 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-01-12/flix-at-48-avatar-the-way-of-water-tries-too-hard-to-be-entertaining</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Avatar: The Way of Water&#x27; tries too hard to be entertaining</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It's PG-13 and visual fun for the whole family, but this sequel is far too much for any science-fiction lover, or movie lover, to take seriously.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It's PG-13 and visual fun for the whole family, but this sequel is far too much…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>222</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Decision to Leave&#x27; is the perfect balance of crime-mystery and precarious love story</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In a year when so many American films have famously failed to reach box office glory, filmmakers (and film lovers) need only look to South Korea for new ideas and new methods of cinematic storytelling.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:11:10 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-01-11/flix-at-48-decision-to-leave-is-the-perfect-balance-of-crime-mystery-and-precarious-love-story</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Decision to Leave&#x27; is the perfect balance of crime-mystery and precarious love story</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In a year when so many American films have famously failed to reach box office glory, filmmakers (and film lovers) need only look to South Korea for new ideas and new methods of cinematic storytelling.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In a year when so many American films have famously failed to reach box office…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>193</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Fabelmans&#x27;: a sweet family drama that turns saccharine</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["The Fabelmans" is rich in cinematography showing clear beams of light cutting through darkness at every angle. Yet it works too hard to remain optimistic and sweet.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:13:23 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-01-10/flix-at-48-the-fabelmans-a-sweet-family-drama-that-turns-saccharine</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Fabelmans&#x27;: a sweet family drama that turns saccharine</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["The Fabelmans" is rich in cinematography showing clear beams of light cutting through darkness at every angle. Yet it works too hard to remain optimistic and sweet.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["The Fabelmans" is rich in cinematography showing clear beams of light cutting…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>181</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Babylon&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Viewers will have a good time watching this film. Especially viewers who love movies. Babylon is not the movie of the year for 2022, but it's one of the good ones.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 10:00:22 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2024-04-10/babylon-movie-review-with-casey-t-allen</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Babylon&#x27; movie review with Casey T. Allen</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Viewers will have a good time watching this film. Especially viewers who love movies. Babylon is not the movie of the year for 2022, but it's one of the good ones.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Viewers will have a good time watching this film. Especially viewers who love…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>189</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Tár&#x27; features a character study of cancel culture</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Tár" avoids taking sides about cancel culture or its characters — that's for the viewer to determine — and that's what makes it such an intellectual cinema experience.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:22:56 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-12-14/flix-at-48-tar-features-a-character-study-of-cancel-culture</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Tár&#x27; features a character study of cancel culture</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Tár" avoids taking sides about cancel culture or its characters — that's for the viewer to determine — and that's what makes it such an intellectual cinema experience.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Tár" avoids taking sides about cancel culture or its characters — that's for…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>187</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Till&#x27; is an honest portrait of a mother&#x27;s grief and determination</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The film focuses on Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and how she endured criticism to expose the racism behind her son's murder and bring the killers to justice.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:11:35 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-12-13/flix-at-48-till-is-an-honest-portrait-of-a-mothers-grief-and-determination</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Till&#x27; is an honest portrait of a mother&#x27;s grief and determination</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The film focuses on Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and how she endured criticism to expose the racism behind her son's murder and bring the killers to justice.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The film focuses on Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and how she…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>169</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Barbarian&#x27; chooses campy silliness over believability</title>
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    <description><![CDATA["Barbarian" spends lots of time on characters' backstories, but they're too boring or heinous to connect the audience to the characters.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:22:30 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-11-01/flix-at-48-barbarian-chooses-campy-silliness-over-believability</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Barbarian&#x27; chooses campy silliness over believability</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Barbarian" spends lots of time on characters' backstories, but they're too boring or heinous to connect the audience to the characters.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA["Barbarian" spends lots of time on characters' backstories, but they're too…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>155</itunes:duration>
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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Goodnight Mommy&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This film's bite could have used a lot more teeth. So instead of enjoying this new English language version of Goodnight Mommy, I kept thinking to myself, "The original version is better."]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:19:39 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Goodnight Mommy&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This film's bite could have used a lot more teeth. So instead of enjoying this new English language version of Goodnight Mommy, I kept thinking to myself, "The original version is better."]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This film's bite could have used a lot more teeth. So instead of enjoying this…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>152</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Blonde</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Blonde has zero comic relief and no moments of levity. But its consistent solemnity helped me understand this film is not a biopic, not a tribute to Marilyn Monroe's life, or not even a cautionary tale on the dangers of Hollywood. In fact, Blonde is a horror film that gives an unflinching, plaintive look at the terrors of the male gaze and the traditions of objectifying women.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:59:01 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-10-18/flix-at-48-blonde</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Blonde</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Blonde has zero comic relief and no moments of levity. But its consistent solemnity helped me understand this film is not a biopic, not a tribute to Marilyn Monroe's life, or not even a cautionary tale on the dangers of Hollywood. In fact, Blonde is a horror film that gives an unflinching, plaintive look at the terrors of the male gaze and the traditions of objectifying women.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Blonde has zero comic relief and no moments of levity. But its consistent…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>195</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Don&#x27;t Worry Darling</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Even though some twists are predictable in Don't Worry Darling, some are not, because the story takes its time watching the leading lady anxiously piece together her reality and her memories.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:00:09 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-10-24/flix-at-48-dont-worry-darling</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Don&#x27;t Worry Darling</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Even though some twists are predictable in Don't Worry Darling, some are not, because the story takes its time watching the leading lady anxiously piece together her reality and her memories.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Even though some twists are predictable in Don't Worry Darling, some are not,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>207</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: The Woman King</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Woman King is a painfully familiar hero's journey about unity, ferocity and courage. Throughout this film, I had difficulty getting swept away deep into the story because it kept reminding me of other films.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:15:48 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-09-22/flix-at-48-the-woman-king</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: The Woman King</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Woman King is a painfully familiar hero's journey about unity, ferocity and courage. Throughout this film, I had difficulty getting swept away deep into the story because it kept reminding me of other films.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Woman King is a painfully familiar hero's journey about unity, ferocity and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>243</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Three Thousand Years of Longing&#x27; is abstract and dull</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A more accurate title for this film would be "108 Minutes of Mild Introspection."]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:53:30 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-09-14/flix-at-48-three-thousand-years-of-longing-is-abstract-and-dull</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Three Thousand Years of Longing&#x27; is abstract and dull</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A more accurate title for this film would be "108 Minutes of Mild Introspection."]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A more accurate title for this film would be "108 Minutes of Mild…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>199</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Thirteen Lives&#x27; is honest, detailed and inspirational</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The film recounts the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach, who became trapped in a cave in northern Thailand when it flooded from unexpected monsoons.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:19:15 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-09-12/flix-at-48-thirteen-lives-is-honest-detailed-and-inspirational</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Thirteen Lives&#x27; is honest, detailed and inspirational</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The film recounts the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach, who became trapped in a cave in northern Thailand when it flooded from unexpected monsoons.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The film recounts the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach, who became…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>172</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Vengeance&#x27; takes itself too seriously</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Don't ask me why this film's title is "Vengeance," because there's nothing hostile or rancorous about it. A more indicative title would probably be "Self-Righteous Analysis of Society Through Podcast or Invisible Humor."]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:42:16 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-08-22/flix-at-48-vengeance-takes-itself-too-seriously</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Vengeance&#x27; takes itself too seriously</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Don't ask me why this film's title is "Vengeance," because there's nothing hostile or rancorous about it. A more indicative title would probably be "Self-Righteous Analysis of Society Through Podcast or Invisible Humor."]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Don't ask me why this film's title is "Vengeance," because there's nothing…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>182</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: I Love My Dad</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I Love My Dad is a comedy that delights in the uncomfortable, but it also honestly portrays the emotional power of social media by showing how weeks of texting and online conversations can grow into a relationship....or at least what feels like a relationship.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 11:00:03 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2023-09-22/flix-at-48-i-love-my-dad</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: I Love My Dad</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I Love My Dad is a comedy that delights in the uncomfortable, but it also honestly portrays the emotional power of social media by showing how weeks of texting and online conversations can grow into a relationship....or at least what feels like a relationship.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I Love My Dad is a comedy that delights in the uncomfortable, but it also…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>175</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Nope&#x27; successfully blends science fiction, Western and horror</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Although UFOs are the focal point for much of Nope, the film is really a salty and forceful display about peoples' constant addiction to new content, new stories and new outlets to entertain.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:04:08 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-08-04/flix-at-48-nope-successfully-blends-science-fiction-western-and-horror</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Nope&#x27; successfully blends science fiction, Western and horror</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although UFOs are the focal point for much of Nope, the film is really a salty and forceful display about peoples' constant addiction to new content, new stories and new outlets to entertain.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Although UFOs are the focal point for much of Nope, the film is really a salty…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>180</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Zac Efron stars in man vs. nature drama &#x27;Gold&#x27;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Instead of a feast of physical and psychological crumbling, Gold feels like just an appetizer only touching on the dangers of the desert, the consequences of greed and the fear of possible hallucinations.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:50:00 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-08-02/flix-at-48-zac-efron-stars-in-man-vs-nature-drama-gold</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Zac Efron stars in man vs. nature drama &#x27;Gold&#x27;</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Instead of a feast of physical and psychological crumbling, Gold feels like just an appetizer only touching on the dangers of the desert, the consequences of greed and the fear of possible hallucinations.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Instead of a feast of physical and psychological crumbling, Gold feels like…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>167</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Black Phone&#x27; doesn&#x27;t bring anything new to the table</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A movie can still be a good one if it doesn't have much originality. It just won't be remembered for very long.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:41:24 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-08-02/flix-at-48-the-black-phone-doesnt-bring-anything-new-to-the-table</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Black Phone&#x27; doesn&#x27;t bring anything new to the table</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A movie can still be a good one if it doesn't have much originality. It just won't be remembered for very long.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A movie can still be a good one if it doesn't have much originality. It just…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>180</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Elvis&#x27; combines spectacular visuals with middling dialogue</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The film presents a darker side to Elvis, juxtaposing nefarious ideas to make money against the glamour of fame.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:26:12 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-07-07/flix-at-48-elvis-combines-spectacular-visuals-with</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Elvis&#x27; combines spectacular visuals with middling dialogue</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The film presents a darker side to Elvis, juxtaposing nefarious ideas to make money against the glamour of fame.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The film presents a darker side to Elvis, juxtaposing nefarious ideas to make…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>209</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Jurassic World: Dominion&#x27; couldn&#x27;t end soon enough</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[You've heard the phrase less is more, haven't you? Well Jurassic World: Dominion has never heard of it, for it throws everything (including the kitchen sink) down your throat in an effort to be a multi-faceted spectacle.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:17:18 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-07-06/flix-at-48-jurassic-world-dominion-couldnt-end-soon-enough</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Jurassic World: Dominion&#x27; couldn&#x27;t end soon enough</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[You've heard the phrase less is more, haven't you? Well Jurassic World: Dominion has never heard of it, for it throws everything (including the kitchen sink) down your throat in an effort to be a multi-faceted spectacle.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[You've heard the phrase less is more, haven't you? Well Jurassic World:…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>184</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Emergency&#x27; shows that good film-making is about feelings</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Emergency feels like one part Superbad (2007) and one part Queen & Slim (2019) offering topical social commentary on racial anxieties in a specifically youthful world.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:33:15 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-06-14/flix-at-48-emergency</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Emergency&#x27; shows that good film-making is about feelings</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Emergency feels like one part Superbad (2007) and one part Queen & Slim (2019) offering topical social commentary on racial anxieties in a specifically youthful world.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Emergency feels like one part Superbad (2007) and one part Queen & Slim (2019)…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>171</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Men&#x27; is Alex Garland&#x27;s spookiest film yet</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Is Men supposed to be an indictment of male aggression and entitlement told through naturalism? Is it a science-fiction story of how a tragedy haunts you through unknown forces? Every viewer will need to decide for themselves.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 10:49:49 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-06-14/flix-at-48-men-is-alex-garlands-spookiest-film-yet</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Men&#x27; is Alex Garland&#x27;s spookiest film yet</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is Men supposed to be an indictment of male aggression and entitlement told through naturalism? Is it a science-fiction story of how a tragedy haunts you through unknown forces? Every viewer will need to decide for themselves.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Is Men supposed to be an indictment of male aggression and entitlement told…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>181</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Memoria&#x27; is unique and inaccessible</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Experimenting with a non-narrative film structure and theoretical subject matter is boldly exciting. But does it have to be so difficult to understand?]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 10:28:33 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-06-15/flix-at-48-memoria-is-unique-and-inaccessible</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Memoria&#x27; is unique and inaccessible</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Experimenting with a non-narrative film structure and theoretical subject matter is boldly exciting. But does it have to be so difficult to understand?]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Experimenting with a non-narrative film structure and theoretical subject…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>169</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: Ben Foster takes the spotlight in &#x27;The Survivor&#x27;</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2022 10:49:27 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-06-15/flix-at-48-ben-foster-takes-the-spotlight-in-the-survivor</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: Ben Foster takes the spotlight in &#x27;The Survivor&#x27;</itunes:title>


<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>186</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Northman&#x27; features skillful camera work, but too much violence</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A revenge-centered Viking life is inherently brutal, but the fighting and killing is so bloody and embellished that the film becomes a gratuitous orgy of masculine fantasy instead of the darkly psychological epic it tries to be.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:02:14 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-06-15/flix-at-48-the-northman-features-skillful-camera-work-but-too-much-violence</link>
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    <itunes:title>Flix at :48: &#x27;The Northman&#x27; features skillful camera work, but too much violence</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A revenge-centered Viking life is inherently brutal, but the fighting and killing is so bloody and embellished that the film becomes a gratuitous orgy of masculine fantasy instead of the darkly psychological epic it tries to be.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A revenge-centered Viking life is inherently brutal, but the fighting and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>193</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix at :48: &#x27;Everything Everywhere All At Once&#x27; explores family and identity</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Everything Everywhere All at Once is a perplexing and stirring tale of one woman's journey of identity.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:18:15 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/podcast/flix-at-48/2022-06-15/flix-at-48-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-explores-family-and-identity</link>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Everything Everywhere All at Once is a perplexing and stirring tale of one…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>188</itunes:duration>






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    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:26:45 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Recently we've seen a number of new films proudly devoted to boring portrayals…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
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    <title>&#x27;The French Dispatch&#x27; is classic Wes Anderson</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:43:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Algerian-born designer Yves Saint Laurent once said, "Fashions fade, but…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>217</itunes:duration>






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    <title>The visuals in &#x27;Last Night in Soho&#x27; are better than the story</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Last Night in Soho is a psychological suspense film centered on young cheerful Eloise, played by an innocent Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit, 2019), who moves from a remote England town to current day London for university. Through her mysterious gift for visions, and her one-bedroom apartment, Eloise is transported every night to the 1960s living the life of an aspiring singer who encounters predatory men and murder. Like a contemporary Alice in Wonderland, being transported to a glamorous nightlife is addictive at first for the sheltered ingenue. But when the nightlife gets dangerous, this other woman's past starts to haunt our heroine's present, blurring the lines dividing reality and fantasy.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 11:06:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Last Night in Soho is a psychological suspense film centered on young cheerful…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>&#x27;Dune&#x27; transports its audience to Frank Herbert&#x27;s world</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Frank Herbert wrote the novel Dune and had it published in 1965. It became a famous science-fiction story and has been adapted for the screen twice; first as a feature film in 1984 and then as a TV miniseries in 2000. This third adaptation of Dune, from French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, 2015), is an adventurous science-fiction spectacle showing fully realized alien worlds that completely transport you. (Geometric spacecrafts float gracefully through the air, and monolithic stone buildings tower above the natural landscape.) But this film is not just about cool visual effects.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:14:34 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Frank Herbert wrote the novel Dune and had it published in 1965. It became a famous science-fiction story and has been adapted for the screen twice; first as a feature film in 1984 and then as a TV miniseries in 2000. This third adaptation of Dune, from French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, 2015), is an adventurous science-fiction spectacle showing fully realized alien worlds that completely transport you. (Geometric spacecrafts float gracefully through the air, and monolithic stone buildings tower above the natural landscape.) But this film is not just about cool visual effects.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Frank Herbert wrote the novel Dune and had it published in 1965. It became a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>247</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;No Time to Die&#x27; balances action scenes and emotional drama</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Since No Time to Die is the 26th James Bond film released, it's probably not a wise idea expecting this film to reinvent the wheel of this action sub-genre adapted from the characters created in Ian Fleming's novels. Viewers know this wheel and can happily identify the spokes comprising the wheel. Some of the more obvious spokes of the James Bond films are beautifully seductive women, shown here with actress Ana de Armas (Knives Out, 2018), futuristic technology with cars and jets, James Bond visiting exotic locations and an engagingly psychopathic villain.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:17:43 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Since No Time to Die is the 26th James Bond film released, it's probably not a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>248</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Card Counter&#x27; review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated director and writer Paul Schrader (First Reformed, 2017) loves telling stories of misfortune that happen to specifically unglamorous people largely abandoned by the world. (Paul Schrader wrote the enduring and provocative screenplays for both Taxi Driver and The Last Temptation of Christ.) In The Card Counter, a modern-day tragedy of exile and redemption shows viewers that some people cannot avoid revenge forever.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:57:02 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated director and writer Paul Schrader (First Reformed, 2017) loves telling stories of misfortune that happen to specifically unglamorous people largely abandoned by the world. (Paul Schrader wrote the enduring and provocative screenplays for both Taxi Driver and The Last Temptation of Christ.) In The Card Counter, a modern-day tragedy of exile and redemption shows viewers that some people cannot avoid revenge forever.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated director and writer Paul Schrader (First Reformed, 2017) loves…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>184</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Eyes Of Tammy Faye&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a plucky biopic adapted from the documentary film of the same name produced by World of Wonder and released in 2000. Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game, 2017) plays the title role of Tammy Faye Bakker, a devout Christian and Bible college dropout from Minnesota who joined her husband Jim as traveling ministers throughout the South in the 1960s.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:27:15 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a plucky biopic adapted from the documentary film of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>197</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Kate&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The more I watched this movie, the more I became concerned. After Netflix released Kate on September 10th, it has been ranked as one of its most watched offerings for the past few days. So I started wondering, "Why is this movie so popular? Am I becoming old fashioned now in my views of thorough film criticism? Am I out of touch with the current trends and tastes of young viewers today?"]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:37:02 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The more I watched this movie, the more I became concerned. After Netflix released Kate on September 10th, it has been ranked as one of its most watched offerings for the past few days. So I started wondering, "Why is this movie so popular? Am I becoming old fashioned now in my views of thorough film criticism? Am I out of touch with the current trends and tastes of young viewers today?"]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The more I watched this movie, the more I became concerned. After Netflix…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>244</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Candyman&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The original Candyman film, released in 1992, is a perceptive psychological horror exploring racism and the power of fables. This new version of Candyman is a thoughtful sequel about a contemporary Black painter who discovers an urban legend leading him down a path of bees and murder.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:44:45 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The original Candyman film, released in 1992, is a perceptive psychological horror exploring racism and the power of fables. This new version of Candyman is a thoughtful sequel about a contemporary Black painter who discovers an urban legend leading him down a path of bees and murder.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The original Candyman film, released in 1992, is a perceptive psychological…]]></itunes:subtitle>

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    <title>&#x27;Annette&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:55:31 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The following is an unedited transcript:]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>211</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Respect&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:00:44 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The following is an unedited trasncript.]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>210</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&quot;Old&quot; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[After the goofily far-fetched films Split (2016) and Glass (2019), director M. Night Shyamalan has not received much critical praise the past few years. Old is Shyamalan's latest film, and it's thankfully not a schizophrenic disaster...but it's not a brilliant triumph either.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:30:03 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[After the goofily far-fetched films Split (2016) and Glass (2019), director M. Night Shyamalan has not received much critical praise the past few years. Old is Shyamalan's latest film, and it's thankfully not a schizophrenic disaster...but it's not a brilliant triumph either.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[After the goofily far-fetched films Split (2016) and Glass (2019), director M.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>210</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Green Knight&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Director David Lowery is not a stranger to experimental or cerebral filmmaking, with his most popular example being the 2017 film, A Ghost Story. His latest experiment, The Green Knight, is adapted from the 14th century Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, about a member of King Arthur's court in the middle ages who accepts the challenge to a game of beheading from the magical Green Knight, and a bargain to reunite one year in the future. This bargain sends the reluctant hero on a quest through the foggy English countryside where he tests his wits, strength, and virtue.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:55:17 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Director David Lowery is not a stranger to experimental or cerebral filmmaking, with his most popular example being the 2017 film, A Ghost Story. His latest experiment, The Green Knight, is adapted from the 14th century Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, about a member of King Arthur's court in the middle ages who accepts the challenge to a game of beheading from the magical Green Knight, and a bargain to reunite one year in the future. This bargain sends the reluctant hero on a quest through the foggy English countryside where he tests his wits, strength, and virtue.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Director David Lowery is not a stranger to experimental or cerebral filmmaking,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>254</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Gunpowder Milkshake&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Since last year was so unique for the film industry, the summer of 2020 felt refreshingly different at least for new releases. The constant conveyor belt of vapid action films halted last summer and other, more unique, films received more attention like First Cow, Shirley, and Miss Juneteenth. Since the light at the end of the COVID tunnel is still frustratingly far away, I thought the summer of 2021 would continue to offer surprising and memorable examples of independent film. But I realized I was wrong after watching Gunpowder Milkshake which premiered on July 14 through Netflix.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:50:44 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Since last year was so unique for the film industry, the summer of 2020 felt refreshingly different at least for new releases. The constant conveyor belt of vapid action films halted last summer and other, more unique, films received more attention like First Cow, Shirley, and Miss Juneteenth. Since the light at the end of the COVID tunnel is still frustratingly far away, I thought the summer of 2021 would continue to offer surprising and memorable examples of independent film. But I realized I was wrong after watching Gunpowder Milkshake which premiered on July 14 through Netflix.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Since last year was so unique for the film industry, the summer of 2020 felt…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>209</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Black Widow&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most anticipated summer movie of 2021, Black Widow premiered on July 9 in both movie theaters and on the Disney+ streaming platform. Directed by Australian woman Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome, 2017), Black Widow is a colossal, sexy, explosive action-adventure about the famous superspy Natasha Romanoff played by the steely Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story, 2019).]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:56:33 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Perhaps the most anticipated summer movie of 2021, Black Widow premiered on July 9 in both movie theaters and on the Disney+ streaming platform. Directed by Australian woman Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome, 2017), Black Widow is a colossal, sexy, explosive action-adventure about the famous superspy Natasha Romanoff played by the steely Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story, 2019).]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Perhaps the most anticipated summer movie of 2021, Black Widow premiered on…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>180</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Tomorrow War&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Tomorrow War was released on July 2 this year and is available exclusively through streaming on Amazon Prime. When I watched this film conclude and I started to write this review, I thought to myself, "Where do I start?" And anyone who's been a teacher or a judge on a reality competition series knows the phrase, "Where do I start?" is not a good thing.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:17:11 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Tomorrow War was released on July 2 this year and is available exclusively through streaming on Amazon Prime. When I watched this film conclude and I started to write this review, I thought to myself, "Where do I start?" And anyone who's been a teacher or a judge on a reality competition series knows the phrase, "Where do I start?" is not a good thing.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Tomorrow War was released on July 2 this year and is available exclusively…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>217</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;False Positive&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[False Positive was released on June 25, 2021 and is available for streaming exclusively on Hulu. Ilana Glazer (Broad City, 2014-2019) and Justin Theroux (The Spy Who Dumped Me, 2018) play a happy married couple struggling to conceive a child. After meeting with a fertility doctor, played by a smarmy Pierce Brosnan (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, 2018), they achieve a pregnancy. But the excited mother-to-be faces unexpected decisions, simmering suspicious, and shocking emissions...of blood.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:19:23 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[False Positive was released on June 25, 2021 and is available for streaming exclusively on Hulu. Ilana Glazer (Broad City, 2014-2019) and Justin Theroux (The Spy Who Dumped Me, 2018) play a happy married couple struggling to conceive a child. After meeting with a fertility doctor, played by a smarmy Pierce Brosnan (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, 2018), they achieve a pregnancy. But the excited mother-to-be faces unexpected decisions, simmering suspicious, and shocking emissions...of blood.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[False Positive was released on June 25, 2021 and is available for streaming…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>120</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;In The Heights Review&#x27; With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Adapted from the famous musical first produced on Broadway in 2008, In the Heights presents a vibrant kaleidoscopic view of the New York City neighborhood Washington Heights and the hopes and dreams of its Latinx residents.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:39:34 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Adapted from the famous musical first produced on Broadway in 2008, In the Heights presents a vibrant kaleidoscopic view of the New York City neighborhood Washington Heights and the hopes and dreams of its Latinx residents.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Adapted from the famous musical first produced on Broadway in 2008, In the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>238</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Cruella&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oscar-winner Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes, 2017) plays the title role in the dark and snazzy origin story of Cruella DeVil, one of the most flamboyant villains in the canon of Disney animated films who was first brought to life on the big screen in 1961's One Hundred and One Dalmatians (and followed by a handful of sequels and remakes).]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:57:04 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oscar-winner Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes, 2017) plays the title role in the dark and snazzy origin story of Cruella DeVil, one of the most flamboyant villains in the canon of Disney animated films who was first brought to life on the big screen in 1961's One Hundred and One Dalmatians (and followed by a handful of sequels and remakes).]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oscar-winner Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes, 2017) plays the title role in the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>240</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Oxygen&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[With newly released thrillers The Woman in the Window directed by Joe Wright (Darkest Hour, 2017) and Those Who Wish Me Dead directed by Taylor Sheridan (Wind River, 2017), mainstream film looked promising May 14-16. But both these films proved disappointing mainly from trying too hard and using too many cliches. So I was pleasantly surprised to see another new film released May 12 on Netflix called Oxygen that elevated my weekend viewing from a dish at Sizzler to least a dish at The Cheesecake Factory. Oxygen is a tense cerebral mystery about a young woman who wakes up alone in a cryogenic sleeping pod and has to figure out how to survive before her oxygen is depleted but with no memory of how she got there or who she is. Through patchy phone calls, internet searches, and answers from the ghostly voice of a computer interface system, our panicked woman gradually assembles pieces of her life.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 16:17:32 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With newly released thrillers The Woman in the Window directed by Joe Wright (Darkest Hour, 2017) and Those Who Wish Me Dead directed by Taylor Sheridan (Wind River, 2017), mainstream film looked promising May 14-16. But both these films proved disappointing mainly from trying too hard and using too many cliches. So I was pleasantly surprised to see another new film released May 12 on Netflix called Oxygen that elevated my weekend viewing from a dish at Sizzler to least a dish at The Cheesecake Factory. Oxygen is a tense cerebral mystery about a young woman who wakes up alone in a cryogenic sleeping pod and has to figure out how to survive before her oxygen is depleted but with no memory of how she got there or who she is. Through patchy phone calls, internet searches, and answers from the ghostly voice of a computer interface system, our panicked woman gradually assembles pieces of her life.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[With newly released thrillers The Woman in the Window directed by Joe Wright…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>219</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Monster&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[First of all, let me explain this film is not the gritty drama from 2003 starring Charlize Theron as a real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos. This Monster was filmed in 2018 and was just released on May 7 through Netflix.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 15:42:31 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[First of all, let me explain this film is not the gritty drama from 2003 starring Charlize Theron as a real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos. This Monster was filmed in 2018 and was just released on May 7 through Netflix.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[First of all, let me explain this film is not the gritty drama from 2003…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>272</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Separation&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[For those of you who did not watch the Academy Awards ceremony on April 25, let me explain that much of the ceremony felt like a desperate, yet restrained, plea to get viewers to return to movie theaters as soon as it's possible and safe.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2021 15:36:18 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For those of you who did not watch the Academy Awards ceremony on April 25, let me explain that much of the ceremony felt like a desperate, yet restrained, plea to get viewers to return to movie theaters as soon as it's possible and safe.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[For those of you who did not watch the Academy Awards ceremony on April 25, let…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>120</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Stowaway&#x27; Review With Casey And Oscars Recap</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Shalayne Smith Needham: Flix at 48 is up next with our film critic Casey T. Allen. Hi, Casey.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2021 11:58:58 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Shalayne Smith Needham: Flix at 48 is up next with our film critic Casey T. Allen. Hi, Casey.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Shalayne Smith Needham: Flix at 48 is up next with our film critic Casey T.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>367</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Thunder Force&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Thunder Force is a superhero comedy first released on Netflix April 9th, and it inspired me to send a personal message to the film's leading actress, Melissa McCarthy (Superintelligence, 2020). The message reads like this: "Dear Melissa McCarthy, Please stop making movies with your writer/director husband Ben Falcone. Sincerely, Casey T. Allen. The end."]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:21:24 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Thunder Force is a superhero comedy first released on Netflix April 9th, and it inspired me to send a personal message to the film's leading actress, Melissa McCarthy (Superintelligence, 2020). The message reads like this: "Dear Melissa McCarthy, Please stop making movies with your writer/director husband Ben Falcone. Sincerely, Casey T. Allen. The end."]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Thunder Force is a superhero comedy first released on Netflix April 9th, and it…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>120</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Relic&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Choosing to produce a fresh contemporary horror film is so often a bad decision, like rollerblading as an adult, or naming a newborn infant Kenneth. Thankfully, the film Relic has proven me wrong with a horror film that is lasting, patient, and chilling. Relic was officially released in July 2020 but has recently become available through both Amazon Prime and Redbox.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:18:28 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2021-04-09/relic-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Choosing to produce a fresh contemporary horror film is so often a bad decision, like rollerblading as an adult, or naming a newborn infant Kenneth. Thankfully, the film Relic has proven me wrong with a horror film that is lasting, patient, and chilling. Relic was officially released in July 2020 but has recently become available through both Amazon Prime and Redbox.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Choosing to produce a fresh contemporary horror film is so often a bad…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>209</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Flix At :48: Previewing The Oscars</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Shalayne Smith Needham: Our conversations recently have focused on award season for the film industry. There has been a lot of talk about the Oscars, which are coming up in about a month from now. It's been a difficult year for the industry, of course, with COVID-19. First, tell us how will the 93rd Annual Academy Awards be different this year?]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:11:06 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Flix At :48: Previewing The Oscars</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Shalayne Smith Needham: Our conversations recently have focused on award season for the film industry. There has been a lot of talk about the Oscars, which are coming up in about a month from now. It's been a difficult year for the industry, of course, with COVID-19. First, tell us how will the 93rd Annual Academy Awards be different this year?]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Shalayne Smith Needham: Our conversations recently have focused on award season…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Shalayne Smith Needham, Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>360</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The United States vs. Billie Holiday&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Biopic films are an especially challenging mountain to climb. They’re done a lot, so they can get formulaic; and some go too far to sanitize their subject (Bohemian Rhapsody, 2018) or vilify them (Mommie Dearest, 1981). The United States vs. Billie Holiday miraculously doesn’t fall into any of these metaphorical ravines.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:48:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Biopic films are an especially challenging mountain to climb. They’re done a lot, so they can get formulaic; and some go too far to sanitize their subject (Bohemian Rhapsody, 2018) or vilify them (Mommie Dearest, 1981). The United States vs. Billie Holiday miraculously doesn’t fall into any of these metaphorical ravines.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Biopic films are an especially challenging mountain to climb. They’re done a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>387</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;I Care A Lot&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated actress Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, 2014) plays another villainous role as Marla Grayson, a professional guardian who takes care of old people who can no longer live independently. But Marla's care is a finely-tuned scam forcing the innocent seniors into a retirement home against their will, liquidating all their assets, and draining their life savings. But her crooked scheme takes a left turn when the latest victim she swindles turns out to be connected to a mobster.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:01:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated actress Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, 2014) plays another villainous role as Marla Grayson, a professional guardian who takes care of old people who can no longer live independently. But Marla's care is a finely-tuned scam forcing the innocent seniors into a retirement home against their will, liquidating all their assets, and draining their life savings. But her crooked scheme takes a left turn when the latest victim she swindles turns out to be connected to a mobster.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated actress Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, 2014) plays another…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>254</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Land&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Actress Robin Wright (Wonder Woman 1984, 2020) co-produces and stars in her feature film directorial debut as an emotionally shattered woman retreating from life in the drama Land. After suffering a deep loss, a quiet woman moves into an abandoned cabin alone with no car, no electricity, no running water, and no phone deep in the mountains of Wyoming. Suffering dangerous winter storms, wild intruders, and persistent hunger, this woman places herself firmly in her grief with no intentions of escape.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:31:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Actress Robin Wright (Wonder Woman 1984, 2020) co-produces and stars in her feature film directorial debut as an emotionally shattered woman retreating from life in the drama Land. After suffering a deep loss, a quiet woman moves into an abandoned cabin alone with no car, no electricity, no running water, and no phone deep in the mountains of Wyoming. Suffering dangerous winter storms, wild intruders, and persistent hunger, this woman places herself firmly in her grief with no intentions of escape.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Actress Robin Wright (Wonder Woman 1984, 2020) co-produces and stars in her…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>123</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Supernova&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Supernova is a heartfelt love story of two married men straining against loss, aging, and time. During a road trip through the countryside of England, one husband struggles to remain strong while the other husband struggles with dementia.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:15:08 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2021-02-13/supernova-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Supernova is a heartfelt love story of two married men straining against loss, aging, and time. During a road trip through the countryside of England, one husband struggles to remain strong while the other husband struggles with dementia.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Supernova is a heartfelt love story of two married men straining against loss,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>361</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Midnight Sky&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Midnight Sky is a quiet contemplative drama, set in the future, about survival and human connection adapted from the 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Since The Midnight Sky premiered on Netflix recently, it has inspired a persistent philosophical question in my mind: “What is happening to George Clooney?” I don’t mean to suggest that Gorge Clooney is sliding into Nicholas Cage territory. (Color Out of Space will forever remain one of the worst films of 2020.) What my question means is, “When did George Clooney become so sentimental in his work?”]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:43:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Midnight Sky is a quiet contemplative drama, set in the future, about survival and human connection adapted from the 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Since The Midnight Sky premiered on Netflix recently, it has inspired a persistent philosophical question in my mind: “What is happening to George Clooney?” I don’t mean to suggest that Gorge Clooney is sliding into Nicholas Cage territory. (Color Out of Space will forever remain one of the worst films of 2020.) What my question means is, “When did George Clooney become so sentimental in his work?”]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Midnight Sky is a quiet contemplative drama, set in the future, about…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>360</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;One Night In Miami&#x27; Review With Casey Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[One Night in Miami is a powerful portrait of the anxieties and hopes of Black Americans in the 1960s, and it has strong connections to the culture of today. This film is adapted from a one-act play, written by an African American man Kemp Powers (who also worked on the screenplay), that was first produced in 2013 in Los Angeles. The story is a fictionalized gathering of four famous African American men celebrating in a motel room together in 1964.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:35:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One Night in Miami is a powerful portrait of the anxieties and hopes of Black Americans in the 1960s, and it has strong connections to the culture of today. This film is adapted from a one-act play, written by an African American man Kemp Powers (who also worked on the screenplay), that was first produced in 2013 in Los Angeles. The story is a fictionalized gathering of four famous African American men celebrating in a motel room together in 1964.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[One Night in Miami is a powerful portrait of the anxieties and hopes of Black…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>360</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Pieces Of A Woman&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oftentimes, a drama film tugs at your heartstrings...and sometimes a film can lacerate them. When a young couple's home birth ends in tragedy, the expecting mother tries to keep living under a constant cloud of grief.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:33:19 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2021-01-16/pieces-of-a-woman-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oftentimes, a drama film tugs at your heartstrings...and sometimes a film can…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <description><![CDATA[First time feature film writer/director Emerald Fennell has created a story challenging the male gaze and stabbing it between the eyes.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:02:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[First time feature film writer/director Emerald Fennell has created a story challenging the male gaze and stabbing it between the eyes.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[First time feature film writer/director Emerald Fennell has created a story…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>360</itunes:duration>






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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 21:47:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[You are tuned to Utah Public Radio. I'm Shalayne Smith Needham, here with our…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>120</itunes:duration>






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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 21:32:06 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2021-01-06/covid-the-motion-picture-industry-and-the-oscars-part-one-with-casey-allen</link>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[You are tuned to Utah Public Radio. I'm Shalayne Smith Needham, here with our…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Shalayne Smith Needham, Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>120</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Mank&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Mank is a brilliant biopic of Herman Mankiewicz, his screenwriting career in Hollywood, and his creation of the screenplay for the famous Citizen Kane film from 1941. (Practically every film scholar and film historian includes Citizen Kane as one of the greatest films ever made.)]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 09:42:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Mank is a brilliant biopic of Herman Mankiewicz, his screenwriting career in…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>120</itunes:duration>






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    <description><![CDATA[The Life Ahead is a coming-of-age drama set in Naples, Italy about a 12-year-old orphaned boy (Ibrahima Gueye) who is sent to live with an elderly cantankerous woman whom he recently robbed. This reluctant pairing is a clash of opposites with young and old, Muslim and Jew, refugee and native, as the young boy starts selling drugs on the street and his aged caretaker struggles with memories of the Holocaust.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:46:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Life Ahead is a coming-of-age drama set in Naples, Italy about a…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>120</itunes:duration>






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    <description><![CDATA[Netflix recently released their own adaptation of the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, that was first adapted into a feature film in 1940. This 1940 version was directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, 1954) and received the Oscar for Best Picture.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:16:39 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Netflix recently released their own adaptation of the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, that was first adapted into a feature film in 1940. This 1940 version was directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, 1954) and received the Oscar for Best Picture.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Netflix recently released their own adaptation of the 1938 novel by Daphne du…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>240</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Forty-Year-Old Version&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In the current wasteland of barely mediocre movie theater releases, I'm happy to say I recently watched a new release in my home (on Netflix) that's one of the best I've seen all year.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:09:57 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the current wasteland of barely mediocre movie theater releases, I'm happy to say I recently watched a new release in my home (on Netflix) that's one of the best I've seen all year.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In the current wasteland of barely mediocre movie theater releases, I'm happy…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>119</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Ava&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[An efficient assassin traveling the globe tries to reconcile her damaged family relationships and fight her own superiors for survival when the tables turn against her.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:52:01 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[An efficient assassin traveling the globe tries to reconcile her damaged family…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>120</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Personal History Of David Copperfield&#x27; With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Writer-director Armando Iannucci has proven himself an exciting creator of raucous, vulgar, profane comedy with the dark historical parody The Death of Stalin from 2017 and the brilliantly insulting TV series Veep (2012-2019) which concluded last year. His latest film is still funny, but with a PG rating The Personal History of David Copperfield is decidedly less obscene than Iannucci's other work.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:57:41 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Writer-director Armando Iannucci has proven himself an exciting creator of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>129</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Binge&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Binge was released on August 28th and is currently available for personal streaming on Hulu. Set in the not too distant future, when all alcohol and drugs are banned from everyone in the United States, The Binge focuses on the stressful lives of 3 teenage boys trying to attend an exclusive party on the one night of the year when all drug and alcohol consumption is legal for everyone. It's like a merging of the films The Purge (2013) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:48:48 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Binge was released on August 28th and is currently available for personal streaming on Hulu. Set in the not too distant future, when all alcohol and drugs are banned from everyone in the United States, The Binge focuses on the stressful lives of 3 teenage boys trying to attend an exclusive party on the one night of the year when all drug and alcohol consumption is legal for everyone. It's like a merging of the films The Purge (2013) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Binge was released on August 28th and is currently available for personal…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Secrets We Keep&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Secrets We Keep is a patient psychological mystery set in a quiet post-WWII suburb where a housewife (Noomi Rapace, Prometheus, 2012) starts to unravel when she suspects a new man living in her town is a Nazi who tortured her during WWII years ago. This suspicion leads to kidnapping, interrogation, and blood. And when suspicion grows into an obsession with vengeance, nobody walks unscathed.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:42:01 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-09-24/the-secrets-we-keep-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Secrets We Keep is a patient psychological mystery set in a quiet post-WWII suburb where a housewife (Noomi Rapace, Prometheus, 2012) starts to unravel when she suspects a new man living in her town is a Nazi who tortured her during WWII years ago. This suspicion leads to kidnapping, interrogation, and blood. And when suspicion grows into an obsession with vengeance, nobody walks unscathed.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Secrets We Keep is a patient psychological mystery set in a quiet post-WWII…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>125</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Tenet&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated director Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, 2017) is evidently still enjoying his obsessions with complicated action sequences and non-linear storytelling.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:29:42 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-09-03/tenet-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated director Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, 2017) is evidently still enjoying his obsessions with complicated action sequences and non-linear storytelling.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated director Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, 2017) is evidently still…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Tesla&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Tesla is a historic, biographical drama on the life of pioneering engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, whose ideas changed the world at the turn of the 20th century and beyond (his work included the alternating current electricity system, a thermo-magnetic motor, and the Tesla coil.)]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2020 07:30:09 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-08-27/tesla-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Tesla is a historic, biographical drama on the life of pioneering engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, whose ideas changed the world at the turn of the 20th century and beyond (his work included the alternating current electricity system, a thermo-magnetic motor, and the Tesla coil.)]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Tesla is a historic, biographical drama on the life of pioneering engineer and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>180</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Waiting for the Barbarians&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Waiting for the Barbarians is a historical period drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by South African writer J.M. Coetzee first published in 1980. This newly released film (premiered on August 7th) tells the story of a Magistrate, played by a soft-spoken and dignified Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, 2015), who manages a small settlement in a foreign, quiet desert on the far edge of an unnamed empire (presumably the British Empire).]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:39:28 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-08-14/waiting-for-the-barbarians-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Waiting for the Barbarians is a historical period drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by South African writer J.M. Coetzee first published in 1980. This newly released film (premiered on August 7th) tells the story of a Magistrate, played by a soft-spoken and dignified Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, 2015), who manages a small settlement in a foreign, quiet desert on the far edge of an unnamed empire (presumably the British Empire).]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Waiting for the Barbarians is a historical period drama based on the…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>126</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Rental&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Aren't weekend getaways a blast? They're especially fun when they have dangerous secrets, hidden cameras, a hot tub, and dead bodies. Actor Dave Franco, mostly known for light-hearted comedy and action films like The Disaster Artist (2017) and Now You See Me (2013), has his feature-length directorial debut with The Rental currently playing in select movie theaters throughout Utah after its nationwide release on July 24th.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:42:49 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/programs/2020-08-06/the-rental-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Aren't weekend getaways a blast? They're especially fun when they have dangerous secrets, hidden cameras, a hot tub, and dead bodies. Actor Dave Franco, mostly known for light-hearted comedy and action films like The Disaster Artist (2017) and Now You See Me (2013), has his feature-length directorial debut with The Rental currently playing in select movie theaters throughout Utah after its nationwide release on July 24th.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Aren't weekend getaways a blast? They're especially fun when they have…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Old Guard&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Old Guard was released on July 10th this year and has become one of the most popular original films streaming on Netflix this month. Adapted from a graphic novel series by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez that was first published in 2017, The Old Guard follows a group of expert, world-weary (and refreshingly diverse) mercenaries who travel the globe killing terrorists, hiding their identities, and speculating on immortality (hinting at this film's gold mine twist).]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:25:10 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-08-06/the-old-guard-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Old Guard was released on July 10th this year and has become one of the most popular original films streaming on Netflix this month. Adapted from a graphic novel series by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez that was first published in 2017, The Old Guard follows a group of expert, world-weary (and refreshingly diverse) mercenaries who travel the globe killing terrorists, hiding their identities, and speculating on immortality (hinting at this film's gold mine twist).]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Old Guard was released on July 10th this year and has become one of the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Blow Down The Man&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[One half crime procedural and one half Shakespearean tragedy, Blow the Man Down tells a contemporary, noir-inspired drama of two twenty-something sisters who cover up a murder in a small coastal town of Maine. But their cover-up leads them into unexpected secrets, money, and danger. Lobster traps, fishmongers, and chowder are clever bits of decoration that portray the calloused lives of Down Easters.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:44:54 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One half crime procedural and one half Shakespearean tragedy, Blow the Man Down tells a contemporary, noir-inspired drama of two twenty-something sisters who cover up a murder in a small coastal town of Maine. But their cover-up leads them into unexpected secrets, money, and danger. Lobster traps, fishmongers, and chowder are clever bits of decoration that portray the calloused lives of Down Easters.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[One half crime procedural and one half Shakespearean tragedy, Blow the Man Down…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Palm Springs&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Palm Springs was released July 10th of this year and is currently available for streaming on Hulu. This R-rated comedy is set in the magical desert of Southern California where a man and a woman meet at a Palm Springs wedding and become eternally linked to each other...and to the same repeating day. The leading stars Andy Samberg (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, 2016) and Cristin Milioti (Breakable You, 2017) give likable performances with a few moments of funny dialogue.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:18:53 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-07-17/palm-springs-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Palm Springs was released July 10th of this year and is currently available for streaming on Hulu. This R-rated comedy is set in the magical desert of Southern California where a man and a woman meet at a Palm Springs wedding and become eternally linked to each other...and to the same repeating day. The leading stars Andy Samberg (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, 2016) and Cristin Milioti (Breakable You, 2017) give likable performances with a few moments of funny dialogue.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Palm Springs was released July 10th of this year and is currently available for…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>105</itunes:duration>






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    <description><![CDATA[When a young loving couple visit a pristine suburb looking for a new home, they become trapped in a mysterious world of quiet isolation turning their casual visit at a possible starter home into an endless nightmare. The title is a real word meaning a living space where plants or animals are kept under observation (hint hint), and just like this fancy word, this film is not for everyone.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:54:17 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When a young loving couple visit a pristine suburb looking for a new home, they become trapped in a mysterious world of quiet isolation turning their casual visit at a possible starter home into an endless nightmare. The title is a real word meaning a living space where plants or animals are kept under observation (hint hint), and just like this fancy word, this film is not for everyone.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When a young loving couple visit a pristine suburb looking for a new home, they…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>126</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Irresistible&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Irresistible is a satirical comedy about an out-of-touch political strategist (a predictable Steve Carell, Beautiful Boy, 2018) who moves from Washington D.C. to rural Wisconsin to help a conservative farmer (a laconic Chris Cooper, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, 2019) run for mayor.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 11:22:15 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Irresistible is a satirical comedy about an out-of-touch political strategist (a predictable Steve Carell, Beautiful Boy, 2018) who moves from Washington D.C. to rural Wisconsin to help a conservative farmer (a laconic Chris Cooper, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, 2019) run for mayor.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Irresistible is a satirical comedy about an out-of-touch political strategist…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>129</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Buffaloed&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When the opening shot of a film is a close-up of a young woman's face screaming an expletive slightly above the camera, it's a good sign viewers have started a crass, biting comedy that will keep them mostly entertained. Actress Zoey Deutch (Zombieland: Double Tap, 2019) plays a loud, street smart hustler determined to get out of her blue-collar life in Buffalo, New York through her passion for money and her even bigger passion for scamming people.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:50:23 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Buffaloed&#x27; Review With Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When the opening shot of a film is a close-up of a young woman's face screaming an expletive slightly above the camera, it's a good sign viewers have started a crass, biting comedy that will keep them mostly entertained. Actress Zoey Deutch (Zombieland: Double Tap, 2019) plays a loud, street smart hustler determined to get out of her blue-collar life in Buffalo, New York through her passion for money and her even bigger passion for scamming people.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When the opening shot of a film is a close-up of a young woman's face screaming…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Kindergarten Teacher&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I usually address a newly released film in my weekly reviews, but this week I'm writing about a brilliant 2018 film called The Kindergarten Teacher currently available through Netflix. Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight, 2008) plays an unsatisfied kindergarten teacher in New York City who thinks one of her students is a gifted prodigy of original poetry. But the teacher's nurturing guidance slowly, and unnervingly, transforms into passionate infatuation.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:49:36 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Kindergarten Teacher&#x27; Review With Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I usually address a newly released film in my weekly reviews, but this week I'm writing about a brilliant 2018 film called The Kindergarten Teacher currently available through Netflix. Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight, 2008) plays an unsatisfied kindergarten teacher in New York City who thinks one of her students is a gifted prodigy of original poetry. But the teacher's nurturing guidance slowly, and unnervingly, transforms into passionate infatuation.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I usually address a newly released film in my weekly reviews, but this week I'm…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Shirely&#x27; Review With Casey </title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Actress Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man, 2020) appears to be on a mission continually portraying serious female roles in dark, emotionally arduous films (like The Invisible Man from earlier this year, The Kitchen from 2019, Us from 2019, and The Handmaid's Tale TV series from 2017 to today). And like a contemporary Greta Garbo, Elisabeth has succeeded again diving bravely into a richly complex, unlikeable, unglamorous title role in Shirley.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:36:42 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Actress Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man, 2020) appears to be on a mission continually portraying serious female roles in dark, emotionally arduous films (like The Invisible Man from earlier this year, The Kitchen from 2019, Us from 2019, and The Handmaid's Tale TV series from 2017 to today). And like a contemporary Greta Garbo, Elisabeth has succeeded again diving bravely into a richly complex, unlikeable, unglamorous title role in Shirley.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Actress Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man, 2020) appears to be on a mission…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>126</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Painter And The Thief Review&#x27; With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Painter and the Thief is a documentary released on May 22nd of this year and available on Hulu. When two expensive paintings are stolen from an art gallery in Oslo, Norway, the artist privately reaches out to one the convicted thieves to try and locate her paintings. But the thief does not remember anything about his crime.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:14:27 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Painter and the Thief is a documentary released on May 22nd of this year and available on Hulu. When two expensive paintings are stolen from an art gallery in Oslo, Norway, the artist privately reaches out to one the convicted thieves to try and locate her paintings. But the thief does not remember anything about his crime.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Painter and the Thief is a documentary released on May 22nd of this year…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Lovebirds&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When watching the R-rated comedy, The Lovebirds, it starts out with a very romantically casual mood, but that mood is soon smashed like a cockroach under a boot as a loving couple (a.k.a. lovebirds) is launched into a dangerous mystery of dead bodies, hot bacon grease, and a secret sex cult.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 11:00:23 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Lovebirds&#x27; Review With Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When watching the R-rated comedy, The Lovebirds, it starts out with a very romantically casual mood, but that mood is soon smashed like a cockroach under a boot as a loving couple (a.k.a. lovebirds) is launched into a dangerous mystery of dead bodies, hot bacon grease, and a secret sex cult.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When watching the R-rated comedy, The Lovebirds, it starts out with a very…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Adam&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Sometimes a film gains attention for great acting performances or for new special effects technology, and sometimes a film gains attention for controversy. Adam has made a mark as a controversial film.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 17:11:52 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sometimes a film gains attention for great acting performances or for new special effects technology, and sometimes a film gains attention for controversy. Adam has made a mark as a controversial film.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Sometimes a film gains attention for great acting performances or for new…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>126</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Lodge&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Although the weather outside is sunny and breezy right now, it makes for an interesting time to watch a film full of snow, ice, and terror.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2020 10:36:37 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-05-14/the-lodge-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although the weather outside is sunny and breezy right now, it makes for an interesting time to watch a film full of snow, ice, and terror.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Although the weather outside is sunny and breezy right now, it makes for an…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Give Me Liberty&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oftentimes film critics describe what they see by categorizing films into genres or styles. But then films like Give Me Liberty come along that achieve such a uniqueness it's difficult to specify any genre boundaries. First released in August 2019, and now available through Netflix, Give Me Liberty is a gem of independent filmmaking that takes viewers on a hectic, crowded, one-day journey.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2020 14:47:57 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oftentimes film critics describe what they see by categorizing films into genres or styles. But then films like Give Me Liberty come along that achieve such a uniqueness it's difficult to specify any genre boundaries. First released in August 2019, and now available through Netflix, Give Me Liberty is a gem of independent filmmaking that takes viewers on a hectic, crowded, one-day journey.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oftentimes film critics describe what they see by categorizing films into…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Waves&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Writer-director Trey Edward Shults (It Comes at Night, 2017) is successfully spreading his roots in telling interesting, rich, current stories. Waves is Shults' latest entry in the independent film canon, and like a hot slice of lasagna, it is layered, filling, and wonderful.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:14:09 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-04-24/waves-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Writer-director Trey Edward Shults (It Comes at Night, 2017) is successfully spreading his roots in telling interesting, rich, current stories. Waves is Shults' latest entry in the independent film canon, and like a hot slice of lasagna, it is layered, filling, and wonderful.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Writer-director Trey Edward Shults (It Comes at Night, 2017) is successfully…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Tigertail&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Recently, I watched the drama Tigertail. Growl! But everybody calm down. This film has nothing to do with the documentary miniseries Tiger King currently on Netflix.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:45:01 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Tigertail&#x27; Review With Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Recently, I watched the drama Tigertail. Growl! But everybody calm down. This film has nothing to do with the documentary miniseries Tiger King currently on Netflix.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Recently, I watched the drama Tigertail. Growl! But everybody calm down. This…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Lost Girls&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Lost Girls is a dark murder mystery based on a true story and adapted from the 2013 non-fiction book by Robert Kolker called Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery. This film was released in March 2020 and is currently available through Netflix as part of their original content.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:46:04 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-04-13/lost-girls-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Lost Girls&#x27; Review With Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Lost Girls is a dark murder mystery based on a true story and adapted from the 2013 non-fiction book by Robert Kolker called Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery. This film was released in March 2020 and is currently available through Netflix as part of their original content.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Lost Girls is a dark murder mystery based on a true story and adapted from the…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Big Time Adolescence&#x27; Review With Casey </title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This film started at Sundance in January 2019 and was fully released to the world on March 13th this year through the personal streaming platform Hulu. Big Time Adolescence is an R-rated, coming-of-age comedy about an awkward teenage boy and his friendship with a pot-smoking, aimless, college dropout in his twenties.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 13:14:02 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-04-03/big-time-adolescence-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Big Time Adolescence&#x27; Review With Casey </itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This film started at Sundance in January 2019 and was fully released to the world on March 13th this year through the personal streaming platform Hulu. Big Time Adolescence is an R-rated, coming-of-age comedy about an awkward teenage boy and his friendship with a pot-smoking, aimless, college dropout in his twenties.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This film started at Sundance in January 2019 and was fully released to the…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Horse Girl&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
    <enclosure url="https://cpa.ds.npr.org/upr/audio/2020/04/MixdownHORSEGIRL.mp3" length="0" type=""/>
    <description><![CDATA[Since movie theaters are closed to everyone, I watched a film through the streaming platform of Netflix called Horse Girl (released earlier this year). Sometimes a film is described as "mainstream" to explain its wide-ranging appeal and entertainment value to the largest audience possible. Horse Girl is not one of those films. So far, Jeff Baena has only directed darkly twisted comedies like The Little Hours (2017) and Life After Beth (2014). But Horse Girl is a quiet experimental drama about grief, isolation, and mental illness.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:43:12 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2020-03-27/horse-girl-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Since movie theaters are closed to everyone, I watched a film through the streaming platform of Netflix called Horse Girl (released earlier this year). Sometimes a film is described as "mainstream" to explain its wide-ranging appeal and entertainment value to the largest audience possible. Horse Girl is not one of those films. So far, Jeff Baena has only directed darkly twisted comedies like The Little Hours (2017) and Life After Beth (2014). But Horse Girl is a quiet experimental drama about grief, isolation, and mental illness.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Since movie theaters are closed to everyone, I watched a film through the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>196</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Hunt&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When a group of random strangers wake up outside together scattered across a lightly forested meadow, it's not long before bullets start whizzing and blood starts splattering. Surprising deaths and blunt punchlines fill this dark comedy as unwitting Americans scramble for survival. But the literal hunt of this film is not an ordinary fight with just guns and knives. The gleefully nasty violence is also delivered with arrows, grenades, stiletto heels, and kitchen utensils.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:41:35 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When a group of random strangers wake up outside together scattered across a lightly forested meadow, it's not long before bullets start whizzing and blood starts splattering. Surprising deaths and blunt punchlines fill this dark comedy as unwitting Americans scramble for survival. But the literal hunt of this film is not an ordinary fight with just guns and knives. The gleefully nasty violence is also delivered with arrows, grenades, stiletto heels, and kitchen utensils.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When a group of random strangers wake up outside together scattered across a…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Way Back&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ben Affleck (Gone Girl, 2014) is evidently not afraid to embrace a difficult leading role in this plaintive drama directed by Gavin O'Connor (The Accountant, 2016). Ben Affleck's movie star power was almost lost forever in the mess of the DC Comic films Justice League (2017) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). But The Way Back has shown us he can still offer good performances. Affleck plays a lonely aching man who begrudgingly accepts an offer to coach basketball in his former high school in southern California to help the immature players improve their game.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:46:51 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ben Affleck (Gone Girl, 2014) is evidently not afraid to embrace a difficult leading role in this plaintive drama directed by Gavin O'Connor (The Accountant, 2016). Ben Affleck's movie star power was almost lost forever in the mess of the DC Comic films Justice League (2017) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). But The Way Back has shown us he can still offer good performances. Affleck plays a lonely aching man who begrudgingly accepts an offer to coach basketball in his former high school in southern California to help the immature players improve their game.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Ben Affleck (Gone Girl, 2014) is evidently not afraid to embrace a difficult…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Invisible Man&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Universal Studios officially launched a new movie campaign in 2017 called Dark Universe advertising upcoming films retelling classic monster stories through a contemporary lens. This campaign began with The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise, and it was one of the worst movies of 2017. The Dark Universe campaign ended as soon as it had begun.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:24:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Universal Studios officially launched a new movie campaign in 2017 called Dark…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Call Of The Wild&#x27; Review With Casey </title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Based on Jack London's novel first published in 1903, this book has been the homework for many junior high and high school English students. The Call of the Wild centers on a mischievous domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home, taken to the outskirts of Canada, and sold as a sled dog to work in the unforgiving winter of the Yukon Territory during the Gold Rush of the 19th century. As various humans pass through his life, the dog learns perseverance and courage in the differing faces of danger and gradually embraces his wild ancestral nature. This book is based on the author's own experiences working as a gold prospector in uncharted areas of Canada.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:42:55 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Call Of The Wild&#x27; Review With Casey </itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Based on Jack London's novel first published in 1903, this book has been the homework for many junior high and high school English students. The Call of the Wild centers on a mischievous domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home, taken to the outskirts of Canada, and sold as a sled dog to work in the unforgiving winter of the Yukon Territory during the Gold Rush of the 19th century. As various humans pass through his life, the dog learns perseverance and courage in the differing faces of danger and gradually embraces his wild ancestral nature. This book is based on the author's own experiences working as a gold prospector in uncharted areas of Canada.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Based on Jack London's novel first published in 1903, this book has been the…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Birds Of Prey Review&#x27; With Casey Allen</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[First of all, let me clarify the full title of this film shown on the poster and in the film's credits.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:53:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[First of all, let me clarify the full title of this film shown on the poster and in the film's credits.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[First of all, let me clarify the full title of this film shown on the poster…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>129</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Rhythm Section&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When a place crash kills a young Englishwoman's family, she spirals into depression and prostitution (and not the fancy kind with leather boots and perfume). Actress Blake Lively (A Simple Favor, 2018) shows us she can embrace the "de-glam" of a woman come undone. But the spiral stops when the young woman learns the plane crash was orchestrated by terrorists. Vengeance will be hers!]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:16:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When a place crash kills a young Englishwoman's family, she spirals into depression and prostitution (and not the fancy kind with leather boots and perfume). Actress Blake Lively (A Simple Favor, 2018) shows us she can embrace the "de-glam" of a woman come undone. But the spiral stops when the young woman learns the plane crash was orchestrated by terrorists. Vengeance will be hers!]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When a place crash kills a young Englishwoman's family, she spirals into…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>121</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Just Mercy&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[People might think they've seen this movie before, but the passion and realism in it might make you think again. Just Mercy is based on Bryan Stevenson's 2014 book titled Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption about the author's experience moving to rural Alabama as a Harvard Law graduate in 1989 to offer free legal representation to men wrongfully convicted or unfairly sentenced to death row. Being an idealistic, young, black man, the new lawyer in town has to survive discrimination against him as well as his clients. Just Mercy feels like a neighbor between two other real-life, legal, racism dramas To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Ghosts of Mississippi (1996).]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:40:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[People might think they've seen this movie before, but the passion and realism in it might make you think again. Just Mercy is based on Bryan Stevenson's 2014 book titled Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption about the author's experience moving to rural Alabama as a Harvard Law graduate in 1989 to offer free legal representation to men wrongfully convicted or unfairly sentenced to death row. Being an idealistic, young, black man, the new lawyer in town has to survive discrimination against him as well as his clients. Just Mercy feels like a neighbor between two other real-life, legal, racism dramas To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Ghosts of Mississippi (1996).]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[People might think they've seen this movie before, but the passion and realism…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>151</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;1917&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Something about the genre of war films always seems to create a catalyst for exciting and different storytelling, and our latest example of this catalyst is 1917. Two young British soldiers make a dangerous journey into enemy territory during WWI to deliver a message that will stop their fellow fighters from entering an outnumbered battle.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:14:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Something about the genre of war films always seems to create a catalyst for exciting and different storytelling, and our latest example of this catalyst is 1917. Two young British soldiers make a dangerous journey into enemy territory during WWI to deliver a message that will stop their fellow fighters from entering an outnumbered battle.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Something about the genre of war films always seems to create a catalyst for…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Bombshell&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It seems no topic today is more polarizing, and more incendiary, than politics. And Jay Roach (All the Way, 2016) is still building a name for himself as a talented and topical director uniquely adept at telling political stories. But instead of showing us the high-stakes complications of mainstream political lives like he did with Recount (2008) and Game Change (2012), Bombshell tells a story about the politics of the workplace and the politics of gender.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It seems no topic today is more polarizing, and more incendiary, than politics. And Jay Roach (All the Way, 2016) is still building a name for himself as a talented and topical director uniquely adept at telling political stories. But instead of showing us the high-stakes complications of mainstream political lives like he did with Recount (2008) and Game Change (2012), Bombshell tells a story about the politics of the workplace and the politics of gender.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It seems no topic today is more polarizing, and more incendiary, than politics.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Jumanji: The Next Level&#x27; Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[If you couldn't get enough of the adolescent humor and wild visual effects of the previous Jumanji film from 2017...then have no fear! There's more computer-generated animals, more jokes about private parts, and more casual brushes with death.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:11:54 -0700</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Jumanji: The Next Level&#x27; Review With Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If you couldn't get enough of the adolescent humor and wild visual effects of the previous Jumanji film from 2017...then have no fear! There's more computer-generated animals, more jokes about private parts, and more casual brushes with death.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[If you couldn't get enough of the adolescent humor and wild visual effects of…]]></itunes:subtitle>








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    <title>&#x27;Dark Waters&#x27; Movie Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated director Todd Haynes (Carol, 2015) has crafted an intelligent, astute, real-life film about fighting for justice against enormous odds. A corporate lawyer (a reserved Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight, 2015) who defends large industrial companies starts investigating a small lawsuit from rural West Virginia in 1998 centered on dead farm animals and contaminated water. Searching through endless piles of paper (literally), the lawyer begins to discover repeated cover-ups of chemical pollution by the ubiquitous and mega-rich DuPont company and tries to bring their actions to justice.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated director Todd Haynes (Carol, 2015) has crafted an intelligent, astute, real-life film about fighting for justice against enormous odds. A corporate lawyer (a reserved Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight, 2015) who defends large industrial companies starts investigating a small lawsuit from rural West Virginia in 1998 centered on dead farm animals and contaminated water. Searching through endless piles of paper (literally), the lawyer begins to discover repeated cover-ups of chemical pollution by the ubiquitous and mega-rich DuPont company and tries to bring their actions to justice.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated director Todd Haynes (Carol, 2015) has crafted an intelligent,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Knives Out&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Knives Out is a darkly comic murder mystery with a plot that is twisty and witty with a touch of some classic genre motifs. When an imperious wealthy patriarch (Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World, 2017) dies in his rapaciously decorative mansion, it's not quite ruled out as a suicide. So all the family members are possible suspects...bringing suspicions and judgments into the light.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:48:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Knives Out is a darkly comic murder mystery with a plot that is twisty and witty with a touch of some classic genre motifs. When an imperious wealthy patriarch (Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World, 2017) dies in his rapaciously decorative mansion, it's not quite ruled out as a suicide. So all the family members are possible suspects...bringing suspicions and judgments into the light.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Knives Out is a darkly comic murder mystery with a plot that is twisty and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;JoJo Rabbit&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It's films like this that remind me why going to the movie theater is special and memorable. Based on the 2004 historical fiction novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, this film starts out zany and spirited following a 10-year-old boy named Jojo eagerly attending a training camp to join the Nazi army in 1940s Germany. Watching the world through the overzealous eyes of a child gives the film an elevated sense of comedy and innocence which then begin to transform when Jojo discovers his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:16:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It's films like this that remind me why going to the movie theater is special and memorable. Based on the 2004 historical fiction novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, this film starts out zany and spirited following a 10-year-old boy named Jojo eagerly attending a training camp to join the Nazi army in 1940s Germany. Watching the world through the overzealous eyes of a child gives the film an elevated sense of comedy and innocence which then begin to transform when Jojo discovers his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It's films like this that remind me why going to the movie theater is special…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>129</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Doctor Sleep&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It's an awfully tall order to create a sequel to the iconic horror film, The Shining (1980), but first a little history.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:18:20 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-11-15/doctor-sleep-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Doctor Sleep&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It's an awfully tall order to create a sequel to the iconic horror film, The Shining (1980), but first a little history.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It's an awfully tall order to create a sequel to the iconic horror film, The…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Current War&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Although this film was first screened in 2017, it has been refined and re-edited since then by its director to create this new director's cut. And it has finally gained wider distribution to now be shown throughout Utah. And in this case, good things come to those who wait. Historical dramas like The Current War: Director's Cut are often revered because they offer immersive portraits of history, and The Current War: Director's Cut does that wonderfully. But it also gives viewers a glimpse into the minds of some amazing people who created the foundations of modern life.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:56:07 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-11-07/the-current-war-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Current War&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although this film was first screened in 2017, it has been refined and re-edited since then by its director to create this new director's cut. And it has finally gained wider distribution to now be shown throughout Utah. And in this case, good things come to those who wait. Historical dramas like The Current War: Director's Cut are often revered because they offer immersive portraits of history, and The Current War: Director's Cut does that wonderfully. But it also gives viewers a glimpse into the minds of some amazing people who created the foundations of modern life.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Although this film was first screened in 2017, it has been refined and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Maleficent: Mistress of Evil&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I know the official title of this sequel is Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, but I think a more appropriate title could be Maleficent: Everything but the Kitchen Sink. This film has so many sub-plots, so many characters to keep track of, and so many powers to explain within the realm of magical creatures, I was exhausted trying to keep track of everything.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:32:54 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-11-01/maleficent-mistress-of-evil-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Maleficent: Mistress of Evil&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I know the official title of this sequel is Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, but I think a more appropriate title could be Maleficent: Everything but the Kitchen Sink. This film has so many sub-plots, so many characters to keep track of, and so many powers to explain within the realm of magical creatures, I was exhausted trying to keep track of everything.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I know the official title of this sequel is Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, but I…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Zombieland: Double Tap&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[You know you've either seen a great film or a terrible film when you're at a loss for words upon leaving the theater. While not a brilliant entry in the canon of horror comedies, Zombieland: Double Tap is not a tragic piece of garbage either.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:20:33 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-10-25/zombieland-double-tap-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <author>Casey Allen</author>
    <itunes:title>&#x27;Zombieland: Double Tap&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[You know you've either seen a great film or a terrible film when you're at a loss for words upon leaving the theater. While not a brilliant entry in the canon of horror comedies, Zombieland: Double Tap is not a tragic piece of garbage either.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[You know you've either seen a great film or a terrible film when you're at a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Gemini Man&#x27; Film Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[What's up, everyone?! My name is Will Smith, and I can still do it all. I can even play two characters at once! That's the main message I came away with after watching this technological action thriller.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:40:52 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-10-18/gemini-man-film-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Gemini Man&#x27; Film Review With Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[What's up, everyone?! My name is Will Smith, and I can still do it all. I can even play two characters at once! That's the main message I came away with after watching this technological action thriller.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[What's up, everyone?! My name is Will Smith, and I can still do it all. I can…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Joker&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix (The Sisters Brothers, 2018) gives his naturally idiosyncratic edge to the title role in this film offering a psychologically twisted and disarming origin story of Batman's greatest arch enemy. Phoenix plays an ordinary man working as a party clown with an unusual sense of humor and zero friends in a dirty, graffiti-covered, 1970s Gotham city. The continuous violence, loneliness, and aloof neglect surrounding him gradually push him into an eternal carnival ride of madness that is shaky, dangerous, revolutionary, and bloody.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:58:00 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-10-11/joker-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <author>Casey Allen</author>
    <itunes:title>&#x27;Joker&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix (The Sisters Brothers, 2018) gives his naturally idiosyncratic edge to the title role in this film offering a psychologically twisted and disarming origin story of Batman's greatest arch enemy. Phoenix plays an ordinary man working as a party clown with an unusual sense of humor and zero friends in a dirty, graffiti-covered, 1970s Gotham city. The continuous violence, loneliness, and aloof neglect surrounding him gradually push him into an eternal carnival ride of madness that is shaky, dangerous, revolutionary, and bloody.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix (The Sisters Brothers, 2018) gives his…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Farewell&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It's films like this that make me grateful for unique international voices who offer independent and genuine stories outside U.S. borders. Asian American writer-director Lulu Wang (Posthumous, 2014) entered this film in Sundance where it gained wider distribution and opened in limited release in July this year.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:07:05 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It's films like this that make me grateful for unique international voices who offer independent and genuine stories outside U.S. borders. Asian American writer-director Lulu Wang (Posthumous, 2014) entered this film in Sundance where it gained wider distribution and opened in limited release in July this year.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It's films like this that make me grateful for unique international voices who…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Ad Astra&#x27; Movie Review with Casey </title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Something about space often entices filmmakers to pair the eternal vastness of the universe with the comparatively tiny insignificance of human life and relationships. Kind of like how my poor insignificant body always seems to be paired with the endless supply of pizza and nachos that are slowly destroying me. Past films that explore this dichotomy of small mankind with infinite space include Interstellar (2014) and Contact (1997). Ad Astra, a Latin phrase meaning "to the stars", is another epic space adventure with a consistent emotional trajectory.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:07:46 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Something about space often entices filmmakers to pair the eternal vastness of the universe with the comparatively tiny insignificance of human life and relationships. Kind of like how my poor insignificant body always seems to be paired with the endless supply of pizza and nachos that are slowly destroying me. Past films that explore this dichotomy of small mankind with infinite space include Interstellar (2014) and Contact (1997). Ad Astra, a Latin phrase meaning "to the stars", is another epic space adventure with a consistent emotional trajectory.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Something about space often entices filmmakers to pair the eternal vastness of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Peanut Butter Falcon&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I've seen one of my favorite films of the year so far, and I hope more people go to the theater soon to watch this beautifully honest story.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:01:51 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I've seen one of my favorite films of the year so far, and I hope more people go to the theater soon to watch this beautifully honest story.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I've seen one of my favorite films of the year so far, and I hope more people…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Ready Or Not&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (V/H/S, 2012) have another entry in the canon of the horror/thriller genre that is one half Agatha Christie mystery and one half bloody hunting contest. An innocent bride marries into a super-rich family that have built their multi-generational fortune on board games. But instead of honeymoon bliss, the wedding night is a night of initiation for the new bride who is lured into a deadly game of hide and seek to follow an important family tradition.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:47:18 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (V/H/S, 2012) have another entry in the canon of the horror/thriller genre that is one half Agatha Christie mystery and one half bloody hunting contest. An innocent bride marries into a super-rich family that have built their multi-generational fortune on board games. But instead of honeymoon bliss, the wedding night is a night of initiation for the new bride who is lured into a deadly game of hide and seek to follow an important family tradition.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (V/H/S, 2012) have another…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Kitchen&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Kitchen is centered on 3 women who's husbands are in the Irish mafia in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of 1970s New York City. When the husbands are arrested and sent to prison, these 3 women start managing parts of the family business at first to put food on the table for themselves and their children. But it doesn't take long for them to usurp the entire (or mostly entire) male-dominated leadership to control the whole operation of gangsters, debt collecting, intimidation, and murder.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:05:52 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Kitchen is centered on 3 women who's husbands are in the Irish mafia in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of 1970s New York City. When the husbands are arrested and sent to prison, these 3 women start managing parts of the family business at first to put food on the table for themselves and their children. But it doesn't take long for them to usurp the entire (or mostly entire) male-dominated leadership to control the whole operation of gangsters, debt collecting, intimidation, and murder.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Kitchen is centered on 3 women who's husbands are in the Irish mafia in the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;What They Had&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oscar-winner Hilary Swank (The Homesman, 2014) leads an all-star cast of wonderful performances as she plays a woman returning home to chilly Chicago to help take care of her mother battling dementia (played by a terrifically fragile Blythe Danner, Hearts Beat Loud, 2018). Swank's character also has to convince her staunch, bullheaded father (Robert Forster, London Has Fallen, 2016) to place her ailing mother in a special care facility. What They Had was first released in November 2018 and is now available on a personal movie viewing platform of your choice.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 08:15:25 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oscar-winner Hilary Swank (The Homesman, 2014) leads an all-star cast of wonderful performances as she plays a woman returning home to chilly Chicago to help take care of her mother battling dementia (played by a terrifically fragile Blythe Danner, Hearts Beat Loud, 2018). Swank's character also has to convince her staunch, bullheaded father (Robert Forster, London Has Fallen, 2016) to place her ailing mother in a special care facility. What They Had was first released in November 2018 and is now available on a personal movie viewing platform of your choice.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Oscar-winner Hilary Swank (The Homesman, 2014) leads an all-star cast of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Despite the fatigued title, director Quentin Tarantino's (The Hateful Eight, 2015) 9th, full-length, mainstream film is an interesting and fond revisiting of 1960s California and a strange interpretation on a historical tragedy.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:41:00 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Despite the fatigued title, director Quentin Tarantino's (The Hateful Eight, 2015) 9th, full-length, mainstream film is an interesting and fond revisiting of 1960s California and a strange interpretation on a historical tragedy.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Despite the fatigued title, director Quentin Tarantino's (The Hateful Eight,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Lion King&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Can you feel the love tonight? I mostly felt a fondness for vividly rendered African landscapes mixed with a teaspoon of nostalgia. Simba the lion is back in this live-action remake of the 1994 smash animated Disney film about growing up, death, destiny, and avenging your family.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:45:26 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-07-29/lion-king-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Lion King&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Can you feel the love tonight? I mostly felt a fondness for vividly rendered African landscapes mixed with a teaspoon of nostalgia. Simba the lion is back in this live-action remake of the 1994 smash animated Disney film about growing up, death, destiny, and avenging your family.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Can you feel the love tonight? I mostly felt a fondness for vividly rendered…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Guilty&#x27; Movie Review by Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[First of all, let me just say I saw the latest Marvel superhero movie Spiderman: Far From Home. It was fun, but the formula is getting painfully familiar and predictable. Thankfully, I watched another film this week: The Guilty which offers a story that is absorbing, inventive, and unpredictable.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:29:00 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Guilty&#x27; Movie Review by Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[First of all, let me just say I saw the latest Marvel superhero movie Spiderman: Far From Home. It was fun, but the formula is getting painfully familiar and predictable. Thankfully, I watched another film this week: The Guilty which offers a story that is absorbing, inventive, and unpredictable.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[First of all, let me just say I saw the latest Marvel superhero movie…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Midsommar&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Up and coming director Ari Aster did a somewhat satisfactory job with his first full-length film, Hereditary, from 2018. So his second film Midsommar had promise to be a more succinct and less jumbled horror film about grief, family skeletons, and desperate measures. But instead of getting a delicious compact slice of cake, Midsommar turned out to be a 3-day-old, half-eaten Twinkie plucked out of the garbage and served on a scrap of cardboard.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:58:48 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-07-11/midsommar-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Up and coming director Ari Aster did a somewhat satisfactory job with his first full-length film, Hereditary, from 2018. So his second film Midsommar had promise to be a more succinct and less jumbled horror film about grief, family skeletons, and desperate measures. But instead of getting a delicious compact slice of cake, Midsommar turned out to be a 3-day-old, half-eaten Twinkie plucked out of the garbage and served on a scrap of cardboard.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Up and coming director Ari Aster did a somewhat satisfactory job with his first…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Yesterday&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[After an unexplained blackout sweeps the entire planet for 12 seconds, a belabored singer/songwriter in England (an awkward but relaxed Himesh Patel, Eastenders, 2007-2016) slowly discovers he's the only person alive who remembers The Beatles.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:25:54 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-07-05/yesterday-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Yesterday&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[After an unexplained blackout sweeps the entire planet for 12 seconds, a belabored singer/songwriter in England (an awkward but relaxed Himesh Patel, Eastenders, 2007-2016) slowly discovers he's the only person alive who remembers The Beatles.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[After an unexplained blackout sweeps the entire planet for 12 seconds, a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Late Night&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[You know that feeling you get when you take your first bite of a delicious slice of pizza or your first gulp of an invigorating cocktail and you think, "I'm going to remember this"? That's how I felt after watching this film.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:57:37 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-06-20/late-night-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Late Night&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[You know that feeling you get when you take your first bite of a delicious slice of pizza or your first gulp of an invigorating cocktail and you think, "I'm going to remember this"? That's how I felt after watching this film.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[You know that feeling you get when you take your first bite of a delicious…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Dark Phoenix&#x27; Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Dark Phoenix is a prequel in the series of X-Men superhero films that started in 2000 with the first movie titled X-Men. With this being the 10th film in the series, it's a strong reminder that not all chapters are good ones and not all entries in a saga are winners (much like my sex life).]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:09:00 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-06-14/dark-phoenix-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Dark Phoenix&#x27; Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dark Phoenix is a prequel in the series of X-Men superhero films that started in 2000 with the first movie titled X-Men. With this being the 10th film in the series, it's a strong reminder that not all chapters are good ones and not all entries in a saga are winners (much like my sex life).]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Dark Phoenix is a prequel in the series of X-Men superhero films that started…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>126</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Rocketman&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I'm happy to say this film is more than a concert from the past or a frivolous musical review. British director Dexter Fletcher (Eddie the Eagle, 2015) nicely blends reality and fantasy in this story of Elton John's formative years.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 11:57:10 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-06-07/rocketman-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Rocketman&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I'm happy to say this film is more than a concert from the past or a frivolous musical review. British director Dexter Fletcher (Eddie the Eagle, 2015) nicely blends reality and fantasy in this story of Elton John's formative years.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I'm happy to say this film is more than a concert from the past or a frivolous…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Booksmart&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I have seen the funniest film of 2019 so far. Actress Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy, 2010) makes her full-length feature directorial debut with a teen comedy that is a loud, irreverent, zippy whirlwind of friendship, alcohol, condom water balloons, and the elusive goal of having fun.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:28:10 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-06-06/booksmart-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Booksmart&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I have seen the funniest film of 2019 so far. Actress Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy, 2010) makes her full-length feature directorial debut with a teen comedy that is a loud, irreverent, zippy whirlwind of friendship, alcohol, condom water balloons, and the elusive goal of having fun.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I have seen the funniest film of 2019 so far. Actress Olivia Wilde (TRON:…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Poms&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Diane Keaton (Morning Glory, 2010) plays a single retiree who begrudgingly moves out of her New York City apartment and into a retirement community in Georgia for active seniors. To capture some of her lost youth, and to annoy some of the established leaders of the well-groomed retirement community, she starts a cheerleading squad with some of her fellow female retirees. After enduring awkward rehearsals, riding in fancy golf carts, and bonding with unlikely sensitive teenagers, the cheerleaders learn to love themselves, their bodies, and their lives.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 09:13:07 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Diane Keaton (Morning Glory, 2010) plays a single retiree who begrudgingly moves out of her New York City apartment and into a retirement community in Georgia for active seniors. To capture some of her lost youth, and to annoy some of the established leaders of the well-groomed retirement community, she starts a cheerleading squad with some of her fellow female retirees. After enduring awkward rehearsals, riding in fancy golf carts, and bonding with unlikely sensitive teenagers, the cheerleaders learn to love themselves, their bodies, and their lives.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Diane Keaton (Morning Glory, 2010) plays a single retiree who begrudgingly…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Journey&#x27;s End&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Journey's End is set almost entirely in a muddy, candle-lit trench in chilly northern France during World War I, and it explores the relationships and responsibilities of the British soldiers living in it. Based on a 1928 play by English playwright R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End was first adapted into a film in 1930 and has been adapted a few other times into films with different titles.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2019 10:06:33 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-05-25/journeys-end-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Journey's End is set almost entirely in a muddy, candle-lit trench in chilly northern France during World War I, and it explores the relationships and responsibilities of the British soldiers living in it. Based on a 1928 play by English playwright R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End was first adapted into a film in 1930 and has been adapted a few other times into films with different titles.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Journey's End is set almost entirely in a muddy, candle-lit trench in chilly…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Long Shot&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Comedy film director Jonathan Levine (50/50, 2011) manages to nicely mix raunchy humor, awkward attraction, and watered-down political ambition. Established comedic actor Seth Rogen (The Disaster Artist, 2017) plays an over-zealous political journalist who quits his job and finds himself recruited by the U.S. Secretary of State (a noble Charlize Theron, Atomic Blonde, 2017) as a speechwriter. But the Secretary of State happens to be the journalist's childhood babysitter he was in love with.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2019 16:08:59 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Comedy film director Jonathan Levine (50/50, 2011) manages to nicely mix…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Avengers: Endgame&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[With a running time of over 3 hours, I thought I might need a colostomy bag to get through this film. But like many Marvel superhero films, it's a long ride but an entertaining one.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 11:49:05 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With a running time of over 3 hours, I thought I might need a colostomy bag to get through this film. But like many Marvel superhero films, it's a long ride but an entertaining one.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[With a running time of over 3 hours, I thought I might need a colostomy bag to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Curse of La Llorona&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[While watching this movie I started to get hungry since I hadn't yet eaten dinner. And my thoughts about what I might eat after this movie were more interesting to me than the movie I was watching.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:28:11 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[While watching this movie I started to get hungry since I hadn't yet eaten dinner. And my thoughts about what I might eat after this movie were more interesting to me than the movie I was watching.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[While watching this movie I started to get hungry since I hadn't yet eaten…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Pet Sematary&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[While watching this movie, I was not enveloped in the story as much as I was wondering why the producers of this film thought it was a good idea.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:23:49 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-04-12/pet-sematary-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[While watching this movie, I was not enveloped in the story as much as I was wondering why the producers of this film thought it was a good idea.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[While watching this movie, I was not enveloped in the story as much as I was…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>131</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Dumbo&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[As part of Disney Film Studios' path to taking over the world this year, with numerous films scheduled for release in the coming months, Dumbo is the studio's first mediocre step in this path for 2019.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:11:04 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As part of Disney Film Studios' path to taking over the world this year, with numerous films scheduled for release in the coming months, Dumbo is the studio's first mediocre step in this path for 2019.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[As part of Disney Film Studios' path to taking over the world this year, with…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Us&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When an ordinary family of 4 takes a summer vacation together at a peaceful lake house, their sun-filled fun is disrupted when another identical family of 4 starts terrorizing them. How can this ordinary family fight against real people who look exactly like them, move like them, and think like them? This tale of bloody survival takes viewers to a dark hall of mirrors, an eerily empty beach, and a strange, sterile underworld covered in white tiles.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:08:25 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Us&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When an ordinary family of 4 takes a summer vacation together at a peaceful lake house, their sun-filled fun is disrupted when another identical family of 4 starts terrorizing them. How can this ordinary family fight against real people who look exactly like them, move like them, and think like them? This tale of bloody survival takes viewers to a dark hall of mirrors, an eerily empty beach, and a strange, sterile underworld covered in white tiles.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When an ordinary family of 4 takes a summer vacation together at a peaceful…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>90</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Captive State&#x27; Movie Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Captive State takes us to a Chicago far into the future when Earth is under the occupation of a mysterious, and dominant, alien race. But instead of a future that is sexy, fast, or technologically advanced with lots of smooth glass and polished steel, this Chicago is dreary, dirty, dilapidated, and under constant surveillance.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:47:26 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-03-22/captive-state-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Captive State takes us to a Chicago far into the future when Earth is under the occupation of a mysterious, and dominant, alien race. But instead of a future that is sexy, fast, or technologically advanced with lots of smooth glass and polished steel, this Chicago is dreary, dirty, dilapidated, and under constant surveillance.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Captive State takes us to a Chicago far into the future when Earth is under the…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>91</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Captain Marvel&#x27; Movie Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I think I have seen the first film of 2019 that doesn't completely suck or disappoint. Brie Larson (Kong: Skull Island, 2017) plays Carol Danvers, a pilot for the U.S. Air Force who survives a strange explosion that infuses her body with super-human strength, flight, and fists of blazing heat. I don't know how the Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps doing it, but this film manages to be funny, exciting, and memorable as Carol Danvers learns to control her powers and understand her place in the universe.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:42:52 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I think I have seen the first film of 2019 that doesn't completely suck or disappoint. Brie Larson (Kong: Skull Island, 2017) plays Carol Danvers, a pilot for the U.S. Air Force who survives a strange explosion that infuses her body with super-human strength, flight, and fists of blazing heat. I don't know how the Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps doing it, but this film manages to be funny, exciting, and memorable as Carol Danvers learns to control her powers and understand her place in the universe.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I think I have seen the first film of 2019 that doesn't completely suck or…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Greta&#x27; Movie Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Twenty-two-year-old actress Chloe Grace Moretz (Hugo, 2011) plays a timid waitress in New York City who finds a forgotten purse on the subway. How convenient to find a woman's ID right inside the purse too!]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:46:52 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-03-08/greta-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Greta&#x27; Movie Review With Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Twenty-two-year-old actress Chloe Grace Moretz (Hugo, 2011) plays a timid waitress in New York City who finds a forgotten purse on the subway. How convenient to find a woman's ID right inside the purse too!]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Twenty-two-year-old actress Chloe Grace Moretz (Hugo, 2011) plays a timid…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Fighting With My Family&#x27; Movie Review With Casey</title>
    <enclosure url="https://cpa.ds.npr.org/upr/audio/2019/03/MixdownFIGHTINGWITHMYFAMILY.mp3" length="0" type=""/>
    <description><![CDATA[Comedic actor and writer Stephen Merchant (Logan, 2017) has given us an unlikely story of family, courage, and wrestling.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:43:56 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-03-08/fighting-with-my-family-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Comedic actor and writer Stephen Merchant (Logan, 2017) has given us an unlikely story of family, courage, and wrestling.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Comedic actor and writer Stephen Merchant (Logan, 2017) has given us an…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Oscar Predictions With UPR Film Guru Casey Allen </title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This week's review focuses on the upcoming 91st annual Academy Awards honoring the best in film from 2018. Casey gives us his predictions in the main categories as well as his thoughts on films that were forgotten in the nomination process.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:16:00 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-02-22/oscar-predictions-with-upr-film-guru-casey-allen</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This week's review focuses on the upcoming 91st annual Academy Awards honoring the best in film from 2018. Casey gives us his predictions in the main categories as well as his thoughts on films that were forgotten in the nomination process.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This week's review focuses on the upcoming 91st annual Academy Awards honoring…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>331</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;What Men Want&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Flipping the script on a light-hearted romantic comedy has never felt so dismal or uninspired (much like my own personal love life). What Men Want is a remake of the 2000 comedy What Women Want when Mel Gibson (Daddy's Home Two, 2017) magically earns the power to hear all women's thoughts and even more magically becomes less of a misogynist in the process.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:08:09 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-02-15/what-men-want-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Flipping the script on a light-hearted romantic comedy has never felt so dismal or uninspired (much like my own personal love life). What Men Want is a remake of the 2000 comedy What Women Want when Mel Gibson (Daddy's Home Two, 2017) magically earns the power to hear all women's thoughts and even more magically becomes less of a misogynist in the process.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Flipping the script on a light-hearted romantic comedy has never felt so dismal…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Miss Bala&#x27; Movie Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin TV series) plays a Mexican-American woman living in current-day Los Angeles whose innocence transforms into determined survival. After escaping an attack of bullets in a Tijuana nightclub, she's abducted by members of the Mexican drug cartel and forced to carry out their plans of drug trafficking and murder.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:38:43 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-02-08/miss-bala-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin TV series) plays a Mexican-American woman living in current-day Los Angeles whose innocence transforms into determined survival. After escaping an attack of bullets in a Tijuana nightclub, she's abducted by members of the Mexican drug cartel and forced to carry out their plans of drug trafficking and murder.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin TV series) plays a Mexican-American woman…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>129</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Glass&#x27; Movie Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Indian-American director M. Night Shyamalan (The Visit, 2015) is at it again with another psychological thriller packed with the tension of boiled linguine and the flavor of skim milk.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 11:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-02-01/glass-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Indian-American director M. Night Shyamalan (The Visit, 2015) is at it again with another psychological thriller packed with the tension of boiled linguine and the flavor of skim milk.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Indian-American director M. Night Shyamalan (The Visit, 2015) is at it again…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;If Beale Street Could Talk&#x27; Movie Review With Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[If Beale Street Could Talk is a moving and vivid love story of 2 young people in 1960s Harlem whose love becomes strained when the man (Stephan James, Race, 2016) is arrested and jailed for a crime he didn't commit, while the woman (gorgeous newcomer Kiki Layne) tries to work with a lawyer to prove her partner's innocence.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:41:00 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-01-24/if-beale-street-could-talk-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If Beale Street Could Talk is a moving and vivid love story of 2 young people in 1960s Harlem whose love becomes strained when the man (Stephan James, Race, 2016) is arrested and jailed for a crime he didn't commit, while the woman (gorgeous newcomer Kiki Layne) tries to work with a lawyer to prove her partner's innocence.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[If Beale Street Could Talk is a moving and vivid love story of 2 young people…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Vice&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Vice is a biographical film that chronicles the life and career of Dick Cheney, who has often been named by historians as the most powerful Vice President in U.S. history.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 12:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2019-01-04/vice-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Vice is a biographical film that chronicles the life and career of Dick Cheney, who has often been named by historians as the most powerful Vice President in U.S. history.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Vice is a biographical film that chronicles the life and career of Dick Cheney,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Favourite&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I’m so lucky to have seen this film. It has the perfect balance of history, emotion, intrigue and comedy.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:51:12 -0700</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/arts-and-culture/2018-12-22/the-favourite-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;The Favourite&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I’m so lucky to have seen this film. It has the perfect balance of history, emotion, intrigue and comedy.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I’m so lucky to have seen this film. It has the perfect balance of history,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>126</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Boy Erased&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It’s not often I watch a movie that feels like it was made for me. Boy Erased is such a movie. Based on a memoir of the same name by Garrard Conley first published in 2016, Boy Erased tells the story of a teenage boy in a devout Baptist family who comes out as gay to his parents and is then enrolled in a conversion therapy program to cure him of his attraction to men.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:17:00 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author>Casey Allen</author>
    <itunes:title>&#x27;Boy Erased&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It’s not often I watch a movie that feels like it was made for me. Boy Erased is such a movie. Based on a memoir of the same name by Garrard Conley first published in 2016, Boy Erased tells the story of a teenage boy in a devout Baptist family who comes out as gay to his parents and is then enrolled in a conversion therapy program to cure him of his attraction to men.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[It’s not often I watch a movie that feels like it was made for me. Boy Erased…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>







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    <title>&#x27;Green Book&#x27; Movie Review with Casey </title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When a professional, black piano player hires a white nightclub bouncer to drive him on a 2-month concert tour through the Deep South in 1962, an awkward road trip turns into a journey of sobering self-discovery.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:34:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When a professional, black piano player hires a white nightclub bouncer to drive him on a 2-month concert tour through the Deep South in 1962, an awkward road trip turns into a journey of sobering self-discovery.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When a professional, black piano player hires a white nightclub bouncer to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>126</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Creed II&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Creed II is a sequel to the hit drama Creed from 2015 that was directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, 2018). This sequel again pairs famous boxing champion Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone, Escape Plan, 2013) with his protégé Adonis Johnson, the son of one of Rocky’s greatest rivals, Apollo Creed.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 12:39:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Creed II is a sequel to the hit drama Creed from 2015 that was directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, 2018). This sequel again pairs famous boxing champion Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone, Escape Plan, 2013) with his protégé Adonis Johnson, the son of one of Rocky’s greatest rivals, Apollo Creed.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Creed II is a sequel to the hit drama Creed from 2015 that was directed by Ryan…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>124</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Overlord&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Once in a while a movie comes along that defies categorization. Being part war drama, part horror mystery, part action frenzy, Overlord is such a movie. It’s also difficult to categorize because it’s completely insane.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:43:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Once in a while a movie comes along that defies categorization. Being part war drama, part horror mystery, part action frenzy, Overlord is such a movie. It’s also difficult to categorize because it’s completely insane.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Once in a while a movie comes along that defies categorization. Being part war…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Bohemian Rhapsody&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Bohemian Rhapsody is a half musical half biographical film about the rock band Queen and its rise to fame in the 1970s and 80s with particular attention on the life of the band’s lead singer Freddy Mercury. Born as Farrokh Bulsara to traditional parents from India who immigrated to London, Freddie Mercury’s story as a bold, risk-taking visionary is one that will inspire and fascinate audiences, despite this film smoothing over many rough edges of the band’s life.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:23:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Bohemian Rhapsody is a half musical half biographical film about the rock band Queen and its rise to fame in the 1970s and 80s with particular attention on the life of the band’s lead singer Freddy Mercury. Born as Farrokh Bulsara to traditional parents from India who immigrated to London, Freddie Mercury’s story as a bold, risk-taking visionary is one that will inspire and fascinate audiences, despite this film smoothing over many rough edges of the band’s life.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Bohemian Rhapsody is a half musical half biographical film about the rock band…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Mid90s&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Jonah Hill has been an established actor in Hollywood for the past 10 years known mostly for comedies like Superbad (2007), Cyrus (2010), 21 Jump Street (2012), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Mid90s is Jonah Hill's first time as director and screenwriter of a full-length feature film, and it completely transported me.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:02:44 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jonah Hill has been an established actor in Hollywood for the past 10 years known mostly for comedies like Superbad (2007), Cyrus (2010), 21 Jump Street (2012), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Mid90s is Jonah Hill's first time as director and screenwriter of a full-length feature film, and it completely transported me.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Jonah Hill has been an established actor in Hollywood for the past 10 years…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Hate U Give&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When a black teenage girl witnesses her black friend unlawfully shot to death by a police officer, she is forced to confront complicated, adult issues of identity, violence, and racism in her hometown. This film is based on a young adult novel of the same title written by Angie Thomas and published in 2017. The novel also spent time as a #1 New York Times Bestseller.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:21:23 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When a black teenage girl witnesses her black friend unlawfully shot to death by a police officer, she is forced to confront complicated, adult issues of identity, violence, and racism in her hometown. This film is based on a young adult novel of the same title written by Angie Thomas and published in 2017. The novel also spent time as a #1 New York Times Bestseller.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When a black teenage girl witnesses her black friend unlawfully shot to death…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;First Man&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Film critic Roger Ebert is quoted saying, “It’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it.” And this sentiment is echoed beautifully in First Man. Instead of being a dramatic crescendo proclaiming the unstoppable force of American patriotism, this film is a patient, introspective, quiet exploration of Neil Armstrong’s life; an ordinary man who lands in extraordinary circumstances leading Apollo 11, the first manned spacecraft to the moon in 1969.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:07:12 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Film critic Roger Ebert is quoted saying, “It’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it.” And this sentiment is echoed beautifully in First Man. Instead of being a dramatic crescendo proclaiming the unstoppable force of American patriotism, this film is a patient, introspective, quiet exploration of Neil Armstrong’s life; an ordinary man who lands in extraordinary circumstances leading Apollo 11, the first manned spacecraft to the moon in 1969.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Film critic Roger Ebert is quoted saying, “It’s not what a movie is about, it’s…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>127</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;A Star Is Born&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A Star is Born is a remake of a well-known story that’s been told in 3 previous Hollywood films all with the same title. First in 1937 with Janet Gaynor, in 1954 with Judy Garland, and in 1976 with Barbra Streisand. This 2018 version has Bradley Cooper (American Sniper, 2014) playing an established rock star who meets a working-class waitress (played by Lady Gaga, American Horror Story: Hotel, 2015-2016) who has her own hopes of singing stardom.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:52:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A Star is Born is a remake of a well-known story that’s been told in 3 previous Hollywood films all with the same title. First in 1937 with Janet Gaynor, in 1954 with Judy Garland, and in 1976 with Barbra Streisand. This 2018 version has Bradley Cooper (American Sniper, 2014) playing an established rock star who meets a working-class waitress (played by Lady Gaga, American Horror Story: Hotel, 2015-2016) who has her own hopes of singing stardom.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A Star is Born is a remake of a well-known story that’s been told in 3 previous…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Night School&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I don't understand who thought this movie was a good idea, and I don't understand why anyone involved with this movie thought it was funny. With comedy stars Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish leading this film, it had potential to be funny and charming. Kevin Hart (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, 2017) and Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip, 2017) are both very successful stand-up comedians, and deservedly so.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:49:00 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/programs/2018-10-04/night-school-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[I don't understand who thought this movie was a good idea, and I don't understand why anyone involved with this movie thought it was funny. With comedy stars Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish leading this film, it had potential to be funny and charming. Kevin Hart (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, 2017) and Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip, 2017) are both very successful stand-up comedians, and deservedly so.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I don't understand who thought this movie was a good idea, and I don't…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Life Itself&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This newly released version of Life Itself is an emotional and touching drama about 3 generations of 2 separate families, one in New York City and one in Spain, and how these disparate families cross paths and influence each other’s lives. Through milestones of death, birth, love, mental illness, and separation, the film incessantly reminds us that each person is precious, and the directions of people’s lives can take surprising turns.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:40:54 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/programs/2018-10-04/life-itself-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This newly released version of Life Itself is an emotional and touching drama about 3 generations of 2 separate families, one in New York City and one in Spain, and how these disparate families cross paths and influence each other’s lives. Through milestones of death, birth, love, mental illness, and separation, the film incessantly reminds us that each person is precious, and the directions of people’s lives can take surprising turns.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This newly released version of Life Itself is an emotional and touching drama…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;A Simple Favor&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A Simple Favor is a stylish mystery film based on the novel of the same name by Darcey Bell that was published only last year. When overzealous, nerdy single mother Stephanie (Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect) befriends another mother Emily (Blake Lively, The Shallows) in her suburban Connecticut neighborhood, Stephanie is quickly enamored with her new friend’s life of crisp business suits, an expensive mansion, and delicious cocktails. But when Emily goes missing, an awkward friendship of afternoon chats transforms in police interviews, dark family secrets, and a dead body.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:33:36 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A Simple Favor is a stylish mystery film based on the novel of the same name by Darcey Bell that was published only last year. When overzealous, nerdy single mother Stephanie (Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect) befriends another mother Emily (Blake Lively, The Shallows) in her suburban Connecticut neighborhood, Stephanie is quickly enamored with her new friend’s life of crisp business suits, an expensive mansion, and delicious cocktails. But when Emily goes missing, an awkward friendship of afternoon chats transforms in police interviews, dark family secrets, and a dead body.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A Simple Favor is a stylish mystery film based on the novel of the same name by…]]></itunes:subtitle>

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    <title>&#x27;Operation Finale&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Operation Finale is a historical thriller based on the true story centered on a group of government agents from Israel in 1960 who track down and apprehend Adolph Eichmann, a leading Nazi official who organized the Holocaust and then fled to Argentina under a different identity after WWII.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2018 22:00:34 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/programs/2018-09-07/operation-finale-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Operation Finale is a historical thriller based on the true story centered on a group of government agents from Israel in 1960 who track down and apprehend Adolph Eichmann, a leading Nazi official who organized the Holocaust and then fled to Argentina under a different identity after WWII.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Operation Finale is a historical thriller based on the true story centered on a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Puzzle&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When an ordinary, underappreciated housewife in working-class Connecticut receives a jigsaw puzzle as a birthday gift, she realizes she has a talent for completing them. While a thousand piece puzzle might take you or me days to complete, this woman can finish one in only a couple of hours. After discovering this strange unexpected gift, the shy housewife slowly ventures outside her sheltered domestic world, partners with a fellow puzzle enthusiast, and starts practicing for a national jigsaw puzzle competition.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:19:22 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/programs/2018-08-31/puzzle-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Puzzle&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When an ordinary, underappreciated housewife in working-class Connecticut receives a jigsaw puzzle as a birthday gift, she realizes she has a talent for completing them. While a thousand piece puzzle might take you or me days to complete, this woman can finish one in only a couple of hours. After discovering this strange unexpected gift, the shy housewife slowly ventures outside her sheltered domestic world, partners with a fellow puzzle enthusiast, and starts practicing for a national jigsaw puzzle competition.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When an ordinary, underappreciated housewife in working-class Connecticut…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>129</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Alpha&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Alpha is a PG-13 adventure film taking place 20,000 years ago roughly during the Paleolithic or Mesolithic era. During this last Ice Age, a young man becomes separated from his tribe on a dangerous buffalo hunt and struggles to find his way home through the prehistoric wilderness. Through hunting, healing his wounds, learning to build a fire, and befriending an injured wolf, this young man’s survival might be just within his reach.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:47:59 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/programs/2018-08-23/alpha-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Alpha&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Alpha is a PG-13 adventure film taking place 20,000 years ago roughly during the Paleolithic or Mesolithic era. During this last Ice Age, a young man becomes separated from his tribe on a dangerous buffalo hunt and struggles to find his way home through the prehistoric wilderness. Through hunting, healing his wounds, learning to build a fire, and befriending an injured wolf, this young man’s survival might be just within his reach.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Alpha is a PG-13 adventure film taking place 20,000 years ago roughly during…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;The Meg&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[After watching this movie, I felt like I needed to rush to the Logan Public Library and start reading an Oliver Sacks book in an effort to replenish the brain cells I lost from watching this movie.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:27:36 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/programs/2018-08-16/the-meg-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[After watching this movie, I felt like I needed to rush to the Logan Public Library and start reading an Oliver Sacks book in an effort to replenish the brain cells I lost from watching this movie.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[After watching this movie, I felt like I needed to rush to the Logan Public…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>126</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Mission: Impossible - Fallout&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This volcanic eruption of action, intensity, and hyper-masculinity is the sixth Mission Impossible film with Tom Cruise, the previous one being Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from 2015. I don’t think I need to explain anything about the plot here since it’s basically the same contents of a Mission Impossible movie but mixed up in a different arrangement. There’s a team of good guys, spies with mysterious identities, government offices, and a bunch of plutonium ready to blow up the earth.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:06:32 -0600</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.upr.org/programs/2018-08-09/mission-impossible-fallout-movie-review-with-casey</link>
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    <itunes:title>&#x27;Mission: Impossible - Fallout&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This volcanic eruption of action, intensity, and hyper-masculinity is the sixth Mission Impossible film with Tom Cruise, the previous one being Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from 2015. I don’t think I need to explain anything about the plot here since it’s basically the same contents of a Mission Impossible movie but mixed up in a different arrangement. There’s a team of good guys, spies with mysterious identities, government offices, and a bunch of plutonium ready to blow up the earth.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This volcanic eruption of action, intensity, and hyper-masculinity is the sixth…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Casey Allen</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>128</itunes:duration>






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    <title>&#x27;Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again&#x27; Movie Review with Casey</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I thought this movie was going to be Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again…Off a Cliff. But to my relief, this sequel to the 2008 movie musical is not a complete train wreck.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:01:52 -0600</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ant Man and the Wasp is a PG-13 sequel to the original, or initial, film Ant Man from 2015. This sequel is directed by Peyton Reed who also directed the initial 2015 film. We’re treated to another superhero movie that’s part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe which is continually expanding with more stories and more movies.]]></description>
    
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