Articles by Leo Petaccia

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  Heavy Metal in Baghdad

  Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

  Acrassicauda are a heavy metal/rock band from Iraq. You probably haven’t heard of them because technically, they are the only able-bodied g...

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  We Are Marshall

  McG

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

  When the history of varsity football’s greatest feats is finally written, the plight of Marshall’s 1970 team probably won’t be among the fi...

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  Scenes of a Sexual Nature

  Ed Blum

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

  This film should win the award for "most misleading title of all time.” Either that or it should be called Two-Hour Tease Fest in England....

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  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  Andrew Dominik

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

  So, it’s official: Casey Affleck has finally upstaged his brother. As Robert Ford, the conflicted man who kills legendary American bandit J...

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  Fracture

  Gregory Hoblit

  PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2007

  Gregory Hoblit’s Fracture might as well have been called Silence of the Lawyers. It’s hard to watch wife killer Ted Crawford (Sir Anthony H...

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  Resurrecting the Champ

  Rod Lurie

  PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2007

  If ever there was a Hollywood renaissance man, it’s Samuel L Jackson. Give the man a light sabre and he’ll give you gold. Drop a ravaged mo...

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  Wilderness

  Michael J. Bassett

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  Eli Roth could learn a thing or two from the Brits. If watching eyeballs dangle in Hostel made you squirm, consider a tall barf bag supply...

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  Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West

  Wayne Kopping

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  The next time you feel like a good scare, pass on the horror and make a beeline to the documentary section. You might find a copy of Obsess...