Some people are so blind, they can’t see a metaphor even when it’s right in front of them.
I thought the protests over Tropic Thunder were the silliest ever, but now blind activists are planning on picketing the release of Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness, a film about society crumbling when it’s hit by an epidemic of sightlessness.
Marc Maurer, [...]

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Eileen Walsh in Eden, a Liberation Entertainment Release
Photo credit: Bernard Walsh
It’s not set to be officially released until November, but Declan Recks’ Irish marriage drama Eden kicks off the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival on Thursday, and it’s playing the annual Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday and Saturday. Besides that, it’s a terrific film and [...]

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Jennybee brought this trailer for the French I’ve Loved You So Long to my attention last night. The film starring Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman who comes to live with her younger sister after being in prison for 15 years premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and has been getting good notices ever [...]

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This morning, MSN put up what they’re calling an “exclusive video” for Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, though many sources are calling it a trailer. I suppose it’s a pointless semantic argument, but to me a trailer plays in a theater before a movie. Anything else is a commercial or a promotional video. Whatever this is, it’s [...]

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I guess you have to hand it to Spike Lee. He had a problem with the fact that Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers overlooked the role played by African-American soldiers in World War II and, after complaining about it, he put his money where his mouth with his own World War II film. The [...]

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Hollywood watchers were abuzz last week amid reports of a disagreement between Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin over when to release Stephen Daldry’s World War II romance The Reader. Always looking for a little Oscar juice, Weinstein wanted to release the film starring Kate Winslet in December after a test screening went well. Rudin, who [...]

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Click image for MovieFone’s Spirit trailer
Maybe it’s because Frank Miller’s adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit has been getting clobbered by nerd-kind since the unwashed masses were given a taste of it at Comic-Yawn last summer, but I’m strangely attracted to it. Call me contrarian or just call me a sucker.
For the record, I liked Miller’s own [...]

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In the few short months that I’ve been keeping tabs on daily movie news, Twilight pimping MTV has quickly positioned itself as the least reliable establishment source for news and the most likely to pass along unverified nonsense in the interest of page views. They didn’t originate the (probable) lie that Clooney would be The [...]

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I caved in and watched the teaser trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, but I’m drawing the line on this one. Nothing could make me want to see the movie more, so why risk ruining it before I see it? Anyway, I’m a [...]

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Bérénice Bejo and Jean Dujardin in OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies
This week you should really be renting Paul Newman movies, but if you simply must see something new, here’s our weekly look at the Movies You May Have Missed coming to DVD on Tuesday.
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008) ****
First up is one [...]

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