We’re not against romantic drama’s per se, but so often they turn out to be flaccid turds that make us mad and kind of glad we’re single. Nevertheless, it’s our considered opinion that Rachel McAdams is friggin’ adorable and although we would never stay up all night pigging out on ice cream and crying in [...]

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The Internet lit up today with MGM’s announcement that Peter Morgan (Froxt/Nixon, The Queen) had joined two of the writers of the last four Bonds, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, to write the screenplay for the as-yet-untitled James Bond 23.
This is slightly more interesting than speculation from two days ago that the next film would [...]

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Tenzin Zopa searches for the Unmistaken Child
It’s worth noting for residents of Los Angeles that the terrific documentary Unmistaken Child opens here today and that the president of the Tibetan Association of Southern California will speak at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 after the 7:10 screening tonight and again tomorrow June 13th.
Nati Baratz’s documentary tells the story [...]

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Youssou N’Dour (Photo credit: Hugo Berkeley)
There’s a great story to be told about the making of and the reaction to Senegalese popular singer Youssou N’Dour’s religiously themed 2004 album Egypt. Unfortunately, filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi only brushes against her subject and the result works best as a performance film rather than as an enlightening message [...]

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With its scenes of genital mutilation, it was assumed that the most talked about film at Cannes this year could not be released to the public without some editing, but distributors and censors in the UK are apparently a little more enlightened. James Dennis is reporting for Twitch that Lars Von Trier’s controversial Antichrist has [...]

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