I have to admit my interest (such as it was) in Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora starring Rachel Weisz cooled somewhat  as the luke warm reviews started to waft in at Cannes, but I was a little surprised it took so long to pick up a US distributor. Now it has one.
Perhaps encouraged by the box office [...]

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You could be forgiven for not realizing the Oscars embarrassed themselves two times in a single weekend. First of all they called attention to the fact that Gordon Willis and Lauren Bacall don’t have Oscars. Though he’s a cinema giant, it’s fair to say Roger Corman hasn’t exactly trafficked in Oscar type material so we’ll [...]

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