April 2008

This year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup has been announced.

The films in official competition are:

24 City (China, Dir. Jia Zhangke)
Adoration (Canada, Dir. Atom Egoyan)
Changeling (U.S., Dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Argentine and Guerrilla (Spain, Dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Un Conte de noel (France, Dir. Arnaud Desplechin)
Daydreams (Turkey, Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Delta (Germany-Hungary, Dir. Kornel Mundruczo)
Il Divo (Italy, Dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
Gomorra [...]

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US comedian and talkshow host Bill Maher has a new documentary about religion coming out later this year called Religulous.
His recent monologue about Catholicism on his HBO show Real Time has recently been causing some debate in the US:

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I remember last year seeing a poster in Cannes for 88 Mins - the Al Pacino thriller that has just opened in the US to universally awful reviews.
At the time I assumed it was one of the many promotional posters that adorn the Croisette during the festival, but it was actually one for the local [...]

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Tom McCarthy made one of the best films of 2003 with The Station Agent and his latest The Visitor is just as good.
The story involves a college professor (Richard Jenkins) who finds a young immigrant couple living in his New York apartment.
It then follows the characters as they connect with one another in unexpected ways.
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This trailer mashup of Jaws as a cheesy family movie has been around for a while but I never got around to posting it before.

It was created by Mike Dow & Ari Eisner (Smacky Productions)

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I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall yesterday and whilst it isn’t quite as funny as Superbad, it is still a solid comedy with a lot of laughs.
It certainly signals redemption for Team Apatow after the misfire of Drillbit Taylor and although it probably won’t top the US box office this weekend, it should have legs. It [...]

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