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Touchstone Pictures is releasing The Invisible, a story about two teenagers who are invisible to the world as a result of an untimely death and neglect after a mother’s death. What’s the hook? “If you can solve the mystery of your own death, then you’ll have the chance to live again.” The guy above witnessed [...]

Get ready for Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis starring together in a movie called Poor Things, to be directed by the cousin of the director responsible for Borat. The script “was inspired by real news events and crime scandals surrounding recent arrests and convictions of elderly women for various “grandma gang” exploits, which have included [...]

We live in a media age when anything, and I mean anything, that can remotely be connected to a celebrity is fodder for publication. If you’re shooting a movie, then why not shoot the making of the movie. And while you’re at it, why not hire a still photographer to turn the moving images into [...]

© Annie Leibovitz & Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair hired photographer Annie Leibovitz to shoot an ambitious film noir series featuring a long list of famous actors and actresses like Judi Dench and Helen Mirren. I’m not a big fan of Ms. Leibovitz. Most of her photographs are emotionally disconnected from their subjects; her compositions lack a [...]

Check out the excellent new trailer from Warner Brothers that introduces the Silver Surfer character into the Fantastic Four franchise. I love how they treat the characters as just your every day normal citizens attending a wedding when suddenly duty calls…
Silver Surfer’s Backstory: “Spacefaring adventurer and explorer; former would-be world conqueror, minion of Gaea, Earthbound [...]

Probably the best moment from this year’s Oscars. John Reilly, Will Ferrell and Jack Black singing a spoofy number about working in Hollywood. This is the kind of material that should dominate most of the show — an actual scripted scene that requires acting skills!
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Actress Arlene Dahl was born in 1923. She’s still around and has an opinion on the behavior of celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton. Arlene says, “Enjoy your femininity, but don’t overdo it.” Words of wisdom from an elder. It’s right up there with why own the cow when you can get [...]

Aside from global warming destroying the earth as we know it, a couple of German filmmakers see a far scary future where the growing senior population may as well be living in concentration camps. It’s only science fiction at this point, but at the rate President Bush is gutting social programs and committing this country [...]

The details of life always surpass that which ends up in the movies, newspapers or magazines. Marlene Dietrich, the bombshell beauty, closed out her life not with a bang, but a whimpering song.
New York Post’s Page Six is flogging a new biography that tells how late in her life Marlene was so broke she [...]

I haven’t had a chance to see Clint Eastwood’s new movie, yet, but the trailer and early buzz is great. Clint’s a no nonsense director, so I look forward to seeing it.

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If you can’t get any respect from your grandkids, maybe you should rent or buy The Way Home by director Jeong-hyang Lee. Better yet, why not watch it with your grandkids. Hey, it just might change the dynamic between generations!

The Way Home
Director: Jeong-hyang Lee
Story: Sang-Woo, a spoiled little South Korean boy, is spending the [...]

Timothy Leary: The Art of Dying
Directed by: A.J. Catoline, O.B. Babbs
Cast: Jerry Garcia as himself, O.B. Babbs as himself, Ken Kesey as himself, more…
Produced by: David Herman
Synopsis
Dr. Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychologist who became the LSD guru of the 1960s, who popularized the phrase - Turn On, Tune [...]

Synopsis
Beatrix Potter has delighted generations of children with her books. But she kept her own private life locked carefully away. Oscar-winning star Renee Zellweger is now bringing her secret story to the screen in Miss Potter, the first film directed by Chris Noonan since his charming 1995 movie, Babe.
It is set in the high [...]

Sweet Land

When Lars Torvik’s grandmother Inge dies in 2004, he is faced with a decision - sell the family farm on which she lived since 1920, or cling to the legacy of the land. Seeking advice, he turns to the memory of Inge and the stories that she had passed on to him.
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Revisits the night Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. With an incredible ensemble cast portraying fictionalized characters from a cross-section of America, the film follows 22 individuals who are all at the hotel for different purposes but share the common thread of anticipating Kennedy’s arrival at the primary election [...]

It’s a Wonderful Life
Hollywood studios sure know how to turn Christmas into a year-round affair. They have perfected the art of giving the same gift — sequels — to themselves in an attempt to cash in on the same warm and fuzzy feeling an audience had the first time around. Nothing is sacred, not even [...]

Each of the 15 directors has been given exactly ten minutes on the screen for their vision.
With complete creative freedom, the directors bring their own unique interpretation of ‘time ’ to the screen. Using the technology of film in innovative, provocative ways, Ten Minutes Older takes in all human experience: birth, death, love, the drama [...]

Mivtza Savta
The Pitch:
A short Israeli feature, OPERATION GRANDMA (MIVTZA SAVTA), that has garnered a cult following after its initial airing on television, is a comedy that satirizes many Israeli social institutions. Three brothers–a teacher, a military officer, and an electrician–learn that their grandmother has died and take it upon themselves to arrange her funeral.
Two [...]

The Pitch:
A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, Breaking & Entering follows three people whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King’s Cross. When a landscape architect’s (Jude Law) state of the art offices in a seedy part of town are repeatedly burgled, his investigations launch him out of the safety of his [...]

It seems rather strange that actor Harrison Ford has to let the world know that he’s fit to reprise his role as Indiana Jones. Is there something we don’t know about Harrison that suggests he may NOT be fit? Is Calista Flockhart giving him such a workout that he’s all petered out? Inquiring minds don’t [...]