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Tribeca Film Festival Highlights (And Where to Get Free Popcorn)

The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in a big way this year, with expanded venues around New York City, more music events and panels discussions that are completely relevant to what’s going on in the real world of filmmaking. One of the many highlights of this year’s festival is the World Premiere of United 93, the feature film ….

How Sexy Was Betty Page?

For her day, she was more than sexy. Her ‘fetish’ style antics, raised more than just eyebrows, when she was in her heyday in the 1950’s. Graham Fuller of Interview Magazine says “Gretchen Mol is mesmerizing as Bettie Page. Take a look at our photo gallery from the film, and it may just raise your…eyebrows! Visit the daring Betty Page HERE The Notorious ….

A Prairie Home Companion

I have just added some stills from Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion in the photo gallery area RIGHT HERE And take a look at the trailer for the film RIGHT HERE Director Robert Altman and writer Garrison Keillor join forces with an all-star cast to create a comic backstage fable, A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, about a fictitious radio variety show that has managed to ….

My Bookie for Warner Brothers

In what proves to be another industry first, online gaming company MyBookie.com has signed an exclusive product placement agreement with Warner Brothers for the upcoming film Lucky You starring Drew Barrymore. The MyBookie.com website will be prominently featured in the film, as well as within the storyline. The movie features a college student who hits ….

A walk in the shadows

Unified Pictures announced the acquisition of the motion picture screenplay “Beneath the Shadows” which was penned by Anton Pardoe (who wrote and starred in the company’s upcoming release “The Perfect Sleep”). Unified also announced that Jeremy Alter has signed on to direct and produce. “Given the long-standing success of the horror genre, Mr. Pardoe’s unique ….

The Constant Gardner

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa’s companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa’s widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the ….

Yes film synopsis

Some kind of polemical erotic fable from the British filmmaker Sally Potter, moved to contrive a variation on “Hiroshima, mon amour” in the aftermath of September 11. She casts Joan Allen as an adulterous wife who leaves husband Sam Neill in Paris to pursue a Middle-Eastern lover to Beirut. The affair is ornamented by dialogue ….

Lila Says film review

Director Ziad Doueiri’s Lila Says is a portrait of how sexual and racial tension, coupled with young passion and innocent curiosity can create a very volatile mix. Lila starts out as the title character has just moved into a predominantly Arab neighborhood in France. She encounters 19 year old Chimo as he is hanging out ….