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Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson may once again play human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, according to Screen Daily. Nearly twenty years ago, Thompson played Peirce in Jim Sheridan’s Academy Award-nominated In the Name of the Father (1993, right), in which she defended Daniel Day-Lewis and several others accused of being IRA terrorists. For her efforts — the accused are eventually released — Thompson earned a [...]

Kirk Cameron’s anti-gay rhetoric may have angered the fair-minded everywhere (read responses from Roseanne Barr, Alan Thicke, and others), but many (most? the vast majority?) of his fellow Fundamentalist Christians are definitely on his side. And Cameron has a — quite timely — gift for them in the form of the documentary Monumental: In Search of America’s National Treasure. (See trailer below.) Co-produced by Cameron, [...]

José Coronado, No Rest for the Wicked Pedro Almodóvar didn’t have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Goya Awards this evening in Madrid: Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In won a total of four Goyas, but none for its director/writer. Starring Antonio Banderas as a plastic surgeon, Elena Anaya as his captive woman, and Jan Cornet as the good-looking [...]

Former Czech Republic president Václav Havel died from respiratory problems earlier today. Havel, who had been a heavy smoker, was 75. Besides his role as a political dissident during the Communist regime and as a representative of Czechoslovakia’s transition from Communist rule to economically and politically troubled constitutional democracy, Havel was also a playwright. A number of his plays were filmed for television throughout the [...]