Two Susan Sarandon quotes: The Oscar winner discusses the need for liberal political activism in our troubled times and her appeal as a sexy older woman capable of seducing younger men.
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9 Songs’ sex scenes have not prevented the British Board of Film Classification from granting Michael Winterbottom’s romantic drama an ’18 certificate’ rating. Some are outraged.
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Diane English has penned and will direct The Women remake, as the 1939 all-female classic comedy is finally getting a 21st-century facelift. Meg Ryan and Annette Bening are slated to star.
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William A. Wellman’s experimental Western Track of the Cat is one of five new DVDs of long-unseen movies with a little-known John Wayne connection. Robert Mitchum stars.
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Two Pedro Almodóvar quotes: Bad Education filmmaker takes on the Catholic Church and its millenary anti-gay stance, while actor Gael García Bernal reveals his ‘inner transvestite.’
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Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan asserts that Mangal Pandey: The Rising – a historical political and biographical drama about the titular Indian soldier- is not anti-British.
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One of Germany’s costliest and most controversial movies ever made, Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Adolf Hitler drama Downfall is a major box office hit as well. Bruno Ganz stars.
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The new Claude Lelouch film The Parisians is a critical and box office bomb. The director is resorting to radical measures, but fellow veteran Philippe de Broca thinks that won’t work.
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Mel Gibson’s contentious Jesus movie The Passion of the Christ has become a top – but not the actual no. 1 – DVD seller in the United States. Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci star.
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The Adolf Hitler movie controversy surrounding Downfall revolves around the following question: Should the world’s most hated leader be portrayed as a complex human being?
The highlight of Paramount Home Entertainment’s four new John Wayne DVDs is the long-unseen multiple Oscar-nominated ‘disaster’ blockbuster The High and the Mighty.
Is The Aviator star Leonardo DiCaprio going to play a 1930s gangster or an FBI agent in Michael Mann’s planned crime drama based on the book Public Enemies?