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Thoughts on Flight 93
 David Lord
After seeing the movie "Flight 93," at a local theater, I must tell you that the rage I feel toward the Fanatical Muslim Terrorist is only matched by my contempt for an Administration that has so misdirected the United States' response to terror.
Her Majesty’s Sacred Service
 Simon Winder
The film, “Casino Royale,” is a remake based on the first of Ian Fleming’s Bond books: an attempt to return the character to his roots, a fresh beginning after the increasingly witless Pierce Brosnan years.
Vallarta Film Festival 2006
 PVNN
From Nov 29th-Dec 3rd, the focus is on flicks, as the Puerto Vallarta Film Festival presents a variety of full-length films and documentaries from North and South America - and a full schedule of events that will have film fanatics in a frenzy.
Mel Gibson Receives Award from Latino Business Organization
 Associated Press
Actor Mel Gibson, whose drunken driving arrest and anti-Semitic remarks ignited a scandal four months ago, was honored by a Latino business organization for his upcoming film "Apocalypto."
Garcia Bernal: Border Fence 'Absurd'
 Associated Press
Gael Garcia Bernal, promoting a new movie in which his character gets in trouble with U.S. immigration authorities, criticized the newly approved U.S.-Mexico border fence as "absurd."
Gibson's "Apocalypto" Poses Marketing Challenge
 Gina Keating
Talk about a hard sell: this movie stars unknown actors speaking an obscure language and is directed by a man whose off-screen behaviour has outraged many. Figuring out a way to market Mel Gibson's latest movie, "Apocalypto," has many experts scratching their heads.more »»»
Travel and Tribulations: 'Babel'
 Reed Johnson
Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film, 'Babel,' like his breakout hit 'Amores Perros', is a unified story told in three interlocking parts.more »»»
Mexico's Next Gen on View at Fest
 Michael O'Boyle
The Morelia Film Fest, now in its fourth year, continues to consolidate its position as a discovery platform for Mexico's next generation of filmmakers, where competition will focus on docus and shorts.more »»»
Cuaron Boosts Mexican Cinema
 Marc Mohan
With the kind of range that has allowed him to move from Harry Potter to hot-art house sex, Alfonso Cuaron has earned the right to be considered a director to watch, and he is one of the primary reasons Mexican cinema has a higher profile today than it has in decades.more »»»
Vallarta Residents Featured in Upcoming Movie
 PVNN
Recently, Casting Valdés placed several Puerto Vallarta residents as crew or featured extras in Columbia Picture's feature film "Vantage Point" starring Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Forest Whitaker, and Matthew Fox among others.more »»»
On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juárez
 Toddy Burton
Producer/director Steev Hise takes an international perspective on this localized tragedy with his low-budget documentary.more »»»
A Bond Beyond Borders
 Reed Johnsons
About six years ago, while wrapping up "Amores Perros," the movie that would stamp him as the new "It Boy" of global cinema, Alejandro González Iñárritu got an early-morning phone call from a man he'd never met in his life.more »»»
'Bella' Takes Top Prize at Toronto Festival
 AP
Mexican-born director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde's feature film debut, the unheralded "Bella," took the top audience prize at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival. International critics gave an award to the controversial British TV movie "Death of a President," which centers on a fictionalized assassination of President Bush.more »»»
In a Noir Los Angeles, Murder Most Lurid
 Manohla Dargis
The union of Brian De Palma and the murdered woman known as the Black Dahlia should have been a marriage made in movie heaven or, preferably, hell. A master of modern horror, Mr. De Palma has a flair for the frenzy of violence, specifically when visited on the female body, which makes him seem an ideal fit for this spectacularly cruel crime.more »»»
URBAN-15 to Host 2006 Manhattan Short Film Festival
 George Cisneros
For the third year, the URBAN-15 Group has united with The Manhattan Short Film Festival and over 80 other venues across Europe, Canada and the US, to create the world’s largest short film festival to be held throughout two continents this September.more »»»
Mexican Cinema: The New Aztec Camera
 Chris Sullivan
No one can deny the impact that Mexican cinema has had on the rest of the world in the 21st century. Four films by Mexican directors were in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, all of which massively overshadowed their big-budget US counterparts.more »»»
'Nacho Libre' a Smackdown Hit in Mexico
 Colin McMahon
Mexican wrestling fans can spot a fake a kilometer away. And when they disapprove of a ring performance in the sport they call lucha libre, they can be merciless. But the American movie star Jack Black turns out to be the real deal.more »»»
Spike Lee Turns Cameras on New Orleans
 Oliver Burkeman
Film director Spike Lee's long-awaited four-hour documentary about Hurricane Katrina was due to receive its world premiere this week, watched by 16,000 people who lived through the tragedy.more »»»
Oliver Stone, 9/11, and the Big Lie
 Ruth Rosen
When World Trade Center ended, I left the theater tense, my muscles aching. The superb directing and acting, coupled with still hardly imaginable scenes of death and destruction, had sent painful muscle spasms up my back, evoked tears, and left me, yet again, with searing and indelible images of that hellish morning.more »»»
Mystery 9/11 Rescuer Reveals Himself
 David B. Caruso
For years, authorities wondered about the identity of a U.S. Marine who appeared at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, helped find a pair of police officers buried in the rubble, then vanished. Even the producers of the new film chronicling the rescue, "World Trade Center," couldn't locate the mystery serviceman, who had given his name only as Sgt. Thomas.more »»»
A Touching, Realistic Look at Latino Life in L.A.
 Bob Strauss
The micro-budgeted independent film, which won both the dramatic grand jury prize and the audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, is about people coping with big issues - sexual, family and, since it's set in L.A., housing.more »»»
Film Industry Assesses Gibson Fallout
 Gary Gentile
In 2004, Mel Gibson was able to whip up a groundswell of support for his film "The Passion of the Christ" by showing it in churches and to religious leaders around the country. But Gibson may have a tougher time appealing to those same faith-based audiences for his next film, "Apocalypto," given his arrest last week on suspicion of drunk driving and what he admited were "despicable" remarks made while being taken into custody.more »»»
'Devil' Can't Keep Hathaway From Nicaraguan Kids
 Buck Wolf & David Blaustein
While the devil wears Prada, little angels sport Band-Aids festooned with Batman, Barbie and Dora the Explorer. Anne Hathaway stepped out of her on-screen couture to take on a new role - helping to administer hepatitis A vaccines to children in Nicaragua.more »»»
Hayek Calls Reports of Big Fortune a "Huge Lie"
 Catherine Bremer
Mexican big-screen siren Salma Hayek on Friday dismissed as nonsense reports that she has a $100 million fortune, and said if she did she would retire and use the money to help the poor.more »»»
A Final Spin for 'Spider-Man'?
 Scott Bowles
Is Spider-Man making his final swing through theaters? As the superhero franchise, which has taken in more than $1.6 billion worldwide, returns to Comic-Con to promote next year's Spider-Man 3, some are wondering whether the series is making its final bow.more »»»
Filmmaker to Bring 'Little Indio' to Big Screen
 Luis Ochoa
Ismael Villalpando has big ambitions. The 27-year-old Mexican immigrant moonlights as a screenwriter and movie maker when he's not operating a projector at the Regal Cinemas Indio Metro 8 theater.more »»»
'Duck Season'
 Kenneth Turan
Sometimes a film about nothing can be a film about everything; a film without overwhelmingly dramatic events can delight you more than an outsized epic. The sly and disarming “Duck Season” is such a film. more »»»
Still Catching a Wave
 William Booth
There were some seriously leathery old dudes at La Paloma Theatre the other night. Guys in their sixties - heck, in their seventies - sporting baggy shorts, flip-flops and aloha shirts, glowing with the kind of solar-irradiated skin only a dermatologist could love.more »»»
Jack Black Film Spoofs Mexico's Men in Tights
 Julie Watson
It's a weekday night, but one of the world's oldest wrestling rings is packed with businessmen, tattooed youths, feisty grandmas and their rambunctious grandchildren, all watching as the "tecnicos" — fighters dressed as saints, priests and other noble figures — battle the "rudos" — wrestlers representing corrupt cops, drunkards and mobsters.more »»»
Rent a Rasta: a New Twist on Sex Tourism
 24-7PressRelease
Every year over 80,000 middle-aged women flock to Jamaica in search of the 'big bamboo.' A practice called "rent a rasta." But who are the real Rastafari? more »»»
Salma Hayek, a Mexican Wave of Success
 Siobhan Synnot
Describe 5-2 Salma Hayek as small and she'll stop you in your tracks. "I'm short," she corrects, good-humouredly, "not small." Indeed, there's nothing small about Hayek's ambitions and drive.more »»»
'Apocalypto' Now
 Dade Hayes
Last time the world saw The Passion of the Christ mastermind Mel Gibson, he was promoting his mystery-shrouded spectacle, Apocalypto, on the Academy Awards. Standing with limestone-powder-coated extras from the Mayan-language epic, he delivered a verbose explanation in Yucatec Maya for why he wouldn't be hosting the show. The English subtitle read simply, "Not me."more »»»
Cannes Film Festival Winners and What They Said
 alarabonline.org
Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu on Sunday won the 59th Cannes Film Festival directing prize for "Babel," which stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in a multicultural drama about loosely linked families around the globe.more »»»
Who's That Masked Man and Where Did He Learn to Wrestle Like That?
 Lewis Beale
When Jared Hess, best known as the director of "Napoleon Dynamite," was in Mexico City casting "Nacho Libre," a new comedy in which Jack Black plays a priest in training turned wrestler, he auditioned a number of real-life wrestlers, who showed up wearing colorful masks.more »»»
'X-Men' Fails to X-cite
 Joel Siegel
Action movies aren't doing well this summer. "Mission: Impossible III" was all Tom Cruise, all the time. It's not a flop, but it is a big box office disappointment. Then came the big budget "Poseidon" remake. Five minutes into the movie, the boat sinks. Nine minutes into the movie, the movie sinks. Now, we turn to "X-Men: The Last Stand," the third and allegedly the last in the series, and let's hope so. Three's hardly a charm. more »»»
Pitt, Blanchett Star in Cannes Favorite "Babel"
 Mike Collett-White
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett star in the powerful new film "Babel", an examination of linguistic, cultural and personal barriers that sweeps across three continents and tackles terrorism, immigration and suicide.more »»»
Ethereal Battle in Heaven set between Bodies and Blowjobs
 Josef Braun
We have here a movie that wants to work both as a unobtrusive receptor for the infinite strangeness, terror and beauty of the real world, while at the same time unspooling a thread of images and narrative that seem deliberately conceived almost entirely as metaphor.more »»»
"Da Vinci Code" Leads Hollywood Pack to Cannes
 Bob Tourtellotte
Last year it was the final installment of "Star Wars". This year it is "The Da Vinci Code". With an eye on the international box office, Hollywood studios are choosing the film festival in Cannes to launch some of their biggest blockbusters, and 2006 is no exception.more »»»
Hollywood Wonders "What Would Jesus Direct?"
 Claudia Parsons
Long criticized by conservative Christians for profiting from violent or sexually graphic films that corrupt the young, Hollywood is starting to see there is money to be made catering to those critics.more »»»
Tom Cruise Says He Ignores Media Reports
 Kimberly N. Chase
Tom Cruise whipped off his sunglasses with flair and flashed a winning smile as he greeted a hotel ballroom packed with journalists in Mexico's capital. His mission: to promote his new film, "Mission: Impossible III," which opens in theaters Friday.more »»»
With Movie Due, 'Da Vinci' Debate Persists
 Richard N. Ostling
A line from Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" tells you why it's easily the most disputed religious novel of all time: "Almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false."more »»»
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