Winner of 2 Awards including the Best Hispanic Fiction film at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.

From Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Disciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti and Richard McGuire come this Official Selection from the Sundance Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival and Fantastic Fest.

Clint Eastwood directed, John Malkovich and Angeline Jolie starring.

If you have HBO OnDemand, “Maradona, The Hand of God” is on this month.  Marco Leonardi is very moving as Maradona, in a story about one of the greatest players ever, who came from desperate beginnings but possessed an outrageous talent, and who always struggled with the angels and bitter demons on his shoulder.  Lots of use of real footage.  It gets pretty dark.  Filmed in Buenos Aires and Napoli, with subtitles.  Recomended.

I almost cant even type write now because I’m so fired up…

My head might explode if this actually comes to fruition…

I’ll let Michael Caine explain…

in an interview with MTV News up at the Toronto Film Festival, he dropped these lovely jewels:

“They’ve already got them in mind,” said Caine, when asked who he’d like to see take up arms against the Caped Crusader. “It’s Johnny Depp as The Riddler. And The Penguin is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I read it in the paper.”

Lets just say casting Depp as the Riddler would be a home run:

from wiki: “The Riddler is typically portrayed as a smooth-talking, yet quirky, victim of an intense obsessive compulsion.

Oh boy! Michael Caine may have started something…

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Spike Lee’s new film, ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ - starring Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Matteo Sciabordi.

Four soldiers from the army’s Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema.

Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge he’s recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance