If you liked Little Miss Sunshine, you might like Jesus Henry Christ., coming to theatres April 20th. A new trailer was just released by the studio (find the link below the article). Henry James Herman is gifted, to say the least. A boy who was conceived in a petri dish, Herman wrote rabble-rousing manifestos on the nature of truth at age 10. Nickelodeon, eat your heart out. This boy-genius’s (he’s also a misfit, unsurprisingly so)

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Remember Persepolis, the graphic novel which was adapted into a feature film, both created by French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi and her partner-in-crime Vincent Paronnaud? Satrapi has made a new movie, set for release in August, called Chicken with Plums. 1958, Tehran: Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the renowned musicians of his time, is giving up on living. Finding no comparable instrument

While the blogosphere is lighting up with talk of the new Prometheus trailer (which looks really cool, by the way) I’ve been trying to find new information about Spring Breakers, a Harmony Korine-helmed film currently in production. It's about a group of girlfriends who rob a restaurant in order to pay for a vacation at the beach. The choice of the actors defies expectations: Emma Roberts, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, all of which

21 Jump Street yields three solid chuckles in one-hundred-nine minutes of running time, which is simply inexcusable. Though engineered by human beings (directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller), 21 might as well be a factory-made blueprint of Starsky & Hutch, Hollywood’s last nod to kitschy television shows. Take a cult T.V. cop show (the late eighties-early nineties Fox series 21 Jump Street, which put Johnny Depp on the map)

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Read a novel that changes your life, inspire the greatest Hollywood filmmakers. That’s what happened to French director and novelist Pierre Schoendorffer, who died yesterday at his home in France. In 1942 he read Joseph Kessel’s Fortune Carrée and set out on a new course. In an interview he said, “I wanted to become a sailor, travel the world and verify that the earth was round.” Beyond the wonders of discovery lied the need for expressing what he saw: filmmaking came naturally. He would enlist in the Indochina War so that he could make movies. As army video recordist