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2007 is the year that the Cannes film festival turns 60 and to celebrate the occasion they asked 35 world-ranking directors to mark the b-day bash with a three-minute short. For many Chacun son cinema shall bring out the pearly whites among he few cinephiles lucky enough to see the film. Sixty is also nifty because of the onslaught of other projects that will most likely make it at this year’s fest. Both a culmination of what I’ve read in Variety and cineuropa.org and my own two cents worth, this is a taste of some of the stuff we can expect to see at this year’s 60th.

If Michael Haneke’s newest gets a slot in the main competition, I believe this would constitute as a first in the history of the...

It’s been almost fifty years since the People’s Liberation Army of China began their occupation of Tibet. It’s only in the past ten years, however, that a handful of films have surfaced concerning the resistance. Seven Years in Tibet and Kundun are the most well known examples, but the problem with those films in lies in their occidental interpretation of an oriental culture.

If Batman can do it - so can the Hulk.   Like the Warner Bros. re-launch of the Batman franchise, it didn’t take 3...

In theaters today is The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie for Theaters, the feature length film debut from the miscreant team of mutant fast food that have become stars on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Don’t know what the hell I’m talking about? Adult Swim is the late night lineup of cartoons that seem targeted at (but by no means limited to) for the pop culture savvy college student crowd, and includes titles such as Futurama, Sealab 2021, and the live action 50’s TV sci-fi parody Saul of the Mole Men.