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It wasn’t that long ago that film school introduced me to a 16mm print of Nashville – the chaotic, blissful, satire on politics was the brilliant masterpiece that for many remains Robert Altman’s greatest gift to film. However, the stubborn un-Hollywood director has left us with a library of films that we can consider great – commencing with M*A*S*H and ending with Gosford Park.

Eric Schlosser began his career as a playwright, screenwriter, and fiction author before turning to journalism, a career choice that would lead to his...

Best known for his role of Fez (an acronym for ‘Foreign Exchange Student’) on “That 70’s Show,” Wilmer Valderrama takes on his first major mainstream dramatic effort in Fast Food Nation, Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s best-selling journalistic investigation into the multi-faceted impact and implications of the fast food corporation on global society, economy, and culture. Adapted into a narrative screenplay by Linklater and Schlosser, the film follows three simultaneous plotlines that help examine fast food from a variety of perspectives. Valderrama is cast in the role of Raul, an illegal immigrant who crosses the U.S./Mexico border in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his girlfriend Sylvia (Catalina Sandino Moreno -- Maria Full of Grace), and finds himself among the disposable immigrant labor force manning a meat processing plant in Colorado. Valderrama’s storyline is easily the most effective (and disturbing) of the three, and he demonstrates he has serious dramatic acting ability.

Richard Linklater releases his second film of 2006 with Fast Food Nation, a film adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling book of the same title....

Daughter of John, sister of Danny, the talented and tall Angelica Huston is climbing back into the director’s chair for a 3rd time. After Bastard Out of Carolina and Agnes Browne, this new project will be distrbitued under the Focus Features banner.