HOT TICKETS (Film Journal) Summer and sequels go together like popcorn and soda, and the summer 2007 calendar boasts a huge number of follow-ups to past box-office successes. But this year's extraordinary lineup includes return visits to some of the most popular series in motion picture history....more...May 2, 2007 (indieWIRE) New Yorker Films has acquired US theatrical, Home video, broadcast and cable TV rights to Jia Zhang-Ke 's 2006 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner, Still Life. The film is currently screening in the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival 's world narrative feature competition and will have a national release following its theatrical bow in New York in the fall of 2007. According to a statement by the ......more... Film listings (San Francisco Bay Guardian) Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Robert Avila, Kimberly Chun, Michelle Devereaux, Susan Gerhard, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, Johnny Ray Huston, Jonathan L. Knapp, Laurie Koh, Lynn Rapoport, Sara Schieron, Jason Shamai, and Chuck Stephens. The film intern is Matt Sussman....more... Belinda Carlisle (The Phoenix) Voilą | Rykodisc Belinda Carlisle is about as French as a bag of ?freedom fries.? ...more... Daddy Oh (The Jamaica Observer) The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts Should increase, Even as our days do grow. - Shakespeare, Othello 11,1 AND isn't that what most people want, that their loves and comfort do increase, with someone to share their lives with, someone to care, listen to them, rub their head and eventually grow old with them?...more... Two tales of disquiet (INQ7.net) MANILA, Philippines - In our compound, it's my daughter-in-law, Lilli-Ann, who hates my cat, a wiry, brindle-striped, individualistic feline named Tiger. Mama! she wails, Tiger is always poised on the rim of my kawa, eyeing the goldfish! I?ve counted them again today....more... |