Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:17PM - By Andrew Payne
There are a lot of movies rolling onto DVD this week, just none that we really care about. This is one of those weeks where you go to Blockbuster (or look at the Netflix new release page) and end up wandering to the middle of the store to get that old Woody Allen movie you’ve been meaning to see.
Of course, this eclectic barrage of DVD newness could just mean there’s something out there for everybody.
Check it all out…
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Monday, July 6, 2009 5:33PM - By Krystal Clark
Actor Benicio Del Toro must have taken more than a paycheck away from his portrayal of Latin activist Che Guevara. He’s taking the motivational spirit from his role in Che (above), and has applied it to his life (without all the violence). According to the Associated Press the actor recently cut his vacation short to visit the Bayamon Regional Prison in Puerto Rico. The actor went to offer encouragement to inmates who are participating in the facilities jailhouse theater group.
More on his visit after the jump.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 7:57AM - By Mali Elfman
Monday, November 17, 2008 9:44AM - By Mali Elfman
Director Steven Soderbergh will release his two part film, Che, starring Benicio del Toro, Benjamin Bratt, and Franka Potente in January and February of next year. The films are about the overthrowing of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba. The story follows Guevara (del Toro), a man who fomented revolutions in Africa and South America after the fall of Batista and was eventually captured and killed by counter-insurgency rangers in the mountains of Bolivia, backed by the CIA.
The film has been a part of the London, New York, AFI, and Toronto film festivals, and won a Best Actor award for Bencio del Toro and was nominated for A Golden Palm in Cannes.
Check out the trailer below…
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:20AM - By Tom von Logue Newth
Taking place at venues around Hollywood (Mann’s, Grauman’s, LACMA, Cinema Lounge, the Arclight/Cinerama Dome) from Thursday 30th tiil Sun day 9th, the American Film Institute’s annual festival this year features over 150 films from around the world. Take your pick from Chinese director Jia Zhangke’s semi-documentary about factory closure, 24 City (Mon 3, Sat 8), Beat Takeshi’s lastest, Achilles and the Tortoise, a meditation on art and money and life (Mon 3, Fri 7), or Paul Schrader’s Jeff Goldblum starrer Adam Resurrected, an unsentimental, semi-absurdist post-Holocaust flick (Sat 8, Sun 9).
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