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Men Moderate Tina Brown’s Women in the World Summit

Tina Brown is securing the the lineup for her annual Women in the World summit, which kicks off early next month. On opening night, March 8, CBS This Morning host Charlie Rose will moderate a  conversation between Secretary Madeleine Albright and Angelina Jolie on how women rebuilt communities after wars in Congo, Kosovo and Bosnia. Read More

Opening this Weekend: Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna Play Soccer, Mos Def Goes UPS and a Little Something Called … Star Trek!

There’s something a little fishy going on with Terminator Salvation. The Warner Brothers release doesn’t open until Memorial Day weekend, but the relentless ad campaign has basically spoiled the entire movie already. The latest spot, a four-minute “extended preview,” is like a short film: Almost every major plot point is shared, along with Read More

Darkness Visible

Blindness
Running Time 120 minutes
Written By Don McKellar 
Directed By Fernando Meirelles
Starring Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover, Gael García Bernal

In Blindness, a noxious, stomach-churning and deadly pretentious freak show by Fernando Meirelles, the talented Brazilian director of City of God and The Constant Read More

Almodóvar’s Noir: It’s All About Gael

Gael García Bernal may be Mexico’s greatest export since Dolores Del Rio. Unquestionably, he’s the prettiest. Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros, The Crime of Father Amaro and The Motorcycle Diaries made him as popular as margarita mix, but his sexy, brooding hothouse boyishness has never been as fully explored (and exploited) as it is Read More

Kids Will Adore New Harry Potter

Harry Potter and his cottage industry of goblins, gremlins and flying broomsticks is back in time to drain every 10-year-old’s holiday allowance from here to Honolulu. Do they still care? Judging from the preview audience of mesmerized moppets with whom I saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , they do indeed, and then Read More