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Editor's Note: Academy Award winning actress Mira Sorvino sat down with CNN's Belief Blog to talk about her new film Like Dandelion Dust.

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Warner Brothers recently asked scientists working on the South Pole if they would like to speak on a teleconference with Kate Beckinsale, star of Whiteout, a new film about a crime committed at the Amundsen - Scott research station in Antarctica.

The actress Cameron Diaz probably doesn't need any introduction — you already know her from the way she lit up the screen in films like Gangs of New York, and There's Something About Mary.

Instead of watching old films or picking up a new book, consider this dating advice to improve your relationship and love: Bond with your partner by snuggling up by the fire, cherishing old memories, celebrating how far you've come, and talking about where you'd like to be in the future.

A fun family film about a robot, somewhat like the new Wall - E movie, but with real people.

The film feels like it's been assembled by committee, and news stories about the film's troubled production bear this out: after an initial round of photography during which the ending was being crafted almost on the fly, the film's release was delayed so that a new ending could be written and shot in an attempt to glue together two halves of a story that still don't feel like a whole.

«World War Z» plays a bit like a series of separate films and the juncture where the new final act was grafted onto the proceedings is unmistakable, but unless you knew about the film's troubled past, you'd never guess it existed.

At the film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a film like Sideways would even get made today.

So much has been written online about Martin Scorsese's brilliant new film The Wolf of Wall Street that trying to follow the talented likes of Richard Brody, Glenn Kenny, and Nick Pinkerton in 150 words feels akin to being the guy who has to give a speech after Jordan Belfort at Stratton Oakmont.

Like Edmund Halley, who died just a couple of years before seeing his prediction come true about the date when the comet bearing his name would return, the sad note about the film is that Rad (listed as director, producer, writer, editor, composer, production designer and set decorator) died in 2007 before he saw it gain new life.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

Like The Strangers, new film The Strangers: Prey at Night begins with the message that the film you're about to see...

By far the best thing about the new film is Daniel Radcliffe's Harry; after all his troubles over the years, he's become wounded and angry, walking around sullen and defiant, like a nerdy, magical James Dean.

If you don't like this movie, it's going to be hard for us to have any serious conversations about film, be it Kubrick, Fellini, Hitchcock or Bay» be it gothic romance, Fordian westerns, The French New Wave or the Dogme95 movement.

A lot of moviegoers still believe that low quality CGI toon projects should get a pass because they're just «kid movies» but films like Wreck - It - Ralph remind us that superior animated pictures are more than just cheep gags and one - note cliches — considering the film puts a new spin on tried - and - true stories about friendship and heroism.

FILM COMMENT caught up with the English - born, Iranian - American writer - director to talk about her movie, which opens New Directors / New Films tonight at MoMA, and why filmmaking is like dancing naked.

It's difficult to describe what it's like to find yourself in the middle of Tangerine, Sean Baker's new film about two trans sex workers in Los Angeles.

Jake Howell caught up with Matt Johnson to talk about his life and momentum post-The Dirties, his new project Operation Avalanche, and what it was like to receive the love of Toronto film critics.

Once Were Warriors — One of the more intense and depressing films that I actually like, this is about a family of poor Maori in New Zealand.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

It's true that his last film, 10,000 BC, was pretty awful, and The Day After Tomorrow wasn't much better, and yet, there's still something about a new Roland Emmerich flick that feels like an event.

Since the new film won't get rolling in earnest until after Ross» «Free State of Jones,» with Matthew McConaughey, bows next May, we got to thinking about who we'd like to see fill the other roles in Bullock's «Eleven.»

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

What begins like a movie about concerns over a mixed - race couple's relationship turns into a horror film when Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits the Caucasian family of his girlfriend (Allison Williams) and discovers they take racial prejudice to a whole new level.

Here is what one of our readers had to say about the new film: «I went in trying to enjoy the film aspect of it and came out thinking that this was just another abomination of a much beloved series, much like the film Dragonball Evolution.»

During our wide - ranging interview they talked about how the new season compares to the first, what the atmosphere was like on set, how much they knew about the arc of season 2 when filming began, what it's like to work with a new director almost every episode, and much more.

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It may be hard to assess the sheer scope of a festival with over 300 features on offer, but TIFF 2012 looks like a particularly exciting year, opening with Rian Johnson's Looper and continuing with new films by Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master), Brian De Palma (Passion), Terrence Malick (To The Wonder), Joss Whedon (Much Ado About Nothing), Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha), David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), Olivier Assayas (Something In The Air), Sally Potter (Ginger And Rosa), Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers), and many others.

The winning new teen romp Superbad was written by Evan Goldberg and Judd Apatow's protégé Seth Rogen, and directed by The Daytrippers» Greg Mottola, but it still feels like the concluding film in Apatow's trilogy of raunchy, big - hearted, improvisation - heavy comedies about man - children torn between the pleasures of eternal adolescence and the relentless pull of adult responsibility.

That is part of it, sure, as Zero Dark Thirty is worlds away from films like Point Break or K 19: The Widowmaker, but what sticks with you about this new film is Bigelow and Boal's obstinate refusal to give in to convention.

The film «Wakefield,» adapted from an E.L. Doctorow short story originally published in the New Yorker about a disgruntled family man's retreat into hermit - like introspection, has been lovingly traced over by writer - director Robin Swicord («The Jane...

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Garden State, an auspicious writing and directing debut from Braff (of TV's charming Scrubs), is about Largeman's return to his New Jersey hometown, and like Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, it's more about mood and moments than telling a single story (and like that film, it's about an actor feeling numb to the «real» world).

I'm guarded about this new thing of allies rushing to my defense against the likes of Doctor Strange and Ghost in the Shell when most of these same allies defended Cloud Atlas, a film so enthusiastically tone - deaf and offensive to Asians that I can't even begin to begin.

There's nothing new about Frances Ha; the plot's been done, the main character is a familiar type, and even Baumbach's use of black - and - white just makes Gerwig's New York look like a vintage Woody Allen finew about Frances Ha; the plot's been done, the main character is a familiar type, and even Baumbach's use of black - and - white just makes Gerwig's New York look like a vintage Woody Allen fiNew York look like a vintage Woody Allen film.

The film's wittier bits indicate Anna's sense of situational irony, like when she misleads a woman at Kate's party by giving her morbidly incorrect details about her sitcom's new season.

The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg makes magic in his new film Now You See Me but he certainly doesn't like to shout about it.

Weissman came along to do some research on his new film, about a murder that occurs on an estate like Gosford.

At a roundtable interview, DeWitt discussed her research for the role, how playing a real - life person informed her approach to the character, what it was like meeting the real Sue Webb, what she enjoyed most about working with Renner, what she learned about journalists and their determination to get to the truth of their story, her new film «Men, Women & Children» directed by Jason Reitman, and her upcoming projects: Joe Swanberg's «Digging for Fire,» Sam Raimi's remake of «Poltergeist» with Sam Rockwell, and a small part in the TV mini-series «Olive Kitteridge.»

The new film feels like a capstone, a summation of everything Diaz loves about and finds so profound in Dostoevsky, a transmutation of the writer's melodramatic genius into grist for his more distanced, more emotionally chilled films.

Rachel McAdams, who is known mostly from her roles in films like The Notebook and The Vow, is now in the final stages of signing to play in the new romantic comedy About Time.

«It's about bringing new characters to the screen... Black Widow couldn't be more important than as an Avenger herself and, like Hulk, The Avengers films will be the films where they play a primary role.»

While the 2016 - 2017 season didn't see any new show rise to Hamilton - like popularity — it's hard for any TV show, film or stage production to reach that level of pop culture zeitgeist — there are plenty of standout showcases of what fans have come to know and love about the New York City theater scenew show rise to Hamilton - like popularity — it's hard for any TV show, film or stage production to reach that level of pop culture zeitgeist — there are plenty of standout showcases of what fans have come to know and love about the New York City theater sceNew York City theater scene.

Variety Dan Hagerty (best known as «Grizzly Adams» from TV died this morning at 74 New Now Next Nico Tortorella gives you tips on how to maximize your Instagram account (of course if you look like Nico Tortorella you probably won't need any tips to get popular on Instagram Playbill the David Bowie scored musical Lazarus set to close this next week off broadway might get a second life The Guardian Mike Lee talks about what he's up to, his past film, his politics and his next project Peterloo (date TBA) about a Manchester massacre in 1819.

His new film sounds like a like a hot blast of Tarantino - type fun: a crime comedy about a getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) who finds himself in trouble when his heist goes wrong.

Like most films from the Asian market, however, «New World» is about 20 minutes longer than it needs to be, and as a result of its sluggish pacing, what could have been a superb movie is merely a good one.

Like did you know that Daniel Day - Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson are currently shooting a new film in London about the world of couture in the 1950s?

Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's new documentary «De Palma» features the legendary director talking about his five - decade long career in the film industry, directing such classics like «Dressed to Kill,» «Blow Out,» «The Untouchables,» and «Carlito's Way.»

He was in several ensemble films, like Executive Suite (also written about here) and It's a Big Country, and graciously played support to the newer talents such as Gregory Peck in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) and William Holden in The Bridges at Toko - Ri (1954).