guardian.co.uk Film:
Frank Borzage (1894-1962) was one of Hollywood's great romantics, a specialist in lyrical melodrama about love in adversity. But he was the son of an Austrian-born coalminer and his stories were set not in aristocratic circles, but in impoverished rural America or working-class Europe and invariably shot on stylised sets.Th (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
After the ill-judged scattershot "satire" of Borat (which hit far too many soft targets – ageing American feminists, for heaven's sake!) Sacha Baron Cohen raises his game somewhat with Brüno (2009, 18, Universal). Fired from his Eurotrash TV show Funkyzeit, the eponymous, gay Austrian fashionista goes west to become a "stra (Read More)
India Times:
Chennai’s cyber sleuths on Saturday arrested Will Heum, a 56-year-old Dutch man who ran an orphanage, for uploading child pornographic material on to the internet. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
The star of Emma reflects on love, marriage and why her two-year-old nephew is obsessed with cranes"Love is at the root of everything good that has ever happened and will happen." This phrase swam into focus as I moved up the escalator at Oxford Circus tube on Tuesday morning on my way to put myself "on tape" for a part in (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Calculation aims to take risk out of deciding whether follow-ups to cinema hits will be a sure thing, or a disastrous gambleEver wondered why Spider-Man 2 triumphed and Basic Instinct 2 bombed? Now a group of academics have come up with a mathematical formula to predict the fortunes of a film sequel.Hollywood has long known (Read More)
L.A. Times - Movie News:
Sebastian Gutierrez writes and directs the series of vignettes, which opens Friday. Over one eventful day in Los Angeles, a series of women -- including a newly pregnant porn star, an uptight businesswoman, a masseuse, an escort, a therap (Read More)
L.A. Times - Movie News:
Lollywood, a once-robust movie-making machine, has fallen victim to religious-based government policies, cable TV and DVD piracy. The Odeon Cinema's creaky, ripped red vinyl seats are mostly empty except for a couple of back rows where a (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
A judge in the Royal Courts of Justice must decide the fate of Baby RB, who has a rare genetic condition. His mother believes he should be allowed to die; his father disagreesIt is an unceremonious setting for a decision of life or death. Court 50 in the Royal Courts of Justice is a draughty, medium-sized room with wood-pan (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell. Read by Philip GlenisterCSA Word £16.16 6hrsThe year of Orwell's dystopia is now long past, but it's frightening to realise just how much of it has come true. The novel, with those dreadful child spies busy reporting their parents to the Thought Police, and Big Brother's telescreens, is gi (Read More)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
The cyber crime police on Saturday arrested Will Heum (56), a Dutch national living in Chennai, for uploading child pornographic materials on the internet. (Read More)
Times Online:
BRITAIN’s supermarket chains have launched the biggest discounting bonanza in years for this festive season, with toys, DVD boxed sets, Christmas decorations, clothes and electricals all on sale more than a month and a half before the big day. (Read More)
Gawker:
Joe Jackson: dick, obviously. That Slumdog Millionaire kid, the theory: huge wang. Levi Johnston: famously awaited dong. Jon Gosselin, dickfore. King Bloomberg? You tell me. Paula Abdul, Fergie, Josh Duhamel, Adam Duritz, DMX. Presenting your Dicktacular Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup. This is silly. Complete fucking shri (Read More)
NY Post:
Las Vegas, which hosts the Adult Video News Awards each year, can't have all the fun. New York is getting its own porn awards show courtesy of Gawker's sibling sex site, Fleshbot. The first Fleshbot Awards will be presented Wednesday at The Box. Levi... (Read More)
L.A. Times - Europe:
An unhappy teen seeking a way out of Ireland turns to illegally importing and selling porn magazines. "Turning Green," an amusing Irish coming-of-age comedy set in 1979, takes its title from the effect of chug-a-lug beer drinking upon 16- (Read More)