Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp are set to play Simone de Beauvoir and her lover Nelson Algren in My American Dream for director Lasse Hallström. (Coming Soon)

Spartacus: Blood and Sand lead actor Andy Whitfield has been diagnosed with early stages of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, putting a halt to production on the series. Whitfield's condition is ( Read more... )

A quiet Saturday. Supposed to be helping my father fix the garage door, but it was raining and, like a particularly house-bound cat, I'm loathe to go outside and get my paws dirty. Instead, I've been reading old reviews and commentary of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and in the process, came across this long essay titled "Making Women Warriors: a ( Read more... )

Some articles about the controversy surrounding Lust, Caution, which is now in cinemas in Australia.

Tang Wei, the star of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, has been banned from the Chinese media by authorities. Although no reason is given for the ban, the SARFT (China's media ministry and top censorship body) is in the process of tightening restrictions ( Read more... )

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Rewatching Lust, Caution, this time without the sound, for capping. Every time I see it, I fall in love with it a little more.

If poker is supposed to be the men's game of chance, then mahjong, Ang Lee seems to say, is women's.