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Over the course of its 11 years on television, Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise has consistently raised the bar when it comes to outrageous moments. Whether they’re flipping tables, pulling wigs or throwing legs, the 97 Housewives across all nine U.S. shows haven’t been afraid to expose their over-the-top behavior for the camera.

But while viewers may have thought they’d seen everything, what happened between Kandi Burruss and Porsha Williams on Sunday’s all-new Real Housewives of Atlanta might take the cake.

In a heated argument between the two, Burruss, 40, and Williams, 35, threw out major accusations about each...

The couple that slays together…

When it comes to Hollywood’s most stylish pairs, actress Gabrielle Union and her NBA star husband Dwyane Wade are fixtures at the top of the list. (They also happen to have a shoe vault in their house.) Now, People has learned exclusively that the two will soon be giving fans a chance to shop just like they do.

The pair, who tied the knot in August of 2014 and have been lighting up red carpets together ever since, have teamed up with online retailer Fancy.com to launch “D&G: A His and Hers Pop-Up...

World War, a solemn vow, and a promise betrayed lead to a ‘night of the living war dead’ – all cooked up by the director of Napoleon, Abel Gance. The early, famed pacifist fantasy is back in near-perfect condition and restored to its full length. It’s a reworking, not a remake, of Gance’s 1919 silent classic.

J’accuse

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Olive Films

1938 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 120 min. / That They May Live; J’accuse: Fresque tragique des temps modernes vue et Réalisée par Abel Gance / Street Date November 15, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98

Starring Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou, Jean-Max, Paul Amiot, Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcel Delaitre, Renée Devillers, Romuald Joubé, André Nox, Georges Rollin, Georges Saillard.

Cinematography Roger Hubert

Film Editor Madeleine Crétoile

Original Music Henri Verdun

Written by Abel Gance, Steve Passeur

Produced & Directed by Abel Gance

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Around 1973, UCLA film school professor Bob Epstein...

In the wake of calamity, “Designated Survivor” Tom Kirkman got sworn in as the unlikely President of the United States this Wednesday night. Does ABC’s new D.C.-set drama get your vote?

RelatedKiefer Sutherland’s New Designated Survivor Blends ‘West Wing, House of Cards, Homeland‘

Dez (as I am choosing to call it around the office) stars 24 alum Kiefer Sutherland as the aforementioned Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who was on the verge of being demoted to the Chairman of the International House of Pancakes (or the like) when the President and his entire Cabinet are...

The godfather of gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, will be hosting a marathon of his films at the International House Philadelphia on Sunday, August 21. “The H.G. Lewis Gore-a-Thon” will feature Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs, Color Me Blood Red, and The Gruesome Twosome, before closing out the night with 1967’s The Wizard Of Gore. All the films will be presented in glorious 35mm, the only way Exhumed Films knows how.

Blood Feast is generally credited as the first “gore film.” Lewis’s low-budget shlocker from 1963 was a response to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, which Lewis felt cheated the audience by showing the aftermath of murder, but ton the action. The director shot Blood Feast over four days in Miami with a budget of $24,000 and utilized real gore like the a sheep’s tongue used in a scene where a woman gets her tongue ripped ...

or, Savant picks The Most Impressive Discs of 2015

This is the actual view from Savant Central, looking due North.

What a year! I was able to take one very nice trip back East too see Washington D.C. for the first time, or at least as much as two days' walking in the hot sun and then cool rain would allow. Back home in Los Angeles, we've had a year of extreme drought -- my lawn is looking patriotically ratty -- and we're expecting something called El Niño, that's supposed to be just shy of Old-Testament build-me-an-ark intensity. We withstood heat waves like those in Day the Earth Caught Fire, and now we'll get the storms part. This has been a wild year for DVD Savant, which is still a little unsettled. DVDtalk has been very patient and generous, and so have Stuart Galbraith & Joe Dante; so far everything...

He's back and he's funnier than ever. The mischievous, cagey entertainer William Claude Dukenfield starred in some of the best comedies ever. This five-disc DVD set contains eighteen of his best, all the way from Million Dollar Legs in 1932 to Never Give a Sucker an Even Break in 1941. And we get to see all sides of W.C's talent -- he was a top-rank juggler, of just about anything. W.C. Fields Comedy Essentials Collection DVD Universal Studios Home Entertainment 1932-1941 / B&W / 1:37 Academy 1316 minutes (21 hours, 46 min) Street Date October 13, 2015 / 99.98 Starring Larson E. Whipsnade, T. Frothinghill Bellows, Egbert Sousé, Eustace P. McGargle, Harold Bissonette, Professor Quail, Augustus Winterbottom, Mr. Stubbins, Sam Bisbee, Ambrose Wolfinger, Cuthbert J. Twillie, Humpty-Dumpty. Written by Charles Bogle, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, Otis Criblecoblis

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

In the late 1960s there were these things called Head Shops, see, where various hippie consumer goods were sold.

Music and Sex: Scenes from a life - A novel in progress by Roman AkLeff (first installment can be read here; second here; third here; fourth here; fifth here).

[Warning: the chapter below contains "adult situations." Seriously, this one's not for the faint-hearted.]

Walter’s new home, Carman Hall, was an utterly soulless pile of cinder blocks. No effort at all had been made, during its design and construction two decades earlier, to build in anything conveying the slightest sense of warmth. No carpeting in either the halls or in the suites, no wood anywhere except the doors, no decorative touches, nothing but bare straight lines. One imagined it had been designed so it could be hosed down with minimum effort between school years to as to be literally as well as aesthetically antiseptic. There was not even any accommodation made for cooking; not only were there no kitchen nooks, even hotplates were forbidden (though, given that they were horrific fire hazards, that made sense,...

Exhumed Films 24 Hour Horror-Thon Part VIII – Design by Haunt Love

For years now, my good friend James Harris, proprietor of Doc Terror, has urged me to make the trip to Philly for Exhumed Films’ 24 Hour Horror-Thon. It sounded like an amazing time, but Philly is such a long drive for me that it never seemed reasonably possible. My wife and I discussed a way in which we could make it a trip for all of us. So, her and my son, along with her mother, came up and went on the Hershey tour, while I got my horror-thon on. With 4 people in the car, a ton of stops are going to be made. In total, it took us probably 13 and a half hours to make it to the hotel. I had only a few hours to sleep, before I would leave the hotel, en route to the Philly International House,...

At one point during Friday night’s conversation between directors Kahlil Joseph and Terence Nance, the latter said that seeing the former’s “Black Up,” which “portrays a fever dream induced by the music of Shabazz Palaces,” on a big screen, helped him to get a different read on the film than he’d had from watching on his laptop. This time, he noticed that the eyes of an actress, purportedly in a fugue state, were wide open. I too had a similar experience viewing “Until the Quiet Comes,” “The Model” Pts One and Two, “Wildcat,” and the aforementioned “Black Up” on the theatrical screen of the International House in Philadelphia, the Blackstar Film Festival’s screening venue....

50th Anniversary Release of “The Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night”

Dir. Richard Lester • U.K. 1964 • Black & White • 1.75:1 • 87 minutes

New 4K Restoration from the Original Camera Negative

New 5.1 Surround Mix Produced by Giles Martin

Opening in theaters on July 4, 2014 in almost 100 cities

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Courtesy of Janus Films

This is a Cheeky, Raucous, Irreverent film that will make most warm-blooded mammals laugh from the first scene, until the last! It is brilliant for a summer night out!

If you are a film or music fan, you most likely have already seen “A Hard Day’s Night” before, however, make a summertime date with the famous Fab Four, and see it again on the big screen, with the new restoration, at an art house cinema, and you really can’t go wrong.

It is necessary to give accolades to the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, because, “if it weren’t for Elvis, there would never have been any Beatles.” John Lennon had admitted, that from the moment he first learned about Elvis and saw all the attention that he was receiving, he wanted to be just like him.

So although, there is no denying that the Beatles changed music forever, it was really Elvis who was the King of their inspiration.

For those who have not seen “A Hard Day’s Night” before, the Beatles had already been a popular recording act, with several Top 20 hits in the U.K., when they arrived in NYC to perform on the Ed Sullivan show on February 7, 1964. A record breaking 73 million viewers tuned in, and the British invasion began.

One month later, across the pond, the film was in the works. The music lover and film producer, Walter Shenson, was brought on by United Artists. Shenson, who had previously worked with Director, Richard Lester, on “The Mouse on the Moon,” mentioned the gist of the project, and Richard jumped at the opportunity.

However, to receive the final green light, the film had to be true to the way the Beatles actually lived, and scriptwriter, Alun Owen, who wrote the television play, “No Trams to Lime Street,” which depicted Liverpool, was chosen.

The film begins with the song “A Hard Day’s Night” playing while the Fab Four are running through town trying to make it to the train station on time before their train departs. Once on board, they start a conversation with an older gentleman, who Paul comments, is his grandfather. John is cheekily trying to snort a Coke (Coca-Cola) bottle up his nose in the background, and a business man wants the train car his way demanding that the windows be closed shut. The laughs just continue from there on out, when the boys are flirting with girls, and the grandfather cunningly tells the young women that the boys are really prisoners. An acoustic version of “I Should Have Known Better” is being played on the train.

Film director, Richard Lester, “relied on improvisation rather than rehearsal, creating a freshness that was clear on-screen.” “Before we started, we knew that it would be unlikely that they could (a) learn, (b) remember, or (c) deliver with any accuracy a long speech. So the structure of the script had to be a series of one-liners,” Lester later stated, “This enabled me, in many of the scenes, to turn a camera on them and say a line to them, and they would say it back to me.”

The result, the bandmates play brilliant, clever, crafty, and smart-alicky versions of themselves.

Lester’s visual style mixed techniques from narrative films, documentary, the French New Wave, and live television to create something that felt, and was, spontaneous. “I have seen directors who write down a list of scenes for the day, and then sit back in a chair while everything is filmed according to plan. I can’t do that. I know that good films can be made this way, but it’s not for me. I have to react on the spot. There was very little structure that was planned except that we knew that we had to punctuate the film with a certain number of songs.”

Recorded at Emi Studios in Abbey Road, London, they cut “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “And I Love Her,” “I Should Have Known Better,” “Tell Me Why,” “If I Fell,” and “I’m Happy Just to Dance with You,” in only three days.

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Summer Screenings

Alabama

Montgomery – Capri Theatre

Alaska

Anchorage – Bear Tooth Cinema

Arizona

Tucson – The Loft Cinema

Arkansas

Little Rock – Colonel Glenn 18

British Columbia

Vancouver – Pacific Cinematheque

California

Bakersfield – Valley Plaza

Berkeley – Rialto Elmwood

Eureka – Eureka Theater

La Mesa – Grossmont Center

Los Angeles – Cinefamily

Malibu – The Malibu Film Society

Modesto – State Theater

Monterey – Osio Cinemas

Mountain View – Century Cinemas 16

Murrieta – Reading Cinemas Cal Oaks

Oxnard – Century RiverPark

Palm Springs – Camelot Theatres

Pasadena – Laemmle Playhouse 7

Sacramento – Tower Theater

San Diego – Gaslamp

San Francisco – Castro Theatre

San Luis Obispo – Palm Theatre

San Rafael – Smith Rafael Film Center

Santa Cruz – Del Mar Theatre

Colorado

Fort Collins – Lyric Cinema Cafe

Littleton – Alamo Drafthouse

Connecticut

Hartford – Cinestudio

Milford – Connecticut Post 14

Delaware

Wilmington – Theatre N

Florida

Coral Gables – Coral Gables Art Cinema

Jacksonville – Sun-Ray Cinema

Key West – Tropic Cinema

Maitland – Enzian Theatre

Tallahassee – Tallahassee Film Festival

Georgia

Athens – Ciné

Atlanta – Plaza Theater

Sandy Springs – LeFont Theaters

Hawaii

Honolulu – Kahala 8

Maui – Kaahumanu 6

Illinois

Champaign – The Art Theater

Chicago – Music Box Theater

Downer’s Grove – Tivoli at Downer’s Grove

Normal – Normal Theater

Peoria – Landmark Cinemas

Indiana

Fort Wayne – Cinema Center

Iowa

Des Moines – Fleur Cinema

Iowa City – FilmScene

Kansas

Lawrence – Liberty Hall

Kentucky

Lexington – Kentucky Theater

Louisville – Baxter 8

Louisiana

Baton Rouge – Cinemark Perkins Rowe

New Orleans – The Prytania Theatre

Maine

Waterville – Maine Film Festival

Maryland

Baltimore – The Senator

Hanover – Cinemark Egyptian 24

Massachusetts

Amherst – Amherst Cinema

Brookline – Coolidge Corner Theatre

Cape Cod – Cape Cinema

Danvers – Hollywood Hits

Gloucester – Cape Ann Community Cinema

Martha’s Vineyard – Martha’s Vineyard Film Center

Williamstown – Images Cinema

Michigan

Ann Arbor – Michigan Theater

City of Detroit Outdoor Screenings

Detroit – Cinema Detroit

Kalamazoo – Alamo Drafthouse

Manistee – The Vogue Theatre

Traverse City – State Theatre

Minnesota

Duluth – Zinema 2

Minneapolis – St. Anthony Main Theatre

Missouri

Columbia – Ragtag Cinema

Kansas City – Tivoli Cinemas

Springfield – Moxie Cinema

St. Louis – Chase Park Plaza

Montana

Missoula – The Roxy Theater

Nebraska

Kearney – The World Theatre

Lincoln – Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center

Omaha – Film Streams

Wayne – The Majestic

Nevada

Sparks – Century Sparks

New Hampshire

Concord – Red River Theatre

Wilton – Town Hall Theatre

New Jersey

Asbury Park – The ShowRoom

Manville – Reading Cinemas Manville

New Mexico

Albuquerque – The Guild Cinema

New York

Amherst – Screening Room Cinemas

Binghamton – The Art Mission & Theater

New York City – Film Forum

Pelham – The Picture House

Pleasantville – Jacob Burns Film Center

Rochester – George Eastman House

Rosendale – Rosendale Theatre

West Hampton – Performing Arts Center

North Carolina

Asheville – Carolina Cinemas

Cornelius – Studio C Cinema

Raleigh – Raleigh Grande

Winston-Salem – A/perture Cinema

Ohio

Akron – The Nightlight Cinema

Cleveland – Cleveland Museum of Art

Columbus – Wexner Center for the Arts

Dayton – The Neon

Toledo – Franklin Park 16

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City – Museum of Art

Tulsa – Circle Cinema

Ontario

Kingston – The Screening Room

Toronto – Cineplex Cinemas Yonge & Dundas

Waterloo – Princess Cinemas

Oregon

Portland – Hollywood Theater

Pennsylvania

Bethlehem – ArtsQuest

Bryn Mawr – Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Erie – Film at the Erie Art Museum

Lewisburg – Campus Theatre

Milford – Black Bear Film Festival

Philadelphia – International House

Phoenixville – The Colonial Theatre

Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh Filmmakers

Quebec

Montreal – Cinema Cineplex Forum

Rhode Island

Newport – Jane Pickens

Providence – Cable Car Cinema

South Carolina

Charleston – Terrace Theater

South Dakota

Sioux Falls – Century East at Dawley Farm

Tennessee

Memphis – indieMemphis

Nashville – Belcourt Theatre

Texas

Austin – Alamo Drafthouse

Dallas – Angelika Film Center

El Paso – Plaza Classic Film Festival

Fort Worth – Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Houston – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

New Braunfels – Alamo Marketplace

Plano – Angelika Plano

San Antonio – Alamo Westlake

Utah

Salt Lake City – Tower Cinema

Virginia

Ashburn – Alamo One Loudoun

Fairfax – Angelika Mosaic

Norfolk – Naro Cinema

Williamsburg – Kimball Theatre

Winchester – Alamo Drafthouse

Washington

Bellevue – Lincoln Square Cinemas

Bellingham – Pickford Film Center

Camas – Liberty Theater

Langley – The Clyde Theatre

Olympia – Capitol Theater

Port Townsend – Rose Theatre

Seattle – Siff Cinema

Tacoma – Grand Cinema

Spokane – Bing Crosby Cinema>

Vancouver – Kiggins Theatre

Washington, D.C.

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Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams' powerful and disturbing documentary God Love Uganda makes its American television premiere on the PBS documentary series Independent Lens on Monday May 19th.As Tambay said in his review of the film almost a year and half ago, it “casts a critical eye on the presence and growing influence of evangelical Christianity on the African continent (and) focuses on Uganda in particular, where local religious leaders fueled by Kansas’s International House of Prayer tirelessly work towards promoting legislation that could threaten the lives of Lgbt Ugandans."And he also said that it is an “emotionally overwhelming film. Exploring the intersection...

This Friday April 25th The Filadelfia celebrates its third annual edition with an impressive line up of the best of Latino film from Mexico to Chile to Colombia, The Us and even a film made with the youth of Philly. Opening night film will be the super 1943 classic ‘Maria Candelaria’ starring Dolores Del Rio. For those near the city of brotherly amor we’ve done ya homework and listed their films below!

Opening Night: Maria Candelaria (Mexico)

Starring Dolores del Rio and Pedro Armendáriz, Maria Candelaria was the first Mexican film to be screened at the Cannes International Film Festival, and the first Latin American film awarded the Gran Prix. Gabriel Figueroa, the film’s cinematographer, was nominated for an Academy Award for The Night of the Iguana, and is often referred to as “the Fourth Muralist” of Mexico.

A young journalist presses an old artist (Alberto Galán ) to show a portrait of a naked indigenous woman that he has in his study. The body of the movie is a flashback to Xochimilco, Mexico, in 1909. The film is set right before the Mexican Revolution, and Xochimilco is an area with beautiful landscapes inhabited mostly by indigenous people.

The woman in the painting is María Candelaria (Dolores del Rio), a young Indian woman who is constantly rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She and her lover, Lorenzo Rafael (Pedro Armendariz), face constant struggles throughout the film. They are honest and hardworking, yet nothing ever goes right for them. Don Damian (Miguel Inclán), a jealous Mestizo store owner who wants María for himself, prevents them from getting married. He kills a piglet that María and Lorenzo plan to sell for profit and he refuses to buy vegetables from them. When María falls ill with malaria, Don Damian refuses to give the couple the quinine medicine necessary to fight the disease. Lorenzo breaks into his shop to steal the medicine, and he also takes a wedding dress for María. Lorenzo goes to prison for stealing, and María agrees to model for the painter to pay for his release. The artist begins painting a portrait of María, but when he asks her to pose nude she refuses.

The artist finishes the painting with the nude body of another woman. When the people of Xochimilco see the painting, they assume it is María Candelaria and stone her to death.Finally, Lorenzo escapes from prison )to carry María's lifeless body through Xochimilco's canal of the dead.

Bad Hair/Pelo Malo (Venezuela)

The third film from the filmmaker and plastic artist Mariana Rondón, Pelo Malo stars Junior, a 9 year-old with "bad hair". He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This puts him at odds with his mother Marta. The more Junior tries to look sharp and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him, until he is cornered, face to face with a painful decision.

To Kill A Man/Matar A Un Hombre (Chile)

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A thriller about a hardworking family man Jorge who is just barely making ends meet. When he gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront Kalule, only to get himself shot in the process. Sentenced to a scant 2 years in prison for the offense, Kalule, released and now intent on revenge, goes on the warpath, terrorizing Jorge's family. With his wife, son and daughter at the mercy of a thug, Jorge has no choice but to take justice into his own hands, and live with the emotional and psychological consequences.

Lines of class and masculinity ignite friction in this rugged thriller, adeptly shot with a discerning eye. Director Alejandro Fernández Almendras elevates raw grit to a new level with a tone that is both elemental and prophetic. Rife with unnerving tension, To Kill a Man is ultimately a surprising exploration of the heavy burden of what it takes to do what the title suggests.

Anina (Colombia)

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Anina Yatay Salas is a ten-year-old girl. All her names form palindromes, making her the butt of her classmates’ jokes, and especially of Yisel’s, who Anina sees as an “elephant.” One day, fed up with all the taunting, Anina starts a fight with Yisel during recess. The incident ends with the principal penalizing the girls and calling their parents.Anina receives her punishment inside a sealed black envelope, which she is told not to open until she meets with the principal again a week later.She is also forbidden to tell anyone about the envelope. Her classmates pressure her to find out what the punishment will be, while they imagine cruel physical torture.

Anina, in her anxiousness to find out what horrible punishment awaits her in the mysterious black envelope, will get mixed up in a series of troubles, involving secret loves, confessed hatreds, close friendships, dreadful enemies, some loving teachers, and also some evil teachers.Without her realizing it, Anina’s efforts to understand the content of the envelope turn into an attempt to understand the world and her place in it.

The Devil’S Music (USA)

When the new sound of jazz first spread across America in the early twentieth-century, it left delight – and controversy – in its wake.As jazz's popularity grew, so did campaigns to censor "the devil's music." This documentary classic has been hailed by the New York Times as a documentary that "addressing the complex interaction of race and class… engages viewers in a conversation as vigorous as the art it chronicles,” featuring timeless performances by artists such as Louis Armstrong and vocalist Rachelle Ferrelle, plus interviews with giants of social and musical criticism such as Albert Murray, Marian MacPartland, Studs Terkel, and Michael Eric Dyson. The Devil's Music is Written, Produced and Directed by Maria Agui Carter and Calvin A. Lindsay Jr., and Narrated by Dion Graham.

I, Undocumented/Yo, Indocumentada (Venezuela)

Yo Indocumentada (I, Undocumented) , exposes the struggles of transgender people in Venezuela. The film, Andrea Baranenko’s first feature-length production, tells the story of three Venezuelan women fighting for their right to have an identity.

Tamara Adrián, 58, is a lawyer; Desirée Pérez, 46, is a hairdresser; and Victoria González, 27, has been a visual arts student since 2009. These women share more than their nationality: they all carry identifications with masculine names that do not correspond to their actual identities. They are transgender women, who long ago assumed their gender and now defend it in a homophobic and transphobic society.

The House That Jack Built (USA )

Jack Maldonado is an ambitious Latino man who fueled by misguided nostalgia, buys a small apartment building in the Bronx and moves his family into the apartments to live rent-free. His parents, Carlos and Martha, sister Nadia, brother Richie and his wife Rosa, Grandmother/Abuela and cousins Hector and Manny, all under one roof. Tension builds quickly as Jack imposes his views on everyone around him, including his fiancée, Lily. All the while, he hides the fact that his corner store is a front for selling marijuana but soon has to deal with new unwanted competitive forces. It's only a matter of time before Jack's family and 'business' lives collide in tragic fashion.

Aqui Y Alla Crossing Borders (USA)

The “Aquí y Allá’ transnational public art project explored the impact of immigration in the lives of Mexican immigrant youth in Philadelphia in connection with youth in Chihuahua, Mexico. The documentary highlights the testimonials of the youth on both sides of the border working towards the creation of a collaborative mural in South Philadelphia.

Cesar’S Last Fast (USA)

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In 1988, Cesar Chavez embarked on what would be his last act of protest in his remarkable life. Driven in part to pay penance for feeling he had not done enough, Chavez began his “Fast for Life,” a 36-day water-only hunger strike, to draw attention to the horrific effects of unfettered pesticide use on farm workers, their families, and their communities.

Using never-before-seen footage of Chavez during his fast and testimony from those closest to him, directors Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee weave together the larger story of Chavez’s life, vision, and legacy. A deeply religious man, Chavez’s moral clarity in organizing and standing with farm workers at risk of his own life humbled his family, friends, and the world. Cesar’s Last Fast is a moving and definitive portrait of the leader of a people who became an American icon of struggle and freedom.

La Camioneta (Guantemala)

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. La Camioneta follows one such bus on its transformative journey: a journey between North and South, between life and death, and through an unfolding collection of moments, people, and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected worlds in which we live.

Forbidden Lovers Meant To Be (USA)

Working with talented high school students from North Philadelphia at Taller Puertorriqueño’s Youth Artist Program, filmmakers Joanna Siegel, Melissa Beatriz Skolnick, and Kate Zambon sought to capture the personal and artistic journeys of the youth through film. While facilitating collaborative film workshops with the students, themes of race/ethnicity, cultures, language, and identity emerged. Throughout this process of engaging in story development and visual representation, the students created a video of their own, while the filmmakers documented the process using metafilm techniques. The students' short film, Forbidden Lovers Meant to Be, highlights the talent and creativity of these youth. Forbidden Lovers Meant to Be was created by the spring 2012 Youth Artist Program participants: Amy Lee Flores, Ricardo Lopez, Michael Mendez, Zayris Rivera, Tashyra Suarez, Nestor Tamayo, Yoeni Torres, Karina Ureña Vargas, and Kara Williams. (Amy Lee Flores, Ricardo Lopez, Michael Mendez)

Tire Die (Argentina)

The first film of the first Latin American documentary film school (The Escuela Documental de Santa Fe), this documentary focuses on the children in the neighborhood known as Tire Dié in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina, who wait daily for the passing train to ask for money from the passengers, shouting “Tire dié!” (Toss me a dime!).

Dubbed as the father of the New Latin American Cinema, Fernando Birriwas one of the first filmmakers to document poverty and underdevelopment. Tire Dié was part of the exhibition, Latin American Visions, produced by International House, 1989-1991.

The Illiterates/Las Analfabetas (Chile)

Ximena, played by the incomparable Paulina García (Gloria) is an illiterate woman in her fifties, who has learned to live on her own to keep her illiteracy a secret. Jackeline, is a young unemployed elementary school teacher, who tries to convince Ximena to take reading classes. Persuading her proves to be an almost impossible task, till one day, Jackeline finds something Ximena has been keeping as her only treasure since she was a child: a letter Ximena’s father left when he abandoned her many years before. Thus, the two women embark on a learning journey where they discover that there are many ways of being illiterate, and that not knowing how to read is just one of them.

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Written by Juan Caceres . LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow [At]LatinoBuzz on Twitter and Facebook...

Everybody loves movie outtakes and bloopers. Maybe it’s because they humanize the stars we’ve chosen to exalt, painting them in a light where they’re really no different from us. On the other hand, maybe it’s just because they’re funny. Either way, “gag reels” are a staple of DVD and Blu-Ray releases, and are likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future.

Here we’ve scoured hours of footage online to find thirty of the absolute funniest blunders, jokes, and plain old crack-ups in filming history. Sure, they caused the director to yell for another take (or maybe even break from filming for the day), but they were still entertaining enough to commit to immortality. They’ll live on as long as the films we’ve loved and lamented.

As always, the “comments” space is there for you. Think we missed something, or gave a...

Review Ron Hogan 5 Mar 2014 - 07:15

The Following's staggeringly weird universe welcomes more craziness and cults this week. Here's Ron's review...

This review contains spoilers.

2.7 Sacrifice

When you watch a lot of television like I've done, you get to know a lot of “that guy” actors and actresses who keep popping up on stuff to your surprise. They're people you kind of recognise from other stuff, but not enough to know who they are at first glance. This week's episode of The Following ends up being a who's who of the who's that set, with guest turns from a surprising amount of identifiable character actors playing a variety of horrible people who are popping up to make Ryan Hardy's life miserable.

Did you think that two separate cults were hard to follow? Lily on one hand, Joe on the other, Ryan Hardy on some mythical third hand, and lots...

Earlier this week, a law was signed by the president of Uganda that makes homosexuality an offense punishable with life imprisonment. While this legislation is being called reprehensible by human rights advocates around the world, many Ugandan politicians and citizens stand adamantly by it, holding fast to Christian-based beliefs that God-approved, male-female relationships are right and everything else is wrong.

How did such an anti-gay climate -- one that often results in acts of violence committed against both open and suspected homosexuals and their allies -- come about in this small East African nation in the first place? This is the complex and important question that God Loves Uganda attempts to answer.

Director Roger Ross Williams interviews several observers and activists from both sides of Uganda’s culture wars but largely focuses on the efforts and effects of missionary workers from Kansas City. Part of a megachurch operation known as...

Review Ron Hogan 26 Feb 2014 - 07:18

Is The Following currently the most violent, bloody show on television? This week's episode suggests so...

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2.6 Fly Away

If I had to make a bet, I would say that on The Following there will not be an unperforated torso by the end of the season. Ryan is nursing a gunshot wound, and yet despite that, he still manages to gut someone with a fold-out tactical knife. Several of Lily's “International House of Psychos” family members get their torsos mangled this week, some courtesy of Joe, some courtesy of Ryan, and some courtesy of Mike (who was stabbed in the first season, checking him off the gut wound list). You've got so many knives and guns and surprisingly sharp fireplace pokers getting rammed into people or waved at people in a threatening manner that it's kind of difficult to keep track,...

Jeymes Samuel's star studded 51-minute film based on the true lives of African American cowboys is headed to Philadelphia.  Regular readers of this site will be acquainted with the project, which premiered at film festivals in 2013. We're still awaiting word on an official release, but in the mean time Philly residents can see it tomorrow night.  Reelblack will present They Die By Dawn on Tuesday, February 25 at International House. Also on the bill are short films Nostalgia by Johnnie Hobbs III and Underground Kings by Skye Dennis. Starring Giancarlo Esposito, Michael K Williams, Jesse Williams, Erykah Badu, Nate Parker, Bokeem...

Usually customers go to Ihop for delicious pancakes, but one paparazzo claims he got a knuckle sandwich instead, courtesy of Justin Bieber's security.

According to a TMZ report, a shutterbug is accusing the “Baby” singer’s hired muscle of roughing him up at a Los Angeles International House of Pancakes restaurant during a fracas on Wednesday night (December 18).

The complainant says he tried to snap a few shots of Bieber having his meal when the bodyguard approached him and caused significant injuries to his person.

This new incident is on the heels of another similar situation that happened last month in Hawaii, as well a now-disproven claim that Justin’s security threw a man down a flight of stairs in Australia.

Is it “fish and shrimp” or “fish and shrimps”? That’s the question bedeviling Conan O’Brien as the late night host auditions for a role as International House of Pancakes pitchman. In a segment on Wednesday’s “Conan,” the comic gets a crash course on the intricacies of auditioning for television commercials. Also read: Will Forte’s Ted Turner Says Conan Is Destroying TBS (Video) From developing the motivation for a burger loving character (he’s recently come out as gay!) to acting out a car commercial set in the midst of a Hurricane Katrina-like rain, O’Brien quickly...

This history of Africa is unfortunately one that has seen exploitation of its people, land and resources. Though it contains a wonderful diversity of people and culture, even to this day, the riches it contains that can be monetized are targets for outside influence. But what Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams presents in his documentary "God Loves Uganda" is a unique, disturbing case of what could arguably be called spiritual exploitation. A country still finding its footing after decades of dictatorial and military rule, and continuing to try and embrace democracy even as corruption runs rampant, Uganda is fertile ground for anyone hoping to influence a vulnerable public. Enter, the International House Of Prayer aka Ihop, yes, just like the restaurant chain, though by the end you'll wish they just served pancakes. Led by Lou Engle, a self-confessed former porn addict who found God and never looked back, this is a highly successful,...

In God Loves Uganda documentarian Roger Ross Williams casts a critical eye on the presence and growing influence of evangelical Christianity on the African continent. The film focuses on Uganda in particular, where local religious leaders fueled by Kansas’s International House of Prayer tirelessly work towards promoting legislation that could threaten the lives of Lgbt Ugandans. The film clearly has a message, but it doesn’t do much in the way of editorializing. With no traps or tricks, the House of Prayer members and their Ugandan counterparts freely and righteously share their hateful views about homosexuality and sexuality in general - in a country hit hard by HIV, the group also...

Can it be true that the apple-cheeked Midwestern evangelicals who send their money, their teenagers, and their last-century sexual mores to Uganda genuinely see no link between their fervently anti-gay, anti-condom preaching and that country's movement to make homosexuality not just illegal but punishable by death? The toothsome young Pentecostals in Roger Ross Williams's involving, upsetting God Loves Uganda claim not to, and as does their earthly leader, Lou Engle, of Kansas City's International House of Prayer, one of those megachurches that looks like a series of rec rooms laid out in a Nordstrom. Engle, too, insists that Ihop's mission and its grandiose satellite church are merely coincidental with the Ugandan Parliament's "Kill the Gays" bill, introduced in that count...

A while ago, I had the pleasure of speaking to filmmaker Tanya Wright about her feature film debut, Butterfly Rising, which screens this Friday, Aug. 2, as part of the 2013 BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia. Butterfly Rising will screen at 12:50Pm at International House Philadelphia.  S&A's Vanessa provided additional details on the festival Here. Wright's film (which she describes as "Thelma + Louise + Magic") is a drama that centers on singer Lilah Belle, who sets out to escape her grief after her brother dies, and embarks on a road trip, but not before coaxing the new-to-town, most scandalous woman in Artesia - Rose Johnson - to go with her. These...

The Main Event and Nxt this week showed a very European flavor with double duty from Antonio Césaro. The former Us champion showed why, despite popular opinion, he is not boring. Hopefully his future will change soon enough. And he will be at the level that we all know he deserves. A card-carrying example of this was this week’s Main Event featured contest as Antonio versus Sheamus.

The match between the two men was a smash mouth back-and-forth contest. There was a segment in which Antonio hit a European uppercut as Sheamus was coming off the top rope with a shoulder block, which was a thing of beauty. The Celtic warrior was definitely trying to get the very bare-bones Cesaro over to management. But I think the office just sees him as that mechanic that can work with anybody. Nothing more. Nothing less. As sad as that is to say.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams’ feature documentary debut God Loves Uganda is the most infuriating and sinister documentary in recent memory. If it’s difficult to take Kansas City’s International House of Prayer seriously on the basis of their acronym (Ihop) alone, the whole enterprise stops being funny once Williams makes it clear quite how predatory their mission of indoctrination in Uganda is.

Exploiting the country’s physical wounds and spiritual void in the wake of Idi Amin’s deposition, Ihop has poured countless millions of dollars into making the country a “better” place, though this channel of aid is a conditional one that comes with an ideological price-tag.

If the church’s mission to ferry young, healthy American evangelists into Uganda to preach the word of God seems noble enough, the darker heart of the matter soon enough becomes apparent. Ihop have recognised in Uganda a cultural niche,...

In God Loves Uganda documentarian Roger Ross Williams casts a critical eye on the presence and growing influence of evangelical Christianity on the African continent. The film focuses on Uganda in particular, where local religious leaders fueled by Kansas’s International House of Prayer tirelessly work towards promoting legislation that could threaten the lives of Lgbt Ugandans. The film clearly has a message, but it doesn’t do much in the way of editorializing. With no traps or tricks, the House of Prayer members and their Ugandan counterparts freely and righteously share their hateful views about homosexulity and sexuality in general - in a country hit hard by HIV, the...

Demi Lovato took a page out of Britney Spears' down-home playbook, and spent Christmas day stuffing her face in an unexpected, but awesome, place -- the International House of Pancakes!Demi hit up an Ihop in Texas with her family for dinner on Tuesday, and the 'X Factor' judge's ruling was -- Awesome!  She tweeted ... "Literally the best Christmas I've ever had."The only person more excited than Demi about the meal...

Amazon has released their early Black Friday Deals Week schedule beginning Monday, November 19 and running through Monday, November 26 and I have added the entire list in its state below and will be updating as more and more titles are added it to it and considering the limited number of Blu-ray titles included I have to assume this thing is going to get beefed up. There are some notable titles beginning with the Gold Box Deal on Saturday, November 24 where the Blu-ray edition of the recently released amazon asin="B006U1J5ZY" text="Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection" will be on sale. The price has not yet been announced, but as of right now it sits at $149.99 and I wouldn't be surprised if it drops under $100 on that day so stay tuned. Additional titles on sale throughout the eight day sale include X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: The Last Stand,...

The Exhumed Films 24-Hour Horrorthon has taken place for the past five years over Halloween weekend. It’s an entire day of horror movie mayhem, which breaks down to roughly 14 movies and seven blocks of trailers.

If you live in Philly, or really any place other than Los Angeles, you know that 24 hours of horror movies, projected on 16mm or 35mm film, is a rare and beautiful thing. On the morning of the thon fans stocked with provisions (mostly of the cheesy variety), sleeping bags—tents were outlawed a few years back—and dressed in various forms of comfy pant attire and obscure horror t-shirts, line up hours before doors open in hope of getting good seats.

While they are waiting in line, attendees are presented with a program that hints at the movies to be shown; Exhumed never tells what they are showing before the event. The clues, quite frankly,...

Universal Pictures and Bad Robot Productions (or the International House of Jj Abrams) are working together to produce Earthquake, a biggie disaster film written by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black (Milk). According to Deadline, it is not a remake of the Heston film Earthquake.

The film has been in limbo for awhile, with The Omen’s David Seltzer originally tabbed to write. The film and subject matter will have a lot of competition, with New Line Cinema producing an earthquake film with Carlton Cuse, ironically a Bad Robot alum, attached to write. It may or may not be called San Andreas 3D. WB also has plans to bring Brad Bird’s 1906 into reality, described as a period earthquake project. Sounds like disaster films are about to be in vogue.

2012 has been a big year for Justin Bieber -- he turned 18, bought a multimillion dollar home, and he graduated from high school.

Though the pop star earned his degree on the road with the help of tutors, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres wanted to make sure his educational accomplishments were properly celebrated. On Wednesday, DeGeneres surprised Bieber with a graduation ceremony in front of her entire audience, which included Bieber's mother and managers.

After handing him the traditional graduation robe, Ellen noted that she knows how important his hair is to him, and so she had a special cap created that hovered above his head and thus wouldn't interfere with his famous tresses.

Ellen gave a joke-filled speech before handing Bieber his diploma:

"We're here to honor the accomplishments of the Biebs, a great American who happens to be from Canada. Justin, you finally made it, you're graduating and I'm so proud of you,...

2012 has been a big year for Justin Bieber -- he turned 18, bought a multimillion dollar home, and he graduated from high school.

Though the pop star earned his degree on the road with the help of tutors, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres wanted to make sure his educational accomplishments were properly celebrated. On Wednesday, DeGeneres surprised Bieber with a graduation ceremony in front of her entire audience, which included Bieber's mother and managers.

After handing him the traditional graduation robe, Ellen noted that she knows how important his hair is to him, and so she had a special cap created that hovered above his head and thus wouldn't interfere with his famous tresses.

Ellen gave a joke-filled speech before handing Bieber his diploma:

"We're here to honor the accomplishments of the Biebs, a great American who happens to be from Canada. Justin, you finally made it, you're graduating and I'm so proud of you,...

At this Los Angeles film festival, movie buffs wallow unashamedly in nostalgia and the golden era of Hollywood, and get to meet the odd star of the classic films being screened

Hollywood Boulevard was closed to traffic and the crowds were gathering outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre to spot the stars – Peter O'Toole, Tippi Hedren and Mickey Rooney among them – as they walked the red carpet and filed past hundreds of famous foot and handprints for the premiere of Gene Kelly's 1951 film, An American in Paris. Fans cheer and cameras flash.

At the TCM Classic Film Festival stars from yesteryear rub shoulders with paying guests who made their way past the pair of giant Chinese Ming Heavens dogs guarding the main entrance of the 85-year-old picture palace.

Home to the biggest film premieres in Hollywood since 1927, the theatre interior rises 90 feet to a bronze roof, two coral red columns sitting...

New York, Mar 3: A 98-year-old Us man and his 95-year-old girlfriend have set a new record as the oldest couple to marry.

Neither Allan Marks nor Lillian Hartley dressed up to tie the knot at a California county clerk's office, but both were beaming when they sealed their vows with a kiss.

"I love you," Marks told his bride as they embraced.

Hartley could be heard responding in kind, but it's not clear if her new husband could because he has difficulty with hearing.

After the two-minute ceremony and a quick wedding lunch at a nearby International House of Pancakes, the newlyweds returned to their Palm Springs condo where the new bride helped her groom adjust his hearing aid, the New York Daily News reported.

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Like many of you, I've always had a bit of an obsession with pop culture and celebrities. Growing up in the New York area, I was always going to concerts and signings in an attempt to get up close and personal with some of my favorites.

About two years ago, I turned the fascination into a full-time hobby … and have since met more celebrities than I can even remember — Robert Pattinson, Emma Watson, Carey Mulligan and George Clooney among them. Now, the fine folks at NextMovie have tasked me, Professional Fan Girl, with recounting my run-ins with movie stars and sharing my adventures at premieres, awards shows, etc. with you.

I didn't waste any time getting my meet-and-greet on. Today's special: "Twilight" starlet Ashley Greene as she filmed a guest appearance on ABC Television's "Pan Am" in Manhattan today.

So how does a girl celebrate her latest film bringing in an estimated $500 million worldwide?...

Coming out of this year's Sundance Film Festival, one of the stories people seemed most eager to tell was how they cried their little hearts out [1] after seeing Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey. The documentary, directed by Constance Marks, is about Kevin Clash, the man behind the famous Sesame Street character Elmo. It simultaneously tells the tale of how he was [2] able to turn his unique dream - to be a puppeteer - into reality while also chronicling the rise of Jim Henson and the Muppets. It was Peter's favorite film [3] at Sundance this year and now it's finally being released. Being Elmo will open in New York on October 21 and then begin expanding on November 4. After the jump, see what date it's coming to your city and watch a video blog reaction to the film. Here's a video blog that Peter and David recorded after seeing Being Elmo at...

An evangelical Christian leader has caused outrage after he branded talk show host Oprah Winfrey as “the Antichrist”.Mike Bickle, 55, who is head of the International House of Prayer (Ihop), made the controversial statement in a film, which was released earlier this week by People for the American Way Right Wing Watch and aired on God TV.“I believe that one of the main pastors, as a forerunner to the Harlot movement, it’s not the Harlot movement yet, is Oprah,” the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.“She is winsome, she is kind, she is reasonable, she is utterly deceived, utterly deceived."“A ...

An evangelical Christian leader has caused outrage after he branded talk show host Oprah Winfrey as “the Antichrist”.Mike Bickle, 55, who is head of the International House of Prayer (Ihop), made the controversial statement in a film, which was released earlier this week by People for the American Way Right Wing Watch and aired on God TV.“I believe that one of the main pastors, as a forerunner to the Harlot movement, it’s not the Harlot movement yet, is Oprah,” the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.“She is winsome, she is kind, she is reasonable, she is utterly deceived, utterly deceived."“A ...

An evangelical Christian leader has caused outrage after he branded talk show host Oprah Winfrey as “the Antichrist”.Mike Bickle, 55, who is head of the International House of Prayer (Ihop), made the controversial statement in a film, which was released earlier this week by People for the American Way Right Wing Watch and aired on God TV.“I believe that one of the main pastors, as a forerunner to the Harlot movement, it’s not the Harlot movement yet, is Oprah,” the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.“She is winsome, she is kind, she is reasonable, she is utterly deceived, utterly deceived."“A ...

An evangelical Christian leader has caused outrage after he branded talk show host Oprah Winfrey as “the Antichrist”.Mike Bickle, 55, who is head of the International House of Prayer (Ihop), made the controversial statement in a film, which was released earlier this week by People for the American Way Right Wing Watch and aired on God TV.“I believe that one of the main pastors, as a forerunner to the Harlot movement, it’s not the Harlot movement yet, is Oprah,” the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.“She is winsome, she is kind, she is reasonable, she is utterly deceived, utterly deceived."“A ...

"A downbeat homage to bright-lights showbiz dramas, an epic orchestration that indulges in stubbornly obsessive riffs, Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) seems to value awkwardness and indecision above all else," writes Dan Callahan for Alt Screen, and much of what follows is pretty rough medicine for those of us who love this film. "Coming off the success of Taxi Driver (1976), Scorsese secured a big budget and MGM sound stages for what was meant to be his tribute to and deconstruction of classic Hollywood musicals, but the tribute got lost somewhere in the deconstruction." The movie "plays out like some errant crossbreeding of Charles Vidor's Love Me or Leave Me (1955) and John Cassavetes's Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)."

It's screening as part of Hollywood Musicals of the 1970s and 1980s, Part 1: The 1970s, a series opening tomorrow at Anthology Film Archives and running through June 26. In his overview for the L,...

"Fifty years ago this July," begins Michael Fox in the Sf Weekly, "Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand set up a sheet in their backyard in the California town of Canyon to project avant-garde films. This low-key, lo-fi setup, fortified with red wine, became a weekly bastion for filmmakers as well as their associates, friends, and lovers. Baillie and Strand went on (separately) to make landmark experimental films while shepherding their small artistic and social scene into incarnations that continue to thrive today: San Francisco Cinematheque (exhibition) and Canyon Cinema (distribution). The second annual Crossroads Festival launches tonight with Radical Light: Cinematheque at 50, part of a program honoring the Bay Area’s broad, important, and entertaining history of avant-garde filmmaking."

"Opening night includes at least one city symphony (Timoleon Wilkins' Chinatown Sketch), a form expanded upon in several subsequent Crossroads shows," notes Max Goldberg in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "Jeanne...

The exhibition More Than That: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson opens today at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and will be on view through September 18. Artforum is rerunning Ed Halter's piece on Everson from its May 2010 issue for the occasion: "For more than a decade, working in numerous film and video formats, Everson has presented images of the lives of African Americans — and other people of African heritage, worldwide — through his own distinctive practice of cinematic portraiture, a blend of fiction and documentary that analyzes minute aspects of individual personality by homing in on everyday gestures of labor and leisure. Whether shot from real life, rediscovered in archival images, or performed according to Everson's direction, these gestures subsist as parallels and cognates for artmaking. His films suggest not records of reality but, rather, recordings of performance."

"The lineup for the third annual BAMcinemaFest, just announced today,...

In 1992, International House produced the inaugural Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (Pfwc). Tla Entertainment took over the management duties of Pfwc in 2001; in 2003, the festival was renamed the Philadelphia Film Festival. Late in 2008, the Philadelphia Cinema Alliance was formed and they produced the 2009 Philadelphia Film Festival/CineFest. There was no CineFest in 2010, but going forward, The Alliance will present Philadelphia CineFest every April and Philadelphia QFest (the long-running Lgbt film festival) in July; while the Philadelphia Film Society will present the Philadelphia Film Festival every October. After their hiatis in 2010, CineFest is back to feed the film festival hungry people of the City of Brotherly Love from April 7th through April 14th. Boasting over 60 feature films, CineFest 2011 will feature U.S. and World premieres as well as selections representing the crème de la crème of major festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Cannes. Closing out the 8-day festival is the...

A Sacramento news team was attacked by angry mourners Sunday after they refused to leave a memorial for a murder victim. Reporter John Lobertini and camera operator Rebecca Little of Fox 40 News were set upon at a memorial for shooting victim Chester Jackson, 27. Mourners had asked them to back away. The memorial took place outside of an International House of Pancakes where the shooting took place. As captured on video, Little was forced to the ground and Lobertini was pushed away. Little said she was kicked while on the ground, but...

Always good to get back in the groove after break. Here’s what’s happened:

Episode Guides:

Fantasy Colbert League Weekly Episode 7001 – Guest Ed Rendell Episode 7002 – Guest Geoffrey Canada Episode 7003 – Guest Atul Gawande Episode 7004 – Guest Ronald DePinho

No Fact Zone features:

Eye Candy: John Legend backstage at the ‘Colbert Report’ The No Fact Zone State of the Union address for 2011

Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist:

Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist – The Best of 2010, part 1 Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist – The Best of 2010, part 2 Update to Stephen Colbert/Evelyn McGee-Colbert Luna Stage performance Fan Art: Stephen Colbert tattoos

Klassic Kolbert:

Video: Stephen Colbert performs “Raven” from ‘Wigfield’ International House of Stephen (12/28/2010)

Six Degrees:

Eric Drysdale’s “The Man With F.E.E.E.T.” Contest!

To keep up with the latest news about Stephen Colbert and “The Colbert Report”, please subscribe to the RSS feed, via reader,...

Even though the show was dark this week, plenty of bustle here at No Fact Zone. I hesitated putting O’Reilly under “mainstream media” but didn’t want to give him his own special Ebeneezer Scrooge section. Happy New Year, Zoners!

Mainstream Media:

Papa Bear responds to Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert’s white jumpsuit makes the cover of Newsweek

No Fact Zone features:

Daily Show Toss Recap Fangirl Suit Report meTunes! 12/6-12/9 meTunes! 12/13-12/14 Four Horsemen of the Apopcalypse

Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist:

Video: Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell rehearse the infamous “Maya Angelou” sketch Fan Art: Colgirl Magazine

Klassic Kolbert:

International House of Stephen (12/20/2010) International House of Stephen (12/21/2010) International House of Stephen (12/22/2010) International House of Stephen (12/23/2010) For those who have not yet made skipping past goat sodomy a holiday tradition

Colbert Nation News:

“Global Edition” episodes of the ‘Colbert Report’ and ‘Daily Show’ showing in Nz on January...

After being spotted arm-in-arm with Justin Bieber at an International House of Pancakes in Philadelphia on Thursday, Selena Gomez is setting the record straight about her so-called "date" with The Biebs. Things just don't stack up, she says.

"It was pancakes!" the Disney star told "Extra" at Sunday's Hollywood Style Awards. Selena assured us that the two were just having a friendly breakfast and are not dating. Eggsactly.

While at the awards show, "Extra" spotted Selena's good friend,...

Selena Gomez confirms she and Justin Bieber are just friends. Breaking her silence over speculations she is romancing the Canadian pop sensation, who was recently snapped holding hands with her while enjoying pancakes in Philadelphia's International House of Pancakes, the Alex Russo of "Wizards of Waverly Place" insists that their latest togetherness was "all innocent".

Met at the Z100 Jingle Ball 2010 in New York on Friday, December 10, where she and the "Baby" hitmaker both hit the stage, the 18-year-old told MTV News, "It was pancakes. Who doesn't like pancakes?" She continued to stress that the December 8 outing was not a date. "We were both performing in the same place so we went and had pancakes together. That's all it is. All innocent."

The Disney songstress has been linked romantically to the "U Smile" singer since they were spotted going out together on a couple of outings. Back in November, the...