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So Guillermo del Toro wants to adapt the traditional tale "Beauty and the Beast" and wants Hermione aka Emma Watson

Oh lordie, yet another Hollywood film is coming to Broadway! This time, it's "The Bridges of Madison County." You remember the film starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood and their few days of solace...and cheating!

As Lily Tomlin's Ernestine once said, "There's nothing like a Hoover when you're dealing with dirt." Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar could use more dirt: This is a sensitive, sympathetic portrait of a scummy little man, an earnest attempt to map the contours and contradictions of a complicated son-of-a-bitch.

I can't wait to see this! We all know that director Clint Eastwood is a certifiable "Oscar bait" and he's at it again with this seemingly potent film about the life and times of the crime fighter.

Warner Bros. has announced that their upcoming Oscar bait, Clint Eastwood's "Hoover" will be released on Nov. 9. Yay! I can't wait for this movie!

"Brave" looks dazzling, and this new Pixar film is not a sequel nor based on anything. It's original, so I hope Pixar will redeem themselves after giving us the reheated, not-that-funny "Cars 2."

Johnny Depp is the Lizard King of Hollywood! "Rango," his latest animated film from Paramount debuted at
No. 1 with $38 million!

The Million Yen Girl shown at Udine Far East Festival involves a 21 year old student who heads for the road after experiencing disappointment with her family and disillusionment with the difficulty of earning a living in Tokyo. Wanting to become independent, she co-rents an apartment with a total stranger who throws out a kitten she adopted, after which she tosses all his owning out the window and gets the book for alienation of private property. After a short term in jail, her welcome home is cold and she can count on no support from her family or friends, neither moral nor financial.

Right after Mao, in Communist China early 1980s, director Buming XU recalls the situation in most households where a standard toilet was a luxury and people used "potties". A young Chinese girl Dan, lives in a stifling environment with her family in a house without toilet and has to empty her obnoxious younger brother's waste after he spends most of the day sitting on the loo.

Frozen Flower, an epic blockbuster of a love triangle involving the King and Queen of the Goryeo Dynasty with a General, directed by young Korean, Yoo Ha, takes you into a world of betrayal, honour and feudalism in ancient Korea, at war with China.