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Tarrant’s Series to Air on TV
The second series of “Tarrant’s Way” in which the troubled pair journey around the country in Ingrid’s 1938 Bentley has been approved - despite it not having a screening date yet.

El Cortez - Trailer
The story of an autistic ex-con who attempts to start over, and escape his violent past life. After five years in a prison for the criminally insane, Manny (Lou Diamond Phillips) returns to Reno. He moves into a motel, and takes a job as a clerk at the Hotel El Cortez. He is befriended by Popcorn (Bruce Weitz), a crippled prospector who seeks his help.

30% Click
This latest Adam Sandler vehicle borrows shamelessly from It’s A Wonderful Life and Back To The Future, and fails to produce the necessary laughs that would forgive such imitation.

Art School Confidential
Director Terry Zwigoff once again collaborates with comic artist Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) for this drama about a young art student who becomes a celebrity when he is accused of a murder. Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent and Anjelica Huston star. [Rated R]

Miami Vice (R1) in December - Art & Extras added
News: Universal Studios Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Miami Vice for 5th December 2006 priced at $29.98 SRP. Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx star in director Michael Mann’s big-screen adaptation of Miami Vice. Available in separate …

25% One Night With The King
An epic motion picture set in an imaginative world of adventure, intrigue and romance, One Night With the King follows a young girl who rises from peasant to princess by going against the culture and seeking the King’s heart rather than the riches of the kingdom.

49% Idlewild
Idlewild has some truly breathtaking moments, but borrows too heavily from other similar movies, and the disjointed script is not worthy of talents involved.

Around the World Roundup: ‘World Trade Center’ Rises

by Conor Bresnan

New "Saw III" Poster, Made With Real Jigsaw Blood, Can Be Your Very Own Gross Movie Memorabilia
Those crazy guys over at Lionsgate have come up with the ultimate movie poster promotion, as they have unveiled a new official poster for this month’s bloodfest, “Saw III” — and printed it with star Tobin Bell’s own blood. Bell, who plays sadistic mastermind Jigsaw in the “Saw” series,…

Man claims he was punched near movie set (AP)

AP - An Associated Press freelance photographer says security guards protecting a movie set where Angelina Jolie is shooting her latest film punched and threatened him at gunpoint Friday, in the second run-in between security guards on the set and the news media this week.