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Keb Mo, personal on ‘The Reflection’

Aug 12, 2011

Keb Mo“The Reflection” Yolabelle International/Ryko/Warner Music GroupWith bluesy guitars, groovy Hammond organs, and Keb Mo’s rich, smoky voice, “The Reflection” is a warm, mellow ride from start to finish. Like a smooth-jazz station all its own, “The Reflection” is never rowdy or boastful. It just
Another gem from John Hiatt

Aug 12, 2011

John Hiatt “Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns” New West RecordsA charming photo in the CD booklet for “Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns” shows John Hiatt in profile wearing a toothy grin, and why not? On his 20th solo album, Hiatt remains at the top of his game.There are no surprises left in his musical
Adkins returns to heartfelt topics

Aug 12, 2011

Trace Adkins“Proud To Be Here”Show Dog-UniversalOn his previous album, Trace Adkins came out stomping and snarling like a riled-up snake, creating the hardest-rocking album of his career. But the album failed to generate any top 10 hits.Understandably, on his new collection “Proud To Be Here,” the t
BOX OFFICE

Aug 12, 2011

Helen, the Baby Fox (Japan)Opening Aug. 18.Drama. Directed by Keita Kono. Taichi, a little boy who does not have many friends at school, lives with his mother alone. Soon, his working camerawoman mother moves to another town for a project by herself and makes Taichi to live with her boyfriend, Yajim
Actors, and maybe audiences, have issues with ‘The Help’

Aug 12, 2011

Viola Davis didn’t want to wear the uniform. The Oscar-nominated actress was thrilled at the chance to star in “The Help,” the film based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett. But it was a movie about maids in the Jim Crow South.And “I had to get past the fact that I’d be playing a maid.”It
EIDF celebrates non-fiction films

Aug 10, 2011

EBS event to screen 51 documentaries on TV and in theatersA total of 51 documentary films from 29 countries will be screened on TV and in theaters in Seoul this month, along with educational workshops and pitching sessions for newly emerging filmmakers.The 8th EBS (Educational Broadcasting System) I
Report: Suicides in movies tripled

Aug 10, 2011

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― A movie analysis shows depictions of explicit and graphic suicides tripled from 1950 to 2006.An analysis by Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center of 855 top box office films also says there’s no difference between PG-13- and R-rated films in the most explicit portrayals o
Students explore Korea through lenses

Aug 8, 2011

For the past six years, Korean and American university students have gathered at Ewha Womens University to participate in the Harvard Summer School in Seoul program. This summer, the program offered for the first time “Cinema Seoul: Documenting Korea Through Film,” a course that presented students w
Alleged sex film of young Monroe gets no buyers

Aug 8, 2011

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ― There were no buyers Sunday at the auction of a 1940s stag film that an events promoter claims shows a young Marilyn Monroe having sex before she became a movie star.The auction was a flop. Nobody came forward willing to pay Mikel Barsa’s starting price of 2 million Ar
Blind (Korea), Opening Aug. 11

Aug 5, 2011

Blind (Korea)Opening Aug. 11Thriller. Directed by Ahn Sang-hoon. A female university student goes missing one day and later is discovered as a victim of a hit-and-run. Assuming the kidnapper and the driver are the same person, the police begin their investigation but fail to capture the criminal. Th
Arrow, the Ultimate Weapon (Korea), Opening Aug. 11

Aug 5, 2011

Arrow, the Ultimate Weapon(Korea)Opening Aug. 11Action. Directed by Kim Han-min. When the second Manchu invasion of Korea occurs in 1636, a young man named Na-mi (Park Hae-il) loses her sister Ja-in (Moon Chae-won) and her fianc on their wedding day. The Qing soldiers kidnap the couple after complet
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (U.S.), Opening Aug. 17

Aug 5, 2011

Rise of the Planet of theApes (U.S.)Opening Aug. 17Action. Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Will Rodman (James Franco), a San Francisco-based scientist whose father (John Lithgow) suffers from Alzheimer’s, develops a cure for the disease and tests it on apes. Rodman takes one of the tested baby chimpanzees
Larry Crowne (U.S.), Opening Aug. 18

Aug 5, 2011

Larry Crowne (U.S.)Opening Aug. 18Romance. Directed by Tom Hanks. Larry (Tom Hanks), a mid-aged man who just got fired from his work for lacking a college education, decides to attend a local community college to find more career opportunities. As a divorce who lives alone, Larry almost lost his hou
Hong Gil-dong 2084 (Korea), Opening Aug. 18

Aug 5, 2011

Hong Gil-dong 2084 (Korea)Opening Aug. 18Animation. Directed by Lee Jeong-in. In 2084, a young man named Hong Gil-dong lives with a little boy named Cheol alone near a city named Yuldo. Gil-dong was abandoned by his older brother Il-dong as a child, and had to live on his own ever since. One day, Gi
Bruce Lee items to be sold at Hong Kong auction

Aug 1, 2011

HONG KONG (AFP) -- Thirteen items belonging to the late kung fu legend Bruce Lee, including a 1966 letter he wrote and a fur-lined coat will go under the hammer in a Hong Kong auction next week, a report said Saturday. The sale, which could raise up to HK$880,000 ($112,900), is believed to be the