* Fans of New Zealand cinema have one night to revel in two choice examples at Kino Atlas Nov. 25 starting at 8 p.m. The films on hand will include Coffee and Allah (by director Sima Urale), which had its international premiere at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, followed by the much-acclaimed first feature film from director [...]

* If you know what’s good for you, you’ll pass on the latest dog from the august Woody Allen (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger) and revisit his 1996 musical Everyone Says I Love You.  Starring Allen, Alan Alda, Goldie Hawn and a slew of others, the film is a celebration of all things musical [...]

* Kino Světozor will screen Director Franny Armstrong’s 2008 drama-documentary-animation hybrid The Age of Stupid (2008) and 2006′s An Inconvenient Truth as part of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic’s Science and Technology Week. Armstrong’s film is a dystopian fantasy featuring a solitary man (Pete Postlethwaite) reflecting mournfully on the virtual extinction of the human [...]

* Jean-Luc Godard—the famous director who, along with a likeminded band of critics and filmmakers, remade French cinema and introduced the auteur theory to the modern world—has returned with yet another artsy snooze-fest dedicated to undermining the social order and exposing the rotten fruit within. Socialism (Film socialisme) unfolds in three movements. The first takes [...]

* Actor Danny Trejo ferociously hacks and stabs his way through director Robert Rodriguez’ latest Grindhouse epic, Machete. His lined face and massive musculature conveys all the menacing violence anyone could ask for and are known to anyone familiar with Rodriguez’ considerable filmography. Less widely known is the fact the actor is the recipient of [...]

* The organizers of the 8th annual Prague Indian Film Festival are featuring a frank look at poverty and privation along with the usual allotment of Bollywood spectacle. Selections include Dark Times (2006), an examination of the growing trend of rural farmers driven out of the market and into suicide by multinational corporations, The Slumdog [...]

Ever seen an opera at the cinema? Prague movie theater Kino Aero is screening performances by the New York Met, live from the Lincoln Center in the Big Apple, in full HD quality. This coming Saturday, you can see the first part of Richard Wagner’s massive opus, Das Rheingold (The Ring), which consists either of [...]

* For more than 80 years opera lovers worldwide have been able to get a regular taste of The Metropolitan Opera via a Saturday matinee radio broadcast. These days, one can visit local movie theaters in more than 40 countries around the world and enjoy a live broadcast in HD. The Met’s Peabody and Emmy [...]

* Hot off his success in Oliver Stone’s estimable sequel to Wall Street, Academy Award-winning actor Michael Douglas has completed the first in a series of chemotherapy treatments for Stage 4 throat cancer. After seeking medical attention for a persistent sore throat earlier this summer, the 65 year-old Douglas was given the news, adding injury, [...]

* While considering Step-Up 3-D for a forthcoming review, I was reminded of 2007’s Planet B-Boy, an excellent documentary about the culture of breakdancing. The film is centered on the 2005 Battle of the Year competition and follows crews from all over the world as they prepare for and compete through qualifying stages. Directed by [...]