A second annual festival of dance films leaps into action this Thursday Sept. 8, until Sept. 11 at kinos Světozor and Aero.

If you still need to catch up on the best recent cinema releases, you can now do so for next to nothing.

10 DVD special features you wouldn’t want to waste your precious time on.

Trite screwball com-com Just Go With It is reviewed in this week’s Prague Post, and sees Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler play their usual selves. Let’s face it folks, they’re one trick ponies.

Here are a few more of cinema’s OTPs.

* Guillaume Depardieu (son of French actor Gérard Depardieu) died in October 2008 at the age of 37 after contracting severe viral pneumonia while filming The Way Beyond (L’Enfance d’icare) in Romania. The film is screening at Světozor, Nov. 27 at 9 and Slovanský dům, Dec. 1 at 7:30. The disturbingly ironic subject of the [...]

* Veteran actor Eli Wallach will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in recognition for a long career of iconic turns in legendary films and television programs. Wallach made a name for himself in a series of ethnically diverse roles, including 1966’s The Good, the Bad and [...]

* Emir Kusturica’s film career spans most of four decades, beginning with a Golden Lion Award at Venice in 1981 for Do You Remember Dolly Bell? and 1995′s Underground, a.k.a. Once Upon a Time There Was a Country, which won him his second Palme d’Or at Cannes. After a 10-year absence, the controversial director has returned [...]

* The iconic director Oliver Stone is set to direct a big-screen adaptation of John D. MacDonald’s excellent genre classic, The Deep Blue Goodbye (the first in a series of 21 character-driven suspense novels). This is excellent news for your critic, as he is  currently hard at work on a biography of the author. It’s [...]

* Having reveled in John Malkovich’s splendid turn as a deranged former covert operative in director John Schwentke’s recent black comedy/action film Red, I was reminded of the actor’s directorial debut, 2002’s excellent The Dancer Upstairs. Starring Javier Bardem and Laura Morante, the film features a love affair that unfolds amid political unrest and terrorist [...]

* 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 [...]