The Girl

Writer-director David Riker’s latest bilingual film, The Girl, takes on the hot-button issue of immigration from a perspective that’s decidedly different from his 1998 breakthrough film The City (La Ciudad), which focused on the Mexican and Central American immigrant population living in New York City....  read more

W.E.

“You have no idea how hard it is to live out the greatest romance of the 20th Century.” Last year’s thrilling drama A Dangerous Method (directed by David Cronenberg), sought to insert Sabina Spielrein into the history of psychoanalysis by telling the true story of her love affair with Carl Jung and her personal relationship with Sigmund Freud. Madonna’s W.E., Madonna’s feature directorial debut, has similar goals, attempting to reposition Wallis Simpson as a strong, enigmatic woman whose passion for one man changed the world. That’s as far as the comparison goes, though, for W.E. is less a complete film...  read more

Anna Friel in Talks to Join Cast of Dark Fields Film

Anna Friel, the actress perhaps best known for her turn as a sunny dead girl who couldn’t touch her beloved piemaker in the canceled-too-soon Pushing Daisies, is in talks to join the cast of Dark Fields according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film currently features Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro and Abbie Cornish, and is based on the novel of the same name by Alan Glynn....  read more