Gael García Bernal Lands Lead Role In Jon Stewart's Film Rosewater

The film is based off of Bahari's 2011 memoir, Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival, and it will chronicle the harsh interrogations that the journalist experienced during his time behind bars. Filming is expected to take place this summer, with Stewart leaving The Daily Show in early June.  read more

No

It’s a strange notion that happiness can be packaged and bought like a bottle of ketchup. But in order for Chileans to overthrow their dictatorship in a 1988 election, this is what had to happen—enough citizens had to buy into the idea of a future state of happiness. And, as is the case for most products, happiness had to be advertised. Pablo Larrain’s fourth film and third installment of his trilogy about Chile’s dictatorship, No tells the story of how an advertising campaign for happiness overthrew 15 years of tyrannical rule....  read more

Gael García Bernal and Mexican Government Agree: Drugs Should be Legal

Gael García Bernal, the loquacious star of Rudo y Cursi and the upcoming Letters to Juliet, actually agrees with the Mexican government on something. In an interview with New York Daily News, he publicly declared that drugs should be legalized in Mexico because "if drugs were legal, there'd be nothing to fight about" and there would be less corruption. Strangely enough, the government seems to agree....  read more

The Limits of Control

The central character in Jim Jarmusch's latest is technically called Lone Man, but his name might as well be Mysterious Badass...  read more