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14 July 2008 1:15 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Douglas Buck, director of Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America and the Sisters remake, is less than confident in mankind’s ongoing destructive relationship with mother earth. His in-the-works opus The Broken Imago has the earmarks of a terrifying new entry in a subgenre of increasing relevance, the Eco-Horror film. The Broken Imago is about a deadly virus of apocalyptic proportions that wipes pretty much everyone off the face of the Earth, leaving in its wake an evolutionary transformation that will make it very difficult for man to ever devolve back into what we collectively represent in these modern, environmentally destructive times.

Mass scale global hysteria is not specifically what Douglas Buck is most interested in capturing – Imago offers a more myopic apocalypse through how things play out in a remote Catholic boarding school in the jungle. The school is one of the last bastions unaffected by the virus, but when it hits,

Johnny Butane

19 June 2008 2:05 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Brick Lane feels something like the Kramer Vs. Kramer of Bangladeshi domestic issues—it addresses sexual and social freedom rather than divorce and single parenting, but with the same feeling of slowly fumbling through the radical ideas that women are more than humble household servants, and men are more than simple stereotypes. Like Kramer, it can be insultingly timid about these ideas, and given that Indian writer-director Deepa Mehta (Fire, Earth, Water) has covered similar ground more boldly and beautifully, Brick Lane feels slight and late to the table. Still, its pretty musings about small-scale self-actualization can be seductive. Tannishtha Chatterjee stars as a Bangladeshi girl shipped from her small rural village for an arranged marriage with "educated older man" Satish Kaushik, a fat, pompous, self-styled intellectual living in a run-down East London tenement and working a small-time office job. Trained from childhood to be obedient and accepting—"If Allah wanted.

Tasha Robinson

2 April 2008 9:07 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has spurned calls for a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics - insisting he will take part in India's torch relay "with a prayer in his heart" for the people of Tibet.

The 43-year-old announced his decision to take part in China's Olympic procession, even though the event has been denounced by his peers in protest of the communist country's political oppression in Tibet.

The Earth actor's decision comes just days after Indian soccer captain Bhaichung Bhutia's refusal to take the torch when it arrives in New Dehli, India, later this month.

In an open letter on his website, Khan tells fans he had been begged by friends, family and peers not to take part, but in the end decided to go ahead with the relay: "I feel the Olympic Games do not belong to China."

The star adds "the Tibetan struggle" will be at the forefront of his mind, insisting he has "the highest regard and respect for the struggle that the people of Tibet are going through".

The torch is expected to arrive in India on 17 April, as part of the longest ever torch relay - lasting 130 days and passing through 19 countries.

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3 articles from 2008