What has Russell Brand got to do with Pirates of the Caribbean 4? The latest on The Spirit by Frank Miller, Australia and Angels & Demons with Ewan McGregor. Steven Soderbergh’s biopic about Che Guevara shows itself. And some bits about 30 Days of Night, Rob Sneider and Cadillac Records with Adrien Brody and Beyonce. O, and The Day the Earth Stood Still is in there somewhere too..

The Daily Movie News no. 19!

The Daily Movie News of October 16th is now online, with news about:

• Steve Carell’s new movie
• Star Trek by J.J. Abrams
• Sex Drive
• The Road
• Frank Miller’s The Spirit
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno
• Steven Soderbergh and Sacha Grey
• And The Haunting in Connecticut

Instead of pointing you to the usual - the Flash window above the blog, you can now access the show directly by clicking this link:

The new Daily Movie News link!

I’ll add these to the older blog posts as well.

Not Clint Eastwood’s ‘Changeling,’ not Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che.’ Not Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Synecdoche, New York’ and not even the rumored documentary ‘Waltz With Bashir’ went home with a Palme d’Or. It was the French picture ‘Entre les murs’ (’The Class’) that got the highest prize of the Cannes Film Festival. It’s a film about the high tension and energy in the classroom today, a hot topic in France.

“I think it would be good for all those people who claim to be able to judge youth … in two or three aphorisms to learn something new about youth,” the main actor of the movie said. Jury president Sean Penn called it “an amazing, amazing [...] virtually seamless film. All the performances, magic. All the writing, magic. It just touched us so deeply.“

As a consolation prize for Steven Soderbergh, Benicio del Toro was crowned Best Actor for leading in ‘Che.’ “I’d like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara,” he said. Clint Eastwood got his consolation prize in the form of a “special prize of the 61st Cannes Film Festival,” but he wasn’t at the ceremony to collect it.