(BY ALI NADERZAD) Eklavya (The Royal Guard) has been voted [...]

Blurring the line between good and bad is a good bet for a screenwriter nowadays. Good versus evil is so passe. The good guys usually win and they're often uninspiring. Oftentimes I find myself rooting for the bad guy, hoping he'll change his ways. Which is why The Brave One, which stars Jodie Foster and opened in the US this past weekend, is my redemption--kind of. Foster plays Erica Bain, vigilante by night, radio-show host by day. A devastating event turns Bain into a different person. Once, when asked by the detective close to her case (Terrence Howard) how she could have gone on after the tragedy she replied that she didn't, she simply became a different person. It's a bit shallow, especially when your trail is littered with bodies.

At the Cannes Festival sometimes things can turn violent between journalists. Or at least that's what I feared upon exiting the Debussy theatre this past May after a press screening of James Gray's We Own the Night, which has its commercial release later this October. The film got copiously booed as end credits rolled--in my opinion because of its formulaic zeal, when you see the final scene, you'll understand--and I partook in the booing. After all, what's a festival if not for the prerogative to holler out your views loud and clear?

About a year ago former president Jimmy Carter launched on a national tour to promote his new book "Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid." Filmmaker Jonathan Demme tagged along to document the tour and record a nation's reaction to the new, if short-lived, controversy surrounding the book. Slated for release later this Fall, Man From Plains (Plains refers to Carter's Georgia hometown) shows both the private and the public life of the former president.