Grand Hotel, Paris – Seems like we’ve just completed a revolution: filmmakers who remained away from the Croisette in the last few years will be making their mark this year again, hoping to bring back the glory of the past, namely: Matteo Garrone, who’ll be presenting Reality, Carlos Reygadas with Post Tenebras Lux, Ken Loach with the Angel’s Share and Jacques Audiard with De Rouille et D’Os—all competing for a Palme D’Or

The Cannes Festival announced that actor Tim Roth will be presiding over the Un Certain Regard jury this year. Created in 1978, Un Certain regard is the festival’s twin brother program, with a distinctive birthmark: it fetes new filmmakers. The U.C.R jury will hand out its own awards, albeit during a more low-key ceremony, on the day before the main selection's closing. A generous 30,000 euros purse to cover the winning film's distribution co-

(This is an ongoing series which will be updated with the latest iPad apps as they become available to the public.) Writing about apps for movie fandom can be self-defeating. As I found out after I got mine, iPad-specific applications are few and far between compared to the treasure trove of iPhone applications available out there (maybe the new retina-display version will inspire developers to cater to us more).

Each of the apps reviewed

You'll remember Krysten Ritter from her performance in the best television series of all time, namely, Breaking Bad. Her turn was short-lived but the character lent a new intensity to the show and greatly increased the stakes for Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). More recently Ritter co-wrote a screenplay and the resulting movie, L!fe Happens, is coming out this week.

Ritter plays Kim, a young

Yaron is part of an elite group of police officers belonging to an anti-terrorist unit of the Israeli police. He and his companions are the weapon pointed by the state at its opponents, "the Arab enemy." Yaron loves the male camaraderie and his own muscle-bound body. His wife is about to give birth and he could become a father at any moment. But his meeting a group of violent radicals will force him to suddenly confront a new kind of revo-

Kurt Cobain died April in 1994 in Seattle. If someone then had told you that eighteen years later Tom Cruise might be picked to play him in a biopic, would you have believed them? According to Variety, Cruise was tapped to play the grunge rock legend in an upcoming biopic to be produced by Warner Brothers, based on a screenplay adapted from the 1937 movie A Star is Born by writer Will Fetters of Remember Me fame. Previously there had

With all the cartel and gang violence happening south of [...]