Spanning ten years through the late Nineties Keep The Lights On by Ira Sachs (Forty shades of blue, Married life) chronicles a doomed relationship spawned from a one-night-stand. In a dingy New York bedroom Erik trolls the phone sex lines looking for a score. His efforts lead him to a man named Paul in Chelsea, who’s looking for the same. Soon thereafter, it is revealed that our real antagonist is Paul, a straight and square young man by day

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There’s a famous Hollywood joke about how you can describe any action movie over the past twenty years as something like ”Die Hard in an orbital maximum-security prison.” That would be the one that applies to the very entertaining Lockout, a movie that is Die Hard by way of Star Wars by way of Blade Runner by way of La Femme Nikita by way of The Fifth Element by way of Escape from New York by way of Big Trouble in Little China.

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

Who would've thought that James Cameron, an action movies filmmaker par excellence (Aliens, Terminator and True Lies, to name a few) would direct one of the most spectacular movies of all time? An avid deep-sea diver, Cameron had always shown a great interest in the Titanic story. But before the movie could see light of day it took no less than eight months of filming, a reconstitution of the doomed cruise liner in a specially-built

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