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I think I may have just found my perfect film.

Sarah Lassez (Nowhere, The Blackout, Until the Night) delivers a star-making performance as Therese, an ass-kicking health inspector with a failed marriage, an on-going affair with a creepy televangelist, nymphomania, and an obsession with old kung-fu movies. Further complicating her life is a very questionable relationship with her brother Thierry (James Duval from The Doom Generation and Donnie Darko), a meat importer who may (or may not) have infected her with mad cow disease.

Mad Cowgirl is practically impossible to describe, but it’s a Narrative - Experimental - Art - Comedy - Horror - Tragedy - Kung Fu epic that features multiple languages, a little hardcore porn, a flying guillotine, the old ultraviolence and Walter Koenig (Cmdr. Pavel Chekov) as a slimy sex-addicted preacher. Great Scott!

It could also be described as a film about a woman who is dying of a brain disorder, and her surreal journey which descends into violence; or perhaps, it’s about a woman who hates her job, and the men in her life, so she is driven to kill the Ten Tigers From Kwangtung.

Go see it!

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Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl focuses on 10–year–old Winnie, who lives with her mother and siblings in a trailer on the side of the road in a desolate part of Dublin. She is at odds with her environment as she wanders the streets of the prosperous, modern city, while her family endure visits from the council, social workers and sympathetic activist groups, struggling with bureaucracy, prejudice and poverty.

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When a bunch of Birmingham students, who have clearly been watching far too many horror films, decide that they can do better, the result looks like this.

Aim for the Dead is the first full feature from better feeling films. A zombie-comedy-gore fest set in the Birmingham night club ‘Edwards No.8′ Where a group of friends are thrust into a battle of survival once they discover the club has become over run with zombies. Who is behind the catastrophy and will the friends escape alive? All will be revealed…

And I thought it was just the glam rockers you had to worry about.

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Paradise Now is the story of two young Palestinian men as they embark upon what may be the last 48 hours of their lives. On a typical day in the West Bank city of Nablus, where daily life grinds on amidst crushing poverty and the occasional rocket blast, we meet two childhood best friends on their way to carrying out an attack in Tel Aviv.

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This is one film that could go either way. Ant and Dec, of Ant and Dec fame are starring in Alien Autopsy, a satire on all those “Roswell” stories.

No synopsis has been released yet, but the trailer is out there.

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There is some incredible stuff coming out of Russia at the moment. Take Junk, for example.

Tabloid reporter Marina is depressed and even considers changing occupation after she witnesses a character of her publication shot by a cop sniper. However, she is persuaded to do one more interview with a serial killer locked in a psychiatric ward…

It may not sound like the most original synopsis ever written, but the trailer looks spectacular.

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Good Night, And Good Luck takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950’s America. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Murrow, and his dedicated staff defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist “witch-hunts”. In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental.

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McLibel is the story of two Green campaigners who took on McDonalds. And won.

McLibel is the true story of a postman and a gardener who took on McDonald’s and wouldn’t say “McSorry,” in a legal battle since described as “the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.”

McDonald’s loved using the UK’s libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organizations like the BBC and The Sun had crumbled and apologized. But then McDonald’s sued penniless activists’ Helen Steel and Dave Morris.

In what became the longest trial in English legal history, the “McLibel 2″ represented themselves against McDonald’s USD$19 million legal team.

Every aspect of the corporation’s business was cross-examined: from junk food and McJobs, to animal cruelty, environmental damage and the company’s advertising to children.

Outside the courtroom, Dave brought up his young son alone and Helen supported herself working nights in a bar.

McDonald’s tried every trick in the book against them. Legal maneuvers. A visit from Ronald McDonald. Top U.S.executives flying to London for secret settlement negotiations. Even spies.

Seven years later, in February 2005, the marathon legal battle finally concluded in the European Court of Human Rights. And the result took everyone by surprise - especially the British Government.

Filmed over ten years by no-budget Director Franny Armstrong (Drowned Out), McLibel features reenactments of key courtroom scenes directed by Ken Loach.

McLibel is not about hamburgers. It is about the power multinational corporations wield over our everyday lives and two unlikely heroes who are changing McWorld.

Go see it.

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Special is a black comedy about a man who develops superpowers. Or not.

Les Franken (Michael Rapaport) leads a painfully unremarkable life as a metermaid until he enrolls in a drug study for an experimental anti-depressant. An unexpected side effect of the drug convinces Les he is developing special powers and must quit his job to answer his new calling in life… Superhero.

A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.

From the trailer it looks fantastic. Painful, but fantastic. And funny. Fantastically, painfully funny.

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Japanese horror anthology, Rampo Noir, is scheduled to be screened at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film on March 13th.

1) Mars Canal. A stark naked man staggers across a barren wilderness before collapsing at the rim of a crater lake and descending into a world of nightmares. 2) Mirror Hell. Detective Kogoro Akechi investigates a string of beautiful women corpses, all of which are linked back to a mad mirror maker. 3) The Caterpillar. A wounded war veteran returns from the frontline as little more than a bloody torso. He’s helpless to defend himself against the increasingly perverted caprices of an embittered wife. 4) Crawling Bugs. A timid chauffeur becomes infatuated with an actress. He kills her so that he can keep her just for himself. But her decaying body is ravaged by bugs with frightening speed.

Rampo Noir turns back to the original source of J-Horror, the works of mystery writer Edogawa Rampo. His short stories lend themselves well to cinematic treatment in that they are driven by imagery rather than plot. The omnibus movie Rampo Noir is a celebration of unabashed eroticism, visual inventiveness, and the willingness to plunge into dark realms that so many other movies fail to explore. They’re realised by pop-promo and TV ad director Suguru Takeuchi (Mars Canal), Glory of Vice and Ultraman director Akio Jissoji (Mirror Hell), Naked Blood director Hisayasu Sato (The Caterpillar) and manga artist Atsushi Kaneko (Crawling Bugs).

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