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Troma, champions of the Z-Movie, have a channel on Joost.

The Kingdom looks like it could be an interesting film, the opening credits are worth a watch anyway.

The trailer for Michel Gondry’s latest: Be Kind Rewind.

I spent many a late night laughing my head off to the MST3K team’s running commentary over old B-movies and now they’re back, selling MP3 tracks you can play back over more recent fodder like this one.

How the CIA used a fake sci-fi movie to rescue Americans from Tehran

It had to happen: a mountain-biking horror movie, and a cheesy one at that.

Douglas Coupland hits the big screen.

Hollywood’s new hero: the environment. Ah, just bring back Toxic Avenger.

Belgian defense minister flies in an army helicopter to see Al Gore’s film. Can it get more surreal? (thanks Xavier)

You’ve seen the iPhone TV advert, now identify the movies.

Michael Crichton, the world’s most popular technophobe.

I don’t know what to say. Some people scare me.

Forget the film, watch the titles.

Neal Stephenson is getting the TV treatment, I hope he’s more lucky than William Gibson. The Diamond Age is a fantastic novel and doesn’t deserve to be defaced on screen.

New Zealand has got a successor to Peter Jackson. Beware of the sheep!

And here’s my christmas Newtonmas present to you, straight from the b-movie archives of 1964: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

David Lynch wants to get in your bloodstream

Hot Fuzz, the new film from the creators of Spaced and Shaun of the Dead.

French guerilla promotion for the film Fast Food Nation. The text translates as: Help yourself! You don’t usually ask yourself so many questions.

The American science teachers’ association has refused free copies of the film An inconvenient truth for classroom viewing as it may conflict with some of their financial supporters. One of them being Exxon.

update: and a well-deserved worst person in the world award.

John Boorman has made a film about the ugly side of ‘new Ireland’. It’s always seemed pretty obvious to me, maybe rose-tinted glasses are more common than I thought.

Best fight scene ever…

Hollywood is the second largest polluter in the Los Angeles area. The full report is online. (thanks Dimitri)

Ever since the world ended...

A film about the last days of the government’s utopian “administrative city” in Brussels will be showing soon at the Arenberg cinema.

Al Gore will be present in Brussels on October 8th to introduce his film: An inconvenient truth.

James Cameron’s first foray into the world of science-fiction – a short film he made in 1978: Xenogenesis

Yes, yet another star wars video: Pitching Lucas. What would the films have been like with studio executives in the mix?

After the book: fast food nation, the movie.

Truly amazing: the oil industry pays for dumb/boring viral video smearing Al Gore. They must feel extremely threatened.

If you haven’t seen the excellent fast-food documentary Supersize Me, now you can. The whole film can be viewed online.

Chad Vader – Day Shift Manager

Seventies kung-fu flick is the inspiration for Wu-Tang clan (check the respective cast and track listings) and somehow ends up as a real sport which cites its origins as an Enki Bilal comic book. The plot thickens…

Michel Gondry’s latest looks wonderfully trippy.

A terrifying message from Al Gore (and Bender)

Stars before they were stars. Including Belgium’s very own Jean-Claude Vandamme.

I’m looking forward to Ratatouille already.

Fight of the universe, Chapter 5: Neo vs Robocop.

It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. So, who Killed The Electric Car?