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World genre cinema is alive and well in Minneapolis with the opening of Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In at the Lagoon Cinema. The film, which has won several awards at film festivals around the world and carries a 97% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, is the first in Magnet’s Six Shooter Film Series, a showcase of six of the best films from the vanguard of international genre cinema. MORE »

One doesn’t need to be especially cynical to see the annual December screening of the British Television Advertising Award winners at the Walker Art Center as the Twin Cities’ most honest holiday tradition. Instead of paying to be preached to about peace and love and selflessness, museumgoers pay to be preached to about the power of material goods to solve all ills. Given that most mainstream movies are essentially advertisements for associated merchandise, it’s refreshingly candid of the Walker to tell it like it is: we’re going to charge you to watch a lot of ads. MORE »

by Mshale staff • 11/11/08 •

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British director Mike Leigh’s latest film Happy-Go-Lucky has the power to repel or attract. You either love or despise his latest character, Poppy, played with effervescent charm by Sally Hawkins. Her performance carries the movie, not unlike David Thewlis’s Johnny in Leigh’s dark 1993 film Naked—but where Johnny saw doom and gloom in everything, Poppy sees the bright side. MORE »

A video letter by Media Mike about pre-emptive war, gangs and role models. Monkey see, monkey do. For more, visit http://www.thecie.org MORE »

“If you wanna know the attraction, look around. We’re living in a heavy metal world,” Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda band members told the directors of Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Some people may think being a heavy metal band in Iraq is “really fucking stupid, but you know…heavy metal rules!” MORE »

by Alicia Ranney and Kristen Melby • 9/24/08 • In your September 21 article “Colombian ambassador to the United States visits Twin Cities“ (republished from La Prensa de Minnesota), there were several statements the Colombian ambassador made misrepresenting the current human rights conditions in Colombia as well as the projected impacts of free trade for both the United States and Colombia.