The Spear of Christ

Follow one of the world's most holy relics on its two-thousand-year journey down through history. It began as an instrument of mercy in the hands of a Roman soldier at Christ's Passion and became one of history's most powerful relics. The Spear of Christ is believed to have been infused with miraculous power as it pierced the side of Christ and has been linked to some of history's most remarkable episodes. Travel through history as we examine each of four artifacts claiming to be the Holy Lance. Scientific analysis helps in our attempt to discover if a true Spear of Christ exists today. Through high quality re-enactments, shooting on location, and the use of historic images, we tell the amazing tale of this sacred relic.

David Heyman: Hollywood Nonplayer

Potter producer picks up Image comicYou'd think after a decade of wrangling the colossal Harry Potter series, producer David Heyman might want to put his feet up and take some time off. But you'd be wrong, since he's currently knee deep in Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, and he's just become attached to Image Comics' Nonplayer, which Warner's are eyeing as a Big Thing for the future. The six issue miniseries by Nate Simpson is set in America around fifty years hence, and centres around delivery girl Dana Stevens, who spends most of her downtime in a total-immersion MMORG called Warriors of Jarvath. Her avatar is an elite assassin, but when she kills a queen, she starts to receive some unwelcome attention from the supposedly non-player game character King Heremoth, and finds herself in some very real danger.... The comics have picked up some seriously positive attention, with Warren Ellis saying Nonplayer is fucking stunning and none other than Moebius calling it beautiful and very cool . Warners clearly agree, possibly seeing a potential tentpole project to back-up the troubled Akira. Roy Lee (The Departed, How to Train Your Dragon) will be overseeing alongside Heyman. Image are fast becoming Hollywood playas: Sam Sarkar and Garrie Gastonny's treasure-hunting The Vault has also just been picked up by Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil production company. You can check out a preview of The Vault here, and one of Nonplayer here. Comic book movies are here to stay, but they needn't always be about the capes....

Kaczmarek sets up Transatlantyk fest

PRAGUE -- Poland's new Transatlantyk fest, which unspools Friday, is setting out to claim new ground, according to founder Jan Kaczmarek, a native son of Poznan, where the multi-faceted event is set. It has quite a complex structure," said the Oscar-winning composer and 20-year vet of Hollywood, with sections on films relating to the Arab Spring, German and Scandinavian film, culinary cinema, music and ecology -- plus docus and vintage American B movies. It also adds teach-ins by the likes of producers Richard Gladstein and Michael Phillips, composer Peter Golub and 17 other Polish and international industry vets from diverse areas. Fest is built around a new film funding org, the Rozbitek Institute, which aims to provide a fresh approach for indie filmmakers in the region, who until now have been dependent on state-sponsored coin or television, explained Kaczmarek. Having raised $2 million for the fest, with sponsors in 16 countries, it's clear he's found a promising niche. Transatlantyk is embedded in tolerance of diversity," said Ryszard Grobelny of the city of Poznan, a key backer, and "constitutes a magnet attracting new artistic talents, and teaches how to achieve success even in such difficult times." Fest is hoped to drive cultural and film development in the quaint city with medieval roots, he added. Transatlantyk attempts to challenge conventional ideas in other ways too, said Kaczmarek. With more than 150 pics screening, plus concerts, workshops and hefty prizes on offer, fest aims to raise consciousness about important social problems and environmental issues, he said. Another new area Transatlantyk sails into, in keeping with Kaczmarek's background, is its competish for film scoring, with $20,000 going to young composer of the year and $10,000 for instant composition -- in which entrants will improvise a soundtrack on the spot for a short piece of film. The approach contrasts with traditional music writing in Central Europe, which is much more of a deliberative process. "I believe in the power of instinct," said Kaczmarek. "Especially when adrenaline is high, as you know it is in Hollywood." Fest closes Aug. 13. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

'Seriously Funny: The Comic Art of Woody Allen' (Live Blog)

Woody Allen just made his highest grossing film ever in 'Midnight In Paris.' The director and writer shows no signs of slowing down. In this American Masters documentary, filmmaker Robert Weide and a variety of actors who have worked with Woody try to break down his comic genius. <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=8c0d86c851" _cke_saved_href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=8c0d86c851" >'Seriously Funny: The Comic Art of Woody Allen' (Live Blog)</a> Woody Allen TCA Summer Press Tour 2011

Crazy, Stupid, Love: Film Review

!! The Bottom Line !! A shrewdly written comedy with perhaps too many characters and subplots but they nonetheless produce laughs. !! Directors !! Glenn Ficarra, John Requa !! Screenwriter !! Dan Fogelman !! Cast !! Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone The screenplay for the *Steve Carell* comedy, _Crazy, Stupid, Love_, isn't so much written as manufactured according to precepts found in manuals and teachings by the current breed of Hollywood screenwriting gurus. It starts with a high concept, manages its coincidences, misunderstandings and character arcs to maximize comic potential and, in twists that would undoubtedly tickle those script coaches, pulls off not one but two genuine surprises. Its cleverness, however, masks a lack of real heart. When a movie plays an opening sequence — where a wife surprises her husband by asking for a divorce — strictly for laughs with perky music in the background, you know the film cares only about audience reactions, not its characters. Nevertheless, _Crazy_ is clever, give it that. The script sets up rote situations, then turns them on their head or takes them in unexpected directions. Given the dearth of inventive adult comedies in the marketplace, Warner Bros. may experience crazy, good box office with this romantic comedy. _Crazy, Stupid, Love_ is that _rara avis_ that has more directors than writers. *Dan Fogelman* has the sole credit on the screenplay directed by *Glenn Ficarra* and *John Requa*. His basic idea is to display three generations of romantic attraction to demonstrate that when it comes to love, experience counts for little. Indeed the 13-year-old son of Carell's forty something Cal Weaver is more focused and adroit than his dad when it comes to pursuing a "soul mate." The fiendishly plotted comedy starts to uncoil when Cal's wife and former high-school sweetheart, Emily (*Julianne Moore*), abruptly requests a divorce. Thrust unprepared into the singles scene, Cal, who wears sneakers, coats a size too big and a wounded heart on his sleeve, is clueless. Taking pity for no apparent reason other than the script needs him to, a supremely successful lady's man, Jacob (*Ryan Gosling* who is nicely maturing into leading man status in studio movies), takes Cal under his wing to teach him all the right moves. Jacob also drastically overhauls that woeful wardrobe. Jacob's own polished pick-up routines work on a dazzling array of dazzling women until it hits a wall: The player can't elicit anything but laughter and sarcasm from law student Hannah (*Emma Stone*, who seems to be in every movie this summer that doesn't require digital effects). Hannah somehow sees through every line. Again, the script pretty much requires this for later developments. Meanwhile, two more romances stumble along at the Weaver household: Son Robbie (*Jonah Bobo*) pines for his sister's 17-year-old babysitter, Jessica (*Analeigh Tipton*), while his mom tries to make sense of the adulterous relationship she foolishly began with an office co-worker (*Kevin Bacon*, playing it too smarmy for the relationship to be credible). Jacob's instructions finally pays off as Cal scores first with a pretty barfly (*Marisa Tomei*, in possibly the best performance in the movie only it seems to belong to a different movie), then continues on with a somewhat implausible succession of lovelies. In the script's most poorly engineered subplot, Hannah suffers a crushing disappointment in her passive pursuit of a lawyer played by recording artist *Josh Groban*. This all too blatantly causes her to rebound into Jacob's startled arms to instigate a genuine relationship that takes both parties by surprise. The script then quite adroitly throws in two startling revelation about cunningly hidden relationships among the characters, which leads to a climatic free-for-all that brings nearly everyone to an unplanned showdown in the Weaver backyard. In its headlong pursuit of laughs, the screenplay runs by several opportunities to explore its characters in greater depth. It would have been nice to see Jacob's advice to Cal actually have a beneficial impact on how he now treats his estranged, taken-for-granted wife. And it would have been equally nice to see Cal's clear adoration of his family have an impact on his determined-to-remain-single advisor. The movie _suggests_ these things happen but you witness neither. The movie borrows so heavily from other movies —but always putting an inventive twist on these borrowings, mind you — that it even has fun with its movie references. This includes a sequence between Gosling and Stone where her character demands he bed her in an athletic "R rated" scene as opposed to a "PG-13 rated" one. But the two actually start to talk about their lives, one thing leads to another and the sequence winds up PG-13 after all. Yet this is one of the more amusing riffs in any recent film on the MPAA's rating system. The movie suffers perhaps from too many characters and subplots but all the actors appear to have fun with their characters. Carell, who has the market cornered for playing schnooks — his best movie performance remains _Dan in Real Life_, however — finds something new here by suggesting that there can be worse things than being a schnook. Gosling keeps it real yet amusingly satirizes his screen lothario character. Moore conveys the angst-ridden internal push-pull of a midlife crisis while Stone gets a little lost in her inconsistent character but is never less than winning. Tomei plays the comedy very broadly but gets more than her share of laughs. The younger actors, Bobo and Tipton, shine in roles that have greater depth than some of the adult ones. All tech credits are pro in a film shot in Los Angeles but aiming to look like Anywhere USA. However, the frequently used bar set with wall-to-wall, ready and willing beautiful single women is located in Nowhere USA. Opens: July 29 (Warner Bros.) Production companies: Warner Bros. presents a Carousal/Di Novi Pictures production Cast: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Analeigh Tipton, Jonah Bobo, Joey King, Marisa Tomei, Beth Littleford, John Carroll Lynch, Kevin Bacon Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Screenwriter: Dan Fogelman Producers: Steve Carell, Denise Di Novi Executive producers: David A. Siegel, Vance DeGeneres, Charlie Hartsock Director of photography: Andrew Dunn Production designer: William Arnold Music: Christophe Beck, Nick Urata Costume designer: Dayna Pink Editor: Lee Haxall PG-13 rating, 117 minutes

Obsessed

In a Chicago jail cell, clever and charming Ellena Roberts recounts for attorney Sara Miller the details of a one-night stand that led to a heated love affair with prominent surgeon David Stillman. David's version of the facts differs entirely and he insists that he never slept with Ellena. Sure that the doctor is the one who's lying, Sara is preparing to defend her client in court when some disturbing facts emerge.

Netmasterclass: Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE R&S - Lesson Frame Relay

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*Netmasterclass: Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE RS Lesson
Frame Relay*
English | 708x752 | TSCC | 30fps 134kbps | MP3 192kbps | 761MB
_Genre: eLearning_
Notonly will the subject of working with Frame Relay be covered in
thesevideo on demand modules, the issue spotting/options analysis
problemsolving approach will be presented and applied as well.
Adopting thisproblem solving approach is useful for solving minimally
described CCIElevel problems. Once this problem solving approach is
adopted andinternalized, a student will be able to formulate an
opening movesstrategy for any and all Frame Relay configuration and
troubleshootingtasks that may be encountered.

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