Around the Web is a daily feature where we highlight some of the days movie related stories from across the internet that we think you may find interesting. If you come across something that you think we should share with the rest of the world, please contact John with the link.
- Matt Damon Gets Engaged And girls around the world cry themselves to sleep
- Summer Box Office winners and losers
- Ashton Kutcher Could be the new Ash Oh Hell no! Someone tell this isn’t so!
- Johnny Deep Interviewed about Corpse Bride I know I’m in the minority here… but this film just looks like a yawner to me
- Johnny Depp talks Pirates 3
- Land of the Dead gets banned in the Ukraine Now before you get all up in arms about this… you should probably read their reasons. I still don’t agree… but I can at least understand where they’re coming from
- Bruce Willis to guest star on That 70’s show
- Maverick and Iceman Together again in Mission Impossible 3? I’ve got to admit it would be fun to see this
- Gillian Anderson in Straightheads “the story of a middle-class couple who embark on a spree of vengeful violence after they are assaulted by a gang”
- Description of the new full Harry Potter trailer
- Marc Forster’s new film set in Afganistan under the Taliban This actually sounds really really really good
- Keith Richards still not officially on board for Pirates This just keeps going back and forth and back and forth
- Nancy Drew heading to the big screen Hell… even I read a couple of Nancy Drew stories as a kid
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Concerning that Land Of The Dead got banned in Ukraine – I don’t understand why this kind of things happens. Why zombie movies are banned in a country with an unfortunate similar event in its history. Why americans avoided to make any movie related to September 11 only until recently. Why each time something terrible happens, people avoid making movies about that event for some time. When something terrible happens in my life, I like watching movies about similar events, which I can relate to and which sometime help me get through that part of my life.
Now, I understand why the german people would avoid making movies about the human side of Hitler. I understand why V for Vendetta might have been delayed due to the London bombings, because its main character uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society.
But it’s not like Land Of The Dead promotes cannibalistic behaviour or encourages the murder of thousands of people. It’s not like a Sepember 11 movie would necessarily present arab terrorists like brave men who fight for a worthy cause, or something like that. So why avoid/ban them? I really don’t understand.