Samir From Arsenal [Soccer]

Samir is not the first Gunners midfielder of recent years to hail from Marseille - the dense, heaving hotbed of sporting passion that is in many ways at odds with the rest of the country in which it resides. Unlike Mathieu Flamini, though, his life in football began in the most rudimentary of surroundings - on the very streets of his home suburb, La Govrotte Peyret. [Read More]

Butterfly Lovers [Entertainment]

Ah, the Butterfly Lovers - China's equivalent of Romeo and Juliet. We can't get enough of silly young lovers who defy their arranged marriages, it seems. Throw in impossibly-pretty teen tools Charlene Choi and Wu Chun, and the young crowd will start running in faster than you can say "Mos Burger butterfly prawns". This isn't a straight re-telling of the legend, so don't expect anything as sophisticated as Tsui Hark's version, The Lovers.

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Penelope [Entertainment]

Christina Ricci plays Penelope Wilhern, a wealthy and engaging young lady cursed with a pig's snout for a nose. The only way she can break the curse is for her to marry someone who loves her for what she is. Hidden away from the world, Penelope endures many painful matchmaking sessions, arranged by her snotty mother (Catherine O'Hara) in an attempt to bring order to her "chaotic" life. Unfortunately, Penelope's potential suitors all flee at the sight of her. [Read More]

Blindness  [Entertainment]

Set in a generic unnamed city - it could be your city! - Blindness kicks off with a Japanese motorist, listed in the credits only as First Blind Man (Yusuke Iseya), going blind. He's driven home by a stranger, who promptly steals his car. Yusuke's lovely wife, First Blind Man's Wife (Yoshino Kimura), takes him to an eye specialist, Doctor (Mark Ruffalo), and the blindness spreads to the physician, his patients and subsequently the world.

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