Yeah. so I can really recommend this flick.Ben Affleck is quite good for a change and the rest of the cast...absolutely superb!

A short film by Blessing Mbonambi A story exploring the relationship of two ill fated lovers in modern South Africa. A farmer's daughter and a farmhand are against the odds when they find the world around them to be unwelcoming.

Given my love of editing and cliches, this was probably inevitable: a montage of contemporary horror and suspense cinema's go-to roadblock, non-working cell phones. I'm probably more psychotic than your average horror villain for sifting through this crap and compiling this (66 movies are included!). At the same time, the fact that I couldn't include cellular mishaps in still-in-theaters fare like Jennifer's Body and The Final Destination is killing me. So, you know, at least I'm balanced. September 23, 2009 in Filmses, Horrors! | Permalink

Christian Poveda during an interview in San Sebastian, Spain, in September 2008. Photograph: Rafa Rivas/AFP/Getty Images

 

A French film-maker and photojournalist who spent years researching a documentary on the criminal underbelly of El Salvador's gang culture has been found dead in the Central American country, police said today.

Christian Poveda's body was discovered with a bullet wound to the head near his car, about 10 miles north of San Salvador. He was on his way back from filming in La Campanera, a poor and overcrowded suburb where the Mara 18 street gang, the subject of his documentary, is based.

La Vida Loca, an unflinching portrait of gang members' everyday lives, had been due for release in France on 30 September. But Poveda's work had already drawn the attention of the people featured and he had begun to receive threats, said a friend and fellow photographer, Alain Mingham.

During its production, several of Poveda's subjects were either arrested or killed.

"Christian was not overly worried until recently," Mingham told the news website Rue89.com. "But his film had been shown on [the television channel] Canal+Espagne and pirate copies were circulating in Salvador, sold for a euro each. Some gangs then accused him of making business out of them, but the bosses calmed them down."

In a statement today, El Salvador's president, Mauricio Funes, said he was "devastated" by news of the assassination and ordered an immediate police investigation. Funes, himself a former journalist, had met Poveda to discuss the growing problem of gang violence.

"He had real recognition in this world, and the gangs sometimes asked him to act as a mediator," said Mingham. "Even the president … consulted him on the way in which to make progress."

Poveda, 54, first came to El Salvador in the 1980s in order to cover the civil war but soon developed a fascination for the "maras", the violent, tattooed street gangs that originated in Los Angeles and which have formed vast criminal networks throughout Central America.