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26 June 2008 2:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Peter Askin's Trumbo subscribes to the notion, at once novel and forehead-slappingly obvious, that the best way to pay homage to a great man of letters is through his own words. In archival footage, Dalton Trumbo cuts a dashing, unforgettable figure, with his hyper-verbal charm and a walrus mustache that looks both debonair and vaguely comic, but it's his literary voice that dominates the film, through letters performed by a giddy cavalcade of respected character actors and big movie stars. A feature-film adaptation of Christopher Trumbo's play about his father, Trumbo documents with affection and humor Dalton Trumbo's rise to the apex of screenwriting fame, and his subsequent public humiliation and banishment at the hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee and its notorious blacklist. As Trumbo eloquently conveys in letters rife with righteous anger, Huac was itself infinitely more unAmerican and antithetical to the noble values espoused.

Nathan Rabin

23 June 2008 8:09 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

As the temperature rises, romance blooms amongst the geriatric set, "Mary Poppins" goes Bollywood, and parents will get their first chance to lay eyes on that which will likely have them driving to Toys "R" Us all summer long.

"Elsa and Fred"

Seeing anyone under 30 fall in love on screen is elusive these days, and so director Marcos Carnevale's gentle and endearing tale of romance between a couple with a real-life combined age of 176 is quite the breath of fresh air. In a role that nabbed several awards in his native Spain, Manuel Alexandre stars as Fred, an embittered widower whose chance encounter with Elsa (China Zorilla), a mischievous Fellini fanatic, leads the pair to Italy to fulfill her dream of reenacting the famous Trevi Fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita." In Spanish with subtitles.

Opens in limited release.

"Finding Amanda"

Fans of the small

Neil Pedley

18 June 2008 9:06 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Ashley Olsen and National Treasure actor Justin Bartha have gone public with their budding romance after attending a film screening in New York together on Monday.

The new couple stepped out for the Cinema Society screening of Trumbo - a movie about blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

A source tells the New York Post's gossip column Page Six, "They huddled close together most of the night."

Olsen and Bartha later went on to party at Tribeca Cinemas.

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