To Be or Not to Be News

It's hard to say where the truth really lies. October 27, 1954 Disneyland , Walt Disney's first television series, premieres on ABC.

Best known as a creator of broad film farces and uproarious parodies, jack-of-all-trades Mel B rooks has been entertaining audiences for years with his wacky and absurdist humor.

Freaks 1932 // 64 Minutes // Not Rated Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde 1941 // 114 Minutes // Rated G House Of Wax 1953 // 88 Minutes // Rated PG The Haunting 1963 // 112 Minutes // Rated G Released by Warner Bros.

The Locarno Film Festival announced Thursday that it would host what it called an "exhaustive" retrospective of pioneering film director Ernst Lubitsch in its 2010 edition, the first official move from new Locarno artistic director Olivier Pere.

Quentin Tarantino returns to public notice with a Second World War movie, though be warned, it bears about as much relation to historical realism as did To Be or Not To Be or Where Eagles Dare, both of which it passingly recalls.

Quentin Tarantino returns to public notice with a Second World War movie, though be warned, it bears about as much relation to historical realism as did To Be or Not To Be or Where Eagles Dare, both of which it passingly recalls.

Synopsis: December 1944: the 'total war' is as good as totally lost. Goebbels, however, isn't willing to be so easily defeated.

Anti-Semitism was a fact of life in Europe in the 16th Century. Jews were forced to live in ghettoes and to observe curfews - they were banned from owning property and so became money-lenders. Shylock, played by AL PACINO, is deeply resentful about all this, especially when the Christian merchant, Antonio, , spits on him.

''To Be Or Not To Be'' is a fast-moving farce involving a theater company in the midst of the Nazi occupation of Poland.

Louie Walks, a one man show , is a musical oddity created by and starring Ian Finkel .

"To Be Or Not To Be" is a fast-moving farce involving a theater company in the midst of the Nazi occupation of Poland.

As the two Jewish men on stage slip on their Nazi armbands, preparing to take the Siegfried Oath, the portly man sitting next to me seems unsure if he should laugh.

"I think this might be my masterpiece," Lt Aldo Raine declares after carving a swastika on a Nazi's forehead toward the end of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

Mein Gott! The Mel Brooks musical, which hit the Broadway jackpot, has been staged in Germany of all places.

What can The Godfather: Part II teach us about international relations? Last week, in the online edition of Slate 's sister publication Foreign Policy , two of its regular bloggers, Stephen M. Walt and Daniel W. Drezner , drew up lists of what they regard as the best movies ever made about international relations.

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For the week of Sunday, April 26, through Saturday, May 2. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

Mostly apropos of nothing -- and pardon me if this sounds a little flip -- but in the weeks and months in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, I often had the uncomfortable feeling that the descriptions I was hearing of Osama Bin Laden sounded awfully familiar.

A month passes so quickly and here we are again updating YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST PICTURE at http://youreonlyasgoodasyourlastpicture.blogspot.com/ . This time learn the story of actress Carole Lombard whose final film was 1942's TO BE OR NOT TO BE co-starring the great Jack Benny!