by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Shailene Woodley's viral headlines have mostly been about the unlikely pairing with Green Bay Packers football player Aaron Rodgers, but she does have a career in Hollywood. Her latest outing is set for ROBOTS, from Rocket Science, to be written and co-directed by Borat scribe Anthony Hines. [Shailene Woodley photo credit: L. Clendenin, Getty Images.] From Screenmancer LONDON, UK: Rocket Science announced today that Shailene Woodl...

Held from October 17-20, the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History, reinforced its preeminent role as the platform for superb documentaries. Productions screened were informed by anthropological and social science underpinnings, an orientation towards contemporary issues, and cogent analysis of problems ranging from political self determination to environmental challenges. The festival, started in 1977, is the longest running annual international documentary fe...

CHAPPiE, Review: Narcotics and Robotics South Africa, Canada and the USA come together in this science fiction/crime/human machines saga. To reduce the high crime rate in Johannesburg, the South African police force purchases armour-plated attack robots (Robocops?) from weapons manufacturer Tetravaal (Neill Blomkamp's 2004 short film Tetra Vaal is the basis for this film--not the Transvaal--released 11 years later), which prove highly successful and the company gets repeat orders. The rob...