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  • Best director gong for gory Mexico drug war film

    Mexico's Amat Escalante (pictured) won the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his ultra-violent film ';Heli’’ about his country's blood-drenched drug wars. The 34-year-old director, forced onto the defensive after the violence left some members of the audience uneasy, AFP reports. ';This earthquake, I wasn't expecting this! Thank you to ...

  • Reuters Sports Schedule at 0001 GMT on Monday May 27

    Reuters sports schedule at 0001 GMT on Monday: - - - - Indy 500 Charmed Kanaan wins Indy 500 in 12th attempt INDIANAPOLIS - With a good luck charm he had given to a sick child back in his pocket, Brazilian Tony Kanaan won his first Indianapolis ...

  • Mexicos telecoms law to rebuild industry brick by brick

    By Dave Graham and Tomas Sarmiento MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's new telecommunications law aims to break the hold of dominant players that have made the country's industry an anomaly on the global map and rebuild it "brick by brick," a ...

  • SDSU beats New Mexico earns NCAA berth

    SDSU defeated No. 16-ranked New Mexico 9-4 Sunday afternoon in the winner-take-all finals, setting off a celebration as jubilant Aztecs players piled on top of one another on the mound at Fresno State's Beiden ...

  • Michael Putnam wins Mexico Championship

    View Photo Michael Putnam hits from the fifth fairway during the second round of the U.S. Open Championship golf tournament in Bethesda, Md., Friday, June 17, 2011. ...

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The Amityville Horror (2005) [Blu-Ray]

The Amityville Horror (2005) [Blu-Ray]

The influence of J-horror is all over Andrew Douglas highly stylized remake of The Amityville Horror, but in typical American-filmmaking-borrowing-from-foreign-filmmaking fashion, he wants to have it both ways. The films best moments are the ones that tap into terrors ... ...

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  • Factbox Winners at the 2013 Cannes film festival

    CANNES (Reuters) - The 2013 Cannes film festival announced the winners of its main awards on Sunday at the end of 12 days of movie premieres on the French Riviera. Following is a list of winners at the 66th Cannes festival, the world's largest ...

  • Mexico may retaliate in meat-label row with U.S.

    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Mexico may hit back with trade measures against the U.S. in reaction to a new rule requiring meat sold in the U.S. to carry labels specifying its origin, according to a media ...

  • Mexico reforms knock Carlos Slim off worlds richest perch

    MEXICO CITY -- Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim held the title of the world's richest man for the past three years until a new president rolled into town with a vast economic reform ...

  • UPDATE 2-French lesbian love story wins top prize at Cannes

    Sun May 26, 2013 4:18pm EDT * "La Vie d'Adele" wins Palme d'Or for best picture * Bruce Dern, Berenice Bejo win acting awards (Adds quotes from Spielberg, actors, director, details) By Belinda Goldsmith and Alexandria Sage CANNES, May 26 (Reuters) - An intimate lesbian love story by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the top prize at the 2013 Cannes festival on Sunday, ...

  • New Mexico Setting New Records With Drought

    New Mexico is slipping further into drought, having marked the driest two-year period in nearly 120 years of record-keeping. National weather forecasters and water managers shared the latest statistics on New Mexico’s devastatingly dry conditions during a meeting Tuesday. They say the last 12- and 24-month periods have eclipsed even those dry times of the early 20th century and the ...

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