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I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but I can often spend hours upon hours trawling through iTunes looking for new movies to buy… Usually I’ll randomly come across a title I haven’t seen in years and use the “Cast & Crew” links to make my way down the rabbit hole to the more obscure side of Apple’s digital movie service.

Now whilst many will decry that iTunes is a terrible VOD service due to Apple’s desire to lock its audience to their platforms, if you have an Apple TV or iPad be aware – there are some truly obscure films hidden away in the depths of the vast collection of movies. Some of which have been made available in the UK for the first time since VHS and a Lot that have been added to the service in their original uncut form!

So, with...

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is one actor whose career we always like to keep a track of considering his keen eye for directorial talent. He grew to prominence with roles in the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu ("Amores Perros," "Babel"); has since worked with names like Michel Gondry ("The Science Of Sleep"), Pedro Almodóvar ("Bad Education"), Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries") and Jim Jarmusch ("The Limits Of Control"); and has also been loosely attached to star in Martin Scorsese's next film, "Silence." The actor is now set to team with first time director Cyril Cohen as well as French thespian Marina Fois (most recently seen in the Cannes award winning "Polisse") for a Tel Aviv-set dramedy based on Alona Kimhi's novel "Weeping Susannah." Film takes place in the aftermath of the murder of Israeli prime...

One’s been having a great, multi-year run that nobody takes notice of, the other was able to use a TV show to stage a comeback. Now, Variety reports that Marisa Tomei and Joshua Jackson are starring in Inescapable, the newest feature from Cairo Time director Ruba Nadda, which also stars Alexander Siddig. The film follows “a Syrian expatriate (Siddig) whose journalist daughter goes missing in Damascus.” He returns home “to find her despite the risks and calls on a former love (Tomei) to help him,” and an “embassy official (Jackson) is at first helpful but may have an agenda of his own.”

Myriad will produce the and sell the project, which the company’s head, Kirk D’Amico, calls a “compelling and emotionally-charged story [which] should provide audiences with a unique view into an unstable and dangerous place that we only seem to know about from news headlines.” Being able...

Sworn to Silence

Neve Campbell is set to star in and produce "Sworn to Silence", a new Lifetime two-hour TV movie which could serve as a back door pilot and is based on the novel by Linda Castillo.

Campbell will play an Amish girl whose childhood was rocked by "brutal murders" in her quiet Amish farming community. Burkholder then returns to the community as the chief of police and investigates a new murder with the signature of the killer that haunted her youth. [Source: The Ib Times]

Les Miserables

Sacha Baron Cohen ("Borat," "Bruno") has reportedly been cast as the villain Monsieur Thenardier in Tom Hooper's new film adaptation of the musical "Les Miserables".

Cohen joins a cast that includes Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. Shooting kicks off in the New Year. [Source: The Press Association]

Dew Breaker

Danny Glover, Sophie Okonedo and Chiwetel Ejiofor are in negotiations to topline the Arsam...