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Here's something we can all probably get excited about. Julian Schnabel's upcoming film chronicling Hind Husseini's efforts to establish an orphanage in Jerusalem after the 1948 Partition of Palestine which subsequently led to the 1948 Civil War. I'm tickled pink after seeing the trailer and looks like Dame Vanessa Redgraves is in it as well, if you haven't seen Ken Russell's "The Devils," I'd strongly recommend it, her performance is breathtaking.

Elsewhere in Hollyweird or, more appropriately, Great Britain, Christopher Morris the multiple BAFTA winning comedic genius behind Brasseye and some of the most caustic politically incendiary comedy in the last fifteen years has just come out with his latest directorial masterpiece "Four Lions," a film that follows a group of young Muslim men living in Sheffield who become radicalized and decide to become suicide bombers. Morris claims to have spent 3 years researching the project by speaking to terrorism experts, imams, and normal muslims. The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year to all types of laudation and foofaraw. Here's the trailer for it.