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Saturday at AFF: An Education; Battlestar Galactica: Caprica panel, screening, and Q&A; a downright amazing Apollo 13 screening and panel with Ron Howard, Captain Jim Lovell, and others; and a storytellers panel with Mitch Hurwitz, Ron Howard, and Steve Zaillian. Also, fake blind people.

The Austin Film Festival, which kicks off on October 22, will be hosting quite possibly one of the coolest retrospectives that any space nerd could hope for. Ron Howard, Jim Lovell and Apollo 13!

While reading this article, you may notice that Robert Ludlum titled all of his novels by staring with “The,” adding an enigmatic adjective like “Parsifal,” and ending it with a nonsensical noun like “mosaic.” You may also notice that Ron Howard will be directing a movie based off of “The Parsifal Mosaic.”

The living legend is going to be celebrated at this year’s Austin Film Festival in late October. Hopefully, there’s an Opie retrospective.

Kevin Carr reviews this week’s new movies: Angels & Demons and Big Man Japan.

Neil and Kevin stumble into the Magical Studio in the Sky, completely unprepared for the show. But at least they have both seen this week’s movies, Angels & Demons and Big Man Japan.

Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is back in inaction as the Harvard professor and expert of symbols, helping out the Vatican in what looks like an ancient threat from a powerful enemy finally taking root. After the Pope dies, The Illuminati rears its head – stealing anti-matter from the Hadron Collider and planning to use it to convert the center of the Holy Church into rubble.

Kevin Carr vents his spleen about an unexpected consequence of the failure of last year’s bomb The Love Guru.

Remember The Da Vinci Code, Ron Howard’s first adaptation of a Dan Brown novel? It was boring. Long, slow and downright boring. Angels & Demons however, appears to be anything but.

I don’t see the point when every aspect of Frost/Nixon is excellent, from Ron Howard’s direction to Salvatore Totino’s cinematography to Peter Morgan’s stirring screenplay.

No one likes a sell out. But selling out goes both ways. This time of year, directors sell out in a different way. I’m talking about all the major mainstream Hollywood directors who “sell out” to do the award film released at the end of the year.

Kevin Carr looks at Punisher: War Zone, Frost/Nixon and Timecrimes, in theaters this week with the FSR Report Card.

Kevin and Neil drive a Cadillac through the War Zone and take some shots at David Frost and Richard Nixon. They continue with their proselytizing for the cause of Fatguyenatics and the Church of Fatguyentology, in which they canonize their first patron saint.

The Arrested Development movie may just be coming together, as Ron Howard and Mitchell Hurwitz are close to signing a deal with Fox Searchlight. Not excited? Come on!

Over the past week or so buzz has continued to swell over the much talked about, but still unconfirmed Arrested Development movie. Jeffrey Tambor says its on and Ron Howard says he’s “hopeful.”

The official site for the new Ron Howard film, Angels and Demons, has premiered a new teaser and the most notable thing about it is the improvement in Tom Hanks’ hair style.

Yesterday we posted, and then were promptly asked to remove the first teaser trailer for Ron Howard’s upcoming film Frost/Nixon. Oddly enough, the official release of the domestic trailer came today.

If there is one thing that should be abundantly clear at this point, it is that this is an election year.

If there’s anything we’ve learned over the years, it’s that “there’s always money in the banana stand!” That being said, there’s also always money in Fox’s lost hit, Arrested Development.

Screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski who sat down with AMC’s Blog to talk a bit about all the great stuff he’s got lined up (and that I’ve been paid millions of dollars to say I’m excited about). Cha-ching!