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The best Rick and Morty episodes feature both standalone stories and some additions that actually move forward its overarching plot. The humor is often funny, creative, and very intelligent, looking at more than just the pop culture references and easy sight gags of other adult animated shows. Instead, the attention to detail and world-building that goes on in the episodes delivers jokes when viewers least expect it and with the quirky time travel and alternate worlds, the storylines are never-ending.

Created by Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez is a brilliant mad scientist who has created devices that can wreak havoc as well as travel to alternate worlds and he takes his grandson, Morty, with him, often to the chagrin of his parents. However, nothing is ever as it seems. The episodes take things in unexpected directions, offering brilliant sci-fi storylines, absurdist humor, and jokes that go deeper than almost any of its contemporaries.

Exclusive: Showmax’s buzzy South African crime drama Koek is heading for a second season.

The series, whose title translates as Cake, stars Cindy Swanepoel as a housewife who finds evidence her husband is cheating with an erotic dancer named Candi Floss, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban Cape Town utopia she knows.

Season 1 has been among the ten-most streamed Afrikaans-language series on Showmax since it launched in February in partnership with Comcast subsidiaries NBCUniversal and Sky. It is the most nominated drama at this coming week’s Silwerskerm Film and TV Award. Swanepoel is up for Best Actress, Stian Bam and Jacques Messenger for Best Actor, Sandra Prinsloo and Llandi Beeslaar for Supporting Actress and Dawid Minaar for Supporting Actor. The Season 2 announcement is being made at the Silwerskerm Festival.

Swanepoel stars as Christelle Smit opposite screen legend Prinsloo (The Gods Must Be Crazy), who plays a brandy-drinking,...

Sales agency Luxbox has acquired “One of Those Days When Hemme Dies!,” which has its world premiere in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival. The film is the feature debut of Turkish filmmaker Murat Firatoglu.

The film centers on Eyüp, who works relentlessly under the blazing sun during a tomato harvest in southeastern Turkey, driven by the urgent need to settle an impending debt. After a clash with his supervisor, he roams the city in search of a radical solution.

Jennyfer Gautier, head of international sales at Luxbox, and Fiorella Moretti, president of the company, said: “We were impressed right away by the highly graphic image of ‘One of Those Days When Hemme Dies.’ We felt strongly connected to the character of Eyüp while he tries to get out of his anger one way or another, and the subtle touch of humor in the film serves this connection perfectly.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.NEWSBlazing Saddles.With on-location filming in Los Angeles on the steep decline, Mayor Karen Bass has launched the Entertainment Industry Council, which plans to lobby the state to subsidize productions in the city.FESTIVALSViet and Nam.The Toronto International Film Festival (September 5–15) has added a number of titles to its lineup, including Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, bringing the total to 276. The Wavelengths slate will feature Truong Minh Quý’s Viet and Nam, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, and Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’s Pepe, among others. Festival attendees are encouraged to use this nifty tool, lest they be lost forever in the scheduling labyrinth.

Terrence Beasor, a veteran character and voice-over actor best known for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Gods Must Be Crazy and recurring roles on The Middle and Raising Hope, has died. He was 89.

A rep said Beasor died May 28 at his home in Santa Monica with his wife of 55-plus years, actress Muriel Minot, by his side.

Beasor appeared on dozens of TV shows during his 40-year career, including The Incredible Hulk, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Hardcastle and McCormick, Hill Street Blues, Cheers, L.A. Law, Dynasty, Hunter, Knot’s Landing, Simon & Simon, Police Squad!, Chicago Hope, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Scandal, Angie Tribeca, The Grinder, Hot In Cleveland, Scrubs, Gilmore Girls, The District, Suddenly Susan, Days of Our Lives and Murder, She Wrote.

He also did voice work on several Star Trek series and video games and offscreen announcing on movies and TV shows including Jaws: The Revenge,...

Armand Hammer have released their new album, We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, today (September 29th) via Fat Possum Records. The New York hip-hop duo comprised of rappers billy woods and Elucid will support the record with an upcoming fall and winter tour.

We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is the duo’s first album since their Alchemist collaboration Haram, one of the best albums of 2021. The 15-track LP features appearances from Moor Mother, Soul Glo’s Pierce Jordan, Pink Siifu, Junglepussy, and more. Ahead of its release, Armand Hammer shared the singles “Trauma Mic,” “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die,” and “The Gods Must Be Crazy.”

In a statement, Elucid described the recording process as “this sort of reverse engineering of talented players who met for the first time in the studio jamming to pre-recorded beats before splintering off into new directions. Being in the room quietly...

Armand Hammer are back with “The Gods Must Be Crazy,” the third and final look at their upcoming album We Buy Diabetic Test Strips. Check out the El-p-produced track below.

Elucid and billy woods and name drop figures from Henry Kissinger to Harry Belafonte to Beyoncé in the single, which features rolling, mechanical percussion and a repetitive bass line. In terms of energy, the track sits somewhere in between heated first single “Trauma Mic” and the experimental “Woke Up and Asked Siri How I’m Gonna Die.”

“woods and Elucid have something special going and I am happy we got together on this jam,” El-p said of “The Gods Must Be Crazy.” “I think we made a banger.”

We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is out this Friday, September 29th, via Fat Possum Records, and pre-orders are ongoing. In October, the duo will embark on a North American/European tour.

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On director/co-writer/co-editor Dean Fleischer-Camp discusses some of his favorite movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2022)

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2010)

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

San Andreas (2015)

Airplane! (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Ghost (1990)

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

Beetlejuice (1988) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review

Batman (1989)

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Batman Returns (1992) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Ed Wood (1994)

Mars Attacks (1996)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Planet of the Apes (2001)

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

8 ½ (1963) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Westworld (1973) – Ed Neumeier’s trailer commentary

Robocop (1987) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray reviews

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Alien (1979) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

Aliens (1986) – Glenn Erickson’s...

Jane Alsobrook, an influential film executive, producer and publicist whose marketing work led to the success of numerous films in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, died Dec. 13 at her home in Sedona, Ariz. of breast cancer. She was 78.

Alsobrook’s career in movies began in 1971. She was recruited to help organize the Los Angeles Film Exposition, or Filmex and soon became part of what is now known as “New Hollywood” — a group that included Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, George Lucas and more. While working for Roger Corman, she also supervised the 1975 Academy Award campaign for “Amarcord,” resulting in four nominations and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1975, Alsobrook entered the music industry as national publicity director for ABC Records, working alongside legends such as The Pointer Sisters, Steely Dan, Crosby and Nash and Chaka Khan. She then moved back to the world of film in...

Jane Alsobrook, a marketing and publicity specialist who coordinated the U.S. campaigns for numerous successful independent and foreign films in the 1970s and 1980s, has died. She was 78.

It was revealed today that Alsobrook died December 13 at her home in Sedona, Az on after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.

While doing post-graduate work at USC in the early 1970s, Alsobrook joined Gary Essert and Gary Abrahams to help launch the Los Angeles Film Exposition, aka Filmex, the city’s first film festival.

She then joined Roger Corman’s New World Pictures to handle marketing and publicity, notably for Fellini’s Amarcord, which won the Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1975. The following year she shifted gears to become national publicity director for ABC Records, and in the late ’70s she helped engineer the launch of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, starring The Ramones, which Corman released.

In the early 1980s,...

While it may not be Friday, there is still plenty to celebrate this Tuesday the 13th, as we prepare to head back to Camp Crystal Lake with Scream Factory’s impressive Friday the 13th Collection, which brings together all the films from the original franchise, as well as the remake and Freddy vs. Jason as well. Scream Factory also put together a Blu-ray release of one of the most seminal films from my childhood this week—Terror in the Aisles—and they even are giving Motel Hell the Steelbook treatment on Tuesday as well.

Kino Lorber is also keeping busy this week with their special edition Blu for DeepStar Six as well as a SteelBook for Rawhead Rex, and for those of you who dig on The Exorcist sequels, both Dominion and Exorcist: The Beginning come home on Blu-ray this Tuesday, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Other home media...

Above: 1976 Hungarian poster for The Wizard of Oz. Art by Olga Tövisváry.In the world of East European poster design, Hungary has always been somewhat of a poor relation to Poland and Czechoslovakia, whose artists have been justly celebrated for years. In that indispensable bible of international postwar movie poster design, Art of the Modern Movie Poster, 66 pages are devoted to Polish posters and 40 to the Czechs, but not only is Hungary lumped into a section with Russia, Romania, and Yugoslavia but there are only two Hungarian posters featured. But that dearth of attention is all due to access rather than to the quality of Hungarian design. I recently came across a treasure-trove of Hungarian movie posters on a number of websites that could go a long way to redressing the balance. The posters that I am featuring here were all found on the auction site Bedo and they come...

If you listened to our Class of 1989 aquatic horror movie episode of Corpse Club, then you know we're big fans of Sean S. Cunningham's DeepStar Six, so we're especially thrilled that the film's submerged scares are coming to Blu-ray on October 13th from Kino Lorber.

As reported on Bloody Disgusting, you can check out the DeepStar Six Blu-ray cover art and full list of special features below (via Facebook):

"Coming October 13th!

Deepstar Six (1989)

• Audio Commentary by Producer/Director Sean S. Cunningham & Visual Effects Supervisor James Isaac

• Featurette with Creature Supervisor Greg Nicotero & Creature Designer Robert Kurtzman

• Featurette with Composer Harry Manfredini

• Original Epk

• Extended Vintage Interview Clips

• Behind-the-Scenes Footage

• Theatrical Trailer

• TV Spot

• Image Gallery

• Limited Edition O-Card

• Reversible Art

• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc

• Optional English Subtitles

Color 99 Minutes 2.35:1 Rated R

Not All Aliens Come From Space! From producer/director Sean S. Cunningham, the creator of...

The story of a gay conscript in the army in the 80s gave one critic a panic attack – but its director says it sheds light on the nation’s toxic masculinity

From an outside perspective, South African cinema tends to announce itself through occasional breakout films rather than consistently visible directorial careers. Back in the 1980s, The Gods Must Be Crazy was a global hit that didn’t do much to raise the profile of its director, Jamie Uys. Fourteen years ago, gritty township fable Tsotsi won the country one of its first Oscars, only to send director Gavin Hood directly into a proficient but culturally anonymous Hollywood career.

In Oliver Hermanus, however, the country has produced its most significant auteur in several generations. The 36-year-old Capetonian studied at the London Film School, but returned home for his art. His 2009 graduation film Shirley Adams, a tough-minded mother-son portrait set on the Cape Flats,...

What are hunter-gatherers supposed to do when they are no longer allowed to hunt? The question forms the heart of Simon Stadler’s documentary about the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen of Namibia. Since killing wild game was banned by their country in 1990, the nomadic tribespeople have had to make a living by becoming a living tourist attraction, entertaining and selling trinkets to tourists from Europe and America. At times resembling a more sober, documentary-style version of The Gods Must Be Crazy, Ghostland is an intermittently entertaining but ultimately facile ethnographic portrait.

The film, currently receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at NYC’s...

The gods must be crazy. Changes are already underway on Starz' American Gods TV show adaptation. The drama just began shooting in Toronto, in late April. Per Deadline, Sean Harris has left the role of Mad Sweeney, for personal reasons. Additionally, director of photography Brendan Glavin has been replaced with Jo Willems.

Reportedly, Harris had only completed a few scenes. They will be reshot, when Mad Sweeney is recast. The cast of American Gods also includes: Emily Browning, Ian McShane, Ricky Whittle, Yetide Badaki, Bruce Langley, Crispin Glover, Jonathan Tucker, Cloris Leachman, Peter Stormare, Chris Obi, and Mousa Kraish.

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Exclusive: Vienna based Autlook Filmsales has snapped up international sales rights to Songs Of Lahore, the new feature doc from Sharmeen Obey - the first Pakistani ever to win an Oscar - and Andy Schocken.

Songs Of Lahore, which recently premiered in Tribeca, follows a group of musicians in Pakistan brought together to keep their musical traditions alive in the face of rising fundamentalist threats. When they release an album that receives worldwide acclaim, they are invited by Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis to perform with his orchestra at Lincoln Center.

“The unlikely combination of Pakistani traditional musicians and American Jazz legends is simply beautiful and magical,” said Autlook CEO Salma Abdalla.

“The drama and struggles of these gifted musicians is excellently crafted with a good dose of humor, the story develops into an unintended statement that arts can be incredibly important to pacify society. The story is more newsworthy than ever.”

Other titles...

Savage Harvest is a 1981 movie starring Tom Skerritt as the patriarch of a family under siege by a pride of lions in Africa. It is awesome. Heatstroke gives the impression early on that it’s aiming for a similar feel — albeit with the lions replaced by hyenas — but what follows is nothing of the sort. There is only one hyena. And it’s less of a carnivorous threat than it is the reassuring reincarnation of Stephen Dorff (probably). Paul (Dorff) is a hyena expert teaching classes on hyenas. The divorced father of one is planning a trip to South Africa with his girlfriend Tally (Svetlana Metkina), but a call from his distraught ex-wife worried that their daughter Jo (Maisie Williams) is using drugs leads to the ornery teenager joining the research safari. Tally has little interest in taking care of a child, but she tries her best in the face of Jo’s constant attitude and ungratefulness...

World Bank study recommends 51 films using development as a plot device - sometimes at expense of accuracy and complexity

International development is just about at the bottom of the list of things that the average westerner thinks about each day. News organisations are closing their foreign bureaus. One of the big Us television networks turned down more money for global health reporting after a series, entirely funded by grants, led to a dip in viewers. In other words ratings were so bad that the network turned down millions of dollars. It is that tough.

Aside from advocacy efforts like (the much-criticised) Kony 2012 and Oxfam advertisements, how do people learn about the world around them? The answer could be Hollywood. Reporting on Africa does not get much attention in the Us, but a film staring Leonardo DiCaprio about Sierra Leone does.

A film like Blood Diamond, setting aside its problems, brings...

A Planet Fury-approved selection of notable genre releases for August.

Jaws (1975) Universal Blu-ray/DVD/Digital combo Available Now

Steven Spielberg’s classic thriller has been painstakingly restored from the original film elements. Amity Island has never been so beautiful. The movie itself seems to improve with age, with amazing performances and scenes that still manage to unnerve — Susan Backlinie’s death at the beginning is truly one of the most horrifying ever portrayed onscreen. Making this a true “special edition” is the long-awaited release of The Shark Is Still Working, an expansive documentary on the making and the impact of the 1975 film. All of the surviving cast and crew are interviewed along with several minutes of never-before-seen footage.

Special Features:

*Digitally remastered and fully restored from high resolution 35mm original film elements.

*Digital Copy of Jaws

*UltraViolet Copy of Jaws

*The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy...

For those of you who wondered why the blog has been dark, my father passed away suddenly. I've been spending time out west with my mom. This is one of my favorite photos of my parents, which I found on an old ektrachrome slide. They were married in December 1960 and this picture, taken sometime that decade, predates my existence altogether! I think it's maybe even before they had any kids (I'm the youngest of four) but perhaps my sister was around.

My dad and I were never "close" per se though he was surprisingly supportive of most of my artistic endeavors paying for art classes and congratulating me on writing successes.  We disagreed on virtually everything but particularly politics and movies.

He was not, in fact, a fan of the cinema and often grumbled about my nonstop chatter about the artform. Once when I was a teenager he was so...

Released 20 years ago this week , "The Player" seemed at the time like one of the most merciless lampoons of Hollywood ever made, but director Robert Altman liked to insist that it was "a very mild satire." He meant that it could have been even meaner if he'd made it more realistic. Altman was working from Michael Tolkin's screenplay, adapted from Tolkin's own novel, but the observations it made about the movie industry's contempt for art and artists were clearly informed by Altman's own decades of frustration as a creative filmmaker with a singular, idiosyncratic vision who repeatedly clashed with executives interested only in profit. Judging by how many Hollywood A-listers he got to do free cameos in the movie -- about five dozen of them -- a lot of the industry's top talent must have felt as he did. So did critics and audiences, who helped make the movie...

In case you haven't heard, the Rapture has been moved up. According to a California evangelical, a massive earthquake will shake the world, sending true believers to the heavens, leaving nonbelievers to watch the world destruction.*

That might sound like bad news (Ok, really bad news) but the silver lining in all this is that we get to plan our final hours. So with the pending apocalypse — tonight or on Saturday, as originally scheduled — we ask, What movie would you watch on you last day?

Would it be a lighthearted movie to ease your mind? Or would you pick an apocalyptic movie to prepare you in case you survive Judgment Day?

*Just to put things into context, the same pastor who is predicting the end of the world incorrectly predicted the return of Jesus to Earth in 1994.

Eta: Since The Big Lebowski is currently ranked #1, we wanted to let all...

Pacific Banana (Original Release Date: 5 February 1981)

This week marks the first instance of me reviewing a movie discovered as a direct result of writing this column. I anticipate future cases where I will find newly discovered movies so disagreeable I will be made to wish I had never lighted on the idea of reviewing these suckers, but this isn’t one of those cases. Pacific Banana is a treat. It flies thick through a fog of continuity errors, the casts’ collective stab at acting is lamentable, the plot contrivances begin stacking tall from the outset, and the plot is threadbare, but its charm and good-naturedness make it hard not to developsome affection for it.

Part of this charm is in its casually smarmy approach. If I were cataloging it for a special interests video store, I would categorize it a “milquetoast sex romp,” and I would put it on the same shelf as Porky’s,...

In this week’s World Cinema column, we look at how individual countries become a hotbed for filmmaking talent, and the new wave of directors from Latin America...

Film is sometimes like music. There is a certain scene which is considered cool at a certain time, and a time and place which is a hotbed of creative energy. Musically, it currently resides in New York, but film-wise is perhaps more open to debate. Unlike music, film cannot react instantly to social changes. It take years to write, produce, and release a picture, and that's with a major studio release.

But every so often, a region will produce a string of filmmakers and create a buzz about it, one which inevitably becomes noticed by Hollywood. So, what's been hip in recent years?

In my view the defining world cinema of the last decade plus must be from Latin America. The list...

The gods must be crazy. And who can blame them? This pure sensory overload trailer is enough to make anyone crazy: scorpion-like monsters, brutal carnage and so many quick cuts you'd think they used one of the swords to edit the damn thing. Not to mention it's got the heaviest soundtrack since This Is Spinal Tap. In this redo of the 1981 campfest Clash of the Titans, Sam Worthington plays Perseus, the half-divine son of Liam Neeson's Zeus who's on a gamer mission that finds him leaping into the underworld of Hades, played by Ralph Fiennes. Depending on your cinematic needs, this could be the best thing since 300 or the worst rip on it. What say you?...

If there is one thing Hollywood likes, it's a comeback story, and no one seems more poised for that right now than writer-director Troy Duffy. Politics may have sunk his The Boondock Saints initially, but word of mouth and DVD sales proved co-star Billy Connolly right when he said, "The kids will find it! It's rock 'n' roll!"

Now the saints have been resurrected in a sequel, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. In honor of this achievement, we look at six movies that surprisingly failed in theaters in Back from the Dead: Movie Classics that Began as Box-Office Bombs.

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The Boondock Saints | The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | Blade Runner | The Wizard of Oz | Office Space | The Gods Must Be Crazy | Alice in Wonderland...

SYDNEY -- With his debut feature Lucky Miles, Michael James Rowland leaches the politics out of the prickly topic of illegal immigration and turns out an unexpectedly amiable comedy. The narrative -- which follows a motley crew of asylum seekers stumbling through the Outback -- lacks momentum, and the film falls short of the Gods Must Be Crazy-style mayhem for which it appears to be shooting. But its congeniality is disarming, and the themes are slyly conscience-pricking.

Inspired by a number of real-life events, Miles features a cast of unknowns, which, together with frequent subtitles, could limit accessibility upon its local release. It's already proven to be a festival favorite in Australia, and Cineclick Asia has picked it up for international distribution.

Setting the action in 1990, Rowland harks back to a time before the nation, or at least its government, seemed to lose any sense of compassion for the Third World refugees seeking sanctuary on its shores. It starts on a cheery note as a group of Cambodians and Iraqis wade ashore after being dropped off by Indonesian people-smugglers on a deserted stretch of coastline in Western Australia.

Their joy soon turns to despair as the boat chugs off. They crest the sand dunes to discover, instead of the promised bus stop to Perth, an abundance of what is referred to by locals as "bugger-all."

They splinter into two groups: Iraqis heading one way into nothingness, Cambodians the other. The Cambodians are quickly picked up by police after they stop at an isolated pub to ask directions, though a fateful trip to the outhouse means one, Arun (Kenneth Moraleda), escapes the roundup. Meanwhile, a bunch of laconic army reservists on border patrol have been dispatched to investigate a suspicious fishing boat in the area.

They pick up Arun's tracks but soon discover three sets of footprints: A couple of only slightly strained plot contrivances have thrown the Cambodian together with one of the Iraqis, a structural engineer named Youssif (Rodney Afif), and Ramelan (Srisacd Sacdpraseuth), the Indonesian boat owner's ne'er-do-well nephew.

The ill-matched trio unites around a single water bottle and shared survival instincts, though the two refugees wonder how much they can trust a man who sadly informs them that his mother died before he was born. Arun's sketchy map gives no sense of the unpopulated vastness that surrounds them and sends them off on an elliptical odyssey that sorely tests their uneasy alliance.

Underpinning the naive slapstick and droll verbal clashes is a deep seam of humanism that makes its point about tolerance of difference gently. Heated debate about national identity and the ethics of detention have no place in this comic fable, and neither do cultural stereotypes.

Discord is rooted in the need for survival in a strange and hostile environment. Even the army trackers seem motivated by a desire to save the skins of the bumbling trespassers.

Moraleda is particularly effective as the politely resolute Arun, dogged in his determination to reach Perth and the father he has never met. Afif gets great comic mileage out of a centerpiece scene involving a cobbled-together Jeep.

Indian composer Trilok Gurtu contributes a dramatic percussive score, while cinematographer Geoff Burton does a terrific job conveying the enormity of the brutally beautiful West Australian landscapes.

LUCKY MILES

Cineclick Asia

Short of Easy

Credits:

Director/co-producer: Michael James Rowland

Screenwriters: Helen Barnes, Michael James Rowland

Producers: Jo Dyer, Lesley Dyer

Executive producer: Michael Bourchier

Director of photography: Geoff Burton

Production designer: Pete Baxter

Music: Trilok Gurtu

Costume designer: Ruth de la Lande

Editor: Henry Dangar

Cast:

Arun: Kenneth Moraleda

Youssif: Rodney Afif

Ramelan: Srisacd Sacdpraseuth

O'Shane: Glenn Shea

Greg: Don Hany

Tom: Sean Mununggurr

Muluk: Sawung Jabo

Abdu: Arif Hidayat

Running time -- 104 minutes

No MPAA rating...

The Gods Must Be Crazy star N!Xau has died of natural causes while collecting wood in the Namibian countryside. N!xau, 59, gained international acclaim for his performance in the 1980 film and the 1989 sequel - but decided to return to life as an African herdsman. Mireschen Troskie-marx of Mimosa Films says, "Apparently he went out to find wood on Tuesday and never returned. His family went out looking for him and he was found dead in a field. We believe it was of natural causes. He went to America, to Paris, to Japan. He was a world star, but he came back and he want back to his old roots." The Gods Must Be Crazy was a comedy hit worldwide and made an unlikely star of N!xau, who appeared in a number of kung-fu flicks in Hong Kong.