Marketed by production-company Walden Media as a reduced-scale Chronicles of Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia, based on the novels by Katherine Paterson, is certainly smaller, but the ambition is far more adult. Alienated farm-boy Jess (sensitively played by Josh Hutcherson) is an artist at heart but is bullied at school and under-appreciated by his large family, as his parents struggle to pay the bills. When the expressive and free-spirited Lesley (AnnaSophia Robb) enters his life, the two become friends and create their own fantasy world, dubbed Terabithia.

The Anomalies Issue is here. Check out how contributing writers and artists interpreted the this issue's theme in Film, Mash, Music and Critical Culture.

The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn

Touch and Go

Angelo Sotira is one of the founders of Deviant Art.í‚   He has watched an idea he helped create become the largest forum for printed art and culture online.í‚   Capital Film editor Malcolm Levy caught up recently with Angelo Sotira to explore how Deviant Art has made such a huge mark in such a short time.

Almost universally ignored on ití¢â‚¬â„¢s released, Robert Towneí¢â‚¬â„¢s fine looking adaptation of John Fanteí¢â‚¬â„¢s groundbreaking book, Ask the Dust, is definitely worth a look if not a wholly satisfying experience. Colin Farrell stars as Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer who has moved to Los Angeles to write the great American novel. Craving the experiences with women he needs for his writing, Bandini stumbles into a local cafíƒ © to spend his last pennies. There he meets the fiery, Camilla (Salma Hayek) with whom he immediately strikes up an explosive relationship. Soon their untameable romance takes them on a wild journey through Los Angeles, love and literature.

Annie Spencer is a new media poet and experience designer living life beyond its margins and writing postcards home about it. Her current artistic practice is dedicated to an expansive game-story approach to trans-media, narrating and curating powerful questions with a unique sense of possibility.