Soccer/Football! I grew up playing it and love it to this day. I’ve always found it to be a sport that unites people, from the folks working together on the field, to the fans in the stands. Susan Koch takes that idea to the next level in her new documentary Kicking It. The film follows the lives of seven people that decide to represent their country at the Cape Town 2006 Homeless World Cup.

Plus, how can you go wrong with Colin Farrell?!

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So, it’s come to this: An Inconvenient Truth is going to become an opera.   Like, with singers and orchestras and everything.   There’s not a whole lot of information out there at the moment, but with musicals based on every other piece of media in the world existing right now (Legally Blond as a musical?  Come on!), this seems like a totally rational idea that isn’t really, really, mind-blowingly odd.   From the Associated Press:

[O]fficials say the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera on the international multiformat hit for the 2011 season at the Milan opera house. The composer is currently artistic director of the Arena in Verona. [ap.google.com]

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