Lime.com goes Hollywood and checks out the premiere of a new film from the people who brought you ‘What the Bleep Do We (K)now!’

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Mining is no friend of the planet: erosion, deforestation, groundwater contamination, silting, the list goes on. Here's a more direct look at another of its impacts: the human cost.

The Devil's Miner, a documentary by Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson observes the thousands of miners, hundreds of them children, scouring the silver mines at Cerro Rico, the "rich mountain" outside Potosi, Bolivia.

Starting Thursday, a diverse group of musicians and performers come together to hoist a huge new Earth Day festival upon New York City, and hopefully inspire newfound passions for a healthy planet along the way. Confirmed talent for the inaugural Green Apple Music and Arts Festival includes such odd bedfellows as Blues Traveler, Dresden Dolls, GhostFace, Joe Satriani, Richie Havens, and the New York Philharmonic. Also committed to perform are tap dance superstar Savion Glover, singer/songwriter Amy Correia, dance funk nightclub darlings Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, post-bluegrass banjo ensemble Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, jazz-influenced hip-hop artist DJ Logic, 70s rock icon Peter Frampton, and neo-lounge act Nouvelle Vague.

The What the Bleep Do We Know!? phenomenon just won't go away. Most people enjoy it, and for the most part I do too. LIME's Balance editor has already sung its praises, but with the remixed sequel out now in some cities I feel compelled by civic duty to chime in and explain what the bleep is wrong with the original flick (and what the remake gets right).

The filmmaker Terry Gilliam celebrates his birthday today. His surreal films have contributed a playfully unique darkness and salient wry humor to the annals of mass consciousness commonly known as popular cinema. His masterful sense of wonder and outlandish embrace of the fantastic have become a signature aesthetic. After the 2002 documentary, Lost In La Mancha (a “making of” movie about the production of a Gilliam film beset with disaster and never completed, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote), he became an emblematic hero to me. A visionary who is not afraid of – yeah, plagued by – failure.

Sometimes we want movies to distract us; other times we want them to remind us—of our humanity, of magic, of meaning. The Spiritual Cinema Circle offers films that aim to do the latter with its monthly DVD club. Sign up and you’ll get a disc filled with four short and feature films, a blend of U.S. and international, some exclusive to club members, others that you might see elsewhere. Though there are hits and misses among this “heart and soul of cinema,” a few are cringefests, plenty are actually quite touching and good.

I have been scouring all known earthly networks to bring you the freshest reports on paranormal, extranormal, and outright surreal events. This week:

• A Malaysian man haunted by a hungry ghost who has demanded sex from him every night for the past 16 years seeks help through medium. Read more.

• A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it.