Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Crap We Missed ? Wednesday 11.30.11

Welcome to Wednesday?s The Crap We Missed featuring Sinead O?Connor quests for The Difficult Brown inside The Matrix, Emily Blunt who can quest for The Difficult Brown in my basement lair whenever the hell she wants and Katie Holmes just swam away from a cruise ship after 12 years, and boy, are her arms tired.

Fun Fact: Jessica Simpson isn?t due until the spring,

- The Superficial

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[Ed. Note: Below are two bonus galleries of Kelly Brook and Kate Hudson we never got around to using, so why let them go to waste? Think of us like your grandmother trying to feed you leftovers, except those leftovers give you an erection you don't have to hide in shame. (It's like Christmas, already, I know.) - SW]

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Kimberly Stewart Steps Out With Baby Delilah

Wow Kimberly Stewart looks great doesn?t she! The new mom was spotted out with her baby Delilah del Toro today leaving the Sunset Plaza.

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly these Hollywood moms get their figures back after baby! Kimberly hardly looks like she had a baby just a few short months ago.

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RETRO ACTIVE: Romeo is Bleeding (1993)

RETRO ACTIVE: Romeo is Bleeding (1993)

by Nick Schager

Romeo is Bleeding

What's new is always old, and in this recurring column, I'll be taking a look at the classic genre movies that have influenced today?s new releases. In honor of Oren Moverman's corrupt-cop drama Rampart, this week it's Peter Medak's extreme neo-noir Romeo is Bleeding.

Film noir frequently feels on the precipice of going too far?its passions, its brutality, and its doom and gloom are often pitched with such frenzied intensity that one half-fears it will tip over into parody. Romeo is Bleeding was censured for doing just that upon its 1993 release, as director Peter Medak and writer Hilary Henkin's jet-black crime saga was dismissed for indulging in so many tropes and clich�s that it played like something of a spoof?a denunciation that remains, 18 years later, to be only partially true. Unquestionably, this neo-noir about a corrupt cop's downward spiral is awash in formulaic elements, from extreme hardboiled voiceover to a nasty femme fatale (contrasted with not one, but two, visions of loving femininity), and enough tawdry elements ensnaring its knuckleheaded protagonist to make it a veritable catalog of conventions. Yet there's neither intentional nor unintentional caricature to Medak's underrated gem. Capturing a sense of terrifying futility in both shadowy spaces and brightly lit landscapes, and using a cornucopia of constricting and low-angled compositions, the film sidesteps making fun of its chosen cinematic milieu or itself. Driven by unabashed sincerity, it's a work that honestly sells its stock noir notion about the foolhardiness of attempting to either stay true to one's flawed self, or to escape one's preordained niche in search of greater things.

Romeo is Bleeding

The bleakness of that damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't scenario oozes from the sweaty pores of crooked sergeant Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman), who likes to dance in his row house backyard in the moonlight with angelic wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra), and whose work is all violence and sex for which he has a not-so-secret taste. Jack wants more, or rather, he wants it all?hungrily, madly, recklessly?and so he makes money on the side by informing the mob of testifying witnesses' locations. That nets him $65,000 a gig, though as Medak conveys through shots of Jack's face framed by the mailbox walls that hold his cash payments, he's trapped by such gluttony. Stashing his supplementary income in a hole in his backyard?as Jack intones in the film's incessant, over-the-top third-person narration, "Pretty soon, all he could think about was feeding the hole"?Jack is prisoner to his avaricious urges, and soon a victim to them as well, after he's commissioned by the mob to pinpoint Russian black widow Mona Demarkov (Lena Olin). Introduced as a tangle of snarling hair led around in handcuffs by cops, and wearing a suit jacket that barely covers her negligee and thigh-high stockings, Mona is from first sight a wild beast, one of the "animals" that, according to Jack's mob informant (Michael Wincott), will soon fill the streets after the forthcoming "fall of Rome."

Romeo is Bleeding

During their first meeting, Mona wastes no time embarrassing Jack by mounting him (to his crazy-eyed delight) right before his colleagues enter the room, and shortly thereafter disappears, putting Jack in deep trouble with bigwig mobster Don Falcone (Roy Scheider), who demands that Jack kill Mona himself or find his loved ones in fatal peril. Believing himself to be in control of his destiny and yet played like a pawn from all sides, Jack proves to be at the mercy of Mona, who wants him to help her stage her own death/escape for a cool $325,000, and who's defined by always-revealed garters, dark red lips, and insanely eroticized cackling at moments of climax and cruelty. She's as femme fatale-ish as any in the genre, epitomized by the film's signature image of her wrapping her legs around Jack's neck as he drives a car (his face spied from below by the steering wheel). Olin is a whirlwind of ruthless malice, to the point that she'd destabilize the action were it not for Medak and Henkin's treatment, which finds a consistent way to meld Jack and Mona's overripe, borderline-comical lust and craving with Jack's competing, equally genuine sense of romantic yearning for an internal and external reality less conflicted and debased than his current one.

Romeo is Bleeding

As Jack's blonde-bimbo mistress, Juliette Lewis brings surprising empathy to a stock role, and the peripheral cast is peppered with pros, including Dennis Farina, James Cromwell and Ron Perlman. Still, Romeo is Bleeding is all about Oldman, who?front and maniacally center at virtually all times?is nothing short of an alternately jittery, placid, frantic, charming, lunatic force of nature. One can often feel the wiry Oldman acting, in the way he lights a smoke or holds it between his front teeth, or the way he dances with himself and the women in his life (all reflections of the various dream-guises Jack tries on). Yet at the same time that his performance revels in mannerisms, the actor's raw, clammy, pathetic ravenousness is palpable, and magnetic. His turn bookended by scenes set in a lonely desert diner where, as a man with another name, he waits like a ghost for a visitor who doesn't materialize, Oldman has a primal ferocity (finally let loose in a climactic denied bid for self-annihilation) that's borderline apocalyptic. Whether his Jack is going glassy-eyed with carnal desire, fleeing through the grungy graffiti-sprayed NYC night with his face and neck coated in blood, or simply, tearfully gazing at quixotic mirages, he beautifully and unforgettably captures that archetypal noir schism between dreamy romantic hopefulness and tragic greed and need.

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Britney Spears? bf Jason Trawick is about to propose, will her conservatorship end?

Britney Spears? bf Jason Trawick is about to propose, will her conservatorship end?


Is a holiday proposal more romantic? I think it is. Christmas is kind of romantic anyway, so whenever that time of year rolls around there will be small reminders of that special moment. People Magazine is reporting that Britney Spears? longterm boyfriend, talent agent Jason Trawick, is about to propose to her. We?ve heard this story many times before, and Britney has been wearing what looks like an engagement ring, off and on, for ages. Given that this story is in People, I think we can assume it?s the official sanctioned version from Britney?s camp. Does this mean that she will finally be let out out of her conservatorship now that she?s entering her third marriage? (Does that first one even count?) I do think Britney and Jason are the real deal, but this also sounds like somewhat of a business arrangement to me. Like now Britney is ready to have another team take over her business, and they?re rolling it out along with a marriage because legally that?s the easiest way to do it. I know that?s cynical, but that?s just my read on it. Here?s more, from People:

Britney Spears is getting ready for her 30th birthday on Friday and will finish up a successful world tour next week ? but that?s not all she?s gearing up for.

A source close to the singer tells PEOPLE that an engagement is imminent for the pop star and longtime boyfriend Jason Trawick, 39, who sources say has picked out a ring.

?They?ve been talking about marriage for a long time,? says the source. ?It would be surprising if they are not engaged by the end of the year.?

Adds the source: ?Britney is really looking forward to turning 30. She is having one of the best times of her life.?

[From People]

Well congratulations to Britney and Jason. We?ve heard that they?ve had problems in the past, but they?ve stayed together for a few years, they?ve known each other longer than that, and they do seem solid to me. Plus Jason is close with her boys and that counts for a lot.

In related news about Britney, she recently called Jennifer Lopez her ?idol.? She said ?She?s so beautiful and even though she?s gotten older, she hasn?t aged at all. She looks more amazing than ever and I really admire and respect that.? Is this Britney?s way of forgiving J.Lo for maybe copying her act at the AMAs?

Also, Britney is going to do a free open air concert in Mexico City this Sunday as part of the city?s holiday festivities. A Mexican government official Tweeted the news, so it?s probably accurate. Maybe she?ll get engaged in Mexico!

Britney and Jason are shown out in London on 11/1 (red shirt) and out in London again on 9/16 (green and black dress). Credit: Fame and WENN

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32 Responses to ?Britney Spears? bf Jason Trawick is about to propose, will her conservatorship end??

  1. Jason looks really skeevy to me. He has been her ?handler? for quite a while now. He seems highly suspect?of what?I?m not quite sure.

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  2. Watch out he?s a shape shifter.

    Sam Merlot doppelganger.

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  3. I think he?s kinda cute ? except for the hair, ugh. Why do guys do that? But I also think she?s the absolute worst dresser. And although her hair has gotten better, it?s still gross, as in the picture with the red turtleneck and the ill-fitting polka dot (??) shorts (?? ? whatever they are, they?re horrible).

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  4. Um, how can you have a relationship with someone that has been on the edge of becoming sybil for years? Kinda seems he is using her?and that he is more of a zookeeper than anything.

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  5. I can?t believe this girl is still in her 20s. Anyway, I really applaud Trawick for sticking by her and not using her (from what I know). He?s kind of like her knight in shining armor.

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  6. Who dresses this girl???

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  7. My theory: I would not be surprised if this was a sort of business arrangement between Jamie Spears and Jason. Jason sounds more like a caregiver than a boyfriend. So I am betting the deal is Dad lets her out of the conservatorship if she marries Jason and allows Jason to manage her personal life and keep her out of trouble. The thing is I think Britney actually has more feelings for him than he does for her. I think this will be successful. As long as Jason plays along he has nothing to lose and a lot to gain. Don?t get me wrong, I think he cares for Britney but I think it is in an extremely bonded caregiving kind of way only he can occasionally have sex with his patient.

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  8. Does anybody know if he has a job? I know he used to work for Britney but not anymore.

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    • I thought he was and still is her Agent from CAA. Perhaps he has stopped being her agent since they started dating. Regardless, he looks pretty gross to me. Quite old and crusty in some pictures and just creepy in the rest.

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  9. she is looking very well in that green dress. I don?t like the dress, but she is definitely shaping up and looks like way less of a hot mess than usual.

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  10. I do wonder about the nature of their relationship. If he was/is a talent agent ? well, he probably has his act together. How did he fall for Britney? She seems like a tranqued up mess.

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  11. When I see these two I cannot help but wonder what the attraction is. Yes, he probably smells like rope but how can he live with that poor, poor little nutcase? You know his time is spent following her with a swifter, sucking up cheeto dust. Trying to corral her into the tub so he can clean her hooves. Deciphering hill billy baby-talk and picking up starbucks on the hour. Watching her pick her underwear out of her ass publicly whilst maintaining a perfectly straight face?.

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  12. yeah, agreed that there?s something off-putting about their relationship. I just can?t quite wrap my head around a mature adult relationship being truly possible for a woman who, to this day, is legally deemed incapable of making her own choices. hopefully she?s a lot healthier than her continued conservatorship would imply and has been for a long time.

    on a different note, the fact that she admires and respects J.Lo for not ageing is a bit unfortunate. no mention whatsoever of her career or talent? i mean, i don?t personally think she has much of either, but still?

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    • I agree on both points.

      It is revealing and saddening that she admires Jennifer?s appearance; Britney hasn?t grown beyond the teen poptart phase, seemingly.
      I would guess that their relationship is a business deal (unbeknownst to her) with Jason pulling an impressive salary for keeping her on her meds and out of trouble.

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  13. No idea what the deal on their relationship is, but I wouldn?t be surprised if it?s skeevy. Also I really think alot of her troubles may be eased once her father is slightly more out of her life, I suspect he?s always been a VERY heavy weight on her shoulders since he borrowed money off her when she was young. Major Britney fan, wish her all the best :D

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  14. Wow. People are really hard on these two. What gives? I think they have genuine chemistry, and he is obviously protective of her, as evidenced through alot of body language in all the pics they?re in.
    I think he sees the person inside all this mess, and I mean, come on. So she?s not the brightest, but she is a sweet girl, and probably funny in her own way. She?s trying to live with a mental illness that?s being maintained with meds, and she?s doing a good job at it.
    Her crap music aside, she?s still a human being, a woman, a mom with kids, and she?s not perfect, but she?s allowed to have love in her life. Right??

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    • I don?t understand it. She?s rallied back from what appeared to be a crippling mental illness and is doing well now, so I?m really happy for her. I don?t know why people think this guy is so awful. He doesn?t appear to be a leech like Federline.

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  15. I must be in the minority, but I really like this couple and have since they got together. Just because she has had problems doesn?t mean she is unlovable, even to a stable guy! They are really cute and he seems like a stabilizing influence. It?s funny that people think he is a minder because I feel like he is authentic and in love with her for HER! I guess perception is in the eye of the beholder. I hope you guys keep covering them, I quite like reading about them whenever small tidbits come in.

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  16. I think he?s hot. Good for her.

    I?m really not too sure about what exactly their relationship is, but I do think Jason is a calming presence for Britney and he does care for her.

    He?s probably seen all her ups and downs, and still has stuck through. Whether Jason?s stayed because of money or because he really cares is the real question. Personally, I think it?s a little of both.

    But Britney deserves to be happy after all she?s been through, so I hope this works out.

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  17. I think that the conservatorship may remain in place until the Sam Lufti suit is dismissed or settled. As long as she is under this, she can?t be deposed. But that?s just my theory, and I?m rooting for her either way.

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    • Refresh my memory, please. Who is suing who? Sam Lufti suing Brit or vice versa?
      What is the lawsuit about?

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      • I believe that Sam Lufti is suing Brit?s parents for defamation. He?s requested all kinds of info for his case, including a deposition from Brit, but the judge denied his request because she?s under conservatorship.
        I think that?s the jist of it, but I may be off since my info comes from my memory of what was written in blogs. :)

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    • If that?s true, then good thing Britney has a smart lawyer who thought up that strategy.

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  18. Something about this just seems so odd to me. They won?t let her manage her own money because she?s too mentally unstable but allow her to get married?

    Weird.

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    • Nothing odd-she?s been sued since like 5 minutes after she got out of the hospital by creepy, Svengali former manager and pill pusher. One way to keep her away from ex-manger creep and kill off the lawsuit is to keep the conservatorship protection.

      You know, she?s seems like a sweet person, not tremendously bright and clearly unaware of how to care for herself-she never had to until she got rid of K-Fed and we all know what happened then. If she needs that and the guy makes her happy,why not?

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  19. Why in the world are his eyes popped out of his head? Hitting the glass d**k are we?

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  20. Meth-faced. She was better off with stoner K-Fed.

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TMZ Live: Candidate Flubs -- Headlines Out of Molehills

TMZ Live
Candidate Flubs
Headlines Out of Molehills

The media jump all over presidential candidates for every brain fart or simple slip of the tongue -- from Rick Perry to Howard Dean to Ed Muskie (memba' him?). Are journalists blowing up the small stuff to intentionally destroy campaigns?

Plus, with all the horrific child sex abuse allegations ... it's clear the danger goes way beyond church and sports -- it's anywhere adults are in positions of authority. So, where are your kids safe?

And, the question Wayne Gretzky's gotta be asking himself -- after daughter�Paulina Gretzky's sexy twitpics: Better to have a hot daughter or a homely one?


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On DVD: "The Smurfs," "Friends With Benefits," "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" and More

Looking for something to rent this week? Here's what we had to say about the films out now on DVD/Blu-ray today:

"Cave of Forgotten Dreams" - Newly awarded Best Documentary by the New York Film Critics Circle, and fortunately available on 3D Blu-ray for those of you with the necessary equipment, Werner Herzog's documentary exploration of the Chauvet Cave paintings is one of our favorite films of the past two years (I listed it last year in my best to watch for section). Here's what Daniel Walber wrote for us back in April:

The eccentric and visionary director?s new documentary, ?Cave of Forgotten Dreams,? is not just a visually stunning masterpiece of 3D but also a film that turns the third dimension into an artistic necessity. Herzog?s focus is the Chauvet Cave in southern France, an otherworldly place filled with some of the world?s oldest works of art. Yet this ancient masterpiece is not simply the collection of images on stone, but rather the experiential journey through the cave itself as light moves about the various ochre tones. A simple print of a horse or lion from Chauvet would not begin to replicate the effect of its original location. On the contrary, to attain the full artistic impact one needs to walk through the cave itself, watching the paintings seem to shift in the darkness. A few scientists, Herzog and his crew have had this opportunity, but for the rest of us to even come close we need a work of cinema shot in 3D.

"Another Earth" - This film also received some sparks today, as the film was nominated for Spirit Awards for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay. I prefer writer/star Britt Marling's other Sundance sci-fi flick, "Sound of My Voice," and I definitely love "Melancholia" more in the competition for best movie about the sudden appearance of another planet, but that doesn't mean I don't still occasionally think about "Another Earth." At Sundance I noted that it was one of the most divisive films of the festival. Here's part of my review from January:

As a moody romance drama, it kind of works, though it?s highly predictable and never feels entirely believable. However, the sci-fi stuff requires much more suspension of disbelief, and any intelligent fan of the genre is going to be counting plot holes and asking questions by the score. Even the last minute, viewed by some as the best or only good part, left me more frustrated in how gimmicky and wannabe-twisty it is.

[...] if anything ?Another Earth? is most like a super low-budget M. Night Shyamalan film without any of the suspenseful moments that have made his films tolerable in the past. The way we learn significant things regarding the discoveries of and communication with the other planet could have been more thrilling (parts of the film had me wanting it to actually be more like "Signs," which should say something), and the address of counter-earth theory and the philosophical ideas associated with it should have been more in-depth.

"The Smurfs" - Even though it's just a big tourism advertisement for New York City, I actually enjoyed this. Interestingly I recommended it to people who like "The Muppets Take Manhattan." I guess I was surprised by this movie and disappointed by the new "Muppets" movie, but I'm not sure I'd say this is better than that. Still, I apparently had positive things to say back in July:

It is true, "The Smurfs" is one of the more tolerable movies to rape your childhood in a long time. The characters are cute and only minimally obnoxious. The scatological and pop culture references are at a minimum (though "Rango" proved that a lot of both doesn't have to be terrible). And it's self-aware in a respectful fashion more reminiscent of "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" than "The Brady Bunch Movie," so the adults who grew up on the little blue creatures have something to appreciate, and not in too campy a way. Sure, it's basically a rehash of "Enchanted," which was itself basically a rehash of "Splash," and I guess I was too hopeful in thinking some of the reflexivity would involve accusations of communism, but I found the movie to be a slight improvement on at least the more recent of those NYC-set fish-out-of-water fantasies.

"Friends With Benefits" - Partly, necessarily, as compared to the similar "No Strings Attached," Daniel Walber pans this rom-com and says the genre itself might just be broken beyond repair. But he does claim it starts out as the best R-rated comedy since "Bridesmaids." From his review back in July:

boy, is that last half-hour terrible. Once they put their clothes on and start acting serious the movie completely loses its gusto and falls back into the rom-com doldrums. To be fair, ?No Strings Attached? falls apart around the same time. That film may not have nearly as much nudity, but Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher have better chemistry outside of the bedroom than these two. Both films chug along relatively effectively for an hour or so.

"One Day" - While we didn't actually review this movie, Daniel Walber saw it, hated it and used it as a bit of comparison in his review of "Like Crazy" at Toronto back in September:

What if ?One Day? had been a good film? Better yet, where are all of the good romance movies? Romcoms included, every love story with big stars on screen seems to turn into a predictable disaster. Even the more interesting ideas and creative scripts seem forced into rote conclusions and overdone plot elements by the time they make it to theaters. What if for every mismanaged romantic movie there were an edgier, more provocative romance that spun from the same original notion? A ?Friends with Benefits? with real danger of heartbreak, for example. For ?One Day,? the alternatively intriguing film is the brutal yet endearing ?Like Crazy.? If only all long-distance relationships on screen looked like this dynamic Sundance hit.


"30 Minutes or Less" - A fine black comedy that's worth watching as relevant to the current economy, in spite of being based on (and maybe exploits) a tragic story from years ago. Also, anyone who enjoyed "The Social Network" will get a kick out of how it is in complete contrast to that film. Part of my review from August:

To a great extent, "30 Minutes" is an excellent antithesis to "The Social Network," and the movie doesn't shy away from reflexively alluding to the earlier Eisenberg movie. Right away his character, named Nick, actually says he's not on Facebook. A winking joke, sure, but also a good way to get us thinking about the characters at hand. Contrary to Mark Zuckerberg, Nick is entirely lacking in ambition. If he's smart, we don't get wind of it, though his job as a pizza delivery boy seems beneath him, yet also sort of too much of a bother. He means to quit the job in spite of having no other prospects. Somewhat fortuitously, it takes two unemployed idiots (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) with worse cases of arrested development to force some sort of motivation onto him. It's motivation to commit a crime, but along the way he also gets nerve to tell a girl (Dilshad Vadsaria) how he really feels about her. Of course, that's partly motivated by the fact he thinks he might die.

"The Future" - Another film we didn't have a full review of (and which I'm still anticipating watching and not hating), but Daniel Walber made no attempt to hide his dislike for it while discussing Miranda July's early short films back in July:

I don?t entirely understand this new wave of Miranda July enthusiasm. She does have a film coming out this weekend, but that alone can?t fully explain this rush of good will for the director/writer/actress/performance artist. The New York Times Magazine just gave her quite the feature and even Michael Idov has changed his mind after previously dissing her in song. Not that I?m bitter, but I?m not the biggest fan of ?The Future? and as it turns out July?s early short films are mildly stress inducing.

Also on home video this week: "Our Idiot Brother" and documentaries "Becoming Chaz," "Reel Injun" and "Sons of Perdition."


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DVD OF THE WEEK: Super 8

DVD OF THE WEEK: Super 8

by Vadim Rizov

Super 8

J.J. Abrams prefers remodeling franchise fixer-uppers to building his own material. In his directorial feature debut, Abrams took advantage of the malleable Mission: Impossible franchise's friendliness towards idiosyncratic directorial stylings. Where Brian De Palma showed off ornate set pieces and John Woo delivered an enjoyably overblown melodrama awkwardly broken up with sporadic action, Abrams' Mission: Impossible III is start-to-finish tense, with Philip Seymour Hoffman as the series' first truly frightening villain and Tom Cruise plausibly frazzled rather than smugly in-control. Next Abrams resuscitated Star Trek, celebrating the source material while mildly mocking the creakier elements: crew member Chekov's absurd Russian accent (an anachronistic holdover from Gene Roddenberry's wish for a post-Cold War United Nations in space) became a running gag about the crew's consistent inability to understand what he's saying. Real emotion came from Leonard Nimoy's cameo as Spock, tapping into viewer awareness of watching someone embody his trademark of the last 40-plus years for almost certainly the last time, a heartfelt baton-passing in the middle of what could've been merely a cynical cash grab.

The source material for Super 8 (out on DVD this week, as well as Blu-ray) is producer Steven Spielberg's collected filmography as director and brand name, signaled by the opening Amblin Entertainment's E.T.-on-his-bike logo?once an annual presence branding everything from Back to the Future to Casper with Spielberg's seal of family-friendly approval, but only seen twice on-screen in the last five years. Super 8's 1979 setting strands it between 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (swiping the lightshow UFO ending and alien-caused electrical blackouts) and 1982's aforementioned E.T. (echoed in its suburban kids freely roaming on bikes).

Super 8

Amblin's The Goonies is echoed in a less shrill cluster of young boys. De facto ringleader Joe Lamb's (Joel Courtney) mother has just died in a factory accident, a dark twist on Spielberg's ever-absent dads. Portly Charles Kaznyk (Riley Griffiths) is the self-proclaimed budding director of the local nerd pack, but Joe gets to coach classmate/leading lady Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning) on-set, instructing her on how to make a zombie face and suggests emotions to draw upon for her would-be-showstopping monologue of stilted noir clich�s. Fanning's sudden transition from sullen teen to freaky flesh-muncher is awesomely unexpected, and she nails the speech, pumping dramatic heft in the low-grade production like a junior-grade version of Naomi Watts' audition in Mulholland Drive.

2005's post-9/11 destruction-fest War of the Worlds enters as a darker reference point when an apocalyptic train wreck and attendant debris (flying through the air like firebombs) literally blow up the delicate late-night moment. Put up with Super 8's mostly second-hand action for the recognizably gawky portrait of childhood, an inversion of most mediocre action movies in which half-hearted characterization is tolerated as a necessary evil before getting to the spectacle. The alien's inevitably a letdown: cost-conscious as he was while producing Cloverfield, Abrams keeps the monster briefly glimpsed in tail-swipes and shadows for as long as possible. When finally given extended full body shots in the slobberingly disgusting/suspenseful climax, the extraterrestrial's still frugally only half-shown in the dark of a mine. Here, Joey?a hurt abandoned child?empathetically/telepathically bonds with an alien that just wants to rebuild its ship and travel back home. The fact that, though it's lonely and in pain like a child of divorce, it has also eaten multiple townspeople is written off as unavoidable dietary need and never mentioned again.

SUPER 8 director J.J. Abrams

Joey grows from geek to man while saving his fictional Ohio town from a carnivorous alien?or, alternately, from the military men pursuing it. Suspicion of army forces torturing potentially innocent civilians and recklessly destroying small towns in reckless pursuit of an elusive, potentially misunderstood Other offers an allegorical talking point for modern liberals (the monster isn't particularly sympathetic, but addressed with compassionate pragmatism, he'll stop hunting people and go away; negotiation works!). Setting the film during a comparatively mild recession in a small factory town grafts nostalgia for a relatively benevolent, now-passed industrial era onto the Spielberg broken-family dynamics.

The end credits string together the kids' goofy, warmhearted production, shot by the cast in the increasingly rare title format. The overall movie's gloomy undercurrents and darker implications are perhaps underdeveloped, leaving no traumatic scar on the kids, whose resourcefulness and Bad News Bears-worthy naturalism close out the film in one blissfully uninterrupted five-minute blast straight out of Be Kind Rewind: Abrams always follows blockbuster convention, but once again he's sprinkled in small-scale human emotions that linger after the pastiches and plot holes fade.

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The Hottest November Headlines - Breaking Dawn Mania, the Jolie-Pitts Travel to Asia, and Jennifer and Justin Go Glam!



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Miley Cyrus -- Occupy Wall Street Leader Calls BS on Cyrus' Vid saying Singer is ALL TALK!

Priscilla Grim & Miley Cyrus
An influential leader in the Occupy movement wants less talk and more action from Miley Cyrus -- telling TMZ, the singer's recent music video in "support" of the Occupy movement is nothing but an empty gesture.

Priscilla Grim -- co-editor of "The Occupied Wall Street Journal" -- tells us, Miley?s music video tribute ?rocks" in spirit ... but she doubts the singer has the cojones to actually hit the streets.

Priscilla tells us, ?I double dog dare [her] to fight on the front line of economic civil rights at LA City Hall" -- adding, "Revolutionaries occupy, Ms. Cyrus."

Miley?s ?Liberty Walk? video (below) encourages protestors to never ?give up? and features powerful images from the worldwide Occupy movement.

So far, no word on whether Miley will accept Grim's challenge.




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On DVD: "The Smurfs," "Friends With Benefits," "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" and More

Looking for something to rent this week? Here's what we had to say about the films out now on DVD/Blu-ray today:

"Cave of Forgotten Dreams" - Newly awarded Best Documentary by the New York Film Critics Circle, and fortunately available on 3D Blu-ray for those of you with the necessary equipment, Werner Herzog's documentary exploration of the Chauvet Cave paintings is one of our favorite films of the past two years (I listed it last year in my best to watch for section). Here's what Daniel Walber wrote for us back in April:

The eccentric and visionary director?s new documentary, ?Cave of Forgotten Dreams,? is not just a visually stunning masterpiece of 3D but also a film that turns the third dimension into an artistic necessity. Herzog?s focus is the Chauvet Cave in southern France, an otherworldly place filled with some of the world?s oldest works of art. Yet this ancient masterpiece is not simply the collection of images on stone, but rather the experiential journey through the cave itself as light moves about the various ochre tones. A simple print of a horse or lion from Chauvet would not begin to replicate the effect of its original location. On the contrary, to attain the full artistic impact one needs to walk through the cave itself, watching the paintings seem to shift in the darkness. A few scientists, Herzog and his crew have had this opportunity, but for the rest of us to even come close we need a work of cinema shot in 3D.

"Another Earth" - This film also received some sparks today, as the film was nominated for Spirit Awards for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay. I prefer writer/star Britt Marling's other Sundance sci-fi flick, "Sound of My Voice," and I definitely love "Melancholia" more in the competition for best movie about the sudden appearance of another planet, but that doesn't mean I don't still occasionally think about "Another Earth." At Sundance I noted that it was one of the most divisive films of the festival. Here's part of my review from January:

As a moody romance drama, it kind of works, though it?s highly predictable and never feels entirely believable. However, the sci-fi stuff requires much more suspension of disbelief, and any intelligent fan of the genre is going to be counting plot holes and asking questions by the score. Even the last minute, viewed by some as the best or only good part, left me more frustrated in how gimmicky and wannabe-twisty it is.

[...] if anything ?Another Earth? is most like a super low-budget M. Night Shyamalan film without any of the suspenseful moments that have made his films tolerable in the past. The way we learn significant things regarding the discoveries of and communication with the other planet could have been more thrilling (parts of the film had me wanting it to actually be more like "Signs," which should say something), and the address of counter-earth theory and the philosophical ideas associated with it should have been more in-depth.

"The Smurfs" - Even though it's just a big tourism advertisement for New York City, I actually enjoyed this. Interestingly I recommended it to people who like "The Muppets Take Manhattan." I guess I was surprised by this movie and disappointed by the new "Muppets" movie, but I'm not sure I'd say this is better than that. Still, I apparently had positive things to say back in July:

It is true, "The Smurfs" is one of the more tolerable movies to rape your childhood in a long time. The characters are cute and only minimally obnoxious. The scatological and pop culture references are at a minimum (though "Rango" proved that a lot of both doesn't have to be terrible). And it's self-aware in a respectful fashion more reminiscent of "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" than "The Brady Bunch Movie," so the adults who grew up on the little blue creatures have something to appreciate, and not in too campy a way. Sure, it's basically a rehash of "Enchanted," which was itself basically a rehash of "Splash," and I guess I was too hopeful in thinking some of the reflexivity would involve accusations of communism, but I found the movie to be a slight improvement on at least the more recent of those NYC-set fish-out-of-water fantasies.

"Friends With Benefits" - Partly, necessarily, as compared to the similar "No Strings Attached," Daniel Walber pans this rom-com and says the genre itself might just be broken beyond repair. But he does claim it starts out as the best R-rated comedy since "Bridesmaids." From his review back in July:

boy, is that last half-hour terrible. Once they put their clothes on and start acting serious the movie completely loses its gusto and falls back into the rom-com doldrums. To be fair, ?No Strings Attached? falls apart around the same time. That film may not have nearly as much nudity, but Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher have better chemistry outside of the bedroom than these two. Both films chug along relatively effectively for an hour or so.

"One Day" - While we didn't actually review this movie, Daniel Walber saw it, hated it and used it as a bit of comparison in his review of "Like Crazy" at Toronto back in September:

What if ?One Day? had been a good film? Better yet, where are all of the good romance movies? Romcoms included, every love story with big stars on screen seems to turn into a predictable disaster. Even the more interesting ideas and creative scripts seem forced into rote conclusions and overdone plot elements by the time they make it to theaters. What if for every mismanaged romantic movie there were an edgier, more provocative romance that spun from the same original notion? A ?Friends with Benefits? with real danger of heartbreak, for example. For ?One Day,? the alternatively intriguing film is the brutal yet endearing ?Like Crazy.? If only all long-distance relationships on screen looked like this dynamic Sundance hit.


"30 Minutes or Less" - A fine black comedy that's worth watching as relevant to the current economy, in spite of being based on (and maybe exploits) a tragic story from years ago. Also, anyone who enjoyed "The Social Network" will get a kick out of how it is in complete contrast to that film. Part of my review from August:

To a great extent, "30 Minutes" is an excellent antithesis to "The Social Network," and the movie doesn't shy away from reflexively alluding to the earlier Eisenberg movie. Right away his character, named Nick, actually says he's not on Facebook. A winking joke, sure, but also a good way to get us thinking about the characters at hand. Contrary to Mark Zuckerberg, Nick is entirely lacking in ambition. If he's smart, we don't get wind of it, though his job as a pizza delivery boy seems beneath him, yet also sort of too much of a bother. He means to quit the job in spite of having no other prospects. Somewhat fortuitously, it takes two unemployed idiots (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) with worse cases of arrested development to force some sort of motivation onto him. It's motivation to commit a crime, but along the way he also gets nerve to tell a girl (Dilshad Vadsaria) how he really feels about her. Of course, that's partly motivated by the fact he thinks he might die.

"The Future" - Another film we didn't have a full review of (and which I'm still anticipating watching and not hating), but Daniel Walber made no attempt to hide his dislike for it while discussing Miranda July's early short films back in July:

I don?t entirely understand this new wave of Miranda July enthusiasm. She does have a film coming out this weekend, but that alone can?t fully explain this rush of good will for the director/writer/actress/performance artist. The New York Times Magazine just gave her quite the feature and even Michael Idov has changed his mind after previously dissing her in song. Not that I?m bitter, but I?m not the biggest fan of ?The Future? and as it turns out July?s early short films are mildly stress inducing.

Also on home video this week: "Our Idiot Brother" and documentaries "Becoming Chaz," "Reel Injun" and "Sons of Perdition."


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There's No Shame In Guy Ritchie's Gold Digging Game

When you look at that picture above, you will probably just assume that one of the devil talons on Madge's labia scratched at Guy Ritchie's eyeball as he worshiped the third eye on her crotch earlier in the day. But the truth is, Guy Richie is throwing us a subtle "I'm going to rob this granny blind" wink. Guy, who got at least $75 million from Madge in the divorce, talked to Details about his marriage with her and he pretty much kept his words on the nice side until he added a slight dig about the fortune she dropped on his gold digging shovel.

DETAILS: You married Madonna when you were still a fledgling director and she was the most famous woman in the world. What was that adjustment like?
Guy Ritchie: I don't know. By the way, I enjoyed my first marriage. It's definitely not something I regret. The experience was ultimately very positive. I love the kids that came out of it, and I could see no other route to take. But you move on, don't you? You're right, I stepped into a soap opera, and I lived in it for quite a long period of my life. I'll probably be more eloquent on it 10 years from now.

DETAILS: What did you learn from that marriage?
Guy Ritchie: When you end up with a lot of the things you set out to chase and find that you've stumbled into all sorts of hollow victories, then you become deeply philosophical. I'm quite happy that that experience was accelerated for me. I'm glad I made money, in other words. And I'm glad I got married.

"I'm glad I made money, in other words" is the new gold digging motto. I would say that quote is like a stab to Madge's chest, but her body is covered in thorny lizard armor so daggers don't penetrate and $75 million is just a mere dingle on the huge ass crack that is her checking account. But really, that quote should be said by every gold digger at every will reading or divorce settlement hearing they attend. When the judge awards them millions and asks for a final word, they should stand up and say, "A wise gold digger once said, 'I'm glad I made money, in other words." It's that beautiful.



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The Crap We Missed ? Tuesday 11.29.11

Welcome to Tuesday?s The Crap We Missed, and let?s just cut to the chase, how many of you knew about Miss Butt Brazil? Because we literally just found out today, and now somehow the Final Five transformed into a Final Twenty. I don?t want to say some sort of magic took place, but I made Photo Boy wear glasses then carved a lightning bolt into his forehead, so divine from that what you will.

ALAKAZAM!

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Deborra-Lee Furness On The Rumor That Hugh Jackmeoff Likes Peen

It's that time of year again when Hugh Jackman's wife of 15 years and the mother of his chirruns, Deborra-Lee Furness, gives a standard denial to the rumor that she's the hardest working beard in the bearding business. This time Page Six Magazine brought up the gay rumor and Deborra-Lee performed another monologue straight out of The Beard Doth Protest Much!

?The line I heard was, ?Wolverine? Who would have thought?? Hugh and I don?t pay much heed. It?s kind of tragic that these people have nothing better to do than gossip about people they don?t know.?

"Tragic" is the nicest thing I've been called today, so I'll move on from that shade. You know, just when I start to think that if I sit in front of a Times Square glory hole (Note: Do they even those anymore or did Mickey Mouse plug that shit up to?) long enough Wolverine will stick his wolverpeen into the gay communion booth, Hugh Jackman pops up to say it will never happen. Hugh and Deborra-Lee have both denied the gay rumor so many times that it doesn't even matter anymore (not that it ever did).

Yes, Deborra-Lee could be bearding for Hugh while he humps on his producing partner in the guest room. And yes, Deborra-Lee and Hugh could be in a genuine relationship and he only plays gay on Broadway. Either way, Deborra-Lee gets to watch a topless Hugh sing show tunes while making chocolate chip pancakes in the morning, so I guess she's the one winning at LIFE. Give her all the Share the Wealth cards and put her in Millionaire Acres.



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DVD OF THE WEEK: Super 8

DVD OF THE WEEK: Super 8

by Vadim Rizov

Super 8

J.J. Abrams prefers remodeling franchise fixer-uppers to building his own material. In his directorial feature debut, Abrams took advantage of the malleable Mission: Impossible franchise's friendliness towards idiosyncratic directorial stylings. Where Brian De Palma showed off ornate set pieces and John Woo delivered an enjoyably overblown melodrama awkwardly broken up with sporadic action, Abrams' Mission: Impossible III is start-to-finish tense, with Philip Seymour Hoffman as the series' first truly frightening villain and Tom Cruise plausibly frazzled rather than smugly in-control. Next Abrams resuscitated Star Trek, celebrating the source material while mildly mocking the creakier elements: crew member Chekov's absurd Russian accent (an anachronistic holdover from Gene Roddenberry's wish for a post-Cold War United Nations in space) became a running gag about the crew's consistent inability to understand what he's saying. Real emotion came from Leonard Nimoy's cameo as Spock, tapping into viewer awareness of watching someone embody his trademark of the last 40-plus years for almost certainly the last time, a heartfelt baton-passing in the middle of what could've been merely a cynical cash grab.

The source material for Super 8 (out on DVD this week, as well as Blu-ray) is producer Steven Spielberg's collected filmography as director and brand name, signaled by the opening Amblin Entertainment's E.T.-on-his-bike logo?once an annual presence branding everything from Back to the Future to Casper with Spielberg's seal of family-friendly approval, but only seen twice on-screen in the last five years. Super 8's 1979 setting strands it between 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (swiping the lightshow UFO ending and alien-caused electrical blackouts) and 1982's aforementioned E.T. (echoed in its suburban kids freely roaming on bikes).

Super 8

Amblin's The Goonies is echoed in a less shrill cluster of young boys. De facto ringleader Joe Lamb's (Joel Courtney) mother has just died in a factory accident, a dark twist on Spielberg's ever-absent dads. Portly Charles Kaznyk (Riley Griffiths) is the self-proclaimed budding director of the local nerd pack, but Joe gets to coach classmate/leading lady Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning) on-set, instructing her on how to make a zombie face and suggests emotions to draw upon for her would-be-showstopping monologue of stilted noir clich�s. Fanning's sudden transition from sullen teen to freaky flesh-muncher is awesomely unexpected, and she nails the speech, pumping dramatic heft in the low-grade production like a junior-grade version of Naomi Watts' audition in Mulholland Drive.

2005's post-9/11 destruction-fest War of the Worlds enters as a darker reference point when an apocalyptic train wreck and attendant debris (flying through the air like firebombs) literally blow up the delicate late-night moment. Put up with Super 8's mostly second-hand action for the recognizably gawky portrait of childhood, an inversion of most mediocre action movies in which half-hearted characterization is tolerated as a necessary evil before getting to the spectacle. The alien's inevitably a letdown: cost-conscious as he was while producing Cloverfield, Abrams keeps the monster briefly glimpsed in tail-swipes and shadows for as long as possible. When finally given extended full body shots in the slobberingly disgusting/suspenseful climax, the extraterrestrial's still frugally only half-shown in the dark of a mine. Here, Joey?a hurt abandoned child?empathetically/telepathically bonds with an alien that just wants to rebuild its ship and travel back home. The fact that, though it's lonely and in pain like a child of divorce, it has also eaten multiple townspeople is written off as unavoidable dietary need and never mentioned again.

SUPER 8 director J.J. Abrams

Joey grows from geek to man while saving his fictional Ohio town from a carnivorous alien?or, alternately, from the military men pursuing it. Suspicion of army forces torturing potentially innocent civilians and recklessly destroying small towns in reckless pursuit of an elusive, potentially misunderstood Other offers an allegorical talking point for modern liberals (the monster isn't particularly sympathetic, but addressed with compassionate pragmatism, he'll stop hunting people and go away; negotiation works!). Setting the film during a comparatively mild recession in a small factory town grafts nostalgia for a relatively benevolent, now-passed industrial era onto the Spielberg broken-family dynamics.

The end credits string together the kids' goofy, warmhearted production, shot by the cast in the increasingly rare title format. The overall movie's gloomy undercurrents and darker implications are perhaps underdeveloped, leaving no traumatic scar on the kids, whose resourcefulness and Bad News Bears-worthy naturalism close out the film in one blissfully uninterrupted five-minute blast straight out of Be Kind Rewind: Abrams always follows blockbuster convention, but once again he's sprinkled in small-scale human emotions that linger after the pastiches and plot holes fade.

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