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Killer Joe – review
Working from a play by Tracy Letts, veteran director William Friedkin makes heavy weather of stylised violence and dialogue. In hock to drug dealers, trailer park boy Chris (Emile Hirsch) hires a contract killer (Matthew McConaughey) to assassinate his mother and claim her life insurance policy. He persuades his dad (an excellently bemused Thomas Haden Church) to join in and offers up his younger sister, Dottie (Juno Temple), as sexual collateral.
In Tarantino's hands this might have been enjoyable if horrid. With Friedkin it revels in evil and lacks any sprightliness that might have redeemed its twisted characters, all of whom are loathsome and stupid.
A great problem is also a lack of social context to inform the characters' actions. Yes, there's a scene of Gina Gershon giving head to a drumstick, but the strain for some kind of iconic status or shock value here is almost pitiable.
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Olympic's Fever: Celebrity's Favorite Sports!
Have you catched the Olympic's fever yet? We think we might have! There are so many sports we love to play like beach volleyball, dodge ball and ping-pong. Stars also love to play sports not only to stay in shape but to have some fun quality time with their friends and loved ones! Click on the pics and see what sports celebs like Paris Hilton and Rihanna likes the most!
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Friends with Kids; Your Sister's Sister
Directors Jennifer Westfeldt and Lynn Shelton give the romcom a witty new focus in a week that saw the death of pioneering comedy writer Nora Ephron
As if in salute to Nora Ephron, who died last week, two refreshingly smart romantic comedies directed by women arrive on our screens. Both are in the best Hollywood tradition, as practised so skilfully by Ephron in her screenplay for When Harry Met Sally and in her direction of Sleepless in Seattle and Julie & Julia, but both new films also represent a significant step forward for a much-maligned genre.
To paraphrase the apocryphal vaudevillian on his deathbed: dying is easy, romantic comedy is hard. When done well, the romcom can deliver the most enjoyable and durable of films (It Happened One Night, His Girl Friday, The Apartment, Annie Hall, Four Weddings and a Funeral, even); done badly, it can make a person want to chew off their own foot (27 Dresses, The Holiday, Serendipity, anything with Kate Hudson). As Ephron herself told me in an interview three years ago, all romcoms could be traced back to The Taming of the Shrew or Pride and Prejudice, until Woody Allen changed the game with Annie Hall. Her own work absorbed the influences of all three, and this week's two new comedies shine because they too show a healthy awareness of their filmic ancestry.
Jennifer Westfeldt's Friends with Kids, in particular, is bound up in Hollywood lore, being executive-produced by Mike Nichols, with whom Ephron worked closely as screenwriter of Silkwood and Heartburn and whom she credits as her great mentor. Nichols has clearly lent an ear and eye to Friends with Kids, which boasts all the staples of romcoms set in Manhattan: Christmas at the Rockefeller centre, walks in Central Park, a glittering Chrysler building. Yet it shifts action over to Brooklyn too (something Ephron did in Julie & Julia), a sort of marker of more indie roots, cinematically speaking, and for real-life Manhattanites, a significant marker of suburban surrender.
In Westfeldt's film a group of friends have to deal with the arrival of children in their relationships. Indeed, children have become the new plot point in American comedy. Where previously romantic comedy was all about the beginning of a new love affair, the film usually ending on a first kiss, Friends with Kids and Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister see babies as dramatic developments.
Friends with Kids starts with a swanky dinner (in New York's Soho House, if I'm not mistaken) where a couple played by Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd reveal: "We're pregnant." Cut to four years later and there's another gathering, this time at a Brooklyn brownstone filled with plastic toys and frazzled parents shouting at each other. Best friends Jason and Julie (played by Adam Scott and director Westfeldt) stagger away and decide to buck the system – to have a child together but not be together, leaving each free to pursue their romantic ideals elsewhere. Scott has a comic delivery such that, if you close your eyes, you can hear Alan Alda, and, indeed, as in Alda's own 1981 relationship comedy The Four Seasons, the friends all go on a snowy break to a lodge, introducing new partners to the mix.
This is a concept romcom, rather than a "meet cute" (stammering bookstore owner spills orange juice down movie star's white top, for instance) and it plays out with a bantering wit, piquantly observing the Manhattan dating scene ("She over-French pronounces French words") and recapturing the freshness the sitcom Friends once had. Jason and Julie even live in the same apartment building, in separate flats, and while Westfeldt so clearly owes a debt to Diane Keaton's Annie Hall (don't they all?), I couldn't help but think how their living arrangements have more of a Woody and Mia ring to them.
Scott and Westfeldt take centre stage here, leaving Kristen Wiig, star of last summer's hit Bridesmaids (this film reunites four of that film's cast) sadly underused. But Friends with Kids is funny and likable and while the dialogue is often bawdy and sexually frank, its elements are completely fairytale, including a climax involving a cross-town dash.
Following her excellent 2009 "bromantic" comedy Humpday, Seattle-based director Lynn Shelton again probes modern relationships in Your Sister's Sister, but with a more mumbly comedy squarely in the current US indie style. The set-up, though, is every bit as high-concept as one from a studio script meeting.
Emily Blunt (the British star who also starred in last week's pleasant-enough romcom The Five-Year Engagement) features here as Iris, lending her father's log cabin to aid the recovery of her best friend Jack (Mark Duplass, from Humpday) who has been drinking too much since the death of his brother, Iris's ex-boyfriend.
Adding to the equation, when Jack arrives at the cabin in the woods, he finds Iris's gay half-sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) already there and wearing no underwear. A night of tequila and conversation leads to terrible but amusing sex, while the rude awakening is provided the next morning by the unexpected arrival of Iris.
A three-hander ensues, each character guarding, then sharing secrets. The naturalism of the performances provides the film's charm – a giggle from Blunt, tears from the excellent DeWitt – and with the improvisations evident in Your Sister's Sister, the modern romcom has gone from emetic to mimetic. Shelton's method is to reproduce reality as closely as possible. That traditional obstacle-to-love vital to all romcoms (in Ron Howard's Splash, she's a fish) has been removed in this story of Hannah and her sister, leaving only the characters' neuroses, fears and inadequacies as their impediments. Although she would probably have liked a little more plot and polish, Nora Ephron would, I think, have approved.
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Adele: Pregnant By Simon Konecki!!!
Rumor has it ... Adele is pregnant with her first child!!
Adele and Simon Konecki are expecting, she confirmed Friday: “I’m delighted to announce that Simon [Konecki] and I are expecting our first child together,” the Grammy winner told fans in a post on her official website titled, “I’ve Got Some News.”
That would certainly quality.
Adele's baby will soon be rolling in the crib!
“I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon and very excited but please respect our privacy at this precious time. Yours always, Adele xx”
The singer/songwriter was first photographed with Konecki, who is 38, and divorced with a daughter, back in January. In February, he accompanied her to the Grammys.
That month, the 24-year-old said in an interview that her goal was to have three sons by the age of 30. Guess she was serious about achieving that life milestone.
“I really want to be a mum,” she said. “I better start getting on with it!”
And so she has! Congratulations to Adele and Simon! As for the guy who dumped Adele and supposedly inspired her career? Wonder what he's thinking ...
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Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/06/adele-pregnant-by-simon-konecki/
William Friedkin: 'I might have become a killer'
The Exorcist and French Connection film-maker on violent urges, working with Harold Pinter and his new movie Killer Joe
Would you like some water?
I'm going to have a cup of tea. English breakfast. Oolong. With lemon. I only drink English tea wherever I am. I love it. David's if possible. They don't have that here. (1)
So I was just speaking to Tracy Letts (2), and he said he thought one of the key moments in Killer Joe was when Joe speaks about the concept of fairness and contractual justice.
Well, Joe is a very moral character, as well as being twisted and bent. He's a dichotomy, which is what I favour in characters. He's both good and evil and I believe they both exist in everyone I've ever met. Sometimes we can control our most vile and violent responses and sometimes we can't. But in the film he's in control by any means necessary.
Does love mean he loses some control?
What he and Dottie (3) are both about is family. She's been abused by her brother and her father. I don't know if she's been sexually abused. There are people who see the film who reckon that. It's possible. Certainly she's been mentally abused by this dysfunctional household. And it's possible Joe had a similar kind of upbringing. And it's possible that the bond that exists between them is family. It's a strange kind of family but then, so many are. Many of us are in similar situations. Weirdness is the stuff of drama. Tennessee Williams characters were often equally strange in their own ways.
Do you think that work done with broad humour or graphic violence is often received more snootily?
Almost everything I can think of should be leavened with humour if possible. Not Goon Show stuff. But most people, viewed from the outside, can be humorous to others. I find humour in these characters' attempts to do the best they can. They do some very stupid things, as do most people who are desperate. I directed a film many years ago of Pinter's The Birthday Party. His work – called comedies of menace when it first appeared – was very influential on me. The year I spent working with Harold is the year I learned everything I know about drama. He prepared me for almost everything I did afterwards.
In what way?
He wrote instinctively. He didn't plot. He told me that with The Birthday Party, one day he woke up and the characters just came through the door. It was as if it was dictated to me, he said. He opened himself to his unconscious.
Is that how you work, too?
Yes. I'll find a story I like, and then I'll kind of riff on it from my own experiences.
You've said you were drawn to Killer Joe because it chimed with your feelings about innocence, victimhood, vengeance and tenderness.
Yes, and loneliness, paranoia and obsession. I've from time to time felt the urge to do violence. I still do, but I curb that.
How?
My conscience kicks in and I'm able to deal with that through the films I do. If I wasn't a film director I might have become a serial killer. I was very angry with no reason to be. We grew up in poverty, like in Killer Joe, but I didn't know I was poor. Everyone I knew lived the same way.
Why a serial killer?
Violence uncurbed is dangerous. You have to channel it. Many of the great painters or composers led very violent and strange lives.
Can people be too censorious of violence?
Some people. I don't generalise, Catherine, I can't generalise. I'm always surprised.
When was the last time?
No, I'm constantly surprised. I'm constantly surprised at people's reactions and behaviour. How they conduct themselves publicly and privately. Constantly!
Footnotes
(1) The Intercontinental in Toronto, where Friedkin was premiering Killer Joe in September 2011.
(2) Pulitzer-prize winning playwright of Killer Joe and Bug, both of which he adapted for the screen, with Friedkin directing. He said: "Joe does have a moral code and he comes into a place without moral structure. A place where it's hard to know you've made a bad decision because you don't have the food to tell you. Joe is very polite and he presents an appearance of structure and order. There's an echo of a Christian ethic going on there. A sense of what's contractual and what's fair. Though clearly when the mask comes off there lies a kind of chaos."
(3) The character played by Juno Temple, offered by her brother and father as a retainer until they can pay Joe his fee for bumping off their mother/wife.
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When Katie Met Tom: A Look At Holmes' Recent Career
'Dawson's Creek' alum's career took a turn for the rocky during her marriage to Tom Cruise.
By Josh Wigler
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes wedding photo in 2006
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A lot changed for Katie Holmes when she met Tom Cruise — not just personally, but professionally. The two became a couple in 2005, gave birth to daughter Suri and married in 2006, and ultimately went their separate ways six years later following the announcement of their divorce on Friday (June 29).
Between her marriage and divorce from Cruise, Holmes' professional life went through several ups and downs, beginning with her two-year hiatus from acting between 2005 and 2008 — a pause that occurred during what was perhaps the most exciting time in the actress' career.
In the years before her relationship with Cruise began, Holmes put an end to her longtime role in "Dawson's Creek" and enjoyed celebrated turns in "Go," "Wonder Boys" and "Pieces of April." But her biggest role to date came very shortly before becoming a public item with the "Top Gun" actor, a role that saw her at the center of a genre-defining franchise: Christopher Nolan's Batman series.
Holmes starred in the filmmaker's 2005 picture "Batman Begins" as Rachel Dawes, an assistant district attorney who had a history with Bruce Wayne and a tendency to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her performance was the most criticized of the "Begins" cast, though not necessarily because of her work; she was surrounded by an all-star group of once and future Oscar winners and nominees, including Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Liam Neeson — a tough act to stand up to for any young actor.
She had the opportunity to prove her detractors wrong with "The Dark Knight," Nolan's 2008 sequel to "Begins" that debuted with the single-greatest domestic opening weekend at that time. (It's now ranked third, behind "Avengers" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.") The Dawes character played a pivotal, tragic role in the shaping of both Batman and one of the film's primary antagonists, Harvey "Two-Face" Dent. But the actress was not around to meet the challenge.
Filming on "Dark Knight" was set to begin around the same time that Holmes' work hiatus was coming to an end in early 2007. But the actress, newly married to Cruise, decided not to return to gritty Gotham City, opting instead for a role in the considerably sunnier "Mad Money," a bank-heist comedy co-starring Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah. To hear Holmes tell it, she had no regrets about saying goodbye to Batman forever.
"I wish them all the best for this summer," Holmes told MTV News in 2008 ahead of the release of "Dark Knight." "I had a great experience working with Chris Nolan, [and] I'm sure it's going to be a great movie. [But] I chose to do this movie ['Mad Money'], and I'm really proud of it." Critics did not share Holmes' pride: the film earned a 23 percent fresh rating on review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com and netted only $20.5 million during its box-office run.
In fairness, Holmes' return to acting after marrying Cruise and giving birth to their daughter came with a wide variety of diverse credits — some well-received, and others ... not so much.
After a brief but revealing (in more ways than one) turn in 2000's "The Gift," Holmes tried her hand at horror again with 2010's "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," this time as a lead. The film fared slightly better with critics than "Mad Money"; if nothing else, Holmes embraced a challenging role (with a shocking ending) wholeheartedly. Holmes also dabbled in television during her marriage to Cruise, with memorable guest-starring turns on "Eli Stone" and "How I Met Your Mother." Additionally, she committed to the iconic role of Jackie Kennedy opposite Greg Kinnear as JFK in "The Kennedys" — a miniseries that was critically maligned even before it hit airwaves, ultimately settling on mixed reviews upon its debut. Her case was not helped much by her involvement in "Jack and Jill," the Adam Sandler comedy widely regarded as the low point of the comedian's career.
In her post-Cruise future, Holmes has two promising projects on the horizon. She's attached to an untitled Christian Camargo film alongside a strong cast, including William Hurt, Michael Nyqvist and Allison Janney. In addition, she'll star in "Responsible Adults," a romantic comedy that sees Holmes playing a med student who starts a romantic relationship with a young man (Zac Efron) she babysat 15 years earlier.
Correlation is not causation, but there's no denying that during her marriage to Cruise, Holmes' work as an actress paled in comparison to the excitement of her headline-grabbing personal life. (She certainly never met the heights that her fellow "Dawson's" veteran Michelle Williams, a three-time Oscar nominee, has enjoyed.) Though attention is bound to center on her divorce in the days and weeks to come, one hopes that it won't be long before Holmes finds her way back to the exciting path her career was on before her relationship with Cruise began — for her sake and ours.
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New Rob and David Cronenberg Interview With West Art Magazine - Berlin Press Junket
New interview from the Berlin Press Junket. It's dubbed but you can hear most of what Rob and David say.
Rob's interview at 1:53, 4:19 and 5:36; Cronenberg's interview at 3:18, 4:50 and 6:00.
Youtube or watch at the source
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Rob's interview at 1:53, 4:19 and 5:36; Cronenberg's interview at 3:18, 4:50 and 6:00.
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Source: http://robpattinson.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-rob-and-david-interview-with-west.html
The Spirit Level documentary: bringing the message to millions | Katharine Round
We want to make a film about inequality with the impact of An Inconvenient Truth. You can help make it happen
I've long been passionate about the role that film can play in creating social change, and in the last few years it is starting to look as though this potential is being realised.
In 2006, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was credited with raising global public awareness of climate change. Gore had been making presentations on the issue around the world for some time, but it was the film which took the message to millions. Why was it so effective? Film has the power to engage people on a number of levels: it can bring data to life, showing stories, themes and arguments in ways that words on a page cannot. And Gore's film also showed what could be done about the problem.
Films can also show the human side of statistics, such as in Franny Armstrong's 2009 Age of Stupid, which combined drama, documentary and animation to expose the human crisis that would result from climate change if we do not take action. Also in 2009, Rupert Murray's The End of the Line was extraordinarily successful in not just raising awareness of the threat of over-fishing to the world's oceans, but also achieving tangible policy change.
A report into the film funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation showed that within weeks of the film being released three British food retailers revised their fish sourcing policy, the sandwich chain Pret A Manger reviewed its fish purchasing policy (to only buy from sustainable stocks), and for every person who saw the film, more than 800 people heard about it.
This last point is an important one. Long ago, such films would only have been shown on television, but the digital revolution has opened up a new world for documentary makers, reducing the cost of showing films in cinemas and enabling them to be shown directly – online, in public screenings and at events. Independent documentaries released in this way are now more powerful than one-off television programmes. They connect to social movements, create a lot of "noise" in the print media, and have longevity – often being shown again and again in different venues and circumstances.
With these new methods of distribution have come new methods of financing. No longer are filmmakers beholden to the gatekeepers of television, but through online platforms they can democratise the process. The Age of Stupid pioneered the "crowd-funding" model, using thousands of small contributions to not only fund the film, but also to build a network and community around it.
I believe the next issue a documentary should tackle is one of the biggest problems faced by the developed world: inequality. Working with Christopher Hird, the man behind The End of the Line, I am adapting the award-winning book The Spirit Level, with the support of its authors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, so the message about how inequality harms our societies can be taken to millions.
Like an Inconvenient Truth, we aim to make a film that is seen and talked about worldwide. It will be funded by advance purchases of downloads, available to buy here. Most importantly, it will provide the means to create real changes in policies and attitudes by setting out what can be done by individuals: as consumers, as citizens and as campaigners.
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Breaking Dawn
In the woods of Forks is the home of the world’s favorite vampires. The final book of the Twilight saga: Breaking dawn present us with a story full of an excitement and adventure. Join Bella on her magnificent journey of making her most precious wish come true
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Bella is finally getting married to the big love of her life, the most handsome Edward Cullen that takes her breath away with only a simple smile. When they returned from their honeymoon the Cullen’s discovered that Bella’s life is in terrible danger. With nothing to do to save Bella’s life Edward feels like losing his mind. Jacob was put to the test by Sam: He had to choose between his best friend that needed him more than ever before and his pack that taught him everything about survival.
The big question on everybody’s mind is: will Bella survive through this threat like she survived through all the others or will this be the end of Bella and Edward Cullen’s perfect fantasy?
The most amazing two couples of Breaking Dawn the movie. Here we can observe that love comes in a lot of magnificent ways although it might be strange sometimes. Edward along with his beloved wife Bella that can never be separated from him and Jacob Black with the most unlikely of girls: Renesmee the daughter of his best friend Bella.
Bella Cullen, the human woman that has been found pregnant with a vampire’s child. What will this lead to? It is against the vampire law to have a vampire baby.
The place where dreams come true at the breaking of dawn is the place where you will find Edward and Bella Cullen.
It looks like two wolves wondered of from the pack. They are brother and sister looking out for one another in the dangerous wood where their mortal enemy roams freely.
This Breaking Dawn poster is one of the many that all Twilight fans have. Complete your collection of Breaking Dawn wallpapers today.
Happy on their honeymoon Edward decides to go out for a hunt while his amazing wife is still sleeping , so that he can spend every moment with her when she wakes up.
Why does everybody’s favorite vampire look so worried? There must be something very interesting going on.
She loves him with all her heart and life. Be a part of their fantasy and discover how two people can look out for each other where ever they are.
Alice and Jasper along with Carlisle and Esmee are all together at the wedding of Edward and Bella.
Carlisle is looking very worried about something. It must have something to do with Bella, the Votary or the werewolves.
Discover another amazing Breaking Dawn poster of Jacob Black and the rest of the Cullens.
Which one do you prefer, the breath taking vampire that sparkles in the sunlight of the supper hot werewolf that makes an excellent best friend?
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