I’ve added new high quality photos of Robert Pattinson onlocation of his new film, “Life” movie on February 26, 2014.
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Based on the bestseller by Markus Zusak, this film looks like a creepy new version of the Anne Frank story
There's an unsettling sort of deja vu to be had in watching this strange and saccharine film, based on the 2005 young-adult bestseller by Australian writer Markus Zusak. I have not read the book, but the film looks like a creepy new version of the Anne Frank story, with the leading character recast as a brave and pretty little Aryan girl; the brutal reality of the Holocaust is not dwelt upon. Sophie Nélisse plays Liesel, a young girl in 1930s Germany who is left to kindly but harassed foster parents Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson) by her fugitive Communist mother. It is this trio's courage and victimhood that take centre-stage. Liesel is forced to join the Hitler Youth, but is secretly disgusted by the Nazis' book-burning displays and conceives a love of literature by "borrowing" books from the Mayor's wife. And as war breaks out, she is taught to love writing by Max (Ben Schnetzer), the Jew that her foster parents are hiding in the cellar, and whose deferential friendship and gratitude are the guarantee of their good-Germanness. This lite-historical tosh has absolutely nothing in common with the power of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. It's a worryingly lenient and obtuse approach to history and historical evil, which are smothered in feelgood tragi-sentimental slush.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/28/book-thief-review-film-markus-zusak
Jordan Belfort, who was jailed for 22 months for securities fraud, admits that the Oscar-nominated film based on his memoir had no need to exaggerate the sex and drugs
The controversial figure whose memoir formed the basis of Leonardo DiCaprio's unhinged stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has revealed his debauched life of sex and drugs was "even worse" than shown in the film.
Jordan Belfort made the admission in a candid interview with the Hollywood Reporter days before this year's Oscars ceremony, where Scorsese's controversial film is up for five prizes. The 51-year-old, who served 22 months in jail for securities fraud between 2004 and 2006 after setting up the discredited Stratton Oakmont brokerage and penny stock "boiler room" in Long Island, said Terence Winter's screenplay had not needed to exaggerate his outrageous existence.
"The drug use and the stuff with the hookers and the sales assistants and the sex in the office … that stuff is really, really accurate," said Belfort. "In some respects, my life was even worse than that. Although I'd say I did more quaaludes than cocaine."
Scorsese's film includes a number of scenes in which Belfort and his cronies imbibe quaaludes, a long-banned sedative with apparent devastating consequences if taken in high doses. The Wolf of Wall Street has been criticised by disability-rights groups for a scene in which DiCaprio reaches "cerebral palsy stage" while under the influence of the drug. Belfort admits in the interview that this might be his fault.
"I spent hundreds of hours with Leo doing everything you could imagine, from hanging out socially to showing him what it's like to be on drugs," he said. "I took him through the stages and I was rolling on the floor in his house as he was filming me."
However, the former broker, who now works as a motivational speaker, said a scene at the end of the film where Belfort attacks his wife is fictionalised.
"I never punched my wife in the stomach," he said. "It was more of a struggle where she grabbed onto my leg and I kicked out. I was out of my mind. I was at the lowest point of my life. I'm not trying to minimise it; it was awful what I did. But it was under the [influence] of massive quantities of drugs."
Belfort has been criticised for benefiting financially by at least $1m from the sale of the screen rights to his life story, despite the fact that he has paid only $11.6m out of the $110.4m he was bound over to pay victims as part of his sentencing in 2003. The former broker told the Hollywood Reporter he believes he is no longer obliged to pay 50% of his income in restitution, as US justice department officials have stated.
"It's the most idiotic thing ever," he said. "If they have a judgment against me, they can freeze my assets."
Belfort has found himself at the centre of a high-profile awards season conversation over whether The Wolf of Wall Street deserves Oscars recognition. The daughter of a man linked to the discredited financial schemes depicted in the film has attacked Scorsese and DiCaprio for glamorising a lifestyle of "fun sexcapades and coke binges". The director and star also found themselves heckled at an Academy screening last year, and producers have faced criticism from an animal-rights group calling for a boycott over the use of a live chimp in one of the film's scenes of Wall Street excess.
DiCaprio, who will be hoping to take his first Oscar on Sunday night, has defended the film as a "cautionary tale".
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/28/wolf-of-wall-street-jordan-belfort-sex-drugs
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The Oscar-nominated actor gets 'Taken' away once again as an unlikely action hero in a very bad situation.
By Josh Wigler
Liam Neeson stars in 'Non-Stop'
Photo: Universal Pictures
Liam Neeson continues racking up miles as an action star with this weekend's "Non-Stop," about a disgruntled U.S. air marshal trapped on an airplane in a miles-high crisis. Based on reviews, the film plays out as expected for a Neeson-driven action vehicle — which is to say, totally ridiculous and often awesome.
Read on for our round-up of what the critics are saying about "Non-Stop."
The Flight-Plan
"Set almost entirely aboard a red-eye JFK-to-Heathrow flight, the movie stars Neeson as Bill Marks, an Irish-born U.S. air marshal who is framed for hijacking the plane by an unknown criminal mastermind presumed to be lurking among the passengers. Rather than try to cheat his way out of this constrained premise, director Jaume Collet-Serra (who previously directed Neeson in the chase mystery 'Unknown') makes the most of it, using the absence of an exterior point of view to build suspense." — Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The A.V. Club
Fly Neeson Airlines
"Liam Neeson barking mad with his Irish brogue and dragging suspected hijackers around by the scruff of their neck is, indeed, a thing of beauty. Liam Neeson The Action Hero came to film culture kinda by accident -- no one saw 'Taken' coming -- but we're just one or two more of these movies away from him reaching full-on icon at this point." — Jordan Hoffman, Screen Crush
Phoning It In
"My favorite thing about Non-Stop is how it portrays our cell phone usage. Movies have really come a long way since the '90s when anyone using a computer spoke any words they were typing. Collett-Serra makes the text messages a visual part of the scene, as it is second nature to everyone in the audience. Predictive text keeps sentences flowing in a timely fashion. You don't want to wait for the terrorist to spell a big word. Man, I should have written down one of the words that gets auto-filled. That's on me. Collett-Serra even uses cracked screens to protect the PG-13 rating, which is clever on so many levels. Well, several levels: story, marketing and meta commentary on MPAA ratings." — Fred Topel, Crave Online
Going Off Course
"Collet-Serra's thriller is a blast until it has to stick the ending. On top of logic-bending conclusions and a bombastic finale, 'Non-Stop' nosedives into political territory that adds a funky taste to the breezy action. Reminding us that 'post-9/11' hysteria can be exploited for the eternity after 9/11, Collet-Serra connects the scattered narrative dots to 'real life' drama. 'Non-Stop' doesn't begin there and didn't need to go there." — Matt Patches, IGN Movies
The Final Word
"At a certain point either you'll fasten your seat belt and go with 'Non-Stop's' absurd, Looney Tunes logic or you won't. Against my better judgment, I went with it. After all, Neeson has shown time and again that he's the closest thing Hollywood has these days to a box office Rumpelstiltskin. He can spin cheese into gold." — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
Are you checking out "Non-Stop" this weekend?
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