Apr 15
2012American Idol experienced it’s first truly shocking elimination Thursday night, with some of the judges’ favorite contestants landing in the bottom three.
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Apr 15
2012Jack Lumber made its debut at PAX East 2012, offering a fresh spin on the swipe-and-slash gameplay established by Fruit Ninja. Coming this summer to iPad, iPhone, and eventually Android, Jack Lumber follows a lumberjack whose grandmother was brutally killed by a malicious pine tree.
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Apr 15
2012At first glance, the new Atomic Floyd SuperDarts +Remote earphones look like a souped-up version of the bullet-designed Koss KEB40 or Ortofon e-Q5 earphones. The cord comes straight out the opposite end of the earphone instead of the side of the main shell. It?s obvious Atomic Floyd wants to make a statement with the SuperDarts. [...]
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Apr 15
2012The star of the Tim Burton-esque horror movie Elfie Hopkins could be the next Richard Burton
Wow, he’s dreamy. Yes! Yes he is. But that’s not why we’re watching him. We don’t want to run our fingers through his hair/find him at all sexy.
What’s his talent? He’s film poster boy of the year, starring opposite Jaime Winstone in Elfie Hopkins, a “quirky Tim Burton-esque horror”. Then there’s Citadel, which just won big at the South By Southwest festival; and Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes (with Alfred Molina and Jessica Biel).
How do you pronounce his name? A-nigh-rin. With a roll of the tongue on the “R” if you’re from the Welsh Valleys.
So he’s a Valley Boy? Yep, he’s from the Ogmore Valley, near Bridgend. He’s the son of a retired coal miner and a mum who works as a “factory girl”. “Until,” he says, “the day I can earn enough to stop that happening.”
Will he be the next Michael Sheen? He’s already picked up an Olivier Award for his 2009 role in the musical Spring Awakening (beating Rowan Atkinson).
He says: “I want to be a leading man and a man, like Richard Burton.”
We say: Watch out for the next Frodo Baggins. Next in his diary is Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box, the first film adaptation of the trilogy of fantasy novels. He’s playing the lead, and guess what? Michael Sheen is co-starring.
Elfie Hopkins is released in cinemas on 20 April
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/apr/15/aneurin-barnard-actor-elfie-hopkins
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Apr 14
2012Cormac McCarthy-scripted project could see Pitt take a small part alongside Jolie in one of the main female roles
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are on the verge of working together on the same film for the first time since 2005′s Mr & Mrs Smith, in the Cormac McCarthy-scripted project The Counselor.
The Counselor originated as a spec script by McCarthy, author of The Road and No Country for Old Men. Ridley Scott was quickly attached as director, as his next film after Prometheus, and then cast Michael Fassbender in the lead, a lawyer attempting to dabble in the drugs trade, and Javier Bardem (who starred in the Coen brothers’ film adaptation of No Country) as the chief villain.
Pitt looks likely to take the small part of a character named West Ray, described as a “mysterious figure [who] advises Fassbender’s character on the drug trade”, while Jolie may be cast in one of the main female roles. Jolie and Scott have been developing a biopic of Gertrude Bell, the British archaeologist who played an influential role in Middle East diplomacy in the first half of the 20th century, while Pitt owes Scott for his big early break, Thelma and Louise.
Production on the film is due to start in early summer, with a projected run at the 2013 awards season.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/apr/13/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-the-counselor
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Apr 14
2012At PAX East 2012, Halfbrick Studios was showing off an incoming update to Jetpack Joyride which will let you equip some very handy gadgets. Players can equip two, which offer a variety of functions, such as a slight boost in speed when taking off from the ground, or a protective bubble to improve your distance after crashing.
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Apr 14
2012Fact-checking the famous
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/interactive/2012/apr/14/infomania-james-cameron
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Apr 10
2012
Eight months after announcing her engagement to Christian Evans, Ricki Lake is a married woman. She eloped with her fiance, according to reports!
“They had been planning on doing it this way and didn’t want a big spectacle,” a source explained to Us. “Ricki is so happy! She really found love again.”
Lake dropped a not-so-subtle hint on Twitter Tuesday with a fuzzy but stunning shot of herself, clad in a lacy wedding gown and holding a bouquet.
That could be construed as a wedding announcement of sorts:
“Yup, this is me,” the actress and talk show host, 43, Tweeted along with the photo seen above. “Sadie Sadie married lady. 
Love is in the air. Xo”
Congratulations to Ricki and Christian Evans! On a side note, no wonder Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion, no one uploads a pic without it anymore.
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/04/ricki-lake-and-christian-evans-married/
Apr 10
2012We recently spotted the mom-to-be in a beautiful (and affordable!) maxi from Kmart. Check her out, plus get shopping details.
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Apr 10
2012Las Acacias; Another Earth; Switch; The Big Year; Breaking Wind Part 1
No matter how spectacular, expensive or star-studded Hollywood blockbusters may be, there will always be vibrant, inventive, international gems that consistently prove that less is more. Very little happens in Pablo Giorgelli’s debut feature Las Acacias (2011, Verve, 12), a pitch-perfect, low-key road movie about a long-distance lorry driver (Germán de Silva) who agrees to transport a young woman (Hebe Duarte) from Paraguay to Buenos Aires, only to discover that she has a five-month-old child in tow.
Initially dismayed by the prospect of the overcrowded journey ahead, loner Rubén gradually warms to his charges, and a hesitant relationship emerges between him and Jacinta. Casting an established actor (De Silva) opposite a talented newcomer (Duarte), Giorgelli conjures an extraordinary balance between an air of unaffected naturalism and a precisely defined, acutely observed dissection of human interaction. The result is an absolutely beautiful movie that brilliantly captures the changing notes and cadences of a relationship through the smallest gestures between the often silent protagonists; entire sections of this unexpected treat resemble nothing so closely as a silent film. A deserving winner of the Cannes Caméra d’Or prize, Las Acacias is an honest pleasure that heralds the arrival of more than one major new talent; if only more movies were made this way.
The biggest problem with Another Earth (2011, Fox, 12) is that it is destined to dwell forever within the shadow of Lars von Trier’s superior Melancholia. Both films feature the spectre of a large blue planet looming ominously into view above our skies, provoking both dismay and elation among the earthbound onlookers who are the movies’ real focus. In Melancholia, a central character’s depression seems to be drawing disaster and damnation down upon the entire human race; in Another Earth it is the anguish of guilt that effectively pulls an alternative world into being, perhaps offering a chance of salvation. Brit Marling is the affecting indie kid at the centre of Mike Cahill’s noodly navel-gazing affair, serving as both star and co-writer and lending an air of emotional credibility to the increasingly unbelievable proceedings. At its best it plays like an intriguing episode of Doctor Who for the mumblecore crowd, replete with cod philosophising and angsty breast-beating; at worst, it’s a Lars-lite for post-Twilight Zone slackers; no wonder it became a Sundance prize winner. Extras include deleted scenes, music video and flimsy featurettes.
The number of footballers who have successfully parlayed their field skills into screen-acting careers is tiny indeed. Here in the UK we have Vinnie Jones, who went from being a hard man on the pitch to being a hard man in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels via a “transitional” role presenting the self-explanatorily entitled video Vinnie Jones: Soccer’s Hard Men. By contrast, in France they have Eric Cantona, who spouted Shakespeare and Sartre while playing the beautiful game, and who has since appeared in such diversely upmarket fare as Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth and Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric. In Gallic B-movie thriller Switch (2011, Anchor Bay, 15), Cantona downshifts into cutout caricature as a gruff, chain-smoking cop who has no time to shave and is constantly being chewed out by his superiors for following his instincts instead of observing protocol. The film itself has a cute set-up ? a young Canadian woman signs up online for a French house-swap and promptly finds herself framed for a Parisian murder ? but slips all too easily into the realms of making no sense whatsoever. Cantona acquits himself with as much grace as is necessary for this curry-and-a-six-pack time-passer.
Having tanked in America (and made zero impact in UK cinemas) despite an all-star cast including Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson, gentle birdwatching comedy The Big Year (2011,Fox, PG) ships up on DVD, where it may finally find an audience. For despite its dismal track record this is actually quite an amusing tale of the crossing paths of bird lovers, each on a (secret) mission to compete in a pastime-cum-sport in which competition itself is frowned upon. Although not in the same league as Christopher Guest’s world-beating Best in Show, this does have an affectionate attitude towards its variously messed-up obsessives, and there are plenty of moments of understated charm as each makes their inevitable journey toward ultimate self-discovery. A relief, too, to find Black downplaying it for once, reminding us that he can do quiet as well as loud; his scenes with Martin are particularly rewarding. Hey, it made me laugh?
Which is more than can be said for Breaking Wind Part 1 (2011, Revolver, 15). Somewhere in the very bowels of hell there is a special place where unfunny “spoof” movies can putrefy and fester for evermore. Top of the stagnant pile will be this unremittingly vulgar “spoof” of the Twilight saga, which makes Vampires Suck look like Some Like it Hot. Massively unamusing knob “jokes” slop like watery faecal matter into the pestilent slough of despond upon which the entire sorry venture is predicated. I honestly can’t remember the last time I felt so soiled ? and so bored ? watching a movie. Nothing about this is funny, least of all the sniggering, mean-spirited closing jibes at the Twi-hard fans upon whose cash this cynically hopes to prey. Vile.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/apr/08/las-acacias-mark-kermode-dvd
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