Tag Archives: beginners

Bad News, Julia Roberts: Mirror, Mirror’s Online Praise Might Be Studio-Generated

Last week, you and I watched the first trailer for Tarsem Singh’s Mirror, Mirror in slack-jawed horror. (After all, aren’t Snow White adaptations supposed to be about the titular princess and not Julia Roberts’s aging concerns, Bollywood dance numbers and Armie Hammer’s impression of a dog?) Surprisingly though, not all of the Internet’s feedback was negative. A few brave souls commented on the Relativity trailer enthusiastically — and now MovieMavericks.com is claiming that some of those suspicious thumbs-up reviews came from the same source.

Follow this link:
Bad News, Julia Roberts: Mirror, Mirror’s Online Praise Might Be Studio-Generated

Oscar Index: Hurricane Meryl Makes Landfall; Artist, Hugo Surge Toward Top

The bleary-eyed minions at Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics have shoved off for the long holiday weekend, leaving it to me to sort out the hectic awards scramble as we head into the third month of this year’s Oscar Index. And by “hectic,” I do mean hectic , with a lead change at the top of two categories, a neck-and-neck tie atop another and plenty of feverish competition foreseen in another. Read on for a closer look.

Read more:
Oscar Index: Hurricane Meryl Makes Landfall; Artist, Hugo Surge Toward Top

Oscar Index: Is It February Yet?

Welcome back to week five of Movieline’s 2011-12 Oscar Index — week five! Already! We’re entering the second month of this sucker, and our scientists and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics remain hard at work uncovering new hints and implications every passing day. Well, not every passing day. OK, like, maybe a couple times a week. What can I tell you? It’s still early! Let’s have a glimpse at the latest — if light — movement this week.

Read the original here:
Oscar Index: Is It February Yet?

Shia LaBeouf Explains Why Megan Fox Wasn’t Cut Out For the Transformers Franchise in 5 Questionable Quotes

And now, an exercise in interview hole digging by Transformers: Dark of the Moon star Shia LaBeouf. While speaking with the Los Angeles Times recently, the actor tried his best to explain why Megan Fox didn’t fit in on Michael Bay’s set. What resulted was an uncomfortable feature with no less than three quotes from LaBeouf, that, like Michael Bay’s directing style, could be construed as offensive and sexist. Take it away, Shia…

Read the rest here:
Shia LaBeouf Explains Why Megan Fox Wasn’t Cut Out For the Transformers Franchise in 5 Questionable Quotes

Weekend Forecast: X-Men Marks the (Weak?) Spot

Well, then, this shouldn’t take long: One new tentpole and one new tentpole only awaits moviegoers at the multiplex this weekend, while a generally strong crowd of indies sneaks into the art house in limited release. We’ve had a look at them all — but will you? To the Forecast!

Read the original post:
Weekend Forecast: X-Men Marks the (Weak?) Spot

Muammar Gaddafi as ‘Psychopathic Snoopy’

http://www.youtube.com/v/LWWgGww1aqQ

Read the original:

monaeltahawy Mona Eltahawy Revolutionary Arabic for Beginners via @ Coolhalaby Eshaab youreed shamsiyyet el aqeed: The people want the Colonel’s umbrella #Libya Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Exile On Moan Street Discovery Date : 22/02/2011 05:01 Number of articles : 2

Muammar Gaddafi as ‘Psychopathic Snoopy’

Wish You Were Here Location Scouting With Us! XOXO, Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow hasn’t really given herself any time off after surviving the arduous awards season gauntlet that netted her the Best Director Oscar: She sprung almost immediately into action to helm the pilot for HBO’ s upcoming The Miraculous Year , then hopped from there into pre-production for her next film, Sleeping Dogs (formerly titled Triple Frontier ). Still, don’t feel too bad for Bigelow — as you can see above, location scouting at Brazil’s Iguaçu Falls has its benefits. [ The Playlist ]

Read the rest here:
Wish You Were Here Location Scouting With Us! XOXO, Kathryn Bigelow

At TIFF: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer Bond in Bittersweet Beginners

It’s often said — and most often by people in relationships themselves — that no one can ever really know what happens between two people in love, or even those marking time in a marriage. And yet, in the case of a child or some otherwise invested third party, it is possible to be molded against a relationship so tightly that, once peeled away, one is left with a pretty good impression of its contours. In Beginners , Mike Mills’s loose, feeling, evidently highly personal portrait of grief’s ritual excavation of memory, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is reevaluating the impression he formed of his parents’ marriage, and the shape he’s in as a result.

Link:
At TIFF: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer Bond in Bittersweet Beginners