Kevin Costner And Octavia Spencer Discuss Their Roles In “Black Or White” Kevin Costner is definitely playing a different sort of role with his latest project, “Black Or White,” where he plays grandfather and guardian to a little biracial girl . This movie looks really good and definitely hits close to home. BLACK OR WHITE is the story of a grandfather (Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner) who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter. When the little girl’s paternal grandmother (Academy Award® winner Octavia Spencer) seeks custody, a legal battle ensues that forces the families to confront their true feelings on race, forgiveness and understanding. Anchored by an all-star cast and based on real events, the movie is a look at two seemingly different worlds, in which nothing is as simple as black or white. BLACK OR WHITE stars Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, Open Range, “Hatfield’s and McCoys”) and Octavia Spencer (The Help, “Red Band Society”), Gillian Jacobs (“Community,” The Box), Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty, The King’s Speech), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and Bill Burr (Date Night, “Breaking Bad”). We know the swirl is a big subject of debate around these parts, do you think this film will do well? “Black Or White” Arrives in theaters next Friday. Will you be watching?
It’s been a while since we’ve seen Leighton Meester , and turns out, she cleans up good when she’s not too busy dressing like a lame hipster. Anyway, here she is with Gillian Jacobs at the premiere of their new movie Life Partners , which I’m hoping is a feature-length version of the lesbian fantasy I just had after seeing these two on the red carpet together. Fingers crossed. » view all 27 photos Photos: WENN.com Continue reading →
After getting spoiled with 5 new releases with nudity last week, we’ve hit a wall this week with no wide or limited releases featuring nudity. Thankfully, September 26 has yielded a number of films with nudity over the years! Let’s take a look back at some of the best! Hit the jump for more pics and info…
Sometimes, you need musical interlude to make your blogging day better, today’s was sent in from DILLONAIRE who I think was trying to send me a message and that message is that it’s not gay if no one sees…in a if a tree falls in the woods situation…the anal sex way… This comes in after some pretty serious religious debates that have been going on ON THE SITE WITH HATERS and I felt it was relevant enough… I generally hate these kinds of things, but it’s cute enough for today.
Gillian Jacobs is some 31 year old on some show called Community, and she’s flashing her bra like some kind of teen on a school trip…even though she’s not a teen…despite what her botox is telling you…or maybe this is her natural state…she doesn’t drink, which may go against everything I stand for and know, and which may remind me of how much I hate non-drinkers because they judge me and my drinking friends like they are better than us because they fear fun while escaping life’s problems…making her a great designated driver probably a better calling than being a bikini model…because she’s still 31 and 31 is historically known for having “problem” spots… Either way, here’s her spread for complex, where she is unfortunately…not spread.
In The Vow , Rachel McAdams plays Paige, a Chicago sculptor who’s wife to Leo (Channing Tatum), the owner of a recording studio. The two are talking about starting a family, clearly giddily in love, when they get into a car accident that results in Paige taking a slow-motion header through the windshield. She sustains a brain injury that leaves her with amnesia, losing all memory of meeting and having a relationship with Leo. He finds himself having to convince the woman he married of the depth and strength of their connection when to her he might as well be a stranger. While all of the above is true of the film, the second from Michael Sucsy (who also directed the 2009 Drew Barrymore/Jessica Lange Grey Gardens ), it buries the lede, which is that Paige is missing everything that happened in the last few years — not just Leo, but moving to the city from the upscale suburb of Lake Forest in which she grew up, leaving law school to become an artist, breaking off her engagement with smarmy attorney Jeremy (Scott Speedman) and cutting ties with her family after a giant fight, the details of which we don’t learn until late in the film. She’s shocked to find that she gave up straightening her hair, that she lives in a funky loft and wears boho clothing, that she’s become a vegetarian and, if the gasp she gives when told that Barack Obama is president and she voted for him is any indication, that she only relatively recently became a Democrat. Indeed, Paige has forgotten how to be a hipster. Post-trauma, to Leo’s bemusement, she orders blueberry mojitos, wears prim dresses, gets highlights and declares her favorite book to be The Beach House by James Patterson. Leo first encountered Paige after a series of major life changes (we see, in flashback, how they met at the DMV) and had never met her parents, played by Sam Neill and Jessica Lange, before their arrival at the hospital shortly after she comes out of her coma. Stuffily dressed and taut faced, they have a campy suburban gothic air to them, and are delighted to be able to welcome their daughter back into their lives as if they’d never fought in the first place — which they essentially didn’t, since she has no memory of it. The two parties wage cultural warfare over the dazed Paige, one side offering the comforts of the familiar, including her family and posh childhood home, the other the urban life and love she chose instead. These themes of what makes up one’s identity, and whether Paige is still the woman with whom Leo fell in love without the experiences that came to define her, are a lot more solid than the romance aspects of The Vow . McAdams can turn up the charisma and make (almost) any role grounded and watchable, even multiple ones involving time travel and memory loss. Tatum is like a very handsome steak. Unfortunately, he’s the one saddled with the swoony, Nicholas Sparksesque burdens in the story, from a voiceover about love and fate delivered in an earnest monotone, to spelling out “MOVE IN?” in blueberries when serving Paige breakfast, to accidentally complementing the aesthetic merits of her scrap pile instead of the sculpture in progress she’s working on. He just isn’t expressive enough an actor to carry all of Leo’s pining and heartbreak, as he suffers through Paige’s unintended cruelty as she tries and fails to connect with him and the person she used to be. “I’m so tired of disappointing you,” she tells him after he reacts with exasperated sadness to her inability to remember their past, and it’s an unintended consequence of the casting that she seems reasonable and right in considering moving on, and that one doesn’t feel the need to blubber in response, “But you’re meant to be together !” The Vow, which is based on the story of real-life couple Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, doesn’t turn out to be as gauzily sentimental as its beginning (or its marketing materials ) suggests; though this probably isn’t intentional, it ends up making the argument that one’s romantic memories don’t tend to translate well when shared, as Leo walks Paige through the things they used to do as a couple, from the restaurant in which they used to eat (named, heh, Cafe Mnemonic) to the lakeside spot where they would skinny dip. But the most loving gesture in the film is its consideration that what may be best for someone’s happiness is letting them go, no matter how painful that may be. The ending is — spoiler alert? — an upbeat one, but it’s one the film drifts into, no last-minute gallop through an airport or desperate clinch in the rain. It’s a more grown-up conclusion than you’d expect, but feels anticlimactic when taken in the context of the story’s wobbles between realism and glossy, larger-than-life love story. Seriously, couldn’t he have restored a house for her or something? Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
I’ll admit it: I groaned a bit when word first broke that Steve Carell and Keira Knightley were set to play opposite each other in a romantic comedy set against the end of the world. Knightley, I dreaded, would be reduced to playing May-December arm candy to Carell in her first non-heavy project since Bend it Like Beckham . But as the first trailer for Lorene Scafaria ‘s Seeking a Friend for the End of the World demonstrates, maybe I shouldn’t have worried so much. Maybe . Carell and Knightley play neighbors who set out on a road trip to find their respective loved ones before the world ends after an asteroid is discovering hurtling towards Earth. Scafaria, who penned the zingy hipster romance Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist , makes her directorial debut working from her own script, and from the looks of things this could offer unexpected sorts of laughs, not to mention the rare comic turn by Knightley. That said, Carell seems to be pulling his straightlaced shtick yet again, and Knightley’s afghan-wearing Brit veers dangerously toward manic pixie dream girl territory; will her carefree ways open up his stuffy world view? Will she help him find his way to his high school sweetheart’s arms, only to find she’s fallen in love with him? I hope not. I hope End of the World surprises me. At least we’ll get Melanie Lynskey, Patton Oswalt and Gillian Jacobs to add some colorful bits along the way. Verdict: Tentatively going along for the ride. [via Yahoo ]
Community’s small but devoted group of fans was devastated when the show was suddenly pulled off the air in the middle of its third season, and we can think of two big, bouncy reasons why. Gentlemen, meet Ms. Alison Brie : We’d like to spread that on a cracker! NBC says that Community will return (though they’re not saying when), so until then tide yourself over with Alison Brie and her costar Gillian Jacobs right here at MrSkin.com!
This picture of Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs from NBC’s Community absolutely tore up the Internet this weekend, and for good reason. The retro lingerie, high heels, and hairbrush play pluck this pic from the ranks of ordinary GQ girls and put it on a first-class flight to fetish town. Bettie Page -style lesbian fetish scene? Spanks a million, ladies! The cherry on the sexy sundae is that these comediennes are hilarious as well as hot. In the skinterview accompanying this pickle-pleasing pic, Alison and Gillian playfully trade one-liners on the subject of sex: “It’s just so deadly serious to each of us but hilarious to everyone else,” Jacobs says. “When you’re having sex with someone,” Brie adds, “it really is similar to putting yourself out there and saying, ‘I think this is funny and I hope you laugh.'” “Fake it till you make it,” Jacobs says. “That’s what my drama teacher used to say.” Brie: “I don’t think she was talking about sex.” Community returns to NBC this fall, but until then we’ve got plenty of spanking scenes for your wanking dreams right here at MrSkin.com!
Here’s Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs for GQ, doing some Terry Richardson style lesbianism, like he did with Glee, in efforts to promote their show “Community” and as far as I’m concerned, it is genius marketing, even if it didn’t take a genius to figure it out, since dyking out celebs in their underwear, in subtle yet implied pornographic images, that just touch the line of pornography, you know as a lead in, but still keeps corporate sponsors happy, while making the fans hungry for more, is just a solid move…I should take their lead, but I prefer napping. Before today I didn’t know who these bithes were and now I want to see their sex tape…Good work GQ….now Put me on the cover in my panties…I need the fame. To See The Rest of the Pics and Interview ABout Sex cuz Sex Gets Noticed Follow This Link