The Rewind Ep. 29 We’re back with another episode of “The Rewind!” The “Family Guy” Landon Levarius and “The Bully” DJ Franchise are giving you their unfiltered hot topic opinions. This time they’re debating M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass.” The James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson thriller didn’t get the best reviews, but for some reason, DJ Franchise loved it. The “I gave this a solid 8, there’s a lot of things that I enjoyed about this movie,” said DJ Franchise. “Sarah Paulson who plays in “American Horror Story, she’s sick in this movie.” Landon, however, isn’t pleased and gives it a 5. They then move on to Killer Mike’s Netflix series “Trigger Warning.” The show follows Mike as he usees his revolutionary and sometimes controversial ideas to explore cultural taboos. It’s insightful and fun and Landon LOVES it. He gives it a 9. “Of course I love this series,” says Landon.”I thought it was moving the culture forward.” Franchise, however, gives it a 5 and points out that Mike isn’t staying true to his “black-owned” message by not wearing black made clothing brands. It’s the rewind, watch above!
Source: Supplied by WENN.com / WENN Near the top of the year, Apple announced it was hopping into the wide-open streaming market and introduced a list of original programming. Among them was a series from Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine titled Vital Signs , but Apple’s boss Tim Cook has decided not to go forward with the show for a variety of reasons. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Cook was put off by several scenes of violence, drug use, and sex scenes, including orgies, and despite Dre’s efforts to tone down the content, it wasn’t good enough. Deadline adds in its reporting : Cook personally decided against moving forward on it, opting to lead Apple’s proposed content services in a direction different from its competition and toward less-edgy content. The WSJ said the decision was made because Apple was afraid to jeopardize its consumer products sales, an issue not faced by streamers like Netflix and Amazon. The WSJ also reported that a show featuring Resse Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston was also toned down. Apple also backed off from a Whitney Cummings show about the #MeToo movement (“too sensitive a topic”) and asked director M. Night Shyamalan to remove crucifixes from characters’ homes in his psychological thriller because of fears of alienating religious viewers. It appears that Apple is doing a massive internal creative overhaul after it was slated to debate the service later this year. It has now been moved to debut around March 2019. — Photo: WENN
Source: Supplied by WENN.com / WENN Near the top of the year, Apple announced it was hopping into the wide-open streaming market and introduced a list of original programming. Among them was a series from Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine titled Vital Signs , but Apple’s boss Tim Cook has decided not to go forward with the show for a variety of reasons. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Cook was put off by several scenes of violence, drug use, and sex scenes, including orgies, and despite Dre’s efforts to tone down the content, it wasn’t good enough. Deadline adds in its reporting : Cook personally decided against moving forward on it, opting to lead Apple’s proposed content services in a direction different from its competition and toward less-edgy content. The WSJ said the decision was made because Apple was afraid to jeopardize its consumer products sales, an issue not faced by streamers like Netflix and Amazon. The WSJ also reported that a show featuring Resse Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston was also toned down. Apple also backed off from a Whitney Cummings show about the #MeToo movement (“too sensitive a topic”) and asked director M. Night Shyamalan to remove crucifixes from characters’ homes in his psychological thriller because of fears of alienating religious viewers. It appears that Apple is doing a massive internal creative overhaul after it was slated to debate the service later this year. It has now been moved to debut around March 2019. — Photo: WENN
Two decades after its release, Kendrick talks to ‘RapFix Live’ about the gritty coming-of-age flick. By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway Kendrick Lamar Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images
While audiences may be clamoring to see Will Smith back in action, critics haven’t been too kind to M. Night Shyamalan’s post-apocalyptic flick. By Todd Gilchrist
The Fresh Prince and his skinny-jeaned seed talk all things Smith-related Will And Jaden Smith Cover The New Issue Of New York Magazine Via Vulture Will Smith came up with the story for M. Night Shyamalan’s postapocalyptic drama After Earth, which opens May 31, while watching his son Jaden, 14, film The Karate Kid in China. The premise: A father is a best-in-class soldier who crash-lands with his son on a hostile planet Earth a thousand years in the future. The father, wounded, must watch from the sidelines as the son navigates treacherous terrain and fights terrible creatures in order to escape. The parallels to their adventures in Hollywood, Will says, are obvious. The father-son duo covered a lot of ground during the interview, check out some of the excerpt below. Okay. Who would you say is the biggest star in your family? Will and Jaden: [in unison] Willow! (Willow is Jaden’s 12-year-old sister.) Jaden: She just knows who she is, so she just is. Will: She has a magic power in the family. She absolutely demands the most attention, and there’s something really incendiary about a 12-year-old girl who says and does what she wants. “Incendiary” is one way to put it, some would call it piss-poor parenting. Hit the flipper to read more of Will and Jaden had to say in their interview.
David Gordon Green ‘s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror pic Suspiria was once set to star Natalie Portman , re-envisioning Argento’s stylish tale of a young woman who discovers spooky goings-on at her boarding school. Now Green has found his lead in 15-year-old Isabelle Fuhrman , who herself spooked audiences in her 2009 breakout film The Orphan , and most recently nabbed a role as the sadistic tribute Clove in The Hunger Games . But that’s not all! A report out of Cannes reveals that a line-up of European veterans will be joining Fuhrman — or menacing her — in the pic. Argento’s moody classic told the tale of an American ballet student (Jessica Harper) who begins noticing strange happenings at her European ballet school and discovers that it’s run by a coven of witches; Green’s script removes the ballet aspect, but as he told Movieline last year he plans on paying homage to the original with nods to scenes, shots, dialogue and the film’s iconic score by Goblin. For Fuhrman, this is huge; it marks a coveted lead role and a major step in breaking away from being “that girl from The Orphan ,” a film in which she made quite an impression at the age of 12. (She’s currently filming M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth .) According to Screen Daily , Suspiria has Isabelle Huppert, Albert Nobbs ‘ Janet McTeer, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ‘s Michael Nyqvist and Man of Steel ‘s Antje Traue set to play roles in the film. (You can guess that some or all of these folks might be set to play members of the school/coven, though I imagine Udo Kier’s helpful psychologist from the original might also pop up in some form.) Green is directing from his script with co-writer Chris Gebert, with I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino among the producers; filming begins in September. [ Screen Daily , Variety ]
You have to admire the chutzpah, if not necessarily the filmmaking skills, of Jay and Mark Duplass, the duo behind the stay-at-home-son comedy-drama Jeff, Who Lives at Home . With their 2005 debut, The Puffy Chair , the Duplass brothers took an uninteresting story fleshed out with lackadaisical dialogue and, using barely rudimentary camera skills, fashioned a noodly tale about love, life and relationships. It’s easier, maybe, to admire the Duplasses’ boldness more than the actual product, but you have to say this much for them: They sure do keep moving. Jeff, Who Lives at Home is the duo’s fourth feature, and if their sense of craftsmanship hasn’t grown by leaps and bounds in the past seven years, it has surely improved. Which raises the question: At what point do we stop applauding the Duplass brothers for their gumption and stick-to-itiveness and admit that, maybe, their storytelling just isn’t so hot? Or that their characters sometimes seem more like groovy-cute constructs than believable people? For example, the protagonist of Jeff, Who Lives at Home , played by Jason Segal, believes that everything and everyone in the universe is interconnected. Why? Because he keeps watching M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs over and over again. In the movie’s prologue, we hear him in voiceover as he writes in his diary, “It keeps getting better every time I see it.” Even if the movie’s title didn’t give it all away, you could probably guess that’s a setup for a story about a schleppy 30-ish guy who still lives at home with his mother (in this case, Susan Sarandon) but who will somehow find his purpose in life – his own sense of interconnectedness – during the course of the movie. And you’d be right. The whole conceit feels a little too manicured, too neat, even though the filmmaking around it is still pretty Duplassy – in other words, its earmarks are lots of (somewhat) shaky handheld camera moves and a decidedly uncinematic sense of composition. But there is, at least, a story here, and Jeff, Who Lives at Home suggests that the Duplass brothers really do want their movies to be better and better. Like the duo’s last movie, the 2010 Cyrus , Jeff deals with an adult son who isn’t, for vague yet understandable reasons, quite equipped to live in the real world. Sarandon’s Sharon, hoping to give him at least some purpose in life, just wants him to help out a little around the house – she sends him on a mission to buy some wood glue to repair a cupboard door’s broken slat. Jeff heads out to the store via bus, gazing out the window in a state of semi-wonder as it makes its way past some of the nondescript gas stations and fast-food eateries of Baton Rouge. He never makes it to the store: A mishap surrounding his certainty that the name “Kevin” is somehow of cosmic significance leads him into contact with his estranged brother, Pat (Ed Helms), whose wife, Linda (Judy Greer), has just given him the gate for being a fiscally irresponsible loser. (She seems to be right.) Jeff and Pat forge a tentative reconnection, reminiscing about their dead father and gradually – perhaps too gradually – wending their way toward a climax that gives real meaning to their lives. There’s some genuine sweetness in this story: Jeff may be a clueless galoot who overthinks everything, but he’s really searching for something here, and as Segel plays him, he does have a degree of lumpy charm. But even though much of the dialogue in Jeff is improvised, there’s still something deeply calculated about the picture: It has the distinction of feeling unshaped and sloppy and at the same time meticulously planned out in terms of what it’s asking us to feel. The picture demands that we feel protective of Jeff, and so we do. But we’re also supposed to find it gratifying when Jeff learns that the signs he’s learned to read by watching Signs really are signs. How you feel about the ending of Jeff, Who Lives at Home will depend on your capacity for cosmic delight, but I will say that one man’s date with destiny is just another man’s handy plot device. still, there’s one area in which the Duplasses’ instincts serve them well: The movie features a subplot in which Sharon learns she has a secret admirer at work. She’s pleased and flattered, but she has no clue who it is, and she shares her flutter of confusion with her co-worker and friend, Carol (played, with marvelous suppleness and grace, by Rae Dawn Chong). Everything Sarandon does here feels believable and natural — that’s in addition to the fact that she looks lovely, like a woman who’s happy to be living in her own skin instead of trying to shape it into a mask. She’s the kind of actress who can do a lot with a little, and it’s a pleasure to watch the way small gradations of feeling play across her face like the shifting sunlight on a half-cloudy, half-bright day. Her scenes with Chong (whom the Duplass brothers, God love them, also cast in Cyrus ) are superb, and they suggest that the Duplasses’ improvisational MO can work beautifully with the right kind of actors. Like the Duplass brother’s other movies, Jeff, Who Lives at Home worships at the altar of the small moment, without recognizing that some moments are just, well, small. But occasionally, the Duplasses hold their cracked magnifying glass up to something very real. And oddly enough, it’s the crack that makes all the difference. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
What sequel was named the worst thing to happen to Hollywood in 2010? Which Twilight Saga star is considered a trainwreck of an actor? As has become an annual tradition, the Razzie Awards handed out hardware to the very worst from the year in cinema last night, 24 hours prior to the Oscars doing the opposite. And the “winners” were… WORST ACTOR Ashton Kutcher/ Killers and Valentine’s Day WORST ACTRESS The Four “Gal Pals”/ Sex and the City 2 WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jessica Alba / The Killer Inside Me , Little Fockers , Machete and Valentine’s Day WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR Jackson Rathbone/ The Last Airbender , Eclipse WORST SCREEN COUPLE/WORST SCREEN ENSEMBLE The Entire Cast of Sex and the City 2 WORST DIRECTOR M. Night Shyamalan/ The Last Airbender WORST SCREENPLAY The Last Airbender , M. Night Shyamalan
Singer preps for new album release and heads to London in second-season kickoff. By Mawuse Ziegbe Fantasia in the season-two premiere of “Fantasia For Real” Photo: VH1 In the weeks before and after her August suicide attempt, Fantasia Barrino has arguably gone through one of the toughest moments of her life. On the second-season premiere of VH1’s “Fantasia For Real,” however, the former American Idol’s fighting spirit is on full display as she preps for the release of her third album, Back to Me. The episode kicked off with Fantasia celebrating her newly empty house in Charlotte, North Carolina, after her mother and brothers moved out. She tricked out the mansion with a new game room and a brightly colored playroom for her daughter, Zion. While the songstress appeared to revel in her drama-free domesticity, she did have an album to promote, so she jetted off to New York City to work some breezy looks in a photo shoot. The pressure was on for ‘Tasia’s next album to be a smash. Manager Brian mentioned in the episode that her upcoming effort could determine whether she’s just a recording artist or an “icon.” The singer said the feedback she’d been getting so far was positive and she just wanted “the whole world to feel like that.” So, in order to become an international big deal, Barrino had to head across the pond to connect with her London fanbase. But first, she got a visit from family. When Aunt Bunny cames to town, ‘Tasia complimented her weight loss and then dragged her to a workout sure to get the blood pumping: a pole dancing class. The two worked exercises like the “loopty loop” and “spread eagle,” moves that prompted Bunny to throw a side-eye and declare, “You too comfortable on the pole!” Faced with the slew of tabloid headlines about the singer’s supposed dalliances with a married man, Bunny and Fantasia’s mother grilled the singer about her love life. Fantasia denied rumors that she broke up her “friend’s” union, insisting, “I come from a home that was wrecked” and maintaining that she would never wreak the same havoc on another family. The confrontation eventually sent her to tears. She latter dubbed her love live “touchy” and added, “There’s some things going on, but it’s not what you think, and I’m just not ready to talk about it.” Bunny also checked up on Fantasia’s brother Teeny in his spankin’-new crib, which was largely free of furniture but big on Feng Shui. He seemed all right, judging by the spacious abode, but he did admit to his auntie that even though he identifies himself as a music engineer, “technically, I still don’t have a job.” The episode wrapped up with Fantasia finally hitting the stage in London, after stressing over the news that ticket sales were sluggish. But when the soul singer did arrive onstage, she was greeted with a packed house of amped concertgoers who sang every word to her new track “Even Angels.” What did you think of the season premiere of “Fantasia for Real”? Let us know in the comments! Related Videos London Calling Show Clips Related Artists Fantasia
