They won’t let Snoop do his thug-thizzle. Women Organization Tries To Stop Snoop Lion’s Performance A women’s rights group in Australia is trying to stop Snoop’s paper. We’re sure he’ll smoke a pound of sticky icky to ease the stress. According to Rolling Out: Apparently, not everyone loves Snoop. The charismatic rapper has faced protest by a women’s organization called, Collective Shout that was hoping to stop his scheduled touring of Australia because they say his music “glorifies violence against women.” The group went so far as to try to have his work/visa permit revoked and deny his entry into the country, though those efforts were eventually shot down by a judge. Now that Snoop has gotten the okay to perform down under, he will continue with his plans of co-headlining the Big Day Out Festival with planned dates in the Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Perth. In addition to Snoop Dogg, the Collective Shout organization has also attempted to prevent 2 Chainz and Tyler, The Creator from performing in Australia as well. Do you think they need to chill? WENN
Damn, Chris this probation violation is already phucking your bread up. Sponsor Drops Out Of Festival Over Chris Brown Sponsors start pulling out, next he’ll be losing that endorsement scrilla. Iyanla needs to book him a spot on her show ASAP cause at the rate Chris is going, we will have to change his name from Chris to Bobby. That’s not a good look. According to Rhymes With Snitch Earlier this week a Canadian telecommunications company pulled their sponsorship from the Energy Rush music festival in Nova Scotia after learning that singer Chris Brown had been added to the line up. Another sponsor has followed suit… The Center for Arts and Technology-Halifax released a statement on their Facebook page on their decision to cut ties with the event. CATH writes, “Due to the recent announcement of Chris Brown as Energy Rush’s featured artist, we have officially withdrawn our sponsorship from this event. When we became a sponsor of Energy Rush, we were not aware of who the featured artist was going to be at that time… We feel that pulling our sponsorship is the best option given the feature artist’s reputation. As an educational institution, we can’t ignore the sentiments expressed on campus that participating in this year’s event goes against our collective values.” Get it together Chris.
2012 was a ho-hum year for “serious” cinema. As proof, the Oscar race has narrowed to films like the chipper Argo and dreary Zero Dark Thirty — a chase so routine that the alternative is a Steven Spielberg period piece as wholesome and agreeable as enriched bread. But it was also a banner year for the films that we’ll still want to watch in 2022: Ambitious over-reachers ( Cloud Atlas , The Master , Les Miserables ), loony passion projects ( Killer Joe , Magic Mike , The Paperboy ), and perfect popcorn flicks ( Step Up 4 , The Expendables 2 , Premium Rush ). That last category is frequently left off top ten lists, but it deserves our applause. When studios get tired of risking $250 million on a single blockbuster (and audiences get tired of paying $14 just to keep up with water cooler conversation), mid-priced modest hits like Looper will be our collective salvation — and help build the next generation of filmmakers and stars. The films that made my Top Ten did so because they were bold, memorable and flawless (or at least two of the three). But of course, if critics can judge art, we should take our own creative risks. And so I’ve written my remarks in haiku. 1) DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin ‘s bold bloodbath An unflinching masterpiece Sam Jackson kills it 2) LOOPER Two actors, one nose In a cornfield dodging fate But can it be done? 3) ANNA KARENINA Old, cold tragedy Blazes with heat and magic Goes ignored, alas 4) 21 JUMP STREET Is our kids learning? Channing Tatum ‘s agent is Let Sir Abs crack jokes 5) COMPLIANCE At minimum wage, A maximum need to please Few brave souls say no 6) PITCH PERFECT Queen Rebel Wilson Bow down before her glory Or sing if you must 7) HOLY MOTORS A quick change artist Speeds through ten lives not his own Who is he? Who cares 8) THE GREY Liam punched a wolf But what mattered was the gloom Snow and fate and death 9) SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS More like ten psychos Softened by dogs and bunnies But still murderous 10) THE PAPERBOY Sweaty, sexy Efron Plus a pervy director Give Kidman a prize Disagree with my picks? Say so in verse. Amy Nicholson is a critic, playwright and editor. Her interests include hot dogs, standard poodles, Bruce Willis, and comedies about the utter futility of existence. Follow her on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Kim Zoliack Confirms Departure From Real Housewives Of Atlanta Reality Show Despite much scrutiny and some heavy sideeye-age from her fellow frenemy cast members, RHOA Kim Zoliack says she is heading for the door and not looking back at her lengthy stint on the drama-filled reality show. via In Touch “I was eight months pregnant and there was so much drama; I just had to walk,” Kim tells In Touch about her mid season exit from the hit Bravo series. “I’ve taken on so much in the past five years, but this was the final straw. My priority was the child inside me.” The drama unfolded over a trip to the Caribbean island of Anguilla, where co-star Cynthia Bailey would be renewing her vows with husband Peter Thomas. When Kim, who was 36 weeks pregnant at the time and under strict doctor’s orders not to travel, announced she wouldn’t be coming, all hell broke loose. “They couldn’t understand why I couldn’t go,” Kim — who gave birth to son Kash a few weeks later, in August — says about her fellow Housewives, unleashing their collective fury. “Fighting is what we’re known for, but I’ve never disagreed with a pregnant woman. It’s not one life you’re dealing with, it’s two.” Hear what Kim’s catty castmates had to say about her reasons for leaving the show when you hit the flip ….
Haley Joel Osment is an interesting child star because he has become Emily Osment…. You know most child stars, when they are no longer cute or interesting to the public, you know after puberty….turn to drugs and self-destruction to deal with the rejection the world has thrown there way…but this proactive young man…said…you know what…I’m gonna do this girl thing cuz life is way easier for girls..girls don’t even have to be hot or pretty…they just have to be willing to get half naked… So here he is promoting himself in a bikini for his instagram….unless this is actually his “sister” and not just a front…but how would you explain them never being in the same room, at the same event, or in the same picture…. Exactly.
Rihanna has a fun instaram…from low quality…almost ghetto promo pics for Barbados…featuring parts of her…like her ass….and titties…along with nonsense captions….to her in a bikini showing off her decent at best body….to her controversial naked in bed with a wedding veil on picture from the day after Halloween….this girl…in all her craziness that was bound to happen…since being a ghetto, poor girl in the islands prior to being the biggest fucking thing ever….fucks a person up….and at least it fucked her up in a half naked way….I mean her life is crazier than a fucking lottery win….and she’s probably torn from all angles trying to make sense of it…especially since she’s all uneducated on top of it…so getting beat up and beating up….to telling us all to fuck ourselves..then producing pics to help us fuck ourselves…make Rihanna pretty fucking special to me….probably the best thing pop culture has to offer…and we should thank her for that via our collective masturbation.
I’m glad Philip Seymour Hoffman is in voiceover — and not in his underwear — when he declares “Man is not an animal” at the beginning of the final theatrical trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson ‘s highly anticipated film, The Master . Otherwise, the line — which is accompanied by a scene of Phoenix rhythmically pounding his fists on a table — would recall a little too closely the scene from David Lynch’s classic 1980 film The Elephant Man in which the tormented titled character, played by John Hurt, wails “I am not an animal…I am a human being!” (Actually, I’m conflating here. Hurt isn’t in his underwear in that scene, but Bradley Cooper did play the character, as directed, in his skivvies in Williamstown, Mass. just a few weeks back.) Phoenix, who acts out with his fists more than once in the trailer — and with a pistol — plays a Navy veteran who falls in with the charismatic leader of The Cause (Hoffman), a quasi-religious movement with parallels to Scientology. In one scene, a character portentously declares: “Good science allows for more than one opinion. Otherwise you really have the will of one man, which is the basis for a cult.” That’s followed by a voiceover of Amy Adams, who plays Dodd’s wife, saying: “The only way to defend ourselves is to attack,” a line that could be interpreted as a reference to Scientology’s reputation for fighting back aggressively, particularly in the media, when its organization comes under scrutiny. Here’s the trailer. The Master opens on Sept. 21. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Speaking of old…. Dax Shepard deployed one of the oldest marketing tricks in the book on the Conan show on Monday when he diverted attention from the lame box-office performance of his movie Hit and Run by poking fun at the aging action stars who kicked his cinematic ass, the cast of The Expendables 2 . Shepard told host Conan O’Brien that the cast of the Sylvester Stallone-directed The Expendables 2 were “all show and no go” when it came to their collective well-muscled appearance. “It looks like the zombie apocalypse is saving the earth,” Shepard said in reference to the veteran ensemble. Alas, Hit and Run might have benefited from scenes of a zombie apocalypse, or something that would have raised moviegoer interest. The picture, which also starred Bradley Cooper and Shepard’s real-life girlfriend Kristen Bell grossed just $5.9 million in its initial five-day opening. The movie ranked 10th for the weekend, well behind The Expendables 2 , which saw a $13.5 million weekend and a 15-day domestic box-office take of $52.3 million. Feeling a little insecure there, Dax? Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
