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Surely you already know about Kaitlyn Leeb and her triple-breasted prosthetic in Total Recall (2012). (If you don’t, just scroll down and read all about it here on the Mr. Skin blog.) But if big-budget sci-fi movies aren’t your thing, or if you just can’t bear to see Recall without Ah-nold, never fear–we’ve got two other nude options for you in theaters this weekend: First, the Rachel Weisz thriller 360 (2012) limps into limited release this weekend after a contentious festival run. From the director of cult favorite City of God (2002), 360 is ” a moving and exciting dramatic thriller that dazzlingly weaves together the stories of an array of people from disparate social backgrounds through their intersecting relationships. ” Sounds like a head scratcher, but you’ll be feeling a twitch somewhere else when Euro-babes Tereza Srbova and Lucia Siposova let their lactoids out for a photo shoot. And it’s been getting terrible reviews , but if you’re jonesing for more Olivia Munn her followup to Magic Mike , the sperm bank comedy The Babymakers (2012), also hits theaters this weekend. Sadly, Olivia keeps her baby-feeders covered in this R-rated romp, but Nicole Moore busts hers out 19 minutes in. More after the jump!
Lindsay Lohan’s sex scene in The Canyons, which co-stars porn actor James Deen, came with an interesting caveat that viewers of the film will never see. The actress was hesitant, according to TMZ, to shoot the steamy scene, but agreed after the crew filming the romp fulfilled an very unusual request. What was it? That everybody take part! Sort of. The scene showing Lindsay Lohan nude (or at least topless) made her so unsettled that she made every one of the 10-man crew strip down to boxers. The crew was hesitant at first, but eventually obliged, stripping down and preparing for the scene in their underwear. After that, things went great! One would think that Lindsay Lohan, whose Playboy photos were among the most-viewed in the magazine’s history, would be totally uninhibited. Then again, one would think a lot of things about Lindsay Lohan that aren’t true. Girl has a tendency of defying logic … as well as many, many laws. In any case, you can see her boobs, if you’re into that sort of thing, in the new movie, due out next year. This concludes today’s most pointless movie news !
Sound the AWKWARD ALERT, readers, the promotion for Breaking Dawn Part 2 is just beginning. In news that would typically leave Twihards jumping for joy, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are posing together as part of a new round of promotional photos in anticipation of the upcoming blockbuster. There’s just one problem… and his name is Rupert Sanders . With new photos emerging of Stewart and this director getting all frisky, and with news spreading that Pattinson has asked his ex to move out, fans are both curious and petrified of the impending media tour involving Twilight cast members. The major ones are all featured below, but all eyes will continue to be on the top two for the foreseeable future. Click each image to enlarge:
Searching For Sugar Man , which tells the improbable story of how a singer-songwriter named Sixto Rodriguez rose, fell, and found superstardom in what amounts to a parallel universe, is an elegy in several keys. One is clear and familiar: Upon his excited discovery by a noted producer, the music business circa 1969 ate Rodriguez for breakfast, and a talent still acknowledged by his peers went to waste. The second is more personal, and although Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul leaves a distinct and ultimately frustrating berth around the man at the center of his documentary, it becomes poignantly clear that an abbreviated resume and a family to feed didn’t keep Rodriguez from living an artist’s life. And then, perhaps most resonant and abstract, there is the film’s charting of the confluence of circumstances that can create a legend and shape lives – a confluence whose particularities are less and less possible in an information-glutted age. Sugar Man opens with much but fleeting stylistic fanfare. Over a blend of vivid landscapes, a steady-cam tour of bleak and snowy Detroit, moody recreations of key scenes and a neat effect that moves from image to illustration and back, various players (beginning with a Cape Town record-store owner called “Sugar”) recount the film’s heavily fragmented story of a mysterious musician out of Detroit who, South African legend has it, staged “probably the most grotesque suicide in rock history.” Why “South African legend,” you might ask, and the answer is what takes Sugar Man ’s story from sad but common to extraordinary. In many ways that story belongs to the men who stand in for what was apparently a solid chunk of the South African populace in the 1970s, when apartheid was in full swing and the country was under totalitarian rule. A hilarious origin story has an American girl bringing a single Rodriguez album into the country, patient zero-style, with bootlegs and label requests proliferating from there. With sizable cuts from Rodriguez’s two studio albums of Dylan-esque folk rock accompanying them, those men (musicians and music fans) describe how songs like “I Wonder” and “Anti-establishment Blues” sparked something – a glimmer of rebellion, the comfort of fellow feeling – in them. Elsewhere referred to as an “inner city poet,” if Rodriguez’s lyrics lack a certain prosody they are written squarely and straightforwardly in the protest tradition of the time. A grassroots process that had to sidestep censors and a heavily restricted media helped foment a folk hero in the public’s imagination. Rodriguez, we are told, is bigger than Elvis in South Africa, and certainly bigger than the Rolling Stones. His sonorous tenor is sweet but strong and pleasingly clear – somewhere between Cat Stevens and Neil Diamond. Even so, the truth is that, though skilled and even singular, of the songs we hear nothing astonishes or even comes close; a couple sound too dated to be great. But then we’re not supposed to be evaluating his music for signs of greatness, not really. Perhaps under different circumstances, like the ones in South Africa, he might sound different; he would be different. Much discussed is the lack of personal details that fueled the Rodriguez enigma; his mystery was part of what made him great. Bendjelloul upholds that idea, whether he likes it or not, after a rambling exposition of how a couple of amateur Cape Town sleuths finally tracked the very much alive Rodriguez down. Mexican by birth and extremely reticent by nature, Rodriguez is an uneasy interview; we learn more about him just watching his delicate form move down a snow-laden sidewalk like an exotic but flightless, black-coated bird trapped in a crummily ordinary world. Interviews with his three daughters are sweet but a little unsatisfying, and in its final third – which details his triumphant arrival in South Africa and introduction to an adoring audience of twenty thousand – Sugar Man falters. Various threads of the story (including the rather major question of how an estimated half a million records sold resulted in zero royalties) are left to fray. It isn’t clear that the director recognized the most prominent among them: Bendjelloul is enamored not with the deeply organic nature but the novelty of this “instant” success story. And yet Sugar Man is most interesting when it touches on the conditions that combined to draw a cult hero out of some decent music and a generously enabled, imagination-firing mystique. I imagine even the wise and thoughtful Rodriguez himself would insist that more than one man’s third act justice, this is a story about time and a swiftly vanishing context. Follow Michelle Orange on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Finally some good news out of the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado: Katie Medley, a movie goer who escaped unharmed from the horrific James Holmes last Friday, gave birth to a boy at the University of Colorado Hospital yesterday morning. He’s named Hugo and both child and mother are reportedly doing well. Tragically, however, Katie’s husband Caleb was not as fortunate as his wife: also in attendance at The Dark Knight Rises showing, Caleb was shot in the head and remains in a medically-induced coma. “He had some motion in his hands today,” Seth Medley, Caleb’s brother, told reporters at University Hospital Tuesday night. “His injuries are pretty serious. I don’t want to get into any details, but there’s some serious injuries around his face.” Seth referred the birth of his nephew as “a silver lining to a very dark cloud.” Due to Caleb’s presumed recovery time, and the medical bills that are certain to add up, the family has set up a WePay account at calebmedley.com/help . We encourage all readers to donate whatever they can.
Robert Pattinson is yet to speak out regarding Kristen Stewart’s admitted affair with Rupert Sanders . But although it wouldn’t be difficult to imagine the pain this actor is in regardless, he actually expressed his take on infidelity in the April edition of Italian Vanity Fair . “There’s a thing I’ve never got, that is, why do people cheat?” Pattinson asked in the article. “I can understand the impulse, but not how you can keep two relationships going at the same time for long. This usually happens to people with children.” Sanders, of course, does have two children. But Stewart claims her dalliance with the director was a one-time thing, a ” momentary indiscretion .” “I’m not the casual-affair kind of guy,” Rob also told the magazine. “If I choose to be with someone it’s because I really want it. When I have a relationship, I’m 100% into it.” Stewart, as these makeout photos prove, can’t say the same. What do you think? Should Robert forgive Kristen?
Without alerting the press beforehand or making any public statements while there, Christian Bale visited victims of the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado yesterday. Local reports confirm the actor spent two-and-a-half hours at the Medical Center of Aurora, meeting with seven patients there, according to Bill Voloch, the interim president of the facility. One of the victims, Carey Rottman, posted the following photo of himself Bale on Facebook, writing: “Wow!!! Thank you so much for the visit Christian!! What a great guy! Still in shock!” Added Voloch of the trip: “It was good for the patients. We hope it was therapeutic for them, and all the staff really appreciated him coming.” Over the weekend, Bale shared the same sentiments as many others associated with The Dark Knight Rises and said: “Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them.” The Academy Award winner was accompanied by wife Sibi Blazic and also stopped by a growing memorial near the theater, which includes 12 crosses erected for each of the late victims.
Typically, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are fighting off rumors about a baby or an engagement. The latter recently came out and said the couple isn’t getting married any time soon. But the Twilight Saga co-stars have a very different story to try and deny now: multiple outlets report Kristen cheated on Rob with Rupert Sanders , the director of Snow White and the Huntsman . According to the latest issue of Us Weekly, Stewart and Sanders – who is married with two children – were actually caught in the act by photographers. “It seemed like they couldn’t get enough,” a witness tells the tabloid of the make out session. Why can’t this be dismissed as just another ridiculous Robsten rumor? Because more respectable sources People and E! News have also confirmed the affair. The former says it was just a one-time fling. “Kristen is absolutely devastated,” an insider says to People . “It was a mistake and a complete lapse in judgment.”
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