Holy fuck. This is fucking insanity. To Somalian dudes beheaded a British Soldier and after the murder they talk to the camera to justify what he did, apologizing to the women who had to witness it, even though people in their country witness this all the time…..then pulling some Anarchy, fuck the government, they don’t care shit, so we chop of people’s heads shit…..only to walk back to the Soldier he just killed…. Here is the news story: One man is reported dead and two others injured amid reports of a shooting incident close to the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich this afternoon.One witness reported seeing a man beheaded in the street in an attack by two men. The report also said that police officers opened fire after the attack in John Wilson Street in Woolwich. There were reports that shots were fired after an apparent sword attack near the army base. Pictures posted on Twitter appear to show two men lying on the road in Woolwich. The air ambulance landed at the scene and paramedics treated victims in the street. David Dixon, the head of Mulgrave Primary School, told the BBC that he walked out of the school gates and saw a body lying in the street. “We shut all the gates and made sure all the children were inside,” he said. Mr Dixon also confirmed hearing gunshots. The Metropolitan police would only say officers had been called to reports of ‘an assault’ on John Wilson Street. Wellington Street has been sealed off and an air ambulance has arrived on the scene. John Wilson Street is currently shut in both directions between Artillery Place and New Ferry Approach. Twitter user Boya Dee writes an account of the incident online. These details have not yet been verified. He wrote: ‘Ohhhhh myyyy God!!!! I just see a man with his head chopped off right in front of my eyes! ‘Oh my God!!!! The way Feds took them out!!! It was a female police officer she come out the whip and just started bussssin shots!! ‘Mate ive seen alot of s*** im my time but that has to rank sumwhere in the top 3. I couldnt believe my eyes. That was some movie s***.’ The two black bredas run this white guy over over then hop out the car and start chopping mans head off with machete!! ‘People were asking whyyy whyyy they were just saying we’ve had enough! They looked like they were on sutn! Then they start waving a recolver ‘Then boydem turn up!! Woolwich feds didnt want it… They had to wait for armed response.. Helicopters everyting… ‘Then thats how u know they were on sutn cos they actually went for armed feds with just two machete and an old rusty lookin revolver ‘The first guy goes for the female fed with the machete and she not even ramping she took man out like robocop never seen nutn like it ‘Then the next breda try buss off the rusty 45 and it just backfires and blows mans finger clean off… Feds didnt pet to just take him out!! Here is the beheading video….this is a serious what the fuck is wrong with the world…and why the fuck do these assholes thing this is going to accomplish anything positive…. Horrible. Here is a tweet from one of the witnesses….
Someone please sit this ho down and tell him to mind his business. Dennis Rodman To Visit N. Korea To Speak To Kim Jong-un About Releasing Kenneth Bae According to TMZ reports : Dennis Rodman tells TMZ … he’s going back to North Korea on August 1 to reopen the political dialogue with Kim Jong-un … because Barack Obama “can’t do s**t.” Rodman was out in L.A. yesterday when we asked about his plan to head back to DPRK to visit his tiny, little, missile-obsessed “friend” with the weird haircut. The Worm told us he’ll do everything in his power to sway Jong-un into releasing American Kenneth Bae — who was sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. “I’m gonna try and get the guy out,” Rodman said … “It’s gonna be difficult.” Then came the Obama attack — “We got a black president [who] can’t even go talk to [Jong-un] … Obama can’t do s**t, I don’t know why he won’t go talk to him.” A short time later, Rodman continued the anti-Obama talk — saying, “Obama? F**k him!” Despite all the political talk, Rodman insists, “I’m not a diplomat.” Think it’s a joke? Watch the man tell himself below. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Considering that N.Korea pretty much wants us all dead, Dennis might have to resort to some very desperate measures if he wants Kenneth Bae released. Hopefully Kim Jong-un isn’t into anything too freaky-deeky. Image via AP Continue reading →
Baby got back….and not in a big booty way…but in a big, broad back way that looks like it could be a fat man way… Reminding us that not all bikinis are created equally…and sometimes your bikini should be a fucking snow suit. I appreciate her embracing her body in this anti-bullying era – by rocking a bikini that reads “Self Love” for all the fat girls who hate the image the media portrays about how women should look, you know in some Feminist, this is who I am, bullshit….no wait, I don’t appreciate that at all. If she actually loved herself, she would eat better, workout more and not try to pass off a shitty body as some political commentary on the world we live in. I don’t care what anyone says, the government wants us fat and sick, and tricking us into thinking it’s ok to be that way, is just fucking gross….and the proof is in this picture. I didn’t find Alanis hot in the 90s, when she was 16, or really ever….so there was little chance I’d find her now, making this a nice reminder of how right I was early on with this one.
Lauryn, Uncle Sam plays no games. Lauryn Hill Sentenced To 3 Months In Jail According to TMZ Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to spend 3 months in FEDERAL PRISON for tax evasion … even though she claims she paid off her nearly $1 million bill to Uncle Sam before sentencing. A judge in Newark, New Jersey dished out the sentence moments ago … and told Hill that after she completes her stint behind bars, she’ll spend 3 more months on house arrest … followed by 9 months of supervised release. Before the hearing, Hill’s attorney told the media the singer scraped together more than $970,000 to repay her debt to the government. The 37-year-old former Fugee pled guilty last year to three counts of tax evasion for failing to file returns on $1.8 million she earned from 2005 to 2007. Lauryn’s attorney asked for mercy because of her charity work and 6 kids … but the judge wasn’t buying it. During the hearing, the judge ordered Hill to report to prison by July 8. It’s unclear where Hill will serve her time. Hill was present during the hearing, and delivered a statement to the judge in which she compared her situation to slavery. “I was put into a system I didn’t know the nature of. … I’m a child of former slaves. I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on me,” Hill said. She continued, “I sold 50 million units … now I’m up here paying a tax debt. If that’s not likened to slavery, I don’t know what is.” Like we said before, that smooth chocolate skin and soulful voice makes her a target in jail. Hopefully, she can figure out a master plan to keep the savages off of her. Wenn
No, this is not the latest installment of the softcore porn series Emmanuelle . Sorry, guys. Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes is a new indie thriller from Italian director-American director Francesca Gregorini. Check out the first trailer: Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes Trailer Kaya Scodelario stars as Emanuel, a girl who becomes obsessed with her new neighbor, played by Jessica Biel, who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother. When Biel’s character hires Emanuel to babysit for her young child, Emanuel is thrust into a world of her own imagination. Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes premiered at Sundance at the beginning of the year, but no release date has yet to be announced.
No, this is not the latest installment of the softcore porn series Emmanuelle . Sorry, guys. Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes is a new indie thriller from Italian director-American director Francesca Gregorini. Check out the first trailer: Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes Trailer Kaya Scodelario stars as Emanuel, a girl who becomes obsessed with her new neighbor, played by Jessica Biel, who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother. When Biel’s character hires Emanuel to babysit for her young child, Emanuel is thrust into a world of her own imagination. Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes premiered at Sundance at the beginning of the year, but no release date has yet to be announced.
As many as 28 migrant workers working at a strawberry farm in Manolada, Greece were shot because they demanded to get paid, according to reports. After six months of unpaid work, the group demanded compensation, only to be fired upon. No fatalities among the Bangladeshi workers were reported. According to Greek daily Kathimerini, the farm owners have a history in abusing migrants, informing them they were not going to get paid and to get back to work. Then the strawberry pickers became involved in an argument with three Greek supervisors, one of whom opened fire and injured 28 migrant workers . The farm owner was arrested but the three supervisors were being sought. However, the police claim to know the identity of the man who opened fire. According to Kathimerini , Manolada has been at the center of cases involving violence against migrants a number of times in recent years. Last year, two Greek men were arrested for beating a 30-year-old Egyptian, jamming his head in a window of a car door and dragging him for a kilometer. Back in 2008, workers on farms in New Manolada went on a four-day strike to protest against both their low wages and their poor living conditions. Several thousand migrant workers (many of them reportedly undocumented) are believed to be employed as strawberry pickers in New Manolada. In 2008, the government had ordered an inspection to stop the abuse.
Jonathan Winters was not known for his acting. The brilliant improvisational comic, who died of natural causes at the age of 87 on Thursday, did not do his best work when he was tied to a script. As the New York Times ‘ obituary of Winters noted, “’Jonny works best out of instant panic,’ one of his television writers in the 1960s said. He thrived when he could ad-lib, fielding unexpected questions or pursuing spontaneous flights of fancy. In other words, he made a brilliant guest, firing comedy in short bursts, but a problematic host or actor.” And yet, it’s impossible to consider the Dayton, OH-born Winters’ career without this memorably funny performance in It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World . Dialogue was besides the point in the clip below, which made the conditions optimal for Winters to use his ferocious talent for physical comedy to great effect. Do you think there are any contemporary actors capable of matching Winters here? Melissa McCarthy , could do it, for sure, and Will Ferrell , too, but who else? Winters’ Discontent [ New York Times ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter.
A word of advice: Don’t go to see Brandon Cronenberg’s unsettling Antiviral if you’re getting over a cold or have recently undergone a medical procedure that involved the withdrawal of blood or a skin biopsy. The 33-year-old filmmaker’s debut feature makes such effective use of hypodermic needles and flesh samples that I left the screening room on unsteady feet, feeling like I’d just donated a pint of my own plasma. But do go see the movie. In a world in which Jay-Z and Beyonce’s trip to Cuba can hijack a news cycle that should be focused on gun control, sequestration and the false positives of our current economy, Antiviral is a squirm-inducing corrective for our obsession with celebrity that resonates long after the closing credits. The premise alone is perversely brilliant: Cronenberg has brought to life a queasy world in which preoccupation with fame has metastasized to the point where civilians pay good money to be infected with the copyrighted STDs of their favorite celebrity and to dine on pale, gristly cuts of meat grown from their tissue cells. At the center of this story is Syd March, played by Caleb Landry Jones , a dour salesman of celebrity sickness who, behind his employer’s back, is infecting himself with his company’s offerings so that he can extract his own bootleg versions to sell on the black market. Phil’s extracurricular dealings leave him constantly sick, but when he becomes infected with the most sought-after celebrity virus of all, things get much, much worse. I sat down with the thoughtful, soft-spoken Cronenberg in New York on Tuesday to discuss Antiviral and his own encounters with celebrity as the son of Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg . He had some particularly interesting things to say about critics who contend that his film is too similar to his father’s early work in the horror/sci-fi genre. Movieline: One of the messages I took away from Antiviral was that the lure of celebrity is irresistible, no matter how horrific or deadly it becomes. Brandon Cronenberg: The character of Syd definitely sees himself as superior to that culture and removed from it, but it has actually totally defined him and he can’t escape from it. We’re all products of our environment, and it’s hard not to be affected by that stuff in a certain way. But I wouldn’t say it’s impossible to resist. I want the film to be partly an active resistance. It does work as a corrective, especially if you are celebrity obsessed and squeamish about hypodermic needles. I think we can change the part where we’re not complicit in creating that kind of culture and supporting that industry by engaging with it in a certain way. Antiviral also works as a metaphor for how celebrity has infected news reporting and even our government. Jay-Z and Beyonce are in the news today because of their trip to Cuba when there’s so much more important stuff that should be dominating the news cycle. In the film, no one’s famous for any reason. It’s purely the industry of celebrity going as far as possible — or almost as far as possible because there’s still some loose connection to real human beings. In Japan for instance, there are purely digital celebrities, and I think probably the most extreme level would be when human beings are abandoned altogether. Then it becomes an industry that fabricates digital celebrities and prints money because people are willing to do anything to feel somehow connected to these creations even if they’re not real. Celebrity dominates the news in a way that’s often fairly stupid because it’s not about anything really significant. At the same time, it’s what gets people’s attention, and as long as those are the news stories that are getting the most hits or the biggest ratings, they will continue to get big play because news is a business. Can you envision any kind of a turning point? I don’t see it changing anytime soon, but it could in theory, so it’s important to think about it. I noticed that the name of your protagonist is the same as the artist and sculptor Sydney March, who was involved in the creation of Canada’s National War Memorial. Was that intentional? What? The name is even spelled the same. That’s one of the most interesting things I’ve heard all day. I mean it’s probably embarrassing that I don’t know that, but that wasn’t intentional. I just liked the name and probably some combination of Syd Barrett and [Cid from] the Final Fantasy video games . I took the last name from the Saul Bellow novel The Adventures of Augie March . You grew up with a fairly famous father. What was the take on celebrity in the Cronenberg household? I think there were two aspects to it. One was that I saw people who were celebrities who had this media alter ego, or this persona that was so unrelated to who they were as human beings. And that’s definitely one of the themes in the film: celebrities as these media constructs or cultural constructs that exist purely in the public consciousness and are, in many ways, fictional and unrelated to the real human being. The human being as an animal, as a body, becomes totally eclipsed by this idea that runs rampant. The body eventually dies and the idea lives on, for however many decades, to appear in commercials, to perform on stage — it goes on endlessly. That sense of a runaway double that isn’t related to the person was interesting to me thematically. And then, on a personal level, I didn’t experience anything too extreme because my father’s a director and we’re still living in Toronto. So, it’s not like we were being hounded by TMZ or anything. But it still — I would go to a school and see someone I didn’t know and they’d come up to me and be like, “I heard you were coming and we have a lot to discuss.” And that was pretty weird. They behaved as if they knew you. Yeah, exactly. So, I did have a taste of that weirdness that is fame by proxy or fame by association. You’ve said that you immersed yourself in the tabloid world of TMZ and other celebrity media to research Antiviral . Did you, or do you find any celebrities genuinely fascinating? Not so much. I think there’s a line between taking an interest in someone because you respect their work versus obsessing over them. I went through a period of reading a lot of Hunter S. Thompson and he especially puts his life — or his version of his life — in his work. So, through an interest in his writing, you can’t help but be interested in what he’s done and, [wonder] how much of his writing is his own fantasy of himself and how much of that is real. But I don’t think anyone going to Cuba is that interesting. Most of it is an industry that thrives on hooking people with trivial but juicy details and playing to that gossipy society. So who are some of your other influences? There are a lot of writers I like, and a lot of filmmakers and musicians. I wouldn’t know how to begin listing them all, but I think [their influence] sort of comes to me subconsciously. I know some people usually have a particular influence that stands out and they emulate that person and learn from them. But for me it’s not really a conscious process. I felt like George Lucas’ THX 1138 was an inspiration. Only in that I’ve seen that film once. I’m not a huge THX fan and I wasn’t trying to deliberately emulate that movie. Others have been talking about my “Kubrick shot” or whatever, and, again, I like Kubrick, but I’m not a huge fan. I think it’s more that those films and filmmakers have an effect on the language of cinema in general. You told the New York Times that your father’s films have actually played a smale role in your work as a filmmaker, but a substantial part of the critical discussion of Antiviral is how much the film resembles some of his early efforts. I think you have a distinct style and vision as a filmmaker, but for those who don’t, what would you say they’re missing about your work? It’s not so much what they’re missing. I think there’s an assumption about my intent when it comes to that discussion. The assumption is that [ Antiviral ] is a deliberate emulation, that I must have been watching my father’s films since I was a kid and was brainwashed. It wasn’t really like that. As a father he had a huge influence on me obviously – genetically and because I grew up around him and we have a very good relationship. So, it’s not weird that there are overlaps when it comes to our interests and our esthetic sensibilities. Good point. And then when I got into film, I just knew that if I worried about that, that would become everything, you know? If I was just trying to avoid anything that could be associated with my father, that would be my entire career and that would define my work and that’s a really shitty place to be working from. So I just decided to do whatever I felt like doing and it became this. I can see the similarities – some of them are legitimate — but I also think some of them are very overstated because people like that narrative and they like to make that assumption. It’s an easy narrative. Yeah, exactly. In terms of the similarities, I’d say I come to them honestly. They’re honest to my own interests. For instance, some people talk about some of the hallucinatory, biomechanical stuff in Antiviral being related to his work. And I guess it is, but that scene in the closet… Where Syd merges with the machine that he’s using to make the bootleg viruses? Yeah. That was based on some old drawings that I had done. I wanted to see what they would look like as a film, and I knew as I was writing it that people would make that connection [to my father]. But I thought I just had to make sure that I didn’t avoid doing anything just to avoid that comparison. Your father is not the only filmmaker who has explored those man-meets-machine themes. Right, and my father has done a lot of other types of movies, too. He hasn’t really been making horror films for a while now. What’s the best piece of advice your father has given you about filmmaking? I don’t really have a good answer for that. He has given me some advice but there isn’t one thing that stands out. Did you show him the film early? Did he give you advice? Not really – he was pretty busy during the actual making of the film. I forget what he was doing: promoting A Dangerous Method or finishing Cosmopolis but he actually wasn’t really around during production. There’s that point where you feel the film is polished enough to show to your family and friends to get as much feedback as possible, and he saw it then. I got notes from everyone, but I don’t remember him having any dramatic advice. You don’t know what you’re doing next at this point? Not really. I mean, I am writing but it’s still in the early stages. Do you think your next picture will be in the horror-science fiction genre, or will you do something different? I don’t really like target a particular genre in advance. I wasn’t thinking horror-sci-fi when I started Antiviral , but it developed into that. And the next one probably will be, but I’m not specifically trying to do that. We’ll see where it ends up. 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In his first extensive interview since losing the Presidential election to Barack Obama, Mitt Romney told Chris Matthews this morning that he only has himself to blame for not taking the White House. “I lost my election because of my campaign,” Romney said on Fox News Sunday . “Not because of what anyone else did.” Mitt Romney on Fox News Sunday Romney cited his failure to win over African-American and Hispanic voters, while also zeroing in on his ” 47 percent ” comments as being detrimental to his bid. Admitting that it “kills” him not to be President, Romney also had a few choice words for the man who is: “He didn’t think the sequester would happen,” he said. “It is happening. To date, what we’ve seen is the president out campaigning to the American people, doing rallies around the country, flying around the country and berating Republicans and blaming and pointing. “Now, what does that do? That causes the Republicans to retrench and to put up a wall and to fight back.” Ann Romney, meanwhile, was not as deferential about the basis for her husband’s defeat. She squarely pointed a finger at the fourth estate. “It was not just the campaign’s fault,” Ann told Fox News. “I believe it was the media’s fault as well, in that he was not being given a fair shake, that people weren’t allowed to really see him for who he was. I’m happy to blame the media.” She then concluded by focusing on the same current issue plaguing the government: “I totally believe at this moment, if Mitt were there in the office, that we would not be facing sequestration right now.”
