Here are Rosie Jones, Holly Peers and India Reynolds posing together topless in NUTS because group topless modeling is exponentially better than topless modeling solo…cuz it comes with lesbian fantasies or at least fantasies of girls getting together for sleepovers where they run around naked and compare vaginas….something I like to think happens everyday at the gym in the locker room, every night girls pre-drink before going out, all the fucking time…cuz girls who aren’t bull dykes but know the ripples of each other’s labias…are girls I want to believe exist……making them the Glamour Models of the Day….
Park Chan-wook’s reverence for Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch shines through in his English-language debut, Stoker . It’s a tightly wound thriller with psychosexual undertones and shocking — yet artful — violence in which, it seems, no detail is accidental and the details, both visual and auditory, add up to a lavish cinematic experience. Stoker chronicles the macabre coming of age of 18-year-old India ( Mia Wasikowska ) when her father is killed on her 18th birthday and her handsome but creepy Uncle Charlie ( Matthew Goode ) comes to stay with her and her emotionally remote mother Evie ( Nicole Kidman ). On the eve of the film ‘ s March 1 U.S. opening, I spoke to Park about his vision for the film, the alterations he made to Wentworth Miller’s white-knuckle script and the film’s connection to his 2009 vampire movie Thirst, even though, despite its title, Stoker has nothing to do with the undead or the supernatural. The soft-spoken filmmaker also told me why he doesn’t want to see Spike Lee’s take on Oldboy until it’s released weighed in on the movie violence debate that erupted in the wake of the Newtown shootings. But wait, that’s not all! Preceding the interview is an exclusive featurette, courtesy of Fox Searchlight, in which Park and his cast discuss the movie. Enjoy. Click here to view the embedded video. Movieline: This is your first English-language film, and it’s set in America. I’d love to know if you wanted make any kind of a statement about American culture in Stoker . Park: Although Wentworth was obviously influenced by Shadow of a Doubt , the first American film that Hitchcock made, it’s not a commentary on American society at all. What attracted me to the script was that the story deals with the very universal idea of this family relationship. It doesn’t matter what country you’re from, you’ll be able to relate to and enjoy this film. You have said that Hitchcock — and David Lynch as well — influenced you, but the character of India’s mother, Evelyn, would be at home in a Tennessee Williams play. Was that intentional? Actually, the intention was to not evoke Tennessee Williams because the script ran the risk of being so under that influence. Of course, I am a fan of Tennessee Williams, but it’s not where I wanted to go, though I don’t want to blame Wentworth for everything. [Smiles] Lady Vengeance and, to a degree, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance had to do with family and revenge. I feel like these themes connect your earlier work to Stoker . Would you agree? It would depend on who’s doing the interpreting. Take the vengeance theme, for example. Some people might say that this film has nothing to do with the idea of vengeance. But if you want to interpret it as a story about vengeance, you can. It lends itself to that interpretation just as well as any other. Well, without spoiling the movie, there is at least one of act of vengeance committed — more, depending on your interpretation. It’s certainly not the only theme, but it’s definitely there. You’re absolutely right. It is an entirely possible interpretation. And there you have the link to the Vengeance trilogy. But I would say that Stoker lends itself just as well to vampiric aspects and is more closely linked to Thirst . But I also wanted to focus on the coming-of-age story of a young girl, and in that sense, it’s closer to I’m A Cyborg But That’s OK. Evie’s coldness and cruelty toward India is quite memorable. Is that straight from Miller’s script or did you expand upon that in the storytelling? I actually weakened it. Take the example of Evie’s big monologue. She’s cursing her daughter — it’s a very, very cruel thing. But in the original script, the monologue ended with Evie telling India: “I can’t wait to see life tear you apart.” I wanted to add a deeper layer to Evie’s character. I wanted her to be surprised at herself for having said such a cruel thing to her own daughter. So, I worked with Nicole to add more action and dialogue. The result is that after Evie realizes the harshness of what she has just said, she tells India: “Who are you? Aren’t you supposed to love me?” And this is where we see that, underneath all of the vitriol, she’s a mother yearning for her own daughter to love her. And in that we find a very relatable and ordinary maternal figure. Have you gotten a chance to see any of Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy ? I haven’t. I don’t have any detailed information about it, and I don’t want to find out any more than I already know. When the film comes out, I want to be surprised and stunned by the great filmmaker that Spike Lee is. The violence in your film is shocking, but it’s also integral to the story. I’d love to know your opinion of the debate here over cinema violence and whether it influences actual violence. I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That’s oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not see a violent film? Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
They’re pretty strict about their nakedness-in-movies down in Bollywood, so the teaser trailer for Kamasutra 3D on YouTube is quite a revelation. And by “revelation” we mean “revealing of the righteous rackage” on star Sherlyn Chopra . In 2012 Sherlyn made waves by becoming the first Bollywood star to pose for Playboy magazine, and subsequently created a skinsation on Twitter by posting outtakes from the shoot. More after the jump!
Holy crap guys! Now before you take a look at this clip featuring the totally stunning India Reynolds, make sure your sitting down as it’s really freaking sexy. Continue reading →
She sure looks like a nice lady and not one to be voting six times under other people’s names and such… Via Fox News: The Obama/Biden lawn sign remains proudly planted in front of Melowese Richardson’s Cincinnati home, three months after the presidential election. It seems that President Obama has an especially ardent supporter in the veteran Ohio poll worker. Richardson told a local television station this month that she voted twice for Obama last November. She cast an absentee ballot and then voted at the polls as well. “Yes, I voted twice,” Richardson told WCPO-TV. “I, after registering thousands of people, certainly wanted my vote to count, so I voted. I voted at the polls.” Authorities also are investigating if she voted in the names of four other people, too, for a total of six votes in the 2012 presidential election. “I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States,” Richardson vowed when asked about the voter fraud investigation that is now under way. Richardson is one of 19 people suspected of illegal voting by the Hamilton County Board of Elections in the last election. Richardson’s granddaughter, India Richardson, confirmed to Fox News that her grandmother voted for her, by submitting an absentee ballot in her name. India told Fox News that she is not angry, and gave her permission to cast her absentee ballot. “It wasn’t a big deal,” she said. But election authorities say voting more than once, or in someone else’s name, is a big deal because it is illegal and threatens the credibility of the nation’s election system. As part of a new effort to root out any voter fraud, Secretary of State Husted has ordered all 88 of the state’s county Board of Elections to hold public hearings on any credible voter fraud allegations or claims of voter disenfranchisement during the 2012 election. He said any substantiated allegations should be turned over to prosecutors. “Once the election is over, and once the winner is declared, everybody forgets about it. I want to make sure that we don’t forget about it, that we make sure we do, essentially, an audit of that process to ensure that we know what happened, and then use that evidence to guide us going forward. … We need to learn from that last election so that we can be better before the next one gets here.” “Fraud does happen,” noted Husted. “Most attempts are caught by the system. But there are cases that do slip through, as this one does, and we need to make sure that we really send a strong message, that if you do this, you are going to be held accountable. It might mean fines, it might mean jail time.” Voter fraud, said Husted, “undermines public confidence in democracy, and that’s why we need, whether you are a Democrat or Republican, to root out all cases of voter fraud.” SMH. Thoughts???
J.J. Abrams appears to have cornered the universe. Both The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter are reporting that the filmmaker behind the rebooted Star Trek franchise is close to sealing a deal to direct Disney’s Star Wars Episode 7 , which means he will boldly go to a galaxy far far away very shortly. Abrams office wasn’t commenting on the story when I called, but if the deal is indeed finalized, it will be interesting to see how fan boys for whom Star Wars vs. Star Trek is the equivalent of Beatles vs. Stones, and Paramount, the studio behind, Star Trek Into Darkness , will react to the story. As Indiewire’s Kevin Jagernauth astutely pointed out, “we can’t [imagine] the studio being thrilled that press rounds for Star Trek Into Darkness will essentially become non-stop questions about Star Wars: Episode 7 unless that subject is strictly taken off the table (not that people still won’t try anyway). Moreover, one wonders if we can ever live in a galaxy where nerds will be happy with the same director shephereding both Star Wars and Star Trek . Then again, Abrams has done a very smart job of revitalizing the Star Trek franchise, and making it relevant to a much broader audience than the Trekkie contingent. At the same time, he’s shown respect to die-hard fans by (mostly) respecting the canon. (I was always a Star Wars guy, and he’s got me hooked on this whole who-is-Benedict-Cumberbatch thing.) Star Wars could benefit from a similar update. If Abrams and Bad Robot do take on the Force and the Dark Side, you can be sure there will be plenty of guessing games about the identity of the villains who will be plaguing the Jedi and Droids that populate the newest entry in the Star Wars saga. Reports are that producer Kathleen Kennedy convinced Abrams to take on the daunting job. She must be very good at persuasion. In November, Abrams told HollywoodLife that he wasn’t the right man for the job. “Look, Star Wars is one of my favorite movies of all time,” Abrams said adding: “I frankly feel that – I almost feel that, in a weird way, the opportunity for whomever it is to direct that movie, it comes with the burden of being that kind of iconic movie and series. I was never a big Star Trek fan growing up, so for me, working on ‘Star Trek’ didn’t have any of that, you know, almost fatal sacrilege, and so, I am looking forward more than anyone to the next iterations of ‘Star Wars,’ but I believe I will be going as a paying moviegoer!” More on Star Wars Episode 7: ‘Star Wars Episode 7’: Is The Force With The Ladies For A Change? [ Indiewire , The Wrap , The Hollywood Reporter ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
When South Korean genre iconoclast Park Chan-wook decided to bring his peculiar gifts to a Stateside production, anything could have happened — and anything pretty much does in Stoker , a splendidly demented gumbo of Hitchcock thriller, American Gothic fairy tale and a contemporary kink all Park’s own. Led by a brilliant Mia Wasikowska as an introverted teenager whose personal and sexual awakening arrives with the unraveling of a macabre family mystery, this exquisitely designed and scored pic will bewilder as many viewers as it bewitches, making ancillary immortality a safer bet than Black Swan -style crossover biz for Fox Searchlight’s marvelously mad March hare. Earmarking future cult items is a fool’s errand, but Park’s film nonetheless stands to be treasured not just by his existing band of devotees, who should recognize enough of the Oldboy and Thirst director’s loopy eroticism and singular mise-en-scene amid the studio gloss, but by epicurean horror buffs, camp aficionados and even a small, hip sect of post- Twilight youths. Not all those auds will follow the stream of wink-wink storytelling references in the brazenly nasty script by Wentworth Miller , the British-born actor best known for his work in TV’s Prison Break , here making his feature writing debut. None is more blatant than the naming of Matthew Goode’s antagonist figure. When morbid-minded honor student India (Wasikowska) loses her beloved father, Richard ( Dermot Mulroney ), in an apparent freak car accident, the ink is barely dry on the death certificate when her globe-trotting uncle Charles (Goode, his unhurried charm and preppy handsomeness put to their best use since 2005’s Match Point ), whom she’s never met before, arrives to stay. Before you can say Shadow of a Doubt , this urbanely handsome “Uncle Charlie” is arousing India’s suspicions (and, it’s implied, other things besides) as he swiftly cements himself in the household by seducing her brittle, emotionally susceptible mother, Evelyn ( Nicole Kidman ). Shortly afterward, their housekeeper disappears without notice; ditto India’s meddlesome aunt (a brief but tangy turn from Jacki Weaver ), who appears to know troubling truths about the intruder, dismissed out of hand by Evelyn. The is-he-or-isn’t-he question is answered sooner than Hitch might have done it, as India’s darkest instincts about Charles are confirmed by the end of the first half – though, unsurprisingly in this particular story world, this knowledge actually causes her to warm to him a little. (And only a little: when he mentions his desire to be friends, her typically pithy reply is, “We don’t need to be friends, we’re family.”) But there’s still plenty of mileage in Miller’s warped family melodrama, as the respective and inevitably linked uncertainties about Richard’s death and Charlie’s long absence are kept aloft, while Charlie’s gradual playing of India and Evelyn against each other adds queasy sexual tension to an already chilly mother-daughter relationship. Auds will either go with this festering hotbed of secrets, lies and severed heads, or tune out early, and even the faithful may debate whether or not Park, who otherwise oversees proceedings with amused precision, overplays his hand in the bizarre, bloody finale. Material this wild demands actors fully committed to the cause, and Park has found them, particularly in his two female leads. Kidman, here extending her commendable record of counterintuitive auteur collaboration, has such form in the area of passive-aggressive ice queens that her work here shouldn’t surprise, but the performance gets more bravely unhinged as it goes along, culminating in a spectacular Mommie Dearest tirade against her daughter that seems ripe for future impressions. Still, it’s Wasikowska’s film, and she shoulders it with witty aplomb: equal parts Alice in Wonderland and Wednesday Addams, her India is in constant, silent argument with the world around her. All the actors are given an invaluable assist from Kurt Swanson and Bart Mueller’s crisply tailored costumes, which are period-indeterminate even as the film is set in the present day. This kind of chic otherness is also at play in Therese De Prez’s superb production design: the Stoker family house, all angular architectural fittings and inventively distorted scale, is a creation worthy of prime Tim Burton . Park’s regular d.p. Chung-hoon Chung appears to be channeling photographer Gregory Crewdson’s eerily high-key Americana in his lighting schemes, while Clint Mansell’s characteristically rich, modernist score is embellished with haunting piano duets composed specifically for the film by Philip Glass. The repeated use of the Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra number “Summer Wine,” meanwhile, is typical of the director’s cockeyed take on American culture. Long may he continue to explore. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
I got a lot of hate on twitter the other day because of JENNY McCarthy and it wasn’t even because I was making fun of autism or her ability of her pussy to make autism…. I got shit because she posted something about the horrible India rape on a bus leading to the victim dying story….and I responded saying that I would let her rape me on a bus…even if it killed me….but then again..you can’t rape the willing…and people went nuts… Who knew the public would find the idea of Jenny McCarthy fucking on a bus disgusting….I mean sure she’s old, but her tits are only 18. Not to mention, she stays fit…proven in this Shape Magazine feature on her….that reminds me that I’d still let her rape and kill me…even if it was to stop her from speaking…or making bad jokes and stupid faces…cuz as you know she’s the most annoying in the game….
A student of a nursing college places a candle in front of a picture depicting nurse Jacintha Saldanha, during a candle-lit vigil organized by a local politician in Bangalore, India, on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Jacintha Saldanha was found last Friday by work colleagues hanging from a wardrobe door at her hospital living quarters, a coroner#39;s court in London heard Thursday. The nurse, who was married with two teenaged children, left three notes, two at the scene and a third with her belongin
At long last, the Paranormal Activity /found footage horror hits are getting their own comedy spoof in the form of the Marlon Wayans vehicle A Haunted House — Paranormal Hacktivity , anyone? Ever since I first saw I’m Gonna Git You Sucka way back in the ice age (junior high), I have desperately wanted the Wayans family to be capable of consistently brilliant comedy. Unfortunately, the first thing they did after nailing it down with Sucka was In Living Color , which launched Jim Carrey’s career , which gave us Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , but also gave us everything else… Since then, the family has been notable more for consistently producing successful comedies packed with obvious jokes that are more easily forgotten than the flavor of a rice cake. Sigh. But little brother Marlon is interesting: Consistently funny regardless of the comedic dreck he’s starred in, he’s also made a couple of surprising career decisions — being the best thing about Requiem For A Dream , for instance — that make me want to see what he does even though I know I’ll get burned. His latest, A Haunted House , is a parody of the found footage horror genre. It’s full of a lot of the same schtick as the Scary Movie series, but the cast seems game, and NSFW ghost action is kind of something the world needs. Official Synopsis: In an outrageous send up of the Paranormal Activity movies, The Devil Inside and other “found footage” movies, A Haunted House features young couple Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins) who have just moved in to their dream house. As they settle in, they quickly find they’re not alone. But it’s not the house that’s haunted, it’s Malcolm’s girlfriend who is possessed by a demon. Malcolm hires everyone from a priest to modern day ghostbusters to rid her of this unwelcome intruder, determined not to let the evil spirit ruin his relationship… or, more importantly, his sex life. In fairness, I kind of always want Cedric the Entertainer to be my secret dad, so that works too. A Haunted House stars Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins, Cedric The Entertainer, Nick Swardson, David Koechner and Affion Crocket. It leaves a sticky, supernatural goo all over theaters starting January 11. Follow Ross A. Lincoln on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
