There’s more going on in Javi Marroquin’s life than being a father and banging Briana DeJesus . Javi is being deployed by the United States Air Force. That’s hard news for anyone, but especially for a parent. And, given Javi’s history, he has to worry about whether his relationship with Briana will survive. Javi Marroquin spoke about his deployment to RadarOnline . And it sounds like he was really blindsided. “I wasn’t expecting this at all.” Of course, the possibility of being deployed again is a reality with which many military families live. But that doesn’t make it any easier. It sounds like the news has Javi scrambling. “I’m trying to put everything together.” Remember, he’s a father. No matter how good at coparenting he might (sometimes) be, Javi has to think about his role as a father. Just knowing that Kailyn is a good, loving mother won’t make him miss Lincoln any less. Quite frankly, Javi also needs to worry about how he’ll handle being deployed again. But Javi tells RadarOnline that he has a real lifeline and source of comfort and stability this time around: Briana DeJesus. “She’s what’s keeping me together right now,” he says. That’s some hefty praise. Even before speaking to RadarOnline , Javi let his social media followers know that he was being deployed again by the USAF. First, Javi shared a Snapchat photo of Wendy’s. He wrote: “Eating whatever I want ’cause I’ll be missing this soon. #depressed” That could mean different things from different people — some people have “cheat days” that almost amount to binge eating. Coming from Javi, though, it sounded like the Air Force had come calling. And then he made it abundantly clear: He shared a document of “reporting instructions,” and wrote “deja vu.” Of course, Javi’s relationships don’t have the best track record when it comes to his deployments. He returned home from Qatar hoping to talk things out with Kailyn, as we’re sure that you recall. Instead, he found that she’d already moved on. While that’s totally her right (and they’d been fighting all of the time; honestly, any couple that’s quarreling that often doesn’t need to be together), we know that it had to be crushing for Javi. He and Kailyn Lowry are doing well with coparenting , mostly. (It might help if they didn’t get into social media arguments) But will his relatively new relationship with Briana DeJesus survive while he’s away? Well … we don’t know. Sometimes, absence makes the heart grow fonder. You see someone return and you know how much you love them. Sometimes, there’s an out-of-sight, out-of-mind element. Javi’s relationship with Briana is fundamentally different than his relationship with Kailyn. Briana and Kail are different people. And, as we said, his relationship with Briana is much newer. With Kailyn, they were past the honeymoon phase and definitely living in the real world and dealing with real struggles. Still, there’s no telling how their relationship will turn out. We won’t waste our hopes on that (one way or the other). We’ll just hope that Javi Marroquin stays safe while he’s deployed. We don’t want Lincoln to lose his father. View Slideshow: Javi Marroquin GOES OFF on Kailyn Lowry: She is DEAD to Me!
On Tuesday morning, Tennessee middle school student Keaton Jones became an Internet hero after he explained, tearfully, on camera that he's been the victim of horrible bullying for several weeks now. Just a few hours later, the mother of Keaton Jones became an Internet villain. In an odd story that sort of sums up the craziness of 2017, Jones sobbed into his mother's phone that he was afraid to go to lunch due to the way he was treated by fellow students. He then tried to be strong and tried to send a positive message of hope to other victims of bullying. You can watch the video here: It quickly went viral, with celebrities from all industries sending Keaton positive thoughts and inviting him to special events such as UFC pay-per-views and big-time movie premieres. It appeared to be a sad story, but also an uplifting one with a happy ending. However, later on Tuesday, Internet sleuths delved into the social media history of Keaton's mother, Kimberly, and discovered a few controversial posts. There was a Facebook photo, for instance, of the family posing with Confederate flags. As a result, GoFundMe placed a campaign on pause that had raised $57,000 for Keaton and his loved ones. There are now questions over whether the entire video was set up by Kimberly just to make her family lots of money. In response to this scandal, both Keaton and his mom sat down for a pair of interviews this week. “The only two photos – the only two photos on my entire planet that I am anywhere near a Confederate flag. It was ironic,” Kimberly told CBS News this morning, adding that there was no racist intent behind the images. “I’ve said I spent most of my life being bullied and judged because I wasn’t racist… “It was meant to be ironic and funny … I am genuinely truly sorry. If I could take it back, I would.” Keaton says in the original video that bullies “make fun of my nose. They call me ugly. They say I have no friends.” And the 11-year old reiterated those claims to CBS, basically saying the video was his idea: “I had enough of it. They had said that someone was going to beat me up in lunch so I texted my mom and I said, ‘What do I do here?’” This is one of the controversial photos in question, shared by Kimberly earlier this year: Talking to The Today Show, she said: “Yesterday [Keaton] was a hero. You know, the world loved us. Today, the world hates us… “I'm trying really hard to think that I was trying not to get caught up in the positives. So, we're not going to get caught up in the negatives.” It's unclear at the moment what will happen to the money earmarked for the Jones's on GoFundMe. But Kimberly’s daughter, Lakyn, defended her mother in a now-deleted Twitter post, writing: “To those who think my mother is a racist, she is not. She is a southern woman who loves where she’s from. She believes in equality and doesn’t want any harm done to ANYONE. “This is about bullying and my brother. Not her. Please leave it alone.” Watch excerpts from the Today interview with mother and son below:
We know two things: That the ‘Atlanta’ cast is now outfitted in excellent matching jackets, and that Lakeith Stanfield is not the dude to ask for the premiere date of the second season.
Given the Labor Day weekend, most of this week’s high-profile home-video releases are TV box sets timed to promote the new seasons of such returning favorites as The Good Wife and Grey’s Anatomy . That doesn’t mean film lovers are out of luck: there are new editions of beloved comedies from two very different directors who both managed to be brand names in their chosen fields. HIGH: The Navigator: Ultimate Edition (Kino Classics; $29.95 DVD/$34.95 Blu-Ray) Who’s Responsible: Directed by Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp from a story by Clyde Bruckman, Joseph Mitchell and Jean Havez; starring Keaton and Kathryn McGuire. What It’s All About: Keaton stars as the rich and thoroughly useless Rollo Treadway, who has his chauffeur drive him across the street so he can propose to the equally wealthy and spoiled Betsy O’Brien (McGuire). She turns him down, but through a series of complicated circumstances, the two of them find themselves alone on a ship in the middle of the Pacific. Things start out disastrously — she boils a giant pot of water to cook one egg — but they figure out a way to survive, just in time to face attack by angry islanders. Why It’s Schmancy: Academics, list-makers and cinematic know-it-alls of every stripe champion Keaton’s The General as one of the greatest silent comedies ever made, but I’ve always preferred this 1924 slapstick-heavy nautical epic. From the early scenes of the two young dilettantes trying to figure out who else is on the boat to Keaton’s underwater antics in a pre-SCUBA diving suit — which he later turns into a raft — The Navigator shows the legendary director in top form and makes the perfect movie to show to someone who’s never seen a silent movie before. Why You Should Buy It (Again): The “Ultimate Edition” marks the Blu-Ray debut of this classic, although both the Blu-Ray and the DVD releases include the HD master from the original 35mm negative, tinted to the filmmaker’s specifications. Both editions also include an orchestral score by Robert Israel, a featurette on the making of the film and Keaton’s ongoing fascination with boats as a source of comedy. Feature-length audio commentary by silent film historians Robert Arkus and Yair Solan, a photo gallery, and the audio of “Asleep in the Deep,” a 1913 hit song referenced in the film, gives this package some real depth. LOW: Zotz! (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; $20.95 DVD) Who’s Responsible: Directed by William Castle, written by Ray Russell, based on the novel by Walter Karig; starring Tom Poston, Jim Backus, Margaret Dumont. What It’s All About: College professor Jonathan Jones (Poston) finds an ancient amulet and discovers that he can use it to slow down time, cause great pain and even (when it’s pointed at someone and the title of the film is uttered) kill people. Jones tries to pass the talisman along to the Department of Defense, but the government agents think he’s nuts. The Soviets, however, want to get their hands on it, and wackiness ensues. Why It’s Fun: Zotz! marked something of a departure for Castle, best known for thrillers and horror movies like The Tingler , The House on Haunted Hill , Homicidal and 13 Ghosts . What really made Castle famous was his love of gimmicks, whether it was insuring his audiences against death by fright, wiring theater seats to buzz unsuspecting patrons or unleashing a giant inflatable skeleton to fly through the theater. With Zotz!, he toned things down a bit, merely handing out replica medallions to audience members. Still, it’s a silly and entertaining comedy, featuring a rare lead role for legendary TV second banana Poston, best known as the doofus foil to Bob Newhart on his various hit sitcoms. Why You Should Buy It (Again): Sony is offering the film through its movies-on-demand (i.e., they don’t make it until you buy it) label “Choice Collection,” which in this case means there aren’t any extras. If you’re interested in Castle, you should instead spring for the William Castle Film Collection box set, which features Zotz! and several other Castle classics as well as a great documentary on the huckster filmmaker: Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story . Alonso Duralde has written about film for The Wrap , Salon and MSNBC.com. He also co-hosts the Linoleum Knife podcast and regularly appears on What The Flick?! (The Young Turks Network) . He is a senior programmer for the Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and a pre-screener for the Sundance Film Festival. He also the author of two books: Have Yourself A Movie Little Christmas (Limelight Editions) and 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men (Advocate Books). Follow Alonso Duralde on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
There’s too much people and not enough dog in Lawrence Kasdan’s Darling Companion , and even if you prefer people to dogs, that’s a serious problem. It would be bad enough that Kasdan squanders the gifts of two of his lead actors, Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline, in this aimless, tedious and sometimes downright ridiculous comedy-drama about a fractured family brought closer by unusual circumstances. But he does a disservice to an even more striking face: That of a mutt whom Keaton’s character rescues from the edge of the highway, an elegant, spirited creature she dubs — what else? — Freeway. I had high hopes for Darling Companion in its early moments, particularly a scene in which Keaton’s Beth gives Freeway a bath. She’s just returned from getting him checked out at the vet’s, but hasn’t yet broken the news to her uptight surgeon husband Joseph (Kline) that the dog is going to stay. Watching Keaton as she kneels by the bathtub massaging shampoo into the pup’s fur — the attention clearly sends him straight into seventh heaven — brings with it a certain elemental joy. For this moment at least, Keaton’s expressive radiance has met its match: There’s so much life in both of them that you’d never imagine how far downhill things could go from there. But boy, do they. Written by Kasdan and his wife, Meg Kasdan, the script for Darling Companion dispatches with the dog early on (temporarily) to clear the way for a picture filled with husband-and-wife squabbling, the constant nattering of annoying future-in-laws, the airing of various neuroses and, I kid you not, heaps of faux-mystic wisdom from a beautiful Romany psychic. This is how it all plays out: As Joseph and Beth are recovering from the wedding of their daughter (Elisabeth Moss) to the vet who treated Freeway after his rescue (Jay Ali), Joseph takes the dog for a walk on a trail near the couple’s rustic-luxe Rocky Mountain retreat (as if we didn’t already have enough reasons to hate them). Freeway spots a deer and takes off in pursuit; distracted by one of his Very Important Surgeon cell-phone calls, Joseph fails to coax the dog back. Spoiler alert: Dog lovers will want to know that Freeway does come back, but not until practically the very last frame of the movie, by which time even his exuberant wagging tail is too late to save it. Most of Darling Companion is used up in the search for the dog, during which time the poor fellow becomes completely beside the point. Joseph and Beth are forced to get to know their future brother-in-law, Russell (Richard Jenkins), who has greatly charmed his fiancée-to-be, Joseph’s sister, Penny (Dianne Wiest), but who also seems to be a bit of a wheeler-dealer. Meanwhile, Bryan (Mark Duplass), Joseph’s nephew, who also works with him in his surgical practice, becomes entranced with the caretaker of Joseph and Beth’s vacation house, the exotic, with a capital E, Carmen (Ayelet Zurer). Carmen keeps getting psychic visions of Freeway’s whereabouts, and she sends the family out, in various permutations, based on the locations derived from this rather faulty sixth-sense GPS system. And in the end, guess what? Everybody likes and understands one another better, thanks to a lost dog and a Gypsy Mary Poppins. Darling Companion is all about how we need to keep changing and growing as we get older, which is somewhat ironic considering that as a director, Kasdan seems frozen in time – although we desperately need more movies for grown-ups, lukewarm reheats of The Big Chill aren’t going to do it. Most of a potentially terrific cast is wasted here: Wiest plays the same sweet, neurotic eye-crinkler she’s portrayed so many times she could do it in her sleep. Kline, generally wonderful at playing only semi-likable characters, doesn’t illuminate any corners of Joseph’s personality that might make you feel anything for the guy. Only Keaton, waving her arms and exhorting all those around her to please help her find her dog, makes any sense. Beth’s priorities are unquestionably sound. It’s the movie around her that loses its way. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
British artist, designer and musicican Keaton Henson has released a music video for his track, “Charon”, featuring a gradual unraveling of emotion that shows the lead character (played by a puppet) sliding towards his final surrender. Keaton’s work as an … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Duncan’s TV Ad Land Discovery Date : 01/03/2011 19:59 Number of articles : 2
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