Joseline’s Celebrates Bday With Litty Day Party Puerto Rican Princess Joseline Hernandez celebrated her birthday with a litty day party at Gold Room hosted by the gorgeous Clermont twins and Grammy-winning boo Stevie J. “Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta” cameras were on the scene to capture her sizzling dance performance and exclusive video release. The red carpet was bursting with good vibes and support from “Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta” cast member Melissa, Stevie J’s sons Dorian and Stevie Jr. along with nephews Vega Sills and Vee Johnson. Actors Johnell Young (who plays “Ray Love” in All Eyez On Me ) and Stefon Washington (who plays “Puff Daddy”) alongside Rap artist Kore Stacks graced the carpet with flicks and exclusive interviews. Joseline’s extravagant glow-in-the-dark cake display featuring delicious cake pops, cupcakes, tea candles and iced roses was designed by “The Cake Artist” (@iced_out_cakesatl). Guests also enjoyed a photo booth provided by Photo Buzz Booth (@photobuzzbooth). Michael Walker/UMeek Images
Although the above photo of Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska calls to mind a Lana Del Rey music video, it’s actually a still from something much more exciting: Vengeance trilogy director Park Chan-Wook’s upcoming horror thriller Stoker. Despite the title, which refers to the surname of the core characters, the tense, stylish trailer for the Fox Searchlight film, which you can find after the jump, does not look like a vampire tale. Rather, creepy, craven humans look like the monsters of this movie. In one scene, Kidman’s character Evie Stoker icily tells her daughter India (Wasikowska): “I can’t wait to watch life tear you apart.” In another, weird Uncle Charle Stoker (Matthew Goode) tells Kidman, “She’s of age,” presumably referring to India. “She’s of age for what?” replies Kidman with a disgusted look on her face. “You have no idea,” responds Goode in a tone that made my skin crawl. Those who’ve come to know and expect a certain level of creative, Grand Guignol bloodshed in Park’s pictures will have to wait and see, but there are a few promising indications in the trailer. When India is taunted by a classmate at school, she stabs him with a sharp pencil. There are also scenes of Wasikowska hefting what looks like a high-powered rifle. If you haven’t seen Park’s Vengeance trilogy — Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance — you might want to bone up before Stoker is released March 1, 2013. In addition to being one of Korea’s most popular filmmakers, Park’s fans include Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Despite the silliness, sexism, and let’s face it, more than a handful of bad movies, James Bond has endured as a franchise for 50 years because deep down inside, all of us, at one time, wanted to be spies, and as anyone living vicariously through the movies knows, a good spy needs a great theme song. For better or for worse, presented below are all 22 James Bond title songs and sequences, ranked in order from worst to best. Get your martinis and Walthers ready, ladies and gentlemen… 22. Quantum of Solace I’ve got nothing against Jack White or Alicia Keys , but yikes. This sort of mash-up is just not what James Bond is about. The grating production and completely asynchronous arrangement would be irritating as a standalone song: in a Bond film it’s borderline insulting. The visuals aren’t too great either, and look like some sort of digitally upgraded B-roll from The Mummy Returns . 21. Die Another Day Fans said goodbye to Pierce Brosnan in 2002, and it’s hard to determine exactly how many films he overstayed his welcome by. Rest assured, however, that Die Another Day will go down in history as one of the worst Bond films of the modern era, and the cookie-cutter, auto-tuned, glitchy mess of a title track by Madonna (speaking of stars who overstayed their welcome…) isn’t going to be fondly remembered any time soon, either. 20. The World Is Not Enough It’s hard to tell when performers began hoping a James Bond film would get them exposure rather than the other way around, but it’s safe to bet that it was well before Garbage performed the title track to 1999’s The World is Not Enough , since I imagine the bulk of kids in the theater went “who?” when the phrase “title song performed by Garbage” flashed across the screen. Still, the song is serviceable, and the sequence impressively slick. 19. Moonraker Ugh. Poor Shirley Bassey deserved better than this. After having her name attached to one certifiably classic and one so-so Bond film, Moonraker had to go and mess with the program. Clearly the producers insisted that Bassey drop the completely unmusical phrase “Moonraker” somewhere into the track, and it’s laughably bad. I would have just turned in a new cut of Goldfinger with the titles swapped out, but that’s why I’m not in charge of such things. 18. For Your Eyes Only This song and sequence are notable only because they ushered James Bond into the 1980s with plenty of appropriate glam and glitter, and because Sheena Easton appeared in the opening sequence. Otherwise there’s not much else to say. 17. The Living Daylights Remember A-Ha, better known as “that Norwegian band who did Take on Me”? Well, they had another hit song two years after their award-winner: the theme to Timothy Dalton’s on-screen debut as James Bond. It’s a nice synthed-out dance number, perfect for 1980s 007, but the visuals look like the director just turned on the camera, told the naked girls to writhe around, and then went to lunch. A little effort, people! (Bonus factoid: Joe Don Baker appears in this film, many years before his turn as a CIA operative in Goldeneye ).
After watching this trailer, I think Parker Posey should consider launching some sort of bad-girl management inspiration seminar. Clearly, she’s breaking a lot of corporate cardinal rules in this trailer to Michael Walker’s Price Check — you know, like the one where you’re not supposed to sleep with your employees — but just watch how Eric Mabius, the sad-sack manager in her grocery store pricing and marketing department perks up over the course of this clip as he gets the focus of her manic attention. (The trailer plays after the jump.) The scene of Posey throwing a tantrum in front of her boss by throwing herself on to the floor is a keeper, and reminds me of a few work situations that I’ve witnessed. (At no time did my feet leave the ground.) I also think this trailer handles a rather complex and difficult idea with great economy: the clip manages to show Posey waking Mabius from his financially strapped sleepwalker’s life and then propelling him into chaos, especially on the home front. The scene of his wife smelling his dirty dress shirt says volumes about the pain to come. Check out the rest below. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
