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Jumaat, Jun 26, 2009

#576. Hype : Semai Sikap Tak Puas Hati

SUDAH menjangkau enam tahun model dan pelakon Jehan Miskin, 29, membabitkan diri dalam dunia seni. Namun, pemuda kelahiran Pulau Pinang ini belum berpuas hati dengan pencapaian yang dikecapinya setakat ini.Bunyi seakan-akan tamak kerana kalau dilihat, Jehan sepatutnya bangga kerana sudah membintangi banyak drama mahupun filem seperti Manjalara, Mentua VS Menantu, Puteri Salju, Gong, Anak Halal dan Qaisy & Laila.Sehingga hari ini rezeki Jehan dalam dunia lakonan tidak pernah putus dan sentiasa disambar penerbit. Lakonannya kini dapat disaksikan di TV3 menerusi slot Samarinda, Suria Kasandra setiap Selasa hingga Khamis, jam 10.30 malam berganding dengan Intan Ladyana.

Kata Jehan, usianya sebagai pelakon masih mentah dan mengakui perjalanannya masih jauh untuk terus membina nama kukuh sebagai aktor yang paling disegani di negara ini. Tidak dinafikan, selain memiliki wajah kacak, Jehan juga mempunyai karisma untuk diangkat sebagai pelakon berkaliber.

Bahasa tubuh dan gaya lakonannya membuktikan dia tidak cuba untuk meniru mana-mana pelakon yang sedia ada sebaliknya, berjaya membina namanya sendiri. Kekuatan identitinya membuatkan Jehan berjaya mempertahankan kariernya sehingga hari ini.

“Sebagai insan seni sudah tentu saya bersyukur dan gembira dengan apa yang dikecapi. Namun, itu bukanlah satu penanda tamatnya perjalanan pelajaran dalam bidang seni lakonan.

“Malah, saya akan sentiasa belajar untuk membaiki kelemahan diri kerana tiada manusia yang sempurna di muka bumi ini. Walaupun sudah berada di tahap yang tinggi, sebagai pelakon sikap suka mempelajari benda baru perlu ada.

“Ini penting kerana seni lakonan juga sentiasa mengalami perubahan mengikut peredaran masa. Sekiranya, kita tidak mahu belajar untuk mempertingkatkan kemahiran kerana fikir diri bagus sangat, tidak mustahil suatu hari nanti segala kenikmatan yang dikecapi akhirnya tersungkur jua.

“Disebabkan itu, saya sentiasa menyemai sikap tidak puas hati dalam peribadi diri. Bukan bererti tidak mahu mengucapkan syukur dengan apa yang diperoleh atau tamak, namun saya fikir semangat belajar perlu diterapkan dalam diri. Tambahan pula, apabila bercakap mengenai ‘belajar’, ia menuntut manusia itu mendalami ilmu hingga akhir hayat,” katanya.

Sekiranya segelintir pelakon melenting apabila dikritik mengenai tahap lakonan, berlainan pula dengan Jehan. Baginya, kritikan membantu ke arah peningkatan mutu lakonan.“Apabila membabitkan diri dalam pentas lakonan tempatan, bukan saja perlu mensahsiahkan sikap suka belajar dalam keperibadian diri malah turut meliputi keterbukaan menerima kritikan.

“Saya tidak melihat dari sudut pelakon lain, tetapi daripada saya sendiri, kritikan adalah satu nasihat berguna untuk berlakon dengan lebih baik.

“Saya fikir, sikap keterbukaan menerima kritikan membantu melihat kelemahan diri lantas berupaya membawa ke arah pembaikan kualiti lakonan. Justeru, saya tidak ambil hati apabila ada yang bersuara mengkritik lakonan saya,” katanya.

Mengenai perkembangan terkini, kata Jehan, dia sedang menjalani latihan filem epik Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa, karya sulung Yusry Abdul Halim. Selain itu, Jehan turut menerima tawaran berlakon telefilem Doa Ibu untuk siaran Astro Prima, Mentua VS Menantu dan Cinta Biru Laguna untuk TV9.

Akui Jehan, jadual kerjanya memang sibuk hingga tiada waktu untuk merehatkan diri. Namun, kerana memikirkan itulah karier dan tempatnya mencari pendapatan halal, Jehan tidak kisah semua itu.

“Saya memang suka bekerja. Lagipun, saya membabitkan diri dalam bidang yang disukai iaitu lakonan. Kata orang, apabila buat sesuatu benda yang kita minat, ia tidak akan jadi bebanan. Malah, kita sanggup bekerja keras untuk sentiasa cemerlang.

“Bagaimanapun, saya tidak terus sasarkan diri untuk kerja berterusan. Sistem kerja saya, tiga bulan aktif kemudian satu bulan rehat. Ini secara tidak langsung, membuatkan peminat tidak jemu melihat lakonan saya,” katanya.

Mengenai teman hidup, Jehan yang pernah putus cinta dengan pelakon Zuliana Abdul Aziz atau Jue pada Mac tahun lalu, mengakui belum berminat mencari pengganti.

Malah mengakui pernah tidak yakin dengan institusi perkahwinan dan hampir menoktahkan impian mulia itu. Bukan itu saja, melihat senario kahwin cerai di kalangan selebriti yang semakin menular dan hampir menjadi virus pula turut membimbangkan Jehan.

“Memang saya takut melihat fenomena ini hingga berfikir dua tiga kali apabila diajukan perihal perkahwinan. Namun, masa berlalu sejajar dengan peningkatan usia dan kematangan, akhirnya mengembalikan keyakinan diri terhadap sistem perkahwinan.

“Perubahan diri lahir apabila melihat kegembiraan hidup berkeluarga di samping seronok melihat keletah anak kecil. Melihat situasi itu, tanpa disedari saya tersenyum dengan kemeriahan sistem kekeluargaan yang tercantum indah,” katanya.

Sumber : Harian Metro [26/06/09]
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#575. Info Tv : Overhaulin' musim ketiga kembali di 8TV


PENGGEMAR kereta, rancangan Overhaulin' musim ketiga kembali di 8TV bermula 12 Jun lalu dengan paparan idea menarik serta menghiburkan yang menjadi sajian utama dalam setiap episod.Menemui penonton pada jam 10 malam, Overhaulin' membawa penggemar automobil untuk menyaksikan proses pengubahsuaian kereta lama yang dijalankan Chip Foose dan kumpulan A-Team.Pengubahsuaian itu menghasilkan kereta baru yang berbeza, lebih canggih dan menarik menerusi proses transformasi yang teliti cetusan idea mereka yang pakar dalam bidang automotif.

Rancangan terbitan Bud Brutsman bersama pengacara, Chris Jacobs dan Adrienne “AJ” Janic ini turut mengundang tetamu yang pakar dalam bidang pengubahsuaian automobil seperti Ian Ziering, Jason Priestly, Robby Gordon dan Tyler Hatzikina untuk berkongsi ilmu dengan penonton.

Kesemua mereka juga dipertanggungjawab untuk mengubahsuai kereta lama menjadi sebuah kereta canggih dan menarik menerusi proses transformasi teliti dalam masa satu minggu.

Overhaulin’ juga membawa penonton meneroka dengan lebih mendalam segala proses merangkumi pemasangan, pembinaan dan modifikasi sesebuah kenderaan.

Sebagai panduan, penonton juga diselitkan dengan pelbagai tips berguna yang dapat dimanfaatkan ketika mengubahsuai kenderaan sendiri.

“Peminat kereta seharusnya menjadikan Overhaulin’ sebagai program wajib tonton kerana mereka pasti terpegun serta kagum dengan kemampuan Chip Foose dan A-Team dalam pengubahsuaian kereta.

“Selain itu, penonton juga berpeluang mempelajari teknik modifikasi serta mengenalpasti tahap keselamatan sesebuah kenderaan,” kata Pengurus Besar 8TV, Lam Swee Kim.

Paling istimewa mengenai Overhaulin’, kata Swee Kim adalah pemerhatian dan ketelitian yang dilakukan dalam setiap proses pengubahsuaian sesebuah kereta yang turut mengambil kira faktor keselamatan.

“Dalam masa tujuh hari, transformasi hebat akan berlaku tanpa mengabaikan kualiti sesebuah kenderaan. Itu antara keistimewaan yang dibawakan Overhaulin’,” katanya.

8TV boleh ditonton menerusi siaran 708 Astro atau dengan melayari www.mobile.8tv.com.my menerusi telefon bimbit untuk mengikuti program kegemaran.

Sumber : Berita Harian [26/06/09]
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#574. Harry Potter and The Half - Blood Prince [2009]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, released on 16 July 2005, is the penultimate of the seven novels in J. K. Rowling's popular Harry Potter series. Set during Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores Lord Voldemort's past, and Harry's preparations for the final battle amidst emerging romantic relationships and the emotional confusions and conflict resolutions characteristic of mid-adolescence.The book sold nine million copies in the first 24 hours after its release, a record at the time which was eventually broken by its sequel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. As Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters commit crimes in both the magical and Muggle worlds, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge is replaced by Rufus Scrimgeour. In the second chapter, Professor Snape, appearing to have rejoined the Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort, is visited by Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange. A terrified Narcissa tells Snape that her son Draco has received orders from Lord Voldemort, and asks Snape to make an Unbreakable Vow with her to protect her son and do the job for him, should Draco fail. Snape agrees, and the vow is sealed.

Harry Potter accompanies Albus Dumbledore on a trip to persuade retired Hogwarts professor Horace Slughorn to return to Hogwarts to fill in the vacant spot in the teaching staff. Harry notices that one of Dumbledore's hands is withered and burnt black, and that he is wearing a ring with a distinctively-marked stone. Harry spends the remaining holiday at The Burrow with the Weasleys and Hermione, where they receive their O.W.L. results. To become Aurors, Harry and Ron must take N.E.W.T. level Potions, but their O.W.L.s in the subject are too low to enroll in Snape's Potions class.

At Hogwarts, Snape is unexpectedly announced as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor, with Slughorn becoming the Potions teacher. Harry and Ron’s O.W.L.s are good enough to enroll in Slughorn’s class, which has lower standards, but neither had purchased a textbook, so Slughorn lends them old Potions textbooks. Harry's book has notes and corrections scribbled all over the pages. Harry discovers that these corrections yield better results than the textbook's instructions, and that the book is inscribed as having previously belonged to the "Half-Blood Prince". As the year continues, Ron dates Lavender Brown but then returns to Hermione. Harry realizes that he has feelings (that are conflicting with his friendship with Ron) for Ginny, who has stopped pursuing him and is dating Dean Thomas.

During the school year at Hogwarts, Dumbledore privately tutors Harry, using his Pensieve to show Harry collected memories about Voldemort's past. Dumbledore asks Harry to retrieve a key memory from Slughorn that Slughorn has resisted providing, regarding Slughorn's conversation with a sixth-year Tom Riddle. After disappointing Dumbledore once by not getting the memory from Slughorn, Harry uses Felix Felicis potion (which bestows luck on its drinker) that he had been rewarded with for his newfound "skill" (derived almost entirely from written hints from the Half-Blood Prince) in potion making to gain the memory.

The series of memories reveals that to attain immortality, Voldemort splintered his soul (through committing murders) into six fragments attached to objects called Horcruxes, while leaving a seventh piece in his body. As long as any of the Horcruxes exist, Voldemort cannot be killed. Two Horcruxes have been destroyed: Tom Riddle's diary by Harry in the Chamber of Secrets[HP2] and Marvolo Gaunt's ring by Dumbledore (the ring Harry noticed on his hand earlier). The memories indicate that three other Horcruxes are most likely a locket formerly owned by Salazar Slytherin, a cup formerly owned by Helga Hufflepuff, and the snake Nagini; but the last of the six Horcruxes remains unidentified. Dumbledore speculates that it may be a possession of Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, as Tom Riddle would have wanted a possession of each of the founders of Hogwarts, his first and only real home.

After seeing Harry cast an unusual curse, "Sectumsempra" (a dark curse which leaves deep gashes) against Draco Malfoy, Snape attempts to repossess Harry's Potions book, but Harry gives him Ron's copy instead and hides his copy in the Room of Requirement, noting several other items hidden there over the years. He then distinguishes the cabinet that the book is in with an old bust wearing a wig and a strange looking tiara. Harry gets detention from Snape and misses the Quidditch finals, but Gryffindor wins the Cup with Ron and Ginny starring in the match. During the victory celebration, Harry spontaneously kisses Ginny and they begin dating with Ron's approval.

Dumbledore locates another Horcrux and asks Harry to accompany him to destroy it. They travel to a secret cave to retrieve Slytherin's locket. Harry and Dumbledore find the entrance, present a blood offering to a secret door, and row in a small boat across an Inferi-infested lake. To acquire the locket, Dumbledore must drink a mysterious potion. After drinking the potion, Dumbledore faints, and while attempting to minister to him, Harry provokes the inferi which attack him and Dumbledore. Harry retrieves the Horcrux and guides Dumbledore to safety in Hogsmeade, but as they arrive they see the Dark Mark hovering over the Astronomy Tower at Hogwarts and hurriedly return to the school.

Dumbledore and an Invisibility Cloaked Harry are confronted atop the tower by Draco Malfoy, and before Harry can reveal himself, Dumbledore immobilizes Harry. Malfoy disarms Dumbledore, who sacrificed the time to defend himself to immobilize Harry. Draco admits that he was behind a series of attacks on Hogwarts students, and that Voldemort has ordered him to kill Dumbledore. Dumbledore offers Draco the chance to change sides, and promises to hide Draco and his mother where Voldemort will never find them. Draco cannot bring himself to kill the headmaster, even with the urging of fellow Death Eaters once they arrive. Snape arrives and kills Dumbledore. Harry, enraged and freed from immobility by Dumbledore's death, pursues Snape, who reveals that he is the "Half-Blood Prince" and duels Harry until he gets outside Hogwarts grounds and disapparates.

Harry recovers the locket from Dumbledore's body, only to discover it is a fake left by someone with the initials R. A. B. who had apparently stolen the real Horcrux and left a note about his opposition to Voldemort. The school year ends abruptly with Dumbledore's funeral. He is buried along with his wand beside the lake on Hogwarts's grounds. The fate of the school is uncertain, but Harry vows not to return to school and to hunt for the remaining Horcruxes. Harry breaks up with Ginny to keep her safe from danger during his quest, and Ron and Hermione pledge to accompany him.


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#573. Movie Buzz

1. Transformers bags a ton of change with US$60m opening day
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen scored a huge first day take of US$60.6mil (about RM220mil) on Wednesday, the second highest opening day ever after The Dark Knight's US$67.2mil (RM242mil) last July.Poor critical reception doesn't seem to have dampened the fans' enthusiasm for the sequel.After this weekend's anticipated fan frenzy, it is expected to come close to, if not match, The Dark Knight's five-day US$203mil (about RM730mil) haul last Summer.

2. Dark Knight wins big at Saturn Awards
The 35th Annual Saturn Awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, saw The Dark Knight cleaning up with five honours.Sci Fi Wire reports that the Batman epic won Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film, Best Writing, Best Supporting Actor (Heath Ledger), Best Music and Best Special Effects.Best Fantasy Film was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button while Iron Man picked up the statuette for Best Science Fiction Film.Battlestar Galactica won three in the TV category: Actor (Edward James Olmos), Actress (Mary McDonnell) and Syndicated/Cable TV Series.Leonard Nimoy picked up the Lifetime Achievement Award. Come on, you all know it wasn't just for In Search Of ...

3. Early Avatar footage causes a sensation
James Cameron screened some footage from his highly-anticipated 3D CGI epic Avatar, due out at the end of this year, at the recent CinemaExpo International in Amsterdam.
According to Dark Horizons, the response was almost unanimously overwhelming, with attendees giving it a standing ovation.It seems the footage was so realistic that even alien creatures and landscapes seemed utterly believable.Can we believe the hype? Heck, why not - it's better than sitting around waiting for the world to end, that's for sure.

4. Oscars to double Best Picture nominees
And that means we'll have nine losers instead of four! Well, it seems that in keeping with the practice of critics, critics circles and circular critics issuing Top 10 lists of movies, the Oscars are going to expand the Best Picture nominee field to 10 from the current five.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said in a statement reported on the LA Times' The Envelope site that it was returning to the days of yore when Best Picture nominees could stretch up to that number.The first 16 years of the Oscars saw at least 10 films competing. The final year of this practice, 1943, saw Casablanca walking into the misty night with the statuette.Academy president Sidney Ganis said in its statement: "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognise and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories, but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize."

5. Life As We Know It to change for Heigl
Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl (who's sticking with the hit show after earlier reports had her being written out) will headline the drama Life As We Know It.Yahoo! Movies says the drama tells the story of two single people who suddenly become the guardians of an orphaned girl after her parents, mutual best friends to both parties, are killed in an accident.Heigl adds what sounds like a meaty role to an already solid film portfolio that includes the 2007 comedy Knocked Up, 27 Dresses, and the upcoming The Ugly Truth in which she co-stars with Gerard Butler.Life will be directed for Warner Bros by Everwood creator Greg Berlanti, although no start date has been set.

6. Daniel Craig to get shaken ... and stirred?
Current James Bond Daniel Craig is reported to be in early talks to star in Dream House, a psychological thriller to be directed by Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan (In America, My Left Foot) for indie producer Morgan Creek, Yahoo! Movies reported.Reps stress, however, that the two sides have not reached a deal.The David Loucka script sees a man (Craig) who moves his family to an idyllic small town, only to find his house haunted by its former inhabitants, who were murdered there.Working with a pedigreed director like Sheridan could help establish Craig as a more prestigious actor post-Quantum of Solace while keeping him in the realm of the commercial.Like other Bond actors, Craig has faced a crossroads coming off 007 hits.His recent role in Defiance, for example, essentially saw Craig taking on a more art house version of the Bond character of hit man and vigilante - as did his earlier turn in the Steven Spielberg revenge drama Munich.

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#572. ( 500 ) Days Of Summer [2009]

(500) Days of Summer is an upcoming 2009 American romantic comedy film. It is directed by Marc Webb, produced by Mark Waters, and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. This is Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel's second movie together (following Manic). Principal photography began in April 2008 in Los Angeles, California. The film is scheduled by Fox Searchlight Pictures to be released on July 17, 2009.Its full release in Australia will be on October 1, 2009.The film tells the story of the relationship between a woman, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), who doesn't believe in true love and a man, Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), described as a hopeless romantic,who falls in love with her. Over a span of 500 days, the story moves in a non-linear fashion from the perspective of Tom, who goes from ecstatic giddiness one moment, indulging in a fantasy song and dance sequence at one point, to crippling depression the next. It features two songs ("Us" and "Hero") by Regina Spektor, and "Sweet Disposition" by Melbourne-based band The Temper Trap.
PG13,1hr 35min
Genres: Comedy,Drama
Releases: July 17, 2009
Director: Marc Webb
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg ...more


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#571. Movie Buzz

1. Zookeeper adds more star power
Live-action funfest The Zookeeper from MGM Films has added more star power to its already formidable stable at hand, Dark Horizons reports.Adam Sandler, Cher, Jon Favreau, Sylvester Stallone and Judd Apatow will provide voices for the animals in the comedy.The film revolves around zoo animals trying to teach the keeper their methods of dating and mating to help him win back the woman of his dreams.Sandler, Cher, Favreau, Stallone and Apatow (who will voice a capuchin monkey, a giraffe, a bear, a lion and an elephant respectively) will join a stellar cast that already includes Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Jim Breuer, Faizon Love and Bas Rutten.Frank Coraci (Click, The Wedding Singer) is directing from a screenplay by Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Kevin James, Rock Reuben and Nick Bakay. Shooting is set to start later this summer.

2. Vacancy helmer to tackle Predators
Nimrod Antal, the Hungarian director who advertised a Vacancy to Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale in that 2007 horror-thriller, is set to direct the next Predator movie, entitled Predators.Latino Review reported that Antal was picked to direct what is hoped to be a franchise relaunch, scripted by relatively new writer Alex Litvak from a treatment by Robert Rodriguez. Yep, that Desperado and Sin City guy. Rodriguez is also producing the movie.Antal's next release will be Armored later this year. The action thriller starring Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne and Columbus Short is about an armoured truck security guard who is pressured by his colleagues into aiding and abetting them in a robbery of one of their own vehicles.

3. Fincher to film Facebook saga?
David Fincher (Se7en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) is in talks to direct the story of how social networking giant Facebook was founded.Variety reports that the director is in "advanced talks" with Columbia Pictures to film the Aaron Sorkin-scripted The Social Network.The movie will deal with Facebook's phenomenal growth from its humble 2004 beginnings when it was set up by Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg.The trade paper said the studio hopes to get the project going before the year is out.

4. Go Mutants! Those 50s' monsters and aliens are back
Although it won't be a sequel to the 1950s-inspired Monsters vs Aliens.We're talking Go Mutants!, which Universal has just optioned for a movie, from the upcoming novel by Larry Doyle (I Love You, Beth Coooper).According to Variety, the story is set in a world where many of the 1950s alien invasions and monster attacks were true! The children of these ETs and creatures have now somehow infiltrated human society and "blended in".Doyle told Variety the story will include appearances by such 1950s staples as Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.Oh yeah, if there was any doubt about the genre of Go Mutants!, it's a teen-level adventure comedy.

5. Don't say it, Hissss it
Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David, hasn't been in the limelight much since her cult movie directing debut Boxing Helena in 1993.Now, she's set to make her mark with a movie that looks visually striking, and at the same time pretty unsettling - if not downright disturbing.Hissss is the title of this fantasy/horror project currently in post-production. We've seen the trailer (check out the link below) and it looks pretty darn intriguing - not to mention gory and creepy.ShockTillYouDrop.com has the details, and Lynch told the site that "it's going to pretty outrageous."The movie stars Mallika Sherawat (we like it already!) as the Nagin, a legendary creature capable of turning from woman to snake.Slumdog Millionaire's brutal yet sympathetic police inspector Irrfan Khan is also in the movie.The trailer resembles not just a slick horror movie but in parts, it bears the look of one of those 70s/80s cannibal apocalypse movies.You know, the kind you insisted on watching in the cinema and then spent the next 20 years trying to burn the images out of your head.OK, we're sold, and we can't bloody wait.
Surfing: http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=10499

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#570. I Love You, Beth Cooper [2009]

Released Date : July 10th, 2009
Directed by : Chris Columbus
Writed by : Larry Doyle
Starring : Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, Jack Carpenter, Lauren Storm, Lauren London
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Official site : iloveyoubethcoopermovie.com
Based on Larry Doyle's novel, this follows the story of a nerdy valedictorian (Rust) who proclaims his love for the hottest cheerleader in school during his graduation speech. Much to his surprise, the ridiculously popular cheerleader (Panettiere) shows up at his door that very night and decides to show him the best night of his life.
This Film premieres in July 10th, 2009.Users can start reviewing this Film on July 5th, 2009


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#569. Movie Buzz

1. You can run, but you can't hide in Zombieland
Sony Pictures has just put out the trailer for its upcoming horror comedy Zombieland, due out in October (check it out at the link below).The movie stars Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg as two survivors of a zombie apocalypse who now travel the ravaged countryside trying to stay alive and kick as much undead @$$ as possible.Also appearing in this one are Amber Heard, Abigail Breslin and Bill Murray. Sounds like juicy fun? Check out the "Zombie Kill of the Week" Contest!
Surfing: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/zombieland/

2. Brody, Whitaker and Wood re-enact Das Experiment
Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker and Elijah Wood are set to star in the remake of the German thriller Das Experiment, Variety reports.The remake will be directed by Paul Scheuring (creator of Prison Break) from an adapted screenplay which he wrote.The original, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, was about a group of average guys recruited to be prison guards AND prisoners in an experiment to see how the "guinea pigs" are affected by power, roles and control.Brody will play the prisoner "leader" while Whitaker is a guard whose assigned power corrupts him.Filming is set to begin in July.

3. Heard and Panabaker check into Carpenter's Ward
Amber Heard (The Stepfather) and Danielle Panabaker (the Friday the 13th remake) have checked in to horror maestro John Carpenter's The Ward, now in pre-production for a 2010 release.The Hollywood Reporter says Heard will play a new patient at a psychiatric ward who encounters a mysterious girl haunting its corridors at night.Panabaker will play one of her fellow patients, a snobbish sort whose escapades have made her a prime candidate for electroshock therapy.This is Carpenter's first film since 2001's Ghosts of Mars and his first directing work since a 2006 episode of Masters of Horror.

4. We ... belong ... remade: a new Bride of Frankenstein is coming
Universal is developing a remake of a classic from its, er, classic movie monster era - The Bride of Frankenstein.The Risky Biz Blog reports that the studio is working with Imagine on the project, which will be directed and co-written by Neil Burger (The Illusionist - yeah, that period piece where Ed Norton scammed Rufus Sewell).The original Bride starred Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester as the Monster and his Bride, and is best known for that classic moment when the former, heartbroken by the latter's revulsion of him, told her "We ... belong ... dead" right before she destroyed them both.

5. Michael Sheen to play Blofeld?
Michael Sheen (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) is in negotiations to play classic James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, The Guardian newspaper reports.While the rebooted 007 (Daniel Craig) has tangled with a shadowy organization known as Quantum in his first two outings, not much is known about the agency or its real leaders.If Blofeld is being considered as a choice of villain in what was originally said to be a trilogy, then it could well be that Quantum has replaced the old SPECTRE in the Bond Rogues' Gallery.In the earlier films, SPECTRE (SPecial Executor for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) was the big bad enemy agency, and Blofeld was its head.He finally showed his face in You Only Live Twice, where he was played by Donald Pleasence as a cultured, cat-loving gentleman with a monocle and a scar.Other actors who have played the role include Charles Gray and Telly Savalas. Blofeld was last seen being dropped down a factory chimney in the pre-credit sequence of For Your Eyes Only.Besides being a thorn in 007's side, Blofeld also murdered his wife Tracy (Diana Rigg) in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

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#568. Soul Power [2009]

Sparingly touched upon in 1996's Academy Award-winning When We Were Kings, the three-day, all-star Zaire '74 music festival that ran alongside Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's epic Rumble in the Jungle fight receives the spotlight treatment in Soul Power. Directed by Kings editor Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, this amiable if slight doc is culled from the hours of footage left out of its predecessor,and the results are unsurprisingly underwhelming, less because of the performances captured than because there's no substantive story to tell. Concocted by Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine (the latter heard, with stoned-red eyes, not-so-cryptically referring to an extra 32 pounds of luggage), and promoted by Don King, Zaire '74 brought together African-American and African artists on stage in Kinshasa, Africa, the underlying intent being to present and promote racial/cultural solidarity. Bill Withers, B.B. King, and headliner James Brown all espouse a desire to reconnect with their ancestral home, a sentiment frequently heard but rarely explored, given that Levy-Hinte relegates himself to using only footage shot at the event.

Soul Power spends its first half documenting the humdrum buildup to the show, which is dominated by canned press conferences, photo opportunities, and dull-as-dirt snippets of an investment firm representative mildly fretting over logistical non-issues. Once the legends hit the stage, the film finds a more comfortable groove, with Withers's mesmerizing rendition of "Hope She'll be Happier" and Brown's rollicking "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" proving two of the standouts. Still, there's little rhythm or depth to Levy-Hinte's affectionate portrait. The optimism felt, and returning-to-our-roots declarations made, by many of those involved are undercut by Brown's surprisingly candid admission that he will "not get liberated broke," as well as the unmentioned tyranny of concert benefactor, Zairian president Mobuto, whose giant portraits are seen looming above the city. Furthermore, while Brown is a magnetic figure, the sporadic appearances by Ali hopelessly unbalance the proceedings, his fiercely outspoken interviews providing the only morsels of substance and, consequently, throwing into sharp relief Zaire '74's status, in relation to Ali-Forman, as the occasion's second-stage.

Director(s): Jeffrey Levy-Hinte. Cast: Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Celia Cruz and the Fania All-Stars, B.B. King, Don King, Miriam Makeba, Bill Withers, The Spinners, and Stwart Levin. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics. Runtime: 93 min. Rating: PG-13.



Source : The Slant Magazine [http://www.slantmagazine.com]
by Nick Schager
Posted: May 3, 2009

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#567. Movie Buzz

1. Trek's regained fame is not pie in the sky
At least according to a nifty pie chart published on Sci Fi Wire (check out the link below).In a recent item, the sci-fi-themed news service cites several reasons why Star Trek is hot again - not the least of which is the fact that it's 2009's highest-grossing movie Stateside to date (at least until Transformers: ROTF opens).Among the reasons: It was featured in the MTV Movie Awards opening sketch (2%), it made it to the satirical "news" website The Onion (12%), President Obama loves it (15%) and most of all, because it's actually good (50%).Check it out ....
Surfing: http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/9-reasons-star-trek-is-no.php#more

2. Coming - a movie about online gambling
Paramount has picked up an untitled pitch from Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Rounders, Ocean's Thirteen) that takes place in the world of Costa Rica-based online casinos.Comingsoon.net says the film is reportedly to star Leonardo DiCaprio with his Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran as producer

3. Australia scribe to make directorial debut
Stuart Beattie, co-writer of Australia, will make his directorial debut with an adaptation of the young-adult SF novel Tomorrow, When the War Began, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Beattie also wrote the screenplay.Tomorrow is the first novel in a popular series of seven written by Australian John Marsden and published from 1994-1999.The Tomorrow Series, as it is known, details the insurgency efforts of a band of Aussie teenagers fighting off an enemy invasion and occupation of their homeland.The filmmakers plan to make a trilogy of features from the first three books and then, if they're successful, spin the next four off into a TV series.

4. Portman to headline Aronofsky's Black Swan
Natalie Portman is attached to play the lead in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, according to Comingsoon.net. It's a supernatural thriller set in the world of New York City ballet.Black Swan centres on a veteran ballerina (Portman) who finds herself locked in a competitive situation with a rival dancer, with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance.However it is unclear whether the rival is a supernatural apparition or if the protagonist is simply having delusions.

5. Jason Voorhees to romp in the snow?
Slaybells are ringing in Sequeltown. It'll be a Winter Slaughterland for Jason Voorhees with the Friday the 13th (remake) sequel if the producers have their way.Producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form told Movieweb they would like to have fun with the sequel and show audiences something never seen before, like Jason in the snow.
If things go well, they said, the sequel would be made in time for release on Aug 13, 2010 ... yes, it's a Friday.Still, if Jason doesn't throw at least ONE hard-packed snowball with razor blades, nails and barbed wire in it, we'll be asking for a refund.

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#566. I Hate Valentine's Day [2009]

My Big Fat Greek Wedding co-stars Nia Vardalos and John Corbett re-team for this romantic comedy about a carefree florist who falls for a charming restaurateur. Genevieve (Vardalos) loves romance, though she lives by a strict "five dates" rule. At the end of the fifth date, Genevieve typically calls the relationship off. So far, this method has worked like a charm, but when Genevieve meets Greg (Corbett) everything changes. At the end of their fifth date, Genevieve wants more. If she could only break from tradition long enough to realize she's fallen in love, perhaps she'll find out that some guys are worth keeping around.

Release Date: July 03, 2009
Director: Nia Vardalos
Cast: John Corbett, Nia Vardalos, Judah Friedlander, Zoe Kazan, Dan Finnerty, Anna Kuchma
Genre: Comedy | Romance


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#565. Movie Buzz

1. No live-action Akira from DiCaprio ... hooray, you say?
The proposed live-action version of Japanime phenomenon Akira from producer Leonardo DiCaprio has been scrapped, according to Bloody-Disgusting.com.The website, which broke the news of the planned remake almost two years ago, cited two sources as saying the project is dead following the departure of its director, Ruairi Robinson.This may be good news for fans, many of whom made no bones about their objection to the project.Not only was the action shifted from the futuristic "New Tokyo" to "New Manhattan", the remake also proposed to cast a Caucasian actor as Tetsuo.Good riddance to ill-advised notions, we say.

2. No World War Z for Foster just yet
Quantum of Solace director Marc Foster has deflated zombie fans' hopes for the moment with news that the script for World War Z has yet to be completed.According to a report on Dark Horizons, Foster told a Swiss website that the script is "far from realisation" so he is likely to begin work on another project, Disconnect, while waiting.WWZ, based on a "docudrama-type" novel by Max Brooks, tells of a worldwide zombie outbreak through the accounts of survivors and veterans of the war.
Disconnect is apparently a film about how people deal with new technology and the disruption it causes to interpersonal relationships. Hmmm ... sounds like another docudrama.

3. Roy Rogers rides again
He was the most popular Western star in Hollywood from 1943 to 1954 and made more than 80 movies with his longtime "co-stars", and now Roy Rogers may be reinvented for a new century.Nashville-based 821 Entertainment and the Roy Rogers Family Entertainment Corp are collaborating on a trilogy of movies with the "umbrella title" King of the Cowboys, according to Variety.The films will be a series of fantasy adventures featuring Rogers, his longtime leading lady Dale Evans and his horse Trigger.Rogers died in 1998. His legacy includes more than 100 episodes of his own TV show, an estimated 88 films with Evans and Trigger, and over 400 items of merchandise with his name and/or likeness on them.In his heyday, the Western icon also sold 120 million comic books!.No casting details have been announced yet.

4. Frost/Nixon writer joins Bond team
Peter Morgan, who wrote Frost/Nixon, The Queen and The Last King of Scotland, has been signed to the Bond 23 scripting team.He will join Bond writing veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade on scripting chores for the as-yet-untitled 007 movie, according to Variety.

5. Wolverine co-stars off to Mars
Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins, who played Gambit and Kayla respectively in the recent X-Men Origins: Wolverine, are set to star in John Carter of Mars.The Hollywood Reporter says Kitsch will play the title character in the adaptation of the tale by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.Carter is a Civil War veteran who finds himself transported to Mars and caught in a war between the two dominant factions.Collins will play Dejah Thoris, heiress to the throne of one of the warring kingdoms.Wall.e's Andrew Stanton will direct from a script he co-wrote. Filming is set to begin at the end of this year for Disney.

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#564. Critic Pick : The Decent 2 [2009]

The Descent 2 is an upcoming British horror film, a sequel to the critically acclaimed 2005 horror film The Descent. The film was shot in London and is currently awaiting release. The film is being produced by Christian Colson and co-produced by Paul Ritchie with Neil Marshall, the producer and director of the original, as executive producer.The sequel will continue the story of Sarah who, as the only known survivor of an all-female caving expedition gone horrifically wrong, suffers severe psychological trauma. She accompanies a rescue team back to the cave but events once again take a sinister turn.The Descent 2 picks up immediately after the events depicted in The Descent. Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) emerges alone from a cave system following an expedition with her five friends in the Appalachian mountains. Distraught, injured and covered in the blood of her missing companions, Sarah is incoherent and half-wild with fear. Skeptical about her account of events and convinced Sarah's psychosis hides far darker secrets, Sheriff Vaines forces her back into the caves to help locate the rest of the group. Trapped by falling rocks, the rescue party is driven deep into the caverns, and as one by one the fate of the missing girls is revealed. Sarah struggles to stay alive and once again encounters the evil in the deep.



Genre : Horror
Directed by : Jon Harris
Written by : James Watkins
Starring : Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza
Music by : David Julyan
Cinematography : Sam McCurdy
Editing by : Jon Harris
Release date : September 11, 2009 (US)

Viewed at the Marche du Film, Festival de Cannes 2009
Picking up almost immediately where The Descent left off, the bloodstained Sarah has made it out the cave system, is taken to hospital and then back into the caves as an unwilling member of a rescue party to find her missing friends.If you saw the first film, then you know what happens in this one. If you know the horror genre, then you know who will get offed, too. None of which matters a hoot, because familiarity breeds respect and cast, director and writers, deliver exactly what viewers want. There are the crawlers, lots of blood, some nicely delivered shocks, plenty of gnarly special effects and women getting down, dirty and deadly with climbing axes, bare hands and lumps of rock.

Because all concerned have resisted the urge to widen the story, introduce new things for the heck of it (such as, I dunno, flying crawlers), The Descent: Part 2 is actually much stronger than is usually the case for sequels.A left-field twist right at the end could be a set up for part 3, but it's hard to tell. While it didn't come as a surprise (those horror genres again), it did feel a bit tacked-on. But that's a very minor quibble and does nothing to detract from what is a great piece of horror entertainment and a worthy successor to its predecessor.[reviewed by Simonster, Berlin Germany - May 13, 2009]

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#563. Critic Pick : Who Killed Nancy ? [2009]

On October 12th 1978 Nancy Spungeon, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper and heroin addict, was found dead in a bathroom at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. She also happened to be the girlfriend of the Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious, who was quickly accused of her murder. Less than 6 months later, he died of a heroin overdose and the case was closed.The death of Sid and Nancy has passed into rock legend and has only added to the controversial and notorious image of the Sex Pistols and punk music.At the request of Sid's mother, who committed suicide in 1996, rock author and punk expert Alan Parker has devoted himself to discovering WHO KILLED NANCY? By interviewing 182 people and re-examining NYPD evidence, he investigates what really happened that night in room 100.



Elevated to iconic status since his premature death in 1979, the long dormant story of Sid Vicious has been given one final twist by director (and Vicious biographer) Alan G. Parker. He ascertains that Vicious never stabbed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, to death in a New York hotel room the year before. It’s a shame that the film hangs so heavily on its flimsy denouement (the real killer may or may not be revealed in the final reel!), as it’s captivating enough when it plays as a snapshot of downtown Manhattan at the fag end of the ’70s. Spungen and Sid are hopelessly tragic, while the cast of talking heads have turned sepia with time.For an exposé very little is actually revealed, but as a neon-lit trawl through '70s New York, it's worth a look.

Director: Alan G. Parker
Genre: History, Documentary
Movie Type: Law & Crime, Music History
Themes: Musician's Life, Murder Investigations
Main Cast: Steve Connolly, John Holmstrom, Don Letts, Steve English, Kris Needs
Released Date : February 6th 2009 [UK]
Official site - www.whokillednancy.com

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#562. Critic Pick : Tetro [2009]

It is tempting to see Francis Ford Coppola’s latest work — “Tetro,” a visually lush cinematic fugue about love, ambivalence and two brothers fleeing the dark shadow of their domineering father, a world-famous conductor — through the lens of autobiography. But like much of this movie, the lens appears clouded. Mr. Coppola’s father, Carmine, who died in 1991, was a rather less celebrated musician, best known for some of the scores for his youngest son’s films, including “The Godfather: Part II” and “Apocalypse Now.” Then again, the ravenous, larger-than-life patriarch in “Tetro” could also be a self-portrait of the director.Certainly the intense passions between brothers is a theme that Mr. Coppola has visited before, in the first two “Godfather” movies, with their instances of symbolic and literal fratricide, and in the autobiographically inflected “Rumble Fish,” which he dedicated to his older brother, August. “Tetro” largely turns on the relationship between a 17-year-old, Bennie (the fine newcomer Alden Ehrenreich), and his much older brother, the anguished title character (Vincent Gallo, decoratively sullen), a cosmopolitan type who’s fled his homeland (fatherland) for an old-fashioned bohemian existence in Buenos Aires marked by late mornings, café idylls, colorful characters and erotic pleasures. These latter needs seem mainly provided by his live-in lover, Miranda (Maribel Verdú), a vague, warm presence who embodies the sensual and the maternal.

Bennie stumbles into Tetro’s world as if into a dream, one Mr. Coppola has summoned up with great visual beauty. The movie was shot in widescreen in lustrous black-and-white digital video with bursts of color by Mihai Malaimare Jr., the cinematographer for Mr. Coppola’s previous feature, “Youth Without Youth.” (“Rumble Fish” was also shot in black and white with splashes of color.) Mr. Coppola has cited Elia Kazan’s films like “On the Waterfront” as one inspiration for his new movie’s striking, high-contrast visuals, an influence that also reverberates in the brooding tensions between the brothers who at times bring to mind those in Kazan’s “East of Eden.” While shooting “The Godfather,” it seems worth mentioning, Mr. Coppola had nightmares that he was going to be replaced by Kazan.

The Oedipal angle in “Tetro” kicks in as soon as Bennie enters Tetro’s apartment, where an image of Robert Mitchum from “The Night of the Hunter” — the words love and hate tattooed on his hands — glowers down from a wall. The family theme echoes even here; in that eccentric 1955 classic, Mitchum plays a preacher who tracks the two children of a woman he’s married and murdered. The patriarchal damage in Mr. Coppola’s movie is somewhat subtler, the work of a man, Carlo Tetrocini (Klaus Maria Brandauer), who has crippled the dreams of his own brother, another composer (Mr. Brandauer, heavily disguised), and the sanity of his older son. Tetro may have renounced his father, but he can’t shake him in spirit or name.

And so, much like Mr. Coppola’s own filmmaking past, the old man looms. Hollywood haunts “Tetro” just as Carlo haunts his sons. Eschewing the inexorable forward thrust of most contemporary studio products, Mr. Coppola, working from his own screenplay — his first original one since “The Conversation” in 1974 — drifts and circles around his themes much as Bennie and Tetro amble around town. Tetro, we discover, is a genius or would be if he ever completed his work, an aside that’s funny and tragic though it’s unclear if it’s meant to be both. One of the many themes that surfaces, elliptically if stubbornly, is the pressure family exerts on genius or maybe vice versa, a topic that’s imprinted on the Coppola Family Saga.

A story of sorts emerges, though mostly what rises to the fore are moods and feelings and the heavy silences that drive wedges among even the closest of intimates. The sense of heaviness is partly due to the dark imagery as well as the intentionally artificial, somewhat leaden sound work by Walter Murch, Mr. Coppola’s longtime editor and sound guru. Resolutely nonrealistic — or, rather, nongeneric Hollywood — the audio adds greatly to the movie’s unreality, to the sense that we’re watching (experiencing) someone else’s dream or nightmare. Every word of dialogue and chair scrape sounds as if it had been separately recorded and the usual atmospheric noise — the ambient filler that gives movies their spark of artificial life — has gone provocatively missing.

Life meets art meets family meets film in “Tetro,” sometimes powerfully, sometimes obscurely. Filled with incidents (a well-timed broken leg, a production of “Faust”) and diversions (a powerful critic named Alone played with an inscrutable smile by Carmen Maura) and a few glorious peeks at the soaring Patagonian mountains, the movie finds Mr. Coppola stretching beyond the mainstream conventions that have alternately liberated and constrained him for more than four decades of filmmaking. As with “Youth Without Youth,” this new movie feels like a transitional work but also an inspired one, the creation of a director who, having recently turned 70, has set off on a new adventure that requires more from his audiences than some might be willing to give. Which is itself a sign of vigorous artistic renewal.

TETRO

Opens on Thursday in Manhattan.

Written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola; director of photography, Mihai Malaimare Jr.; edited by Walter Murch; music by Osvaldo Golijov; production designer, Sebastián Orgambide. At the Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema, 139-143 East Houston Street, East Village. Running time: 2 hours 7 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: Vincent Gallo (Tetro), Alden Ehrenreich (Bennie), Maribel Verdú (Miranda), Klaus Maria Brandauer (Carlo Tetrocini), Carmen Maura (Alone), Rodrigo de la Serna (José), Leticia Brédice (Josefina) and Mike Amigorena (Aberlardo).

Source : NYT
Son and The Father Who Made Them
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: June 11, 2009

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