Archive for January 2014
Super Bowl halftime shows will be full of surprises
By GalaTView Staff
Bruno Mars will perform Sunday during the Super Bowl halftime show, accompanied by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fleming will warm up the crowd with patriotic opera.For roughly 15 minutes on Sunday night, all these talented artists will have a surprise in each of their performances.
You will enjoy an especial day At Middleton
By Jenny Alvarez
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Academy Award® nominees Andy Garcia (Ocean’s 11, City Island) and Vera Farmiga (A&E’s “Bates Motel”, Up in the Air) star as straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers who meet on their children’s campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever. Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”), Spencer Lofranco (Jamesy Boy), Peter Riegert (“Dads”), and Tom Skerritt (“Picket Fences”) also star in this story about what can happen on your first day of college.
Definitely this movie has a good eye for visual composition. Both characters make the fictive Middleton in a very pleasant place in which timelessness of youth is a great element in this story. Although there are some depressing facts of life in George and Edith, together are perfectly counterbalanced with humor and heart, with good feelings and celebrates all the different life stages full of hope and new phases. In few words you have to live one but with happiness and less fatalities.
During a press conference Andy Garcia (George) said: “I have been working with Arturo Sandoval since many years ago and his music was great when he came to help us for this movie and I didn’t play anything for the movie, he did everything with different instruments such as sax, piano, he is a genius.”
Vera Farmiga (Edith):”I worked with my sister, she has 21 years old between us and she actually has not preparation for this but I want her for this role and Andy asked me for any suggestions for Taissa’s role and she got a lot of attention in her career and the results of her performance in the film were that she took a risk and definitely she is my baby sister but I understand that her whole name confuses and most of you think that she is my daughter and I’m very motherly certainly and is very relevant that she is capable and has certain motion and charming for this role and she got it for her talent because she is a fine actress. My role was excited with her behave and she was turning 18 with a real growing even flirty with George.”
Fruitvale Station: A realistic and touching film
By Jenny Alvarez
Filmmaker Ryan Coogler makes his feature directorial debut with this drama centered on the tragic shooting of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a vibrant 22-year-old Bay Area father who was senselessly gunned down by BART officers on New Year’s Day in 2009, and whose murder sent shockwaves through the nation after being captured on camera by his fellow passengers. Produced by Academy Award® Winner Forest Whitaker*, Fruitvale Station co-stars Academy Award® winner Octavia Spencer**, Melonie Diaz, and Kevin Durand. An emotionally exploitative in which trust and confidence of many communities and customers deserve a good police force and empowered but in this film an unfair death dramatize Grant’s life during the 24 hours period leading up to his death proves to be more realistic than putting up a documentary that salvages the details. “Fruitvale Station” is “based on a true story” historical dramas that, as narrative fiction, imagine and invent dialogue, details and demeanors of “real” people being portrayed by talented actors. In 85 minutes you will enjoy remarkable performances by Octavia Spencer and Melonie Diaz, and there’s no way we will forget about this film and Oscar die so many times adding many emotions with this fact with a thinkable movie. Now is available in DVD and Blu-ray in English and Spanish languages.
20 Feet From Stardom is full of hope and inspiration
Review by Jenny Alvarez
The award-winning film, director Morgan Neville shines the spotlight on the untold stories of such legendary background singers. This documentary tells during 91 minutes stories of Lisa Fischer, Merry Clayton, and the great Darlene Love, you can bliss out on their passion. These are the triumphs and heartbreaks of music’s greatest unsung talents, featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage, vintage live performances, and interviews with superstars Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder and Bette Midler. The film features rare archival footage of musical legends Ray Charles, Michael Jackson and Luther Vandross.
You will remember some of rock’s most memorable songs in a DVD and Blu-Ray™ including special features as deleted scenes, with English and Spanish languages with subtitles. You also will enjoy this film as a special gift for music fans.
The Prince of the entertainment industry: Justin Bieber's case
By GalaTView Staff
A petition on the White House website calling for the deportation of the Canadian-born teen idol had garnered 103,000 names — easily surpassing the threshold of 100,000 signatures required for presidential consideration.He has been breaking laws right and left. He has made the lives of his neighbors miserable, he has endangered countless people on American roads and yet he doesn’t seem to care.However many fans think this famous singer deserves another opportunity.
Mötley Crüe announces their last performance
Mötley Crüe is hanging it up after three hard-rocking decades but now the band — Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx andTommy Lee — helped put the hair in metal and the glam in rock. In the 33 years they’ve been together, they’ve been to prison. It’s really sad for many of their fans.
Last Vegas will be your last gambling chance
Review by Jenny Alvarez
Photo: Agency
A classical Hangover of a group of mature actors who make a movie full of surprisingly funny and enjoyable scenes and each character that demonstrates their lifetime’s experience. Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline and an entirely captivating Mary Steenburgen — imparting pleasure who are the best friends since childhood. All of them with different personalities so when Billy, the group’s sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something (of course) girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. In this case their friendship will be tested with different funny, unreality and good laugh facts. Obviously Las Vegas, attempts something more raucous in a special movie which the whole story and plot make it fun and enjoyable. Now is available in Blu-ray Combo pack and DVD with audio and subtitles in English and Spanish subtitles. Two thumbs up for this movie that needs to be part of your home collection.
Tom Hanks makes an unforgettable film with Captain Phillips
Review by Jenny Alvarez
Photo: Agency
It is a movie made with a true-life action where not only a riveting drama about quiet heroism but is a man who does extraordinary things in the face of death. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama’s commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips, and the Somali pirate captain, Muse, who takes him hostage. Phillips and Muse are set on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips’ unarmed ship; in the ensuing standoff, 145 miles off the Somali coast, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control. Many things make to some characters face twisted “Stayin’ Alive” facts and some dialogues will make you angry and hurt your brain so the director Paul Greengrass is unique due the way he employs all the scenes and his method is as expressive as the style of a superb novelist. All the actors transform in a pirate film in something full of intrigue and despair by Captain Phillips. Now is available in Blu-ray Combo pack and DVD with audio and subtitles in English, French and Spanish subtitles. Two thumbs up for this movie that needs to be part of your home collection.
Paul McCartney rocked at the Grammys
By GalaTView Staff
Paul McCartney has won every GRAMMY (The GRAMMYs) for which he was nominated at the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards. ‘Live Kisses’ Won as the Best Surround Sound Album & Best Music Film
“Cut Me Some Slack,” Paul’s collaboration with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear from the ‘Sound City: Real To Reel’ soundtrack LP took Best Rock Song during the live telecast, with all four on hand to accept the award.
Ariana Grande defends to Justin Bieber as a good friend
By GalaTView staff
Justin Bieber has let fame and fortune get to his head; without direction this fact can be a curse. Now Ariana Grande is revealing her concern for good friend Justin Bieber following his DUI arrest saying that ‘he is the most visible and isolated human being I’ve ever met and there are days like today remind us how much more compassion, understanding and tolerance we need to have for one another.. less judgement and critique.’
