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Jean-Claude Van Damme will be in 'Hard Target'

Hard Target was John Woo’s first foray into the world of Hollywood movies. John woo is one of the favorite directors of many fans and hard target is such a guilty pleasure so much classic lines in those scripts. A project like this will hold up pretty well.

The best and fair 2014 Oscar Academy Awards

By GalaTView Staff

Photos by: Alfonso De Elias

With a great taste of comedy and jokes from Ellen Degeneres and the winners who shared many emotions, tears, joy, this event was full of surprises and GalaTView has the best moments of this event and the list of winners.

Best picture

WINNER: 12 Years a Slave.

Nominees: American Hustle; Captain Phillips; Dallas Buyers Club; Gravity; Her; Nebraska; Philomena; The Wolf of Wall Street; 12 Years a Slave

Best actor

WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Nominees: Christian Bale, American Hustle; Bruce Dern, Nebraska; Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street; Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club; Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Best actress

WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Nominees: Amy Adams, American Hustle; Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine; Sandra Bullock, Gravity; Judi Dench, Philomena; Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best supporting actor

WINNER: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Nominees: Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips; Bradley Cooper, American Hustle; Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave; Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street; Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best supporting actress

Winner: Lupita Nyong’o, 2 Years a Slave

Nominees: Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine; Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle; Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave; Julia Roberts, August: Osage County; June Squibb, Nebraska

Best Achievement director

Winner: Alfonso Cuaron

Nominees: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity; Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave; Alexander Payne, Nebraska; David O. Russell, American Hustle; Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best animated feature film

WINNER: Frozen

Nominees: The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium; The Great Beauty, Italy; The Hunt, Denmark; The Missing Picture, Cambodia; Omar, Palestine

Best original screenplay

WINNER: Her, Spike Jonze

Nominees: American Hustle, Eric Singer and David O. Russell; Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen; Dallas Buyers Club, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack; Her, Spike Jonze; Nebraska, Bob Nelson

Best adapted screenplay

WINNER: John Ridley; The Wolf of Wall Street

Nominees: Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke; Captain Phillips, Billy Ray; Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope; 12 Years a Slave, John Ridley; The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter

Best original score

WINNER: Gravity

Nominees: The Book Thief; Gravity; Her; Philomena; Saving Mr. Banks

Best original song

WINNER: Let It Go, from Frozen

Nominees: Alone Yet Not Alone, from Alone Yet Not Alone; Happy, from Despicable Me 2; Let It Go, from Frozen; The Moon Song, from Her; Ordinary Love, from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Best cinematography

Winner: Gravity

Nominees: The Grandmaster; Gravity; Inside Llewyn Davis; Nebraska; Prisoners

Emmanuel luvensky: “Quiero agradecer al elenco de la película, y todo el equipo de amigos que hicieron possible esto asi como a Warner Brother por su apoyo y a su familia asi como a mis maestros.”

Best costume design

WINNER: The Great Gatsby

Nominees: American Hustle; The Grandmaster; The Great Gatsby; The Invisible Woman; 12 Years a Slave

Best documentary feature

WINNER: 20 Feet From Stardom

Nominees: The Act of Killing; Cutie and the Boxer; Dirty Wars; The Square; 20 Feet From Stardom

Best documentary short subject

WINNER: The Lady in Number 6

Nominees: CaveDigger; Facing Fear; Karama Has No Walls; The Lady in Number 6; Music Saved My Life; Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Best film editing

Winner: Gravity

Nominees: American Hustle; Captain Phillips; Dallas Buyers Club; Gravity; 12 Years a Slave

Best makeup and hairstyling

WINNER: Dallas Buyers Club

Nominees: Dallas Buyers Club; Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa; The Lone Ranger

Best production design

WINNER: The Great Gatsby

Nominees: American Hustle; Gravity; The Great Gatsby; Her; 12 Years a Slave

Best animated short film

WINNER: Mr. Hublot

Nominees: Feral; Get a Horse!; Mr. Hublot; Possessions; Room on the Broom

Best live-action short film

WINNER: Helium

Nominees: Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me); Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything); Helium; Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?); The Voorman Problem

Best sound editing

WINNER: Gravity

Nominees: All Is Lost; Captain Phillips; Gravity; The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Lone Survivor

Best sound mixing

WINNER: Gravity

Nominees: Captain Phillips; Gravity; The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Inside Llewyn Davis; Lone Survivor

Best visual effects

WINNER: Gravity

Nominees: Gravity; The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Iron Man 3; The Lone Ranger; Star Trek Into Darkness.

”In Secret” will be a thriller with betrayal and lust

Review by Alfonso De Elias

Photo Courtesy Roadside Attractions

Based on Émile Zola’s scandalous novel, Thérèse Raquin, IN SECRET is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris. Therese (Elizabeth Olsen of “Martha Marcy May Marlene”), a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton of the “Harry Potter” franchise), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (two-time Academy Award winner Jessica Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame plays dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring childhood friend, Laurent (Oscar Isaac of “Inside Llewyn Davis”), she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences

From the Director Charlie Stratton and a well structured modern adaptation full of impact consequences of the characters actions. It has moral and murderous path and the landscapes are full of visibility and colors of nature, the photography has good contrasts of light fixture. Music is really deep that comes from a classical orchestra of the time. Only this marriage doesn’t contain any love between the main characters. So love is secretly ‘in-love-couple’ and a plan against one of the involved characters will be a disastrous.

Huge Jackman will dance with his talent

Galatview Staff

Photo: Courtesy

Huge Jackman announced on social media that he would host the Tony Awards show 2014 for the first time since 2005. Is going to be the one of the most exciting performances of the Australian actor.

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.

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.

Michael Douglas was chosen for an important role in Walt Disney

By GalaTView Staff

Michael Douglas will play scientist Hank Pym in 2015’s Ant-Man, Walt Disney has found him capable of setting just the right tone as the main character. This important actor will have the chops to play drama but do equally well handling funny situations. Many fans of this actor won’t be disappointed with this right decision.

The Rocket makes the impossible is possible

Review by Jenny Alvarez

The Rocket is set in contemporary Laos and tells the story of a boy named Ahlo (beautifully played by Sitthiphon Disamoe) who is believed to be a bearer of bad luck. Eventually, he is blamed for a string of disasters that kill his mother and deeply affect his community.

When his family loses their home and is forced to move, Ahlo meets the spirited orphan Kia and her eccentric uncle Purple: an ex-soldier with a purple suit, a rice-wine habit and an unbridled love for James Brown.

Struggling to hang onto his father’s trust, Ahlo leads his family, as well as Purple and Kia, through a land scarred by war — in search of a new home.

In a last plea to prove he’s not cursed, and to earn a living for his family, Ahlo builds a giant rocket to enter the most lucrative (but dangerous) competition of the year: The Rocket Festival. The cast led by two superb child actors with a lovely sense of texture of a culture full of traditions and new life experiences. The most beautiful scene was when the little boy builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival but he had to face many obstacles but show us that the dedication, effort and perseverance are important keys to achieving our goals. His father was skeptical and the joy came to their lives with a great surprise and triumph of Ahlo. This film is full of beautiful landscapes and many elements compensate for its predictability.