MOVIES

Mirror Mirror, steals the spotlight away from the hero

By Jenny Alvarez

Photos By Alfonso de Elias.

One of the most beloved stories of all time is coming on March 30^th for the whole family, Mirror Mirror.  A fresh and funny retelling of the Snow White legend, Mirror Mirror features breakout star Lily Collins (The Blind Side) as Snow White, a princess in exile, and Oscar®-winner Julia Roberts as the evil Queen who ruthlessly rules her captured kingdom. Seven courageous rebel dwarfs join forces with Snow White as she fights to reclaim her birthright and win her Prince in this magical comedy filled with jealousy, romance, and betrayal that will capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences the world over.  The film also stars Armie Hammer (The Social Network) as the Prince, and Nathan Lane (The Birdcage) as the hapless and bungling servant to the Queen.

The Queen in this new version of the classic Snow White story. The script -credited to Marc Klein and Jason Keller -delivers a merry kid-level corrective to Disney, and while parents will have been there and done that, the verbal wit and Tarsem’s visual invention make “Mirror Mirror” entirely tolerable. Even so, if you are willing to overcome your disbelief in the end, the greater part of this movie is not half as bad. Especially  because the story appears to have been scripted with a lot of focus on Julia’s  character. It’s almost as if this version was written by the evil queen herself.

The "Bully" Movie Controversy

The movie “Bully” is a documentary that focuses on children bullying one another. It is a film to raise awareness on the issue and show the perspective of being the victim. The F-word is heard in the film and some movie critics say the film should be rated-R, because of use of the foul language. But, if the film is rated-R, then this would not allow kids to see the film. Especially it is made to target these middle school and high school students. The movie company wants to “bleep” out the F-words to make it rated-PG 13, allowing kids to go see the film without a parental guardian. However, the producers prefer to keep the F-words to make a stronger impact on the viewers. F-word or no F-word we can all agree that “Bullying” is not Fun.

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Wrath becomes a pleasure with powerful Titans

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Wrath of Titans is a movie full of action and begins with a battle between the Titans and the gods continues in this sequel set ten years after the events in Clash of the Titans, as Perseus (Sam Worthington) descends into the underworld on a mission to rescue Zeus from the clutches of Hades (Ralph Fiennes), Ares (Edgar Ramirez), and Kronos. In the wake of his decisive victory against the Kraken, Perseus has retreated to a remote fishing village to raise his young son, Helius. Meanwhile, humanity has lost faith in the gods.

This movie has decent visual effects and Liam Neeson gives up on the dull dialogue and simply let the action do the talking. Director Jonathan Liebesman (World Invasion: Battle LA) deserves credit for the well choreographed fight sequences that make good use of both sound and visual effects. As for the action sequences, the focus is generally on Perseus’ attempts at survival, so some of the cutting is a bit too close and tight for my tastes.  However, the larger the opponent, the wider Liebesman shoots and the longer he holds each shot that many scenes like these were replete with loud, blaring battles and glum so in few words is an entertaining movie that deserves two thumbs up and will be distributed in many movie IMAX 3D on March 30.^th

The new gossip girl in Damsels in Distress

By Jenny Alvarez

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Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university – the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore) and is open to the theaters in April 6^th. They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students. Although is a hilarious and bizarre movie it has some break out actors Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen). In some parts of the plot some actors look bored out of their minds and is a little bit disappointing that these people do not exist in real life and I really wish it. They pass the time engaged in empathetic student outreach activity which seems only to serve their own inflated sense of moral superiority. For example, the girls are seen alternating shifts at the campus Suicide Prevention Center where they expend more energies looking down their navels and policing the centre’s free donuts than, you know, preventing suicide.

Calling all fashionistas, Jane is back again!

By Jenny Alvarez

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We’ve got awesome news for you. You can now buy the Jane By Design DVD and you can get it on March 20, 2012.  Yes, that’s right. Re-live all the high drama, high school and high heels through the eyes of Jane Quimby.

Fans are going to see again Titanic in 3D

By GalaTView staff

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Fans the world over rushed the web in the last 24-hours – crashing multiple servers in the process – to secure advance tickets for the now sold-out February 14th preview screenings of Titanic in 3D, will be newly re-mastered in advance of the film’s worldwide release on April 6th.

These special fan screening are being presented exclusively in RealD 3D and will be held in the following cities: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Dallas, Boston, Phoenix, Seattle, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, San Diego, Denver, Sacramento, Orlando, Tampa, Minneapolis, Montreal, Vancouver, Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Portland, Kansas City, West Palm Beach, Raleigh, San Antonio, Hartford, Charlotte, San Antonio, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Austin, Edmonton, Milwaukee, Norfolk, Grand Rapids, Calgary, Columbus, Fresno, Ottawa, Cincinnati, Nashville, Indianapolis, Jacksonville and Oklahoma City. Internationally, these special one-time only preview screenings will take place in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan and the UK.

The re-release of Titanic also coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Titanic setting sail on April 10, 1912. Written, directed and produced by James Cameron, this movie is the second highest grossing movie of all time. It is one of only three films to have received a record 11 Academy Awards® including Best Picture and Best Director; and launched the careers of stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

The Games begins today only with one winner

By GalaTView staff

Photos By: Alfonso de Elías.

GalaTView talked to Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss): “My career sees a pattern and I don’t know what else to do. My character was already in my mind and nobody has seen her before so most people already had created pictures and idea of what your character is. When I read and how understood her in my perception about my understanding what I’m preparing her in the movie. My defense is like Justin Timberlake sings, one girls was painted but it was never on me and the guys over signed  me  and I said in between and Liam and Josh  started to say  something in Australian accent because somebody passed out and where I was barely have a chance to pronounce my name. I had training in running, triathlon, art climb, combat and yoga. Mentally I had many dreams about  100% were involved and I like to stay in a good shape doing something mainly with cardio exercises. At the top on my characters’ dialog has been described in the book but even you read it is different. Our director was genius when we filmed in an open area because is harder doing in a studio. The adapters of this film were amazing and sometimes I had some complications in my emotions in the cameras but I could solve them because we always trusted on the director.”

Josh Hutcherson (Peeta):“I think that Peeta is more unspoken intention we had whipping and shoot each other and it was an awesome experience and technically and physically, I had to prepare myself in a good way with fiber, protein and the training of each other. For some dialogues in the book do not the same it has popular understand so the audience will notice some changes. In some scenes most of us took very serious some instructions about film. When you are hearing games you can make jokes but not we were more serious, especially when he becomes skillful in hiking and had love in the story so that was a good motivation. So I had to understand his kindness through his mother and find a way ho was going to work out in the movie in the exposition of the dialog.”

Is Jeff who lives at home or who else?

By GalaTView Staff

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One of the most entertaining, laugh-out-loud funny, and unexpectedly touching efforts to come dispatched from his basement room on an errand Jeff, who lives at home; his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife. What will happen after of these issues? This film is scheduled to be released in American theaters on March 16, 2012 and in interview with GalaTView the main actors talked about their main characters.

SUSAN SARANDON (Sharon):  “I think that the biggest mistakes are in comedies.  I mean, you can be mediocre in a drama or who-done-it or whatever, but when a comedy is bad, ooh, that’s so bad. When you’re just trying to do what your job is in the scene and the more out of control because they set it up so well that you don’t have to come up with clever lines.  If you’re just in character and you … I think the thing that was so great was how comfortable an atmosphere these guys make, and how safe you feel so that you can take chances and make big mistakes.  Then, you know, get on track again and you know that they’ve got your back, and that they’re watching and they’ll take care of you.  So you just have to fulfill your job in the scene within character and not try to be funny or get attention or whatever.  You just have to be there and hope that it works.  Sometimes they’re really good at improvising, all these guys.  I mean there are actors who forget what the point of the scene was, and you like go off somewhere.  That’s happened to me a number of times where someone says to me, “I thought we were supposed to get to this?”  And they’re down in some other world, and so everybody can’t do it.  You know, it’s not a talent that everybody has, but there are like experts.

Well, I don’t think we’ve done a lot of takes because once it rained you couldn’t really go back.  It wasn’t that kind of movie where they were going to take another day and dry everything out.  But I felt like it was much more romantic with the rain coming down except the fact that there was something in the water that was really stinging my eyes.  So I didn’t know where that water was coming from, but it wasn’t rain water.  Maybe but it was a little bit, it was hurting. So it wasn’t as romantic as it felt initially before my eyes started to burn.  But I think it added.  I mean I loved gathering everything and then having it.  It really moved me emotionally.  I felt like I was being baptized or something that one take that we got when I stood up, and see everybody going away.

Then you have a feeling of accomplishment rather than going home and thinking, “God, I couldn’t really … ”  But when you just give it  and then you’re done.  Then you can go home and say, “Okay, there is something that went on there that they should be able to use.  You know, that’s cool.”  And that’s the joy of working with people that you really respect. “

JASON SEGEL (Jeff):  “I’m a giant fan, and I just remember a period in my life when I was out of work, and I was sitting there waiting for someone to cast me.  And it very much was like Jeff.  You know, the sign that I’m supposed to be an actor is getting cast and 21 to 25 was a crazy out-of-work period.  It was before I really starting writing hard.  And I remember very much just sitting there thinking like I’m going to wait for the sign that I’m worthy of being an actor.  My goal was to bring the Muppets back, and I think that I achieved that.  It was half a decade of my life, and I just want to take a minute to concentrate on more human related projects.  I was just born hilarious, but beyond that this movie was a no-brainer for me.  I read the script and it was just very clear what my job was, and it was to show up and be regular.  And I think everyone probably would agree it was just so well written.  There was no need to like talk about what the character’s motivation was or anything like that.  It was nice work.  So that’s what I mean, born hilarious.  You know, I mean I knew what my job was and it was just to show up and do what they had written. So I didn’t try to bring any funny bones to it.  It’s funny because I guess like by nature we’re a little bit funny, but the goal was just to be honest on this one. We thought that day was a little subtle and wouldn’t read, so we amped it up for Jeff who was at home with it.

To me I don’t like it when I see somebody trying to be funny.  To me the whole goal whether it’s comedy or drama is just being natural, like being really irregular.  That’s my goal. If it ends up being funny, it’s because we happen to be funny by nature.  But I don’t know.  The goal for me the whole time was just to be really regular.   I didn’t think about if it was a dramatic scene or a comedic scene.  I think both.

Our job like when we worked with these guys was to show up and really understand what the scenes were about and what the point of them was, and then just be completely open to whatever was going to happen.  You know, the only preparation you had to do was really understand what the point of what you were doing was.   And then beyond that you had to be ready to just be like painfully honest.”

JUDY GREER (Linda): “It felt really seamless to make this movie because we always were, I felt like every time we were on set we were always acting like there wasn’t a lot of down time or the cameras were always rolling.  I mean obviously I can tell them apart, but it wasn’t like one experience was different. I mean I had some really emotional moments with Ed, and that was really fun.  And then I’ve always liked Jason, and he’s funny.  I’m learning other than just speaking. But it was really working with both of them felt really comfortable.  They both have a similar energy, and sense of humor and I came there a few days after they had already met, and like the bonding between them was so obvious already.  I don’t know if you guys knew each other well beforehand, but they seemed like immediately to me like brothers. If you don’t have lines in the scene that you’re shooting that day like you’ll probably up talking a lot.  I remember one day I was like, “Oh, it’s that scene where I’m just having dinner with Steve in the restaurant and I’m just in the background.”  And we ended up like having the whole conversation that you can hear.  It’s fun, though, because you just go to work ready to work every day.

I think there were like three cameras and we’re doing the scene, and like anything that comes up if they like, they like say other lines, say this.  It’s like there’s never a bigger name. Like I never feel like we go like from the bigger name to the middle to the end.  Like it’s always like this.  We’re always trying new things, and the camera is moving and let’s stop and go back or skip something.  I feel like it was like a whole day but it probably wasn’t.

.  I feel like I got it all out on camera, and then I have a harder time like getting ready for scenes like that than I do letting them go. So we don’t have to feel like that anymore.  But getting prepared for it is more difficult for me. “

ED HELMS (Pat): “Every day is unforgettable for me. They’re just so full of chaos and excitement, but let’s see.  One in particular was … God, I’m really bad at this.  I’ll tell you Jason’s most eventful day. He piloted an F-16 and actually was in a dog fight and saved America one day.  I rode a rollercoaster and was in a car crash the same day.  That’s a true story.  There was a baby.  A baby came out on the rollercoaster right behind me and I pulled it out.  I got it and then Fabio was hit in the face with a Canadian goose.  Well, at deliveries you don’t sing it.  Breathe, just breathe.  Close your eyes and let the baby come out.  We’re goin’ upside down now, you hear.  And then it was there.  I had it right in my hand and I was sobbing, and it was really emotional and then … It’s also the most, I don’t know, it’s the most fun way to go to work on a set everyday just not knowing what you’re going to say.  You know, I’ve done little bits of theater and stuff where you literally say the same lines every night.  And that has its own kind of Zen appeal.  Like you can really find nuances in the same lines.  But then there’s this whole other really exciting process, which these guys are all about.  I don’t know, it’s really fun but It’s so exciting and even the most mundane things feel really fresh and cool every take like sitting in the bath tub with Jason. We probably set there for like three hours.”

The Hunger Games are addictive

By GalaTView staff

Photos By: Alfonso de Elias.

The Hunger Games tells the dark tale of a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who is selected to compete in a vicious televised tournament in which 24 teenagers from a post-apocalyptic society fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses. In the future, North America is no more. In its place has risen Panem, a divided nation split into 12 districts. Every year, each district selects a teen of each gender (called “Tributes”) to test their worth in a competition known as the Hunger Games, which are broadcast across the nation as entertainment, and to reinforce the government’s total power. When her younger sister is selected as District 12’s latest “Tribute,” Katniss volunteers to take her place, and trains under hard-drinking former Hunger Games champion Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) to sharpen her killer instincts. Now in order to survive the game and emerge the victor, this young combatant must put all of her skills to the ultimate test.

GalaTView talked to Amanda Stenberg (Rue) and said: “Jennifer is extremely funny, in every time that we take together laughing, Jen and I were doing the same things acting. Sometimes, I had to play on some scenes and these ones had to be explained them to me mainly in some scenes were I was extremely scared because I was involved in a kind of games so It become something that I really got each scene after all.”

Alexander Ludwig (Cato): “I jumped up to my opportunity just because I had this chance to play this guy.  It was really wanted to experience the dark side so I had to twist individually. I wanted cared about physical presents in a mental movie and there was a lot fight training where you can go through so I have been working with a navy seal and tons of hang calls back like a club.”

Lenny Kravitz (Cinna):”I have been in rock  actually but I didn’t know about the book so  I had to read it but the crew call me back very quickly after see this classic epic story, I hated at the beginning for the classic way but I loved for the costumes and messages at the same time. I’m so satisfied to do a great project with everybody who was cool and nice, no divas no drama, real actors and   everyday was hugging and saying hi to each other and we had so much fun. So is not a goodbye in a certain point.”

An American man in a foreign tongue in Casa De Mi Padre (My Father’s house)

By Jenny Alvarez

Photos by Alfonso De Elias

This film is coming out in theaters March 16^th. If you want to watch a 2 hour Spanish movie with English subtitles, you will get to focused on The Alvarez brothers who are searching for a way to save their father’s ranch, but they find themselves in a war with Mexican drug lord. Armando’s younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). Then they will find themselves in a war with Mexico’s most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal). However, is not the best film that I have seen, its humor is rude social criticism. Will Ferrell is unfamiliar with this type of Spanish soap opera, but a good point is that he tried to speak in Spanish (although it was by memorization). On the other hand, Director Matt Piedmont plays it silly, thanks to the use of miniatures and puppets, fake animals, and life-size dolls. Hilarious? Not exactly, it was odd and silly.

Casa De Mi Padre also provides a smart, humorous display about complex U.S. and Mexican relations and a subliminal message about family, love, unity, struggles and odd relations between two nations that go beyond border-crossing, expanding its repertoire to other ethnic stereotypes. Even Cristina Aguilera sings the little track at the beginning of the movie, the script of this Mexican ‘telenovela’ soap is really bad and the dialogue made me smile just a little, due is terrible and others may feel the same way. Certainly, it’s an homage to the Mexican spaghetti western with many mistakes and overacting but is a good opportunity to analyze life is a satire full of complexity and the idea for this film was brilliant!

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