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Ooga Booga a new version of Chucky in African Style
By Jenny Alvarez
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Coming in a new video streaming service at www.GrindhouseFlix.com, host to the weirdest, craziest, and most unbelievable grindhouse films from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s – and brand new world premieres.
The first film to make its world premiere on the service is OogaBooga, a tongue-in-cheek grindhouse exploitation flick in the vein of Django Unchained, starring two-timeGolden Globe winning actress Karen Black (House of 1000 Corpses), Golden Globe winning actor Stacy Keach (American History X), Siri, the curvaceous pornstar, and Internet sensation Maddox. Ooga Booga is directed by the prolific Charles Band, founder of Full Moon Features, and follows the murder of an innocent African-American medical student whose soul is transferred into the body of an obscure toy, eventually extracting his revenge by killing racists in the city. Definitely has some of the most humorous voices, full of vibrant colors, cartoony style, and humorous visuals but very creepy with some grotesque and bloody scenes. Certainly the general idea of its story, makes you feel like there’s so much to discover still.
Shawn “Jay Z” Carter Teams Up with Baz Luhrman on “The Great Gatsby”
By GalaTView Staff
Grammy Award-winning musical artist Shawn “JAY Z” Carter has collaborated with writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann on “The Great Gatsby”—in the capacity of Executive Producer—to bring the modern “Jazz Age” energy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original text to the big screen, procuring, performing, producing and arranging for a soundtrack featuring some of the world’s top musical artists.
JAY Z’s contributions, woven amongst a score by long-time Luhrmann collaborator, composer Craig Armstrong, drive Gatsby’s champagne-infused dance floors, rumble in New York’s illegal speakeasies, and foreshadow the tragedy behind Gatsby’s “extraordinary gift for hope.” To articulate the film’s “1920s-Meets-Now” sound, JAY Z also comes to “The Great Gatsby” soundtrack as a performer and contributor of original music.
Luhrmann and JAY Z were introduced by Leonardo DiCaprio (Jay Gatsby), and this led to a two-year collaborative effort. During this time, JAY Z worked with Luhrmann and his team to capture, translate and contrast the feelings of Fitzgerald’s decadent era with that of our own, using hip-hop and jazz, music contemporary and period, to bring two distinct American moments to simultaneous life. They sculpted the film’s musical landscape alongside Armstrong, who worked with the director on “Moulin Rouge!” and “Romeo + Juliet.” The film’s music supervisor is Anton Monsted.
Luhrmann calls the collaboration with JAY Z “a credible and natural fit. Fitzgerald was a pioneer, famed and controversial for using the then-new and explosive sound called jazz in his novels and short stories—not just as decoration, but to actively tell story using the immediacy of pop culture. He coined the phrase ‘the Jazz Age.’ So, the question for me in approaching Gatsby was how to elicit from our audience the same level of excitement and pop-cultural immediacy toward the world that Fitzgerald did for his audience? And in our age, the energy of jazz is caught in the energy of hip-hop. Not only is JAY Z a great artist, full stop, but I had heard that he was a great collaborator. Leonardo and I were lucky enough to be present in a recording session over two years ago as JAY Z was recording ‘No Church in the Wild,’ and the collaboration grew from there.”
JAY Z said, “As soon as I spoke with Baz and Leonardo, I knew this was the right project. The Great Gatsby is that classic American story of one’s introduction to extravagance, decadence and illusion. It’s ripe for experimentation and ready to be interpreted with a modern twist. The imagination Baz brought to ‘Moulin Rouge’ made it a masterpiece, and ‘Romeo + Juliet’s’ score wasn’t just in the background; the music became a character. This film’s vision and direction has all the makings of an epic experience.”
If I were you has an extraordinary amount of patience
By Jenny Alvarez
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What happens when your new best friend is your husband’s mistress? Madelyn Reid (Academy Award-winner Marcia Gay Harden) accidentally learns of her husband’s infidelity when she saves his sexy young mistress Lucy (Leonor Watling, TALK TO HER) from a bungled suicide attempt. When her unsuspecting young rival suggests the two new friends take each other’s advice – on everything – Madelyn sees an opportunity to seize the upper hand. But the plan backfires when Lucy, an aspiring actress, insists Madelyn keep her end of the bargain and orders her to star as King Lear in a community production, with Lucy playing The Fool. Things really get out of control when Lucy starts giving Madelyn instructions on dealing with an amorous coworker and a handsome stranger (Aidan Quinn, Prime Suspect, Weeds). IF I WERE YOU is a very entertaining look at the unexpected places that life can take us.
IF I WERE YOU features Joseph Kell, Michael Therriault, Gary Piquer, Bethany Jillard, Elizabeth Whitmere, Claire Brosseau and Valerie Mahaffey. The film was produced by David Gordian and Alan Latham for Paragraph Pictures and Tall Tree Pictures written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin (A PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT). It really well structured in comedy full of versatility and cleverness with profound emotional connection. As a viewer might get a tease soon, just a little something to hold us over especially in death which is examined in a cutting memorial service scene that any survivor with a brain will understand magnetism is essential to the movie’s upward lift. Both characters know about their respective situations. Which, of course, makes things awkward when Madelyn befriends Lucy and the two bond over their relationship crises making it dramatic and comic at the same time. IF I WERE YOU will open in Los Angeles and New York on March 15 followed by a national roll-out.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the new Pope
By GalaTView Staff
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White smoke appeared from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel Wednesday, and bells from St. Peter’s Basilica have pealed. A new pope is all fine and good and all 115 Roman Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican from all over the world and Jean Louis Tauran so the new Argentinean Pope is Jorge Mario Bergoglio of 76 years old (Pope Francis I) and he has to resolve the issues facing the Catholic church and helps lead people into a real relationship with Christ and brings glory back to our Heavenly Father.
Paris Jackson is back and stronger
By GalaTView staff
Philadelphia Eagles cheerleading director Barbara Zaun said she’s been scouting the 14-year-old high school student as a cheerleader on her squad. Now Parish bights with her own shine.
Spielberg has opened a new film path
By GalaTView staff
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Steven Spielberg has arrived in Mumbai to celebrate the success of “Lincoln” with an Indian billionaire Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Group. Spielberg will also conduct a “master class” for Indian industry figures, sharing tips and stories from his forty-plus years in filmmaking.
Tiger Woods is the king of golf
By GalaTView Staff
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Tiger Woods returns to No. 1 in the world with a win in two weeks closed with a 1-under 71 to win the Cadillac Championship at Bay Hill. This tournament has became one of the most important events related to Golf. Congratulations to the champion “Tiger.”
Beyond the Hills is a dilemma between faith and free will
By Jenny Alvarez
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Beyond the Hills, the newest film by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu and marks the return of Mungiu, five years after his internationally celebrated 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days. His harrowing but starkly beautiful new film is set in an isolated Orthodox convent in Romania where Alina (Cristina Flutur) has been reunited with her childhood friend Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) after spending several years in Germany. Alina wants to leave and go to back Germany, and wants Voichita, a novice nun, to go with her. But Voichita has found refuge in faith and a family in the nuns and their priest (Valeriu Andriuta) and refuses. When Alina challenges the priest in an attempt to win back Voichita’s affection, she is suspected of being possessed. Mungiu based his gripping drama on a case of alleged demonic possession that occurred in a Romanian monastery in 2005.
This film makes a definitive break in terms of subject matter and Church with a couple of young women. Even is long, tough to watch some close captions dull and repetitive in some dialogues. This one makes believable portrait of dogma at odds with personal liberty in a society still emerging from the shadows and the rough weather which remarks aggressive and violent scenes with a crew gathering people with very different degrees of religiosity and some of them convincingly that they have made a good sacrifice. In fact, the film speaks about the side effects of poverty, lack of education and ignorance that ends in a total mess up with destiny of some characters. Definitely invite us to analyze our path in this life with real dramatic progression feels with a truly message: Be yourself without following religions, only spiritual paths where you can help some lost souls.
Princess Lilian of Sweden suffered from Alzheimer and died
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Welsh-born Princess Lilian of Sweden, died at 97. In a touching royal romance, Welsh-born Princess Lilian and her Bertil kept their love unofficial for decades and were both in their 60s when they finally received the king’s blessing to get married.
Original Star Wars trio are back, says George Lucas
By GalaTView staff
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No one cast in a Star Wars movie has to resonate with any movie going demographic. The Star Wars brand itself is the pull and people, young and old will flock to this regardless of who is in it. Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher will all return for the latest film in the Star Wars series, according to the long-running space saga’s creator George Lucas.
