Movies
Sage Stallone was found dead in his LA apartment
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Sage Stallone was Sylvester Stallone’s eldest son from his first marriage to Sasha Czack (they divorced in 1985) who appeared with his father in Rocky V, was found dead in his Los Angeles home Friday. He died from a suspected overdose of pills.
According to the sites sources have stated that is not yet determined whether the over dose was intentional or accidental. Sage is survived by his brother Seargeoh, and his three half-sisters Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet.
Anthony Hopkins is back with an epic role
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Black Swan filmmaker director Darren Aronofsky confirmed his Biblical epic Noah starring Russell Crowe. The supporting cast has already been filled out with the likes of Jennifer Connelly as Noah’s wife and Douglas Booth and Logan Lerman as his children, not to mention Emma Watson and Ray Winstone with substantial roles as well. Now Aronofsky has landed Anthony Hopkins to play Metheselah, Noah’s grandfather who dies seven days before the great flood. It is a new movie adaptation of the famous Biblical story, which revolves around a man on a mission to save creation from a flood.
You can get an eternal love in “Celeste and Jesse Forever”
By Jenny Alvarez
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Celeste (Jones) and Jesse (Samberg) met in high school, married young and are growing apart. Now thirty, they decide to get divorced and attempt to stay best friends while pursuing other relationships. This plan is not as simple as they had imagined.
Celeste—imperious, successful and driven– is convinced that divorcing the boyish Jesse is the right thing to do. Jesse passively accepts this transition into friendship, even though he still is in love with her. As the reality of their separation sets in, Celeste slowly and painfully realizes she has been cavalier about their relationship. But her timing with Jesse is less than fortuitous.
The film is a humorous and honest examination of a broken heart and the long, hard road it takes to heal it. When the film gets weaker, it’s because it has moved away from the funny-because-it’s-true aesthetic toward one that’s more broad and contrived: Celeste falling out of a garbage can she was snooping in just as Jesse arrives; a series of bad first dates that become exaggeratedly awful. Even though the storyline grows conventional, these two’s inherent sweetness gives the movie its heart – even if their characters may not end up together.
Finally, this movie is a reliable commercial genre and a decent supporting cast, and the main character faults herself for presuming she’s more intelligent than others, and so does the entire production. However, relationships are in that way, lots of laughs, and lots of heart.
'Devil Wear Prada' Book Sequel
Would you like to have a Cellmate in case of being a prisoner?
By Jenny Álvarez
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Set in 1970s Texas, Cellmates tells the story of hardened Ku Klux Klansman, Leroy Lowe (Tom Sizemore), who has risen through the ranks to be crowned ‘Grand Dragon’ of the State of Texas. Unfortunately for him, the government has started cracking down on the organization’s activities and it isn’t long before Leroy is sent to the Low Lee Tuna Prison Work Farm to serve time…harvesting potatoes. Worlds quickly collide when farm owner Warden Merville (Stacy Keach) forces Leroy to share a prison cell with eccentric Mexican field laborer Emilio Ortiz (Hector Jimenez) as part of his penitence. None too happy with the arrangement, Leroy sets out to make things very difficult for Emilio in the cramped quarters, but Emilio’s chatty disposition slowly chips away at Leroy’s gruff exterior. When an unlikely friendship develops, Leroy comes to realize how his ignorant past has distorted his view of the world, and what he must now do to make things right.
An offbeat comedy with heart, Cellmates is co-written, directed and produced by Jesse Baget. The film stars veteran actors Tom Sizemore and Stacy Keach; Mexican actors Hector Jimenez and Olga Segura; and a special appearance by comedic actor Kevin Farley. This movie is a comedy with satirical humor related to race relations in this country. But the real fun here comes from Stacy Keach as a warden who tries (and fails) to instill a mania for potato farming on his highly skeptical prisoners or when Leroy falls in love and his cellmate serves as the translator for an illicit exchange of love letters. This could easily have come off as far too silly, but in the context of the tone of the film — it all works very nicely. Definitely this movie will make you smile and fans of good movies will receive it with enthusiastic applause. This movie opens in limited release on June 1st.
A Japanese movie comes with "The Secret World of Arrietty''
Reviewed by Jenny Alvarez
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A great storytelling comes with a teeny-size 14-year-old girl who lives with her family beneath the floorboards of a big house and the human-size boy who befriends her, is adapted from British author Mary Norton’s wonderful children’s fantasy novels, The Borrowers. The lyrical animation, with its meditative attention to nature, bears the unique stamp of Japan’s Studio Ghibli, cofounded by the great Spirited Away animator Hayao Miyazaki.
The entire family will enjoy a beautiful scenery along the way, full of fascinating insects, mice or a cat as well as humans may briefly frighten young children. Arrietty has to face a world full of complications so when she met Shawn, both realize there is nothing to be afraid of into a world bigger than life—literally. Their friendship shows a different perspective with awesome and intricate images. Shawn and Arrietty’s bond is unbreakable, and they are willing to sacrifice for each other. The idealism of cross-cultural, even forbidden friendship collides head-on with certain realities of the miniature world that have been long maintained, presumably for logical reasons. This movie is highly recommended and will be on DVD/Blu- Ray.
Tim Burton Creates Art with “Dark Shadows”
'The Avengers' Successful $178 Million Overseas
The fim ‘The Avengers’ opened up internationally in the U.K and Germany. The film made a successful $178 million and beat opening weekend records in several territories such as Mexico, Brazil, and Taiwan. It had the second-highest debut in Australia. ‘Spider-Man 3’ is the only comic book movie that has had a better international debut. In 2007 ‘Spider-Man 3’ pulled in $554 million overseas and has the record for the best foreign gross for a comic book film.
You will be “Safe” with Jason Statham
Review by Jenny Alvarez
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A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change… until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed. But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action… and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war
Safe does a smart job of playing to Statham’s strengths in its action sequences. This movie is full of predictable scenes with few gunfights.
Luke (Jason Statham) is a brave man who faces all Russian gangsters who kidnapped Mei (Catherine Chan). Both Statham and Chan work really well together. Then you consider the many political implications. We eventually meet the slimy mayor (Chris Sarandon), who of course is involved because this thing goes all the way to the top, and the cops (including Robert John Burke as the Captain) who resent Luke for ratting them out for their corrupt behavior years ago. The only bad point for this movie is when Mei is involved in many blood and bullets scenes but Jason Statham makes this movie worthy of the full range of his talent and everybody ought to be good at something, and when it comes to this kind of thing, Statham is very good, indeed. This is released on April 27th in many American movie theaters.
Will Ferrell will Host "SNL"
The comedian Will Ferrell will be hosting “Saturday Night Live” on May 12. This will be Ferrell’s third time hosting the show. Ferrell recently came out with the film “Casa De Mi Padre” and has confirmed to make a sequel to “Anchorman”. SNL can count on Ferrell to get laughs from the audience. Another guest will be Usher, who will be performing on the show “Looking for Myself” from his upcoming record.
