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The Eternal Bachelor George Clooney is engaged
By GalaTView Staff
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George Clooney is engaged to Arab lawyer Amal Alamuddin after just months of dating. The 52-year-old actor and the 36-year-old humanitarian lawyer are going to be together forever.
100 years of magic and fun in Disney On Ice, Long Beach CA
By Galatview Staff
Photos & Video by Alfonso De Elias.
Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic making you a happy world with more than 65 of Disney’s captivating characters from 18 unforgettable Disney stories come to life in this commemorative celebration, produced by Feld Entertainment. In this lavish ice show, everyone’s favorite sweethearts,
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, shared memories with Disney friends including Goofy & Donald Duck; the beloved Disney Princesses; Chip & Dale; Pinocchio & Jiminy Cricket; Belle & The Beast plus many more – and magical moments from Disney’s Aladdin, Mulan, The Lion King plus Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo. Even for those unfamiliar with the more recent Disney stories may not understand all stories told in the show, this one is perfectly choreographed skating, breathtaking production numbers, stunning costumes and toe-tapping songs that make you to be part of their lives. The show ranged from bringing new Disney movies and characters to the ice like those from Toy Story, Lilo & Stitch all the way back to Pinocchio and even Jiminy Cricket. They were even able to bring “It’s a Small World” to the ice and truly feel that you were at Disney World. The show (with an intermission) lasts about 2 hours and definitely worth it! As promised, Disney on Ice truly was a “SPECTACULAR!”
The rails involve an outlandish thriller for “Last Passenger”
By Jenny Alvarez
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Lewis Shaler (Dougray Scott) is an overworked doctor and devoted single dad heading home with his young son Max on the last train from London. When he strikes up a conversation with a beautiful and flirtatious stranger (Kara Tointon), Lewis believes life is finally looking up. But events then take a dark turn when Lewis discovers the guard has mysteriously vanished and the brakes have been sabotaged. Unknown to the handful of remaining passengers, a vengeful sociopath has taken control of the train and is hell-bent on crashing it, taking his passengers with him to the grave.
As the speeding locomotive ploughs through stations and level crossings, the body count rises and panic turns to terror. Lewis realizes that the police are powerless to stop the diesel-powered ‘slammer’ train, and the desperate passengers must find their own way out of this nightmare. Lewis takes the lead in a series of increasingly perilous missions to stop the train before the driver can realize his dark plan.
Last Passenger is a kinetic thriller with melding suspense, action with great performances with great credibility of the situation. It has a well structured dialogues and a well-worn plot with some scenes full of tense and explosive action. Besides in one hour, 36 minutes your predictions will fail when Scott and Tointon make for a decent lead couple, and the film does eventually give some depth to Goldberg’s Jan and David Schofield’s Peter, although for the bulk of the running time they are relegated to annoying cardboard cutouts. Definitely this film is more focus on survival, not the mechanics of villainy but makes it an exciting thriller anyways.
Justin Timberlake will surprise his fans in Anaheim, CA
By GalaTView Staff
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“Not A Bad Thing” is the latest single off of The 20/20 Experience – The Complete Experience which has sold over 6 million albums worldwide to date. The video/mini doc for “Not A Bad Thing”. This good looking singer will have a performance on The 20/20 Experience World on Saturday, April 26th at 10am. Justin Timberlake’s all-new fan club, The Tennessee Kids (#TNKids), will have access to a pre-sale starting on April 23rd.
Today is Earth Day!
By GalaTView Staff
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A worldwide celebration of our home planet is today with the famous Earth Day and GalaTView asks how do you will be involved in this day? As many as 80 percent of Americans describe themselves as environmentalists, please let us know your comments in www.galatview@gamail.com. We will publish all of them for sure!
Tasting Menu has all the love ingredients
By Jenny Alvarez
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Directed by Roger Gual (who co-wrote and co-directed SMOKING ROOM) from a script by Gual and Javier Calvo. The film stars Jan Cornet, Claudia Bassols, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Rea, Timothy Gibbs, Marta Torné, Vicenta N’Dongo, Andrew Tarbet, Andrea Ros, Togo Igawa and Akihiko Serikawa. An Irish/Spanish co-production, Tasting Menu like all great ensemble dramedies centered on culinary delights, is a crowd-pleasing mishmash of relationships, feuds and broken dreams that are mended through the simple act of “breaking bread” and the universal appreciation of great food. According to some investigations this movie is based on the famed Catalonia elBulli restaurant, once run by chef Ferran Adrià. Various and assorted characters come to experience the last dinner being served at an illustrious and critically acclaimed seaside restaurant run by Chef Mar’s (Vicenta N’Dongo) and her partner Max (Andrew Tarbet). This film takes place on the last night of “the world’s best restaurant,” which is closing, but not before serving a final elaborate meal to a group of guests that includes a couple (Claudia Bassols and Jan Cornet) who booked a reservation a year in advance and who in the time since have split up. The script makes its thudding metaphorical point that sipping cocktails when someone’s drowning is simply not good especially for some of the characters whose indulgences have been not only culinary even emotional in which the food is fetishist’s delight and the night into this restaurant.
Andy García is part of “Rob The Mob”
By GalaTView staff
Photos by Alfonso De Elías
TOMMY (Pitt) and ROSIE (Arianda) have two things in common: a crazy-passionate love for one another and—after they’re caught robbing a florist on Valentine’s Day—prison records. Trying to go straight, Rosie lands a job at a debt-collection agency and persuades Tommy to join her. But soon Tommy is skipping his shifts to do something much more interesting—attend the landmark trial of Gambino-family boss John Gotti where Mafia hit man Sammy “The Bull” Gravano provides graphic testimony that could finally bring him down.Tommy’s fascination with the mob is deeply personal; when he was a boy, he saw his father suffer a brutal beating beat at the hands of local gangsters. So when he hears Sammy name a Mafia-owned social club where no guns are permitted.They also draw the attention of the FBI and veteran mob reporter CARDOZO (Romano), who splashes their unlikely story across the front page of the paper. But while the attacks enrage the mob, Bonanno crime family head BIG AL (Garcia) orders his men only to scare the couple.
It’s a decision Big Al will come to regret. During one of their heists in New York City, 1991 Tommy and Rosie stumble upon a Mafia secret so closely guarded that rank-and-file mobsters don’t even know it exists. To the Feds, it’s the smoking gun they’ve been looking for—a key to finally dismantling New York’s already-faltering crime syndicate. To Big Al, it’s the high cost of his earlier leniency—a mistake he quickly moves to correct.
For Tommy and Rosie, caught between the law and a mob contract, the future all depends on who gets to them first. A film with great casting and the crazy couple (Tommy and his girlfriend) targets of the mafia and the FBI. The mafia guys were perfect, even with having to walk the fine line of being scary, yet likable and comical all at the same time. All these are chasing this couple for some type of list that they stole. However Andy Garcia reflects certain wisdom in his character but a strong temperament and this makes him to fail in his organization. As a film fan you will see some great acting and everyone looks appropriately casts.
Andy Garcia talked about his character: “This guy was covering for long time. I saw pictures of him and his fascination has gone and many pictures of him were away, lost and try to find him but his attorney took all his pictures especially for his wife. I guess this guy was struggling with his real life against he wishes more. This kind of work was disgusting for the story of this couple. My performance was the closest personality, acting each moment was tough sometimes but at the end was important to everybody that this kind of guy would have been behind the bars.”
Andy García is part of “Rob The Mob”
By GalaTView staff
Photos By: Alfonso De Elías
Tommy (Pitt) and Rosie (Arianda) have two things in common: a crazy-passionate love for one another and—after they’re caught robbing a florist on Valentine’s Day—prison records. Trying to go straight, Rosie lands a job at a debt-collection agency and persuades Tommy to join her. But soon Tommy is skipping his shifts to do something much more interesting—attend the landmark trial of Gambino-family boss John Gotti where Mafia hit man Sammy “The Bull” Gravano provides graphic testimony that could finally bring him down.Tommy’s fascination with the mob is deeply personal; when he was a boy, he saw his father suffer a brutal beating beat at the hands of local gangsters. So when he hears Sammy name a Mafia-owned social club where no guns are permitted.They also draw the attention of the FBI and veteran mob reporter CARDOZO (Romano), who splashes their unlikely story across the front page of the paper. But while the attacks enrage the mob, Bonanno crime family head BIG AL (Garcia) orders his men only to scare the couple.
It’s a decision Big Al will come to regret. During one of their heists in New York City, 1991 Tommy and Rosie stumble upon a Mafia secret so closely guarded that rank-and-file mobsters don’t even know it exists. To the Feds, it’s the smoking gun they’ve been looking for—a key to finally dismantling New York’s already-faltering crime syndicate. To Big Al, it’s the high cost of his earlier leniency—a mistake he quickly moves to correct.
For Tommy and Rosie, caught between the law and a mob contract, the future all depends on who gets to them first. A film with great casting and the crazy couple (Tommy and his girlfriend) targets of the mafia and the FBI. The mafia guys were perfect, even with having to walk the fine line of being scary, yet likable and comical all at the same time. All these are chasing this couple for some type of list that they stole. However Andy Garcia reflects certain wisdom in his character but a strong temperament and this makes him to fail in his organization. As a film fan you will see some great acting and everyone looks appropriately casts.
Andy Garcia talked about his character: “This guy was covering for long time. I saw pictures of him and his fascination has gone and many pictures of him were away, lost and try to find him but his attorney took all his pictures especially for his wife. I guess this guy was struggling with his real life against he wishes more. This kind of work was disgusting for the story of this couple. My performance was the closest personality, acting each moment was tough sometimes but at the end was important to everybody that this kind of guy would have been behind the bars.”
An intriguing film with the best warriors of a Dune
Review by Jenny Alvarez
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Jodorowsky’s Dune is an American documentary film directed by Frank Pavich. The film explores Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempt to adapt and film Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel Dune in the mid-1970s. The director makes the story alive and full of passion that Jodorowsky uses to describe everything. It is a well structured master piece in his book but makes the case for this overblown epic as a legendary lost master piece in a film in which he didn’t participate. It would be around 12 hours long but the real time is 90 minutes and the documentary shows how some of the drawings were used for inspiration in Star Wars and other movies later on. Donald Rosenfeld, Stephen Scarlata, Michel Seydoux, and Travis Stevens also were part in an in-depth look at the doomed production and features a number of never-before-seen images and interviews where world-class surrealists, international rock stars, top-billed actors and artists were going to be part in Jodorowsky’s film but at the end all the melodrama and manipulation there was, instead, vision and ambition. From an artistic point of view, that generation was more honest and people from big film companies didn’t want to share with this visionary of the visual art in movement. This documentary will we open in Los Angeles on March 21st, 2014.
A complex storyline will get your attention in “Enemy”
By Alfonso De Elias
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Enemy, adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago’s 2004 novel “The Double”, is about the power of the subconscious. In the end, only one man can survive. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. Enemy is a mysterious and strangely atmospheric thriller but full of dominance and dark mood. Chaotic is the main element of manipulation in some parts of the film Even though the story is indecipherable, it remains enjoyable especially when 2 lead personalities are twins because they cover that in the story with one of guy’s mothers open to some sort of interpretation where you’re not supposed to know specifically what it is, but it leaves itself open to analysis. At 90 minutes you will enjoy a very odd, though. It is very much like a combination of David Lynch and Hitchcock. It is a cinematic nightmare and descent into a man’s psyche full of good scenes and camera movements.
