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A blast of black humour, much of it referring to other films, makes this riotously violent remake rather a lot of fun. And apart from the gleefully grisly 3D effects, the casting alone is a stroke of genius.
Arizona's Lake Victoria is being invaded by virtually naked young people during spring break, but teen Jake (McQueen) has to babysit his young siblings (Brooklynn Proulx and Sage Ryan) because his mother Julie (Shue) is especially busy as the town sheriff. As a sleazy filmmaker (O'Connell) hires Jake to show him the lake, Julie is investigating evidence that an underwater rift has released a school of voracious prehistoric piranhas. So not only must she get all of these drunken revellers out of the water, but she needs to make sure her kids are safe.
Director Aja opens with a hilarious cameo from Dreyfuss and takes off from there, surging through the various plot threads without pausing for air. The writers pack the plot with more wrinkles than are thoroughly necessary. Jake's riotous day out with the porn starlets (Brook and Steele) is strained by the presence of the local girl (Szohr) he definitely does not have feelings for.
Julie somehow manages to swap innuendo with a hot diver (Scott) even as mass chaos breaks out around them. And Lloyd pops up channelling Doc Brown as the fish expert.
There's also a sublimely ridiculous nude underwater ballet that's counterbalanced by a scene of raucous bloodletting when these angry piranhas, after millions of years trapped in an underwater lake, are released to this flesh buffet. In other words, the filmmakers and cast members are having so much fun that we can hardly help but enjoy ourselves as it gets grislier and funnier by the moment.
Sure, the characters are wafer thin, and we can guess who will survive early on. But there are some surprises along the way, mostly of the "I can't believe they did that" variety. There are also rather a lot of gratuitously amusing 3D gags, as it were. Like the original, this is essentially a wacky Jaws rehash, complete with the fish-view cam. The only thing missing is a memorable musical score.
Based on a jokey comment made by filmmaker Tom Six (about a suitable punishment for paedophiles), this film has such a repulsive premise that it's difficult to stomach. Athough what we see isn't nearly as vile as what we imagine we're seeing.
Lindsay and Jenny (Williams and Yennie) are naive Americans driving through Germany when they get lost on the way to a nightclub. Disoriented in the woods, they find the home of Dr Heiter (Laser), who quickly drugs them so he can use them for an experiment he previously tried on his dogs, namely sewing them together with a third victim (Kitamura) into a three-part "centipede". Lindsay wriggles out of her bonds before the operation, but can she escape? And what will Heiter do to the cops (Leupold and Blankenstein) who come snooping around?
Frankly, the mad doctor's experiment is so hideously unthinkable that only a screenwriter would come up with it. Six claims that it's all perfectly plausible from a medical standpoint, but that doesn't make it any less horrific. Just the idea makes us feel queasy, so we can be thankful that, despite a few yucky cutaways, he leaves much of the real horror in our minds.
Which makes it even more repugnant.
But it's also a stylishly made movie packed with dark humour. Six's direction is sleek and understated, quietly building suspense even if the film is never really scary. It is, however, stomach-churning. If the concept isn't vile enough, the expert make-up and costumes continually hint at graphic grisliness.
While the icy filming style contrasts cleverly with the believably terrified performances from the three victims. And the camp, over-the-top Laser is thoroughly creepy.
The main problem, of course, is that it seems to have no real point. The film feels like the Hostel movies, poking fun at dumb tourists who fall into the clutches of sadistic psychopaths. Or maybe it's a jab at how we let scientists indulge in all kinds of experimentation without properly questioning it.
Whatever it is, at least it too engaging to be called torture porn. And it certainly marks Six as a filmmaker to watch. After he makes Part 2, that is.
Striking direction from the gifted Bong Joon-ho (The Host) makes this dramatic thriller both darkly unnerving and powerfully moving. It's a superbly well-assembled film with surprises in store every step of the way.
Do-joon (Won) is a mentally simple young man who lives with his mother (Kim Hye-ja). He's also utterly oblivious to the bigotry he receives everywhere he goes, and his best pal Jin-tae (Jin) doesn't really help matters as he stirs up the people around them. Then a young girl is found murdered, and a detective (Yoon) arrests Do-joon because he's the handiest scapegoat. This sends Mother into action to find the real killer and to mete out her own revenge.
From a simple but brilliant opening shot, Bong holds us firmly in his grip, finding jagged floods of joy and pain lurking in the corners of every scene.
The story is packed with blackly hilarious observations, cruel comedy and deep emotion as this tiny, unassuming woman quietly battles to protect her son from anything that might cause him harm. In other words, despite the film's sharp edges and grisly story, this is an affectionate ode to motherhood.
Kim Hye-ja's marvellous face conveys her thoughts and feelings without the need for much dialog, and Bong captures every tiny glance as she's persistently distracted by whatever might be happening to her son. Won is also effective in a difficult role, balancing Do-joon's wonder and naivete with a murky sense of menace. His interaction with Jin, as the friend who's smarter but not as good-looking, is terrific. And side characters have personality tics that are just as lively.
And then there's the quiet commentary on Korea's justice system, as the cops callously disregard evidence to close the case quickly. Clearly, Do-joon isn't capable of murder, although we quickly realise that Mother is. The ensuing tension is edgy and unexpected, keeping us off balance trough each twisted turn of the plot. And along with all of this, Bong offers us telling insights that show us the truth but convince us of something else. Intriguingly, the film's closest relative is probably David Lynch's Blue Velvet and yes, Bong's filmmaking is just as bravura.
Less hilariously crowd-pleasing than The Triplets of Belleville (aka Belleville Rendez-vous), Chomet's new animated film, originally written by French master Jacques Tati himself, is a masterful story full of sharp wit, bittersweet emotion and startling tenderness.
In 1959 Paris, Tatischeff is an ageing magician in a world that's being taken over by floppy-haired musicians. After losing his latest gig, he heads for London, where he briefly works in a raucous pub then travels on to an isolated village in the Scottish Highlands. Eventually he settles in to do his show in a small theatre in Edinburgh. But a young country girl follows him into the city, and supporting himself is difficult enough without needing to watch out for her.
Chomet invests the film with heavy echoes of Tati's Mon Oncle, from the main character's physicality to the way he never quite fits in wherever he goes. The animation is packed with telling details that are utterly charming, from Tatischeff's feisty rabbit, who won't stay in his hat, to the leathery lounge singers he has to share the bill with. When the heartthrob band Billy Boy and the Britoons appears to steal his thunder, it's impossible not to recognise that grinding fact of life: we're all replaceable. And yes, one crowd is actually more impressed with an electric light than with Taticheff's effortlessly masterful performance.
And it's not only the gags that keep us watching. Chomet painstakingly recreates his settings on screen, giving them a sense of heightened realism that takes the breath away. The panoramas of Edinburgh are simply gorgeous, as are the astonishingly accurate details, down to the names and designs of real pubs. And Chomet's affection for Scotland (he has an animation studio there) is also clear in his hilarious renditions of sheep, cows and kilts.
Alongside the resonant story, the film is also a sharp satire of show business, looking at the soul-destroying aspect of selling yourself for fame, the tedious realities of marketing and the temporary nature of success. With constant visual jokes but almost no dialog, the beautiful hand-drawn animation vividly recreates illusions and plays with our perceptions, but even more importantly it finds real heart in its characters, creating a funny, warm story about true generosity of spirit. And there's even a set of acrobatic triplets on hand to make us smile with recognition.
Wyclef Jean plans to appeal a decision by the Haitian Electoral Commission last week that he is not eligible to run for president of the Caribbean nation.
The singer announced on his Twitter page that his lawyers would file an appeal and said he believes he meets all requirements to run for president.
Jean was barred from contesting Haiti's November presidential election after his name was not on the list released on Friday of 19 candidates approved to run for president.
Despite his lack of political experience, Jean, 38, a Haitian-born US musician, was expected to do well in the Nov 28 vote because of his popularity, particularly among young people.
Rumours about a rejection of his candidacy have been ongoing virtually since he announced his intention to run for president this month.
One of the conditions for a candidacy to be accepted is that the candidate in question has to have lived in Haiti over the past five years, and Jean said the commission had determined he was not a resident of Haiti.
Jean was born in the Caribbean nation but has lived in the US since his family immigrated when he was a child. He had a successful international career as a hip-hop singer in the 1990s, and his foundation Yele Haiti has long supported youth projects in his native country.
He has been particularly active in reconstruction efforts after the January 12 earthquake in which an estimated 222,750 people, or 2 percent of Haiti's population, died and at least 300,572 were injured.
Before he takes moviegoers deep beneath the Pandoran sea, James Cameron hopes they'll go for an extended tour of the fictional planet he introduced in 'Avatar'.
'Avatar: Special Edition', which includes 9 minutes of new footage, opens in 3-D theaters worldwide this Friday.
"I'm trying to use the technology to keep people interested and enthused about the `Avatar' universe, because it's going to be a long time before we get another `Avatar' movie done," the filmmaker said.
Cameron, 56, already has plans for the 'Avatar' sequels.
He's also got a submarine to build, cameras for the Mars rover to design, an underwater 3-D camera to upgrade and maybe even an ocean-related feature to make.
But first, he had to select and perfect new 'Avatar' footage and persuade distributor 20th Century Fox to rerelease the film theatrically in 3-D.
Cameron said there are "hundreds of thousands, if not millions" of people who wanted to see the movie in 3-D but didn't get the chance because 'Avatar' was edged out of 3-D theaters by other scheduled 3-D releases. Since then, the number of available 3-D screens has doubled internationally, he said.
Playboy has reportedly offered singer Cheryl Cole $770,000 to feature in their magazine.
The famous men's magazine wants the stunning 'X Factor' star for a centrefold shoot, reports dailystar.
Top bosses of the magazine think Cheryl, 27, has the perfect looks, quirky accent and toned body to make her perfect to follow other famous centrefolds such as US reality star Kim Kardashian.
"Cheryl is incredibly flattered by the offer but she has always been fundamentally opposed to going nude in magazines. She reckons it's great if other girls can do it, but it really isn't her," said a close friend of Cheryl.
"People won't believe it but she is actually incredibly shy when it comes to all that stuff," the friend added.
Shakira is in trouble with Spanish authorities after dancing in a Barcelona fountain while filming a music video.
The 'Hips Don't Lie' hitmaker was joined by fans as she frolicked in the city's historic Pla de Palau fountain while filming a promo for her upcoming track, reports express.
But the star failed to obtain a permit ahead of filming and now the city officials have slapped the Colombian star with a fine. Her actions were deemed a violation of strict anti-social behaviour laws.
Drew Barrymore has no interest in Twitter and says she has no plans to join the microblogging site.
She feels people should only use Twitter if they are funny and that she is an "old fashioned girl" when it comes to technology, reports femalefirst.
"I know I am an anomaly, I know everyone else is in love with it, but it's not for me. I like people who use it for comedy to make people laugh," said Barrymore.
"If people are making other people laugh and making jokes then that's awesome. I believe I am quite an old-fashioned girl."
Brad Pitt has raised his voice against the executives responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying they deserve the death penalty.
The 'Inglourious Basterds' star spoke out against those behind the oil rig explosion in April, which caused the worst environmental disaster in US history with millions of gallons of oil flooding into the sea, in a new documentary 'If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise'.
"I was never for the death penalty before, I am willing to look at it again," contactmusic quoted Pitt as saying.
The BP oil spill affected wildlife and the habitat of marine and coastal animals. It also caused loss of livelihood for many fishermen and other people who depend on the area for work.
Brad's comments are at the end of the documentary filmed by Spike Lee. An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico during the 87-day spill.
Woody Allen says he began shooting movies in European cities because he couldn't afford to do it any more in New York.
However, the American film director, in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo, said he finds that Manhattan poses fewer limitations than European cities, where more tailoring of the story is required to fit the location.
Allen was in Spain to attend the premiere of his latest film, the romantic comedy 'You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger', in nearby Aviles.
The film was shot in London and stars Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin and Antonio Banderas. At the news conference in Oviedo, Allen was joined by Lucy Punch and Gemma Jones, who also star in the film.
Allen has recently been in Paris shooting his next movie, 'Midnight in Paris', which features French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in a minor role.
Allen hit out at American cinema saying the majority of films over the past decade had been made just for money and lacked creative spirit. In comparison, he said European films were much more artistic.
Allen also praised Spanish actors saying they were now among the best, singling out Banderas in this film as well as Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, with whom he worked in his 2008 movie 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona', set in Spain's second largest city.
"I'm lucky I got to work with the very best ones," said Allen, who said he could not afford to pay actors much but that they took part in his films because they liked to act.
A man has been arrested at Paris Hilton's Los Angeles home after the socialite said he tried to break into her house while holding two big knives.
Police Officer Gregory Baek says the man was arrested about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday but his name hasn't been released.
Hilton said on her Twitter page, "So Scary, just got woken up to a guy trying to break into my house holding 2 big knifes. Cops are here arresting him."
Baek couldn't confirm if the man was armed.
Baek says the break-in was reported by telephone but he didn't know if it came from Hilton or an alarm company.
Shakira is in trouble with Spanish authorities after dancing in a Barcelona fountain while filming a music video.
The 'Hips Don't Lie' hitmaker was joined by fans as she frolicked in the city's historic Pla de Palau fountain while filming a promo for her upcoming track, reports express.
But the star failed to obtain a permit ahead of filming and now the city officials have slapped the Colombian star with a fine. Her actions were deemed a violation of strict anti-social behaviour laws.
Katie Holmes is in talks to play a role in Adam Sandler-comedy 'Jack and Jill'.
The 'Batman Begins' actress who is married to Tom Cruise would play alongside Adam Sandler in the comedy movie, which tells the tale of a man who has issues with his twin sister.
A website hollywood news website reports saying, Al Pacino is also due to star in the movie directed by Dennis Dugan.
She will next be seen in Guillermo del Toro-produced thriller 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark', which is due to hit cinemas in January 2011.
Socialite Kim Kardashian says she would have definitely dated Justin Bieber "if he was of legal age".
The 29-years-old reality TV star who recently took part in a magazine photo shoot with the 16-years-old pop sensation insists she has no romantic involvement with the hit maker because he is too young for her.
"Would I date him? If he was of legal age. He definitely has this swag to him," contactmusic quoted her as saying.
'James Bond' star Sean Connery will celebrate his 80th birthday by eating "non-stop" to put on some weight which he lost after a recent surgery.
The Hollywood legend has plans to spend his birthday Wednesday with his wife Micheline and other loved ones at his home in the Bahamas, reports imdb.
"I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again. But that might take a little bit longer. During the summer, I wasn't in pain, but I wasn't feeling great," he said.
"I came to the Edinburgh Film Festival in June. Then when I left for the south of France, I realised I'd lost a bit of weight and needed to change my regime. I've done that and the last few days have been pretty special with the family here. We've eaten non-stop and it has been a great celebration," said Connery.
He has been lying low in recent months after undergoing surgery on his shoulder, but says he will be fine soon.
British singing sensation Susan Boyle said on Wednesday that she feels humbled and honored by the opportunity to sing for Pope Benedict XVI during his tour of Britain.
The unlikely pop star will perform hymns and sing with an 800-strong choir at an open-air papal Mass in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park on September 16, the Roman Catholic Church quoted as saying.
Boyle, 49, will also sing 'I Dreamed A Dream' from 'Les Miserables'. She told Scotland's The Daily Record newspaper on Wednesday that the invitation to sing for the pope is "my greatest dream come true."
"I've always wanted to sing for His Holiness and I can't really put into words my happiness that this wish has come true at last," she exclaimed. "I am humbled and honoured by this invitation and I hope I can do my best."
Benedict's four-day trip will be the first papal visit to Britain since Pope John Paul II in 1982.
His itinerary also includes an address in Parliament and the beatification of 19th-century Catholic convert Cardinal John Henry Newman.
Boyle will sing for the pope the hymn 'How Great Thou Art', as well as a farewell song when the pontiff leaves Glasgow for London.
Angelina Jolie has contributed $100,000 (about Pakistani Rs.8.5 million) for flood ravaged Pakistan, a move that surpasses President Asif Ali Zardari's Rs.5 million donation and the help extended by most other politicians.
Some leaders have refused to disclose their contribution to the relief effort and claimed that their donation had gone directly to their party's fund.
Dawn reported that Jolie has contributed $100,000 while Zardari and Altaf Hussain, chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, claimed to have donated Rs.5 million each.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and top leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, Awami National Party and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F have not made donations in cash, instead, they donated in kind.
"The prime minister has already said that he does not believe in cash contribution and thus he did not deposit money in the fund, but his son in Multan dispatched many trucks of goods on behalf of the family," Dawn quoted the prime minister's press secretary Shabir Anwar as saying.
The floods started July 28 with heavy monsoon rains and went on to submerge thousands of villages, wash away hundreds of kilometres of roads, dozens of bridges and over 1.7 million acres of crops.
Being the country's worst natural disaster, the floods have killed over 1,600 people and affected about 20 million nationwide, with the threat of disease ever-present in the camps sheltering survivors.
Jessica Alba and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez are set to team up for the third time for 'Spy Kids 4'.
Alba will play a mother who comes out of spy retirement to train her kids in the art of espionage in the movie titled 'Spy Kids 4: All The Time in the World", a hollywood news website reported as saying.
The film will also feature actors Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino.
A sheriff's official says detectives have given prosecutors the results of their investigation into domestic violence allegations against Mel Gibson.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore says the results were turned over on Wednesday for a decision on whether charges will be filed.
Detectives investigated claims made against the Academy Award-winner by his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva (gree-GOR'-yeh-vuh.)
Gibson spokesman Alan Nierob declined comment in an e-mail message.
Detectives also have been examining claims by Gibson that Grigorieva attempted to extort him. Whitmore says that investigation has not been completed.
Angelina Jolie is set to make her directorial debut with a love story on the backdrop of the 1992- 95 Bosnian War. The film is about a couple that meets on the eve of the war and how it affects their relationship. The shooting is set to start this Autumn.
"The film is a love story and not a political statement," Angelina said in a statement issued by the United Nations Higher Commission for Refugees(UNHCR). She continues to be the goodwill ambassador for UNHCR and has shown keen interest in supporting education and other projects to help Bosnians return home, which they left during the war.
Jolie had visited eastern Bosnia in April and had promised to return. She re-visited on August 20 and met with Bosnia's inter- ethnic presidency to discuss ways to help the war returning refugees.
According to Jolie, the movie will mostly cast local ethnic Bosnians."I would like to involve as many local people as possible and learn as much as I can," Jolie said.
John Mayer has hinted that he is back with Jennifer Aniston as he says relationships should be given "second chances".
"I believe in second chances. You might have been a pain in the back-side the last time around, but you can still start all over again from home base. Next time you get a text from the one you love just text back 'come over', no matter what happened in the past. If you really love someone, just tell them and be with them," contactmusic quoted him as saying.
John, who had split from the 41-year-old beauty in August 2008, began dating her again in October that year before separating for the second time in March 2009.
The couple are believed to have been secretly dating for several weeks. Aniston has earlier been married to Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt, and has dated Vince Vaughn.
John has also previously dated Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jessica Simpson.
Lindsay Lohan has been released from a rehabilitation centre after serving just 23 days of her court-ordered 90-day programme.
The 'Mean Girls' actress was jailed last month for breaching her probation stemming from a 2007 DUI arrest.
Upon her release, after just 13 days, she was ordered to spend 90 days in rehab at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. But Lohan was discharged from the rehab Tuesday and will now receive outpatient care, reports contactmusic.
Doctors at the centre reportedly told Judge Elden Fox, who is overseeing her case, that the she should be released from the hospital before the 90-day stint was completed.
Marilyn Monroe has been voted the greatest blonde of all time by a website called OnePoll, an online market research company.
The legend has beaten a host of modern beauties, including Cameron Diaz, Madonna and Scarlett Johansson.
"Marilyn Monroe has always been known for her iconic blonde hair," contactmusic quoted a spokesperson from the company as saying.
"But it's amazing to think that even now, almost half a century after her death, she has still beaten modern blondes to the top spot.
"Her hair is synonymous with 1950s glamour but it has stood the test of time against hair styles and colours which have come and gone over the years," he added.
Monroe became an icon after her tragic death in 1962 and had relationships with a string of famous men during her life, including playwright Arthur Miller. She is also, allegedly, said to have dated former US President John F. Kennedy.
Legendary directors Francis Ford Coppola and Jean-Luc Godard are to receive honorary Oscars in recognition of their contribution to the cinematic arts, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced.
Also receiving honorary awards are veteran character actor Eli Wallach, 94, and film historian Kevin Brownlow, 72.
The awards will be presented at the traditional Governors Awards Dinner on November 13.
Coppola, 72, who has already won five Oscars, will receive the Academy's prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in recognition of a career that has featured such classics as 'The Godfather' trilogy, 'Apocalypse Now', 'The Conversation' and 'The Outsiders'.
Godard, 79, whose work includes 'Breathless', 'A Woman Is a Woman', 'Band of Outsiders', 'Contempt' and 'Alphaville', is a hugely influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave movement.
Wallach is best known for his role opposite Clint Eastwood in 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' but also starred in 'The Magnificent Seven', 'The Misfits' and 'Lord Jim'. He will soon be seen in cinemas in Oliver Stone's forthcoming 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'.
Brownlow is one of the world's foremost experts on silent films.
Movies of legendary Kung Fu icon Bruce Lee will be shown at a film festival in Tokyo later this year to commemorate the 70th birth anniversary.
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will screen an array of Lee's selected movies, including his most successful film 'Enter the Dragon' and his last film 'Game of Death', in a special tribute titled 'The 70th Anniversary: Bruce Lee to the Future', Xinhua reported.
The festival's 23rd edition will be held from October 23 to October 31.
George David Weiss, who helped write chart-topping pop hits including 'Can't Help Falling in Love' and 'What a Wonderful World', has died. He was 89.
He died on Monday of natural causes at his home in Oldwick, N.J., his wife, Claire, said.
Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and many other big-name artists recorded compositions written or co-written by Weiss, whose career choice greatly disappointed his mother. She wanted him to become a lawyer.
A Juilliard School of Music graduate who played the violin, piano, saxophone and clarinet, Weiss was a military bandleader in World War II. He soon gained wide recognition as a songsmith with success over the next few decades.
Among the notable compositions he wrote or co-wrote were 'Can't Help Falling in Love', recorded by Elvis Presley; 'What a Wonderful World', recorded by Louis Armstrong; 'Surrender', recorded by Perry Como, and 'Oh! What It Seemed to Be' by Frank Sinatra.
Weiss had a role in creating the Tokens' hit version of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', which was based on a 1939 song written by South African musician Solomon Linda. Weiss and two collaborators gave the song a re-worked melody and new lyrics but kept the refrain -- "Wimoweh, wimoweh" -- that was popularized in a 1950s version of the song performed by the Weavers.
The Tokens' version became a million-selling hit in 1961.
Weiss also collaborated on several Broadway musicals, including 'Mr. Wonderful', which starred Sammy Davis Jr., and 'Maggie Flynn', featuring Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy.
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984. He also was president of the Songwriters Guild of America from 1982 to 2000 and often testified before government agencies, mostly on copyright issues.
Richard Lester, the director behind the 'Superman' franchise, has donated unseen drafts of two film scripts on the Beatles to the British Film Institute (BFI).
More than 60 boxes of letters, scripts, notes and photographs are now with the BFI National Archive, documenting Lester's 40 year career.
It includes the first drafts of the films 'A Hard Day's Night' and 'Help!', then simply titled 'The Beatles' and 'Beatles Two', as well as letters from Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch and Spike Milligan, reports telegraph.
In one of the letters Raquel Welch thanked Lester for casting her in 'The Three Musketeers' while most directors saw her as a 'wind-up Barbie-doll'.
Audrey Hepburn, who starred alongside Sean Connery in 'Robin and Marian', wrote to Lester as saying, "Dear Richard, the picture is beautiful and I wish you had been with us in New York. Much praise and affection would have been yours."
Alastair Sim politely turned down a film role in the first film adaptation of 'Flashman, Royal Flash', saying, "I was, still am, enormously flattered that you should want to squeeze a flicker of me into your first Flash."
The film was made with Malcolm McDowell in the lead role in 1975.
Lester, 78, said his long-standing relationship with the BFI made it an obvious candidate for the donation.
"The organisation has always been very helpful to me in different ways. It is a pleasure for me to be able to offer them the detritus of my working life."
A catalogue for the archive should be available from mid-October.
"Sixty boxes is a lot so it has been a job sorting it and getting it in to order," said Nathalie Morris, curator for the BFI's special collections.
Anna Nicole Smith's life story is set to be turned into a television opera.
According to reports, BBC 4 will air 'Anna Nicole - The Opera' next year, which will chronicle her rise to fame, her marriage to oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall, more than 60 years her senior, in 1994 and her death due to drug overdose in 2007, aged 39, reports dailystar.
Music composer Mark Anthony Turnage is working on the project.
Michael Jackson is the most downloaded artist of all time on Ovi Music and 'Beat It' is his most downloaded track across 36 countries. India accounts for 26 percent of all Jackson downloads.
With birthday tributes to the King of Pop scheduled for Sunday, Ovi Music download data reveals that Jackson still tops other stars as the most popular solo star, ahead of Lady Gaga, Elvis, Jay Chou, the Black Eyed Peas and Rihanna, said a press statement.
He is especially popular in India where over 26 percent of Jackson track downloads occur, followed by the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Finland.
"Michael Jackson has always been a pop music legend. But the anniversary of his death and upcoming birthday celebrations seem to have revived Jackson fever as fans rediscover his songs, making him the most popular solo artist of all time," said Ovi musicologist Geoff Roberts.
After 'Beat It', Jacko's next most popular tracks are 'Billie Jean' and 'Thriller'. The Ovi data reveals that 'This Is It' is downloaded almost twice as much as any of his other albums.Jennifer Aniston is all set to shed her good girl image. She has signed on for an edgier role in forthcoming Judd Apatow-produced 'Wanderlust'.
The actress will be seen stripping off, having a threesome and taking drugs in the movie, reports thesun.
The movie sees Jen's character and on-screen husband Paul Rudd moving to a commune and embracing the hippie lifestyle.
Just a few months ago, the former 'Friends' star had accepted a similar role in 'Horrible Bosses' where she plays a sex-obsessed dentist.
Writer-director Christopher Nolan's first film since 'The Dark Knight' is a stunningly gorgeous, technically flawless symphony of images and ideas. 'Memento', the mystery-in-reverse that put Nolan on the map a decade ago, looks almost quaint by comparison.
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In its sheer enormity, it's every inch a blockbuster, but in the good sense of the word: with awesomeness, ambition and scope. The cinematography, production design, effects, editing, score, everything down the line -- all superb. But unlike so many summer movies assigned that tag, 'Inception' is no mindless thrill ride. It'll make you work, but that's part of what's so thrilling about it. With its complicated concepts about dreams within dreams, layers of consciousness and methods of manipulation, 'Inception' might make you want to stop a few times just to get your bearings.
The juggernaut of Nolan's storytelling momentum, however, keeps pounding away.
Even from the very beginning, you may feel a bit off-balance, with Nolan jumping around in time before dropping you into the middle of a tense conversation between Leonardo DiCaprio as dream thief Dom Cobb, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as his right-hand man, Arthur, and Ken Watanabe as one of their clients.
That's part of the game, though: making us question what's reality and what's a product of sleep, right alongside the characters.
That experience in itself may sound a bit familiar, and 'Inception' does feature glimmers of mind-trip movies like 'The Matrix','Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and even a 'Wizard of Oz' moment. At its core, it's actually a heist movie -- the tried-and-true One Last Job, to be exact -- but Nolan takes these elements and combines them in a way that is daringly, dazzlingly his own.
‘Salt’ is, quite literally, a shaggy dog story.
Despite the cryptic ads that pose the question, "Who Is Salt?" and regardless of the various twists and turns designed to throw us off, the intentions of Angelina Jolie's super-spy character, Evelyn Salt, are never really in question. This is obvious, based on one comparatively small gesture in an early scene.
Salt, a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy, dashes home to grab the supplies she needs to go on the run and hunt for her husband, who's missing. She grabs a backpack hidden in a trunk full of clothes, but while she's there she also sees her scruffy, little terrier, padding about the apartment, nervous because everything is in upheaval. Once she escapes by climbing out the window and slinking from ledge to ledge, high above the sidewalk -- barefoot in a pencil skirt, in the winter, no less -- she persuades a young girl in a neighboring apartment to let her in.
There, Salt opens the backpack and produces -- you guessed it -- the aforementioned scruffy, little terrier. (Good thing they didn't have a Great Dane.) And you realize right then and there that anyone who would go to that much trouble to save a dog cannot be a bad person. It's impossible. So from that point on, while there's tension in 'Salt', there really is no suspense. Any attempts to confuse us about our heroine's true nature -- and there are many -- feel like an elaborate sham.
Under the direction of Phillip Noyce, though, at least it's a well-made sham. 'Salt' allows Noyce to return to the kind of action thrillers he's made previously, like the Tom Clancy adaptations 'Patriot Games' and 'Clear and Present Danger'. It's muscular, gritty and propulsive. (Robert Elswit, an Oscar winner for 'There Will Be Blood', is the cinematographer.) It's also totally ludicrous and lacking in even the slightest shred of humanity.
It's intriguing that, while a man originally was the main character in Kurt Wimmer's script (and reportedly was to be played by Tom Cruise), making Salt a woman in no way depletes the film of its brawniness. But Jolie expressed interest in playing James Bond a few years back, and voila -- Edwin Salt became Evelyn Salt. No actress working today is as convincing an action star as Jolie, and she does tear it up here; the fight scenes are visceral, not balletic like the 'Tomb Raider' movies or supernaturally trippy as in 'Wanted'.
But what Jolie is called upon to do grows increasingly difficult to accept, even for summer escapism. Stunts that would result in serious injury or even death to the average person are nothing for Salt. She jumps off an overpass and onto a moving 18-wheeler, then onto a tanker truck, then onto another semi before landing on the windshield of a cab, stealing a motorcycle and zipping away. She leaps from a moving subway train onto a platform, rolls and just gets up and runs. She gets shot and places a maxi-pad on the wound.
Yes, she's supposed to be a highly trained undercover operative -- whether she's working for the United States or Russia -- but this is ridiculous and even laughable when, in theory, we're supposed to be engrossed.
Salt's identity first comes into question while she's interrogating a Russian defector (Daniel Olbrychski) who tells of sleeper cells that have infiltrated the U.S., made up of spies who've been indoctrinated since childhood. One of them is on a mission to kill the Russian president during a visit to New York. The person's name: Evelyn Salt.
Naturally, when Salt flees, it makes her look a little guilty. Her associate and good friend, Ted Winters, (Liev Schreiber, solid in everything) wants to believe she's innocent, but the counterintelligence agent on the case (Chiwetel Ejiofor in a largely one-note role) immediately mistrusts her and sends out the big guns to bring her down.
It would be easier to care about her motives and her fate if she were fleshed out even a little bit more. As it is, Salt is all business. We don't know how she truly feels about her husband, who's crucial to a couple of scenes, and we never know how she feels about the many acts of violence she commits over a short time -- some of them questionable, many of them deadly.
It's easy to figure out what Salt is. But who is she? That's a question the film never really seemed interested in answering.
‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ won't disappoint fans
A moon-eyed teen must choose between her vampire lover and her werewolf pal, a decision she faces amid the ever-simmering rivalry between bloodsuckers and lycanthropes.
Wait a sec, aren't we right back where we were last year on this whole 'Twilight Saga' thing?
Chapter three, 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse', seems on its surface to be nothing more than a retread of last year's retread, 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'.
Yet with the franchise under new management again, this time director David Slade (best known for the hard-core vampire horror flick '30 Days of Night'), and a stronger story than the first two, 'Eclipse' manages to do what its dreadfully dumb predecessors could not.
It almost makes believers out of those of us who don't much care whether Kristen Stewart's Bella Swan chooses vampire stud Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) or werewolf hunk Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner).
Almost. The trouble is, while 'Eclipse' may not be dreadfully dumb, it's still pretty dumb.
Slade and his collaborators use that to their advantage here and there, lightening up on the relentless gloom of the first two movies by making fun of some of the franchise's silliness (why not slip in your own wisecrack about Lautner's constant shirtlessness, rather than letting the audience snicker on its own each time he shows off his torso?).
Still, the filmmakers made 'Eclipse' for the 'Twilight' faithful, so while the movie's a bit more light on its feet, it wallows in what fans love most, that whiny romantic triangle among a schoolgirl and her two beastie boys.
This time around, Bella's dealing with all those transitional developments teens face -- high school graduation, saying goodbye to classmates, whether or not to let her boyfriend turn her into a vampire so they can stay young, beautiful and broody together forever.
Her still-chaste dalliance with Edward and friendship with Jacob take on new strains as the Cullen vampire clan and the local werewolf pack join forces to battle the Newborn Army, which is far more formidable than the diaper brigade the name implies.
The Newborn Army is made up of newly bred vampires -- who, in author Stephenie Meyer's fantasy realm, are at their most powerful and bloodthirsty when fresh off the showroom floor.
Of course, the newborns are coming after Bella, as is her old enemy, evil vampire redhead Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard, taking over the role played by Rachelle Lefevre in the first two movies).
And a band of Volturi, the uppercrust snobs of the vampire world, also are on the trail, led by Dakota Fanning in a slightly expanded role after her blink-and-you'll-miss-her appearance in 'New Moon'.
The cast of vamps and wolfies is getting too big to mention everyone, but all the key players are back, with Nikki Reed and Jackson Rathbone of the Cullen clan stepping up this time with some nice flashbacks detailing their vampire origins.
With returning screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg delivering her sharpest adaptation yet, Slade keeps the rather episodic story moving at a good clip, though things still bog down often enough in the same old routine. Bella begging Edward to turn her into a vampire, Jacob pleading with Bella to fall for him, Edward snarling at Jacob to stay away from his woman, Jacob snarling back.
The stars remain a boring threesome, Stewart limping through supposedly impassioned speeches as though Bella already were one of the cold-blooded undead.
Pattinson and Lautner at least have perfected their shallow mugging and one-upping, and they're clearly having fun as Edward and Jacob try to out-sneer each other.
But enough quibbling. Meyer's millions of fans know what they want in a good 'Twilight' movie, and they are going to love 'Eclipse'.
The bad news for fans: Only one more book left to bring to the big screen. The good news: Meyer's fourth installment, 'Breaking Dawn', is being split into two movies. More bad news: They'll have to wait longer between chapters, with part one of 'Breaking Dawn' due in theatres on November 18, 2011. More good news: Bill Condon, the guy behind the clever 'Frankenstein'-themed 'Gods and Monsters', is directing the last two movies.
With the sharp improvement in part three, could 'The Twilight Saga' actually grow a brain for its finale?
`Predators' multiplies the original.
The little "s" in 'Predators' winkingly promises more beasts in the latest sequel to John McTiernan's 1987 original (and singular) 'Predator'.
The subtle ploy worked for 'Aliens', and one wonders if a simple twist of plurality would entice as well in follow-ups such as 'Taxi Drivers' or 'The Apartments'.Nevertheless, true to its pledge, 'Predators' supplies a whole bunch of them, in various shapes and sizes.
This, the third 'Predator' film (there have also been two 'Predator vs. Alien' spinoffs), opens with Adrien Brody in free-fall. His parachute barely opens in time, and he crashes hard onto the floor of a jungle. Others fall around him, and soon a group of eight gathers to make sense of their situation.
They are all mercenaries of various sorts, among them a Mexican drug cartel veteran (Danny Trejo), a Brazilian black ops sniper (Alice Braga) and a Yakuza assassin (Louis Ozawa Changchien).
Topher Grace, playing a doctor and the least muscular of the bunch, also drops in for comic relief. The always entertaining Grace does help enliven the purposeful grimness of 'Predators', as does Walton Goggins (exceptional in the FX series 'Justified'), who plays a wild death-row inmate, still clad in orange jumpsuit.
This motley crew knows not how or why they've been assembled. But when they get their first sense of the lurking predators (still with the dreadlocked monster look of the original) and notice the sky contains a few too many moons, it dawns on them that they've been transported to another planet to serve as little more than the game of a predator game preserve.
There are, of course, a few holes in such a plot and, thankfully, 'Predators' doesn't try to explain them. It's enough that a gang of alien predators and a gang of human predators square off, or so goes the appeal of this and earlier 'Predator' films.
The "most dangerous game" thrill is so much the center of 'Predator' movies that there's almost nothing else to it. The hunter vs. hunted dynamic climaxes when the star, first Arnold Schwarzenegger and now Brody, covers himself in mud. For those unfamiliar with the sensory capabilities of the predator species, mud-caking is done to disrupt their infrared vision. As in the original, we're occasionally treated to their blurry, red-and-orange point-of-view, which remains the most interesting visual of the series.
Director Nimrod Antal ('Kontroll', 'Armored') has preserved that trademark and kept the bloody action set in the gritty green of a jungle, all slickly shot. The predators still bleed glowing neon green, like a spilled lava lamp.
"'Predators' stays close to the more hallucinogenic original, to which it pays homage when Isabella (Braga) recalls being a witness to the events of McTiernan's film '87. Guatemala'," she intones. The new movie has its origins in a script written by Robert Rodriguez in the 1990s. When Twentieth Century Fox decided to do it, Rodriguez was enlisted to produce. His name lends the film credibility and fans will likely be pleased to see the Quentin Tarantino collaborator.
There isn't anything as comically grisly as the exploding head or Carl Weathers' arm removal, both well-remembered moments from the original 'Predator'. Much of the drama in 'Predators' comes not from the aliens but from the infighting among humans, who are predators, too.
Laurence Fishburne, in a Col. Kurtz-like cameo, plays a loony survivor who has managed to stay alive.
'Despicable Me' is cool-looking but slight.
Despite some clever moments and colorful characters, 'Despicable Me' could have been called 'Forgettable Me' instead.
It has a pleasingly off-kilter look about it, the work of a French animation house, a strong voice cast led by Steve Carell as the bumbling bad guy Gru and a delightfully cruel sense of humor. It's actually darker and odder than most family-friendly animated fare, and that's a good thing until it goes predictably soft and gooey at the end.
But what's mainly missing from this first animated 3-D offering from Universal is story. There's just nothing to'Despicable Me' and that becomes glaringly obvious, when you compare it to this summer's 'Toy Story 3' in particular and Pixar movies in general, where story is paramount.
Here, the look of the film is what makes it stand out amid the glut of summer cartoons. The characters are cute in their weirdness, down to Gru's shaggy, growling dog. Even the trio of spunky orphans crucial to Gru's latest diabolical plan, Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) are adorable in an unusual
way.
The scene-stealers, though, are the Minions: tiny, yellow, pill-shaped creatures with one eye and sometimes twowho carry out Gru's evil deeds. At least, they try. But they're also super-cute: bouncing around, reveling inmischief and babbling to each other in their own gibberish. If 'Despicable Me' had come out closer to Christmas, Minions probably would have made great stocking stuffers. The movie starts out promisingly enough, though.
Directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud and written by Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul (from a story by Sergio Pablos), it moves along breezily with slapstick energy and a multitude of sight gags.
The heavyset Gru, with his hunched carriage, indeterminate Eastern European accent and environmentally unfriendly vehicle, hatches a plan to steal the moon. Who cares that doing so will throw Earth out of whack?
He figures this is the best way to compete with Vector (Jason Segel), a hyperactive, up-and-coming villain whose retro-cool lair resembles a boutique hotel. But Vector has the shrink ray Gru needs to zap the moon down to a manageable size, so he adopts the trio of plucky young orphans and sends them into the house under the guise of selling cookies as a means of gaining access.
He also gets some vague help back at his own evil-doing compound from his elderly assistant, Dr. Nefario, whose hearing problems lead to some unfortunate mix-ups. (Russell Brand voices the character in a surprisingly understated way, which isn't the best use of his comic persona.)
Naturally, the girls will melt Gru's icy heart, especially as it becomes more apparent (through a series of sweetly sad flashbacks) that his villainy is a reaction to his impossible-to-please mother (voiced with perfect dismissiveness by Julie Andrews).
That much is obvious from a mile away, so the final-act threats to keep them apart don't seem quite somenacing. 'Despicable Me' throws everything it's got at us, though sometimes, literally.
The 3-D gimmick of flinging stuff at the audience gets played up for knowing laughs here, especially during the closing credits. Kids will dig it, adults will smile with amusement, and no one will be any different afterward than they were walking into the theater.
'The Expendables' is an exercise in nostalgia for the bygone era of muscly, macho action films. It's willfully out of date, like an aging hair band that can't pack away the spandex.
Sylvester Stallone, the director, co-writer and star, has said he set out to make a movie "with brains and brawn, not modern technology."
Stallone thus comes across as a kind of Rip Van Winkle, had Van Winkle only been a die-hard Guns 'N Roses fan. 'The Expendables' is awash in motorcycles, tattoos, black leather, glistening biceps and big guns. Though the 'Rambo' star's suggestion that contemporary movies have lost something of their masculinity and authenticity bears some truth, surely the answer isn't to pretend the last two decades never happened.
But here we are with 'The Expendables', which immediately -- and without irony -- announces its defense of such kitsch with, yes, a fade to a full moon.
Stallone is Barney Ross, the leader of a group of mercenaries who are played by most of the remaining defenders of high body count, testosterone-filled action: the British action star Jason Statham (blade expert Lee Christmas), the Chinese martial artist Jet Li (as Yin Yang), WWE wrestler Steve Austin (Paine), ultimate fighter Randy Couture (Toll Road), former NFL player and Old Spice commercial actor Terry Crews (as the absurdly named Hale Caesar) and Dolph Lundgren, famously the Russian boxer Ivan Drago from the 'Rocky' films (as the loose cannon Gunner Jensen).
Parody specialists Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have found their formula and are sticking with it despite what any of the rest of us might think. The duo, responsible for such stinkers as 'Date Movie', 'Epic Movie' and 'Disaster Movie', now have turned their puny sights on the rabid pop culture phenomenon of sexy vampires.
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Or rather, just the 'Twilight' series, as 'Vampires Suck' would be more accurately titled 'Twilight Sucks'. Ignoring such contemporary bloodsucker-themed hits as HBO's 'True Blood' and the CW's 'The Vampire Diaries', not to mention stalwarts like Dracula or the works of Anne Rice, this witless Fox spoof instead merely provides an unfunny scene-by-scene retread of the first two movies in the hugely successful franchise.
Thus, it dutifully trots out slightly renamed versions of the iconic 'Twilight' characters, including the romantically torn Becca (Jenn Proske) and her dueling suitors, the taciturn vampire Edward Sullen (Matt Lanter) and hunky werewolf Jacob White (Chris Riggi). If you think Jacob peeing on a tree or Becca farting in Edward's face when he attempts to climb into bed with her are the height of comic wit, then you're clearly of the adolescent mind-set to which these films cater.
The director-screenwriters, clearly aware of their target audiences' lack of sophistication, are not even ashamed to trot out such hoary gags as when a horde of vampires hungrily devour Chinese food and Edward observes that they'll be hungry again in a half-hour.
As they've done with all their efforts, they also inject an endless amount of current pop-culture references as possible, in this case with gags devoted to 'Jersey Shore', the Kardashians, Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods, Chris Brown and Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland'. (To their credit, they also bite the hand that feeds them, in the form of a dig directed at Fox News).
There's a joke or broad sight gag every 15 seconds or so, but the ratio of hits to misses is nearly nonexistent. The sole truly funny bit, riffing on the homoerotic subtext of the werewolves' penchant for constantly exposing their chiseled torsos, features Jacob and his fellow lycanthropes bursting into an exuberant dance routine to the song 'It's Raining Men'.
The main performers do a reasonably good job of parodying the 'Twilight' leads, with Proske particularly effective in subtly lampooning Kristen Stewart's moody mannerisms.
'Eat Pray Love' will satisfy fans
'Eat Pray Love' does exactly what it should to satisfy its core audience: It provides a gorgeous escape which looks exquisitely photographed and is full of female wish fulfillment. Yet it also offers sufficient emotional heft and self-discovery to make you feel as if you've actually learned something and, perhaps, emerged a better person solely through osmosis.
It's easy to see why author Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir became an international phenomenon, even without help from Oprah. Everyone's looking for something, for answers, for their true and higher purpose, and Gilbert had the fortitude (and the wherewithal) to take off alone on a journey around the world to find herself after her divorce.
Having Julia Roberts star as Liz Gilbert in the film version of the best-seller, in theory, only makes it more appealing to an even wider audience. Roberts is radiant as ever, and director and co-writer Ryan Murphy's adaptation allows her to show off her full range with plenty of hardcore hanky moments. Not unlike the production numbers in Murphy's juggernaut TV series 'Glee', the search for meaning in 'Eat Pray Love' is played with complete earnestness. But even cynics viewing this movie (or the vast majority of men) would find it hard not to be impressed by the lush visuals and, on a more substantive level, moved by some of the performances.
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The stars of 'Ocean's Eleven' that includes George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon has been named the best heist movie crew in a new poll.
In the survey conducted by MovieTickets.com, 'Ocean's Eleven' beat actor Mark Wahlberg's 'The Italian Job' to land the top spot, reports contactmusic.
More than 12,200 film fans took part and the 'Ocean's Eleven' cast won with 57 percent votes, 'The Italian Job' got 14 percent votes.
The jewellery store robbers from 'Reservoir Dogs' wrapped up the top three.
Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he would never use Viagra because he is happy with his wife Jennifer Flavin.
The 64-year-old 'Expendables' star insists that men don't need to use pills to boost their sex life if they have an attractive lover, reports imdb.
"It's all about your partner, let's face it," he said.
Former model Flavin is Stallone's third wife and they have three daughters.
The actor believes he was natural when it came to wooing women.
"I'm a good flirt. I do flirt well. Not that I'm a great Casanova but I think women love clever banter."
Lady Gaga will be the first star to have her waxworks launched at all 10 Madame Tussauds' museums at the same time.
The total cost will be $1.5 million to model different statues of the 24-year-old pop singer," reports say.
"This is definitely one of the most ambitious projects in our history," said a source close to the project.
Britney Spears is reportedly planning to tie the knot with her boyfriend and former agent Jason Trawick, 38.
"They've decided to have a small, intimate ceremony, not a big media circus. They'd like to say 'I do' by the end of the year," dailystar quoted a source as saying.
Britney had previously been married to Jason Alexander (2004) and in the same year she tied the knot wit Kevin Federline, 32. In 2006, she filed for a divorce from Federline with whom she has two sons.
Lindsay Lohan has been ordered to undergo drug treatment and psychotherapy following her release from inpatient rehab.
Judge Elden Fox has ruled that Lohan must submit to random drug and alcohol testing twice a week as well as attend two behavioural therapy sessions weekly.
She must also have seven contacts per week with a counsellor for chemical dependency issues and attend 12-step chemical dependency sessions five times a week. In addition, she must attend four psychotherapy sessions every week, reports people.
Her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley said, "This is a new beginning for Lindsay Lohan."
Chapman added she was released early from rehab because her doctors found it was "completely unnecessary and that it was in her own best interest to move her to outpatient treatment".
The judge has also dropped two drug counts in the 'Mean Girls' star's DUI case because she had satisfied her probation requirements for those charges. However, the judge has warned that any missed or dirty tests would result in a 30-day jail sentence.
Miley Cyrus has parted ways with Australian actor Liam Hemsworth.
The two had been denying reports of their breakup for months. In June, the 17-year-old 'Hanna Montana' star rubbished reports that she and Hemsworth have split, telling fans on her website that they were "so happy".
In a recent development, Hemsworth's representative has confirmed that the couple has broken up, reports people
Since forming in 1992 the American quintet has released seven albums, with their eighth 'Hurley' due in September. A handful of American shows are on the horizon, with a quick stop in England also planned when the band perform at the Reading and Leeds Festivals.
Beginning in low-key fashion 'Memories' kicks into life with a thudding beat and crunching guitars. From this point there's no looking back as Weezer unleash the sort of indie-rock anthem that has earned a loyal fan base. Though not quite at the standard of 'Buddy Holly', it certainly has plenty of energy to enthuse a crowd and the hooks are simple enough to leave a lasting impression after the first listen. It's a welcome return from Rivers Cuomo and co., and certainly wets the appetite for their forthcoming record.
Self proclaimed 'Billionaire' Travie McCoy, from Gym Class Heroes fame, releases his debut solo album this month. The result is an eclectic mixture of electro, RnB, hip hop and indie. Whilst transitions from genre to genre may be smooth, the album simply doesn't sit right, begging us to ask the question; what sort of artist does Travis McCoy want to be?
The leading song Billionaire, although a Top 3 UK hit, seems an unusual choice as a first single due to it actually sounding very out of place, compared to the other songs off the record. Using obvious influences from Jack Johnson and Jason Mraz (the congo drums are a huge giveaway), Billionaire's success has come from blasting the song loud across summer beaches and lazy sunny days.
The album however soon diverges from genre to genre. We see pure bubblegum pop in Feel Good, reminiscent of the late Michael Jackson, rock undertones in Need you (set to be the next single off the LP), and even a bizarre sampling of Supergrass' 'Alright' in We'll be alright. Each song, even though sounding great, just seems like it shouldn't be on the album, and this becomes quite worrying when all the songs provoke such a reaction.
Travie returns to his hip-hop roots in both The Manuel and Akidagain, which has similar undertones to Jay Z's 'A Hard Knock Life'. Yet again, however, it is very strange that between these songs is We'll be alright; a song that sounds like it would be the lovechild of Supergrass and the recent 3OH!3. Why this song even made the album is beyond me. It is obvious that Travie is trying to suit all tastes and is possibly trying TOO hard on his debut effort and so in turn, not establishing a consistent record. It is not until the very last song on the album, Don't Pretend, in which we see a real side of Travie; a song dealing with the hardship of love in which we see true raw emotion and a more realistic side behind the voice. It finishes the album nicely, but one wonders why it took so long for him to get personal?
There is no denying, however, that Travie McCoy knows how to make a great pop song. He must be commended highly for writing all the songs personally, and with major popular cultural references thrown in, ranging from John Mayer to Oprah, it is evident that Travie McCoy knows exactly who he's targeting with this record. Dr Feel Good, the opening track, is pure fantastic pop, combining retro funk with rap, creating a strange concoction that has to be released as a future single. After Midnight (a song you would expect off a JLS album) also proves to be a fun pop song that you can imagine playing in clubs across the world.
Generically, this album is good and one shouldn't criticise it too much. But it simply is just that; good, not great. As a debut album, it should be able to define Travie McCoy as an artist and it sadly fails on this. Jumping from different genres does not pay off and the result is an album that's good to listen to but nothing to rave on about. Travie has got a long way to go still until he can detach himself from Gym Class Heroes and be the 'billionaire' he very much wishes to be.
Dubstep or not to-dubstep? That's not even a question.
In a post-dubstep world, possibly starring Denzil Washington, London duo Mount Kimbie, namely Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, have steadfastly risen to kings in waiting. Meeting at Southbank University, the pair moved into a home studio in Peckham and in between pints in the Nag's Head with Trigger, their sound was born.
Based around the usually sub-focussed dubstep sound, theirs turns the sub right down in order to enhance gentler percussion and melodies. Atmospheric soundscapes are sampled and tied to looped stabs to create a sound that effortlessly grows yet is completely entrancing.
Choosing to remix two of the biggest artists of the year is akin to staking your weekend beer fund on a 10-game accumulator then telling all your mates. Fuck it up and there's no chance of recovery but pull it off and you're in for the biggest Saturday night of your caning career so far. (...We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline.) Mount Kimbie have won the pools. Their remix of The XX's 'Basic Space' on its own would make you dribble, but their version of Foals' 'Spanish Sahara' is enough to convert even the staunchest of guitar heroes to the possibilities of electronic music.
These, on the back of last year's two exceptional EP's ('Sketch on Glass' has recently undergone a makeover of its own), provide the context for 'Crooks & Lovers.' An album that will undoubtedly feature alongside Total Life Forever and XX on albums of the year lists from here, to all the way over there.
'Before I Move Off's' delicate looped synth combines with raindrop drip bleeps before a stab falsetto vocal and clap combo ensure smiles all round. The evoked imagery is university hall lawns drenched in summertime, cheap lager and rolled cigarettes. You can't do anything else but enjoy it. 'Carbonated' too, is warm and engaging. Light percussion with reverb provides an almost greenhouse effect, as the female vocal loop and two-step beat juxtapose to produce a slowed down garage feel.
The contrast with 'Blind Night Errand' is starker than Johnny Vegas at a Harvester salad cart. Smiles are replaced by forearms and elbows as the brooding buzzing takes full affect. It's a much purer dubstep sound before the familiar falsetto stab returns for the fade out. 'Ode To Bear' is the opposite. Keats-esque in name; melodic and peaceful in sound, the melody gently paws at a door swinging back on its hinges, inviting you into a 2010, post-post-Romantic world.
Penultimate track 'Mayor' is the party piece. Set up by the schizophrenic 'Field,' tap dancing clogs provide an intro for the most driving bassline on the record. Another vocal stab sits atop more raindrop drip bleeps as the bass is turned up and down on queue.
The post-club album is always a tricky one for the host; enough to keep everyone going but not too much that they'll want to tap out and go to bed. 1991 had 'Screamadelica,' 2010 has 'Crooks and Lovers.' It's that good. Just be gracious when the compliments start flying your way.
On its tenth anniversary Summer Sundae, the crown jewel in the Midlands festival schedule, is showing no signs of slowing down. The weekender is an annual pilgrimage for many in the surrounding area (and for Contacmusic.com) and has built a reputation on mainstream, family friendly headliners and an eclectic undercard. This year's headliners may be underwhelming when compared to 2009's choices; Seasick Steve, Tinchy Stryder and Mumford & Sons being this years counterparts of The Streets, The Charlatans and The Zutons, but there is still enough across the sites four stages to attract interest.
The first day is hit by several cancellations, a seemingly ever-present occurrence at Summer Sundae, with The Wave Pictures and Fanfarlo pulling out of the festival with hours notice. In the place of the former is Eliza Doolittle, or Amy Winehouse mk.4589 as she is known to her friends. She, predictably, performs a limp set of utterly forgettable and soulless soul and swing. Thankfully Nottingham shoegazers Spotlight Kid provide sufficient mid-afternoon entertainment with their swirling, fuzz-soaked pop gems. More than a passing nod is made to My Bloody Valentine and Ride et al, but Spotlight Kid threaten to break new ground in the ever-staler genre, accommodating the pulsing rhythms and vicious under-current of former band Model Morning. After this Teenage Club provide a set much more refreshing and satisfying than the umpteen number of shoegaze/c86 reformations currently clogging up mid-size London venues, partly due to their enthusiasm and ear for a gorgeous understated melody, and partly due to the fact that they play 'Star Sign', perhaps the most under-rated alt-pop song of the past 20 years.
Later on there is only one winner in the headliner battle between Seasick Steve and Roots Manuva, and that is the latter, the godfather of UK Rap. For whilst both are rightly recognised as kingpins and master showmen of their respective genres Roots is simply unmissable, somehow taking the complex-but-catchy beat-driven jams that he has made an an art-form further into the stratosphere. He is at once hilarious and thought-provoking, an MC and a poet. His newer material is as strong as any spanning his 15 year plus career, drifting into dubstep territories that bring to mind Joker at his most playful, but it is, of course, the iconic 'Witness' that is the unquestionable highlight. Roots builds up the crowd for several minutes, throwing out lines from the song and always threatening to unleash. When he does the crowd erupts, riding on the earthquake basslines and near-nonsense raps that thrust him into the limelight. It is a perfect festival moment, one which realises the full potential of an artist and completely unites the audience.
It is also a moment that puts the next day in quite a shadow. Already one of the worst single day line-ups in the festivals ten year history, it serves as little more than a comedown from the previous day's events. Outside of Gaggle's overpowering 38-legged drum and bass maelstrom and The Fall, who manage to stay on the right side of the unhinged/unlistenable boundary, there is little to keep the attention, particularly in the near-torrential downpours that turn the usually pristine grounds into a mud-pit.
The DrownedInSound endorsed Indoor Stage offers the highlights of not only Sunday but the entire weekend. The Besnard Lakes dazzle with their windswept post-cum-stadium rock, and DeMontfort Hall's main chamber is the perfect setting for the Montreal quartet; large enough for each falsetto and solo to ring out without fading into nothing, and built with the same romantic, regal air. New single 'Albatross' is a whirlwind of howls and fuzzy riffs that removes the paranoia and liquor from Galaxie 500 and injects a dose of mid-eighties pop.
Despite starting rather half-heartedly Errors eventually impress, moving on from clich'd, mid-focus electro to bubbling soundscapes that build organically and give nods to early electronic purveyors Kraftwerk as well as label head honchos Mogwai. Los Campesinos follow, and whilst there is endless enthusiasm and determination from the band they fall short of hitting the mark, particularly on the more reserved tracks from their latest album 'Romance Is Boring', where lead vocalist Gareth's caterwauls jut out uncomfortably above the octets' indulgent (albiet oft-enticing) not-quite-post indie rock.
Putting in the penultimate performance of the stage's proceedings, Frightened Rabbit return to the festival with one of the sets of the weekend. The Scottish five-piece are simply irresistible, with songs full of earworm pop hooks and lyrics that sound as apt shouted drunkenly on rainy Glasgow streets as written on schoolbooks. The set is split half and half between 2008's classic 'The Midnight Organ Fight' and 2010's 'The Winter Of Mixed Drinks', with those from the latter really coming to life when let free on-stage. 'Living In Colour' and 'The Wrestle' burn with a new energy; tempos are upped and every word is more strained, every riff pushed just that little bit further into distortion. Lazy comparisons are often made between Frightened Rabbit and latter day Idlewild, but live there is a true similarity with their fellow Scots circa 'The Modern Way Of Letting You Go', with boundless visceral energy driving their intelligent, hard-nosed and bleary-eyed indie-rock.
Although not an official close to the weekends proceedings it is the perfect one, leaving a sampling of nearby curry house Akash as an unconventional but immensely rewarding after-party (tip; try the chicken breast Bhuna, with extra chillies if desired). Summer Sundae is never going to challenge the larger festivals with its line-up and laid back attitude but it is a welcome break from the typical gargatuan masses of dirt and violence, and can offer numerous surprises and delights.