Sunshine Cleaning, a review…
October 22, 2008 at 8:17 am | Posted in film | Leave a commentTags: Alan Arkin, Amy Adams, Christine Jeffs, comedy, Emily Blunt, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn
- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Christine Jeffs
- Cast: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn
A single mom and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy Sunshine Cleaning. Directed by Christine Jeffs (Rain, Sylvia), this uplifting film about an average family that finds the path to its dreams in an unlikely setting screened in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski (Academy Award nominee Amy Adams) now finds herself a thirty something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah, (Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt), is still living at home with their dad Joe (Academy Award winner Alan Arkin), a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes. Desperate to get her son into a better school, Rose persuades Norah to go into the crime scene clean-up business with her to make some quick cash. In no time, the girls are up to their elbows in murders, suicides and other…specialized situations. As they climb the ranks in a very dirty job, the sisters find a true respect for one another and the closeness they have always craved finally blossoms. By building their own improbable business, Rose and Norah open the door to the joys and challenges of being there for one another—no matter what—while creating a brighter future for the entire Lorkowski family. (from: www.apple.com)
Pray the Devil Back To Hell, a review…
October 22, 2008 at 8:12 am | Posted in film | Leave a commentTags: Documentary, Etty Weah, Etweda “Sugars” Cooper, film, Foreign, Gini Reticker, Janet Johnson Bryant, Leymah Gbowee, movie, movies, Pray the Devil Back To Hell, review, Vaiba Flomo
In theaters: December 12, 2008
- Genre : Foreign, Documentary
- Director : Gini Reticker
- Cast : Leymah Gbowee, Etweda “Sugars” Cooper, Vaiba Flomo, Etty Weah, Janet Johnson Bryant
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the gripping account of a group of brave women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a decades-long civil war. The women’s historic achievement finds its voice in a narrative that intersperses interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia together to recount the memories of a few of the women who were there. In 2003, Liberia was a country devastated by decades of political dislocation, humanitarian crisis, and street-to-street urban warfare. Charles Taylor, then President of Liberia, had emptied the country’s pockets as creatively as any dictator in memory. His ascent to power led to the deaths of thousands of people and a nation in complete ruin. Out of the wreckage, more than 2000 Christian and Muslim women throughout the country began to organize and banded together in an effort to bring an end to the fighting. At great person risk, they protested creatively and persistently for peace in the worst days of brutal and protracted civil conflict. The Academy Award-nominated team Gini Reticker, Kate Taverna and Kirsten Johnson teamed up with Abigail E. Disney to produce this powerful documentary feature. (from: www.apple.com)
Coldplay to release new material
October 8, 2008 at 3:39 pm | Posted in celebrity news | Leave a commentTags: band, celebrity, celebrity news, coldplay, group, music, review
As promised, Coldplay will quickly follow-up Viva La Vida with a new E.P. this year.
Fans will only have to wait until next month for ‘Prospekt’s March’, a new collection of Coldplay songs, some recorded during, but not used, for Viva La Vida.
The core of the E.P. will be a new version of ‘Lost’ featuring Jay-Z plus the new song ‘Glass of Water’ that has already made its way into the Coldplay setlist.
Missing is the song ‘Luna’, recorded with Kylie Minogue. Its release shall now become one of the all-time collectible Coldplay bootlegs.
Prospekt’s March tracklisting is:
Life In Technicolour II
Postcards From Far Away
Glass Of Water
Rainy Day
Prospekt’s March / Poppyfields
Lost +
Lovers in Japan (Osaka Sun remix)
Now My Feet Won’t Touch The Ground
(from: www.music-news.com)
Jennifer Lopez suffers nervous breakdown…
October 8, 2008 at 3:33 pm | Posted in celebrity news | Leave a commentTags: actress, celebrity, celebrity news, info, Jennifer Lopez, lifestyle, singer
The singer-and-actress, who has two children with husband Marc Anthony, was working on movie ‘Enough’ in 2002 when she ‘froze’ and realised she had to slow down.
She told website The Daily Beast: ‘There was a time when I was very overworked and I was doing music and movies and so many things. I was suffering from a lack of sleep. And I did have a kind of nervous breakdown. I froze up in my trailer. I was like, ‘I don’t want to move. I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to do anything.’ It was on that movie ‘Enough’.
“I kept saying, ‘I’m not weak. I’m not weak.’ It’s funny what tricks your mind plays on you. I just didn’t want people to think I was falling apart.’
Jennifer decided not to consult a therapist about the breakdown, but followed her doctor’s instructions to take a break from her hectic schedule.
She added: ‘My bodyguard picked me up and put me in the car and they took me to a doctor. Right away they want to give you pills. But I have never liked the idea of pills and kept saying no. My doctor said. ‘You’re sleep deprived. You’re overworked. Go home and go to bed.’ He told me to go back to work on Monday after a weekend of sleeping. So that’s what I did. I’ve still never been to a shrink. I’m not a shrinky person.” (from: www.music-news.com)
August Evening, a review…
October 8, 2008 at 7:13 am | Posted in film | Leave a commentTags: Abel Becerra, August Evening, Chris Eska, drama, film, movies, Pedro Castaneda, review, Sandra Rios, Veronica Loren, Walter Perez
Genre: Drama
Shiver, a review…
October 4, 2008 at 4:32 am | Posted in film | Leave a commentTags: Blanca Martinez, film, Francesc Orella, Isidro Ortiz, Jaime Barnatan, Junio Valverde, Mar Sodupe, movie, review, Thriller
Genre: Thriller
Director:Isidro Ortiz
Cast:Junio Valverde, Mar Sodupe, Jaime Barnatan, Blanca Martinez, Francesc Orella
Junio Valverdi of THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE stars as Santi, a bullied teen who suffers from a rare and violent allergy to sunlight. When his condition worsens, he and his mother are forced to move to a remote village in the mountains. His arrival marks the beginning of a series of brutal slayings. Something is alive deep in the shadowy forest. Can a frightened outcast find safety in the darkness or does the ultimate terror wait in the most unexpected place of all? Francesc Orella and Mar Sodupe co-star in this chilling Spanish horror thriller from acclaimed director Isidro Ortiz (FAUSTO 5.0) and featuring art direction by Pilar Revuelta, Oscar® winner for PAN’S LABYRINTH. (from: www.apple.com)
Synecdoche, New York (a review…)
October 4, 2008 at 4:04 am | Posted in film | Leave a commentTags: Catherine Keener, Charlie Kaufman, Dianne Wiest, drama, Emily Watson, film, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Williams, movie, New York, Philip Seymour Hoffman, review, Samantha Morton, Synecdoche
Genre: Drama
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems (Dianne Wiest), a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs. (from: www.apple.com)
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