Red Riding Hood

An interesting movie. By the same guy who did Twilight. It had good effects and an interesting plot (even though we kind of all know the story...duh little red riding hood), but it's a grown up version. Amanda's good in it and the two guys are kind of hot...I didn't know who they were, but you can check them out below. Entertaining, but not going to win any awards.

Shiloh Fernandez (plays Peter)

Max Irons (plays Henry...kinda really digging him)

Amanda Seyfriend...gorgeous as always.

The Adjustment Bureau

This movie was kind of interesting, but definitely entertaining. It had a different kind of perspective. A lot of people didn't recommend it so I didn't go see it in the theaters, but I thought it was pretty good. I also thought it was going to be about the government, but it was more of a love story, which I liked. And I don't want to give away the ending so I won't tell you exactly what the plot was :) I like both Emily and Matt though too.

The dancers in it were really good. They are actually from the company Cedar Lake, which is the same name as in the movie.

I think she is so beautiful.

Cedar Lake dancers and Emily Blunt.

Black Swan

So I finally watched Black Swan.

Loved it. It was so creepy, but really good and enthralling at the same time. I couldn't take my eyes away. The dancing was amazing. The sets and costumes were to die for. And I am in love with Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman. She was so amazing in this. Now I know what everyone was talking about.

The story line was really different and I think that's what I liked the most. It's definitely not a movie that I would run out and buy after watching, but it's a must see. It makes you think a lot. It also made me miss dancing so much! And makes me want to get in shape! They are so tiny in this.

Look at this costume...gorgeous.

Seriously I'm pretty sure these are the two most beautiful people in Hollywood right now.

Blue Valentine

"I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married we marry, like, one girl, ‘cause we’re resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think, ‘I’d be an idiot if I didn’t marry this girl she’s so great’. But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best option… ‘Oh he’s got a good job.’ I mean they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming and then they marry the guy who’s got a good job and is gonna stick around."

Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine

I just watched this movie. It was so sad and depressing, but I liked something about it at the same time. I think it's the real life aspect. Kind of the same reason that I like "The Last Kiss" and "The Breakup", except there really aren't any funny parts in this one. It just shows what real life is. How some parts can be so great, and then sometimes it's just so hard. Same with a relationship. How they can take two beautiful people and make them look so ordinary. This movie would not be for everyone. Jake hated it. Just makes you think a lot. I hope that if I find someone that I'm crazy about we can make things work and stay together. I hope that my life works out and I'm happy :).

Country Strong

I have a new obsession...

This movie.

I loved everything about it. All the characters (and actors) and the story. I'm in love with Garrett Hedlund. I always wanted to end up with a cowboy...one with a nice voice is a plus :)

My three favorite parts I think were these:

1. When she sings to the little boy with cancer. The little boy was so cute. I cried :(

2. When these two sing together. I've posted this song on here before.

3. When Gwyneth sings "Coming Home". I also am obsessed with her dress. ahhh.

Television Critique: 'Too Huge to Fail'

William Hurt stars in the HBO original film from Curtis Hanson, "Too Big to Fail"

Television Critique: 'Too Huge to Fail'

A tale with the 2008 financial meltdown comes to HBO, with straightforward direction by Curtis Hanson along with a sizable cast led by William Hurt.

"Too Massive to Fail," which premieres Monday on HBO, is the most up-to-date of that network's high-toned original films ("Recount," "The Late Shift," "From the Earth to the Moon," the upcoming "Game Change") in which a big cast of medium-big-to-big-named actors assume the skin of the real folks to place you backstage at background. In this situation - the story of the 2008 economic meltdown as well as the try to retain us all from ruin - the paint is barely dry on the actual events. Indeed, their ongoing consequences will affect the next election.

Directed by Curtis Hanson ("L.A. Confidential," "8 Mile") from a screenplay by Peter Gould ("Breaking Bad") and determined by Andrew Ross Sorkin's book of the same name, "Too Massive to Fail" is quite constant low-key entertainment if not precisely enlightening (for the reason that it is an impersonation of the truth) or gripping (due to the fact we already know how it sort of ends). Structurally, it truly is a little like an episode of "House," a series of surgeries and injections requiring further surgeries and injections but without having the tidy fourth-act cure, along with a little like a disaster film, where the disaster is nonetheless rumbling on in the movie's end, just not as awfully because it could possibly have, and also a small like a samurai film, exactly where the soldiers carry cellphones rather than swords, minus the action. Hanson's direction is admirably straightforward; he doesn't try and compensate for what is basically a story of wealthy white men talking about funds with overcomposed or flashy visuals or an unsettling sound style

In some respects I am a bear of small brain. Fannie Mae will usually be the title of a Buster Brown song to me, and at initially a great deal with the matter right here and lots of with the several characters went by in a blur of blue suits and gobbledygook - considerably like my expertise of the crisis itself, for that matter. At some point, the players resolve vaguely into teams, following which watching is less about keeping the lots of details straight than tracking the power flow.

Nonetheless, the filmmakers have tried to touch every one of the important bases, and there are actually possibly six lines in the film that do not prompt one particular to ask, "Will this be on the test?" (There is 1 about doughnuts, 1 about oatmeal, a single about a hawk, a single about a frog, a single about Christian Science and 1 about Al Capone's gun; they may be supposed to add a dash of naturalism, and they stick out a mile.) Simply because they have a whole lot to let you know, movies like "Too Big to Fail" inevitably have something with the shorthand top quality of a Presidents Day pageant: "Who has chopped down my cherry tree?" "It was I, with my small hatchet." "God bless you, Mr. President!"

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson (William Hurt) is our hero right here, flanked by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke (Paul Giamatti) and then-president with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy F. Geithner (Billy Crudup). With the bankers and income guys - played by the power-suited likes of Tony Shalhoub, Bill Pullman, Michael O'Keefe and Matthew Modine - only James Woods' Dick Fuld, the CEO of Lehman Brothers, constitutes additional than a cameo, in component because Lehman was the firm that was allowed to fail and in element mainly because Fuld's famously tough demeanor guaranteed him screen time. As assistance staff on Team Paulson, Topher Grace, Cynthia Nixon, Joey Slotnick and Ayad Akhtar all do heavy lifting lightly.

The film's main argument, definitely, is the fact that we need to look kindly upon Paulson along with the finest he tried to do; the other characters we rate by no matter whether they enable or hinder him. What moral voice there exists right here mostly comes out of his mouth. "We've been late on every thing," he admits, and admits also that nobody in energy needed to regulate the monetary business due to the fact "We had been making an excessive amount of income." (That is about as pointed as the film gets on the topic of corporate greed.) Hurt, who (like his costars) seems to be playing the script as opposed to imitating the individual whose name he bears, is a tall tower of movie-star appeal, and it will not hurt our opinion of Paulson that Kathy Baker plays his wife, even though she has not much to do but sympathize.

Analysis: 'Too Huge to Fail' captures the frustration of government officials and also the arrogance of Wall Street leaders
The HBO docudrama accurately depicts the panic that gripped the Federal Reserve Bank along with the Treasury Department as they scrambled to prevent another Wonderful Depression
Midway by means of the HBO docudrama "Too Huge to Fail," the head with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York despairs that ordinary Americans "have no thought the whole point is about to fall down."

He's referring not for the stock industry, which already was plunging as the global monetary crisis struck in late-2008, but to the total U.S. economic climate because the conflagration on Wall Street threatened to spread far wider.

I covered Wall Street for The Times during that period, and also the movie accurately depicts the panic that gripped the Fed as well as the Treasury Department - and at some point a slow-to-comprehend Wall Street - as they scrambled to avert an additional Excellent Depression.

The movie, depending on a book by New York Occasions columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, captures the frustration of government officials as each hole they patched was followed by an even larger leak.

"Too Large to Fail," which premieres Monday, hews closely to actual events. But like most docu-dramas, it does condense events and conjure dialogue that never ever took location.

As an example, Richard Fuld, the chief executive of Lehman Bros. does not appear to have uttered the sacrilegious "screw Warren Buffett" remark when the famed investor offered to purchase a stake within the organization at what the CEO viewed as a fire-sale value. Fuld did, having said that, reject Buffett's proposal and, inside weeks, Lehman tipped into a record-setting bankruptcy that dwarfed earlier failures like Enron Corp.

In an business of aggressive personalities, Fuld was infamous for his drive and intensity - also as his clenched jaw as well as the angry scowl that seemed to be permanently soldered onto his face. A mediocre student surrounded by Ivy Leaguers, Fuld was a gritty trader who was determined to push Lehman into Wall Street's elite.

One more scene that in all probability was embellished - and was not in Sorkin's book - was when Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson supposedly yelled at then-presidential nominee John McCain. Inside the movie version, Paulson barks at McCain that if the Arizona senator does not back his plans, the subsequent Terrific Depression are going to be his fault.

But quite a few of the much more vivid moments, for example the stress-induced vomiting of Paulson, are grafted directly from the book. Also, the film's take on Christopher Cox, then chairman with the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking - hesitantly and incompetently - for the Lehman bankruptcy closely matches Sorkin's perform too.

An additional pair of dramatic scenes - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's exhorting lawmakers to fund a substantial Wall Street bailout and Paulson's summoning Wall Street CEOs for a fateful meeting - occurred largely as shown. "Too Large to Fail" aptly conveys Wall Street's transformation from boom-era complacency to nail-biting angst.

The Masters with the Universe - as Tom Wolfe dubbed them in "The Bonfire of the Vanities," his fictionalized 1987 portrayal of Wall Street excess - toggled from greed to fear. They loathed the thought of aiding rivals but became spooked by the deteriorating economic program - not to mention the threat to their sumptuous lifestyles.

The movie deviates from Sorkin's book by creating Paulson - the former head of Goldman Sachs who reluctantly had agreed to come to be Treasury secretary two years earlier - the spine of the narrative. He engaged in high-stakes brinksmanship to coax banks to fortify themselves as a result of mergers and lawmakers to steady the economic system by a $700-billion bailout.

Set several months following the government had rescued Bear Stearns by midwifing its sale to JPMorgan Chase, Paulson prods Lehman, the smallest with the 4 remaining investment banks, to raise capital to stop a domino impact on other banks.

He exerted as much pressure as he could on Fuld, whose denial of his company's mounting crisis led to its destruction. Lehman had survived a near-death experience in the early 1980s, and Fuld was convinced it could yet again.

Even though Lehman sank, the cumulative efforts to revive the monetary method plus the global economy eventually took hold. The U.S. economic system remains soft to this day. Nonetheless it could have already been substantially worse

Arnold and Conan: Behold and Despair

Arnold and Conan: Behold and Despair

Arnold and Conan: Behold and Despair
Will be the very publicized affair and love child that place Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback profession on hold, very good news or negative for the remake of "Conan the Barbarian," which can be due for release in August?

The remake stars Justin Momoa, a native of Hawaii, who also appears in "Game of Thrones" as the warlord Khal Drago. The original 1982 film was the first big role for Schwarzenegger who came to prominence in the 1976 documentary "Pumping Iron."

Despite the fact that both "Conan" films are sword and sandal epics they couldn't be extra distinct, judging from the trailers beneath. The original John Milius film highlighted the muscle bound actor who would later grow to be generally known as "The Terminator" and governor of California; the new film looks like an effects driven mashup of "Spartacus" and a variety of video games.

The character of Conan was designed by Texas pulp writer Robert E. Howard and 1st appeared in "Weird Tales" magazine in 1932.

The Whole Wide World (1996) Trailer




The troubled Howard's life was the topic of an acclaimed movie known as "The Whole Wide Globe," which chronicled his relationship with Novalyne Price. He was played by Vincent d'Onfrio, and she was played by Renee Zelwegger.

Watch "The Whole Wide World" trailer beneath as well.

And given that as we're inside the mood, have a look at what looks like the original "Pumping Iron" trailer - with Arnold and Lou Ferrigno competing for the 1975 Mr. Olympia title - also.

Conan the Barbarian {1982} Trailer 2





Conan The Barbarian



The most legendary Barbarian of all time is back this Summer. Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination- in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds- Conan's exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action-adventure film.

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A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.
Deftly adapted from the original works of Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and psychology of his iconic character, CONAN THE BARBARIAN stars Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui and Ron Perlman. The film is directed by Marcus Nispel, and written by Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood.

Disney's Up Coming Cruise Ship, the Disney Fantasy

Disney's Up Coming Cruise Ship

Disney's Up Coming Cruise Ship, the Disney Fantasy, will boast many new options including an elaborate new dinner show, executives revealed now in a private briefing for a compact group of journalists.

"We don't like to repeat ourselves," Disney executive Joe Lanzisero noted throughout the briefing, which took place on the line's three-month-old Disney Dream. "We have a incredibly loyal fan base, and we need to give (them) a reason to encounter each ships."

Scheduled to debut in March 2012, the two,500-passenger Disney Fantasy is usually a sister ship towards the Dream that is identical in size and common layout. But Lanzisero says the two vessels will probably be far from carbon copies of one another.

To be called "Animation Magic," the new dinner show will take place within the Animator's Palate restaurant on the Disney Fantasy and star an animated Mickey Mouse. The new show might be moreover for the Locating Nemo-themed experience involving a speaking Crush that fills the Animator's Palate restaurant on the Disney Dream.

Animator's Palate restaurants are a staple of all three Disney ships at present at sea. As on the Disney Dream, the Animator's Palate on the new Disney Fantasy may have an animation theme (pillars fashioned like massive pencils and brushes, character sketches on the walls) and involve the participation of diners.

Lanzisero offered writers attending today's briefing a sneak peek with the new Animator's Palate show as they sat from the Disney Dream's version from the restaurant. The expertise begins with diners being invited to draw a character on the placemat at their dinner spot that later will probably be incorporated in to the animated film projected on the eatery's walls.

"There's absolutely nothing much more thrilling than the very first time you see your animation on the screen," stated Lanzisero, a top rated executive at Disney's style division, Walt Disney Imagineering, who got his start out in animation. Lanzisero is overseeing the innovative improvement with the Disney Fantasy.

The new show centers around a Sorcerer-themed Mickey who appears on the walls from the restaurant just just before dinner is served. Transforming static, black-and-white drawings of Mickeys around the room into colorful, animated Mickeys, the Sorcerer Mickey introduces a montage of food-themed moments from Disney and Pixar films. The montage is set to the song "Be Our Guest" from the movie Beauty plus the Beast.

Immediately after the montage, diners possess a few minutes to total their placemat drawings, which then are whisked away behind the scenes. Throughout dinner, the walls from the room are filled with classic Disney and Pixar characters celebrating more than meals, after which soon after dinner Sorcerer Mickey returns for a finale that incorporates the passenger drawings.

During the demonstration of the dinner show, which was completed in a sped-up format not having a meal being served, the drawings of the journalists and Disney executives in attendance may very well be observed dancing across the walls with the space with Disney characters including Jiminy Cricket.

As the show ends, credits roll on screen showing the names of the "guest animator" diners whose function was just shown.

The new dinner show is 1 of about half a dozen new elements for the Disney Fantasy revealed currently. Executives also showed off plans for a nighttime entertainment district on the ship that varies markedly from the one with the Disney Dream (see related story), plus the line also plans a brand new show for the ship's principal theater that has an Aladdin theme. Disney's Aladdin -- A Musical Spectacular, it'll be named.

Also new will be a salon known as Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique where young children can get princess and pirate makeovers (hair, nails and makeup) and buy Princess costumes total with crown, wand and shoes. Among the packages obtainable will probably be "Captain Mickey Mouse" and "Princess Minnie Mouse" makeovers. Costs for the packages have nevertheless to be set, but executives say they'll be roughly exactly the same as at related salons at Disney parks on land

Lanzisero also announced that the atrium of the ship will function a cast bronze statue of "Mademoiselle Minnie Mouse." Inside a Disney tradition, every single of its ship features a single primary character in its atrium that serves as a focal point for Disney fans.

The Disney Fantasy's maiden voyage is scheduled for March 31, 2012, out of Port Canaveral. The ship will sail seven-night Caribbean itineraries, alternating among an Eastern Caribbean route (with stops in St. Maarten and St. Thomas) and a Western Caribbean route (Grand Cayman, Costa Maya, Cozumel). Exceptional Eastern Caribbean sailings in November and December 2012 will stop in St. Thomas and San Juan, Puerto Rico. All of the itineraries will contain a cease at Disney's private island within the Bahamas, Castaway Cay.

Fares for the voyages start off at $959 per person for a regular inside stateroom, according to double occupancy

Disney's Up Coming Cruise Ship, the Disney Fantasy

Theater "The Pride" a 50-Year Journey of Self-Discovery

Theater

"The Pride" a 50-Year Journey of Self-Discovery

It's a remarkable play which will take a little, human story that is been told before and not simply inform it in an original way but transform it into a cathartic and hopeful reminder of how the seismology of the world has shifted more than the past 50 years.

Paragon Theatre's "The Pride" sounds like a variation on that cheesy 1982 film, "Making Appreciate," when Kate Jackson discovers her ideal husband has fallen in appreciate with one more man. But British playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell's "The Pride" is so much more than a coming-out story. Devoid of waving any pride flags, it really is an alternatingly sophisticated and brutal chronicle with the collective gay journey from repression as well as criminality to freedom and self-acceptance - for everyone involved.

Campbell does it by adopting a daring and maybe unprecedented playwriting structure. In her story, married Phillip confronts his long-repressed attraction for other males when he meets the dashing Oliver, his wife's most effective male buddy. The ensuing story covers just 19 months. But when the play begins in 1958, it ends in 2008.

How? Campbell not merely presents her 10 scenes inside a juggled order, she alternates the year and societal context in which each and every 1 plays out, generating this not just the story of three persons but of millions over the past five decades.

It begins as an extremely polite, pretty British 1958 parlor comedy (almost). Sylvia (Barbra Andrews) not only introduces her buttoned-up husband Phillip (Jarrad Holbrook) to her handsome, Coward-esque young employer, Oliver (Jake Walker), she very substantially would like for them to "get along" as buddies. Obviously, they come to be a lot more than that.

The next scene fast-forwards to Phillip moving out - on Oliver. They haven't aged, but it really is now 2008. Turns out Oliver's lifelong sexual addiction, combined with all the cumulative damage of Phillip's lifetime of self-denial, is not going to make their ride a smooth a single.

One with the most outstanding characters ever put to page is Sylvia, who finds a way to apply the upheaval in her own life toward her personal liberation, while remaining fiercely loyal to all the guys she loves.

Skillfully jutting back and forth in time lets us know early on how these three vastly distinctive metamorphoses will finish, though infusing an unpredictable and discombobulating power into the storytelling.

It is an epic play, and Paragon director Taylor Gonda has elicited indelible, honest performances to go with it. That begins with an unnervingly all-natural Walker, who wears the deeply flawed but eminently understandable Oliver like a second skin. Walker is utterly convincing inside a nuanced, breakout efficiency opposite a wholly immersed Holbrook as the tortured latent whose fight

against his organic self leads him to a harrowing homosexuality aversion clinic.

There are actually clues in the script that suggest these two actors are physically mismatched for one particular one more, but the total commitment to their nuanced performances is undeniable.

While these are colossal transformations, it truly is Andrews' element in all this that elevates the play to an additional level and opens its arms to a wider audience. Her Sylvia calls herself a cliche, an oblivious, cuckolded wife, but this lady of unshakable decency is anything but. And though her path may well be unusual, her destination will likely be knowable to all females.

Life has tossed her a cruel hand, as each spurned wife to one particular man and very best pal to his lover. Andrews delivers a heartbreaking portrayal of a wife who deep down understands anything, all along, and is just waiting for somebody to let her in - and therefore let her out.

David Cates plays all of the support characters, offering each comic relief as a Nazi callboy, and also a chilling reality verify because the 1958 aversion therapist determined to vomit the gay out of Phillip. These are all brave performances by actors in total command and utter free-fall at once.

The play is vulnerable to repetition and, at practically 3 hours, it goes on far longer than it needs to. But its easy message extends far beyond the parameters of sexual preference: It requires true courage for any one to be delighted. The worst feasible deception is the refusal to acknowledge the stirrings of your own heart.

Paragon Theatre's "The Pride" examines the collateral damage caused by denying self-truths through the relationship shared by Oliver

Cannes, Day 9: Much More Von Trier Fallout; Plus, Antonio Banderas is a Physician.

Cannes, Day 9: Much more von Trier fallout; plus, Antonio Banderas is a physician. Trust him

Wednesday in the Cannes Film Festival, "Melancholia" writer-director Lars von Trier muttered some wisecracks about Jews and Nazis and rather suddenly a post-screening press conference morphed into a tweet-propelled monster, a master class in how not to complete inflammatory sit-down standup inside the south of France.

Outrage! Few cared if von Trier was becoming facetious, or simply gleefully self-destructive. As the seconds, then minutes went up in media flames, perfect there inside the press conference room, von Trier's fate was sealed.

Now, if "Melancholia" wins a prize Sunday, from the Cannes 2011 jury headed by Robert De Niro, von Trier is officially barred from accepting it in individual in the closing ceremony.

Thursday's statement from the Cannes festival's board of directors:

"The Festival de Cannes supplies artists from about the planet with an exceptional forum to present their functions and defend freedom of expression and creation. The Festival's Board of Directors, which held an extraordinary meeting this Thursday 19 May well 2011, profoundly regrets that this forum has been used by Lars Von Trier to express comments that are unacceptable, intolerable, and contrary for the ideals of humanity and generosity that preside over the incredibly existence from the Festival.

"The Board of Directors firmly condemns these comments and declares Lars Von Trier a persona non grata in the Festival de Cannes, with impact immediately."

Festival representatives mentioned Thursday that von Trier's eligibility for inclusion in future Cannes festivals remains undetermined.

It is hazardous to believe out loud on this matter, when other deadlines are pressing and a critic - this 1, at least-cannot enable but feel conflicted, even angered, by so significantly focus getting paid to von Trier's public relations derailment. Films? What films? It's the Danish auteur's newest adolescent thought bubbles, spoken aloud, that count.

Von Trier had a rough go of it two years ago in Cannes (and similarly tense confrontations with all the international press corps in earlier years). Two years ago, his "Antichrist" brought instantaneous, yelping indictments of von Trier's misogyny and malicious cinematic intent from several of the assembled reporters.

This year von Trier's competition title, "Melancholia," could concern the destruction of planet Earth. But even though its early critical reception runs all over the place (I found very much of it gripping), there's nothing primarily controversial about its content material. What von Trier stated in the press conference had practically nothing to complete with « Melancholia. » It had to do with von Trier badly misjudging his tone, his predictable, perpetual effrontery, his audience.

Worse for him, he seemed blissfully ignorant from the effects of giving the Cannes press one thing so risible and simply misinterpreted and stupid to tweet about.

Thursday, much more program matters.

The eight:30 a.m. press screening at the Palais: Pedro Almodovar's Gothic thriller "The Skin I Reside In," adapted from the novel "Tarantula" by Thierry Jonquet. In his 1st film for Almodovar because "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" two decades ago, Antonio Banderas stars as a brilliant Madrid plastic surgeon interested-too interested-in radical skin-graft approaches. The woman (Elena Anaya) who seems to be held prisoner in his impeccably sleek mansion is undergoing surgery and therapy of a sort that would not pass muster with most bioethics panels.

Almodovar's image, set to a wonderful score (the film's most effective element) by his favored genre-masher Alberto Iglesias, owes a huge debt to "Eyes Without a Face," as much as it owes Jonquet's novel. But the director seems flummoxed by the creepiness known as for by the story. Envision Vincente Minnelli trying his hand at this material, and you have just about got it. The craft is meticulous, as often. The outcomes wobble uncertainly among melodrama, camp and a thing new to Almodovar: artifice that truly does feel artificial, as opposed to stylistically expressive.

Interview with 'One Tree Hill' Star Robert Buckley

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Interview with 'One Tree Hill' Star Robert Buckley

I don't know about the rest of you One Tree Hill fans, but I almost died waiting to find out if the show got picked up for a season 9 and... Woo hoo! It got picked up for 13 episodes! And after seeing how much you guys responded to my inteview with ShantelVanSanten (Quinn), I knew I just had to talk to her partner-in-crime, Robert Buckley. He's handsome. He's funny. And damn, he's responsible for transitioning Clay from a Tree Hill newbie to an amazing character we all came to adore. That's not exactly easy for an actor!

Rob and I chatted about the tonight's finale, next season, his friendship with Shantel, rapping and a whole bunch of other awesome stuff. I dare say it was my favorite interview ever. Not only did he have me cracking up the entire time, but he was super charming and gave great answers!

Note: I interviewed Rob literally an hour before the renewal was announced (seriously, an hour!), so you'll notice that we are still speculating.

Enjoy! And be sure to tune into the season finale tonight at 8 p.m. on The CW!

Also, check back later this week for my interviews with his costars Kate Voegele and Jackson Brundage!

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Hi Rob. How are you?

I’m doing well, how about yourself?

Good. Thank you for talking with me today.

Yeah. It’s my pleasure.

So let’s talk about tonight. What can we expect from the season finale?

Hmm, the killer opening sequence followed by the show's theme song with a new artist, probably some title credits (laughs). No. They’ve got me pretty tight lipped on how much I can give away. But I have to say, I don’t know how much of it is going to be the episode that I know or if they’re going to change the ending to make it more of a series finale.

Right. And we officially don’t know anything yet as of now? Is that right?

Yes exactly. We’ve heard nothing. So, you know, I’m pretty much in the same boat as a lot of the fans. I don’t know, really what is going to be the ending.

Do you think that fans either way will be happy with Clay and Quinn's ending?

I do.

OK... You really can’t say anything about it, can you? (laughs)

Well (laughs), it's also very relative. I’m on Twitter now and a lot of our fans are on Twitter as well and I hear what a lot of people want. Like, some people just want to see Clay and Quinn happy. Like, they won’t be happy until Clay and Quinn have a handful of babies. A clan of ‘Clinns’, if you will. You know, I think it’s a bit relative, but overall I was very satisfied with how they wanted to wrap up the season and I’m a big fan of Clay and Quinn, so I think the fans will be happy.

Great. Yeah, I've talked to Shantel and she said the same thing.  She also told us that you guys are best friends. Do you have any good Shantel stories to tell us?

Oh my gosh. Let’s see, what’s appropriate for print (laughs). No, no, I’m kidding. We had a really good time. We got thrown into it together obviously. We started in season 7 and it was not just starting a new job, but joining a show that is already successful, seriously, is like going to a new high school senior year. It’s not even like, am I going to find a prom date? It’s like, am I even going to fit in here? And, so her and I were in the same boat, living in Wilmington. So it was kind of like, we’re either going to sink or swim together so we might as well be, you know, pals. And we ended up having a really good time. Hopefully it comes across on the screen, but I think, for example, this season’s gag reel, I just saw the other day and there’s two really good moments in there of the two of us where you can see we’re complete, just goofballs around each other.

Haha. Cool! So, if the show doesn’t get picked up, do you have any plans? Or are you just sort of waiting?

Yeah, I’ll probably be moving back here to my parents’ basement. There’s a futon with my name on it (laughs). No, I don’t right now, because the truth is, my hope is that the show comes back. I have a great time doing it, so I’m really not trying to hedge my bets, I’m just seeing what happens with the show so if it comes back, great. If it doesnt, look and see what’s out there.

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Will you miss Wilmington?

Yeah, absolutely. You know, it’s a great town and I’ve made some really good friends there. I was just talking about that with a good buddy of mine yesterday. I was like, “Man, there are a lot of reasons I hope the show comes back that are related to the show, but aside from that, it would be a bummer." Like, I would have to fly out to see my family and friends that I’ve made, like what, once, maybe twice a year? That part would be kind of crummy.

Definitely. So which episode would you say is your favorite?

That’s a good question. Actually, I really enjoyed shooting [episode] 21. That was last week's episode. There’s more drama than there is laugh-out-loud funny moments on the show, and I’m by nature, very silly and nonsensical, so for me it was just like coming home to be silly. And you know, I was essentially yelling at a bunch of 7 to 10-year-olds that like speed through a baseball game. So Mark Schwahn wrote and shot the episode, and he sort of let me off the leash. He was like, "Just go. Play. Here’s a handful of takes, have them." And it was so much fun. And I actually haven’t even seen the episode yet. It’s on my Tivo, but that was a blast. Then at the end when it was just James, Austin and Eric McIntire. You know that scene on the bridge was a lot of fun actually. A little bit of a grueling day, but that was just a blast, just anytime you get to do action or comedy, for me, it was a great time.

So you weren’t at all sad that you didn’t get to go to Puerto Rico with the girls?

No, I wasn’t at all, actually (laughs). Truth be told when they said they were going to Puerto Rico, I was like, “Have a wonderful time.” It wasn’t like last season when we were going to be going out to Utah, when I was like, "I’m going, right?" You know? Puerto Rico, I was like wait, "The guys are staying here? Sweet." I’ll wear the Brian Boitano shirt if you let me stay and they held me to it.

Haha. I don’t know if you watched it, but Sophia [Bush] was on MTV and she said that you randomly break out into raps. Is that true?

I heard about the thing that Soph did. I haven’t seen it yet, but I heard about it from other people. What was the program she was on?

Ah, I forget. It was like Top 10 or something? Yeah, she said something like, "Rob’s kind of weird. He randomly starts rapping. It’s pretty funny."

Yeah, she hit the nail on the head.

Yeah, I believe Shantal mentioned the identical point about your goofy behavior. Is there anything distinct that you just rap about?

Oh boy, I’m quite stream of consciousness. I am an equal chance rapper so whether its how delicious the craft service is the fact that day or how terrible I’m doing in a scene, what ever it is, I will freestyle about it. Since like, why say some elements after you could rap about it?

That's excellent (laughs).

There was an incredible line truly, once again in [episode] 21. A single thing that our writers and Mark Schwahn do seriously nicely is that they write the actor straight, and they write the stuff that they know the actors will respond to. Occasionally that is really heavy stuff, in some cases its seriously stupid stuff, but one that holds accurate is I'm seriously silly. Like, pretty, very goofy and on set that comes out inside a massive way. So there’s a scene exactly where Nathan and I are talking, I’m inside a chair at my apartment, and he’s like, “You’re weird.” And I think I say, “You’re just now noticing that? Like, yeah, I’m a weird guy, I’m an odd duck." I’ve most likely said that on a bi-weekly basis, I'd say.

Yeah, and Clay started out off the show as a way distinctive character than he is now. Is it far more pleasant playing him now than it was two years ago?

Ah boy, that’s difficult. There are actually challenges and enjoyable parts to each of them. It is been incredibly cool the way it's evolved in that... you realize after you make a brand new buddy? You don't necessarily let your guard up, but its not every one of the way down. Kind of like when you are dating somebody new and you’re such as the most effective version of oneself for the first 3 months. And you’re like, "Oh, you are going to keep for a though? Here’s the way I definitely am." And like, the socks are on the floor along with the milk is left open. With Clay, you just saw his external struggles, you saw some of his internal struggles, but we didn’t actually get into the minutia of who Clay is when he’s by himself. What’s this guy like on a Wednesday? What’s he like? And now it’s sort of cool to view. And with Quinn also. These two people, they’re variety of children at heart. They wish to be loved and then they’re very silly and goofy. She’s singing about toaster strudel and Clay is dancing like he's Footloose devoid of rhythm or shame.

Haha. Yes, it is a lot far more evident now as to why they’re collectively.

Yeah, what’s seriously funny about that is certainly, as a viewer, you see lots of that taking place separate from each other and then you see them with each other seriously acquiring along. And if you pay attention, the reason we perform so very well, like when we’re witnessed on the couch enjoying each other, it type of goes back to the reality that if you see them apart, they’re rather a lot doing the precise very same point.

That’s so correct!

There may very well be a scene of Clay and Quinn at the table, and they will be like, “Hey babe, what did you do now?” I'd be like, “Oh, I danced for a although by myself to, you understand, embarrassing music. And then Nate walked in." And it’ll be like “What did you do?” And she’s like, “Oh, I sang regarding the pastry I was consuming after which Haley walked in." And it will be like, “Oh, that’s appropriate. We have no shame and we're embarrassing." You realize what I mean?

Totally. Wait, so you brought up dating. So I've to ask, do you may have a girlfriend?

Ohhhh Sharon.

You did it! I mean, that was all you!

I have a tendency to maintain the questions about ladies as well as the really like life and dating at bay.

Note: Sorry, ladies I attempted! Haha.

Fair sufficient. So Hilarie and Chad have each expressed interest in coming back. Would you like to see that occur?

Yeah, I think that could be awesome. They were such great characters. Both of them as actors did great work. So I believe it would be great. But here’s the issue: I feel soon after a short time period, it’s not entertaining to watch folks gaining along and just possessing a superb life. You may need to mix it up. And so whether or not that’s bringing inside a couple of new characters to shake elements up or kind of putting individuals by a conflict or struggle, just adding extra elements to it, I consider is usually a superb thought to differ things. And I feel it will be good from a fan’s point of view and for the fans to view Lucas and Peyton come back. I feel that could be great for the show and I assume men and women would actually like to see that.

Absolutely. So, I asked men and women on Twitter for questions and they would like to know who your preferred couple is (aside from Clay and Quinn, of course). That's always a large debate.

Ohh boy. Yeah, well just…there’s items that like… OK. Miss Lauren and Skillz…

Oh, yeah? (laughs) That really appears like a left field answer!

Properly, I gotta tell you, first of all, Allison [Munn] and Antwon [Tanner] are hilarious. I genuinely enjoy the heck out of both of them. And I assume on screen, they’re each just definitely funny. So they’re fun. You understand, I’m not going to provide you a satisfying answer for the reason that I can let you know why each couple... like, I like Brooke and Julian. Simply because Julian is like, such a great, sweet manchild. But he mans up, he saved lives like a hero 1 episode, and then in the next episode he’s chasing butterflies.

(Insert enormous laughter from me).

And Brooke... I could go on definitely, but Brooke’s wonderful and pretty, incredibly funny. And Haley and Nate naturally, they’re really... there is a soft spot in my heart mainly because, come on, "Claythan." I imply, come on, when you’re speaking about couples -- BROMANCE!

Haha. It seems you have a couple of bromances on the show now.

I do and I want to call a thing out for our fans, simply because there is a scene… oh boy. It was episode 17 or so where Clay, Nathan, Chase and Julian had been in the diner talking. And when you pay focus towards the episode, it sort of seems like the scene comes out of left field, simply because the episode is occurring and it just cuts to us talking like Sex and the City-style for four minutes. And it was such a funny thing to shoot since I've a crazy monologue about having smuggled cocaine… inside your butt. And we had so a lot fun shooting it and then The Soup ended up calling out the scene and sort of making enjoyable of it. And I was like, "Oh no, why is it…" It was [actually] for something smaller, like the way the waitress poured the ice tea.

But, I encourage any person who has the show Tivo'd or has it on DVD, go back and watch that scene, after which watch the really end of it. Stephen leaves after which James leaves, and it is just Austin and I sitting following to each other. And I do not know if it was the selection of the editor or the director, but he left like, three beneficial seconds of just he and I sitting there (laughs). And for those who watch, we undoubtedly have a moment. And there’s some thing taking place there -- we examine one another after which we both search away -- that I consider is so ambiguous that I couldn’t believe that no one known as consideration to it. No one made entertaining of it. Mainly because I watched it and I was like, "What just happened?" Like, we entirely just began a brand new relationship. What’s going on here? Are these two going to be dancing within the following scene? What’s happening? So, I assume Clay and Julian, we definitely possess a "Clulian" or one thing, but I believe we have yet another relationship taking place.

That’s fantastic. Perhaps they’ll save that for next season!

Yea, precisely, appropriate?

So is there something you need to say towards the fans? I'm know becoming 1 of them that 1 Tree Hill fans are super loyal.

You realize what, thank you. I’ve just been so pleasantly surprised, stunned and flattered and humbled at how much assistance and enjoy there's for the show on the market. I imply honestly, it really has just left me slack-jawed. There is people today from worldwide who're generating videos, sending stuff. So seriously, to every one of the fans, I just have such a great amount of appreciation and gratitude. And hopefully we are able to come back and give them an excellent ninth season, but if not, hopefully this will have already been very good as well as the finale tonight will leave them with warm fuzzies.

Warm Fuzzies. Haha! Wonderful. And will you be watching the finale tonight?

I may well be live tweeting tonight throughout the west coast feed of it. I did it final week on the east coast time, and it sucks simply because I’m tweeting and not recognizing what’s happening on the screen. But like I mentioned, the fans are good, so I like gaining on there and kind of mixing it up with them. So I’m going to attempt and be accessible for that tonight. And as quickly as I get word on the show, I’ll be letting absolutely everyone know on Twitter what the verdict is.

Yes. You have some definitely devoted Twitter accounts created just for you personally by your fans. I know they're actually excited about hearing from you.

That’s seriously cool.

Yeah! Well, thanks so much for chatting with me currently, Rob.

Thanks a lot!

Interview with 'One Tree Hill' Star Robert Buckley

Castle Season 4 Spoilers How Are You Currently Guys Holding Up, Castle Fans?

Castle's not going to like this one bit.

Castle Season 4 Spoilers

How Are You Currently Guys  Holding Up, Castle Fans?

Speaking of season four, Ausiello has just revealed an interesting bit of info regarding the cliffhanger. One particular, Beckett was genuinely shot. As in for true, she's got a bullet in her. So all of you who have been theorizing that she was going to fake her death or that it was all staged, sorry to disappoint. Two, she was hit near her heart. Three, guess who just takes place to become a cardiac surgeon?

That was one particular unbelievable season finale (consider a assessment with the finale right here)and my heart is nonetheless in pieces more than what went down final evening. I am also nonetheless utterly shocked at that cliffhanger, especially concerning the final point Castle stated to Kate. I actually was not expecting those words out of his mouth any time quickly, but what do you know. It is to choose from now and it is going to confident be exciting to find out how they are going to deal with that plus the repercussions of the cliffhanger following season.

Now this really is definitely interesting simply because in a latest interview Castle's creator, Andrew Marlowe stated that the significant other storyline had been played out. So what does that mean, Castle fans? Is this the sayonara to Josh we have all been waiting for or is he right here to remain? Following all, it is actually fairly practical that Beckett's boyfriend is often a cardiac surgeon and she just happened to be shot in that instant place. It can't be a coincidence, so I'm quite certain we're going to find out Victor Webster in some capacity again early following season.

Marlowe teased earlier currently in an interview with Tv Manual that “He’s still on the market, and he’s somebody we’re going to have to take care of. He’s an element moving forward and it’ll be intriguing to determine how that functions.”

I can't wait to determine how this really is going to play out because our favorite duo has finally reached the identical page. Castle even told her he loved her. That has got to shake things up for Beckett.

So what do you think of this new piece of details?

Castle Season 4 Spoilers

How Are You Currently Guys  Holding Up, Castle Fans?

Cannes Film Festival: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's 'Tree of Life' Also Counter-Applause

Tree of Life" – Apparition - Dir. Terrence Malick

Cannes Film Festival: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's 'Tree of Life' draws boos, but also counter-applause

It can be daunting to describe Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, but scattered audience members at its initial screening in Cannes needed only one syllable: boo.

The several supporters from the film pushed back with counter-applause, but it was a shocking way for the film to debut.

Cannes Film Festival: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's 'Tree of Life' Also Counter-Applause

The Tree of Life is an elegiac litany of pictures and memory-like scenes a lot more than a classic narrative,. In brief, it is the origin of time and infinity through the lens of 1 troubled, 1950s-era Texas family. It stars Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, even though they share copious screen time with evolving galaxies, nebulae, and surreal, symbolic representations with the globe beyond.

Call it a coming of age story in regards to the universe.

Here’s how the chaos - on-screen and off - unfolded now …

The scene outside the 8:30 a.m. screening at the festival’s Grand Theatre Lumiere was a mosh pit of fearsome determination.

Malick is somewhat the J.D. Salinger of filmmakers, hardly ever photographed, and never ever submitting to interviews. Although he is hardly prolific, his handful of films have been striking for their visual splendor and meditative tones: Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World …

Although the movie opens for everybody May possibly 27, audience members crushed in the entrance Monday morning, shoving and hollering to acquire entrance to a film that has been eagerly anticipated at Cannes for two years. With passions so high to determine it, the movie’s debut mirrored the film’s central conflict: a boy attempting to live as much as the high requirements of his harsh father. Only in this case it was Cannes notoriously harsh community of critics and journalists.

As long-form critiques had been being written (examine back right here for EW critic Lisa Schwarzbaum’s assessment) there was push-back against the booing on Twitter. “Yes, some booed at Tree of Life‘s finish, but a0 far additional clapped, b0 wouldn’t a monobloc of opinion be dull? And, needless to say, c) jerks abound,” wrote MSN Movies’ James Rocchi.

“The booing in the end of today’s Tree of Life screening was an ugly, animalistic issue that may well clarify why Malick does not do press,” added IndieWire’s Eric Kohn.

And yes, the notoriously elusive Malick continued his lengthy tradition of not speaking on behalf of his movies, and didn't attend the press conference after the screening. His producer, Sarah Green, said he prefers to remain out from the spotlight due to the fact, “Mr. Malick is quite shy and I'd say I think his function speaks for him.”

Pitt had no problem speaking as an alternative. “He tells this micro story of this family members inside a smaller town in Texas and juxtaposes it together with the macro of the birth with the cosmos and cells splitting,” he mentioned. “I locate that so extraordinary. You will find parallel truths in that.”

Pitt stated repeatedly he could go on at length regarding the procedure Malick employed to generate such an unusual film. There are actually few dialogue-driven scenes, and also the child actors in the center from the tale had been not permitted to see the script, Pitt mentioned, as an alternative becoming told roughly what to do or say. Pitt stated Malick wanted absolutely everyone to comply with their instincts.

“He’s like a guy with a butterfly net waiting for the truth to go by,” Pitt stated.

“It was all about capturing the accident,” Chastain added, citing a for-instance: “There’s a section where a butterfly lands on my hand. It is not in the script, and we didn’t put something on my hand to make it land there.”

“It’s a leap of faith, but that is the point,” Pitt stated.

Malick rented the entire neighborhood exactly where they shot, dressed it to resemble the 1950s period, and would have the family linger together on the street, playing on swings, or operating within the yard, when the capture awaited particular moments.

“Then he does what he calls torpedoing a scene,” Pitt mentioned. “The youngest kid he called The torpedo. On the very first day, [Chastain and I] had been getting an argument, raising our voices, and we shot that take. Then suddenly he would send in Ty, as the torpedo, and it changed the complete dynamic with the scene.”

There was some joking regarding the absent director, whom Chastain mentioned tended to steer the camera toward nearby woodpecker or a thing else in nature if it interrupted the scene. Instead of ruining the take, that tended to be the factor Malick would rather use.

Pitt said he had no challenge using the director deciding upon not to speak regarding the movie publicly. “You know how you've got a favorite song and then you hear the band describing your favorite lyrics, after which you’re disappointed?” he asked the room of journalists, who responded with silence.

 Cannes Film Festival: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's 'Tree of Life'  Also Counter-Applause

Theater "The Pride" a 50-Year Journey of Self-Discovery

Theater

"The Pride" a 50-Year Journey of Self-Discovery

It's a remarkable play which will take a little, human story that is been told before and not simply inform it in an original way but transform it into a cathartic and hopeful reminder of how the seismology of the world has shifted more than the past 50 years.

Paragon Theatre's "The Pride" sounds like a variation on that cheesy 1982 film, "Making Appreciate," when Kate Jackson discovers her ideal husband has fallen in appreciate with one more man. But British playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell's "The Pride" is so much more than a coming-out story. Devoid of waving any pride flags, it really is an alternatingly sophisticated and brutal chronicle with the collective gay journey from repression as well as criminality to freedom and self-acceptance - for everyone involved.

Campbell does it by adopting a daring and maybe unprecedented playwriting structure. In her story, married Phillip confronts his long-repressed attraction for other males when he meets the dashing Oliver, his wife's most effective male buddy. The ensuing story covers just 19 months. But when the play begins in 1958, it ends in 2008.

How? Campbell not merely presents her 10 scenes inside a juggled order, she alternates the year and societal context in which each and every 1 plays out, generating this not just the story of three persons but of millions over the past five decades.

It begins as an extremely polite, pretty British 1958 parlor comedy (almost). Sylvia (Barbra Andrews) not only introduces her buttoned-up husband Phillip (Jarrad Holbrook) to her handsome, Coward-esque young employer, Oliver (Jake Walker), she very substantially would like for them to "get along" as buddies. Obviously, they come to be a lot more than that.

The next scene fast-forwards to Phillip moving out - on Oliver. They haven't aged, but it really is now 2008. Turns out Oliver's lifelong sexual addiction, combined with all the cumulative damage of Phillip's lifetime of self-denial, is not going to make their ride a smooth a single.

One with the most outstanding characters ever put to page is Sylvia, who finds a way to apply the upheaval in her own life toward her personal liberation, while remaining fiercely loyal to all the guys she loves.

Skillfully jutting back and forth in time lets us know early on how these three vastly distinctive metamorphoses will finish, though infusing an unpredictable and discombobulating power into the storytelling.

It is an epic play, and Paragon director Taylor Gonda has elicited indelible, honest performances to go with it. That begins with an unnervingly all-natural Walker, who wears the deeply flawed but eminently understandable Oliver like a second skin. Walker is utterly convincing inside a nuanced, breakout efficiency opposite a wholly immersed Holbrook as the tortured latent whose fight

against his organic self leads him to a harrowing homosexuality aversion clinic.

There are actually clues in the script that suggest these two actors are physically mismatched for one particular one more, but the total commitment to their nuanced performances is undeniable.

While these are colossal transformations, it truly is Andrews' element in all this that elevates the play to an additional level and opens its arms to a wider audience. Her Sylvia calls herself a cliche, an oblivious, cuckolded wife, but this lady of unshakable decency is anything but. And though her path may well be unusual, her destination will likely be knowable to all females.

Life has tossed her a cruel hand, as each spurned wife to one particular man and very best pal to his lover. Andrews delivers a heartbreaking portrayal of a wife who deep down understands anything, all along, and is just waiting for somebody to let her in - and therefore let her out.

David Cates plays all of the support characters, offering each comic relief as a Nazi callboy, and also a chilling reality verify because the 1958 aversion therapist determined to vomit the gay out of Phillip. These are all brave performances by actors in total command and utter free-fall at once.

The play is vulnerable to repetition and, at practically 3 hours, it goes on far longer than it needs to. But its easy message extends far beyond the parameters of sexual preference: It requires true courage for any one to be delighted. The worst feasible deception is the refusal to acknowledge the stirrings of your own heart.

Paragon Theatre's "The Pride" examines the collateral damage caused by denying self-truths through the relationship shared by Oliver