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Mariah Carey’s crazy drunken speech at Palm Springs
2Not sure what to make of this, but we all know Mariah likes her champagne!
Sex And The City 2 teaser poster
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The movie is slated for a May 2010 release and the anticipation is building up, but what is left to tell of the story is still up for debate. She got married and all, so what’s next? The poster is stellar though and Sarah Jessica Parker looks unlike Sarah Jessica Parker, so that’s good.
Film Review: Precious (2009)
We’ve been waiting to see Precious (originally titled Push) for a while now. Not only is Mariah Carey in it but it got all these endorsements from Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry and awards. Also, the cast line-up is impressive including Lenny Kravitz, Sherri Shepherd and the ever-so-lovely Mo’Nique. So, it was a matter of getting the film. No convincing needed.
But, to tell you the truth. It wasn’t that big of a movie moment for us. At times, we thought the script was lacking. Precious’ character was the ultimate victim, but she sure has a lot of attitude. The plot seemed a little choppy at times, but not as drama-forcing as Tyler Perry movies. Her story needed to be told and it delivered a strong and depressing message across. The movie surprisingly sinister at times and lacked an uplift.
All-in-all, it wasn’t a bad movie to watch. But, it wasn’t the big epic of a flick of a movie everyone was rambling on about. We expected a The Color Purple opus and all we got is a cross between a Tyler Perry movie and an obscure foreign film. This is one of the only movies that can probably fit in arthouse cinema, African-American genre and psuedo chick flick. It’s great to have experienced it and Mo’Nique performance deserves an Oscar and a half.
Oh, and Mariah was ostentatiously impeccable.
50 Cent naked in sex scene!
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Click here to be forwarded to the video outside the blog.
This is for over 18′s only or whatever your country says or doesn’t. It’s very NSFW, unless you work in the porn industry or somewhere that’s very liberal they don’t vilify sex and actually appreciate it, like the Loft965.com office. This is a scene from his new movie called Before I Self Destruct. At any rate, enjoy!
Jennifer Lopez has a sex tape!
Jennifer Lopez’s ex-husband Ojani Noa has said that he is making a film about his life with the starlet. However, what we didn’t know is that it’s a documentary made up of home videos. Reportedly, he has hours of home videos that he was planning to put together some of them include videos of Jennifer Lopez in, allegedly, compromising sexual positions. Lopez’s lawyers got a court order to stop him from making this videos public, but he plans to fight this until the end. Click here for the full story.
Poster for Tom Ford’s movie “A Single Man”
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Tom Ford is readying up the release of his criticly-acclaimed and highly-awaited first movie effort A Single Man. The film is slated for a December 11th release. A Single Man is a 2009 American drama film directed by Tom Ford. The film is based on the Christopher Isherwood novel of the same name and stars Colin Firth as the protagonist George Falconer, a gay British college professor living in Southern California. The rest of the cast includes Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult. The film is Ford’s directorial debut.
Risk board game to turn into movie!
Our favorite board game (and the cause of many fights) is becoming a film. Sony has acquired the rights to the game in order to make a movie out of it. Expect something like 300. Hasboro must be making a lot out of this!
Janet Jackson’s “Why Did I Get Married Too?” trailer…
We didn’t think it deserved a sequel. But, with Jill Scott and Janet Jackson in the same frame, what more could we ask for?
Review: Michael Jackson’s “This Is It”
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As a person that personally was going to attend a This Is It concert date, this comes as a bittersweet documentary. The whole film is heavy on clips of him rehearsing that were intended for his “personal collection,” but would be great tack-ons as bonus features on a concert DVD. It goes through most of the big hits (surprisingly without a single one from Off The Wall) and gives you an inside look on Michael Jackson’s newest ground-breaking tour that never was.
It shows you how far into the planning the crew has gone. There were full dress rehearsals, amazing concert props, pyrotechnics and a full band. it is almost but without the enthusiasm and the crowd. Even the props that haven’t been finished yet were made into special effects to portray the intensity of what was to be Michael Jackson last tour.
Even as the viewer is shown the full course of the set list and stage antics, there was a frail yet adamant Jackson on the screen. Also, you can see what can of sordid atmosphere MJ was living in filled with Yes-men and money-pinchers.
As always, the music is the focal point and Michael never misses his mark. He did the songs that everyone wants to hear from “Billie Jean,” to “Black & White” and we got treated to a great version of “Human Nature.” Also, newcomer Orianthi was featured heavily in the movie.
The documentary, however, did not do anything much than showing the world what was to become of his residency in London’s O2. Side interviews served as explanations to the concert. It was basically everything but the concert.
It would have been nice if family members were involved, and some history was thrown into the mix. Even the ending had no mention of Michael’s death, which should have been included to add to a more dramatic ending. The film closed off with Michael latest and worst single “This Is It,” which probably would not have seen the light of day as this version had Michael been alive and well.
At any rate, right now, anything from Michael Jackson is welcome. Let’s just hope that there are some recordings stashed away that will receive the right producers to release to the world as we surely haven’t had enough of the one and only King.
Mariah Carey and Mo’Nique’s new promo picture for “Precious”
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Mariah Carey and Mo’Nique grace the new photos for Precious, their new movie funded by Oprah Winfrey that is set to take the world by storm, apparently, even if it will have a limited release. Mariah is looking better than what she is doing now with her retro look. Mo’Nique is always fantastical.
Trailer: “Coco Before Chanel”
4Kuwait: Green Caravan Film Festival 2009: The 11th Hour
This has been laying around here for a while now in its nice little environmentally-friendly cardboard package without getting played. I had a spare hour, so I played it and I was gripped from the beginning.
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this documentary does not wish to be provocative, it just lays down the scientific facts about global warming for you to dissect. The interviewees are not angry tree-huggers (although there is nothing wrong with that), they just explain the dire state our planet is on and the consequences that might unveil themselves in the near future if we don’t take care of this blue planet. These include independent researchers and famous names like Hawking.
This documentary doesn’t just list the things that are happening due to global warming, but it looks at climate change historically and as one affect rather than just a bunch of sordid events that include the Asian tsunami and Katrina. It singles out the human as the sole factor is this change. The exploitation of a planet that has been unrepentant about providing us with everything we need will suddenly go bankrupt, erasing millions of species with it and turning this thriving planet into an arid plane much like Venus.
Screening: Thurs, Oct 29th, 10:00 a.m. at Al Maidan Cultural Center.
Kuwait: Green Caravan Film Festival 2009: Manufactured Landscapes
1MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it. [From edwardburtynsky.com]
Manufactured Landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
Kuwait: Green Caravan Film Festival 2009: Chasing Wild Horses
1Chasing Wild Horses is a beautiful story of reverence and splendour. Roberto Dutesco, New York City’s top fashion photographer, works with human beauty every day. Raised in Canada, his unique artistic eye has brought him fame and recognition throughout the fashion world. Many years ago, he took a small plane to Sable Island, where he found an exceptional environment that would change his perception of beauty and undeniably impact on his art. The discovery, on this unique island, of wild, long-maned, untamed horses, running through the dunes was an aesthetic experience like no other for Roberto. He became fixated with the natural beauty of the untouched wild horses.
Kuwait: Green Caravan Film Festival 2009: Home
Kuwait’s first and only environmental film festival is set to take place very soon. One of the documentaries that will be show is Home. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on earth. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet. The screening time for the film will be on October 28th, 11:00 a.m at Al Maidan Cultural Center. Click here for more information.
Moscow in slow motion…
1Slow motion makes everything sexy. The haunting music is by the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble.
Martin Lawrence, Jamie Foxx are Skank Robbers
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Glad to see Sheneneh back!
Official poster for Michael Jackson’s “This Is It”
This kind of looks like our header.
Movie rentals to come to YouTube
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YouTube is trying to get a chunk of the Amazon and Netflix market. Rumors are abound that the biggest video portal online is doing some test-drives and studies on implementing a movie rental section in its site. The word is that movies will cost $3.99 per movie, which is as much as iTunes is charging. Also, YouTube will allegedly have the movies the day they are released in DVD format. We hope this works for the East, too.
