Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Chastain two of the many actors training in meditation, as they prepare for their new movie Rodham.
Meditation training essential for actor training, as Scarleet Johansson and Jessica Chastain Attest
As our readers will know, both Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Chastain have been meditating for many years. Scarlett Johansson gave a famous speech about meditation for the Nobel Peace concert back in 2008, stating that meditation is the best way to create peace (both inner peace and outer peace). Jessica Chastain started meditating on The Tree of Life back in 2011 and has continued her meditation training since.
The Rodham movie tells the story of Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Watergate scandal of the 70s.
As our regular readers will know, meditation is an essential element of actor training. Because actors are required to have great mind control in order to produce the emotions necessary for a role, it is important that an actor start from Read more [...]
Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Chastain Prepare for Rodham with Meditation Training
Irish Director Lenny Abrahamson Show His Brilliance in What Richard Did
If originality and creativity are to be praised, then Irish director Lenny Abrahamson deserves rapturous applaus for his first three major productions: they all look completely different. Where many directors seem to like to stick to one type of film, Abrahamson is more interested in pushing himself and creating a genuinely unique peace of work each time he directs.
The latest of his works is What Richard Did, a complex drama written by Malcolm Campbell and starring Jack Reynor, Sam Keeley and Roisin Murphy. The story is about Richard, a teenage male played by Jack Reynor. Richard is an over-achiever and a rugby star schoolboy. Everywhere he goes he gets the adoration of the girls, he has parties and present himself as a celebrity. It’s the dream lifestyle, at least until he falls for Roisin Murphy, the girlfriend of his fellow teammate Conor (Sam Keeley).
What Richard Did is an intelligent drama that Read more [...]
What Richard Did — An Intelligent Drama About Social and Familial Responsibility
Ruben Fleischer’s work was never really regarded for its maturity nor its earnestness. Before Gangster Squad the Washington-born director had mostly worked on cheesy comedies like Zombieland and 30 Minutes or Less. Now, Fleischer has made a move to further his career and launch him into a more serious directorial landscape with this, his first really mature movie, Gangster Squad.
Gangster Squad Review
Gangster Squad is based on a true story about a group of incorruptible cops up against a mobster in Brooklyn in Los Angeles in the 1940s. It stars Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen, the creepy and evil mobster. Sean Penn plays the role with a lot of hamm behind a lot of prosthetics. Truth be told its not a particularly notable performance than Penn puts in.
Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen in Gangster Squad
The film itself matches Penn’s performance: it’s entertaining but shallow. There’s a great deal of violence, though the movie does focus on the good guys rather than the bad.
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The musical version of Les Miserables and Victor Hugo’s original novel on which its based have wowed audience and readers for years, telling, very emotionally, the story of the anti-monarchist Paris uprising of 1832. Even non-musical lovers, its impossible not to recognise the brilliance of Les Miserables on stage and the same is true for Tom Hooper’s films, which stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman. There’s just something about Les Miserables that demands it to be watched.
How could Les Miserables possibly fail? It stars truly exceptional performers in Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe and company. It’s directed by The King’s Speech’s Tom Cooper, and it’s Lay Mis.
Hugh Jackman deserves the OSCAR for Les Miersables Jean Valjean
Jackman plays Jean Valjean, a decent and noble man imprisoned for stealing bread to save his sister’s family from starvation. When Valjean is released, Crowe’s police officer Javert chases him for breaking parole, but fortunes Read more [...]
Les Miserables Review–Hugh Jackman headed For OSCAR Win
Star Trek into Darkness director JJ Abrams has made a dying fan’s wish come true by allowing him to watch Star Trek Into Darkness months before its release.
It was Christmas day when Reddit user iddeyut (Grady Hendrix) made a wish via reddit for his friend Dan, a 41 year old cancer sufferer, to be able to see Star Trek Into Darkness. Knowing that his friend had just weeks to live, he had bough a ticket to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey simply to catch the 10 minute preview to Stark Trek Into Darkness. That day, Dan was sent to hospital, meaning he missed the preview.
Spreading online, the story of Dan and Grady reached Paramount and JJ Abrams, who naturally wanted to do all they could to help Dan. They set up a private viewing for the cancer sufferer and his wife and they watched the film on Sunday.
It speaks much about Paramount and Bad Robot that they opted not to make a big thing about the screening. Rather. Dan’s wife sent the following message Read more [...]
Star Trek Into Darkness — Dying Fans Wish Comes True
Being nominated for an Oscar on your directorial debut is no mean feat. But that’s precisely what happened to Deliver us From Evil director Amy Berg. Now, she’s returning with the Peter Jackson produced West of Memphis, a film about the West Memphis Three – three men who were tried and convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. The film runs-in at 150 minutes and delves deep into the details of the 1993 tragedy.
West of Memphis' Positive Psychology Review
West of Memphis is a deep, intelligent and important piece of work. It's revealing of society and human nature, and leaves the viewer with feelings of hope and justice
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West of Memphis Traditional Review
The film begins with an exhaustive introduction to the circumstances leading to the trial and conviction of the West Memphis Three. We’re familiarised with the important members of the trial: Read more [...]
West of Memphis Review + Positive Psychology Movie Review
Video games always make the best movies. Think about the truly great game movies like Mortal Kombat Anihilation, Super Mario Bros. and Street Fighter. . . they made The Godfather look amateurish. . .
Oh wait.
I forgot.
Video game movies are usually really, really bad, aren’t they?
Usually, movies only serve to humiliate the gaming public. What gamers really need is a movie about a more serious game. Resident Evil was fairly serious, enough to at least make a passable movie. But still, the gaming world needed a more serious kind of game to turn into a movie. It needed a game that had a heavyweight name behind it; something that could attract the A-list.
Oh, I know, what about all those games based on the work of Tom Clancy, that really really serious writer of espionage and military science novels. That’d do, wouldn’t it?
Yes, he would do. At least Ubisoft think so, and I tend to agree with them. In an article in the LA Times, it Read more [...]
Ubisoft Confirmed Development on Ghost Recon Movie
Continuing the 2013 movie calender, we now come to May - June, with The Great Gatsby, Star Trek Into Darkness, Hangover Part III, Fast & Furious 6, Lone Ranger, After Earth, World War Z, Monsters University and The Wolverine
The 2013 Movie Calendar -- May to June
May 10th: The Great Gatsby: Leonardo DiCaprio starsin F. Scott Fitzgerald’s epic The Great Gatsby. Director Baz Lurhmann will look to do justice to the great love of the story and its overriding themes of love and excess.
May 17th: Star Trek Into Darkness: J.J Abram’s 2009 reinvention of Star Trek pleased the vast majority of viewers (including Trekkies and non-Trekkies and the sequel looks likely to repeat that success.
May 24th: The Hangover Part III: The world doesn’t really need three hangover movies, but we've got them anyway. But I digress. . . Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galafianakis, Ken Jeong, Heather Graham, and yes, Mike Tyson will star in this alcoholic-gag-aphon.
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2013 Movie Calender, With The Wolverine, Monsters University, Great Gatsby ETC
Bruce Willis definitely is too old for this s**t nowadays. Sure, he might have been one of the coolest action movie stars around back in the nineties, but now he's more fit for a zimmer frame than an action movie.
Speaking of fit, though. At least A Good Day To Die hard does feature the epic ass of the motorcycle girl. I guess John moore saw how much exposure Cat Girl got wearing leather, bent over the bike in Dark Knight Rises and wants to copy it with A Good Day To Die Hard. . . . something's hard, but it aint dying.
Anyway, here's the latest TV spot. Pause on Motorcycle girl's ass shot, surely, right? Thought so.
A Good Day To Die Hard TV Spot
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The idea of there being a sequel to Waterworld—Hollywood’s biggest box office bomb ever—has been discussed on and off for years. The most recent of those stories came last month after 400,000 viewers watched an airing of Waterworld on TV.
400,000 viewers for the biggest box office bomb ever? That’s one heck of a successful failure.
It’s clear to see why Waterworld has always been ridiculed while still capturing a healthy audience. Though the movie was doubtlessly a complete debacle and one of the worst pieces of filmmaking ever, it was also a very powerful idea.
Strip Waterworld of its awful production and what you’re left with is a solid idea for a story in a post-apocalyptic world. It’s an idea that captured the imagination of millions around the world, even if the film ended up disappointing.
Recognising the value of Waterworld’s idea and plot, Syfy recently announced that a remake or sequel would be possible. And now, thanks to our sources, we can confirm Read more [...]
Exclusive: Waterworld Remake Confirmed in Development
The majority of important Django Unchained reviews have now come in. So, does Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx’s latest movie pack a knockout punch or is it just a deadweight?
Well, the good news is that the vast majority of reviews from around the internet have been wholly positive. While some reviewers take issue with how over the top Django Unchained is, most rave about its brutality (and to be honest, if you don’t want brutality, why watch a Quentin Tarantino flick in the first place?!).
Perhaps the best thing about the reviews of Django Unchained is that all reviewers seem to agree that it does contain important themes about slavery and that its underdog story is brilliantly told with great actors and stunning performances from Leonardo diCaprio andJamie Foxx.
The Best Reviews of Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx’s Django Unchained
• "A jokey, discursive, idiosyncratic and spirited film that does to slave owners what Inglourious Basterds did Read more [...]
The Best Reviews of Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx’s Django Unchained
Spoilers abound in this Star Trek Into Darkness plot synopsis of the preview shown before IMAX screenings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Stark Trek Into Darkness plot synopsis from Preview
AroleModel.com readers to have seen The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in IMAX will likely be buzzing with the excitement of having seen a nine minute preview of Star Trek Into Darkness. Those of you yet to have seen it are warned that spoilers follow.
The Star Trek Into Darkness prologue begins with Noel Clarke’s character as he awakens in a future London before visiting a hospital with his wife where they look after his daughter, who is ill.
The inciting incident happens as Clarke steps out on the balcony. There he hears the voice of Cumberbatch, making an offer to Clarke that he cannot refuse: he offers to save his daughter’s life.
Next comes a moment that will have Khan conspiracy theorists smashing their head against the wall till it looks as bashed in as a Klingons. Read more [...]
Stark Trek Into Darkness plot synopsis from Preview
Daniel Day Lewis and Lincoln lead the Golden Globes 2013, along with The Impossible, Les Miserables, Argo and more.
Award seasons divide movie fans in two. Half of all movie fans hate the indulgent glitzy glamour of awards and the other half love it. Well, just for now, let’s totally ignore the first group. This article is for you awards show lovers. It’s time to do the predictions for the Golden Globes 2013 as the nominees have just been announced.
Below you’ll find the complete list of Golden Globe 2013 nominees along with my personal choices of the winners.
You’ll also notice how many DERP nominations there are (Ewan McGregor is up for his role in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and not for The Impossible. .. DERP!)
But anyone, here are the nominees and my personal winner picks.
Golden Globes 2013 Predictions
BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life Of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Read more [...]
Golden Globes 2013 Predictions, with Lincoln, Les Miserables, The Impossible and More
Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts star in on e of the most intelligent and mature movies of the year: Antonio Bayona's The Impossible.
Juan Antonio Bayona saved the horror movie scene from drab and shallow tediousness back in 2007 with The Orphanage, a mature and emotional horror with a deep, meaningful theme. Now he’s thrilling audiences again with another mature and deep story: The Impossible.
The Impossible is a disaster movie, but unlike The day After Tomorrow, it’s a flick with emotional maturity, intelligent writing and a depth of meaning. That’s no mean feat given the complexity of the movies subject: the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Making a movie about such a recent major event is dangerous to say the least. Naturally, people are very sensitive about the subject of the 2004 tsunami. That sensitivity needed to be handled with great delicacy and indeed has been. Antonia Bayona and writer Sergio G Sanchez have handled the subject about as well as anyone could possibly Read more [...]
Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts in The Impossible : A Review
Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Chastain two of the many actors training in meditation, as they prepare for their new movie Rodham.
Meditation training essential for actor training, as Scarleet Johansson and Jessica Chastain Attest
As our readers will know, both Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Chastain have been meditating for many years. Scarlett Johansson gave a famous speech about meditation for the Nobel Peace concert back in 2008, stating that meditation is the best way to create peace (both inner peace and outer peace). Jessica Chastain started meditating on The Tree of Life back in 2011 and has continued her meditation training since.
The Rodham movie tells the story of Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Watergate scandal of the 70s.
As our regular readers will know, meditation is an essential element of actor training. Because actors are required to have great mind control in order to produce the emotions necessary for a role, it is important that an actor start from Read more [...]