Thursday, July 30, 2009

Funny People (2009)

The inner demons of unhappiness, anger, competitiveness, sexual insecurity, and fear that eat the soul of an outwardly successful professional comedian are of keen interest to other comedians, their mothers, their shrinks, and maybe even their mothers' shrinks. It's the rest of us who are left out of Funny People, Judd Apatow's furiously anguished — and,at 145 unshaped minutes, quantifiably endless — tragi-comedy about a sad showbiz clown and his...

Adam (2009)

The title character of Max Mayer's Adam is a 29-year-old electronics engineer with Asperger's syndrome — and yes, he is one of those charming, saintly, afflicted movie misfit child-men. He's played by British heartthrob Hugh Dancy, who never got the credit he deserved for romancing Isla Fisher with debonair understatement in Confessions of a Shopaholic. The way Dancy portrays Adam (with great skill), he's a hermetically shy, overgrown whiz kid who's...

Thirst (2009)

Did you hear the one about the Korean priest who becomes a vampire? All he wants is to do good for humanity, so he volunteers for an experimental vaccine to treat a deadly 
blood disease. Next thing you know, he's one of the undead, revered by the populace for the 
apparent miracle of his healing — and wrestling with bloody appetites inflamed by proximity to a beautiful, unhappy young woman who's the wife of his childhood friend. This devout man's...

Sexy Gisele Bundchen loses the baby bump

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is pregnant or is she? Well, technically she is but not according to her recent promotional shots for fashion company London Fog.Despite acknowledging that her bump was sexy, Dari Marder a representative for the company has admitted to airbrushing out any signs of her impending motherhood.He said: “Although Gisele was photographed while pregnant, most of the shots have been retouched to respect her privacy during this...

No going back for Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson is single for now after her less than amicable split from Dallas Cowboy Quarterback Tony Romo but it seems that everyone is just dying for Jessica to find love again even if that means rewinding.Firstly, there were rumors about her getting back together with her ex Nick Lachey who has also recently split from Vanessa Minnillo but Nick nixed that idea."I certainly have heard about her breakup and I wish her the best, as I’ve always...

Megan Fox wants to date you

The stunning Transformers actress says her experiences as a fan and a star at San Diego Comic-Con have made her realize just what a lovely lot comic book fans are.“I have been a few times and even though there are a lot of guys here, they are always very polite and very kind,” explains Megan. “Maybe it’s because I’m a geek too but the guys you meet here are very nice and very appreciative of what you do.”Megan Fox, 23, recently described herself...

The Cove (2009)

Most documentaries strive for drama, and a few, like Man on Wire, achieve suspense. But The Cove is the rare documentary specifically designed as a thriller. It follows Richard O'Barry, a renegade knight of the marine world, as he attempts to get near a heavily guarded cove in Taiji, Japan, where the secret killing of dolphins for food and profit has been going on for years. O'Barry intends to record this atrocity for the world to see, and so he...

Flame & Citron (2009)

You can feel the shadow of Steven Spielberg's Munich hovering over Flame & Citron, a Danish drama of resistance fighters in Copenhagen during WWII. Flame (Thure Lindhardt), a boyish redhead, and his short-fused right-hand man, Citron (the terrific scowler Mads Mikkelsen, from Casino Royale), are underground assassins who walk a tightrope between justice and vengeance.They have signed on to kill Danish collaborators, but they're ensnared by the...

Lorna's Silence

From the outstanding Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Rosetta), here's another closely observed, sociologically astute, and amazingly naturalistic drama about moral compromise as a by-product of economic need. Lorna, an Albanian woman living in Belgium (played by the captivating Arta Dobroshi), sets out to achieve her capitalist dream of opening a snack bar with her Albanian boyfriend by letting a mobster broker a sham marriage to...

Life Partner

Companionship, togetherness, love… marriage; the phrase ‘Life Partner’ has different connotations for different people. There is someone made for everyone, including Karan, Bhavesh and Jeet.Karan (Fardeen Khan) and Sanjana (Genelia D’Souza) are madly in love with each other. Marriage is the next step to cement their relationship. But is ‘love marriage’ the right way to be? For Bhavesh (Tusshar Kapoor), his life partner, Prachi (Prachi Desai) comes...

Kim Kardashian rubbishes infertility reports

Kim Kardashian has taken to her blog for rubbishing claims that she can’t have children.Kardashian's fertility has been at the centre of speculation after she gave an interview to People.com, admitting she would love to adopt.The 28-year-old socialite slammed online gossips for "twisting" her words and insisted that the reports are “totally false”."It's been reported online that I can’t have children of my own and that’s totally false. I said I...

Jordan wants to have baby with her gay pal

Katie Price a.k.a Jordan says that she would consider having a baby with one of her homosexual friends if she can't find a new man.The glamour model - who raises three children with estranged husband Peter Andre - is keen to add to her brood and will consider one of her gay pals if she can't find a suitable man."I've got two gay friends so if I really want a baby I''ll have one with one of them! They're good-looking guys and I know they would have...

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Vanessa Hudges does not want to be dirty

Vanessa Hudgens might be one of Hollywood’s hottest brightest youngest things and other half to the delectable Zac Efron, but the petite starlet still has to do the cleaning!The High School Musical actress recently moved into her $2.75 million Tuscan-style California mansion.But Hudgens admits that it’s tough to keep her new pad neat and clean.“There is a struggle to keep the place clean,” she sighed. “I’m always in my kitchen scrubbing down the...

She’s sexy

Megan Fox is hot in new horror flick Jennifer's Body. According to her that is."I think I'm pretty sexy in it," the starlet said at the Comic-Con press conference for the movie. "The movie is so sexy! You better put on your sexy shoes for this movie!"In the film, Megan’s character eats people, "there's sort of a hint of, a little bit of a lesbian relationship that happens. There's a girl-on-girl kiss."And beyond that, before every kill there is...

A Candie’s girl

When you look at Britney Spears now it’s hard to believe that she was in meltdown just two years ago; from a shambolic performance at the 2007 MTV Music Awards to unforgettable images of a bloated Britney shaving her hair off.It had all gone so wrong.Fast forward those 2 years and Britney is back! The svelte, sexy, Southern belle is strutting her stuff on her Circus world tour and sizzling US television screens with her new ad spot for Candie’s...

Actress Leela Naidu is dead

Known as much for her roles in classics like "Anuradha" and "The Householder" as for her ageless elegance, Leela Naidu died here Tuesday after a prolonged illness. She was 69.Born to an Irish mother and an Indian father, Leela Naidu was crowned Miss India in 1954. Vogue had also named her as one of the 10 most beautiful women in the world along with Maharani Gayatri Devi.She forayed into films with Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 1960 "Anuradha" as the bored...

'Grey's Anatomy' exclusive: The George story you'll never see

It's now common knowledge that T.R. Knight declined Grey's Anatomy boss Shonda Rhimes' request to briefly return in season 6 to give his terminal George some closure. “I kind of get it,” the series’ creator says in this week's Entertainment Weekly cover story. “[He’d] emotionally walked away." Fans, however, may not be quite as chill when they hear the killer story she had planned for him. Exclusive details about George O'Malley's lost Grey's Anatomy...

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sex tape scenes in Hilton's biography shock her mom

Paris Hilton's mother was shocked when she watched her daughter's documentary because the makers included scenes from the socialite's infamous sex tape.Kathy said it was "hard" for them to see it.The hotel heiress is the focus of "Paris, Not France", a behind-the-scenes movie about the star's life that was made three years ago.The picture premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this year and will make its TV debut in America Tuesday.Hilton's...

Sandra wants boob job to look like bimbo

Actress Sandra Bullock wants to get a cosmetic surgery done to enhance her twin assets in order to look like a bimbo."I need surgery. I'm getting some boobs. I think that's my problem. All my brains are in my butt, they're not in my chest,” she said jokingly.She said: "I want to be the bimbo, I want to be looked at as the bimbo, purely as a sexual object. I've been working for that for a very long time."The beauty also revealed that she needs to...

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Bipasha’s Hollywood film plans to fizzle out?

Just few days back there were tabloid reports about Bipasha Basu’s first Hollywood project starring Titanic villain Billy Zane, going on floors. But now news has trickled in that the project is being scrapped. It was to begin shooting tomorrow on Saturday July 25th. It is learnt that Smita Thackeray who was to produce this film has now backed out with reasons being cited as personal and professional.This yet untitled film was to be directed by David...

Julia Roberts scrubs temple floors

Oscar winner Julia Roberts of the Pretty Woman fame is gearing up for her next role as a country hopping hippie in search of ‘everything’ for her upcoming “Eat, Pray, Love” movie. “Eat, Pray, Love”, a book by Pushcart Prize winner Elizabeth Gilbert with the tagline, “One woman’s search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia,” is being made into a feature film. In the book, a spirituality memoir, she (played by Julia Roberts in the movie)...

Saif-Deepika kisses escape Censor scissors

Saif Ali Khan’s home production Love Aaj Kal has cleared the Censor hurdle with just one cut even though the film has, believe it or not, five kisses between Saif and Deepika Padukone.However, since the kisses were shot aesthetically, the board did not find them vulgar or offensive. Rather, the Regional Officer of the Censor Board describes the kisses as “cute”.“There are about five kisses in the film but they are not heavy-duty kissing scenes as...

Katrina Kaif says no to 'Life Partner'

Katrina Kaif is not interested in Life Partner, the movie, that is. The film, starring Fardeen Khan, Genelia D'Souza, Tusshar Kapoor and Prachi Desai is a story of modern-day couples. Katrina was sought for a cameo appearance opposite Govinda, the only male actor without a heroine in the film.Director Rumi Jaffrey expected that Katrina, who’d played a full-fledged romantic role opposite Govinda in David Dhawan’s Partner, would be excited about the...

Babe versus Baba - Celina Takes On Yoga Guru

Celina Jaitley is breathing fire nowadays. The reason? She has come under attack for her unflinching support to gay rights from none other than the Yoga guru Baba Ramdev who has petitioned against de-criminalising homosexuality.In a recent newspaper interview, Baba Ramdev said about Celina: “These actresses know nothing about Bhartiya sanskriti. They stay away from their parents and have no morals. Woh toh har mahine partners badalti hai, ussey...

Negar Khan enters the jungle

Nigar Khan, the hot babe known for her tops slipping down on the ramps and swimming topless with handsome hunks, is springing back into action. No, she’s not signed a big banner Bollywood movie, but has been roped in for the new television show ‘Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao’.The move has apparently been made to boost the show’s TRPs which have been below expectations. On top of it, several participants have been complaining about the conditions in...

Body double bares butt for Mallika

Mallika Sherawat is bold but not enough to bare her butt to camera. So when it came to shooting a scene for her movie Hissss in which her character of a Naagin who transforms into a woman needed to be shown with nude derriere, a body double was called in.According to Mallika’s brother, who is also the co-producer of the film, the decision to use the duplicate was taken by director Jennifer Lynch.Since the actress’s character is shown baring her...

Perfect Mismatch (2009)

.iflnk, .iflnk a, .iflnk a:visited {background-color:#333333;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Verdana,Georgia;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;}.iflnk a:hover{text-decoration:underline;} Powered by: Chakpak.com Perfect Mismatch  Meet the Fockers. Oops... Meet Mr. Patel and Mr. Bhalla. They have a problem with each other. One is a Gujarati, the other is a Punjabi.Agreed, there are people who don't believe in marrying outside their community, but stories like these are passé. They no longer make for interesting experiences...

Paris Hilton inspired Michael Jackson

While attending the premiere of her MTV documentary Paris, Not France, Paris Hilton revealed to Extra that Michael Jackson's daughter was named after her:"My mom and Michael went to high school together and they were best friends since they were 13," Paris explains. "So I grew up knowing Michael very well and when he had his daughter, he always loved the name Paris and grew up being an uncle to me. So he asked my mom if it was okay and of course...

Kareena Kapoor - the fashionable diva!

Kareena Kapoor, the style icon of Bollywood, has a list of places to visit in search of good fashion. “I have to...I’ve no choice. I’m looked at as a fashion statement,” says Bebo.Right now, Kareena has plans to visit fashion destinations like Milan, Paris, London and New York in search of world-class fashion to stock up her wardrobe. “It becomes tiring for everything I wear to be in the media glare. I constantly need to be well-dressed,” says the...

Megan Fox is just one of the guys

Megan Fox, the stunning actress, says she is almost always friends with guys rather than girls.“I actually only had one female friend growing up,” Fox said. “Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I always enjoyed doing guy things.“So I really didn’t get along with the girls in that aspect. My one girlfriend lives in Florida and she works in a mall. She’s the furthest thing from an actress.”Fox has admitted in the past that she was not...

Shakira wants to shake her hips with Robert Pattinson

Shakira, said that she is a "big fan" of Twlight and she is 'very intrigued' by Robert Pattinson.Shakira was being interviewed by MTV and admitted to a little crush on the Robert Pattinson.Asked if the reason she liked Twilight had to do with 23-year-old actor, she responded, “No, no, no, I’m too old. I can’t say those things.I mean, how old is he - 23? 24? … You are getting me in trouble!”Asked about a potential collaboration between the two, Shakira...

Ali Landry Bikini Pictures

Although Ali Landry was partially retired for a while after giving birth about two years ago, she came back to the spotlight looking even better than ever.Sporting a very toned body, Ali joined the cast of the ABC show Superstars a few months ago where she's been proving her true potential swimming, running and working out always dressed in short shorts and tight tops. Yet it's been hard to catch Ali in a swimsuit and her fans were starting to wonder...

Emma Watson Shows her Boob

Emma Watson better be careful, she's been accidentally showing more and more skin lately and that can lead to some seriously tainted reputation in Hollywood.The latest Emma episode took place a couple nights ago when the young actress was on her way to a popular London nightclub after attending the London premiere for the latest Harry Potter movie.Still sitting in her limousine, Emma Watson appeared to be caressing her left boob, which caused her...

The Ugly Truth (2009)

Back in the days of Bogart and Bergman, Hepburn and Tracy, it was said that people learned how to fall in love — how to kiss, beguile, or just hold hands — by watching the people in the movies. Today, anyone eager for tips on how to find, and woo, the perfect mate hardly needs to look to Hollywood. Amorous instruction is everywhere — on reality shows; in hipper-than-thou men's and women's magazines; in music videos and stand-up comedy; in ruthless-as-you-gotta-be...

Anna Friel Topless

Anna Friel's nice, perky and very natural tits are now bare and available for your viewing pleasure inside the latest issue of Vanity Fair.After rising to fame in Pushing Daisies and Land of the Lost, Anna Friel has become one of England's best known and acclaimed young actresses. And as you can see in this Anna Friel topless picture, she's also extremely talented... at showing her titties and looking pretty!In her featured interview, she told Vanity...

G-Force (2009)

A family-friendly adventure about animated guinea pigs working as top-secret spies for the U.S. government, shot in Disney 3D and voiced by big-time stars including Nicolas Cage and Penelope Cruz, ought to be funny and kind of cute, right? Would you settle for frantic and loud, with a few lame jokes inserted pertaining to Cruz's Spanish accent? The first 3-D film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer turns out to be similar to 2-D projects from the same...

Erin Andrews Sex Tape

If you like sports, you're probably familiar with the work and looks of Erin Andrews. And I bet you've secretly wished she had a sex tape.In that case, your wishes just came true, because blonde bombshell Erin Andrews was just secretly videotaped while walking around naked in her hotel room. Technically it's not an Erin Andrews sex tape, but still, it's sexy, it's a tape, and it features Erin. Whoever made this tape did it by drilling a hole in...

Evan Rachel Wood Naked

i-D Magazine may not be very well known yet, but they're doing their darnest to change that. Including having today's hottest celebrities naked on their pages.Last month they brought us Lily Allen topless, and in their newest edition (which hasn't even hit the stands yet), they show Evan Rachel Wood naked. Shot by famous photographer Terry Richardson, these photos are actually unpublished images from the same photo shoot that GQ printed last April.The...

Orphan (2009)

To really get under your skin, a bad-seed horror movie needs a demon child whose dastardliness sneaks up on you. There's nothing too subtle, however, about Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), the 9-year-old orphan adopted by the Colemans (Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard), who are out to put their tragic memories of a stillborn baby behind them. Pigtailed and freckled, Esther dresses like a frumpy Victorian doll, and she's got a thousand-yard stare that...

Katie Price has no qualms dating a woman

Katie Price has revealed that she does not mind dating a woman after her split with husband Peter Andre.The hottie, who seems to have reprised her wild alter ego Jordan, had recently expressed her desire to bed soccer stars Frank Lampard and Christiano Ronaldo.However, she has now hinted that she can turn to women to fulfill her naughty desires.“No one could ever bet or imagine who I’ll be going out with next. I don’t even know myself. Who knows?...

In the Loop (2009)

The chattering smarty-pants who ran the U.S. government on The West Wing are slow talkers compared with the motormouthed and hilariously imperfect power elite in the brainy British comedy In the Loop. As in The West Wing, public policy, government protocol, and media strategy are at the heart of the matter; the process of diplomacy is as important (and amusing) a source of dramatic energy as the outcome of all those summit meetings and position...

Sienna Miller's parents hate to see her have sex

Brit actress Sienna Miller has revealed that whenever she does not want her father to view sexually explicit movie scenes of hers she just covers up his eyes.The 27-year-old actress, whose latest film GI Joe will be out in the UK next month, admits that her parents are proud of her work and also offer support.But Miller is still not able to do away with the embarrassment she feels when she is watching her more X-rated scenes with them in the room.“My...

The Beaches of Agnes (2009)

As the moptopped godmother of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda never enjoyed the fame (or acclaim) of a Godard or a Truffaut. It is only now, though, in her senior years, that she may have finally stumbled onto her most indelible role — as a twinkly and mischievous self-dramatizing sprite. Varda, born in 1928, presides over The Beaches of Agnès, her lithe and leaping documentary scrapbook, like a Rachel Dratch who's aged into a very wise old angel....

Miranda's steamy Victoria's Secret photoshoot

After posing for her first nude photo shoot a couple of months ago, Miranda Kerr is still continuing to shed her clothes in almost every opportunity she gets.The hottie flashed barely-there underwear in the latest campaign for American lingerie brand Victoria's Secret.The 26-year-old appeared in her first nude shoot on the cover of last month's Australian Rolling Stone magazine. Since then, erotic shots have been published of her posing nude for...

Shrink (2009)

Why is it that movies can never get the rhythms, the prickly defensive and confessional dance, of a therapy session — at least, not the way The Sopranos did? In Shrink, this sick-soul-of-Los-Angeles drama, Kevin Spacey plays a psychiatrist to the stars, but the character is such a wretch — an addict who's gone numb over his wife's suicide — that he just sits there, slack and glum, without the pretense that he's helping anyone. The movie is slack...

Ryan enjoyed doing nude scene with Sandra Bullock

Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, who is married to actress Scarlett Johansson, says he enjoyed filming a nude scene with Sandra Bullock for "The Proposal" because she has a great body."It's a good situation to be in, seeing her naked - believe me, Sandra's no slob, that's for sure," contactmusic.com quoted the actor as saying.The 32-year-old initially worried that Sandra, 44, would back out of the scene because of nerves."I didn't think we'd shoot...

Explosion nearly burns Sienna Miller's breasts

Hollywood actress Sienna Miller nearly burnt her boobs while shooting for her new movie. The 27-year-old actress, who plays femme fatale The Baroness in GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, nearly set her breasts on fire after getting too close to an explosion."Luckily it wasn't my breasts, it was the bit in-between,” the Sun quoted Miller as saying."It got a bit burnt when an explosion got a bit close," she added.Miller also revealed that she hated wearing...

Tony Manero

Raul (riveting Alfredo Castro), a psychopathic, sourpussed, middle-aged thug in 1970s Chile, becomes obsessed with the disco king immortalized by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever in Tony Moreno, this expertly queasy-making drama from Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain. Dreaming of winning a Tony Manero look-and-dance-alike contest, Raul devotes most of his time to perfecting his act, and the rest of the time wreaking shocking violence.Larrain's...

The Answer Man

In The Answer Man, Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) isn't any old celebrity author. Twenty years ago, he wrote the mega-best-selling book Me 
and God, in which he served up folksy New Age self-help epigrams that convinced a lot of people he had a direct pipeline to the Almighty. And now? He's rich and famous, and also a bitter, disillusioned recluse — a Mitch Albom who turned into J.D. Salinger. Daniels plays Arlen with a kind of cuddly crankiness; he...

Mischa Barton may commit suicide

Mischa Barton is said to have recently collapsed at her Los Angeles home because she had allegedly snorted cocaine three days in a row.The 23-year-old actress remained in an involuntary psychiatric hold after reportedly suffering a meltdown. Pals of the former O.C star informed police amid fears she would kill herself after three days of hard partying."She's in very bad shape. She's running out of money and can't find love, so now she is looking...

Keira Knightley boobs nicknamed 'little poached eggs'

Keira Knightley was left red-faced after the director of her new movie described her boobs as “little poached eggs”.The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actress shed her clothes for John Maybury’s ‘The Edge Of Love’.But the 51-year-old filmmaker gave the nickname to Keira’s breasts during the film’s DVD commentary.“I’m sure Keira will be far from happy,” the Daily Star quoted an insider as sayi...