Monday, August 29, 2011

Real Zaragoza vs Real Madrid

(Highlights) La Liga, In the opening of the Spanish La Liga matches we will have Real Zaragoza vs Real Madrid in what will be huge match on the weekend. The first official weekend in the spanish league was called of due to the strike of plauers association and now we have Zaragoza taking on Real Madrid in what will be huge match for both the side and Glacticoz will be looking to start the season on a high when they take on Zaragoza. The match Real Zaragoza vs Real Madrid will be held at Estadio de la Romareda,Zaragoza on August 28, 2011 7:00 PM BST.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

7 Days in Paradise: Film Review

our editor recommendsRobert Duvall Turns 80 A normally cornball, inspiring tale about finding God through golf, 7 Days in Paradise should be given full credit for approaching with new things in movies: To understand what goes on in the finish, you've reached use the internet. After carefully accumulating to some climactic scene where the underdog hero must sink a lengthy putt to win an abrupt-dying playoff, your camera looks away, narration intones towards the effect the protagonist presently has a greater calling therefore it doesn't matter much within the large picture whether he won or otherwise and, should you really need to know who arrived on the scene on the top, you have to go towww.didhemaketheputt.com. This homemade, dairy, finger-lickin'-good, G-ranked bit of American cheese isn't the kind of factor most urban audiences are familiar with consuming but, if Vision Entertainment understands how to achieve lower-home Christian audiences, Paradise will discover open arms across a large swath from the Bible Belt and with the South. According to David Prepare's best-selling 2009 novel "Golf's Sacred Journey: 7 Days in the Links of Paradise," that has been particularly well-liked by battling sports athletes, the emotionally-oriented film also offers the wit to lightly kid the concept that God usually takes an individual interest the end result of sporting occasions, a belief that appears very common among Southern school football teams as well as the National football league. Apparent in theme and intent and devoted to striking every location directly on the mind, this independent production has a very fine fine cast and many certainly offers the truthfulness of their convictions in the presence of a greater meaning to existence than sport scores and dollars. "Just how can a game title have such an impact on a guy's soul?," Robert Duvall's smart some guy queries in voice-over both at the start and also the finish, right before we have seen youthful Texas golfer Luke Chisholm (Lucas Black) experience an overall total meltdown throughout a tournament. He's so troubled following this potential career-crusher he crashes his vehicle via a fence. However the fence's owner, rancher Johnny Crawford (Duvall), not even close to minding, takes the lad in and, recommending it might change his existence, invites him to become his guest for 7 days within the small capital of scotland - Paradise. And Paradise it rapidly appears to become. Ensconced inside a luxurious cabin, anxiously waited available-and-feet through the lady of the home (Kathy Baker) and immediately respected up and lower through the lovely red-colored-haired waitress (Deborah Ann Woll) in the picture-perfect town coffee shop, Luke couldn't be blamed for thinking he may have left and attended paradise. Like some zen master, former golfer Johnny, that has their own private course, uses unorthodox way to get Luke to relearn the activity from where you started, from getting a new grip through inner conviction to finding how you can snatch victory from certain defeat if you take Luke up in a tiny plane, eliminating the motor and getting him learn how to glide to safety. Under Johnny's tutelage, it's all as simple as cake in a single short week, Luke not just will get his game back but is inspired by example to stop consuming and it is proven the best way to the The almighty within the bargain. And, indeed, the waitress is transforming into a equine whisperer, so material for any follow up can there be if warranted. Training learned, Luke makes its way into the Texas Open and stuns the golf world by tying the very best player (real-existence professional K.J. Choi), compelling the playoff. Black looks very good swinging the clubs and, once he shakes off Luke's residual bitterness, opens his portrayal track of humor and ready ease of access. Duvall can enjoy an avuncular cowboy sage in the sleep, but there's truly nobody on the planet you'd rather see doling out homespun aphorisms, therefore it's pointless to face up to the pleasure of watching him do what he is able to fare better than other people. Baker and Melissa Leo, because the waitress' mother, aren't requested showing a small fraction of their talent, however they further class the joint up. Matthew Dean Russell, an experienced visual effects hands, overshoots, overcuts and just attempts to hard, especially at first. But his apparent affinity for that material progressively triumphs over the programmatic point-making from the storytelling (four authors are credited about the script), permitting the film to eventually find its way and retain its wholesomeness of intent. OPENS: September 2 (Vision Entertainment) PRODUCTION: Paradise Films CAST: Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Melissa Leo, Deborah Ann Woll, John Geraghty, Frederick Lyle Taylor, Jerry Ferrara, K.J. Choi, Kathy Baker DIRECTOR: Matthew Dean Russell SCREENWRITERS: David L. Prepare, Take advantage of Levine, Matthew Dean Russell, Sandra Thrift, in line with the novel "Golf's Sacred Journey: 7 Days in the Links of Paradise" by David L. Prepare PRODUCERS: Mark G. Mathis, Jason Michael Berman EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David L. Prepare, Jess Stainbrook, Frederick Coors Junior., Ray C. Davis, Robert A. Innamorati, Ron Jackson, Phil Myers, Ken Herfurth, Lucas Black, Robert Carliner, Mary Vernieu, Lou Waters DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: M. David Mullen PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Clark Hunter COSTUME DESIGNERS: Molly Maginnis, Amy Maner EDITOR: Robert Komatsu MUSIC: Klaus Badelt with Christopher Carmichael G rating, 99 minutes Robert Duvall Melissa Leo

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

A Real Human Being and a Real Hero: Ryan Gosling Apparently Stops New York Street Fight

Movie stars: they really are just like us! They didn’t like Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, they have trouble containing their bladders on international flights, and they break up gritty street fights? Perhaps! At least if they’re Ryan Gosling, who performed the latter chivalrous act recently in New York. Now, thanks to a passerby who couldn’t ignore the opportunity to capture the escalating urban violence on her cell phone, there is footage online. Ahead! So, yes, that is definitely Ryan Gosling breaking up a street fight in New York City. Question, though: isn’t it a little suspicious that the video has surfaced now, smack dab between the release dates of Crazy Stupid Love (July 29) and Drive (Sept. 16)? Well, maybe not, given that: 1. The actor is on the cover of nearly every major magazine this month and doesn’t need the extra publicity. 2. Drive does not face the kind of imminent box office danger Green Lantern did when those nude cell phone pics of someone who looked an awful lot like co-star Blake Lively leaked online. 3. “queenofpinups,” the YouTube user who posted the footage, has been posting homemade videos that date four years back (as opposed to the suspicious brand new user who “leaked” the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trailer). Movieline has reached out to Gosling’s rep, who has yet to respond to request for confirmation or comment on this story. In the meantime, let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and listen to College’s “A Real Hero” — which features prominently and awesomely in Drive — to celebrate. [via Vulture]

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Conan the Barbarian: Film Review

The new Conan the Barbarian may be the first film - and the first of many, one fears - to be aimed entirely at video gamers. The filmmakers throw story and character to the wind to send an avatar into a field of continual battle to slay enemies coming from all sides. Every rip of his sword sends a fountain of blood into the air and every gouge, punch and back flip comes with amplified sound effects.our editor recommendsFight Over 'Conan The Barbarian' Still Going Strong After 25 YearsNew 'Conan the Barbarian' Trailer Hits Say what you will about John Milius'1982 version of Conan, that film at least had a concept. Milius, long a student of Japanese culture, brought pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard'shomoerotic, misogynistic barbarian of prehistory to the screen with influences of the warrior code of bushidoand cinematic overtones of John Ford and Akira Kurosawa to create a Nietzschian display of unfettered male virility. The new film is merely dedicated to unfettered carnage in 3D. STORY: 'Conan the Barbarian' Director Reveals How Reboot Will Differ From Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic Whether this version will attract gamers and young men of a generation who think Conan is a skinny, redheaded late-night talk show host is open to question. Certainly the look of the film, shot in locations throughout Bulgaria and in Nu Boyana Studios, is dramatic with sweeping landscapes improved digitally to resemble an angry, sensual time in pre-Christian Europe where dark magic rules and brutal warriors kill with impunity. But how long can you gaze at a landscape empty of story and character? Replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger as the original Barbarian is Jason Momoa (HBO's Game of Thrones), a Hawaiian-born hulk with ripped muscles and absurd good looks. He certainly fits the part. For that matter, all the casting works in visual terms. Rachel Nichols is lovely and feisty as a temple princess who fights by Conan's side. Stephen Lang personifies badass evil as Conan's chief opponent while Rose McGowan's snakelike witch is pure villainy. VIDEO: Conan the Barbarian Fights Bloody Battle in Movie's First Scene Chiseled Nonso Anozie looks rocklike as Conan's staunch compatriot while Ron Perlman, dressed and coiffed to resemble ancient statutes of the Greek god Zeus, plays Conan's warrior father. Alas, blunt-force acting rules the screen with everyone grunting, snarling and posturing to ludicrous effect. Dialogue is at a premium as this impedes the killing game. Indeed, at one point when Nichols character threatens to get chatty, Momoa stuffs a rag in her mouth. The only actors who actually make an impact is Nichols, who displays just enough nervy grit to stand out, and 13-year-old Leo Howard, a first-degree black belt who plays young Conan as a feral animal ever looking for prey. The story? Oh, the screenplay by Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer and Sean Hood concerns something about a search for scattered pieces of the powerful Mask of Acheron and then a search for a "pure blood" descendant of sorcerers whose blood will awaken the mask. The movie wastes no more time explaining all this then it took you to read that sentence. These are mere excuses to get characters from point A to points B and C. VIDEO: 'Conan the Barbarian': New Red-Band Trailer Released To give the movie its due, those locations are astutely fabricated by production designer Chris August and cinematographer Thomas Kloss with a considerable assist from CGI artists. Indeed the movie's best moments come in long shots or sweeping camera passes over each new location with an accompanying super identifying the name and purpose of this new site. (The one labeled "City of Thieves" causes one to wonder if this means that an honest man would be an outlaw in this metropolis. Your mind does wander while watching this film.) And again to give the film credit, the action is cleverly designed so that Conan - he of the "I live, I love, I slay, I am content" mantra - performs his slash-and-gouge routine, which could grow tiresome, in dramatically different situations. One involving sand warriors springing out of dust to bedevil Conan is particularly ingenious although it goes on too long. That's true for all the fights though especially the extended battles between Conan and Lang's Khalar Zym, where the filmmakers must invent obstacles to keep Conan from dispatching his foe too soon. The choreographer of this controlled mayhem is German-born director Marcus Nispel, who seems to have developed a career as a remaker of other people's movies, having directed new versions of Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre andFrankenstein. His imposes no personal vision on Conan, however, no Milius-like perspective or visual design. There is no purpose to the film other than random blood splattering amid scenes of bondage, primitive savagery and S&M eroticism. The film is numbing and dumb with its hero indistinguishable from its villains. Conan fights under no moral code nor stands for any principle. If the film were called Khalar Zym, he wouldn't even be the good guy. Opens: August 19 (Lionsgate) Production companies: Millennium Films in association with EFF Independent Productions and Conan Properties International Cast: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui, Leo Howard, Ron Perlman Director: Marcus Nispel Screenwriters: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Sean Hood Based on a character created by: Robert E. Howard Producers: Fredrik Malmberg, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta, Danny Lerner, John Baldecchi, Les Weldon, Henry Winterstern Executive producers: Samuel Hadida, Victor Hadida, Frederik Fierst, George Furla, Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Eda Kowan, John Sacchi, Michael Paseornek, Jason Constantine Director of photography: Thomas Kloss Production designer: Chris August Music: Tyler Bates Costume designer: Wendy Partridge Editor: Ken Blackwell R rating, 102 minutes Rachel Nichols Rose McGowan Stephen Lang Ron Perlman Jason Momoa Video Games Conan the Barbarian

Monday, August 8, 2011

Skins UK Star & Former British Soap Actor Join Game Of Thrones Season 2

By Jolie LashLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- A former star of the British version of Skins, actress Hannah Murray, has joined the cast of Game of Thrones Season 2. HBO confirmed to Access Hollywood that the redheaded actress will play Gilly in the series, news first reported by Westeros.org. Fans of the books will know that Gilly plays a major role in the life of Jon Snows (Kit Harington) best friend on the Nights Watch Samwell Tarly (played by Manchester-bred actor John Bradley West). Gilly is a wildling woman, who men of the Nights Watch meet as they journey beyond the wall in Season 2. She is not only the pregnant daughter of Craster, a friend of the Nights Watch, but in a move set to put the Lannister clan to shame one of his wives. In related GOT casting news, Karl Davies, who starred in the UK soap Emmerdale, has signed on as Alton Lannister, HBO confirmed to Access Hollywood. Alton is not in the books by author George R. R. Martin, and no character description was immediately available. Murray and Davies are the latest in a long line of new cast members coming into the Emmy-nominated fantasy series, based on the books by George R. R. Martin, for Season 2 including Roy Dotrice as Hallyne, the pyromancer, German actor Tom Wlaschiha as Jaqen Hghar, Gemma Whelan as Yara Greyjoy (in the books as Asha), Nonso Anozie as Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Liam Cunningham as Davos, Stephen Dillane as Robert Baratheons heir and brother Stannis, Dutch actress Carice van Houten as the red priestess Melisandre, Gwendoline Christie as Brienne, knight to Renly Baratheon, and Tudors actress Natalie Dormer as Margaery Tyrell, Renlys wife. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Norway Killer Was Inspired by 'Dogville;' Lars Von Trier Reacts

Danish director Lars von Trier, who incited international outrage with his thoughtless comments earlier this year that he "admires Hitler," is at the center of a new controversy, one surrounding Norway mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. It turns out that Breivik was a big fan of Von Trier's film 'Dogville,' and may have used it as an inspiration for his killing spree that took 69 lives. The end of 'Dogville,' in which the citizens of a small town who have oppressed and abused Nicole Kidman are all gunned down at her command, bears striking similarities to Brevik's shooting rampage. Von Trier now says that he regrets making the film, which was intended as a critique of American society. In the Danish newspaper Politikien, Von Trier is quoted as saying. "If it was an inspiration, I'm sorry that I made it. I feel badly about thinking that 'Dogville,' which in my eyes is one of my most successful films, should have been a kind of script for him," Von Trier said. "It's horrific." The director insists "my views are the complete opposite of Breivik and his deeds." Breivik's Facebook page (which has since been taken down) listed 'Dogville' as his third favorite film, after 'Gladiator' and '300.' [via Hollywood Elsewhere]