"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" Trailer

Mary Elizabeth Winstead attends the premiere of ''Youth In Revolt'' on January 6, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays Ramona Flowers on the set of "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World". Michael Cera plays Scott Pilgrim.



The trailer is out for "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." I admit I was skeptical that Michael Cera could break out of his milquetoast demeanor and do battle, even Scott-esque battle, against anyone -- but it appears Edgar Wright is hitting the right tone overall. "Arrested Development" fans will love Cera's showdown with Mae Whitman (yes, her) as one of Scott's foes -- the seven exes of his new girlfriend, Ramona Flowers". Source: www.heatvisionblog.com

Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead playing Scott & Ramona: Bryan Lee O'Malley's characters.

MY BOYFRIENDS ARE BACK AND THEY'RE BADDER THAN EVER

Although there was quality time to be had with most of Ramona Flowers' evil exes throughout the trailer, this particular look at each one of them lined up in a row tugged on our geek strings. The fact that all seven of these men (and woman) will be going toe to toe against poor Scott makes us nervous for him, but psyched for ourselves! Source: splashpage.mtv.com

"Remember Me" Soundtrack

Emilie de Ravin and Robert Pattinson on the NY set
of "Remember Me".

To purchase the "Remember Me" score, go to:
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To purchase the "Remember Me" soundtrack go to:
itunes.apple.com

"Remember Me" Track Listing:
(Subject to change)
Alien Lover - Luscious Jackson
Play On - Kottonmouth Kings
Kandles - National Skyline
Soft Shoulder - Ani DiFranco
Have Mercy - Two Ton Boa
Hanging With the Wrong Crowd - Ed Harcourt
Why Did We Ever Meet - The Promise Ring
You Can See Me - Supergrass
Sea Of Teeth - Sparklehorse
Andvari - Sigur Rós
Parasol - The Sea and Cake
Soul Brother - Us3
Open Wide - Long Hind Legs
The Sun Keeps Shining On Me - Fonda

Source: www.marketwire.com

Maggie Gyllenhaal at the World Premiere of Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang

Maggie Gyllenhaal & Emma Thompson attending the World Premiere of "Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang" held at the
Odeon West End on March 24, 2010 in London.

Maggie Gyllenhaal has to "translate" what people say when she comes to England.

"The US actress appeared in London for the premiere of 'Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang' last night (24.03.10) and told how, despite spending lots of time in the UK, she still has trouble understanding the local people.
Peter Sarsgaard and Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (2009).

Maggie - who is married to American actor Peter Sarsgaard - told BANG Showbiz: "You know I have been here so much we shot 'The Dark Knight' here, my husband shot 'An Education' here, but I think it's funny; we speak the same language and so many things are similar about New York and London but culturally there are huge differences.
"I have to do a lot of translating, 'what do they mean by that?' But I love London, like, love it."

Maggie added she is also wary of how she speaks too, as some American terms, such as 'fannypack', and 'pants' have a different meaning in England - with the former having rude connotations and the latter referring to underwear rather than trousers.

She added: "London surprises me and continues to surprise me - and when I'm here, I'm always a little on guard of what I say, exactly for that reason."Emma Thompson, who stars as the titular nanny character, also attended the premiere.
Maggie plays Mrs. Docherty - the mother of a set of unruly children, who is looking after the family farm while her husband is away - in 'Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang', which is released in Europe from Friday (26.03.10). Source: www.contactmusic.com

Robert Pattinson - Edward with red eyes and Volturi crest

Twilight saga "New Moon" casting with Stephenie Meyer on the Volturi set in Italy.There are several goodies in the Twilight saga "Eclipse"sneak peek from the Walmart version of the New Moon DVD. Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) with red eyes wearing a Volturi crest necklace!

Robert Pattinson 17/03/10 Remember Me UK Premiere

The Runaways Featurette

Kat von D. making Dakota Fanning a temporary tattoo for "The Runaways".


The Runaways - starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning in theatres March 19 - Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver. April 9 additional theatres.

"Greenberg" & "Donnie Darko": Nerds in pain

Joe Swanberg & Greta Gerwig, Mumblecore coupling.

Greta Gerwig, in ‘Greenberg’, moves beyond mumblecore:
Q. Do you give much thought to Hollywood, to what it might be like stepping into that whirlwind?

Greta Gerwiwg Yeah, I do. I honestly think I wouldn’t be doing this if it weren’t in some way seductive. There’s this collective cultural fantasy of what Hollywood means and I think it’s a real thing but I try not to give it power. I loved putting on a dress at the Berlin Film Festival and walking down the red carpet. There’s that balance of being in awe of it and knowing that this too will pass. Source: www.boston.com

“People are like, ‘Florence is such a pushover’, Gerwig says. “And I’m like, ‘No, she’s not. She believes in him.’  Baumbach, too, defends Greenberg. “For me, his behavior is so clearly borne out of insecurity,” he says. “Even when he takes it out on her, it’s so clearly about him. He’s his own worst enemy, and he’s lucky to have someone like Florence who has patience.”
Source: nymg.com/movies

Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in "Adventureland" (2009).

"Eisenberg, best known from “The Squid and the Whale” is fantastic in the lead role. He has the wide-eyed innocence of Michael Cera without the frustrating lack of backbone. As James, he's congenial but not a pushover, and an unabashed virgin, though not for lack of passion. Expect big things from Eisenberg — this guy's got talent". Source: m.columbiatribune.com

Greta Gerwig and Ben Stiller attending "Greenberg" Premiere in Los Angeles on 18th March 2010.

"Ambivalently receptive to the clumsy advances of his brother's insecure twentysomething assistant Florence (Greta Gerwig), Roger asks her out on a few inevitable disaster dates, almost begrudgingly and as an afterthought. And while not quite over his obsession with a former girlfriend who has long since married (co-writer Jennifer Jason Leigh), Roger engages in woefully awkward sex with Florence, while complaining that her uncooperative bra is wrapped around her like a bandage". Source: newsblaze.com

"Next Donnie screws his courage to the sticking place and asks Gretchen to be his girlfriend in a scene of perfect awkward realism, and she accepts. The love story, and Donnie's otherwise reasonably normal teenage life, is counter-pointed by his increasingly disturbing interactions with Frank". Source: www.locusmag.com

Ben Stiller with "Greenberg" director Noah Baumbach.

"Socially awkward and so self-involved that other people's lives seem like an inconvenience to him, Roger Greenberg is everything most of us don't want to be.Yet as Stiller plays him he's both repellent and compelling, a wayward, untethered soul who's nonetheless so close to the shore that our impulse is to reach out and pull him in, not push him further away. That unsettling tension between wanting to flee and wanting to help -- or at least comprehend -- is the very center of "Greenberg", Baumbach's fifth movie and, possibly, his most open-hearted and raw". Source: www.salon.com

Jena Malone and Jake Gyllenhaal as Gretchen & Donnie in "Donnie Darko" (2001).

"Donnie Darko", the first feature by 26-year-old writer-director Richard Kelly, is a wondrous, moodily self-involved piece of work that employs X-Filesmagic realism to galvanize what might have been a routine tale of suburban teen angst — OK, borderline schizophrenia. Part comic book, part case study, this is certainly the most original and venturesome American indie I've seen this year". Source: www.villagevoice.com

Jake Gyllenhaal in "Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut" (2004) Production Diary.

"Donnie Darko, like every American teenager alive, is a legend in his own mind. (There's a wonderful little moment when two of his teachers look at each other in bemused astonishment and say his name -- a validation that this kid is something else ... even if the validation is all in his head.) Maybe that makes him schizophrenic or delusional or solipsistic or a victim of insanely grandiose ambitions, but not necessarily. We like Donnie, and we want things to work out for him". Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com

"The nanny/personal assistant/possible girlfriend Florence, one of "Greenberg's" few rays of light in Greta Gerwig's good hands, puts it best. In trying to explain away yet another injury to her psyche about midway through the film, she says, "Hurt people hurt people." The same could be said of Baumbach's relationship with his audience, with "Greenberg" his angriest, most conflicted and most painful movie yet. Stiller's Roger is just out of a New York psychiatric treatment center where he's been recovering from a breakdown. There's nothing to suggest he's made much headway"."In Roger, he's got his work cut out for him -- a character as alienated as he is alienating.Jeff Daniels and Jesse Eisenberg in "The Squid & The Whale".

Baumbach has woven in strains of Jeff Daniels' father in "Squid" the condescension dripping, with a few echoes of Nicole Kidman's self-satisfied sister in "Margot at the Wedding."
Source: www.calendarlive.com

"Ben Stiller stars as the titular, dysfunctional protagonist, “Greenberg”—following in the footsteps of “Squid’s” Bernard Berkman and “Wedding’s” Margot, characters too full of themselves to notice their own self-sabotaging ways. Critics have used words like “repellent”, “demonic narcissist” and “pathetic” to describe such protagonists—not the type of pull-quotes you might see on video boxes.
Anna Paquin and Jeff Daniels, Lili & Bernard in "The Squid & The Whale" (2005).

“I really feel these characters are a lot like people in the world,” defends Baumbach. “They’re only ‘difficult’ compared to conventional movie characters. I don’t think they’re difficult compared to real human beings. I’m surprised how people react so strongly. Their argument is, ‘Who is like this?’ But they don’t realize they’re using other movies as comparison rather than using their own parents or themselves.”
The Los Angeles setting for “Greenberg” for example, wavers between realistic depictions of upscale West Hollywood homes and a strange sense of alienation". Source: www.indiewire.com

Let's examine again the Troll of The Week: DrunkenStepfather, who has spread a malicious rumour against Jake Gyllenhaal. Talk about emotional spamming, which flies around without being punished. It's remarkable this time most of reactions by internauts and readers have been of repulsion towards the gossiper more than vicarious reading. Here is an acute analysis with good reasoning courtesy by www.examiner.com

“I just don’t know why we’re breeding a generation of hate and criticism right now. Nikki Reed - Patrick Fraser photoshoot.
The only thing that seems to be getting hits is controversial,” she continued. “It’s now ‘Who’s fat, who’s ugly and what can I say that’s mean about someone?’ and I just think it’s really sad.” -Nikki Reed. Source: uk.eonline.com

DrunkenStepfather is not the only one who loves to create a good Internet feud. Needless to say, this another feud I'm going to talk about belongs to a very different league than DrunkenStepfather's, Perez Hilton's ilk (it'd be almost impossible to stoop any lower than those), let's move to a more intellectual sphere and we'll stumble upon Armond White, a charismatic but abrasive critic who writes for The New York Press and who has developed a widely publicized disliking to filmmaker Noah Baumbach and his movies. White recently accused Baumbach, his publicist, and other columnists of nepotism, censure and of banning him of access to a private screening of "Greenberg".
White is Recipient of a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University's School of the Arts, he won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Criticism in 1996. He was recently re-elected as Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle. In August 2009, Roger Ebert wrote a blog "In defense of Armond White" commenting on White's negative review of District 9. However, after further familiarizing himself with the writings of White he concluded that "White is, as charged, a troll; A smart and knowing one, but a troll." blogs.suntimes.com

Also, White looks down on bloggers and amateur movie critics; well, in my opinion, he doesn't fare much better than most of aggressive polemicists stirring up in the net arena rentlessly.
His taste is dubious at best, choosing B-flicks as challenging and despising well praised films: a list of Best/Worst films

Maurice Bloch points out: "The transmission of culture is not a matter of passing on 'bits of culture', rather, a communication link is established which then requires an act of recreation on the part of the receiver". -The Rehabilitatioon of Human Nature (2005).

Read some of his ultra paranoid and mostly demagogic articles about elitism and narcissism mirrored in cinema (particularly Baumbach's "The Squid & The Whale" or "Greenberg) as exemplary of the decline of free journalism in: "Greenberg" Review and Smugness

Judge by yourselves!

"Today Show" MSNBC Interview to Ben Stiller "Greenberg"

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"Today Show" MSNBC Interview to Ben Stiller "Greenberg".

"The post-traumatic stress and economic desolation of 21st century America is filtered through the midlife crisis of Ben Stiller's troubled title character in Noah Baumbach's edgy romantic comedy, a cinematic argument that puts a premium on how we treat one another. There are plenty of laughs to be had--both easy and queasy--as Roger attempts to re-acclimate back to society after a stint in a New York mental hospital. Dedicated to nothing more than his the openly-disclosed purpose of "doing nothing", the medicated Roger Greenberg house-sits at his brother Phillip's (Chris Messina) comfortable Los Angeles home while he and his wife are vacationing in Vietnam--just because. Troubled by anxiety and afflicted with OCD, Roger slips into a romantic liaison with Phillip’s personal assistant Florence (uninhibitedly played by impressive newcomer Greta Gerwig, previously seen in "The House of the Devil"). Their awkward relationship serves as a sounding board for Roger's fears and seesawing emotional states. Greta Gerwig plays Florence, amateur singer in "Greenberg".

It also enables Florence, a force of nature whose self-deprecating needs set up a post-collapse thematic mantra she learned from her singing coach; "hurt people, hurt people." "Greenberg" is about people in so much pain that they can't help but lash out deploying uncontrolled defense mechanisms which belie personal truths they can barely articulate. Noah Baumbach and Jennifer Jason Leig.

With “Greenberg” Baumbach and wife/co-story writer Jennifer Jason Leigh have tapped into America's chasm of disbelief. "Greenberg" fearlessly stares into a social abyss that threatens to swallow up a country forced into doing nothing. Source: www.colesmithey.com

Girl in a Coma with Cherie Currie - "Cherry Bomb"

Girl in a Coma perform The Runaways hit "Cherry Bomb" with special guest Cherie Currie of The Runaways at SXSW March 19, 2010.


The Runaways - Cherry Bomb Live in Japan 1977.

Ben Stiller "Greenberg" Interview Featurette

Ben Stiller - Cast Interview Featurette


Greta Gerwig is an absolute delight! And she is the heart of the new film "Greenberg." In our interview, we talked about:

*** Her involvement with the film
*** Her character, Florence Marr
*** Working with Ben Stiller
*** Being directed by Noam Baumbach
*** Auditioning for Baumbach and Jennifer Jason Leigh