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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Jarhead in Blu-Ray

"A trio of action/thrillers can be seen in Blu this November. 8 Mile and Jarhead will be released on Blu-Ray on November 18 and The Kingdom will hit Blu-Ray shelves the following week on November 25. The discs will also all be available in an "Action/Thriller" bundle on November 25 as well.
Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom.

Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.

An irreverent and true account of a war that was antiseptically packaged a decade ago, Jarhead is laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd.Special Features
- Feature Commentary with Director Sam Mendes
- Feature Commentary with Screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. and Author Anthony Swofford

Source: www.movieweb.com

Cera and Dennings - UK eonline


He's been in some huge movies, and Michael Cera is fast becoming a force in indie film. I caught up with the Juno and Superbad star over the weekend at the Toronto Film Fest, along with Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist costar Kat Dennings, and they dished on why waiting is good, NYC is a star and how they met their new best friends. Source: uk.eonline.com

Monday, September 08, 2008

Jake's awkward side

While Michael Cera is ascending to the awkwardness stardom, we must remember Jake's awkward side too!

Dropping his awkward character a bit

"Michael Cera, though... I look at this performance as his dry run for Scott Pilgrim. Truth be told, I had serious reservations about Cera taking that role. The character is one that I love very dearly and I have very specific thoughts about who he is and what he's like. Michael Cera, whose persona has always been that of a more than slightly awkward nerd, a guy who is smarter than everybody around him but sort of uncomfortable with that, a guy whose stumbling way with words charmingly disarms the potent bombs he can drop, plays somebody else here. He drops that Arrested Development/Superbad character and, while his delivery is similar, plays a guy with a lot more self-confidence and conviction. He's not a tough guy or a stud, and he's maybe a little on the emo side of things, but he's not intimidated by everything and everyone around him. He's more self-possessed. And he's playing a guy in a band - seeing Cera in skinny jeans and holding a guitar makes for a good segue into Scott". Source: chud.com

Michael Cera (Devotion)



"Same friends, same family, same clothes, same car, same house," Cera said Saturday while promoting his new movie, "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist," at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"People just, you know, people feel like they know you ... that's the only difference". The sandy-haired actor (who drives a Toyota Corolla, by the way) is being typically modest.

He's earned legions of female fans since breaking out on the big screen, including one who boldly proposed to him during a news conference last year at pop culture convention Comic-con".
Source: www.680news.com
"But he doesn't want anyone to confuse the characters he plays with the real Michael Cera, even if he seems in person every bit as sweet natured. He loves the Beach Boys, harmonizing off-camera on "Don't Worry, Baby" with co-star Kat Dennings, who plays Norah.

"I've been playing these parts that were written when I had nothing to do with them. I've just been working. Acting," Cera emphasized in an interview yesterday with The Star. Cera has found that a lot of people are prepared to judge him solely on his image, especially on Internet message boards.

He made the mistake Friday night of logging on to see what people were saying about him. What he read – he doesn't elaborate – cut him to the quick.

"I just get so sad. My agent told me someone had written some mean stuff about me. I don't know why he told me. Some people didn't like something I said and really wrote some mean stuff.

"And I can't imagine these things coming out of people's mouths. If someone said that, you'd just think, `Oh, my God, you're so mean! You just said that!' People really disconnect when they write it. I guess there are mean people."
"It feels like the more people know you, the more people don't like you. That's the feeling I get. I know people really like those movies and stuff, but people write really mean things on message boards and it's kind of disheartening.

"It's strange, when people don't know you at all. I feel like my sisters know me and my parents know me and my friends know me, but whenever I read something that's about me I don't associate it with myself at all. Because they can't be talking about me, since they don't know me."
Source: www.thestar.com

Happy when it rains

"you were my sunny day rain
you were the clouds in the sky
you were the darkest sky
but your lips spoke gold and honey
that's why I'm happy when it rains"

-Jesus And Mary Chain, "Happy When It Rains".

Michael Cera and Kat Dennings Interview

Michael Cera and Kat Dennings talk about their characters in Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist.