Love & Other Drugs Blu-ray Review - Jake Gyllenhaal Describes His Perfect First Date

"Gyllenhaal is Jamie Randall, the privileged son of a doctor (George Segal) who’s made a life for himself as a salesman. When opportunity rises he joins up with the medical community, pimping Zoloft over Prozac, and he works with Platt’s Bruce Winston – who just wants to get transferred to Chicago, and sees Jamie as his golden ticket. Jamie finds it hard to get into the medical community, though has no problem sleeping with receptionists (played by the likes of Judy Greer). But while trying to hawk drugs he meets Dr. Stan Knight (Hank Azaria) and asks to be his intern where he meets-cute Maggie Murdock (Hathaway), who begins the film by taking her boob out.
Twentieth Century Fox presents the film in widescreen (1.78:1) and in DTS-HD 5.1 Surround. The film also comes with a digital copy. Extras include three deleted scenes (8 min.), and a number of featurettes. The first is “Love and Other Drugs: An Actor’s Discussion” (8min.) with heavy Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway participation, which is followed “Beautifully complex: Anne Hathaway as Maggie” (3 min.) that has Anne offer her thoughts on the role, and “Reformed Womanizer: Jake Gyllenhaal on Jamie” (4 min.) that has Jake ruminate on his character. “Selling Love and Other Drugs”(3 min.) focuses on the drug sales in the film, and the disc closes out with the film’s theatrical trailer, and bonus trailers". Source: collider.com


Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in Pantalla Semanal magazine
Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal in Svet Filmu (Czech Republic)
"I would go to probably try and find a farmers market or a place where there was food that was grown nearby." He added, "I don't have a dish that I would cook. I would just love to be outside ... and then cook whatever is there, whatever is fresh, whatever is good. Figure it out. Gotta improvise." Source: www.aceshowbiz.com

Jake Gyllenhaal & Michelle Monaghan in US Weekly, Duncan Jones interview

Scans of Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan in US Weekly magazine, April 2011

"Duncan Jones says, he would like to direct his father in a movie, "and I'll know the moment is right when everyone stops asking about David Bowie being my father".

Was his dad as outrageous at home as he could be on stage?
"Of course not. He was a lovely guy and voracious reader. Part of what got me into science fiction was the literature Dad introduced me to. He insisted on discipline and wanted me to read an hour or two every night. I remember at nine or 10 reading Animal Farm and The Day of the Triffids and later on Philip K. Dick." As a boy, Jones made 8mm stop-motion films using his Smurfs and Star Wars figures. Growing up, his interests changed to "football and girls, but I wasn't a wild child like the other children of that generation of wild parents. I was the quiet one." So0urce: www.theaustralian.com.au


Jon Lyus interviews Duncan Jones for his new movie, Source Code. Jon also touches on Mute and ends with finding out where we are with Wolverine!


Source Code - Jake Gyllenhaal Interview


Source Code - Vera Farmiga on Duncan Jones

"Source Code": Jake Gyllenhaal's Colter Stevens, heroic or dark in the end?

“So Colter Stevens, at the end of the film, begs Goodwin to let him take one more shot at sorting out this disaster on the train, stopping the bomb from going off. So he gets sent, he gets on the train, in what he discovers to be a parallel reality, stops the bomb going off, which means Sean Fentress is now dead although he shouldn’t be… Colter has basically forfeited Sean Fentress’ life just so he, Colter Stevens, can have a happy ending. I like that, because immediately although we have a happy ending, it’s ethically a little bit more ambiguous.

Duncan Jones, Jake Gyllenhaal and crew shooting "Source Code"

And Singer has some issue with this ethically ambiguous ending, not because it’s ethically ambiguous but because it’s hard to tell without these interviews with Jones that he intended such a dark concept. As it plays, he says in his original review, this “darker angle” is “kind of ignored,” while it still “suggests Stevens’ behavior isn’t quite as heroic as it’s made out to be.”Jake Gyllenhaal attending the Premiere Of Summit Entertainment's "Source Code", on 28th March 2011

In his follow-up last week, he details the spoiler more clearly, calling Jake Gyllenhaal’s character a “murderer” but one the film “doesn’t announce…very loudly.” He ponders this cloudiness:
So what’s more important: the director’s intent or the evidence on the screen? Jones wants those questions about Stevens’ actions to be present, but are they present enough? I’m not saying we need a shot of Stevens looking at Cloud Gate and crying “Oh no! What have I done?” But a little bit of a clue, in the editing or the music, could have made a big difference to the way we feel after the film is over.
Ultimately, though, Singer sees the work the viewer must do in the end as positive and fitting to the way Stevens’ mission turns out. Go read the final paragraph of his post for what he sees as a rewarding effort". Source: blogsindiewire.com

Still of Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell in "Moon" (2009)

-You’ve had strong leads in both of your films, first with Sam Rockwell who played three different characters in the film and now with Jake Gyllenhaal. What was it like working with him on Source Code?
-As far as I’m concerned what makes Jake such an interesting actor is that he will really go out of his way and try to experiment. Actors work so hard to come up with what it is they want to do with a role and how they want to be seen. As a director I want to let my actors do that and then suggest alternate ways to do it as well. Thing about Jake is that he tries everything. Because of this, we were able to take a more dower, serious story and inject more humor into it. This took the script in a different direction while we were making it, thanks to Jake’s willingness to experiment. Source: www.blackbookmag.com

Reese Witherspoon in Elle and Vogue magazines

Reese Witherspoon plays Marlena and Robert Pattinson plays Jacob Jankowski in "Water for Elephants" (2011)

Reese Witherspoon in Elle UK magazine, May 2011

Reese Witherspoon in Vogue US, May 2011

"When we start measuring women on their appearance … We’re just too hard on each other. Women need to be more supportive of each other, stop tearing each other apart. There’s plenty of room for all of us. There’s plenty of men for all of us. There’s plenty of jobs. There’s plenty of room! I really believe it. Another actress out there has a number-one movie? They’re going to make more movies about women. A female writer sells a script? They’re going to look at another script from another woman. The better one woman does, the better all women do." Source: fashionetc.com


BEHIND THE COVER: REESE WITHERSPOON
Go behind-the-scenes on ELLE's L.A. cover shoot: Watch video with Reese Witherspoon.

R.I.P. Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet won an honorary Oscar Award on 27th February 2005

"Sidney Lumet, a director who preferred the streets of New York to the back lots of Hollywood and whose stories of conscience — “12 Angry Men,” “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Verdict,” “Network” — became modern American film classics, died Saturday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.

Peter Finch in "I'm mad as hell" Network scene

Almost two decades later, Mr. Lumet’s moral sense remained acute when he ventured into satire with “Network” (1976), perhaps his most acclaimed film. Based on Paddy Chayefsky’s biting script, the film portrays a television anchorman who briefly resuscitates his fading career by launching on-air tirades against what he perceives as the hypocrisies of American society.
The film starred William Holden, Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch as the commentator-turned-attack-dog whose proclamation to the world at large — “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” — became part of the American vernacular.
“Network” was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including best film and best director, and won four, including best actor (Mr. Finch), best actress (Ms. Dunaway), best original screenplay (Chayevsky) and best supporting actress (Beatrice Straight.)
Yet for all the critical success of his films and despite the more than 40 Academy Award nominations they drew, Mr. Lumet himself never won an Oscar, though he was nominated four times as best director. (The other nominations were for “12 Angry Men,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “The Verdict.”)

Source: www.nytimes.com

Daft Punk "Alive" video directed by Emile Hirsch

Starring: Ace Norton & Frankie Levangie

Shot and Chopped by Chuck Church

Production Facilities: Diesel Films Inc.

Hesher - Official Trailer, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Natalie Portman

Hesher - Official Trailer starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Natalie Portman