Category: Actresses (Page 15 of 258)

Kristen Connolly talks about getting scared on the set of “The Cabin in the Woods”

April 9, 2012 / Staff

Last month, Jason Zingale headed down to Austin, TX for the South by Southwest film festival, and in addition to seeing a number of movies (some really good and some not so good), he also had the pleasure of interviewing the cast and crew of the new horror film “The Cabin in the Woods.” Though the movie’s biggest star is undoubtedly Chris “Thor” Hemsworth, there’s not a single bad performance among its mostly fresh-faced cast, including up-and-coming actress Kristen Connolly, who spoke briefly about some of the real-life scares that took place during filming:

“When they blew that cellar door, they blew it early. When we rehearsed it, there was sort of a pause between when I finished speaking and when the door went, and they blew it early when we actually did it, because they were like, “We just wanted to see your reaction.”

Be sure to check out the full interviews over at the Bullz-Eye Blog with the cast (including Connolly, Jesse Williams, Anna Hutchison, Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins) and writer/director Drew Goddard and co-writer Joss Whedon. “The Cabin in the Woods” opens in theaters April 13th, and we’d highly recommend seeing it opening weekend before your friends on Facebook and Twitter ruin it for you.

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The Cinephiles’s Corner looks at skullduggery on trains, hearts and flowers on the Seine, glam in the U.K, and heartbreak in L.A.

April 2, 2012 / Bob Westal

It’s time for another look at (relatively) recent Blu-Rays and DVDs aimed at the hardcore movie lover — though more casual viewers looking for something beyond Hollywood’s latest mass-market offerings are certainly allowed to kibitz at the Corner as well. Today’s selections are from Hollywood, off-Hollywood, England, and France and were made mostly in the 1930s or the 1970s, though we will be looking at one from 1998 — only yesterday!

And so we begin…(after the flip, that is.)

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1776 Alan Rudolph Alfred Hitchcock Basil Radford Ben Hur Bill Cosby Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice Brian Eno Carol Reed Carroll Baker Charade Charlton Heston Charters and Caldicott Choose Me Christine Vachon Citizen Kane City on Fire Crooks Tour Dame May Whitty David Bowie Dead of Night Dita Parlo Elmer Gantry Frank Launder George Orwell Geraldine Chaplin Grant Lee Buffalo Gregory Peck Guys & Dolls Harold and Kumar Hector Elizondo Hickey and Boggs I Spy Jaws Jean Dasté Jean Simmons Jean Vigo Jerry Stiller Keith Carradine KISS L'Atalante Lou Reed Margaret Lockwood Michael Redgrave Michel Simon Milton Caniff Nashville Naunton Wayne Night Train to Munich North by Northwest Oscar Madison Peter Stone Phillip Dick Pulp Reservoir Dogs Richard Baskin Ringo Lam Robert Altman Robert Culp Robert Shaw Roman Holiday Roxy Music Sally Kellerman Sidney Gilliat Sissy Spacek T-Rex Terry and the Pirates The 39 Steps The Best Years of Our Lives The Big Country The Complete Jean Vigo The Lady Vanishes The Long Goodbye The Man Who Knew Too Much The Moderns The Taking of Pelham 123 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three The Ten Commandments The Third Man Todd Haynes Tony Roberts Velvet Goldmine Walter Matthau Welcome to L.A.William Wyler Woody Allen Zero de Conduit

Get ripped like a Hollywood sex symbol

February 2, 2012 / Staff

With Brad Pitt getting nominated for an Academy Award, we all have another reminder of the benefits of looking fit and sexy. In today’s Hollywood, glamour and beauty is just as important as ever. The difference is that the ripped and cut look is in, as all the men want 6-pack abs and the women want to look lean and mean. Some older celebs take this way too far, but the fit and beautiful celebs can offer us good motivation.

There are tons of great workouts out there, and everyone needs to find one that fits their goals. If you already in decent shape but want to take things to the next level, think about the programs used by MMA fighters. They’re the newest celebrities these days!

MMA World Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre is now a legend in the MMA community, and now he’s sharing his training secrets with this men’s exercise program.

MMA is more than just a sport or a form of entertainment. It has spawned a new lifestyle approach, and central to that is the sculpted look you see with the best MMA fighters.

It’s only attainable, however, if you’re willing and able to undergo an intense workout program. You have to be committed, and you have to be the type of person that sets the bar high. You might not be able to fight like St-Pierre, but you can push your body to the limit and achieve fantastic results. And we’re sure that if you’re an aspiring actor in Hollywood, something like this can be a huge tool in your arsenal.

Celebrities who look great have to work at it as well. Don’t thing they don’t spend the needed time in the gym. They have personal trainers, but this program is even better!

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Dream House

January 27, 2012 / David Medsker

Months before its late-September release date, we received notification that “Dream House” would be screened in our area. And then, at the last minute, the screening was pulled. The screening for a movie that starred Daniel Craig, Rachael Weisz, and Naomi Watts…was pulled. That is not a good sign, to say the least. It speaks to a sudden lack of confidence in your product, and the studio has gone into damage control mode in order to preserve whatever box office potential it may still have.

Good call, as it turns out, though that’s not to say that “Dream House” didn’t have a wealth of promise. Will Atenton (Craig) quits his job to spend more time with his wife (Weisz) and kids while writing the Great American Novel, but almost as soon as he’s home, his family is threatened by a mysterious stalker. His neighbor Ann (Watts) is sympathetic, but she’s the only one. Once Will discovers that a mass murder took place in his house, he decides to find out more about the crime in question, only to discover that the trail leads directly back to him.

That’s a pretty damn good setup – the only question is where you go from there, and that is where “Dream House” loses its way. There are a myriad of paths the story could have taken, but damned if they didn’t take the simplest option available. Seriously, the explanation for why things went down the way they did is just head-slappingly dumb, and it kills us that we cannot explain why. Add just one more layer to the story, and this could be one of those “Jacob’s Ladder”-type movies where you never really know what is real and what is fantasy. Instead, they took the easy way out. Sometimes it’s better to keep it simple. This, however, is not one of those times, not when you begin the movie by pulling the wool over the audience’s eyes. If your movie is high-concept, then see it through to the very end.

Anyone who grew up watching M. Night Shyamalan movies – and are therefore always on the look for the hook or the twist – will not miss the clues in “Dream House,” which form a veritable trail of bread crumbs. Hopefully the three leads will make another movie down the road, because goodness knows that under better circumstances, they could create something special. (Universal 2012)

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