Outtakes/gag reel from 'Bridesmaids'

I still think Bridesmaids was the biggest piece of crap to come out this year however based on the Xavierpop twitter feed there are a few of you who might enjoy this.

So in our never-ending pursuit of journalistic duty, I give thee The Bridesmaids outtakes/gag reel.

I'll tell you something, this gag reel further backs up my opinion of the movie as it is quite funny and worth it just to see Jon Hamm do his thing.

enjoy:

source - FirstShowing.net.

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Facebook goes BOLLYWOOD!

Yes, it's true...Facebook goes Bollywood, but not in the way some of us may think!

Popular production house Yash Raj Films recently launched Y-Films, its production and distribution division focused on creating films for youth by challenging norms and denoting boundaries - and it's pretty clear with their latest offering.

Mujhse Fraaanship Karoge brings together the world of Bollywood cinema, today's youth and technology driven Indian society and the culture of Facebook together on screen - for the first time!

This seems like it's going to be a very interesting watch. At this point, the main draws for this film are its Facebook inspired theme and script and its appeal to the youth. The cast of newbies may or may not be a draw too!

To be short, good films can make huge stars out of newcomers in Bollywood, and bad movies...well, in most cases have you saying "Goodbye" sooner than you expect. So far, Mujhse Fraaanship Karoge only screams WIN-WIN!

Totally love the way they incorporated the credits in the trailer with familiar Facebook features and pages. The first look poster is awesome too!

Source: The Daily Honey

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Outtakes/gag reel from 'Bridesmaids'

I still think Bridesmaids was the biggest piece of crap to come out this year however based on the Xavierpop twitter feed there are a few of you who might enjoy this.

So in our never-ending pursuit of journalistic duty, I give thee The Bridesmaids outtakes/gag reel.

enjoy:

source - FirstShowing.net.

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Bollywood's Bodyguard creates Box-Office history!

All of Bollywood is buzzing with the latest Salman Khan starrer, Bodyguard with its much anticipated release this past weekend. The film has created box-office history by grossing nearly 88.75 crores in its 5 day opening weekend.

It may echo the name of the Whitney Houston starrer The Bodyguard in Hollywood territory, but let me tell you, Salman Khan's film is much, much different. To eliminate any confusion, Bodyguard is in no way a remake or version of The Bodyguard. They are two totally different films, that happen to have a similar name.

Lately, Salman Khan's film have been these fantastical, over the top, action packed thrillers that harp back to the retro-Bollywood days. While its great to see Salman Khan on screen, as he is one of Bollywood's leading actors, his films require a lot of patience - especially during the moments where the buttons on his shirt magically pop off and his shirt mysteriously tears away from his body revealing his six-pack abs - similar to what we would see in an animated version of Hulk (Dabanng, anyone?).

In Bodyguard, we see his shirt zapped off too. Also note: the jumping biceps in the song trailer below. Classic Salman.

Regardless of these Bollywood antics, Bodyguard is entertaining, it has great music, co-stars Kareena Kapoor and has an appearance by Katrina Kaif. So, no complaints!

 

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Xavierpop's MovieJay runs down his picks for #TIFF11

When the morning air gets that familiar autumn crisp, for movie-lovers in Toronto, that can only signal one thing: the start of the good movie season. A time where sequels and TV remakes give way to more thoughtful movies, many of which will premiere at the most important film festival on the planet for movies - the Toronto International Film Festival.

Over 300 feature films will play over 11 days during this, the 36th edition of the festival, (and my 17th personally).

My first TIFF movie?

"Leaving Las Vegas" at Roy Thomson Hall. That's when TIFF showed movies on a dozen screens. Just two years later I saw "Life Is Beautiful" at the magnificent Elgin Theatre. Within a couple of years after the Elgin opened for TIFF movies, the Varsity Cinemas expanded and became the home of press/industry screenings while the multiplex Scotiabank Theaters entered the fray along with the Isabel Bader Theatre. This year the Prince ss of Wales Theatre has been tapped to open several big opening-weekend movies, adding more lustre to an already huge and exciting ten day extravaganza.

Like most festival veterans, I seem to be forever tinkering with my schedule, trying to fit in all the movies I want to see only to get sidetracked when the buzz starts to swell on a particular movie just when I feel like my schedule was settled. I always start with looking at the director vs the actor and then just grow my list from there as various factors come into play.

So after all my research/frustration/enjoyment, I now give you my movies to look for this year, all of which I can't wait to see and will write more about on our sister site http://xavierpopdoestiff.com as the festival gets going this Thursday:

Probably the most anticipated film of the festival is Drive, and it's also an exception to the rule I just wrote about for selecting movies as director Nicolas Winding Refn is coming off of Valhalla Rising, a movie that is presently scoring a 5.8/10 at imdb.com. It stars Ryan Gosling as a Hollywood stunt man and has a lot of hype coming from Cannes as Refn walked away with the directing prize.

Also from Cannes is the Artist about silent-era film star George Valentin starring the French actor Jean Dujardin (who you may remember from last year's wonderful family drama Little White Lies). Dujardin comes to Toronto having taken the actor prize at Cannes.

On the hometown front, Sarah Polley and David Cronenberg are the two heavyweights with their new films Take This Waltz and A Dangerous Method, but look out for my dark horse Philipe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar, which is hot off of two big wins at the Locarno festival, Guy Maddin's Keyhole with Jason Patric and Isabella Rosselini and Cafe De Flore, the new drama with warm advance buzz that brings Jean-Marc Vall ee back to the familiar territory we discovered in his 2006 festival hit C.R.A.Z.Y.

Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Bug) is an expert at portraying disturbed men and Take Shelter is being talked-up as his best performance yet, his time in another small-town southern drama from the director of the powerful Shotgun Stories (which also starred Shannon as the eldest brother on one side of a bitter family feud).

Albert Nobbs is no ordinary butler in a movie where Glenn Close appears to have the early lead among the lady thesps for Oscar gold. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia, who made the wonderful Nine Lives and last year's Mother & Child, (one of the most unfairly neglected films of 2010). Garcia specializes in humanist movies that depend on the attention paid to his characters, particularly women, so it's no surprise that Close's performance here is being hyped as one of her very best.

Steve McQueen scored a huge hit a couple years back with the intense prison-strike film Hunger and his new film Shame is about to put him on the A-list. Opening to rave reviews at Telluride over Labor Day weekend, Shame stars Michael Fassbender as a sex addict.

Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were the directing team that brought us the inspired tale based on Satrapi's younger life and portrayed unforgettably in the animated Persepolis in 2007. They're back with their second feature Chicken With Plums, another big Telluride opener that recently scored terrific buzz. I have no idea what the film is about however Persepolis and a warm opening for this new one is enough for me to have it in my schedule.

From Colombia in Maria Full of Grace to Albania in the Forgiveness of Blood, Joshua Marston from California stays in foreign film territory. It isn't about the drug trade so it may not find the audience that Maria had however the Forgiveness of Blood is just as good. Marston is an assured director who involves us so deeply within his characters that the plot becomes secondary to us. Caught this one at a pre-fest screening and it's one of the year's best films, even if it doesn't break through the way Maria did.

The docs I'm looking forward to most are Into the Abyss from Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn, Cave of Forgotten Dreams), a director who has never made an unworthy film; Pina, the modern-dance doc from Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas), and the Last Gladiators from Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side and Client 9 director Alex Gibney.

TIFF runs from Sep. 8-18 this year, and don't worry, if the movie you wish to see is blotted out in red on the big boards, same-day tickets are typically released for over 80% of all films for those who can get to the festival box office well before it's 7 a.m. opening. Barring that, there is always the Rush lineup, where it is advised by me to find yourself about 90 minutes before showtime.

Enjoy the festival and make sure you check us out at xavierpopdoestiff.com for all of the reviews you need for people by people so that we actually understand what is going on.

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Xavierpop's MovieJay Runs down his picks for #TIFF11

When the morning air gets that familiar autumn crisp, for movie-lovers in Toronto, that can only signal one thing: the start of the good movie season. A time where sequels and TV remakes give way to more thoughtful movies, many of which will premiere at the most important film festival on the planet for movies - the Toronto International Film Festival.

Over 300 feature films will play over 11 days during this, the 36th edition of the festival, (and my 17th personally).

My first TIFF movie?

"Leaving Las Vegas" at Roy Thomson Hall. That's when TIFF showed movies on a dozen screens. Just two years later I saw "Life Is Beautiful" at the magnificent Elgin Theatre. Within a couple of years after the Elgin opened for TIFF movies, the Varsity Cinemas expanded and became the home of press/industry screenings while the multiplex Scotiabank Theaters entered the fray along with the Isabel Bader Theatre. This year the Prince ss of Wales Theatre has been tapped to open several big opening-weekend movies, adding more lustre to an already huge and exciting ten day extravaganza.

Like most festival veterans, I seem to be forever tinkering with my schedule, trying to fit in all the movies I want to see only to get sidetracked when the buzz starts to swell on a particular movie just when I feel like my schedule was settled. I always start with looking at the director vs the actor and then just grow my list from there as various factors come into play.

So after all my research/frustration/enjoyment, I now give you my movies to look for this year, all of which I can't wait to see and will write more about on our sister site http://xavierpopdoestiff.com as the festival gets going this Thursday:

Probably the most anticipated film of the festival is Drive, and it's also an exception to the rule I just wrote about for selecting movies as director Nicolas Winding Refn is coming off of Valhalla Rising, a movie that is presently scoring a 5.8/10 at imdb.com. It stars Ryan Gosling as a Hollywood stunt man and has a lot of hype coming from Cannes as Refn walked away with the directing prize.

Also from Cannes is the Artist about silent-era film star George Valentin starring the French actor Jean Dujardin (who you may remember from last year's wonderful family drama Little White Lies). Dujardin comes to Toronto having taken the actor prize at Cannes.

On the hometown front, Sarah Polley and David Cronenberg are the two heavyweights with their new films Take This Waltz and A Dangerous Method, but look out for my dark horse Philipe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar, which is hot off of two big wins at the Locarno festival, Guy Maddin's Keyhole with Jason Patric and Isabella Rosselini and Cafe De Flore, the new drama with warm advance buzz that brings Jean-Marc Vall ee back to the familiar territory we discovered in his 2006 festival hit C.R.A.Z.Y.

Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Bug) is an expert at portraying disturbed men and Take Shelter is being talked-up as his best performance yet, his time in another small-town southern drama from the director of the powerful Shotgun Stories (which also starred Shannon as the eldest brother on one side of a bitter family feud).

Albert Nobbs is no ordinary butler in a movie where Glenn Close appears to have the early lead among the lady thesps for Oscar gold. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia, who made the wonderful Nine Lives and last year's Mother & Child, (one of the most unfairly neglected films of 2010). Garcia specializes in humanist movies that depend on the attention paid to his characters, particularly women, so it's no surprise that Close's performance here is being hyped as one of her very best.

Steve McQueen scored a huge hit a couple years back with the intense prison-strike film Hunger and his new film Shame is about to put him on the A-list. Opening to rave reviews at Telluride over Labor Day weekend, Shame stars Michael Fassbender as a sex addict.

Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were the directing team that brought us the inspired tale based on Satrapi's younger life and portrayed unforgettably in the animated Persepolis in 2007. They're back with their second feature Chicken With Plums, another big Telluride opener that recently scored terrific buzz. I have no idea what the film is about however Persepolis and a warm opening for this new one is enough for me to have it in my schedule.

From Colombia in Maria Full of Grace to Albania in the Forgiveness of Blood, Joshua Marston from California stays in foreign film territory. It isn't about the drug trade so it may not find the audience that Maria had however the Forgiveness of Blood is just as good. Marston is an assured director who involves us so deeply within his characters that the plot becomes secondary to us. Caught this one at a pre-fest screening and it's one of the year's best films, even if it doesn't break through the way Maria did.

The docs I'm looking forward to most are Into the Abyss from Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn, Cave of Forgotten Dreams), a director who has never made an unworthy film; Pina, the modern-dance doc from Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas), and the Last Gladiators from Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side and Client 9 director Alex Gibney.

TIFF runs from Sep. 8-18 this year, and don't worry, if the movie you wish to see is blotted out in red on the big boards, same-day tickets are typically released for over 80% of all films for those who can get to the festival box office well before it's 7 a.m. opening. Barring that, there is always the Rush lineup, where it is advised by me to find yourself about 90 minutes before showtime.

Enjoy the festival and make sure you check us out at xavierpopdoestiff.com for all of the reviews you need for people by people so that we actually understand what is going on.

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Agneepath - Sparks flying High


It's only been 1 day since Dharma Productions wrapped up its official First Look press conference for it's upcoming venture Agneepath.

The conference saw the release of the film's theatrical trailer and from what it illustrates, drama, action and suspense will be at an all time high. Agneepath will star Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra in lead roles and the film is directed by Karan Malhotra

While the trailer does look quite dramatic, it would have been very nice to see more of Priyanka Chopra.

source: BollySpice

 

 

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Dirty Bollywood!


Vidya Balan
has been known for epitomizing true Indian beauty, but with her upcoming film The Dirty Picture, even Miss Balan starts taking risks.

What is this risk exactly? Playing the sassy seductress of the 1980's, South India's infamous Silk Smitha. Leave it to Miss Balan to bring credibility to any performance or film no matter how dirty it is.

The Dirty Picture is based on the true life story of Silk Smitha and the events that led to her lonely and unexpected death. The film stars Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Tushar Kapoor and Emraan Hashmi.

Theatrical Trailer

Teaser Trailer

Source: Bollywood Hungama

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Z's Review of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a good old fashioned fairy tale told properly. By that I mean most fairy tales were originally told as stories to scare little children to go to bed. Stories of the boogeyman that were going to eat little children if they didn't behave over time morphed into the tooth fairy giving money under the pillow for a tooth.

This is why the movie works. It is a not a horror as most people believe. It is a good fashioned gothic story that is meant entertain, thrill and tell a tale. And of this, it does a fantastic job.

While only written by Guillermo Del Toro, the direction has his blueprints all over it. We are anxious at the proper time, we laugh when we are supposed to and we jump when he wants us to. And it is for this reason that I enjoyed the movie. While its not the best movie that has come out this year by any means, it is easily one of my favourites of this genre.

The movie is led by a very impressive performance by its lead Bailee Madison (Bridge To Terabithia) who at the age of 11 has already amassed a pretty impressive career. The movie would not have been as good with her not playing Sally Hurst, the young girl who is sent to live with her father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) in a 19th century mansion that he is restoring.  It is in the basement of the mansion that a curse that has plagued the property is woken.

Pearce does a great job in a role a few steps below his talent and I would imagine someone called in a favour to get him to do the film. Surprisingly, Katie Holmes didn't bug me as I was dreading she might. Ever since she became Mrs. Tom Cruise, her brand has simply been off. I go against the norm in that I think she is pretty talented. She did a much better job than Maggie Gylenhall in the Batman movies and with Don't Be Afraid she brings a great energy to a role that could easily be dismissed in the movie even though its so pivotal and important to the movie.

They give away what the creatures look like early. At first this irritated me because it seems every monster/horror/thriller seems to be following this trend to pretty disastrous results however as the movie went on, it actually enhanced the experience really adding to the narrative.

It is late August and all the last weekend of summer before the long weekend. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark perfectly fills a need for a good date film/evening out at the movies/long weekend filler.  You will enjoy yourself if for nothing else you will be thrilled in a proper way.

 

 

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Mel's Review of the Debt

I had to give myself a day before writing the review for The Debt. I couldn’t think straight right afterwards. I had a hard time assimilating what I had just experienced.

The Debt wasn’t just a movie, it was an experience. I spent the entire movie tense and breathless. John Madden should be given major props for creating a film that keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire two hours. It’s definitely not a movie where everything is wrapped up in a little bow by the end.

Although Madden has mainly directed television programs, he has a strong track record with the movies he has directed (Shakespeare in Love, Proof). He is definitely a master at story telling and creating characters that you care about.

I’m quite impressed and surprised that there were three screenplay writers (Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman, Peter Straughan), as I would normally think that the end product would be all over the place. The dialogue had such beautiful flow. I haven’t seen the original version of The Debt (Ha-Hov) from 2007, but I think it’s safe to assume that they did the original justice.

The story, taking place mainly in 1966, focuses around three Mossad agents who have been given the task of finding and capturing a Nazi war criminal in order to have him tried for horrible atrocities committed during World War II. The story jumps around a bit timing-wise, which at the very beginning was a little confusing â€" they jumped from 1997 back to 1966 and back again â€" however, things become clear as soon as they go back to 1966 where the main story takes place.

The three main characters, played by Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, and Marton Csokas, did a stellar job portraying the young Mossad agents. I particularly enjoyed Chastain’s performance of young Rachel Singer. Her “It” girl hype she is garnering is totally deserved. She stole every scene in The Help, and definitely held her own against Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life.

Sam Worthington is also a huge star on the rise at the moment. He brings such depth to his characters, more so than most actors out there right now. The Debt is my personal favourite of all of Sam’s films (Avatar, Terminator: Salvation, Clash of the Titans), and his portrayal of young David Peretz was riveting. I believe that we’ll be seeing him in many more excellent roles in the future..

The last of the three agents is young Stephan Gold, played by Marton Csokas. Csokas did an excellent job playing the older more experienced agent. I must admit though, I had to look him up, because I know I’ve seen him before, but couldn’t recall where. He’s been in “bit part” land - standing out just enough to get noticed, but not enough for people to remember where. I’m thrilled to see him step into a lead role, as it really showcased his acting chops.

Out of the three older versions of the three agents, Helen Mirren (The Queen, Red) is really the only one worth mentioning. She really was the focal point of the 1997 storyline. To me, Mirren is a close second to Meryl Streep. She gave the older Rachel such nuance and depth, and she was only a supporting actor.

The other two agents, played by Tom Wilkinson (Batman Begins, The Full Monty) and Ciarán Hinds (Road to Perdition, There Will be Blood), were in the film so little that I barely noticed them. I like both actors, but didn’t get much from them in this one. All I got out of them was what my main complaint about this movie was - the accents. They were terrible.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the good doctor, or should I say, herr Doktor Bernhardt. The doctor was very aptly played by Jesper Christensen (2006 Casino Royale, The Interpreter), who showed both sides to this evil man. The doctor was to be tried for the torture of countless people, yet he was also a fertility doctor, showing great compassion for his patients and helping to bring new life into this world. This role must have been so difficult to play. The character definitely had a dual personality.

I’m going to give this movie a very big compliment, if The Help hadn’t already come out, this would be my favourite movie of this year. You can’t get a better cast, or a more intense storyline. I definitely give the film 4 stars out of 5.

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