Box Office Numbers

$55.6MMarvel's The Avengers
$25.5MBattleship
$17.4MThe Dictator
$12.5MDark Shadows
$10.5MWhat to Expect When You're Expecting
As of May 21, 2012

Hollywood Gossip, Tidbits, and News

 A man has broken the world record for fist pumping buy pumping for 17 hours. My god what an achievement, but we are overlooking how raw his penis must be. The President of Yahoo has been forced to resign because he made an inflated claim on his resume. Meanwhile, in other news, Barak Obama ate dog. Robert Pattinson is 27 going on 17, good for you RSchmuck, I mean RPutz. Are Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer an item again? Is Jessica Simpson's body still a wonderland? Yes, it's just we are wondering why her territory doubled in size. Is Jay-Z acting like a wild bachelor on the prowl? With a name like Jay-Z I don't think any of us really care. Drake is romancing two cougars? Man, dude's a zookeeper. Does Casper Smart enjoy his five minutes of fame? Is that all he lasts for? Lightweight. Rihanna was recently hospitalized for too much partying. It's ok though, let's keep the focus on Lindsay Lohan, she's white after all. Christina Aguilera is quitting The Voice. John Travolta is not gay, he just like's dudes.   

Mariah and Nick renew their vows in Paris? I bet he showed her the Eiffel Tower. Truth be told, it might have been more like the leaning tower of Pisa. Gwyneth Paltrow has post partum depression. Me too, but it has been quite a while since I was in the womb. Kim K and Lindsay Lohan will attend the White House Correspondent's Dinner. I guess they wanted to see who has the best lines, and I'm not talking about comedy. Jessica Simpson has a baby shower? What is it like 2 feet tall and a tiny water head? Weirdo. Ellen DeGeneres is a Vegan? I thought she ate meat every night! Jenny McCarthy loves Botox. She loves silicon too. Richard Simmons has flammable shorts. Molly Ringwald drinks Kristen Stewart's blood. But alas it's not that time of the month yet. Want to see Taylor Lautner pics? Then go see Breaking Dawn Part 2. Lisa Rinna does advertisements for adult diapers. That's a coincidence because the first time I saw her naked I shit my pants!

Katy Perry dyes her hair purple. That's quite a change from the pink it was last week. Kelsey Grammar has proven you are never too old to get a tattoo or a Viagra prescription. Nicole Kidman does not mind being naked. Trust me when I tell you we don't mind either. Ashton Kutcher is having "intercourse" with Mila Kunis. One more time for those of you from Port Saint Lucie Florida, that's "intercourse". Who's is bigger Angelina's or Jennifer's? What are we talking about? Just ask Brad Pitt, he'll tell you! Seal has a new girlfriend and her name is whatshernameIdon'tcare. Will Pippa Middleton face arrest? Will switching to Progressive really give you better discounts? Taylor Armstrong is "so not ready to date yet". Wait, I don't speak moron, does that mean she wants to date or not? Bow Wow is no longer a wanted man but that doesn't answer the question who let the dogs out?

J-Lo bought Casper Smart a truck for his birthday. Hey, we already know where he likes to park it! Lamar Odom you are fired! Thanks for playing, next time leave the 500lb gorilla at home. Yeah, we are talking to you Kardashian. NBC's Rock Center has coverage more lopsided than Brian Williams' face. Miley Cyrus is not anorexic, she just eats lots of laxatives, get it? LOL? Ann Hathaway's hair is so short she looks like Jerry Seinfeld and there is nothing funny about that. Jennifer Hudson will appear at a murder trial. As a witness or as a defendant? Ah who keeps up with the Kardashians anyway. Khloe Kardashian says Lamar Odom deserved better from the Mavericks. Khloe, try running your fat ass up a basketball court and then you can talk. Is Lindsay Lohan guilty of assault? Only because she attacked my heart. Awwwww. Mila Kunis or Kate Upton? It depends, which one did Justin Timberlake already date? After being arrested for a DUI Amanda Bynes went back to her hotel bar. Maybe it's time she went back to acting because she sure plays a dumbass great in real life.

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Screen Spotlight Featured Reviews

Eastern Promises a la Robert Parry

Let’s face it; the Mafia movie has been done. Classics like the Godfather 1 & 2 and Goodfellas have pretty much defined our collective way of thinking about gangsters and gangster movies. So how do you refresh an over played genre like this? You move the gangsters from America to England and they become Russian not Italian, and turn it into a thriller. The result is Eastern Promises.

       Unlike many gangster films this is not glamorous. It seems to rain the entire film and the locations are dirty and cheap looking. This is no Las Vegas. The premises is a simple one; A woman dies during childbirth without any identification, a nurse Anne (Naomi Watts) finds she has a diary, and as it is written in Russian, takes it home for her uncle to translate in an attempt to find a family for the orphaned child.

Oops.

       It turns out the girl was a prostitute and a heroin addict with very close ties to the Russian Mafia. As her uncle refuses to translate more of the dead girl’s secrets, Anne finds an address and does some digging on her own. This leads her into the heavily tattooed arms of Viggo Mortensen, a driver and bodyguard for the head of the mafia family.  What follows is a nice girl and family getting caught up with the ugly side of the mafia.

       This film has some excellent performances, especially from Mortensen as the driver and bodyguard, bound to the boss’s son. He really is a superb actor and his performance is a deep examination of a man whose true intensions may never become clear. Watts as the motorbike-riding nurse is both real and sincere, and although her role isn’t as developed as Mortenson’s, she does a great job of fleshing out Anna into a real person. Mortensen and Kronenberg work well together and although it’s not a hundred miles from A history of Violence in theme, it is in filming. In this film everything is dark, the constant rain and cheep locations make London look like a place to avoid at all costs, and with exerts from the dead girls diary being read via voice over, it is a grim picture he paints. Every piece of beauty has a coldness running under it. As with all of Kronenbergs work the blood runs freely and the tension is high. There is a great fight scene in a public sauna that reveals a lot about Viggo’s character, and some interesting insights into the significance of his Russian tattoos.

       Overall the film does not reach the heights of some of its more glitzy cousins, but is entertaining, and has at times a more believable quality to it. Although it feels like they are trying to do too much, and some of the plot twists are a little unbelievable, it is a good solid film and has a haunting quality that will stay with you long after the credits stop rolling.

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