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

Hollywood Gossip, Tidbits, and News

An office worker has been fired for her whistle, distracting nice boobs, figure and look at that...Maria Menounos gained 6 pounds on Dancing with the Has Beens. Kristen Stewart is number 15 on Maxim's 100 Hot List. I wonder how her acting ranks on the S*it List? These days Hugh Hefner spends more time in the kitchen than in the bedroom. John Mayer regrets dissing Jessica Simpson and Jen Aniston in interviews. We just regret John Mayer. Is Bar Rafaeli the hottest woman in the world? Dude, your girlfriend is the hottest woman in the world and don't you ever forget it! Justin Bieber is dating high school students? Man guys at that age are so impressionable. Kate Gosselin says she and Jon have made peace. Awww, that's special. Once their fame ran out they stopped cheating. That's really sweet. Why does Kelly Clarkson lose weight when she's only going to put it back on? Heidi Klum felt more special as a blond. Ah, the world's most profound questions answered as only a super model can. 

A man has broken the world record for fist pumping by 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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Young Goethe In Love

Is it life that imitates art, or art that mimics real life? Either way, Young Werther in Love is spellbinding theater. I read The Sorrows of Young Werther (an epistolary novel) as a senior in college and I have fondly remembered it since as a true and vital classic. An epistolary novel consists nowadays of e-mail letters, and during Goethe's epoch a series of handwritten letters. This would allow a novel to have an omniscient or firsthand perspective for accuracy. I found myself quickly entranced by Director Philipp Stölzl's intertwining of Goethe's real life and his literature into one magnificent twice told tale (to borrow from Hawthorne).

Under the harsh tutelage of his father, a young aspiring German poet (Alexander Fehling as Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe) fails his law exams and is bluntly rejected by all publishers as a poet/writer to be. Goethe senior decides to meter out rough justice to his perceptibly damaged son. It is off to the remote German countryside to become an attorney with strict rules and presumably no distractions.

Just beginning law school and finding out the harsh reality of competition and being in a cutthroat profession, young Goethe finds a friend and roommate all in one. The diffident Wilhelm Jerusalem (Volker Buch) becomes his partner in crime. The primary crime they intend to commit is to steal the heart of a young woman, or a wife to be as it were. During a dance party, a magnificent young woman (Miriam Stein as Lotte Buff) bumps into our young scholar and he is smitten beyond reckoning.

Goethe finds inventive ways to court Lotte, all without her father's knowledge. They become ravished with one another and surrender to each other's body's in a fit of passion. While they are busy having fun, Lotte's family is going bankrupt. Her father (Burghart Klaußner as Vater Buff) is unsuspectingly arranging a marriage between Goethe's legal employer Albert Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu) and his gorgeous daughter Lotte. It is a financial arrangement to be sure, but in mid 18th century Germany such discussions to the contrary between daughters and fathers were uncommon. Before the truth is revealed to all of the players in this love triangle, Goethe and Kestner become great friends and delight in one another's company.

When the truth is embarrassingly revealed, Kestner moves forward with finding a way to outwit Goethe to eliminate him from the picture. The question for Lotte is whether to support her family or be selfish and give in to desire. Goethe meanwhile must decide if he wishes to end his life in a poetic fit of suicide.

Love and life are bittersweet. To suffer from unrequited love is a punishment that little else can conquer. The question is whether suicide is a suitable response to having one's hopes and dreams crushed under an avalanche of negative emotions? How much can a man's heart endure knowing his beloved will forever be betrothed to another, particularly if that man is his sworn enemy and a true scoundrel? As stated during the credits, Goethe's masterpiece The Sorrows of Young Werther set in motion a societal inclination toward suicide as the answer to failure in romance. Modern culture is not nearly this romantic. The German landscape recreated and portrayed beautifully matches the moods and emotions of Goethe and his friends. Their love triangle seems prehistoric compared to contemporary conflicts yet it feels magnified in its meaning and intensity. There is so much to love and to admire in the rendition of Goethe's life and work that one cannot help but to smile, and rejoice in the moment.

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