March 6, 2010
All God’s Children Can Dance
In 2004, veteran Japanese director Jun Ichikawa took one of the best short stories in Murakami’s collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, and crafted a masterpiece of a film, perfectly capturing the themes of loneliness and isolation, with a great score, acting and cinematography. I strongly recommend it to everyone.How woeful it is then that newbie American director Robert Logevall, has taken, in my opinion, the worst story in Murakami’s collection, after the quake, and turned it into a dull, aimless film that manages to be both vacuous and pretentious. We follow Kengo (Jason Lew), a mixed race man, who has been told all his life that he is the Son of God by his vaguely disturbed mother (Joan Chen), as he negotiates his relationship with his girlfriend (Sonja Kinski) and boss (Tzi Ma). Kengo has lost his faith in God and his belief in his implied divinity. One day he sees a man he believes is his father. He follows him.It’s Jason Lew’s first role, so his falterings as a lead are understandable, but I found him irritating and smug as his character, and uncomfortable to watch. Sonja Kinski is decent in her first role, but really it’s Chen and Ma that give the only good performances in this film. The former with wonderful emotion, and the latter with remarkable subtlety and understatement. Both keep afloat a film that fails to explore any interesting themes it brings up (Oedipal complexes, religion), nor manages to deliver any interesting scenes whatsoever. The narration that aims high for philosophy but spews out drivel doesn’t help, neither does the over ambiguous ending that fails to capture the existentialism of the story and just seems stupid.It’s not all bad. There’s some nice cinematography, Chen and Ma’s performances are genuinely wonderful, and the soundtrack by STS9, is lovely. But this is an unremarkable film, with little to recommend, even to Murakami fans. Watch Tony Takitani instead, and hold your breath for the eventual Norwegian Wood adaptation.
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February 25, 2010
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Brooke Burke is One Super Sexy Milf
Here’s a beautiful starlet milf we don’t too much anymore and she is still a hot sweetie. That is Brooke Burke and she is seen here in a green track suit with some tight pants making her rump look sexy. I would love to beat those cheeks up a little bit, not to mention mess with those massive boobs. Oh how I miss the days of jacking off to her one show on E everytime I got a great bikini shot to get me hard. See her nude along with many other starlets and enjoy an outstanding gallery of hardcore sex tapes at Celeb Heat.
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February 20, 2010
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February 19, 2010
3 Acts of Murder
You know those American TV cop shows or movies where a villain gets inspiration for the perfect murder from a work of fiction and carries out the crime? Well, stuff like that does happen, and maybe this story is the inspiration. At one time this story would have been famous/infamous in Australian history/popular culture. However, the decades have erased this from the collective memory, so it was a pleasure to see this true story so well told.Set during The Great Depression, in the barren Western Australian outback, it concerns would be novelist Arthur Upfield, who, traumatised by his World War I experiences, has become a recluse of sorts, but working on the rabbit proof fence (a massive undertaking), to keep the scourge of farmers out of their properties. Just by the by, there is an Australian movie called “Rabbit proof fence”, which concerns the said object and some Aboriginal children. It’s a critically acclaimed movie I haven’t seen, and another true story.Upfield has contact with co-workers and farmers who like to share idle chatter with him. Working on a novel about a part-aboriginal tracker (aborigines used to be used by the police to track criminals hiding in the outback, by using their superior bushman skills), Upfield wants to come up with the perfect murder, to test his hero’s skills. To this end, he seeks ideas from those around him as to the perfect way to dispose of a body so that no evidence of the body is discoverable (i.e. looking for means of destroying a corpse). One can’t say whether such discussions give a certain character ideas, or whether the method discussed merely provides the final piece of a puzzle for someone with a pre-existing murderous intent, but in any case, Upfield’s idle chatter does see several murders take place with no evidence of the crime being obvious.The setting of this movie is quite oppressive-the landscape is vast and barren, and the hot, sweaty men makes you feel this horrible environment…you can just imagine the stink of the place.I’d like to point out that seeing this movie was especially interesting for me, as I had vague recollections of seeing a TV series about Upfield’s hero as a child. That show way about a part aboriginal tracker called Napolean “Boney” Bonaparte, the same character that Upfield was working on in this movie. There was a new version of that show called “Bony”, but starring a white Australian in the lead role, but which I never watched. In any case, remembering that I was a massive fan of the original TV series made me want to check this movie out.Back to the movie - it has generally solid performances, and early on the characters do tend towards the ocker (like Paul Hogan and Steve Irwin). It wasn’t off putting, but I liked it when it got toned down afterwards. In the last week or so, Australia’s current Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, did get some mocking for using ocker experessions in an ostentatious way…trying to appear ‘ordinary’ or something…didn’t seem to work for him though! Oddly, I think someone like Rupert Murdoch could get away with it!One aspect which didn’t sit all that well with me was the device, I assume, of reflecting the social context of this case in the personal dialogues of the characters. This just made some of the conversations a little bit awkward and forced…inauthetic, in other words. This same device was used in an Australian movie about a real life crime case concerning the supposed murder of a baby. That movie was “Evil angels”, starring Merryl Streep, who occasionally had a dodgy accent, perhaps. I preferred the brilliant mini-series “Through my eyes” for the definitive treatment of that story, which at one time was the biggest story in Australia…an absolute media circus, which the Streep movie and mini-series do go into.Reading the credits to this movie, I had the sneaking suspicion that a relative of one of the characters in this movie was in some ways responsible for seeing this movie made. That was confirmed to me when I read an article on this movie in The Age newspaper’s TV lift out “The Green Guide” (June 11, 2009, pp 12-13) where it is mentioned that the director of movies such as “The circuit”, James Bogle, is the grandson of the man where the murders occurred. The Green Guide article features actual photos of Upfield and the murderer. Locals from the area play extras too.Lastly, I’d like to mention one of the actors in this movie who I have seen before…Nicholas Hope, who plays Detective Manning. He was in one of Australia’s greatest movies, I think, the grungy, blackly comic masterpiece “Bad boy Bubby”. I highly recommend that movie. Can’t say that I knew of many of the other actors in this movie, but I tend to have an aversion to seeing Australian movies, as I often get burned by them, so to speak (i.e. I don’t find them that interesting of entertaining or good).It should be noted that this movie has some female nudity and sex scenes. Also, some farm scenes involving animals occur, so these scenes may be mildly unpleasant to animal lovers.Might have to acquaint myself with Upfield’s books (at one time he was, and maybe still is, a major international figure in the crime novel genre) or re-acquaint myself with the original Boney TV series, if that is on DVD. From the movie here, you get the feeling that Upfield is ambivalent about a real life murder case making him a prominent author…as if he was merely piggy-backing off of a nasty crime.
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February 11, 2010
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February 1, 2010
Alexander Skarsgard & Kellan Lutz naked in “Generation Kill”
I just can’t get enought of Alexander Skarsgård, and here are some caps from “Generation Kill”, an absolutely phenomenal miniseries. It also starred “Twilight” hunk Kellan Lutz.
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Audrine Partridge Loves Her Giant Sized Rack
Just when you thought she was gone for good, she is always back for another shot. Surprisingly, it’s not Heidi Montag we’re mentioning here, but her best friend Audrine Partridge. Here are some photos of her out walking around getting some air on those delicious juggs. I wish there was live footage of this because the photos certainly aren’t serving the best. I know damn well those juicy starlet juggs are bouncing all around, crying for the attention of a rich young hunk. You can see more starlet content inside of Celeb Heat than anywhere else, so check it out and see the best of the best.
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January 23, 2010
Chris Vance Shirtless
“Mental” premired last night on Fox, which stars the ruggedly handsome Chris Vance whose character is all quirky and “unconventional” when trying to treat mental illnesses. In the opening scene, a patient has an episode and rips off all his clothes in a crowd and threatens everyone, so our good doctor decides to strip down to bond with him and calm him down.
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