Celebs Flock to see Yo Gabba Gabba Live
Posted on Nov 16, 2009 @ 07:14AM - Add a comment
Celebs go to see the Yo Gabba Gabba: cThere's a Party in My City Day 2 show.
Star Chic Behind The Camera
Posted on Nov 10, 2009 @ 06:28AM - Add a comment
Industry mag Movieline.com hosted their annual celebration of below-the-line masters and the stars that love them -- the Hamilton Behind the camera awards.
From Twilight style stars to indie darlings, attendees rocked colorful cocktail attire for the fete in Hollywood, Ca.
Check out Zooey's darling navy frock with tights and matching clutch and Kendrick's magenta creation with a constructed bust.
REVIEW: Couples Retreat
Posted on Oct 09, 2009 @ 08:31AM - Add a comment
If fixing relationships was as easy as flying to the tropics, facing adversity and washing it down with a yummy, fruity cocktail, couples could weather anything.
Sadly, real life isn’t anything like the intermittently comical, easy paradise of Couples Retreat. The adventures kick off when the uptight Cynthia (Kristen Bell) and Jason (Jason Bateman) admit that they’re on the brink of divorce, and convince three other couples to join them on a holiday to save their marriage. Only a group rate will allow them to go, so with some guilt-tripping and promises of jet-skis and sunshine, it’s off to “Eden” -- aka The Most Boring Place on Earth.
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There, the couples are inexplicably forced to follow the island’s treatment program, which includes sunrise meetings with guru Marcel (Jean Reno), therapy sessions (the dress code evokes Star Trek, if Kirk and Uhura were sushi chefs) and wacky group exercises that involve everything from dropping trou to sexy-time yoga. Instead of fun in the sun, the vacation becomes a new-age Guantanamo where everyone’s problems bubble up, and all four couples -- including our doomed, pinched-face pair -- unravel amid the palm trees.
Despite the exotic setting, Couples Retreat takes aim at the most basic issues we face once we’ve traded party-hopping for trips to Home Depot: growing apart, bedroom boredom, conception struggles and balancing domestic duties with romantic urges. In the hands of stars like Faizon Love (Shane), Malin Akerman (Ronnie) and Vince Vaughn (Dave), each couple’s troubles are relatable and, mostly, funny. When Cynthia and Jason queue up a powerpoint preso to explain their marriage problems -- and graphically quantify the potential effects of divorce -- you don’t have to be a white-collar veteran to crack up. Up-and-comer Kali Hawk (Trudy), meanwhile, is like an energy elixir, perking up scenes that sag beneath heavy-handed antics.
Yet, as Dave repeats throughout the movie, relationships take work. Some of them have fault lines so deep that not even island rum and one-liners can fill the cracks. Lucy (Kristin Davis) and Joey (Jon Favreau, who also co-wrote the film), for example, seethe with the kind of latent anger and suffer battle wounds so fresh that, despite incredible delivery of tight banter, broad comedy can’t quite support them. While Couples Retreat strives to guide us from tenderness to hilarity and back, the characters take on a sit-commy, wooden feel so that, by movie’s end, home-wrecking in paradise doesn’t seem so bad.
Island life, however, isn’t all gloom and doom: Couples Retreat is, to borrow from the film, like an accessible Sandals resort, versus a Club Med’s richer offerings. Vaughn, who also co-wrote and produced the movie, serves as its keel on unpredictable seas, righting the ship with subtlety and timing that are at times genius. The way he pokes fun at all-too-familiar, trying situations allows us to laugh at ourselves, even if Mai Tais and white sand can’t solve everything.
Style Radar: Couples Retreat Premiere
Posted on Oct 06, 2009 @ 11:20AM - Add a comment
The look was easy and breezy at the Los Angeles premiere of Couples Retreat! Though it was a brisk autumn evening, stars took a fashion vacation, dressed for the tropics in light and bright colors. The movie, which opens Friday, has a star studded cast which includes Malin Ackerman, Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis, John Favreau, Jason Bateman, Faizon Love, and Kali Hawk, all of who looked smashing on the carpet.
While Malin Ackerman was pretty in pastel and Kristen Bell shone in silver and blue, Dwight Yoakam added a western flair to his red carpet duds. What did everyone else wear? Check it out in photos!
Couples Retreat: Expert Advice
Posted on Oct 05, 2009 @ 09:00AM - 1 comment
The new film Couples Retreat is in theaters this Friday. It centers on four couples who take a vacation to a tropical island paradise. One of the couples is there to work on their struggling marriage, but soon the others discover that the island’s therapy sessions are anything but optional.
Starring A-listers Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Kristin Davis and Jason Bateman, the group embarks on a crazy journey of self-discovery which brings a new slew of problems than the ones they had before.
Still Hot...Since the 80's
Posted on Sep 30, 2009 @ 12:22PM - Add a comment
Some celebs were hot in the 80's...and some of them are still HOT!
Smell The Satire: Extract Takes On The Life of the Boss
Posted on Sep 11, 2009 @ 03:47PM - Add a comment
It’s been ten years since Mike Judge became the white-collar working man’s hero with his cult-hit Office Space. Now, the writer-director is lampooning American life again -- but this time, it’s from the boss’s point of view.
Extract centers on Joel (Jason Bateman), an average guy who owns and runs a flavor extract factory. He seems to have the suburban American dream: a good career, a big house, a nice car and a pretty wife named Suzie (Kristen Wiig). His biggest problem -- at first -- is that Suzie isn’t putting out. She’s inexplicably set their sex life on ice with a nightly deadline for “business time,” underlining the message with pair of grey sweatpants that she ties tightly in symbolic chastity. Amid this domestic disappointment arrives Cindy (Mila Kunis), a mellifluous con-artist who arrives at the factory and makes Joel’s heart (and other things) go pitter-patter.
The movie’s set-up teeters between the tragic and the hilarious -- a familiar scene that could just as easily head down the depressing road of Sam Mendes’ American Beauty as it could swing toward the surreal satire that Judge brought to the society-indicting Idiocracy. Instead, a mix of delicate dialogue, deft acting, running jokes and real-life problems (more or less) allow Extract to walk the line, nearly living up to its comedic promise and reigning in the laughs with admirable sensitivity.
VIDEO: Beavis And Butt-Head Make A Cameo On Letterman
Posted on Sep 03, 2009 @ 05:30AM - 3 comments
What's old always becomes new again, and there was plenty of nostalgia in the air Wednesday on The Late Show with David Letterman during Jason Bateman's appearance when two of the biggest stars of the 90s -- MTV cartoon delinquents Beavis and Butt-Head -- appeared in a clip on the show to introduce a scene from Bateman and (creator) Mike Judge's upcoming film, Extract.
Gerard Butler: Here's Lookin' At You, Aniston
Posted on Jun 20, 2009 @ 12:27PM - Add a comment
While off screen she may be cozying up to Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Aniston is getting ready to pucker up on the big screen to Scottish stallion Gerard Butler.
The actor has already begun filming scenes for the comedy Bounty Hunter, in which Butler is hired to track down his fictional ex-wife, Aniston.
Spotted in New York City on set, Butler is clutching a classy brown-bag-clad bottle of booze. We can't wait until shots surface of the gorgeous pair acting out their follies.
This will the second film this year for the actress, having just wrapped The Baster alongside Jason Bateman.
(Photo: Splash News)
The Hangover Premiere
Posted on Jun 03, 2009 @ 11:24AM - Add a comment
The Hangover Preimere
OUT & ABOUT: Celebrity Sightings (Gwen and Kingston’s Day Out and More!)
Posted on May 01, 2009 @ 04:53PM - Add a comment
Looking rocker fabulous, Gwen Stefani taking son Kingston on a few errands in Beverly Hills. Always fashion-forward, Stefani wore a Moods of Norway jacket which hasn’t even launched in the US yet!
Funny man Jason Bateman grabbing breakfast with his adorable family on the outside patio of Lamill. “They came in with a baby stroller and the baby slept while they dined,” an onlooker says.
