by Brett Warner
This Friday, auteur filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s latest psychological and emotional rollercoaster Black Swan will be dancing across a handful of movie theater screens for a limited release. The film stars Natalie Portman as a hard working young ingénue who lands the lead in a new production of Swan Lake only to find herself haunted by her more sensual competition (played by Mila Kunis) and — in true Aronofsky fashion — lots of other creepy shit. The two stars were coached and choreographed by Mary Helen Bowers and New York City Ballet principal Benjamin Millepied respectively and underwent months of rigorous training necessary to replicate an art form that — for professionals — requires years of intense, borderline obsessive dedication. (I’ve dated two former ballerinas – trust me, they don’t fuck around.) Black Swan should have Aronofsky fans geeking out to the nth degree, though it’s not exactly the first film about a ballet company to deal with themes of obsession, jealousy, sexuality, and, well… other creepy shit.
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by Damon Martin
Imagine the terror of hearing the news that your baby has been kidnapped by an Irish Republican Army operative, and you’re left to deal with the emotional implosion while trying to grasp how exactly you’ll fight, scratch, claw or kill to get your son back.
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by Ryan Stewart
“Movies don’t matter anymore.”
-Steven Soderbergh
“If I’m such a commodity, how come nobody went to see The Good German,” Steven Soderbergh asks at one point during our conversation. He’s being half-facetious and half-serious when posing the question. At 46, Soderbergh has already earned every professional accolade a film director can, including the Palme D’Or for his debut, Sex, Lies and Videotape, and the Oscar for his drug war opus Traffic. His frequent collaborators now include George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Brad Pitt (who is starring in his forthcoming adaptation of the controversial state-of-baseball tome Moneyball). Yet Soderbergh remains a stubbornly anonymous filmmaker, difficult to nail down in terms of style or subject, removed from the public eye, and without a cult following that can be roused to seek out his smaller, more experimental films.
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Kirin Suicide in Redhead
- INTO: I love spending time with my pets because they do the silliest things, punk music, seeing new movies, men that cook, men that do martial arts, getting into debates, and overt intelligence with a side of modesty.
- NOT INTO: Oh there are so many things, like getting up before the sun to go to work, mean people, and bad drivers.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Sleeping in on Saturday morning with the cats on the bed, warm pitas and hummus, and hot tea.
- MAKES ME SAD: People that think hunting is a great sport, major spelling an grammatical errors, and when my router takes a dump and I can’t use the internet.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Sleeping pills, my cats, new clothes, chocolate, and a good book.
- VICES: SUGAR!!!!!!! Anything sweet, adorable kitten faces, and good books.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Reading, reading, and more reading, watching cartoons, and now I have Netflix so I can watch all sorts of things – screw you cable company for ripping me off!
Get to know Kirin better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Blogbot
We love this cheeky clothing line created by 4th Amendment Wear, which is guaranteed to put a smile on your face this holiday season while the TSA are jingling your balls. The innovative undies aim to remind TSA workers conducting freedom gropes and porn-o-scans of our 4th Amendment rights – you know the ones in the increasingly ignored Bill O’ Rights that say a little something about “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, blah, blah, blah, against unreasonable searches and seizures” without “probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation.” The text is printed in a metallic ink that the manufacturers say “in theory” should show up on TSA scans, and is thoughtfully laid out in easy to read (if slightly small) capital letters (which ironically may provide myopic operatives with a legitimate excuse to move in closer to eyeball the text atop your junk).
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by Blogbot
Dita Von Teese has just announced a special 3-date residency at The Roxy on LA’s Sunset Strip. The shows, which run from Monday December 13th thru Wednesday 15th, will feature 3 acts.
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