Nothing seems to stop Clint Eastwood. His latest movie is American Sniper featuring Bradley Cooper. Watch the trailer and you know enough!
Plot Summary:
From director Clint Eastwood comes “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. But there was much more to him than his skill as a sharpshooter.
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and, as stories of his courageous exploits spread, he earns the nickname “Legend.” However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.
Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, personifying the SEAL creed to “leave no man behind.” But upon returning to his wife, Taya Renae Kyle (Sienna Miller), and kids, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind.
Release Date: December 25, 2014
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: Jason Dean Hall
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller
Genre: Drama
The one-hour HBO drama series created by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and executive produced by Sorkin, Scott Rudin, and Alan Poul is back for a second season.
Smart, topical, thought-provoking, and highly entertaining, The Newsroom takes a behind-the-scenes look at a high-rated cable-news program at the fictional Atlantis Cable News (ACN) Network, focusing on the on- and off-camera lives of its acerbic anchor (Jeff Daniels), executive producer (Emily Mortimer), their newsroom staff (John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel, and others), news-division boss (Sam Waterston), and parent-company CEO (Jane Fonda). Season 2 takes place over a five-day period leading up to Election Day 2012, and encompasses numerous flashbacks to earlier events from 2011 and 2012.
One of the season's major story arcs involves a wrongful-termination lawsuit made by a staff member alleged to have doctored a report about a suspicious U.S. drone strike. As details about the suit's origin and aftermath emerge, The Newsroom team continues its quixotic mission to "do the news well" in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles, and their personal entanglements.
The second season features a story arc in which the News Night team has reported, and been forced to retract, a false news story about the United States Marine Corps using sarin gas during the war in Afghanistan in 2009.[57] This story is based on a real-life news scandal from 1998, in which CNN and TIME were both criticized for reporting a dubious and unreliably sourced story that the United States had used sarin during the Operation Tailwind excursion in the Vietnam War.[57]
The Newsroom is een reeks die heel wat adelbrieven kan voorleggen. Hoofdrolspeler Jeff Daniels mocht een Emmy in ontvangst nemen voor z'n rol als het cynische nieuwsanker Will McAvoy en de serie zelf werd reeds genomineerd voor twee Golden Globes. Deze HBO - reeks is bovendien een creatie uit de pen van Oscarwinnaar Aaron Sorkin, de man achter The West Wing en de scenario's voor The Social Network, A Few Good Men en Moneyball. Om maar te zeggen dat The Newsroom een reeks is die iedere serieliefhebber in z'n kast moet hebben staan!
Het tweede seizoen van The Newsroom is vanaf 5 november beschikbaar op DVD.
SYNOPSIS
Intelligent, actueel, humoristisch en zeer vermakelijk. The Newsroom neemt je mee achter de schermen van een hoog aangeschreven nieuwsprogramma op het fictieve ACN Network, en focust op de on-en off-cameralevens van nieuwsanker Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), de nieuwe executive producer Mackenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer, Shutter Island, Hugo), het newsroom personeel en hun redactiechef.
Het overwinnen van een woelige eerste dag met als hoogtepunt een newsflash, waarin net een BP booreiland ontploft in de Golf van Mexico, motiveert het team om op patriottische wijze de missie "breng een goed nieuwsprogramma" te doen slagen, en dat terwijl ze worstelen met de commerciële belemmeringen van de zender en hun eigen persoonlijke verwikkelingen.
BONUSMATERIALEN
Audio Commentaries met Cast & Crew
Inside the Episode
n a twisted world, Marianne gives birth to a rather unusual child. While the child is born dead, life finds its way trough the afterbirth. Marianne decides to raise her placenta as a normal human being; as a young man named Luke. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence, faith and sensitivity. Luke struggles for his place in a world of drunks, junkies, whores and bodybuilders. An insane world that treats him as a freak. As this hostile society slowly pushes him towards the edge, Luke has to choose between holding on to his gentle ideals or becoming the merciless soldier his mother always wanted him to be.
The Special Edition will be launched at F.A.C.T.S. 2014, the biggest sci-fi (and more) convention this corner of Europe. The film will be distributed by Zeno Pictures.
The launch will be attended by cast and crew. There will be popcorn and a piece of the original placenta from the movie for each buyer!
In een verdraaide wereld bevalt Marianne van een levende placenta die ze Luke noemt en opvoedt als een normaal kind. Luke strijdt voor zijn plaats in een wereld van junkies, hoeren en bodybuilders die hem behandelen als een freak. Hij moet kiezen tussen het vasthouden aan zijn zachte idealen of gaan voor die van de genadeloze soldaat.
De speciale editie wordt gelanceerd op F.A.C.T.S. 2014, grootste sci-fi (en meer) beurs van de Benelux. De film wordt verdeeld door Zeno Pictures.
Cast en crew zullen aanwezig zijn. Er is gratis popcorn en een stukje van de originele placenta uit de film bij iedere dvd.
Peter Bjärgö, the mastermind from Arcana, stated this on his facebook page.
Arcana: Status update
I have been thinking about this for a long time, and haves comed to the conclution that I need
to make some drastic changes in Arcana in order to continue.
For a long time I have felt uninspired and stagnated, when it comes to the songs and sound of Arcana
With such great musicians and people that are, and have been, in the Arcana ”line-up”, comes a responsibility to bring them into their own light, which also ,of course,,colors the sound of Arcana.
We have done some amazing work together, which I am truly grateful for.
But it’s time for change….
Reason: Survival
I need to go back deep down the roots and discover for starting this project, to search for the feel,
thought and mind-set that made me start this, twenty years ago.
I would like to thank all the people that have been involved in Arcana, and the all the people that have been supporting us throughout the years.
The performance in Belin 2014 will be the last in this shape. So, as of now, the line-up of Arcana is dissolved.
Love to all
Peter
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Everyone knows the late Jim Henson as the driving force behind the Muppets (and the original voice of Kermit the Frog, among other Muppets). While it’s true that Disney succeeded in revitalizing the signature Henson property with the 2011 franchise reboot The Muppets, the Henson studio has projects both new and familiar in the works right now.
Case in point, this week’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a Henson production, as is upcoming animated film Which Witch. However, word has just arrived that another, more unexpected film is on the company’s radar.
According to Variety, the Henson Co. is developing a sequel to its 1986 fantasy adventure Labyrinth. That film, which Henson himself directed, starred a young Jennifer Connelly as Sarah, a teenage girl who must venture through a treacherous maze in order to rescue her infant brother from Jareth, the Goblin King (David Bowie). A box office disappointment, the film subsequently developed a cult following, no doubt in large part to Bowie’s flamboyant performance and the slew of imaginative creatures that round out much of the cast.
Sudden as news of a Labyrinth sequel may be, it fits with Henson’s recent plans to bring some of its most popular characters to the big screen. Chief among these is the long-discussed film adaptation of the popular children’s series Fraggle Rock, which aired from 1983 to 1987. In addition, Power of the Dark Crystal - a sequel to the company’s 1982 release The Dark Crystal - is reportedly still being developed by the directors of vampire thriller Daybreakers.
The big question surrounding a proposed Labyrinth 2, however, is whether or not either Connelly or Bowie would return to reprise their roles. Since the film’s release, Connelly has won an Academy Award, and Bowie has stuck mostly to his music career, largely taking on brief supporting roles (The Prestige) or memorable cameos as himself (Zoolander). There’s every chance that a sequel could take place in real time and center on Sarah’s children, perhaps forcing her to once again confront Jareth.
Considering the devoted fanbase that the original film has, many fans may wish that the Henson Co. leaves this part of their childhood intact. Still, if done right, a return to the Labyrinth could be a fun trip down memory lane. So, Screen Ranters, let us know if you are interested in a sequel to Labyrinth - and if so, what story you think the new film should tell.
Source: Variety
