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| NBC: Leno in prime-time to end PASADENA, Calif (AP) -- NBC decided to end the Jay Leno experiment when some of its affiliates started talking about dropping the nightly prime-time show, its top entertainment executive said Sunday.... hosted.ap.org |
Miranda Kerr works on imperfect body THEÂ bikini babe has weighed into the body debate, admitting she's not happy with her figure. news.com.au |
Australian TV stars shine at Globes SIMON Baker, Toni Collette and Rose Byrne will carry the flag for Australia at the Golden Globes. news.com.au |
This week's DVD and Blu-ray releases House (Hausu)DVD, EurekaTo get a good idea of just how unhinged and bizarre this lost 1977 classic is, one only needs to look at the DVD's chapter headings. They start off quite innocently - "Summer Holiday", "Journey", "Supper" - but for the closing quarters of the film they are reduced to: "Not Good", "Blimey", "Indescribable" and "...!!!". When you watch the film you'll see these descriptions are perfectly accurate. Director Nobuhiko Obayashi managed to convince producers that his debut movie would be as entertaining as Jaws, hence the vogueish one-word title. Instead of a shark, though, he relied on suggestions from his 13-year-old daughter as to what would supply the scares. Her list included a piano that bites fingers off and a severed head dropped down a well. He did the right thing listening to her. The story concerns a group of schoolgirls with names that sum up their character traits – Prof, Melody, Kung-Fu etc – taking a summer holiday in an aunt's country house. The house then tries to kill them. Simple as that. Stylistically, it starts off over the top, then continues upwards. It's the kind of film that can have a man turn into a pile of bananas or a creepy painting of a cat spew blood everywhere without breaking its stride. It revels in artifice, with painted backdrops, excessive bloodletting and animation all over the place. The girls are attacked by lampshades, clocks, furniture, anything really. It's far too giddy and jaw-dropping to actually be scary but then you can't have everything. And everything is very nearly what this film delivers.MesrineDVD & Blu-ray, MomentumIt's almost as if director Jean-François Richet is just showing off. Not only does he show the world how true-crime biopic movies should be done, he does it twice: the Mesrine story is cut into two films – Killer Instinct and Public Enemy No 1 – although it's pretty much impossible not to watch them both together. They are the cinematic equivalent of unputdownable. Richet doesn't try to cosy up to Vincent Cassel's Jacques Mesrine, in fact he can barely keep up with him as he tears a strip through 1970s France (and, briefly, Canada) in a life that was little more than an extended, one-man crimewave. Even spread across two two-hour movies, there simply isn't time to stop and consider his motives. It's a cascade of bank jobs, murders, assaults, kidnappings and escapes, all stylishly executed and all true. Well, true-ish, as they are based on a book by Mesrine himself. It's all so slick and entertaining that charges of glamorising crime were quickly levelled. But it'd take an insanely dedicated criminal to emulate Mesrine. Besides, his fate is somewhat inevitable.ALSO OUT THIS WEEKCloudy With A Chance Of MeatballsMouthwatering animation in which an inventor unleashes a storm of giant foodstuffs.DVD & Blu-ray, SonyThree Miles North Of MolkomDelightful strange-but-true study of a Swedish New Age festival.DVD & Blu-ray, MetrodomeAfghan StarDoc on the country's first taste of democracy, via the local version of Pop Idol.DVD, DogwoofUne Femme Mariée Key Jean-Luc Godard work from 1964, available for the first time.DVD & Blu-ray, EurekaThirstKorean auteur Park Chan-wook conjures a distinctive vampire flick.DVD & Blu-ray, Palisades TartanDVD and video reviewsPhelim O'Neillguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Ronnie Wood seen buying mystery woman flowers Ronnie Wood was spotted buying a mystery woman roses yesterday. breakingnews.ie |