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video is an homage to the spirit of rock n roll where all you need is a hot song a microphone and a killer attitude but you would expect britney especially at this stage in her career to have turned it into more than another opportunity for her to flaunt her sexuality not that i m complaining about a 30 second montage which shows britney straddling a motorcycle in ways that would make biker gang members blush i just wished there was something more like britney s homage to rock s sex goddess lita ford when she sexily crawls along the floor apart from the opening sequence shot in a grungy black and white that smartly evokes the rock n roll spirit the video is looking for it s the only true moment of inspiration i love rock n roll has in it the rest is merely a hold over until the madonna arrives previous installments baby one more time sometimes you drive me crazy the stop remix from the bottom of my broken heart born to make you happy oops i did it again lucky stronger don t let me be the last to know i m a slave 4 u i m not a girl not yet a woman boys overprotected posted by dame james at 11 15 pm 2 comments labels britney spears britney s videography music videos pop music monday may 30 2011 how i feel about britney via posted by dame james at 10 45 am no comments labels britney spears saturday may 28 2011 it was love love at first sight the 1981 miniseries version of brideshead revisited is quite amazing so far i figured the show would be homoerotic since the source novel is often noted for it i was surprised however at how openly gay it is especially for 1981 maybe it s because i m used to reading between lines but brideshead revisited makes it blatantly clear that charles jeremy irons and sebastian anthony andrews are in a relationship whether or not they are physical is another issue good stuff all around i must say i can t wait for the next nine episodes posted by dame james at 12 15 pm no comments labels boys boys boys god save the british jeremy irons friday may 27 2011 2010 diva cup awards best supporting actor christian bale the fighter for an actor considered to be one of the best working today i must admit that bale often leaves me cold apart from empire of the sun american psycho and the prestige bale s predilection towards grungy roles in often times grungier movies and his method tics that have lead to much publicized weight gains and losses for the sake of his art do very little for me i often feel like bale is an actor who prefers to work on the surface so much he forgets to work on the internal character the fighter on first glance certainly appears to be another bale performance in the vein all loud showiness no grasp of subtlety and when melissa leo appears it s like a competition to see who can be the loudest at any given moment over the course of the film however you realize that without bale there can be no adams or wahlberg they need each other much like good and evil in order to survive bale is the showman the one who must build up wahlberg while wahlberg is the one who must back up bale s taunts and big words bale is the yin to wahlberg s yang and becomes an essential part of the fighter s enormous success michael fassbender fish tank fish tank in part is a film about deceptive appearances with no character being more deceptive than fassy s connor on the first go around with the film mia and the audience can t help but to be attracted to this figure of both emotional and sexual fulfillment he takes an interest in the hard impenetrable mia when no one else in her life can be bothered connor makes her feel like an important person for probably the first time in her life the second time watching fish tank however makes it abundantly clear that connor is not mia s savior in any way at first we want to excuse his behavior he s in love he couldn t help it he was drunk because of the positive impact he has made on mia s life up to that point eventually we see that connor has been setting mia up for this since the beginning of the film all the classic signs of sexual abuse are there his potential victim is an isolated young woman he makes her feel important and loved he slowly seduces her before making the big move part of the brilliance of fassbender s performance depends on the fact that like in real life we often cannot tell who the villains are until much later fassbender doesn t hit us over the head with the fact that he s the villian his evilness comes across organically constantly shifting to mia s erratic moods fassbender s performance is a reminder that evil doers sometimes come in pretty charming sexually attractive packages andrew garfield the social network is andy the greatest actor of his generation if not he s certainly the most versatile hopping around between styles and genres with an ease that contemporaries like efron and pattinson can only dream about despite his ability to bounce around it appears like andy already has a type the socially awkward young male who barely manages to function in everyday society the reason he has been so successful however is the fact that he has been able to bring a little something different to each of his characters in boy a never let me go and the social network the last of these which was this close to netting him his first oscar nomination is interesting in the fact that it allows andy to play with the comedic part of his awkwardness my first thought whenever i think of his performance is the scene at the beach party where he s wearing that ridiculous straw hat and upon seeing mark enter he does this funny little dance as his way of greeting him the most fascinating part of his performance however is watching andy s eduardo slowly come to the conclusion that he will probably never know mark in the way he would like no matter how hard he tries mark will always have some walls that won t come down this realization on eduardo s part manifests itself in many forms paranoia anger hurt and confusion among others it s to andy s credit that these conflicting emotions never once feel at odds with each other if anything these compliment and flow into each other perfectly when eduardo s big moment happens confronting mark about being forced out of the company all his emotions come out at once and he doesn t even care if he makes sense it s the perfect exclamation point on a career changing performance for mr garfield oh andy indeed james marsden death at a funeral the actor who has had the biggest career reinvention of the past five years is not someone who normally comes to mind between the 1 2 3 punch of hairspray enchanted and 27 dresses in a six month span and this year s death at a funeral james marsden continues to surprise those of us who thought of him as nothing more than a generic pretty boy but at an age when most former boytoy actors find their careers floundering marsden has finally found his niche as a character actor with a flair for over the top comedy in death at a funeral a slightly generic if not totally unwatchable remake of a british film of the same name marsden plays the boyfriend of zoe saldana nervous about spending the day with her strict dominant father he takes a pill to help him relax it turns out to be acid and marsden spends the rest of the film in a hilarious drug induced haze having conversations with flowers and seeing dead people move inside a coffin the centerpiece of his performance involves him getting naked on a rooftop and it s every bit as glorious as you d think it is some of the jokes are duds but marsden sells them like the pro he is and winds up stealing the entire film from an impressive cast mark ruffalo the kids are all right for a film as tepid and straining to be relevant as the kids are all right ultimately is it s impressive that the ever reliable ruffalo manages to give one of his best performances under such unfavorable conditions he plays paul a 40 something man child who has certain parts of his life finally figured out but other areas that could definitely stand improvement paul is at an impasse when he s contacted by two teenagers who were conceived via his sperm donation from back in the day he meets them and things suddenly start to fall in place for paul maybe this is what he meant for but even with this newfound maturity ruffalo is keen on letting us know that paul has a long way to go for every good thing he does with the kids there s a i like lesbians punchline or an even bigger plot twist that reveals paul hasn t grasped this adult thing yet he s still a child who wants what he wants when he wants it ruffalo like the godsend he is conveys all this while remaining ever likeable and sexy eye candy to boot and the diva cup goes to michael fassbender fish tank posted by dame james at 1 50 am 1 comment labels 2010 diva cup awards christian bale diva cup awards james marsden le cinema mark ruffalo michael fassbender oh andy sunday may 22 2011 spider men posted by dame james at 11 11 pm 1 comment labels boys boys boys marlon teixeira models oh andy thursday may 19 2011 all about the foreskin when i decided to watch europa europa agnieszka holland 1990 i would be lying if i said it wasn t because of the cute male lead featured on the film s poster i must admit it was a particularly shallow decision on my part my shallowness was rewarded not five minutes after the film started when the lead actor went full frontal which prompted me to somewhat jokingly call it the best holocaust film ever for as superficial as i was in selecting europa europa however the film was surprisingly focused on the superficiality of the world the main character solly marco hofschneider inhabits as a jew masquerading as a hitler youth in the heart of nazi germany for starters the main crux of europa europa revolves around the main character s lack of a foreskin although the nazis teach that jews have defining physical characteristics that make them easy to spot not having a foreskin is really the only physical characteristic that will give solly away as a jew studying at a prestigious school in germany solly is forced to take painstaking efforts to make sure he is not caught he refuses to use the bathroom in front of others when a doctor comes to do a yearly physical exam he fakes a toothache which leads to a dentist pulling out a non infected tooth in order to avoid exposing himself solly at one point even takes the drastic measure of pulling down what little skin he has around his penis and trying to force it to look like a foreskin everywhere he goes solly is tormented by this physical inadequacy even when visiting his jew hating girlfriend s mother a naked statue in the corner taunts solly the statue is afforded a freedom an openness that solly can not have early on in the film before the nazi takeover completely takes over his life solly admits to having acting aspirations to a girlfriend of his an appropriate career choice it appears as he spends his teenage years in one role after another first as a born again communist in stalin era soviet union then as a good little nazi first on the eastern front then in a prestigious school in germany solly adorns many different costumes and plays many different roles changing depending on whatever he needs to do in order to survive a fellow nazi who learns solly s secret an actor himself reveals to solly that the hardest role is playing yourself the problem is that solly has no idea how to play himself he is constantly playing an idea of himself never allowed to be truly unguarded solly is hiding his true self underneath layers of superficial characteristics like an uniform or most importantly a foreskin hofschneider is in effect giving a performance within a performance some critics complained that he takes a far too lackadaisical approach in his performance coming off at certain times as humorous in a holocaust film heaven forbid but if you look carefully that is precisely the point holland and hofschneider are commenting on and parodying the over the top pageantry of the nazi movement between the constant heil hitlers the massive banners the snappy smartly coordinated uniforms and the never ending barrage of inspiring sing alongs the entire nazi movement as the triumph of the will can attest to was nothing but evil and hatred masquerading as the most glorious parade ever assembled if hofschneider is funny and he is it is because the surface of nazism is silly in and of itself not because he s trying to make a mockery of the holocaust one scene in particular stands out as a perfect example of this solly has just returned to germany to get a proper education after spending time at the front he is introduced to the entire school via a very elaborate pep assembly for lack of a better word that involves solly reciting an oath to hitler and the entire school joining in for a rousing rendition of a song about slaughtering jews afterwards solly explores the school on his own and wanders into an abandoned area of the school where a mirror hangs on the wall noticing that his heil hitlers could stand a little practice solly decides to take this opportunity to practice he does this a few times trying to decide on the proper way to execute this greeting finally however solly picks up on the ridiculousness of the movement and starts acting a little silly within seconds this playful jab turns into a full on mockery with solly turning the heil into a snide tap dance on its surface europa europa touches on all the points you would expect in this type of inspirational true account of a holocaust survivor what sets it apart from the defiance s of the world is the fact that the film is constantly coming to terms with bigger less discussed issues than the typical wow i can t believe someone actually went through this tearjerking holocaust film europa europa grapples with heavy themes but manages to both elicit humor and tears with the same ease holland and hofschneider s work here is truly impeccable and goes to prove that 45 years after the end of world war ii there are still issues that need to be dealt with b posted by dame james at 10 50 pm no comments labels film rants le cinema world war ii tuesday may 17 2011 a look at the vma s best female video confession time i m a bit of an awards nerd yes okay i realize this not a huge surprise coming from me as i follow the oscar race all year long but there is a difference between loving the oscars which many ordinarily rational people do and loving the mtv video music awards which is certifiably insane the vmas are completely silly and the winners are often times arbitrary as hell but i can t help loving them and using them as a guidepost for discovering fascinating videos i never would have known about otherwise my favorite category is not surprisingly best female video a category which has given madonna 12 nominations over the years and regularly nominated britney janet paula abdul beyoncé and many other fabulous artists i like this category...