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Friday, November 25, 2011
Soha Ali Khan joins the item number band wagon
Following the footsteps of her yet- to- be sister- in ?law Kareena Kapoor, Soha Ali Khan will also be seen doing an item song now. The cute actress has just shot for a peppy club track opposite Abhay Deol in Sudhir Mishra’s forthcoming project ?Tera Kya Hoga Johnny?. Slipping the details of her dance number, [...]
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Dylan cover discs to benefit Amnesty International
NEW YORK (AP) ? A sprawling new collection of Bob Dylan cover songs is being released in January to benefit Amnesty International.
The human rights organization said Wednesday that all of the songs on the 4-CD collection will be new or previously unreleased versions, with the exception of Dylan's title cut, "Chimes of Freedom."
The disc, to be released in the U.S. on Jan. 24, is being produced by the same music executives who made a 2007 benefit album for Darfur featuring John Lennon songs.
Participating artists range from 19-year-old Miley Cyrus to 92-year-old folk legend Pete Seeger. Cyrus recorded "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" and Seeger, with a children's chorus, does "Forever Young."
The disc is being released to commemorate Amnesty International's 50th birthday.
Among the other participating artists: Adele, Cage the Elephant, Dave Matthews Band, Ziggy Marley, Maroon 5, My Chemical Romance, Patti Smith, Sting, Pete Townshend, the Gaslight Anthem and Ke$ha.
Eighty artists and 75 new songs are included.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
89% The Lion King (In 3D)
All Critics (91) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (95) | Rotten (10) | DVD (55)
Everyone, young and old, will find something to appreciate in this Shakespearean tale of a young lion discovering his rightful place in the world.
The story line is a Joseph Campbell hero-quest so stripped down to its basics as to become dull.
A computer-animated scene featuring a stampede of wildebeest is positively breathtaking.
The Lion King, more than any of the recent wave of Disney animated features, has the resonance to stand not just as a terrific cartoon but as an emotionally pungent movie.
The result is a step toward multiculturalism and ecological correctness, though not without a certain amount of confusion.
A crown jewel of modern Disney animation.
It's not hard to understand why The Lion King's good-vs.-evil adventure and high-spirited comic passages haven't lost their appeal. [Blu-ray]
It's an attractive film but altogether less interesting and more conventional than the Pixar productions that now dominate Disney's animated output.
"Hakuna Matata" would mean never having to be subjected to The Lion King ever again, much less having Simba's growing pains coming at your face in 3D.
It does exactly what it says on the tin.
Feel the love tonight. And see the colours, too.
Huge fun for the kids; some acceptable laughs for the adults.
The 3D technology adds some eye-popping moments but the best thing about this reissue is the chance for a new generation to see a modern classic on a cinema screen.
There are no gimmicks and the big emotional moments are almost entirely untouched.
However crass Disney's motivation may have been in rereleasing the film... it's cheering to see that... people still want to see great movies on a big screen with big sound...
Well worth another look, though it's a pity they're saving the newly made bloopers for the upcoming Blu-ray.
It didn't really need the 3D, but it's still a stunning, glorious family film, with the third dimension or otherwise.
While the core ideology behind The Lion King is extremely problematic and stands out even more today than it did in 1994, there is still much to admire about the film.
It's a wonderful treat to revisit and the 3-D is beautifully utilised, but it's perhaps not the classic that Disney purports it to be.
Art History stands out as one of Joe Swanberg's most visually and conceptually accomplished experiments.
Is the 3D version superior to the 2D version? No. Is the film still magnificent? Yes.
While "The Lion King" is one of the best Disney movies of all time, "The Lion King 3D" is a manipulative exploitation to bring paying parents back with their kids merely through the sexiness of today's 3D fad.
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88% The Hedgehog
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (57) | Rotten (8) | DVD (1)
A satisfying emotional experience.
This a movie with such a light, stylish touch, it makes no claims to profundity and is a sweetly hopeful experience.
"The Hedgehog" is a treat: a movie that's smart, grown-up, wry and deeply moving.
Enchantment will go a long way toward overcoming implausibility, but there's not enough of the former here - and far too much of the latter.
What does happen seems to happen in slow motion.
An enchanting grown-up fairy tale about the redemptive power of love.
A French drama that finds its power in the little moments.
Le Guillermic is fine in this calm comedy of subverted exteriors and expectations, but it's the remarkably unpretentious -- earthy, even -- Balasko who anchors Achache's adaptation.
... it's Josiane Balasko that makes it work.
"The Hedgehog" sneaks up on you with its heartfelt storytelling and sophisticated wit.
Balasko's performance is the highlight, as she breathes believable inner life into the stock character of the lonely, embittered widow.
A darkly comedic broadside aimed at stuffy French elitism.
Portrayed by Balasko with nuance, grace, intelligence and humor, Renee is a quietly terrific portrait of a deserving, dynamic woman who has long gone unnoticed.
With her film, Achache achieves a rare thing: She is faithful to the spirit of a terrific book but finds ways to make it come alive on film.
A reminder that, sometimes, the movies can get a beloved book exactly right.
A charming performance by young Garance Le Guillermic proves key to the success of Mona Achache's adaptation of the popular Muriel Barbery novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
It's a brisk, touching comedy with a deliberately shocking climax and attractive performances from Josiane Balasko and Togo Igawa as the two people who change Paloma's understanding of life.
'Hedgehog' Bristles with French Charm
It's some feat for this gentle French drama to overcome the device of an impossibly precocious, camcorder-wielding 11-year-old narrator (Garance Le Guillermic), who has secret plans to commit suicide on her next birthday.
This film's main attraction is the terrific Balasko. She is so watchable that one almost forgets about the awful Paloma and her video camera.
The fate of a goldfish provides a subplot in a film strong on tender characterisation and rather wishful about the remedies for loneliness.
An affecting, watchable tale.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Merkel, Cameron differ on euro crisis weapons (Reuters)
BERLIN (Reuters) ? The leaders of Germany and Britain sent out conflicting signals on Friday about how to solve the euro zone's debt crisis and admitted they had failed to narrow differences over the introduction of a financial transaction tax in Europe.
At a news conference in Berlin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to paper over divergent views on European policy that have sparked a war of words between politicians and media in both countries.
But they could not mask differences over how the single currency bloc's debt crisis should be handled, with Cameron calling for "decisive action" to stabilize the euro zone and Merkel making clear she favored a "step-by-step" approach.
"My German isn't that good, I think a bazooka is a Superwaffe, am I right?" Cameron said in response to a question about his call for euro zone policymakers to use a "big bazooka" approach to the crisis.
"The chancellor and I would agree that whatever you call this we need to take decisive action to help stabilize the euro zone," he said, citing the need for strong action on Greece, a rescue fund with "power and punch" and a recapitalization of European banks.
Merkel struck a more cautious note.
She is under increasing pressure to support bolder crisis-fighting steps from the European Central Bank (ECB), such as using it as a lender of last resort for the bloc or backstop for the euro zone's bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
So far she has resisted, backing the argument of the German Bundesbank that this would violate the ECB's inflation-focused policy mandate. Infringing on this awakes traumatic memories in Germany of the hyperinflation that followed the two world wars.
"The British demand that we use a large amount of firepower to win back credibility for the euro zone is right. But we have to take care that we don't pretend to have powers we don't have. Because the markets will figure out very quickly that this won't work," said the center-right chancellor.
Merkel is focusing on changes to the EU's Lisbon Treaty to force other euro members to adopt German budget discipline. She believes this would convince financial markets that Europe is serious about getting its debt and deficits under control.
One German source said the two leaders discussed a possible formulation for a deal on treaty change, where Cameron would go along with Berlin's wishes in exchange for more "opt-outs" from Europe to keep eurosceptics in his Conservative Party happy.
British officials were not immediately available to confirm the discussion.
SPEAKING GERMAN
Asked about Germany's push for the introduction of a financial transaction tax in Europe, Merkel admitted that she and Cameron "did not make any progress".
Britain is concerned that introducing the so-called "Tobin tax" in Europe alone would undermine the competitiveness of its financial industry in the City of London, which Cameron said would drive away business to countries without such a tax.
"Naturally there are differences. But Europe can only prevail if all the strong countries of the European continent are represented and if we have a bit of tolerance for the different views," Merkel said.
The two leaders tried their best to present a united front, calling each other by their first names, saying a few words in each other's language and stressing their common interest in a strong euro and a competitive European single market.
But aides say Merkel is running out of patience with what she sees as Cameron's constant sniping at the euro zone, which so exasperates her close ally Nicolas Sarkozy of France that he recently told Cameron at a summit he was "sick of" it.
At a meeting of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) earlier this week, her party's parliamentary leader accused Britain of "only defending its own interests" and announced triumphantly that "Europe is speaking German all of a sudden", a reference to widespread acceptance of German fiscal rigour in the bloc.
Her widely-respected finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, was quoted as saying it was inevitable that the whole of Europe would eventually join the single currency and "this may happen more quickly than some people in the British Isles believe".
Such comments have sparked a strong reaction in the British press, with the eurosceptic and conservative Daily Mail saying: "We no longer need to fear the jackboot but we have a great deal to fear from German bossy boots."
Germany's top-selling Bild newspaper retaliated, asking on the morning of Cameron's visit: "What is England still doing in the EU?"
(Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke; Writing by Noah Barkin and Stephen Brown; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Sam Seder: Dirty Tricks of the Insurance Industry Exposed | Ring Of ...
The average American reads on a 6th to 8th grade level, something that the insurance industry is well-aware of. And because of this, the industry writes the literature regarding their policies on a collegiate level, making it virtually impossible for the vast majority of Americans to even comprehend, so they end up buying policies that they don?t even need. That?s just one of the dirty tricks that the industry is playing on American consumers, and Sam Seder discusses even more shady tactics by the insurance industry with Wendell Potter, author of the book ?Deadly Spin.?
Source: http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2011/11/18/sam-seder-dirty-tricks-of-the-insurance-industry-exposed/
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