Russian punk protesters sentenced to two years jail

File under: Best Band Name Ever?

A guilty verdict was widely expected. But the judge spend two hours reading a summary of the trial from a red, leather-bound book before sentencing the women on the charge of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.

The women, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alekhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, have been in jail in Russia since March. They are members of a feminist collective called Pussy Riot and were relatively unknown singers and activists until their protests coincided with a rise in anti-government sentiment over the winter.

While the judge plowed through her 80 pages of text, a crowd of about 1,000 had gathered outside, mostly supporters of the young women who shouted anti-Putin slogans and chants of “Down with a police state.” A string quartet played on the sidewalk.

 Long live Punk Rock!

Source: Washington Post

NEW STILLS: Perks of Being a Wallflower

Perks of Being a Wallflower opens with limited release on September 21st.

Directed by STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Screenplay by STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Based on the Best-Selling Novel by STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Produced by LIANNE HALFON, RUSSELL SMITH, JOHN MALKOVICH, STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Starring LOGAN LERMAN, EMMA WATSON, EZRA MILLER, MAE WHITMAN, KATE WALSH, NINA DOBREV, DYLAN McDERMOTT

Based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER is a modern classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up.  Starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER is a moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope-and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.

What do you think of them? It's going to be a good one!

Avengers Sequel in Theaters in 2015

File Under: Can't wait!

Walt Disney Studios announced today that Marvel Studios will release the follow-up to our favorite superhero ensemble on May 1, 2015!  Joss Whedon will be back to write and direct the sequel and develop a Marvel centric show for ABC. (!!)

To hold us over until then we will have Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier as well as Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014.

It's going to be hard to stay Loki, until then.

Too much?

Source: E!

The Hunger Games DVD Released Friday!

DVD Releases 
Growing up in my house, Friday nights meant jammies, pizza, and movies.  As a grown up, I still want both my sisters to come over so we can debate about what we want on the pizza and which movie we were going to watch.  I hope to relive some of that this Friday night!

For those of you who've not heard about The Hunger Games -  Here is a short synopsis:

Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Nine out of ten times, I am going to say that the movie isn't as good as the book and that's true here.  However, it is still really good movie with some actors you know playing really off type.  It'd be a great way to spend a movie night.

I like cheese double sauce, but we'll also need an everything and a vegan pizza.  You guys?

 Source: DVD Releases

Beastie Boys Sue to Honnor Adam Yauch's Wishes

Monster Energy Drink is using The Beastie Boys for using their music and names in promotional videos.  Recently, it was revealed that Adam "MCA" Yauch's will contained a handwritten footnote that "In no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes."

The case was filed in New York. The videos in question were promotions for Ruckus in the Rockies, a Monster-sponsored event.

"Yauch was likely making a statement to the world that life is about more than profit," writes Wendy Goff, a trusts and estate lawyer writing for Forbes.com.  "He attempted to exercise control over his name, image and legacy in order to make that point. The sad irony is that Yauch’s heirs may desperately need that profit to pay the legal bills that result from his final act of defiance."

Source: Huffington Post

NEW STILLS: Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn, Part 2

Summit Entertainment has released eight new stills for the upcoming release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, part 2, in theaters on November 16th, 2012. We gotta say... Bella looks amazing!

COURTESY OF SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT

Robert Pattinson and the Cosmopolis Publicity Tour

Robert Pattinson and David Cronenberg have been very busy this week promoting Cosmopolis. They rang the Wall Street opening bell, Rob has eaten ice cream with Jon Stewart and visited quite a few of the talk shows.

Cosmopolis is a David Cronenberg film, based on the Don DeLillo novel, and it stars Robert Pattinson as Eric Packer.  All signs point to this being an dark and interesting film and I can't wait to see it.  It's ideas about Wall Street being a different reality than the rest of us live in is very relevant right now. Cronenberg revisits subjects that fascinate him: how the organic and the psychological are inextricably intertwined, society's anxieties and phobias, and letting repressed impulses and paranoia run wild. 

Of course there have been a lot of questions about Rob's personal life.  He has handled them with bravery and grace.  He  addressed the media's coverage of him, saying, "I don't talk about that. Loads of people just make it up anyway—it doesn't make any difference."


"Are you OK?" he's asked.
 "Yeah" is his bemused, smiling reply.

That's all we need to know.

Cosmopolis opens in theaters this Friday.  See the movie, that is what it's really about.

Source: E!