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Book to Movie Post: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
Yup, I read all 3 of the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy by E. L. James. Well, not really read, it was when I tried an audiobook membership with Audible.com. Pretty soon after joining I downloaded 50 Shades, how could I resist? And then immediately had to listen to 50 Shades Darker and 50 Shades Freed. Which just should have been entitled 50 Shades continued and continued some more; because really, it’s all just one long book. But never tediously long. No, quite the contrary, to my horror, I too fell in love with these simple characters and didn’t want to let them go. For me, the books take me…
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Empire Talk Week 3: The Devil Quotes Scripture (FoxTV)
This week Empire was directed by Sanaa Hamri and gave us three guest appearances: Gladys Knight sung at Bunkie’s funeral in Philadelphia. Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Puma, a former songwriter turned rancher, who’s always held a soft spot for Cookie (Taraiji P. Henson). And Naomi Campbell as Camilla the Cougar, who we find out has been sleeping with young Hakeem (Bryshere Gray). (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’)); Post by Lauren DeLisa. 7 Highlights (Recap) from Episode 3 of EMPIRE “The Devil Quotes Scripture” 1. Cookie almost got baked, when…
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American Sniper Interview with Actor: BEN REED
Every year there’s at least one movie at the Oscars which I intentionally miss because it just doesn’t appeal to me; normally, it’s because the movie deals with war, like Glory, Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker or Zero Dark Thirty. This year that movie is American Sniper. That being said, next thing you know, I’m being asked if I’d like to talk to one of the actors from the movie for Tinsel & Tine? Yes! It’s an Oscar nominated movie directed by Clint Eastwood, starring and produced by Bradley Cooper! So, despite my aversion to war movies, I set about preparing to interview Ben Reed, who plays Chris…
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Have You Heard: THE WEDDING RINGER
May the Best Man Win By Tinsel & Tine Blog Contributor TERRI HEARD Okay, here’s how the story was supposed to go. I was supposed to go to med school, become a doctor, make six figures, have a big, suburban house, get married and have the requisite 2.3 kids. All of it would be accompanied by fabulous hair, a fashion-forward wardrobe, a fit physique, and vacations in far away locales. Here’s how the story actually goes. I went to college a year early, spent three years as a Biology major, dumped it in exchange for a journalism degree and now toil away as a low paid writer in a crummy…
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A Revlock Review: AMERICAN SNIPER
By Tinsel & Tine Blog Contributor MIKHAIL REVLOCK A review of American Sniper is incomplete without a discussion of Bradley Cooper’s transformation. Though the physicality of the change is the most striking (Cooper gained forty pounds for the role, and his face seems to have borne the brunt of the weight), it is his altered personality that ultimately leaves the deepest impression. The high-strung motor mouth of recent Cooper turns is gone, replaced by a plodding, vacant-eyed husk. He wears the understated persona well, delivering a tour de force in a career riddled with mainstream catering gigs. The film itself is relatively unexceptional. Directed by Clint Eastwood with workmanlike deliberation…
