Music : One Direction "What Makes You Beautiful"

Album Info :
One Direction "What Makes You Beautiful"
Audio CD (12 Sep 2011)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Single
Label: Syco
ASIN: B005EJ3XAQ

Album Review :

By Ailbhe Malone (http://www.nme.com)

If ‘What Makes You Beautiful’- the debut single from X Factor runners up One Direction - could know its audience any more, it’d have skimmed their bank account and nicked their passport by now.

Aimed solidly at teenage girls (and boys) who are waiting for somebody to be secretly in love with them, ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ is so unthreatening it might have to think twice about holding hands, lest it get overwhelmed.

Not that that’s a bad thing. Channeling their sterling performance of ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’, ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ is exuberant with a catchy ‘oh na na na’ middle eight.

The real genius is that the chord progression is simple enough to be played on an acoustic guitar at a house party. A tenner says this is ‘our song’ to four new pubescent couples by the end of the week.

One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful Video



What Makes You Beautiful lyrics

Liam:
You're insecure
Don't know what for
You're turning heads when you walk through the door
Don't need make up
To cover up
Being the way that you are is enough

Harry:
Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else but you-ou-ou

Chorus:
Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground it aint hard to tell
You don't know (oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperately
Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
You don't know (oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!
(Oh oh)
That's what makes you beautiful!

Zayn:
So c-come on
You got it wrong
To prove I'm right I put it in a so-o-ong
I don't why
You're being shy
And turn away when I look into your eye eye eyes

Harry:
Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else but you
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/o/one_direction/what_makes_you_beautiful.html ]
Chorus:
Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground it aint hard to tell
You don't know (oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperately
Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
You don't know (oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!
(Oh oh)
That's what makes you beautiful

Bridge:
Nana (chant)

Harry:
Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But you when smile at the ground it aint hard to tell
You don't know (oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!

Chorus:
Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground it aint hard to tell
You don't know (oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperately
Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
You don't know (oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!
(Oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!
(Oh oh)
That's what makes you beautiful!


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Music : Adele '21' Someone Like You

Album Info :

Artist : Adele
Original Release Date: 24 Jan 2011http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Columbia
Genres: Pop
ASIN: B004EBT5CU
Official Site : Adele 21

Album Review :

Amazon Review

21 is the eagerly awaited sophomore album from British singer-songwriter Adele. It’s the follow up to Adele’s critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning debut album 19 (both named after her age at the time the songs were written). Recorded in Malibu and London, 21 offered Adele the opportunity to work with such luminary producers and songwriters as Rick Rubin, Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Dan Wilson and Fraser T. Smith, as well as continuing to work with Francis “Eg” White and Jim Abbiss.

This new collection of songs showcases the growth of this incredible artist, who at the very young age of twenty two, exhibits the poise of a seasoned veteran. Adele’s music takes some new direction while staying true to her signature style. “I discovered lots of artists I'd never heard of, particularly Wanda Jackson, Allison Krauss, Yvonne Fair, Andrew Bird, Neko Case, Lady Antebellum and Steel Drivers who I fell in love with. Then I delved in to more from artists I've loved forever - Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Elbow, Mos Def, Alanis Morissette, Tom Waits and Sinead O'Connor. There's something in every single one of these artists that have really really inspired 21.”


By Bill Lamb, About.com Guide

The story of the failed relationship that inspired Adele's album 21 has been widely covered and publicized. She was in love with an older man age 30 and thought they would get married. However, that turned out to not be the case and they endured a bitter breakup. When she received the news that he was engaged to another woman, she wrote "Someone Like You." It is her attempt to write something positive in the wake of the breakup. There is the sound of some healing beginning here, but the song is also heartbreaking.

Adele took the unfinished "Someone Like You" to Dan Wilson of the band Semisonic. Dan Wilson already owns a Grammy Award for Song of the Year earned co-writing the Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready To Make Nice" and a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song writing Semisonic's "Closing Time." It would be no surprise if he is in the running for Grammy Awards again with "Someone Like You." The piano melody is gorgeous and combined with Adele's heartfelt reading of her words, the effect is highly emotional. She apologizes for re-entering the life of the past love with hopes that she is not forgotten while wishing him all the best. Emotions are laid bare with some hope for true, lasting love in the future, but Adele sings that it will be in the arms of someone like the lover she lost.

The studio recorded album version of "Someone Like You" is quite powerful, but Adele has shown now that live is how the song truly shines and inspires goosebumps. The production of the original studio version feels slightly rushed and, compared with the live interpretations, Adele has not quite yet dug deeply into the emotion she can wring out of the song. This is a minor complaint, and "Someone Like You" is one of the top songs of 2011, but if you are a fan of "Someone Like You," you owe it to yourself to see a live performance.

Adele - Someone like you (OFFICIAL VIDEO LYRICS) HD Live from Brit Awards 2011





'21' Official Album Tracklist

1. “Rolling in the Deep” 3:48
2. “Rumour Has It” 3:43
3. “Turning Tables” 4:10
4. “Don’t You Remember” 4:03
5. “Set Fire to the Rain” 4:02
6. “He Won’t Go” 4:38
7. “Take It All” 3:48
8. “I’ll Be Waiting” 4:01
9. “One and Only” 5:48
10. “Lovesong” 5:16
11. “Someone Like You” 4:45


Someone Like You Lyrics

I heard that you're settled down
That you found a girl and you're married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you.

Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
"I'll remember", you said,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,
Yeah.

You know how the time flies
Only yesterday it was the time of our lives
We were born and raised
In a summer haze
Bound by the surprise of our glory days

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over, yeah.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
"I'll remember", you said,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

Nothing compares
No worries or cares
Regrets and mistakes
They are memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
"I'll remember", you said,
Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
"I'll remember", you said,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.


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Anne Hathaway in talks for Glee role

Anne Hathaway is to meet with 'Glee' bosses to discuss a role in the show.

The 'Love and Other Drugs' actress has made no secret of her desire to have a cameo role in the musical drama series and creator Ryan Murphy has admitted he is "curious" to see what she would like to do on the programme.

He told MTV News: "I'm meeting with Anne in the next couple weeks. We're not going to do guest stars at all the first half of the season, but I would love to work with her and she supposedly has the whole thing mapped out. I'm curious as to what she wants to do. I love her. I think she's great."

Anne has previously spoken of her desire to appear in 'Glee', revealing she even has specific song ideas in mind for her character, which she would like to be the lesbian aunt of gay student Kurt Hummel - who is played by Chris Colfer.

She said last year: "I would love to be on 'Glee'. Can I make a confession? In my head I've written a part for myself! It's so arrogant and obnoxious, it's like, 'Ryan Murphy no one else wants to be on your show.' But in my head I've cast myself and I know which song I'd sing. I would want to play Kurt's long-lost aunt, his mother's sister who is also gay, who comes back to help him deal with his sexuality and I would sing 'No One Is Alone' from Stephen Sondheim's epic show 'Into the Woods'."

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Brad Pitt no big hitter on the baseball field

U.S. actor Brad Pitt, who stars as Oakland Athletics' general manager Billy Beane, arrives for the world premiere of the film "Moneyball" in Oakland, California September 19, 2011.[Photo/Agencies]

Brad Pitt is "amazed" to star in baseball film 'Moneyball' because he knows so little about the sport.

The 47-year-old actor plays former Major League player and Oakland Athletics manager Billy Bean in the film but admitted in real life he chose wrestling and diving over baseball at high school.

He told Sports Illustrated magazine: "It's shameful how little I know about baseball. I'm amazed they let me do this movie.

"Baseball and I didn't get along that well. I wrestled one year in high school. I dived one year. Everything but baseball."

However, he was attracted to the role because it is based around his home state and gave him a chance to tell a good underdog story.

He added: "I'm an Oklahoma-Missouri boy, so I'm no stranger to a bit of dip. So really, I was just revisiting my roots. I'm a sucker for the underdog story."

Brad feels the film is unconventional by today's Hollywood standards, and instead compares it to 70s movies 'The French Connection', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'All the President's Men'.

He said: "What we were trying to do is tell an unconventional story in the Trojan horse of a conventional baseball movie.

"In scripts today, someone has a big epiphany, learns a lesson, then comes out the other side different.

"In these older films I'm talking about, the beast at the end of the movie was the same beast in the beginning of the movie.

"What changed was the world around them, by just a couple of degrees."

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Lily Collins: Julia Roberts is 'creepy and eerie' as evil queen

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts is "creepy and eerie" on the set of 'Brothers Grimm: Snow White'.

The 43-year-old actress is playing the evil queen in the forthcoming adaptation of the classic fairytale, and co-star Lily Collins - who plays the titular beauty - admits she is impressed by the "brilliant" performance she's been giving.

She said: "Everyone loves that Julia smile and laugh and she maintains that, but in such this creepy eerie way that you don't know if you love her or hate her.

"She's brilliant. She's so nice, she's classy, she's just everything I had hoped she'd be."

The 22-year-old actress has been working hard on the film - which is being released at around the same time as 'Snow White and the Huntsman' with Kristen Stewart - and reveals it is close to wrapping.

She added to Access Hollywood: "I flew in this morning, I fly back out tonight, I'm working tomorrow morning. It's been the most incredible experience. I feel like I'm literally in a fairytale every day. And I finish in about a week and a half, so I'm almost done."

taken from : China Daily
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Movie : The Ides of March

Info Movie :
The Ides of March
Genres: Adaptation and Drama
Release Date: October 7th, 2011 (wide)
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive language.
Distributors: Sony Pictures Releasing
Directed by: George Clooney
Produced by: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brian Oliver
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Official Website: www.theidesofmarch.com

Starring :
Ryan Gosling as Stephen Myers
George Clooney as Governer Mike Morris
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Paul Zara
Paul Giamatti as Tom Duffy
Evan Rachel Wood as Molly Stearns
Marisa Tomei as Ida Horowicz
Max Minghella
Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis:

Stephen is a wunderkind press secretary who has built a career that men twice his age would envy. During a tight presidential primary race, however, Stephen's meteoric rise falls prey to the backroom politics of more seasoned operatives, and his one night stand with a teenage staffer proves to be more complicated than casual. Farragut North is a classic tale of hubris set against a contemporary landscape - about the lust for power and the costs one will endure to achieve it.


Movie Review :



by James Rocchi

Adapting Beau Willimon's play "Farragut North" for the big screen, George Clooney's "Ides of March" starts so strongly -- from the jump, it's an truly entertaining mix of Aaron Sorkin and Sidney Lumet, where idealism and pragmatism fight dirty in the dimmer corners of the halls of power -- that the film's mis-steps later on are not just disappointing but depressing. Clooney has, as in his earlier films, assembled an amazing cast here. Ryan Gosling is a political operative under Phillip Seymour Hoffman trying to get George Clooney's Governor Morris the Democratic Presidential nomination, with Max Minghella and Evan Rachel Wood as junior staffers, Marisa Tomei as a member of the press and Paul Giamatti as Hoffman's opposite for the other contender.


Casting, however, isn't filming, and while Clooney has -- as ever -- assembled a superb technical staff, the screenplay is where things go awry. Cinematographer Phaedon Pappamichael ("Sideways," "Walk the Line," "Knight and Day") captures the wintry haze of battleground state Ohio and the plywood pomp-and-circumstanc​e of the modern campaign trail, while editor Stephen Mirrione ("Traffic," "Ocean's 13," "Go") cuts the close-clipped conversations superbly. Clooney-as-director also earns credit for opening the play up visually, walking the line between showy excess and artlessly hurling theatrical blocking up on-screen. (A moment where we slide in and out of three parallel offices as information passes back and forth is superb, as is a hidden meeting in the shabby privacy of a shaded stairwell.)




The jostle and bump of public pronouncements and private secrets, of press releases and closely-held information is a major part of the fun and charm of the film. At the same time, with no small sense of regret, it must be said there's a hole in the plot of "The Ides of March," and while it cannot be discussed in great detail for fear of ruining the film's central set of surprises and secrets, it is also so clumsy and gigantic that it is less like a pinhole in a cup that lets in disbelief and more like a gaping chasm in the side of a plane that results in a crash. (Let's just say that, for "Ides of March" to work as written, cops, coroners and journalists in Ohio have to be remarkably incurious illiterates with poor vision.) Willimon, Clooney and frequent Clooney collaborator Grant Heslov adapted Willimon's play -- and changed it substantially -- and the fact that three separate set of eyes didn't catch so glaring a problem is both human and disheartening.

Some will suggest that a picayune obsession with plot details is beneath an ambitious political drama about tactics and cynics, polling and governing; I think that if "Ides of March" is going to take a certain dramatic route -- especially a dramatic route like that of a thriller, where one mistake can mean disaster -- it needs to be as cautious of the potential for disaster in that route as it is excited about the possibilities that route offers. And bluntly, there are moments here that are so very good -- like Gosling, livid and silent, thinking a mile a minute while his heart is stopped dead, for one example, a conversation between candidate Clooney and his supportive-but-stres​sed wife Jennifer Ehle for another -- and I could watch scenes of Giamatti and Hoffman being profane and pointed, brusque and blunt, outraged and outrageous, all day.

"Ides of March," for the most part, is an engaging and exciting look at the machine that grinds and jolts beneath the smoother images offered up in public forums and campaign ads, and at the people behind political candidates. It also, like any politician, makes promises that soar on wings of language to suggest it can do the job, and it's too bad that the brief-but-significan​t very real plot problems in the film make it feel a little like a lame duck with a crippled wing.

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Movie : Killer Elite

Info Movie :
Killer Elite
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller and Adaptation
Release Date: September 23rd, 2011http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, language and some sexuality/nudity.
Distributors: Open Road Films
Starring: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic Purcell
Directed by: Gary McKendry
Produced by: Joni Sighvatsson, Steve Chasman, Michael Boughen
Official Website: www.killerelite.com

Synopsis:

Based on a true story, "Killer Elite" races across the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East in the action-packed account of an ex-special ops agent (Jason Statham) who is lured out of retirement to rescue his mentor (Robert De Niro). To make the rescue, he must complete a near-impossible mission of killing three tough-as-nails assassins with a cunning leader (Clive Owen).

Movie Review :


by Todd Brown

For the first ten minutes or so of its running time Gary McKendry's Killer Elite plays like the greatest film John McTiernan never made. The picture kicks off strong with a slick, tightly choreographed action sequence with just the right amount of soul. It's a piece loaded with guns, explosions, facial hair and manly men doing manly things with verve. Sure, Jason Statham is playing a part that he can do in his sleep by this point but he keeps doing it because he does it well and there's a certain undeniable, enormously endearing charm to watching Robert DeNiro running around with a machine gun. It makes no attempt to reinvent the wheel but it does what it does - for this one sequence, at least - with such style that all the picture really needs to do to be a success is stay in that pocket - or close to it - for the rest of its running time.

It does not.

Plagued by a shoddy script and decidedly underwhelming supporting cast Killer Elite stumbles badly after its strong opening and never recovers. Though there are well constructed moments scattered here and there throughout the film it's all too little, too late with the picture being very much less than the some of its parts do to its failure to ever connect those parts in any meaningful way.


Statham is Danny, a high end assassin who we meet on the cusp of his latest job - a complex hit in Mexico. They pull it off but not before Danny takes a bullet in the shoulder, having frozen when he realized there was a child in the target's car. Danny has to be dragged out of the line of fire by his mentor Hunter (Robert DeNiro), and he finds the whole thing so jarring that he swears off the life of a killer forever.

But forever only lasts for a year, Danny pulled back into the game when an exiled oil sheik takes Hunter hostage and will only release him if Danny hunts down and kills the British SAS members responsible for the deaths of his three sons. Danny accepts the job, a move that attracts the attention of a shadowy organization called the Feather Men made up of former SAS soldiers who send their watchdog Spike (Clive Owen) to put Danny down.

The issues with Killer Elite run deep and the vast majority of them lie with a script that simply should never have been filmed, not in its current form. Co-written by McKendry and Matt Sherring - a first feature for both - the script is both wildly over complex in certain areas, jumping from nation to nation constantly, while incredibly underbaked in others.

Key aspects of character motivation and plot are often simply ignored. Owen - whose character should provide the main conflict of the picture - just sort of drifts through, his Spike never really being given any concrete reason to care that Danny is killing off these men. What's in it for the Feather Men? Why are these guys after Danny instead of the regular SAS? No idea, frankly.

For a film as built around star power as this one is it is strangely resistant to having its stars actually share the screen. Owen doesn't show up at all until the half hour mark and doesn't do anything at all substantial until the film is half over. After Statham and DeNiro separate after the opening sequence the major trio of stars have barely any screen time together, a factor sure to disappoint many.

And while Statham, DeNiro and Own all deliver perfectly serviceable performances every other character in the film - every single one of them - is weak. Whether this is a factor of poor writing or poor acting is hard to say, exactly, though it strikes me as a combination of both.

Killer Elite is a surprising selection for a major film festival both in that it is an openly commercial film and that it is one with significant flaws in its execution. Placed in the recent Statham canon - and make no mistake, DeNiro and Owen are in his film, not the other way around - Killer Elite is significantly better than Blitz but a step behind The Mechanic, a film with smaller ambitions but better results.

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Emmy viewers down, mixed reviews for host Jane Lynch

LOS ANGELES | Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:31pm EDT

(Reuters) - Viewership for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards fell 8 percent from last year to just over 12 million Americans who watched Jane Lynch host the heavily promoted TV show that drew mixed critical reviews.

According to preliminary viewing figures from media research company Nielsen, 12.4 million people watched the three-hour show, down from 13.5 million last year when the Emmys were moved to avoid competition from popular football games.

If the early results hold up, that would make Sunday's Emmys on Fox one of the least viewed telecasts of the past five years. The show put on by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which gives awards for programs and performances, received its lowest ever audience in 2008 when 12.2 million Americans tuned in.

Time magazine blogger James Poniewozik described Lynch, who won an Emmy last year for her acid-tongued cheerleader coach role in "Glee", as "game" in her hosting duties but said she "had only occasionally good material to work with."

Hollywood paper Variety, on the other hand, said Lynch proved an inspired choice both in her off-the-cuff remarks and in videotaped sketches that skewered some of the biggest stars and shows on U.S. television.

"It may come as small comfort to Fox on a night when its shows failed to earn a single win, but the network knows how to throw a helluva of an Emmy Awards," wrote Variety's Andrew Wallenstein.

Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker called Lynch a "spunky, clever host". But for many critics, the best thing about the show was the touching moments when newcomers came up to the stage for the first time.

Six of the eight main acting awards went to Emmy first-timers, including Kyle Chandler for "Friday Night Lights", Julie Bowen and Ty Burell for "Modern Family, and popular winner Melissa McCarthy for comedy "Mike & Molly."

McCarthy's beauty pageant-style "crowning" and the impromptu lining up on stage of all six comedy actress nominees was seen as one of the highlights of Sunday's ceremony.

Advertising drama "Mad Men" and "Modern Family" took the top prizes again for best drama and comedy series.

Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times said "the host and the surprises kept things pleasant if not scintillating."

But Washington Post's Hank Stuever felt the show lacked originality, saying "the year's 'biggest night in television' fell flat in writing, performance and imagination, except in the most fleeting moments."

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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