Daily Archives: June 14, 2012

My Choice To Watch TOWIE

I have hit a new all-time low. Last night, I was feeling optimistic and there was nothing on TV so I switched to The Only Way Is Marbs. I know, I don’t know what I was thinking, it was a pure moment of madness but even worse was I watched the entire thing. Yes. The entire hour long show. Now for the unforgivable, I actually laughed. I think I enjoyed it? I don’t know, it was funny because it was ridiculous, and the people are even more ridiculous. I hate these kind of shows anyway because I don’t like that I don’t know how much is scripted and so that throws me right away. I have to say, I don’t know his name, but the gay guy (apparently Joey Essex isn’t gay?) who wears the glasses is hilarious. So to confirm, if I ever did watch it again, it would be solely because of him, and that is it. No other reason. Definitely not because I quite enjoyed it.

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We’ve become a nation of secretive mobile hoarding

Portable, discrete and full of secrets, smartphones today are a hub of embarrassing information for one in five Brits, according to new research from mobile operator Three.

With smartphone ownership expected to account for 80% of all phones sold by the end of 2012, more and more ‘Moarders’ (Mobile Hoarders) risk serious embarrassment if their phone was to fall into the wrong hands.

For Southern ‘Moarders’, self-portraits top the embarrassment list with one in five people  confessing to keeping uncomfortable pictures of themselves pouting and posing on their smartphones. Surprisingly, the research also discovered that men are rather sentimental, with twice the amount of men than women (2:1) admitting to storing pictures of their ex-partners on their phone.

Worryingly one in 10 of those under 35 admit to keeping details of who they have been stalking on Facebook, whilst 12 per cent of 18-34 year olds reveal their taste in music is not always on trend and confess they’d suffer ‘shuffle shame’ if anyone stumbled across their music collection.

Sylvia Chind, head of handsets at Three said, “Advances in technology and constant access to the internet has meant that smartphones have truly become an integral part of our daily lives, and are now another window into who we are. For many they act like a secret companion that won’t judge your taste in music or inclination for watching cheesy TV dramas.”

Top five smartphone embarrassments:

  1. Uncomfortable pictures of yourself posing and pouting
  2. ‘Shuffle shame’ music
  3. Sentimental pictures of ex-partners
  4. Details of people you’ve been stalking on social networks
  5. Bookmarks/links to articles on embarrassing health problems

 

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Killing Them Softly New Images

We haven’t seen Mr Pitt on the big screen since his great turn in Moneyball at the end of last year but he is set to return with Killing Them Softly.

an adaptation of the George V. Higgins novel the movie sees Pitt take on the role of a professional enforcer who investigates a heist during a mob protected poker games.

The movie is directed by Andrew Dominik, he also penned the screenplay, in what is only his third feature film.

Killing The Softly reunites Dominik with Pitt as they work together for the first time since The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford back in 2007.

And Pitt heads a super cast as James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta and Scoot McNairy are all on board.

Take a look at some new pics from the movie:

Killing Them Softly is released 21st September.

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Django Unchained Trailer

We may be seven months away from the release of Django Unchained but the movie is already causing a stir.

I am super excited about it already and absolutely gutted that we have to wait until January before the Quentin Tarantino movie finally hits the big screen – but it promises to be one of the best films of early 2013.

Yes Django Unchained is the first movie for Tarantino since the huge success of Inglourious Basterds back in the summer of 2009.

And here is the new trailer for Django Unchained just to wet your appetite:

Jamie Foxx leads an all star cast as he takes on the role of Django alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz.

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz).

Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.

Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side.

Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.

Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Academy Award®-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of ‘Candyland,’ an infamous plantation where slaves are groomed by trainer Ace Woody (Kurt Russell) to battle each other for sport.

Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them.

If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival…

Django Unchained is released 18th January.

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