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Bright Star: A Vibrant Love Story
I remember reading the poet John Keats's work as a college student, and I very specifically recall the page-long description of his life. Two facts dominate his bio: that he died young and that he fell in love with the girl next door, Fanny Brawne. It was obvious that a romantic love story existed in that bare-bones text — and filmmaker Jane Campion has brought it to life in Bright Star.
Jon Hamm Is a High Roller
It's always a good morning when you wake up to Jon Hamm news! The dreamy Mad Men star is set to leave Madison Avenue for a bit to join the cast of Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. He'll join Vanessa Hudgens, Jena Malone, and Abbie Cornish in a story that centers around a girl (played by Emily Browning) in a mental institution.
Movie Preview: Jane Campion's Bright Star
Director Jane Campion won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for The Piano (she was nominated for Best Director as well, losing out to Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List), and the trailer for her next film, Bright Star, already has some tongues wagging about "Oscar bait." The rich, dreamy quality to the film is certainly appealing, and the two stars at the center of the story, Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, make for a sweet romantic pair. Whishaw plays the poet John Keats, "the dreamer," who falls in love with "a realist," Fanny Browne (Cornish).
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the titles below you can also rent The Ruins starring Jena Malone and the sixth season of Monk.
Stop-Loss: Overwrought but Good-Hearted
It's an oft-lamented fact that movies about the Iraq war don't do very well — either in box office sales or with audience favor in general. There are plenty of reasons for this, but the fact is it's a challenge for filmmakers to put out movies about a controversial war that isn't yet over. With Stop-Loss, the filmmakers have attempted to make the topic more appealing by getting MTV on board, using popular good-looking young actors and featuring plenty of quick-edit montages set to rap songs.
Movie Preview: Stop-Loss
Stop-Loss, starring Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, examines the difficult government policy by which soldiers who have completed their terms of service can be called back to serve again. Phillippe plays a soldier who refuses to return to service, despite being recalled to duty. It's a prickly issue, and so far I'm impressed by how the trailer makes it look like the movie doesn't shy away from examining the various sides of the matter.
Link Time! 10/2
- Popwatch wonders, who's the weakest link — acting-wise — on "Heroes"?
- TV Squad wonders how Pam Beesly suddenly got so hot on "The Office."
- Cinematical will soon be kicking off its annual Halloween costume contest, so which movie character will you dress up as?
- Pop Candy points to behind-the-scenes videos from The Darjeeling Limited.
- The Pie Maker took a visit to the fantastical set of "Pushing Daisies."
- Bella has a behind-the-scenes video of Shania Twain's ad for her fragrance Starlight.
- TV Filter brings word of a campaign to keep Jorja Fox on "CSI."
- Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily has a track-by-track preview of the new Radiohead album, while I Guess I'm Floating picks out five songs Radiohead should cover.
- The TV Addict has invented a graph for charting the highs and lows of "Desperate Housewives."
- Meanwhile, TiFaux has reduced "Grey's Anatomy" to a Mad Lib.
- The MTV Movies Blog chatted with Abbie Cornish, who will be starring in a film about the poet John Keats, playing Keats' love interest.
- Vulture rounds up 10 commercials that would make worse shows than the Geico cavemen.
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