Sunday 7 September 2008

Nicolas Cage Dares to Be 'Dangerous'


Nicolas Cage likes to make people happy.


And judging by his box office draw, he's doing a right job.


Now starring in "Bangkok Dangerous," out nationwide today, Cage says he picks his roles based on the challenge and the entertainment value for both him and his audience. (The motion-picture show was non screened for critics.)








After organism in the business for more than 30 geezerhood, he's trying to celebrate things interesting by "climax in with this new idea to think more globally, more internationally in my life and in my work."


In "Bangkok Dangerous," identical Chinese brothers Danny and Oxide Pang directed Cage, 44, in Thailand.


Sitting down with "Popcorn With Peter Travers" on ABC News Now, Cage famed that his wife, Alice Kim, whom he married in 2004, is Korean and he'd recently through with films with Australian and German directors.


"I think it's always fascinating when you see different races and different cultures interacting on film," he said.


In "Bangkok Dangerous," Cage plays a hired assassin who falls for a woman patch on the job. It's a character, he said, with a lot of "karmic weight unit" thanks to his less-than-upstanding career.


Cage said he has seen some of 1999's original "Bangkok Dangerous," which was as well shot by the Pang brothers, adding that he wanted the new version to be different, more fresh, more than complex.


If he wanted complex, he got it -- on jell, anyway.


"I think the Pang brothers real had some inside playfulness with me because I couldn't assure them apart," he said, with a laugh.


They would switch turns in the director's chair each day, asking "Who am I?," Cage said.


It was his second time working with a twin of brothers; Joel and Ethan Coen directed him in 1987's "Raising Arizona." While the Coens aren't twins, they do share some genial of brotherlike telepathy. Cage remembered observance one brother, without saying a parole, hand a cigarette in arrears him just as the other was reaching for it. He dubbed Ethan Coen the "funny" one.






Making It on His Own


Cage got his start as an actor struggling against his famed last name: Coppola. Nephew of fabled director Francis Ford Coppola, he plant that potential drop directors and producers were turned off by his last name, figuring his place in the movie would total to zip more than Hollywood nepotism.


He opted to change his last list to determine work on his possess merit, picking the last name of a comic book character, Luke Cage. But that was only after a few false starts.


"I was Nicolas Blue, I was Nicolas Faust, whatever that means," he said, laughing.


In the early days, he said, "I was actually someone scrap for my survival. I didn't know where I was going to live. I was living out of my car."


After dropping ill and landing in the hospital, Cage promised himself that he would go on one final audition, and if that didn't work on out, he'd become a fisherman, or something like it.


He got the part.


As a child growing up in Southern California, Cage said he would ideate himself on set, walk to school visualizing crane shots in his head. It was a product of his imagination kinda than his family ties.


"I had no idea what my uncle did," he said.


Once he became a working role player, Cage asked Coppola what made a good actor.


"He said, 'Just the downright personality of the someone, of the performer,'" Cage said. "And he's right."


The Early Acting Years


Cage aforesaid it eventually sunk in that he could really do it, really make it as an worker when director Martha Coolidge cast him in 1983's "Valley Girl" without wise to his heritage, he said.


The same thing happened for 1984's "Birdy," though Cage said director Alan Parker later told him that he would not take hired him if he knew approximately the Francis Ford Coppola connection.


Despite devising a name for himself on his own, he has gibe movies with his uncle, including 1983's "Rumble Fish."


He smiled, memory how his uncle forced him do 53 takes of a scene in which he simply looked at his watch.


"It's been 30 old age," he aforementioned, "and rarely do I go past times 10."


Cage said he has a rule about trying to pace outside the boundaries of a lineament. When he signed on to do Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married," he didn't need the role. Only afterwards his uncle promised him he could voice the character care Pokey -- of Gumby fame -- did he agree. And then nearly got fired for doing so.


His ideas about how a role should sound nearly got him booted off the set of "Moonstruck" a few old age later, Cage recalled.







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Thursday 28 August 2008

Ballet Shoes

Featuring HARRY POTTER asterisk Emma Watson, BALLET SHOES tells the story of three orphaned sisters, each with a big dream: Pauline (Watson) wishes to act, Posy (Lucy Boynton) wants to be a dancer, and Petrova (Yasmin Paige) yearns to pilot a plane. The charming, coming of age tarradiddle, set in 1930s London, pits the hopeful young women against the adversities of social station and gender as they fight to fulfil their bright destinies.

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Friday 8 August 2008

Cosmic Gate, Dennis and DJ Isaac

Cosmic Gate, Dennis and DJ Isaac   
Artist: Cosmic Gate, Dennis and DJ Isaac

   Genre(s): 
Trance
   



Discography:


Bitte Ein Beat 3   
 Bitte Ein Beat 3

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11




 






Friday 27 June 2008

Wings

Wings   
Artist: Wings

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Rock
   



Discography:


London Town   
 London Town

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 16


Wings Over America Cd 2   
 Wings Over America Cd 2

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 13


Wings Over America Cd 1   
 Wings Over America Cd 1

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 15


[1977] Wings Over America (live)   
 [1977] Wings Over America (live)

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 28


Wings At The Speed Of Sound   
 Wings At The Speed Of Sound

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 14


Venus and Mars   
 Venus and Mars

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 16


Wings Wild Life   
 Wings Wild Life

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 13




 





Jean-Pierre Labrhche

Elya

Elya   
Artist: Elya

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Summer Love   
 Summer Love

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9




 





Phatjak

Primal Scream Preview New Album At Intimate London Show

Primal Scream bassist Mani paid tribute to Swedish Furniture store Ikea as the band performed an intimate show in London this morning (June 22nd).



The bassist was in high spirits throughout the gig, reacting to cries of “Mani!” as Primal Scream previewed songs from their forthcoming new album ‘Beautiful Future’.



Taking to the 222 venue stage just after midnight, the group opened their set with new single ‘Can’t Go Back’, which proved to already be a firm favourite with their fans.



Frontman Bobby Gillespie, who was dressed in a glitter effect shirt and smart black trousers, provided little interaction with the crowd in between the nights other new songs, the robust and bass driven ‘Uptown’ and the title track from the record itself.



But, as the gig progressed, each band member visibly relaxed, with guitarist Andrew Innes sharing frequent and jubilant exchanges with Mani.



Primal Scream were joined midway through their set by the female violinist from Le Volume Courbe, who are currently supporting My Bloody Valentine at their Roundhouse residency.



As expected, the biggest reactions of the night were saved for songs from the bands back-catalogue, including ‘Rocks Off’ and ‘Movin’ On Up’.



A bass heavy version of ‘Swastika Eyes’ was the pinnacle of the bands set, with Innes providing absorbing and angular guitar riffs.



After a thee song encore and nearly an hour and a half on stage, Gillespie finally seemed to have relaxed - his arms swaying as the final note of the night was struck.


'Beautiful Future' is released on July 26th.




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Thursday 26 June 2008

Shy Child

Shy Child   
Artist: Shy Child

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   



Discography:


Noise Won't Stop   
 Noise Won't Stop

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11




Pete Cafarella (keyboard, vocals) and Nate Smith (drums), both early members of El Guapo, formed Shy Child just now after the 2 moved to New York City. Cafarella had likewise antecedently worked with composer Anthony Braxton, patch Smith had played drums with Touchdown (Troubleman Records). The duo's outset track record, Please Consider Our Time, was granted right release by Montreal's Grenadine Records in 2002, with the Humankind EP following in former 2003. After a brief circuit of Japan in other 2004, Shy Child recorded Matchless With the Sun with producer Chris Zane (Les Savy Fav, Calla), which was released on Say Hey Records in October 2004.





Kadri Gopalnath

Snow Patrol Begin Work On Next Album

Snow Patrol are working on the follow-up to their 2006 album 'Eyes Open', says frontman Gary Lightbody.


The singer says of the fifth album, "The first week is behind us and things are going great. Some loveliness is happening and it's very exciting to hear songs I've been demoing over the last year or more spring to noise-covered life."


Lightbody then went on to describe the location where writing was held: "We are in the depths of Ireland living in a little house by a lake making guitar shaped noise by day and making guitar shaped pasta by night. As the sun goes down the bats come out."


"We've now moved away from the bats and frogs (oh there were frogs too, a stagnant swimming pool saw to that, frogs are marvellous, we made them ramps to get in and out of the receding water in the filthy pool) to right bang in the geographical centre of the island of Ireland to start the album."




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Ali Akbar Khan and Shankar Ghosh

Ali Akbar Khan and Shankar Ghosh   
Artist: Ali Akbar Khan and Shankar Ghosh

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Shree Rag   
 Shree Rag

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 2




 






Timna Brauer and Elias Meiri Ensemble

Timna Brauer and Elias Meiri Ensemble   
Artist: Timna Brauer and Elias Meiri Ensemble

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   



Discography:


Jewish Spirituals   
 Jewish Spirituals

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9




 





Canadian Idol Top 24: Paul Clifford

Producer William Vince dies at 44

Was founder, president of Infinity Features





VANCOUVER -- Veteran Vancouver movie producer William Vince has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 44.


As the founder and president of Vancouver-based Infinity Features, Vince's other producer credits include "The Snow Walker," "Saved!" "Just Friends," "Stone of Destiny" and the upcoming "Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus."


Before launching Infinity in 2000, Vince produced the "Airbud" films for Keystone Pictures.


His 2005 feature "Capote" received five Oscar nominations and earned Philip Seymour Hoffman the trophy for best actor.



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Dj Surgeon

Dj Surgeon   
Artist: Dj Surgeon

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   



Discography:


Waiting for me (vinyl)   
 Waiting for me (vinyl)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 3




 






King Prawn

King Prawn   
Artist: King Prawn

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   



Discography:


Surrender To The Blender   
 Surrender To The Blender

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 15


Fried In London   
 Fried In London

   Year:    
Tracks: 11




Blending styles like ska, punk, and hardcore, King Prawn delivers a contrastive type of fierce alternative rock-and-roll & roll. Formed in the thick of the '90s in London by vocalist Al-Farabi Rumjen, Barbar Luck (bass), Aryan Devil (guitar), and Nick Swindonboye (drums), King Prawn is set to give away new frontiers in the hood and hard-core styles. In 1996, the band surfaced with its get-go major recording, the album Outset Offence, with production credits going to Skunk Anansie's Ace. The criminal record at long last created a considerable bombinate all across the local resistance music picture, consequently granting Prawn with a healthy and ever-growing fan legion, not only when in London, just as well all across the U.K. Three age subsequently and next the sack of various 7" records, the British squad issued its second base uncut record, the alive record album Deep-fried in London, that hit record stores in 1998. Your Worst Enemy, Prawn's third recording, showed up in 1999, one twelvemonth earlier yet some other record, the EP Day in Day Out. The three-song EP Someone to Hate arrived in 2000, and Surrender to the Blender, the band's minute full-length record, came out that same year.





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