Razzie

Os vencedores dos Razzie já foram revelados, como sempre na noite antes dos Óscares e Breaking Dawn: Part II foi o grande vencedor, levando sete prémios, incluindo pior filme, realizador e actriz para Kristen Stewart por dois filmes (creio que isto quer dizer alguma coisa).

O pior actor foi Adam Sandler que levou "a pior" a Nicolas Cage. Rihanna foi a pior actriz secundária por Battleship, mas ela ao menos tem a desculpa de não ser actriz. O filme That's My Boy ainda tentou fazer frente a Breaking Dawn: Part II, mas este último foi o grande vencedor/perdedor. 

A Lista completa dos nomeados e vencedores/perdedores:

Worst Picture
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Battleship
The Oogieloves in Big Balloon Adventure
That's My Boy
A Thousand Words

Worst Director
Bill Condon – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Sean Anders – That's My Boy
Peter Berg – Battleship
Tyler Perry – Good Deeds / Madea's Witness Protection
John Putch – Atlas Shrugged: Part II

Worst Actress
Kristen Stewart – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II / Snow White and the Huntsman
Katherine Heigl – One for the Money
Milla Jovovich – Resident Evil: Retribution
Tyler Perry – Madea's Witness Protection
Barbra Streisand – The Guilt Trip

Worst Actor
Adam Sandler – That's My Boy
Nicolas Cage – Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance / Seeking Justice
Eddie Murphy – A Thousand Words
Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Tyler Perry – Alex Cross / Good Deeds

Worst Supporting Actress

Rihanna – Battleship
Jessica Biel – Playing For Keeps / Total Recall
Brooklyn Decker – Battleship / What to Expect When You're Expecting
Ashley Greene – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Jennifer Lopez – What to Expect When You're Expecting

Worst Supporting Actor
Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
David Hasselhoff – Pirannha 3-DD
Liam Neeson – Battleship / Wrath of the Titans
Nick Swardson – That's My Boy
Vanilla Ice – That's My Boy

Worst Screen Ensemble
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Battleship
The Oogieloves in Big Balloon Adventure
That's My Boy
Madea's Witness Protection

Worst Screenplay
That's My Boy
Atlas Shrugged Part II
Battleship
A Thousand Words
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II

Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance
Pirannha 3-DD
Red Dawn
Madea's Witness Protection

Worst Screen Couple
Mackenzie Foy and Taylor Lautner in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Any two cast members from Jersey Shore in The Three Stooges
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Tyler Perry and his drag in Madea's Witness Protection
Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, or Susan Sarandon in That's My Boy

Beautiful Creatures

Filme: Beautiful Creatures

Realizador: Richard LaGravenese

Estreia: 28 de Fevereiro

Elenco: Alden Ehrenreich (Ethan Lawson Wate), Alice Englert (Lena Duchannes), Jeremy Irons (Macon Ravenwood), Viola Davis (Amma), Emmy Rossum (Ridley Duchannes), Thomas Mann (Link), Emma Thompson (Mrs. Lincoln/Sarafine)

O filme Beautiful Creatures, uma fantasia romântica para jovens adultos (sim, mais uma), é baseado num romance com o mesmo nome de Kami Garcia e Margaret Stohl. Os direitos do primeiro romance de uma série de fantasia que conta com quatro livros, foram comprados pela Alcon Entertaimnment, e adaptados e realizados por Richard LaGravenese, que é argumentista e realizador de várias comédias românticas. 

O filme pode despertar algum interesse pelo elenco secundário que conseguiu reunir com Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis e Emmy Rossum, mas um elenco bom nem sempre significa um bom filme (Eragon tem um elenco muito bom e o filme é muito mau), mas serve para cativar jovens adultos para o mundo da fantasia.

Ethan Wate é um jovem rapaz que vive em Gatlin, na Carolina do Sul, que tem um sonho recorrente com uma rapariga que não conhece (isto também acontece - mais ou menos - em Eragon). Numa cidade onde nunca acontece nada, a vida de Ethan vai mudar completamente com a chegada de Lena Duchannes, cujo tio Macon Ravenwood é acusado de ser adorador do Diabo e a família, praticantes de bruxaria. 

A caminho de casa, Ethan quase atropela Lena (cenas de atropelamento são óbvias e recorrentes - Twilight). O romance começa a desenrolar-se e o tio de Lena e uma amiga da família de Ethan, Amma, conspiram para que o romance não tenha continuidade. No entanto, Lena confessa a Ethan que a sua família é capaz de invocar e lançar um série de feitiços mágicos. E no seu décimo sexto aniversário, a verdadeira natureza de Lena irá seguir um rumo entre as forças negras ou para a luz, as forças do bem. 

A história complica-se com a chegada de duas poderosas Invocadoras das forças negras, Ridley, a provocadora prima de Lena e a sua mãe, que para além  de possuir o corpo da Sra. Lincoln, prevê que Lena será uma Invocadora mais poderosa que ela. Lena e Ethan usam o medalhão para perceber os flashbacks, revelando os seus antepassados, a Invocadora Genevieve Duchannes e o soldado Confederado Ethan Carter que estavam apaixonados. Ele morreu numa batalha, Genevieve ressuscitou-o usando uma feitiço proibido que a levou para o lado negro e amaldiçoou as mulheres da família Duchannes. Ao consultarem uma vidente e protectora de uma biblioteca (debaixo da Biblioteca da cidade), Amma, onde descobrem o mais antigo dos livros, o Livro das Luas, que revela o segredo para desfazer o feitiço.  

O trailer de Beautiful Creatures:

Caster Chronicles

Caster Chronicles, é uma séria de quatro livros de fantasia romântica para jovens adultos escrita por Kami Garcia e Magaret Stohl, que foi recentemente adaptada ao cinema, e cujos títulos são:

Beautiful Creatures (2009)

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

Beautiful Darkness (2010)

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

Beautiful Chaos (2011)

Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming. Even Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is affected - and their abilities begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What — or who — will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin?

For Ethan, the chaos is a frightening but welcome distraction. He's being haunted in his dreams again, but this time it isn't by Lena - and whatever is haunting him is following him out of his dreams and into his everyday life. Even worse, Ethan is gradually losing pieces of himself — forgetting names, phone numbers, even memories. He doesn't know why, and most days he's too afraid to ask.

Sometimes there isn't just one answer or one choice. Sometimes there's no going back. And this time there won't be a happy ending.

Beautiful Redemption (2012)

Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would meet the girl of his dreams, Lena Duchannes, who unveiled a secretive, powerful, and cursed side of Gatlin, hidden in plain sight. And he never could have expected that he would be forced to leave behind everyone and everything he cares about. So when Ethan awakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, he has only one goal: to find a way to return to Lena and the ones he loves.

Back in Gatlin, Lena is making her own bargains for Ethan's return, vowing to do whatever it takes -- even if that means trusting old enemies or risking the lives of the family and friends Ethan left to protect.

Worlds apart, Ethan and Lena must once again work together to rewrite their fate, in this stunning finale to the Beautiful Creatures series.

Fonte: Goodreads

Game of Thrones

Terceira Temporada

Já há um pequeno trailer da Terceira Temporada de Game of Thrones. Apesar de acreditar e saber que a série nunca estará à altura das minhas expectativas (principalmente por ser o meu livro preferido da série literária), as imagens parecem bastante interessantes e aliciantes.

BAFTA Awards

Os BAFTA foram entregues a 10 de Fevereiro pela British Academy of Film and Televisian Arts. Lincoln, que tinha onze nomeações foi o grande derrotado, conseguindo apenas o prémio na categoria de Melhor Actor para Daniel Day-Lewis. O grande vencedor foi Ben Affleck, que levou o prémio de Melhor filme e Realizador com Argo. 

O prémio de Melhor Actriz foi para Emmanuelle Riva pelo filme estrangeiro Amor, Anne Hathaway venceu o Bafta de Melhor Actriz Secundária por Os Miseráveis e Christoph Waltz o Bafta de Melhor Actor Secundário por Django Libertado.

Destaque ainda para 007 - Skyfall, que ganhou o Bafta de Melhor Filme Britânico do Ano, para Quentin Tarantino que ganhou o Bafta de Melhor Argumento Original por Django Libertado e para David O. Russell que venceu na categoria de Melhor Argumento Adaptado por Guia para um Final Feliz.

O realizador britânico Alan Parker recebeu o Fellowship Award, o prémio carreira escolhido pela academia britânica.

Melhor Filme

Vencedor: Argo
Os Miseráveis
A Vida de Pi
Lincoln 

00:30 A Hora Negra

Alexander Korda - Prémio de Melhor Filme Britânico do Ano
Vencedor: 007 - Skyfall
Anna Karenina
O Exótico Hotel Marigold 
Os Miseráveis
Sete Psicopatas

Melhor Actor
Vencedor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Ben Affleck, Argo

Bradley Cooper, Guia para um Final Feliz

Hugh Jackman, Os Miseráveis

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master - O Mentor

Melhor Actriz
Vencedor: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Jessica Chastain, 00:30 A Hora Negra
Maion Cotillard, Ferrugem e Osso
Jennifer Lawrence, Guia para um Casal Feliz
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock

Melhor Actor Secundário
Vencedor: Christoph Waltz, Django Libertado
Alan Arkin, Argo
Javier Bardem, 007 - Syfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master - O Mentor
Tommy Le Jones, Lincoln

Melhor Actriz Secundária
Vencedor: Anne Hathaway, Os Miseráveis
Amy Adams, The Master - O Mentor
Judi Dench, 007 - Skyfall
Sally Field, Lincoln
Helen Hunt, Seis Sessões

David Lean - Prémio de Realização
Vencedor: Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Begelow, 00:30 A Hora Negra
Michael Haneke, Amor
Ang Lee, A Vida de Pi
Quentin Taranatino, Django Libertado

Melhor Argumento  (Original)
Vencedor: Django Libertado, Quentin Tarantino
Amor, Michael Haneke
The Master - O Mentor, Paul Thomas Anderson
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
00:30 A Hora Mais Negra, Mark Boal

Melhor Argumento (Adaptado)
Vencedor: Guia para um Final Feliz, David O. Russell
Argo, Chris Terrio
Bestas do Sul Selvagem, Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
A Vida de Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner

Melhor Fotografia
Vencedor: A Vida de Pi, Claudio Miranda
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Os Miseráveis, Danny Cohen
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
007 - Skyfall, Roger Deakins

Melhor Montagem
Vencedor: Argo, Billy Goldenberg
Django Libertado, Fred Raskin
A Vida de Pi, Tim Squyres
007 - Syfall, Stuart Baird
00:30 A Hora Negra, Dylan Tichenor, Billi Goldenberg

Melhor Design de Produção
Vencedor: Os Miseráveis, Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson
Anna Karenina, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
A Vida de Pi, David Gropman, Anna Pinnock
Lincoln, Rick Carter, Jim Erickson
007 - Skyfall, Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock

Melhor Guarda-Roupa
Vencedor: Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Grandes Esperanças, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
Os Miseráveis, Paco Delgado
Licoln, Joanna Johnston
A Branca de Neve e o Caçador, Colleen Atwood

Anthony Asquith - Melhor Música
Vencedor: 007 - Skyfall, Thomas Newman
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
A Vida de Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincon, John Williams

Melhor Caracterização
Vencedor: Os Miseráveis
Anna Karenina
Hitchcock
O Hobbit: Uma Viagem Inesperada
Lincoln

Melhor Som
Vencedor: Os Miseráveis
Django Libertado
O Hobbit: Uma Viagem Inesperada
A Vida de Pi
007 - Skyfall

Melhores Efeitos Especiais
Vencedor: A Vida de Pi
Os Vingadores
O Cavaleiro das Trevas Renasce
O Hobbit: Uma Viagem Inesperada
Prometheus

Melhor Filme de Língua Estrangeira
Vencedor: Amor
Hodejegerne
The Hunt - A Caça
Ferrugem e Osso
Amigos Improváveis

Melhor Filme de Animação
Vencedor: Brave - Indomável
Fankenweenie
ParaNorman

Melhor Documentário
Vencedor: Seaching for Sugar Man
The Imposter
Marley
McCullin
A Oeste de Memphis

Prémio Estrela em Ascensão
Vencedor: Juno Temple
Elizabeth Olsen
Andrea Riseborough
Suraj Sharma
Alicia Vikander

Melhor Estreia de um Argumentista, Realizador ou Produtor Britânico
Vencedor: The Imposter, Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis
I Am Nasrine, Tina Ghavari
McCullin, David Manos Morris, Jacqui Morris
Os Marretas, James Bobin
Wild Bill, Dexter Fletcher, Danny King

Melhor Curta de Animação
Vencedor: The Making of Longbird, Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson
Here to Fall, Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath
I'm Fine Thanks, Eamonn O'Neill

Melhor Curta-Metragem
Vencedor: Swimmer, Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarrmid Scrimshaw
The Curse, Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries
Good Night, Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir
Tumult, Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews
The Voorman Problem, Mark Gill, Baldwin LI

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (11)

Um jogo muito curioso chamado ultracricket brockiano (que consistia em bater nas pessoas sem razão aparente e depois fugir).

À Boleia Pela Galáxia, Douglas Adams

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
1939

First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath summed up its era in the way that Uncle Tom’s Cabin summed up the years of slavery before the Civil War. Sensitive to fascist and communist criticism, Steinbeck insisted that “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” be printed in its entirety in the first edition of the book - which takes its title from the first verse: “He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.” At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s fictional chronicle of the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s is perhaps the most American of American Classics.

The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
1938

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."

So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past the beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten... her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant—the sinister Mrs. Danvers—still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca... for the secrets of Manderley.

Atlantis

Séries Fantásticas

Depois do cancelamento da série televisiva Merlin (a Quinta Temporada é a última), a BBC anunciou que Atlantis será anova série de fantasia que passará no mesmo horário e que irá para o ar no Outono.

De acordo com a sinopse, a cidade de Atlantis é um local antigo e misterioso, onde é paraticada a taurocatapsia (saltos acrobáticos sobre touros), de deusas com cabelos transformados em sepentes e de palácios tão grandes que se dizia ter sido construídos por gigantes.

Criada por Howard Overman (Misfits), a série terá treze episódios e será uma extraordinária aventura sobre um lugar estranho, um reino envolvente, onde Jason chega e descobre um mundo que dá vida a um vasto conjunto de histórias e personagens da mitologia grega e lendas reimaginadas para uma nova geração.

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
1937 (Publicado em 1967)

The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First, he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.

Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master — as he calls himself — has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet — and fellow lunatic — Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"

Surely, no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around?

Unsurprisingly — in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror — Bulgakov's master work was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other.

Fonte: Goodreads

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