Look at that bling!
Serena Williams gave fans a glimpse of her impressive new wedding ring while her adorable daughter, Alexis Olympia (who is almost 3-months-old!) rocked a leopard print dress on the little girl’s Instagram Wednesday.
“Daddy knows how much I love leopard print,” the caption, written as if said by the baby, read.
Williams’ wedding ring glittered as she held on to her daughter’s legs.
The star complimented her massive emerald cut diamond engagement ring with an eternity band that had a teardrop concave to create a halo around the large center stone of the engagement ring.
Serena Williams gave fans a glimpse of her impressive new wedding ring while her adorable daughter, Alexis Olympia (who is almost 3-months-old!) rocked a leopard print dress on the little girl’s Instagram Wednesday.
“Daddy knows how much I love leopard print,” the caption, written as if said by the baby, read.
Williams’ wedding ring glittered as she held on to her daughter’s legs.
The star complimented her massive emerald cut diamond engagement ring with an eternity band that had a teardrop concave to create a halo around the large center stone of the engagement ring.
- 11/23/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Alexis Ohanian can't stop spoiling his baby girl!
Serena Williams took to Twitter on Saturday to call out her fiance for constantly buying things for their 2-month-old daughter, Alexis Olympia.
"I do love Alexis Sr. @alexisohanian but if he buys one more outfit or toy for Olympia @OlympiaOhanian I'm going to explode," she wrote.
"Books don't count!" Ohanian adorably replied.
Related: Serena Williams' Daughter Braves a Private Jet Ride -- Watch the Adorable Video!
The Reddit co-founder isn't just buying his daughter books, however. Ohanian took to Instagram to show off a mini version of Thor's hammer he got for Olympia, as she prepared to see Thor: Ragnarok.
"Junior's first movie. Mama needed a day off to relax. I rented out the whole theater, so we would be able to just have the family and some friends, the squad and Junior," Ohanian said in the video, before focusing the camera on Williams sleeping on his shoulder...
Serena Williams took to Twitter on Saturday to call out her fiance for constantly buying things for their 2-month-old daughter, Alexis Olympia.
"I do love Alexis Sr. @alexisohanian but if he buys one more outfit or toy for Olympia @OlympiaOhanian I'm going to explode," she wrote.
"Books don't count!" Ohanian adorably replied.
Related: Serena Williams' Daughter Braves a Private Jet Ride -- Watch the Adorable Video!
The Reddit co-founder isn't just buying his daughter books, however. Ohanian took to Instagram to show off a mini version of Thor's hammer he got for Olympia, as she prepared to see Thor: Ragnarok.
"Junior's first movie. Mama needed a day off to relax. I rented out the whole theater, so we would be able to just have the family and some friends, the squad and Junior," Ohanian said in the video, before focusing the camera on Williams sleeping on his shoulder...
- 11/11/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Serena Williams loves her fiancé Alexis Ohanian, but there is one thing she’d wish he’d stop doing — buying their 10-week-old daughter Alexis Olympia so many things.
“I do love Alexis Sr. @alexisohanian but if he buys one more outfit or toy for Olympia @OlympiaOhanian I’m going to explode,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion wrote on Saturday.
Since her daughter’s birth in September, the tennis champ has been sharing shots of her sweet baby girl on social media, including an adorable shot of Alexis Olympia and her father after a bath.
“We love bath time,” Williams captioned the photo.
“I do love Alexis Sr. @alexisohanian but if he buys one more outfit or toy for Olympia @OlympiaOhanian I’m going to explode,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion wrote on Saturday.
Since her daughter’s birth in September, the tennis champ has been sharing shots of her sweet baby girl on social media, including an adorable shot of Alexis Olympia and her father after a bath.
“We love bath time,” Williams captioned the photo.
- 11/11/2017
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
The female Big Brother housemates seem divided ahead of their big decision.
There is a 'Girl Power' theme in the house this week, meaning that the women are safe from eviction but will have to decide which of the male housemates to save.
However, the women seem split ahead of tonight's big decision, as yesterday Danielle McMahon and Ashleigh Coyle continued to share their dislike of Helen Wood.
Danielle complained that Helen's "bum's always hanging out", while Ashleigh said: "I don't even look in that direction anymore... I've seen her bum more than I've seen my own."
Meanwhile, Helen, Kimberly Kisselovich and Jale Karaturp were unhappy with Ashleigh and Danielle.
"People don't want to make an effort with anyone anymore," Jale complained. "And when I say people, two girls don't want to make an effort with anyone anymore."
Helen added that Ashleigh and Danielle were making their decision "very...
There is a 'Girl Power' theme in the house this week, meaning that the women are safe from eviction but will have to decide which of the male housemates to save.
However, the women seem split ahead of tonight's big decision, as yesterday Danielle McMahon and Ashleigh Coyle continued to share their dislike of Helen Wood.
Danielle complained that Helen's "bum's always hanging out", while Ashleigh said: "I don't even look in that direction anymore... I've seen her bum more than I've seen my own."
Meanwhile, Helen, Kimberly Kisselovich and Jale Karaturp were unhappy with Ashleigh and Danielle.
"People don't want to make an effort with anyone anymore," Jale complained. "And when I say people, two girls don't want to make an effort with anyone anymore."
Helen added that Ashleigh and Danielle were making their decision "very...
- 6/30/2014
- Digital Spy
Gerardo Naranjo, the filmmaker behind "Miss Bala" and "I'm Going to Explode," will direct the pilot for FX's drama project "The Bridge." The prospective series, which was announced by the network in July, is a Us adaptation of the 2011 Danish/Swedish series "Bron"/"Broen" about a murder investigation following the discovery of a dead body on the bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden. "Inglourious Basterds" star Diane Kruger has signed on to take the lead role in the pilot, which will be set at the Mexico/Us border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. She'll play El Paso Police Homicide Detective Sonya North, a dogged policewoman who tends to call things like she sees them, with no regard for tact or empathy. When a body is discovered on the bridge spanning the border, North is forced to work on tracking down the serial killer responsible alongside Marco Ruiz. a Mexican detective with a spouse,...
- 9/20/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
While Gerardo Naranjo was known on the arthouse scene mostly for his 2008 effort "Voy a explotar," it was last year's "Miss Bala" that brought him to worldwide attention. His breathless thriller, set among the drug war in Mexico, showed a director with a kinetic flair for action, and sensitive and complex touch for character, in one of the breakout highlights at Cannes. It didn't take long for Hollywood to come knocking, and earlier this year, he lined up the survival tale/love story "The Mountain Between Us" at Fox, with Michael Fassbender attached to star. And now another studio is tapping his talent for a new project. Focus Features has signed up Naranjo to direct "A Man Must Die." Being produced by Pablo Cruz -- a regular collaborator witwh Naranjo who is also working on the upcoming "Chavez" biopic starring Michael Peña and being directed by Diego Luna -- there...
- 7/13/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Last week we featured some of Mexico’s young filmmakers who have emerged as part of a recent revival in Mexican cinema. These new directors have pushed out the old guard and persevere in difficult situations, using public funding and micro-budgets to create films which take aim at Mexico’s social ills, broach difficult subjects, and take stylistic risks. These original and innovative artists are carving out a space for Mexican films in the international art house market. Here we continue to highlight even more directors from Generation Mex.
Gerardo Naranjo
Probably the most buzzed about Mexican director of late, Naranjo’s fourth feature Miss Bala (Isa:tcf) premiered at Cannes, went on to play festivals in Toronto and Los Angeles and was selected as Mexico’s official submission for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Loosely inspired by real events it tells the story of Laura, a young woman who aspires to compete in the Miss Baja beauty pageant. Instead she finds herself amidst narcos as an unwilling participant in Mexico’s drug war. Using long takes and very few cuts Naranjo accomplishes the difficult, a melancholy thriller and pensive allegory punctuated by intense moments of violent but often quiet action. 20th Century Fox released the film in limited theaters late last year. In his previous films Voy a explotar (I’m Gonna Explode) (Isa:Elle Driver), Drama/Mex, and Malachance he experimented stylistically but they all reflect his signature, emotionally resonant and sensitive depictions of characters on the edge.
Yulene Olaizola
Having only recently graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Ccc), one of the two major film schools in Mexico, she has already directed three feature-length films. Her thesis project, the award-winning documentary Intimidades de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo (Intimacies of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo) (Isa:Interior13 Cine) traces her grandmother Rosa's friendship with Jorge Riosse, her young, troubled tenant. Paraísos Artificiales (Artificial Paradises) (Isa: Interior13 Cine), named after an anthology by the 19th century French poet Baudelaire, was her impressive fiction debut. It’s dreamy, serene, and breathtaking landscapes of the lush seaside hills of Veracruz, Mexico provide the backdrop, as a young woman addicted to heroin tries to free herself from the compulsive need for a fix while staying at a beach resort. Her newest film Fogo is days away from its world premiere at The Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. In a departure from her previous projects, she chose to make a film in English focusing on the deterioration of a small community in Fogo Island, located off the coast Canada.
Pedro González-Rubio
In an effort to create an intimate environment for his second film Alamar (Isa: MK2 Diffusion), he wrote, directed, shot and edited the picture himself. Set in a small house on stilts that sits above the crystal-clear blue waters of the Yucatan Peninsula, it explores the bond between a father and son as they share a fishing trip together. When asked whether Alamar is a documentary or fiction at a festival screening he defiantly answered, “It’s a film.” Having invented parts of the story but documenting real events, he seamlessly blends reality and fiction in a picturesque and introspective cinematic meditation that at times almost becomes a photographic essay. Film Movement acquired the theatrical and DVD rights in North America. His directorial debut, Toro Negro, an unflinching look at an alcoholic bullfighter, won prizes at Havana, San Sebastian and Morelia Film Festivals.
Fernando Eimbcke
He had film festivals, critics and distributors clamoring for his attention after his black-and-white directorial debut, Temporada de Patos (Duck Season) (Isa: Traction Media) premiered at Cannes in 2004. It won prizes at AFI Fest and Guadalajara Film Festival and later several Ariel Awards (the Mexican equivalent of the Oscars.) The comedy-drama about two teenage boys who must entertain themselves after a power outage went on to play more than 70 festivals and was sold in more than 30 countries. He followed up this smashing success with Lake Tahoe, a minimalist quiet film in which teenaged Juan crashes his family's car into a pole and then scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix it. Eimbcke studied film in Mexico City at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (Cuec).
Gerardo Naranjo
Probably the most buzzed about Mexican director of late, Naranjo’s fourth feature Miss Bala (Isa:tcf) premiered at Cannes, went on to play festivals in Toronto and Los Angeles and was selected as Mexico’s official submission for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Loosely inspired by real events it tells the story of Laura, a young woman who aspires to compete in the Miss Baja beauty pageant. Instead she finds herself amidst narcos as an unwilling participant in Mexico’s drug war. Using long takes and very few cuts Naranjo accomplishes the difficult, a melancholy thriller and pensive allegory punctuated by intense moments of violent but often quiet action. 20th Century Fox released the film in limited theaters late last year. In his previous films Voy a explotar (I’m Gonna Explode) (Isa:Elle Driver), Drama/Mex, and Malachance he experimented stylistically but they all reflect his signature, emotionally resonant and sensitive depictions of characters on the edge.
Yulene Olaizola
Having only recently graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Ccc), one of the two major film schools in Mexico, she has already directed three feature-length films. Her thesis project, the award-winning documentary Intimidades de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo (Intimacies of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo) (Isa:Interior13 Cine) traces her grandmother Rosa's friendship with Jorge Riosse, her young, troubled tenant. Paraísos Artificiales (Artificial Paradises) (Isa: Interior13 Cine), named after an anthology by the 19th century French poet Baudelaire, was her impressive fiction debut. It’s dreamy, serene, and breathtaking landscapes of the lush seaside hills of Veracruz, Mexico provide the backdrop, as a young woman addicted to heroin tries to free herself from the compulsive need for a fix while staying at a beach resort. Her newest film Fogo is days away from its world premiere at The Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. In a departure from her previous projects, she chose to make a film in English focusing on the deterioration of a small community in Fogo Island, located off the coast Canada.
Pedro González-Rubio
In an effort to create an intimate environment for his second film Alamar (Isa: MK2 Diffusion), he wrote, directed, shot and edited the picture himself. Set in a small house on stilts that sits above the crystal-clear blue waters of the Yucatan Peninsula, it explores the bond between a father and son as they share a fishing trip together. When asked whether Alamar is a documentary or fiction at a festival screening he defiantly answered, “It’s a film.” Having invented parts of the story but documenting real events, he seamlessly blends reality and fiction in a picturesque and introspective cinematic meditation that at times almost becomes a photographic essay. Film Movement acquired the theatrical and DVD rights in North America. His directorial debut, Toro Negro, an unflinching look at an alcoholic bullfighter, won prizes at Havana, San Sebastian and Morelia Film Festivals.
Fernando Eimbcke
He had film festivals, critics and distributors clamoring for his attention after his black-and-white directorial debut, Temporada de Patos (Duck Season) (Isa: Traction Media) premiered at Cannes in 2004. It won prizes at AFI Fest and Guadalajara Film Festival and later several Ariel Awards (the Mexican equivalent of the Oscars.) The comedy-drama about two teenage boys who must entertain themselves after a power outage went on to play more than 70 festivals and was sold in more than 30 countries. He followed up this smashing success with Lake Tahoe, a minimalist quiet film in which teenaged Juan crashes his family's car into a pole and then scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix it. Eimbcke studied film in Mexico City at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (Cuec).
- 5/16/2012
- by Vanessa Erazo
- Sydney's Buzz
Gael Garcia Bernal never really struck us as a "tentpole guy." Having built his cred working with dudes like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Amores Perros"), Jim Jarmusch ("The Limits Of Control"), Alfonso Cuaron ("Y Tu Mama Tambien"), Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries"), Michel Gondry ("The Science Of Sleep"), Fernando Meirelles ("Blindness") and Pedro Almodovar ("Bad Education") he's earned a strong reputation as an actor of taste and talent. Even more, as a producer he's backed movies like "Voy a explotar" and "Sin Nombre." Sure, he's flirted with the mainstream in mind-boggling decisions to star in stuff like "Letters To Juliet" and the forthcoming "A Little Bit Of Heaven," and his his next move is no less baffling. Fox has tapped Bernal to take the lead in "Zorro Reborn" their futuristic reboot of the sword-wielding hero. If...
- 2/17/2012
- The Playlist
In his second film Voy a explotar (I'm Going to Explode, which premiered at Venice Mostra in 2009) Gerardo Naranjo paid a double, vibrant homage to Godard and to Mexican melodrama through a teenagers-road-movie that moved with freedom, constant invention and rebellious spirit. Miss Bala, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, often shows the same free-style qualities but with a further approach that goes deeper into the question of corruption and the fate of non-rebellious "normal people."
Set in Ciudad Juarez, the film tells of Laura (Stephanie Sigman), an ordinary lower middle-class family girl. She dreams of a TV beauty-singing contest as a way to get some money for the family and herself, but the woman in charge of casting does not hire her. That same evening, an ordinary girl's dream will change into a multi-episode nightmare as Laura witnesses a gangland killing raid. Enter the Cartel—and a...
Set in Ciudad Juarez, the film tells of Laura (Stephanie Sigman), an ordinary lower middle-class family girl. She dreams of a TV beauty-singing contest as a way to get some money for the family and herself, but the woman in charge of casting does not hire her. That same evening, an ordinary girl's dream will change into a multi-episode nightmare as Laura witnesses a gangland killing raid. Enter the Cartel—and a...
- 1/20/2012
- MUBI
Gerardo Naranjo's savage, bullet riddled, all-encompassing torrid thriller featuring a full scale border-war demonstrates the prowess of an auteur filmmaker who up until 2011 was labeled as an art-house rebel with the low budget experimental "Drama/Mex," and French New Wave influenced Voy a explotar. In comparison with these previous entries, Miss Bala counts as a monumental shift way in aesthetic, shape and form. With a brilliantly choreographed outline, Naranjo borrows from fact, takes a piercing/critical stance and depicts a society that is held hostage via a symbolic lead figure, who at times emblematically represents the "route" nature of the drug trade. After stops in Cannes (Un Certain Regard) and Toronto, Nyff was where we caught up with the filmmaker and his lead, Stephanie Sigman in this roof top sit down. Interview was conducted by Sean Glass. Fox International releases the film in theaters and on VOD this Friday.
- 1/18/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
Kristen Bell is making her return to TV in Showtime's "House of Lies" (premieres Sunday, Jan. 8, 10 p.m. Est), but don't expect this to be the typical Kristen Bell role. Her character, management consultant Jeannie Van Der Hooven, is spunky; but hiding underneath the sassy exterior is one very ambitious and morally ambiguous woman. Veronica Mars she isn't.
"She doesn't have the strongest moral compass, but the interesting thing compounding that is she doesn't really think she's doing anything wrong," Bell told The Huffington Post in a phone interview in late December. "She is completely compartmentalized and I've never played anyone like that. I've always kind of played characters that have a stronger sense of what's right and wrong. Jeannie's really multidimensional."
In "House of Lies," Bell stars alongside Don Cheadle, Ben Schwartz, Josh Lawson and Dawn Olivieri, all playing top-notch business consultants who wheel and deal with the one percent.
"She doesn't have the strongest moral compass, but the interesting thing compounding that is she doesn't really think she's doing anything wrong," Bell told The Huffington Post in a phone interview in late December. "She is completely compartmentalized and I've never played anyone like that. I've always kind of played characters that have a stronger sense of what's right and wrong. Jeannie's really multidimensional."
In "House of Lies," Bell stars alongside Don Cheadle, Ben Schwartz, Josh Lawson and Dawn Olivieri, all playing top-notch business consultants who wheel and deal with the one percent.
- 1/5/2012
- by Chris Harnick
- Huffington Post
Kristen Bell is making her return to TV in Showtime's "House of Lies" (premieres Sunday, Jan. 8, 10 p.m. Est), but don't expect this to be the typical Kristen Bell role. Her character, management consultant Jeannie Van Der Hooven, is spunky; but hiding underneath the sassy exterior is one very ambitious and morally ambiguous woman. Veronica Mars she isn't.
"She doesn't have the strongest moral compass, but the interesting thing compounding that is she doesn't really think she's doing anything wrong," Bell told The Huffington Post in a phone interview in late December. "She is completely compartmentalized and I've never played anyone like that. I've always kind of played characters that have a stronger sense of what's right and wrong. Jeannie's really multidimensional."
In "House of Lies," Bell stars alongside Don Cheadle, Ben Schwartz, Josh Lawson and Dawn Olivieri, all playing top-notch business consultants who wheel and deal with the one percent.
"She doesn't have the strongest moral compass, but the interesting thing compounding that is she doesn't really think she's doing anything wrong," Bell told The Huffington Post in a phone interview in late December. "She is completely compartmentalized and I've never played anyone like that. I've always kind of played characters that have a stronger sense of what's right and wrong. Jeannie's really multidimensional."
In "House of Lies," Bell stars alongside Don Cheadle, Ben Schwartz, Josh Lawson and Dawn Olivieri, all playing top-notch business consultants who wheel and deal with the one percent.
- 1/5/2012
- by Chris Harnick
- Aol TV.
Though he makes his feature debut with Machete Language, writer-director Kyzza Terrazas already occupies an interesting space within the Mexican film scene. The former head of development at Canana - the production company founded by Gael Garcia Bernal - the Kenyan born Terrazas is a published author who wrote the script for Bernal's directorial feature Deficit while also serving as an executive producer on acclaimed titles such as Drama / Mex and Voy A Explotar. For his own debut Terrazas cast Mexican punk rock icon Jessy Bulbo and actor, musician and painter Andres Almeida (Y Tu Mama Tambien) for a gritty story of a pair of counter culture activists finding themselves caught between youth and adulthood as they hit their thirties.Ray and Ramona are...
- 8/31/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Slightly disappointing (given his usual record), the latest from Nanni Moretti has turned out to be a relatively safe affair. Habemus Papam (for those who are not catholic or their Latin is rusty, We have a pope) is being sold as a comedy, rather than a light-as-air drama about the existential crisis of a newly elected pope. Moretti plays a shrink summoned to the Vatican to solve the pope’s issues. Given that Moretti is an atheist, and this follows his very acid political comedy Il Caimano, many were expecting a devastating expose on the hot button issues that the church is facing these days; it turns out to be a very gentle portrait of the pope as a very average man doubting if he will be up to the job somehow randomly assigned to him. Veteran actor Michel Piccoli delivers a very nice, subtle performance that will surely bring him some awards.
- 5/14/2011
- by Ed Lucatero
- SoundOnSight
In his second film Voy a explotar (I'm Going to Explode, which premiered at Venice Mostra in 2009) Gerardo Naranjo paid a double, vibrant homage to Godard and to Mexican melodrama through a teenagers-road-movie that moved with freedom, constant invention and rebellious spirit. Miss Bala, playing in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, often shows the same free-style qualities but with a further approach that goes deeper into the question of corruption and the fate of non-rebellious "normal people."
Set in Ciudad Juarez, the film tells of Laura (Stephanie Sigman), an ordinary lower middle-class family girl. She dreams of a TV beauty-singing contest as a way to get some money for the family and herself, but the woman in charge of casting does not hire her. That same evening, an ordinary girl's dream will change into a multi-episode nightmare as Laura witnesses a gangland killing raid. Enter the Cartel—and a charismatically ferocious gang boss.
Set in Ciudad Juarez, the film tells of Laura (Stephanie Sigman), an ordinary lower middle-class family girl. She dreams of a TV beauty-singing contest as a way to get some money for the family and herself, but the woman in charge of casting does not hire her. That same evening, an ordinary girl's dream will change into a multi-episode nightmare as Laura witnesses a gangland killing raid. Enter the Cartel—and a charismatically ferocious gang boss.
- 5/13/2011
- MUBI
"Rescue Me" actress Olivia Crocicchia has been cast in the indie comedy "Terri," opposite John C. Reilly.
Directed by Azazel Jacobs, "Terri" centers on a large 14-year-old boy in a small town as he struggles to adjust to his difficult life. Crocicchia will play Heather, a pretty but sad girl who helps Terri cope with a frequently hostile world.
The film was written by novelist Patrick deWitt ("Ablutions"). Producers include Alex Orlovsky and Lynette Howell ("Half Nelson"), Hunter Gray ("Voy a Explotar") and Alison Dickey ("Piggie"). David Guy Levy ("August") is an executive producer.
The Silverwood Films-alo Productions-Verisimilitude production began shooting last week in Los Angeles.
Repped by Vanguard Management Group, Crocicchia plays the younger daughter of Denis Leary's character on FX's "Rescue Me." She also stars in the indie drama "The Wheeler Boys," which screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and has a role in...
Directed by Azazel Jacobs, "Terri" centers on a large 14-year-old boy in a small town as he struggles to adjust to his difficult life. Crocicchia will play Heather, a pretty but sad girl who helps Terri cope with a frequently hostile world.
The film was written by novelist Patrick deWitt ("Ablutions"). Producers include Alex Orlovsky and Lynette Howell ("Half Nelson"), Hunter Gray ("Voy a Explotar") and Alison Dickey ("Piggie"). David Guy Levy ("August") is an executive producer.
The Silverwood Films-alo Productions-Verisimilitude production began shooting last week in Los Angeles.
Repped by Vanguard Management Group, Crocicchia plays the younger daughter of Denis Leary's character on FX's "Rescue Me." She also stars in the indie drama "The Wheeler Boys," which screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and has a role in...
- 7/13/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Donald Trump boasted that the upcoming season of "The Celebrity Apprentice" is the best ever and promised the star power of its cast "blows `Dancing With the Stars' away."Yes, it's a new cycle for the Trump-hosted competition show, which won't premiere until March 14 but threw an introductory news conference way back last October, with sworn-to-secrecy members of the media meeting the contenders.Now NBC says it's time to unveil that roster of 14 participants, who will likely spur responses ranging from "Wow!" to "Huh?"Maybe the most interesting (to use Trump's pet adjective) participant is former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Vaulted to infamy by headlines and punch lines, he is charged with scheming to auction off President Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat, campaign fundraising abuses and other offenses. He was removed from office last January, but has denied wrongdoing.
- 1/4/2010
- Filmicafe
A Mexican coming-of-age drama, I'm Gonna Explode (Voy A Explotar) pillages elements from some of the best Latin American flicks of the past decade or so, but falls short in emulating their success. Maru (Maria Deschamps) and Roman (Juan Pablo De Santiago) are a couple of rebellious 15 year olds, drawn to each other by a shared distrust and refusal of the adult world. They leave school and ostensibly run away, camping out atop a building where they flirt, drink, listen to music and generally act out a time honoured pubescence. Meanwhile their respective parents get together to fret about their little ones... whereupon they drink, flirt and act much like teenagers themselves.
I'm Gonna Explode starts well, tapping into the emotional quagmire of teendom, neither child nor adult but desperately seeking some sort of meaning and excitement beyond the constraints of family life. Roman rejects the perceived banality of adulthood,...
I'm Gonna Explode starts well, tapping into the emotional quagmire of teendom, neither child nor adult but desperately seeking some sort of meaning and excitement beyond the constraints of family life. Roman rejects the perceived banality of adulthood,...
- 1/4/2010
- Screen Anarchy
When I saw Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna's names as producers on at the front of Gerardo Naranjo's I'm Going to Explode I immediately got a sense of what might be in store. Young love, beautiful outcasts and a sun bleached road trip. I'm not sure what that says about the pair or the definitive themes in Mexican Cinema itself which has been blooming since the late nineties; But it sure is intriguing that a flavor and a style of film making has become so apparent, garnering all the respect it deserves, in such a short space of time. I'm Gonna Explode introduces us to Maru and Roman, social out casts in their schools, both in their own special way. Maru is bored with her world and her friends and holds a simple hatred and complacency towards everything. Roman's disposition is one more tinged with violence than boredom.
- 1/4/2010
- by Neil Innes
- t5m.com
Voy a Explotar (I'm Gonna Explode) is the contemporary Mexican teenage Pierrot le Fou. It knows this, and it wants you to know it, and it doesn't care if this makes you hate it on principle. The third feature by Gerardo Naranjo (director of Drama/Mex, co-writer and star of Azazel Jacobs' The GoodTimeskid), it's the rare love letter to influence that's infused with enough p ...
- 8/12/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Year: 2008
Directors: Gerardo Naranjo
Writers: Gerardo Naranjo
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: quietearth
Rating: 6 out of 10
For those of you who've been on the fringe, remember being that screwed up teenager thinking no one understood you and dreaming about meeting that special someone via some connection, music or whatever, where you instantly understood each other? That's this film, what I'd call outsider poetry which is at times amorous, and others, violent. The beginning had the feel of an American indy, brilliant in it's characters admissions and narrative with it's sometimes documentary style collage and cinematography. Unfortunately though, it had one serious fault: A middle procession which dragged on forever.
The first story is Roman, son of a rich congressman whose life has followed the usual path. His mother is dead, his father pays him no mind, and he is expelled from school after school. He write in his diary that he dreams of killing,...
Directors: Gerardo Naranjo
Writers: Gerardo Naranjo
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: quietearth
Rating: 6 out of 10
For those of you who've been on the fringe, remember being that screwed up teenager thinking no one understood you and dreaming about meeting that special someone via some connection, music or whatever, where you instantly understood each other? That's this film, what I'd call outsider poetry which is at times amorous, and others, violent. The beginning had the feel of an American indy, brilliant in it's characters admissions and narrative with it's sometimes documentary style collage and cinematography. Unfortunately though, it had one serious fault: A middle procession which dragged on forever.
The first story is Roman, son of a rich congressman whose life has followed the usual path. His mother is dead, his father pays him no mind, and he is expelled from school after school. He write in his diary that he dreams of killing,...
- 6/19/2009
- QuietEarth.us
For the second year in a row our very own Edinburgh correspondent projectcyclops will be bringing us coverage of Eiff, and this year he's going to be hitting a lot more films! Check out some of the films which are playing at the fest which runs June 17th through the 28th.
Adam
Distanz
Easier With Practice
Exam (a life or death thriller having it's world premier)
Fish Tank (premiering at Cannes)
Giallo (yes, the world premier of Dario Argento's latest!)
Harmony and Me
High Life
I'm Going to Explode (Voy A Explotar)
Kicks (a stunning psychosexual looking thriller)
Katalin Varga
Le Donk (Shane Meadows latest)
Mary and Max
Romeo and Juliet vs The Living Dead
Tony (a loner in a lost world, world premier)
Unmade Beds
Van Diemen's Land
White Lightnin'
Wasted (Take a guess!)
Check out the full lineup here.
Adam
Distanz
Easier With Practice
Exam (a life or death thriller having it's world premier)
Fish Tank (premiering at Cannes)
Giallo (yes, the world premier of Dario Argento's latest!)
Harmony and Me
High Life
I'm Going to Explode (Voy A Explotar)
Kicks (a stunning psychosexual looking thriller)
Katalin Varga
Le Donk (Shane Meadows latest)
Mary and Max
Romeo and Juliet vs The Living Dead
Tony (a loner in a lost world, world premier)
Unmade Beds
Van Diemen's Land
White Lightnin'
Wasted (Take a guess!)
Check out the full lineup here.
- 5/6/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The 24th Guadalajara Film Festival Awards went to Gerardo Tort's Viaje Redondo (Round Trip) and Peruvian Claudia Llosa's La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) in the Mexican and Latin American feature film sections, respectively. Voy a explotar (I'm Going to Explode) from Canana, directed by Gerardo Naranjo won for first work in the Latin American section, even though it was actually his second work. Naranjo's first work was Drama/Mex. Carlos Enderle's Cronicas Chilanga won for Mexican first work, Mexican screenplay, and best actor award going to Patricio Castillo. Other winners included La passion de Gabriel, Corazon del Tiempo for best director, and Retorno a Hansala also for best director. The special jury prize went to Aquele Querido Mes de Agosto (This Dear Month of August). At the Coproduction Meetings awards went to Sergio Teubal for his project El dedo and to Leandro Fabrizzi of Puerto Rico for Filiberto.
During the days of the festival, The red carpet was unfurled for the world debut of The Perfect Game by William Dear and producers David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud. Encounters with the media were held for the movies Corazón del tiempo, Niño Pez, La Última y nos Vamos, and Amor sin Fin.
Otra Película de Huevos y un Pollo by brothers Rodolfo and Gabriel Riva Palacios surprised many as the film chosen to inaugurate FLCG24.
Encounters with the media were held for the feature films Voy a Explotar, Camino which won six Goya prizes, including best movie, best director and best actress, and Rabioso Sol Rabioso Cielo.
The keynote speech Sunday March 22 under the aegis of IV Digital Space in Guadalajara will be a lecture by Peter Broderick, The New World of Distribution.
Broderick, President of Paradigm Consulting, is known as one of the leading experts in the development of creative strategies for digital distribution. His innovative viewpoints have contributed to both producers and filmmakers multiplying audiences and revenue and successfully taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the digital age.
The first day's activities included Gerardo Tort presenting his movie Viaje Redondo, director and scriptwriter Alicia Scherson and star Diego Noguera presenting the Chilean movie Turistas to the press, a competitor in the Ibero-American Feature-length Fiction category.
The Gala event featured Sólo Quiero Caminar, and afterward the Guadalajara Prize was awarded to Guadalajara's own actor, director and producer Gael Garcia Bernal. Special event Cinelandia began with Manu Chao presenting the films that have touched his life, including Los Olvidados by Luis Buñuel and Princesas by fellow Spaniard Fernando Leon de Aranoa. ...
During the days of the festival, The red carpet was unfurled for the world debut of The Perfect Game by William Dear and producers David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud. Encounters with the media were held for the movies Corazón del tiempo, Niño Pez, La Última y nos Vamos, and Amor sin Fin.
Otra Película de Huevos y un Pollo by brothers Rodolfo and Gabriel Riva Palacios surprised many as the film chosen to inaugurate FLCG24.
Encounters with the media were held for the feature films Voy a Explotar, Camino which won six Goya prizes, including best movie, best director and best actress, and Rabioso Sol Rabioso Cielo.
The keynote speech Sunday March 22 under the aegis of IV Digital Space in Guadalajara will be a lecture by Peter Broderick, The New World of Distribution.
Broderick, President of Paradigm Consulting, is known as one of the leading experts in the development of creative strategies for digital distribution. His innovative viewpoints have contributed to both producers and filmmakers multiplying audiences and revenue and successfully taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the digital age.
The first day's activities included Gerardo Tort presenting his movie Viaje Redondo, director and scriptwriter Alicia Scherson and star Diego Noguera presenting the Chilean movie Turistas to the press, a competitor in the Ibero-American Feature-length Fiction category.
The Gala event featured Sólo Quiero Caminar, and afterward the Guadalajara Prize was awarded to Guadalajara's own actor, director and producer Gael Garcia Bernal. Special event Cinelandia began with Manu Chao presenting the films that have touched his life, including Los Olvidados by Luis Buñuel and Princesas by fellow Spaniard Fernando Leon de Aranoa. ...
- 3/23/2009
- Sydney's Buzz
Every now and then we miss a fantastic looking film in the lineup for whatever reason (probably because there wasn't any footage), and this is one of those cases. Voy A Explotar is a Mexican film written and directed by Gerardo Naranjo which premiered last year at the Venice Film Festival then played Tiff.. and now it's going on to Berlinale.
Ramon, the son of a sleazy right-wing congressman, contributes to his new high school’s talent show by ineptly attempting to hang himself on stage. Maru is the only one who claps. They bond in detention, and then it’s off in a stolen Volkswagen with daddy’s gun to the end of the night… or something like that.
Check out the trailer after the break.
Official website...
Ramon, the son of a sleazy right-wing congressman, contributes to his new high school’s talent show by ineptly attempting to hang himself on stage. Maru is the only one who claps. They bond in detention, and then it’s off in a stolen Volkswagen with daddy’s gun to the end of the night… or something like that.
Check out the trailer after the break.
Official website...
- 1/14/2009
- QuietEarth.us
One of the frustrating realities of the Toronto International Film Festival is that with over three hundred films in the program it is a physical impossibility to see everything that you want. Such was the case with Voy A Explotar, the third feature from Drama/Mex director Gerardo Naranjo. Naranjo has emerged as one of the brightest lights of current Mexican film and though both Michael and I were hoping to catch this one I don’t believe either of us actually made it to a screening. Here’s an excerpt from the Tiff program guide:
Misfit Román Valdez is the son of a respected yet corrupt politician in the city of Guanajuato. Having grown up in a world of privilege, he does nothing but give his father grief, blaming him for his mother’s untimely death. After being expelled from the best private institutions in the country, he ends up at the same,...
Misfit Román Valdez is the son of a respected yet corrupt politician in the city of Guanajuato. Having grown up in a world of privilege, he does nothing but give his father grief, blaming him for his mother’s untimely death. After being expelled from the best private institutions in the country, he ends up at the same,...
- 9/15/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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