X-Men First Class | Movie Review
| June 14, 2011 3:33 am |X-Men: First Class, the prequel to the X-Men movies, fills in the back story of charcters you have grown to love or lays the foundation to a start loving them. So weather your a mutant guru or you know little about the franchise, X-men First Class stands on its own. Powerful performances, good story, classy direction, and a top notch cast infuses a fresh breath of life to the old X-Men franchise! It has all the right ingredients for a super hit movie.
You might not have guessed Professor X would have been a lively, charming guy who flirted a lot, or that Mystique was actually like a sister to Professor X before joining hands with Magneto. Magneto and Professor X were as close as brothers when they were still known as Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier. The movie not only showcases the origins of the X-Men, but also the intricate and interwoven relationships shared by the central characters.
The movie begins with how Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr get to know of their powers, the way they grow up, understand their abilities, and learn to control them. Then the movie goes on to show how they join forces with the government to avert a nuclear holocaust during the cold war period, there is not a single dull moment. It is Interesting to see how they have woven the real world with the “X-Men Universe” and give good reason to set the movie in the 1960. Strong dialogues and repartees between the characters feel as if taken from real history, some gems like “Peace was never an option”, and “Mutant and Proud!” would be good examples of this.
James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender do complete justice to their roles as Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr respectively. Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw, the nefarious scientist who heads the hellfire club which seeks to end the human race, is menacing. Director Matthew Vaughn has ensured that the viewer gets to feel the anger in Erik’s eyes, and the compassion in Xavier’s voice, on a personal level. The racy narration and non-stop action keeps the viewers riveted to their seats. X-Men: First Class answers all questions that a person would have had after watching the earlier X-Men movies, and it ensures that it is a perfect prequel in the sense that it leaves no loose threads and establishes a solid platform for the unraveling of the X-Men universe.
Congratulations to the Miami Heat on Winning the NBA Championship!!
| June 13, 2011 11:36 am |The Miami Herald would like to congratulate the Miami Heat for winning the NBA Championship and they would like you to know you can buy their adidas championship gear at Macy’s. It’s a shame they actually lost the series 4-2 to the Dallas Mavericks. On the day after the Heat were put out of the finals, the Miami Herald ran this in their newspaper. I guess even the newspapers are bandwagoners?
Drink of the Week
| June 10, 2011 11:56 pm |Dirty / Filthy Martini
Chill Martini Glass with ice and water.
Put some ice in a shaker or mixing glass.
Add 2 1/2 oz of Gin or Vodka(my pref)
Add 2 Tbsp of Olive Juice(from the jar or tray)
Shake or stir mixture.
Empty the ice water from your martini glass.
Add 2-3 drops of Dry Vermouth to glass and swirl to coat, then dump the excess.
Strain your Martini into glass and garnish with 3 Olives.
Ever wonder what Katy Perry requires in her dressing room during concerts? Check out a few pages from her 2011 Tour Rider. These are requests and requirements that many artists give concert venues tour managers prior to their appearance. In total, Katy’s tour rider is 45 pages long, but we’ll just post a few here. Her requirements don’t seem to be as outlandish as other celebrity performers that require X amount of blue m&m’s in their dressing room. But she was recently criticized for minor rumors and things such as banning carnations and banning drivers looking at her or starting a conversation.
In response Katy adjusted her Tour Rider to make her less “Diva-ish.” Katy told USA Today, “The whole driver thing, I have no idea where that came from. My response was, ‘Just change it. Make it not so silly!'”
“My sister handles flowers and VIP stuff. Maybe she has a beef with carnations, but I don’t think so. Anyone who knows me knows I’m easygoing. I’m just an entertainer. I’m not asking for the sun to shine at night.”
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Source: The Smoking Gun & USA Today
LG Cinema 3D | Review
| June 9, 2011 3:09 am |3D is nothing new. 3D films were prominently featured in the 1950s in American cinema, and later experienced a worldwide resurgence in the 1980s and ’90s. The Technology was not the same as we have today. Most of us remember black and white movies with red and blue glasses, those that don’t remember make me feel old. 3D technology has grown in leaps and bounds since then. Not just in theathers but at home as well, LG is on point with there “Cinema 3D” TVs. It uses the same inexpensive polorized glasses used in the movie theathers, not those very expensive inefficent battery powered shutter glasses other TV makers use.
Check out The LG Infinia 65LW6500
•The Infinia LW6500 series has a dynamic contrast ratio of 10,000,000:1. (This is the highest contrast ratio available today, and it’s absolutely a new world of picture quality – the colors are richer and the blacks are darker then ever.)
•Another improvement on the LW6500 is the 240Hz TruMotion instead of 120Hz. (That means your TV now can handle the fastest scenes without any problem. no more blurring pictures !)
•The LG 65LW6500 got all the latest technologies that were introduced on the CES 2011 event, including the Cinema 3D technology and the LED-plus technology.
Vivian “Fiery Seduction” Part 2
| June 7, 2011 11:36 am |Thor | Movie Review
| June 6, 2011 11:40 pm |Chris Hemsworth gives a breakout performance as fallen Norse god Thor in Marvel’s summer blockbuster, which co-stars Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins.
The Marvel universe moves into the cosmic realm with the 3D Thor, the mighty god of thunder. It’s a noisy, universe-rattling spectacle full of sound and fury with a suitably epic design, solid digital effects and a healthy respect for the comic-book lore that turned a mythological Norse god into a founding member of the superhero team known as The Avengers. A Shakespearean play of feuding fathers and sons. The movie’s dramatic arc falters amid the constant shifts between earthly and celestial realms.
The ultimate accessibility of Thor’s fantastical world is due in no small measure to the good-humored direction of Kenneth Branagh, a man knows his way around an epic tale, and a star-making performance from Chris Hemsworth. The ladies will love 6-foot-3 Hemsworth, he brings a lusty Viking charm to his rumbling Olde English line readings, a towering physicality and biceps that look forged in a furnace. The man is ripped, can’t say I wasn’t a little jealous.
Thor crashes into being in a desolate stretch of New Mexico desert, his face planted inelegantly against the windscreen of an RV driven by Natalie Portman’s storm-chasing scientist Jane Foster.
As Jane, her mentor Dr. Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) and sidekick Darcy (Kat Dennings) puzzle over his provenance, we whip back in time and space to the floating kingdom of Asgard, where Thor’s father Odin (Hopkins), the ruler of all nine realms, fills in decades of back story in voiceover.
Back in the desert, we get some solidly amusing fish-out-of-water antics as the mighty Thor struggles to adapt to his mortality and a world of Facebook and iPods, but scriptwriters Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz and Don Payne working from an effective origin story by J. Michael Straczynski and Mark Protosevich, have their eye on a bigger prize.
The action pinballs between Asgard, the desolate ice planet of Jotunheim, and Earth, where a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent from the Iron Man films (Clark Gregg) is making it difficult for Thor to retrieve his magic hammer and save the humans and the kingdom of Asgard from the forces that would destroy them.
httpv://youtu.be/JOddp-nlNvQ
Drink of the Week
| June 3, 2011 1:02 am |Russian Roulette
1/2 oz Kahlua coffee liqueur
1/2 oz Vodka
1 oz Sambuca
1. Fill two or more shot glasses with the Kahlua and vodka and place a slice of orange on the top of each glass.
2. Pour Sambuca separately into a wine glass and ignite. Pour onto the shots and allow to burn briefly. Extinguish, shoot the drink, and chase with a bite of the Sambuca-soaked orange slice.
Blake Lively Nude Photos???
| June 2, 2011 2:34 am |Blake Lively (The Gossip Girl) has a bit of gossip circling her now IRL. A hacker has released nude photos he claims come from her phone. Her representatives stated these are fake and that Blake has never taken nude photos. This only angered the Hacker who has now released even more photos with the tag:
Oh, yes, Blake’s rep., these are totally fake. We really, really believe you. Want moar? BTW, thanks for all the faps.
I won’t give my opinion on weather they are real or not. Instead I will let you be the judge for yourself.
PS: Mr. Hacker, YES we want moar!
Drink of the Week
| May 27, 2011 3:13 am |Mojito Diablo
1 1/2 oz white tequila
1/2 oz creme de cassis
2 lime wedges
12 fresh mint leaves
3 – 6 oz 7-UP or SPRITE
1 tbsp brown sugar Muddle sugar, mint and squeezed lime wedges in mixing tin until mixture smells like spearmint gum. Fill with ice, add tequila and cassis, shake until the tin is icey to the touch. Pour into a collins glass, top with 7-up or Sprite and garnish with a sugarcane stick and fresh mint.
Sinister e60 Returns
| May 24, 2011 12:52 am |You might remember this blacked out e60 from a few months back. Since then it has been redone still with the black theme but a little different. See if you can spot the differences.
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge:
Orginal post: http://www.myevilstar.com/murdered-e60/
Comment on your favorite and request we will make it wallpaper.
Lindsay Lohan Forgot to Wear Underwear
| May 23, 2011 11:15 pm |Some pics from a photoshoot in Miami this weekend. The life of a star is chaotic and fast paced sometimes you forget to put them on. Are you surpised? We’re not, love you Lindsay.