the film was widely panned by critics and has since been considered to be one of the worst films ever made .

jack and jill " won " all 10 golden raspberry awards for 2011 , breaking battlefield earth 's record for the most razzie wins for a single film .

jack and jill ( 2011 film )

jill and jack ( both , adam sandler ) in columbia pictures ' jack and jill .
jack and jill [ 2011 ] [ pg ] - 4 . 4 . 3 | content rating | urltoken
jack and jill is a 2011 american comedy film directed by dennis dugan , written by steve koren and adam sandler , and starring sandler , katie holmes , and al pacino . the film was released on november 11 , 2011 by columbia pictures .
guess we’ll have a year to wait and see , because jack and jill doesn’t hit theaters until november 11 , 2011 .
the result is that scenes between jack and jill are tolerable because of jack . scenes of jack without jill are pretty good or better . and scenes of only jill are work to sit through .
box office : jack and jill went up the till . . . - blog - the film experience
immortals , jack and jill and j . edgar all received a b cinemascore .
“jack and jill” is rated pg ( parental guidance suggested ) . poop jokes .
adam sandler , left , as jill , and al pacino as himself in “jack and jill , ” directed by dennis dugan .
unfunny girl . . . adam sandler as jill in jack and jill . photograph : col pics / everett / rex features
jack sadelstein ( adam sandler ) has his normal tranquil life turned upside down when his twin sister jill ( also adam sandler ) arrives for visit . ( original title - jack and jill ) © 2011 columbia pictures industries , inc . all rights reserved .
the break - up of r . e . m . - 2011 music moment
jack and jill , in case you inexplicably missed it in theaters , is currently out on dvd .
jack ' s wife , erin , is unlikable and bland , as she scolded jack for yelling at jill in the theater , even though jill was in the wrong for answering her phone loudly .
slapstick and physical comedy throughout : jack ' s son punches his aunt jill , and she falls off her chair . jack , disguised as jill , shoves and hits al pacino , and he retaliates . jill punches a bathroom attendant , who goes flying through a bathroom door .
jack and jill is a comedy focusing on jack sadelstein , a successful advertising executive in los angeles with a beautiful wife and kids , who dreads one event each year : the thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister jill . jill’s neediness and passive - aggressiveness is maddening to jack , turning his normally tranquil life upside down .
as with immortals , jack and jill and j . edgar are counting on strong legs as hollywood heads into thanksgiving .
tarsem singh ' s muscley superhero dieties may have topped the box office charts but you could say that the big stars of the weekend were jack & jill twice over . perversely interpreted fairy tale
jack & jill
( as voiced by billy bob thornton and amy sedaris ) from puss in boots and twinned jack and jill as
acted
by adam sandler in jack and jill together grossed over $ 50 million . jack & jill is getting the maximum critical bile a movie can get but sandler remains critic proof ; his movies always open .
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phantomstrider ' s
top 10 worst movies of all time
, in which jack and jill is featured .
last friday night ( t . g . i . f . ) - 2011 music moment
of course , this was back in the 18th century . i wonder what the rhyme might have gone like if it were written in . . . oh . . . 2011 , perhaps ? jack and jill released a film turned out to be very scary
what makes jack and jill worse than the average sandler vehicle is jill , who ' s been conceived as little more than a dude in drag , hold the jokes .
jack and jill are twins and both are played by adam sandler : jack finds jill needy and overbearing , while jill looks to jack to help her fledging love life . but when jack needs jill to woo a good frontman ( al pacino ) for his commercial , he comes to realize how much his twin means to him . also with katie holmes , david spade , nick swardson , tim meadows and norm macdonald . directed by dennis dugan . [ 1 : 31 ]
jack and jill is a 2011 comedy film starring adam sandler . the film tells the story of jack sadelstein ( sandler ) , a successful advertising executive enjoying life with his career and family including his wife erin ( katie holmes ) . but when he learns that his annoying twin sister , jill ( also sandler ) , is coming over for the thanksgiving holidays , and when she decides to stay in town a bit longer , this results in getting jack to get al pacino to date her so he can get jill out of town , to less than satisfying results .
the film opens with home videos of fraternal twins jack and jill sadelstein growing up in new york city . as the videos progress , they reveal jack as the gifted twin , while jill constantly tries - and fails miserably - to get his attention by injuring him and / or driving others away from him .
you have a boy named jack . and you have a girl named jill . now , there ' s nowhere in this story that depicts the relationship between jack and jill . jill could be jack ' s sister , cousin , girlfriend , or that prostitute he met on the corner of hollywood and vine . but the relationship doesn ' t really matter very much . jack is very thirsty and he wants some water to drink .
rohan chand ( gary ) , katie holmes ( erin ) and elodie tougne ( sofia ) in columbia pictures ' jack and jill .
pacino refuses to do the dunkin ' doughnuts commercial unless jack gets him a date with jill ; to that end , jack invites jill on the cruise with his family . at sea , while jill continues making a fool of herself and everyone around her , jack disguises himself as his own sister and goes on her date with pacino . jill suspects that jack invited her on the cruise just so pacino would do the commercial ; such is confirmed when she phones jack , he answers as jill , and then she hears pacino in the background . pacino , still believing jack to be jill , spells out that he ( pacino ) sees much more in her than just a pathetic half - wit . . . which is what jack always took her for . feeling unspeakably guilty , jack returns to the ship , only to learn that jill has gone back home to the bronx .
( 2011 ) , which offered behind - the - scenes looks at two of his stage productions .
receiving accolades at film festivals most significantly , “ana’s playground” has been getting accolades at international film festivals since it was released last september . just last week it won the “audience choice award” and the “international spirit award” at the highly regarded sedona film festival in arizona . and awards received at the santa barbara international film festival in california , where it was named “best live action short film , ” and the 2009 foyle film festival in northern ireland ( “best international short film” ) mean that “ana’s playground” qualifies as a potential nominee for the 2011 academy awards .
sandler will next be seen in cinemas in dennis dugan ' s high - school reunion comedy grown ups , alongside salma hayek and steve buscemi , which opens in the us next june . jack and jill is planned for release in early 2011 .
twin banter : jill insists that she and jack have a secretive gibberish vocabulary that only they understand . it seems that it ' s yet another of jill ' s eccentricities as jack doesn ' t understand it , until the climax , where it is revealed that it does exist ; jack just forgot about it .
jack and jill opened to a notable $ 2 . 5 million in mexico - - the largest opening ever for a sandler pic .
twin telepathy : averted . jack makes it clear that he and jill don ' t have that whole twin telepathic communication . it doesn ' t stop jill from trying to attempt it , though .
jack and jill is a comedy focusing on jack sadelstein ( adam sandler ) , a successful advertising executive in los angeles with a beautiful wife and kids , who dreads one event each year : the thanksgiving visit of his twin sister , jill ( also adam sandler ) . jill ' s neediness and passive - aggressiveness is maddening to jack , turning his normally tranquil life upside down . katie holmes plays erin , jack ' s wife . - - ( c ) sony pictures
both jack and jill are unlikable in their own different ways , jill even more so ( she can be quite selfish and rather whiny sometimes . for example , when she complained and sulked because there was one birthday cake ) .
jack sadelstein , a successful advertising executive in los angeles with a beautiful wife and kids , dreads one event each year : the thanksgiving visit of his twin sister jill . jill ' s neediness and passive - aggressiveness is maddening to jack , turning his normally tranquil life upside down .
adam sandler ' s
jack and jill .
at least according to the razzies , which just
honored
the film with a dozen nominations for their annual worst - of - the - year awards
i am now going to share with you my picks for the unsung heroes ( and villains ) of 2011 – in the film community . so without further ado , let’s jump right in :
jack takes jill to a lakers game where pacino is supposed to be . pacino blows off jack but is taken with jill and gives her his phone number . jack was hoping jill would go back home by new year ' s eve , since the family is going on a cruise . jack ' s friends and colleagues throw him a birthday party , extending the invite to jill . again jill loudly disgraces herself , jack , and the various celebrities in attendance . pacino invites jill to his home , where she accidentally destroys his oscar statuette . abruptly , she becomes bored with him and leaves . jack ' s mexican gardener felipe , who is also taken with jill , invites her to meet his family at their annual fiesta . there she hits it off with everybody , and tries mexican food for the first time , thus acquiring a horrible case of diarrhea which makes her even tougher to live with than usual .
jack sadelstein is an advertising executive and a family man . jill sadelstein is his annoying twin sister , and she’s still single . jill visits jack and his family during the thanksgiving weekend . jack tries to get al pacino ( playing himself ) to star in a dunkin’ donuts commercial ( i shit you not ! ) . jill tries to get herself a boyfriend . by some twist of fate ( or just by lazy scriptwriting ) , al falls for jill . hilarity , or lack thereof , ensues .
here is a type of film so bad that it is actually scary , like seeing those mawkish photographs of sweet little children in victorian britain dressed up as angels and realising after a few moments that they are corpses . adam sandler ' s new comedy jack and jill is such a film .
jack sadelstein is a successful advertising executive in los angeles with a beautiful wife and kids , who dreads one event each year : the thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister jill . jill ' s neediness and passive - aggressiveness is maddening to jack , turning his normally tranquil life upside down .
2 .
jack and jill
( sony ) : opened to $ 26 million . $ 2 . 7 million overseas in two foreign markets .
: the jill we ' re told about is a sweet , bighearted woman who loves seeing her brother succeed . the jill we ' re
caitlyn in her 2011 porsche 911 gt3 rs . the $ 180 , 000 car was a gift from jenner’s wife kris .
pg for crude and sexual humor , language , comic violence and brief smoking . ( rating bulletin 2178 , 6 / 29 / 2011 ) pg for crude material including suggestive references , language , comic violence and brief smoking . ( rating bulletin 2181 , 7 / 20 / 2011 )
worst screen ensemble : the entire cast of “jack and jill” . ouch ! and to think “the twilight saga : breaking dawn part i” got nominated for this category !
well , that ' s because he played fraternal twins in this film . jack and jill . and the whole plot of the movie is this . jack is successful . jill is not . and whenever jack and jill get together , they do more than fall down a hill trying to get water . i won ' t really go into the plot details in this space because i don ' t think i can really get through it without either falling asleep at my keyboard or smashing my computer against the wall . trust me . it ' s that bad .
jack and jill ' s lack of energy disguises contempt , but here [ sandler ' s ] working through his issues in a more compelling way than usual .
jill tries online dating . she has no success until jack poses as jill and alters her profile by putting it on craigslist , leading to more than 100 responses . yet when jill ' s date -
funbucket
- meets her , he sneaks out of the restaurant through the men ' s room .
2 . jack and jill ( sony pictures ) new [ 3 , 438 theaters ] friday $ 9 . 8m , saturday $ 9 . 6m , weekend $ 26m
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the razzies note that jack and jill is the fourth film to tally more nominations than there are categories . it joins such esteemed company as lonely lady , showgirls and battlefield earth , all of which took home the razzies’ worst picture award . what a drag .
not so different : the sadelstein twins have more in common than jack wants to admit . jack ' s son points it out during the cinema scene .
the script is so leaden and formulaic that jack and jill do everything but go up a hill to fetch a pail of water . there ' s incidentally a scene where jack and jill go to a cinema , to demonstrate their zanily identical mannerisms . perhaps to claim a high lineage for this movie ' s cross - dressing premise , the film they are watching is some like it hot . this adds vicious insult to serious injury .
; he later directed and starred in a 2000 film adaptation . he also directed the documentary films
magic moment : when al pacino and a bemused johnny depp meet jill for the first time .
at a restaurant on new year ' s eve , toting a picture of her and jack ' s late mother , jill comes across a group of former classmates who always made fun of her ; these classmates , led by monica , pick up directly where they left off . . . until jack , his wife , and their kids show up . jack and jill converse in their made - up twin language ( which even jack finds incomprehensible ) . monica attacks erin and is cold cocked by jill . pacino also turns up at the party , dressed as the man of la mancha , and tells jill that while he may have feelings for her , there is another man more worthy of her than himself . jill then goes home , where felipe ( the other suitor pacino was referring to ) and his children await her arrival . felipe professes his love for jill , and the two begin a relationship .
rather appropriately , the record - setting haul — voted on by the 657 members of the golden raspberry award foundation — does come with an asterisk of sorts . sandler won worst actor , and director dennis dugan won worst director , for both jack and jill and the romantic comedy just go with it . so even in infamy , one could say jack and jill is a failure .
attractive bent gender : sandler tries to pull this off in playing jill , but ends up making jill look like his transvestite twin brother more than his twin sister .
critics , bloggers and awards circles are already beginning to reveal their thoughts on the year’s best movies and performances . indeed , even film misery will be working very hard next week to share with you our picks the best and worst the 2011 calendar year had to offer .
worst screen couple : adam sandler actually won for three worst screen couples : himself and katie holmes ( who just shouldn’t have been in this film because… . she’s katie holmes ) , himself and al pacino ( i . e . the scenes involving al , jack , jill and in one sequence , jack pretending to be jill – long story ) and himself and himself ( that’s pretty self - explanatory ) . and to think “the twilight saga : breaking dawn part i” got nominated for this category !
another of sandler ' s pairings with dennis dugan , “jack and jill” recorded a new low for the actor on the rotten tomatoes website where it scored just 3 per cent . sandler plays both jack and jill ; al pacino plays himself , with the hots for jill . there were no uk press screenings ; critics called it “excruciating” , pointing out it would have been better “had they gone to fetch a pail of water” . nobody listened .
at the end of the film , after he ' s seen himself in the dunkin ' donuts commercial , al pacino tells jack to
burn this
, which has led viewers to believe that he may have actually been talking about this film .
so
jack and jill
is a strange one , with successful bits and big moments of satisfying comedy , interspersed with long sections that are just annoying . you may still be on the fence about it , so here ' s a last morsel of information that should tip you one way or the other :
jack and jill
was made with a children ' s audience in mind , so it abounds with flatulence and excretion jokes . jill eats mexican food .
jack and jill , headlining sandler both in the role of a brother and his twin sister , saw lower opening numbers than usual for the actor , but sony expects the movie to have strong legs through thanksgiving . also starring al pacino and katie holmes , jack and jill came in slightly behind the $ 27 . 5 million earned by sandler ' s most recent pg film , bedtime stories . most of sandler’s films are rated pg - 13 , and open north of $ 30 million .
family guy jack sadelstein prepares for the annual event he dreads : the thanksgiving visit of his twin sister , the needy and passive - aggressive jill , who then refuses to leave .
the film won 10 golden raspberry awards , breaking the record for i know who killed me for winning the most raspberry wins for a single film , as well as being the first film to win in all categories in a single year including worst picture .
maybe you thought since adam sandler is playing boy - and - girl twins in jack and jill that the movie would be double the fun . ha ! on a scale of 1 to 10 on the laugh meter , jack and jill is a negative 10 . a total bust , a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe - worthy jokes and overt product placement . l . a . ad exec jack sadelstein ( sandler the guy ) is gritting his teeth over a holiday visit from his loudmouthed , overweight twin jill ( sandler in drag , showing an unfailing grasp of the obvious ) . the siblings pick at each other relentlessly between jill’s bouts with farting and dropping chimichanga bombs . no peace , even with the help of jack’s peacemaker wife ( katie holmes looks so trapped in this thankless role you ache to save her ) . it’s odious to watch the movie make fun of jill’s looks , weight , and flatulence problems only to switch gears into gooey sentiment at the end and tell us we should love her . jack and jill wants to have its hypocrisy and eat it too .
pacino makes lots of suggestive overtures toward jill , and felipe also flirts with her . jill ' s full - figure bras and control - top panties are shown on more than one occasion for laughs . jack and his wife hug and are shown in bed together , but they ' re just getting ready to sleep .
jack ( adam sandler ) is a successful hollywood advertising agent who dreads the annual thanksgiving visit he receives from his bronx - dwelling twin sister , jill ( also sandler ) . tactless ( and loud ) but sweet , jill incessantly annoys jack . when , during her most recent visit , jill decides to stay past thanksgiving through hanukah - - and then new year ' s - - jack threatens to kick her out . . . until al pacino ( the star that jack ' s client , dunkin donuts , wants to land for their new
dunkaccino
campaign ) shows a romantic interest in her after a brief encounter at a lakers game . jack is forced to decide whether he should respect jill , who isn ' t interested in actor , or pretend to be her to score his business deal .
for her thanksgiving visit , jill flies into la at 4 : 30 in the morning , the first of many inconveniences her brother will endure . jill sweats an outline of her body into the bed and makes a big dramatic scene at the dinner table . her idea of
twin time
is to reacquaint jack to the gibberish language they used as children . and of course , jill isn ' t leaving after thanksgiving weekend . she ' ll stay through hanukkah and then her and jack ' s december birthday and then new year ' s eve , because holidays are about family . jill hasn ' t seen enough of jack ' s and there is no one waiting for her back in new york .
jack is a n . y . c . advertising executive with a life as glossy as the commercials he spins . jill is new to the city , with nothing to stand on but her fiery personality and romantic ideals . opposites attract , and together they author their own manifesto of
rules to live by .
but jill betrays jack by violating rule one - be honest .
variety reports that jack and jill will be penned by steve koren , an erstwhile saturday night live performer who worked with sandler during the comic ' s own time on the us tv institution .
adam sandler’s so - bad - it’s - unfathomably - bad - that - it’s - actually - kind - of - genius 2011 movie jack and jill added another bragging right to its already rich film heritage . in addition to being the first ( and fingers crossed , last ) movie to feature oscar - winner al pacino rapping about dunkin’ donuts , the universally panned flick became the first movie in razzie history to sweep the , eh , ‘prestigious’ awards .
in manhattan , the successful executive jack is a methodical and controlled man with simple habits that works in an advertisement agency with his coworker george . while smoking a cigarette on the roof of the building of the agency , jack meets the aspirant actress jill that has just arrived in new york and is seeking a job . he sympathizes with her situation and gives her name to a klubendorf commercial in the campaign promoted by his agency . when he takes jill home , he finds that she lives in a very low - budget hotel and out of the blue , he invites her to stay in the guest room of his fancy apartment for a while . jill changes the behavior of jack that becomes happier , and proposes jack to write together a manifesto where the first rule is
be honest
. however , she omits to jack that she is sick with cystic fibrosis and she would have only a couple of years more . when jack discovers that jill is ill , he feels betrayed with her violation of their first rules , and they split . but jack is . . .
thanksgiving is usually a happy time , but ad executive jack ( adam sandler ) dreads the holiday because his twin sister , jill ( also sandler ) , makes her annual visit . when jack and his sister get off on the wrong foot , the only way to make it right is to invite her to stay through hanukkah . but , when actor al pacino ( al pacino ) , whom jack desperately needs to star in a commercial , takes a shine to jill , jack may be forced to extend his sister ' s visit even longer .
on tuesday , a week after sandler earned a record eleven negative razzie award nominations , jack and jill comes to dvd , blu - ray , and the blu - ray + dvd combo pack we review here .
space reserved on the a . v . club ’s mantle of shame for dec . 16 , 2011 , the day the world ends : alvin and the chipmunks : chipwrecked .
the silver lining to jill ' s extended stay is that she catches the eye of one al pacino ( playing himself at length ) . jack has been pursuing the acting legend to make a dunkin donuts commercial , an improbable mission needed to please one of his agency ' s most important clients . jill , meanwhile , has started online dating , with copious amounts of assistance from jack and his family . alas , though eager to find a soulmate , jill is less than impressed by the star of film , stage , and television and his rich , romantic gestures . bring on the cross - dressing !
adam sandler’s new holiday family pic “jack and jill” opens to $ 26 million , while clint eastwood’s leonardo dicaprio starrer “j . edgar” bows to $ 11 . 5 million on the strength of older adults .
( 1985 ) , was an expensive flop , and pacino did not appear in another film for four years .
the film is bookended by interviews with real life sets of twins , which feels pretty genuine .
( 1974 ) , a film that , like its predecessor , won the best picture oscar .
well , there were only two of us in the audience for jack and jill , so maybe the cinemagoing public is voting with its feet . only that thought stops me booking the next flight to zurich .
positive messages : in the end jack spends
twin time
with jill , even though at first he doesn ' t want her to stay . good role models : . . . continue reading
when it was first announced , adam sandler’s gender - bending twin comedy “jack and jill” seemed something like an advanced act of internet trolling , and the actual film certainly lives down to expectations . yet the pic’s general stupidity , careless direction and reliance on a single - joke premise that was never really funny to begin with are only the [ … ]
( 1989 ) , his biggest hit in years , reestablished pacino as a major film star . he
as always , jack is irritated by the upcoming thanksgiving visit of his sister . jill ruins thanksgiving dinner by loudly embarrassing a homeless guest . jack finally calls her out for making a fool of herself , of him , and of everybody else at the table . stung , jill runs off into the woods with her pet cockatoo poopsie . erin demands that jack apologize to his sister , which he very unwillingly does . jill has a list of things she wants to do while in los angeles : be on a game show ( the price is right , which - despite her horrendous performance - gives jill a carload of prizes simply to be rid of her ) ; go horseback riding ( she proves too big and heavy for the pony , which collapses under her ) ; and do a studio tour . since jill has an open - ended plane ticket , she decides to stay until the end of hanukkah - much to jack ' s horror .
jack and jill
is one of the lowest debuts sandler has had with a broad commercial comedy . in the last decade , most of the actor ' s similarly themed films have started off with between $ 30 million and $ 40 million . the opening for
jack and jill
is only slightly higher than that of 2009 ' s
funny people ,
the judd apatow - directed comedy about cancer that premiered with about $ 22 million .
jack disguises himself as jill so al pacino can spend time with
her
and agree to appear in the commercial . eventually , jack realizes he ' s gone too far and runs off , to which al asks if she ' ll come back if he agrees to do the commercial , to which jack replies
forget the commercial !
of course , al pacino does end up doing the commercial after all . . . and then wants all copies destroyed .
when it was first announced , adam sandler’s gender - bending twin comedy “jack and jill” seemed something like an advanced act of internet trolling , and the actual film certainly lives down to expectations . yet the pic’s general stupidity , careless direction and reliance on a single - joke premise that was never really funny to begin with are only the most obvious of its problems . the previous two pics produced this year by sandler’s happy madison shingle , “just go with it” and “bucky larson : born to be a star , ” grossed $ 103 million and $ 2 . 5 million , respectively ; “jack and jill” should fall somewhere between the two .
how do you rate a movie that leaves you alternately laughing and cringing ? there are moments in
jack and jill
that are genuinely funny — and , just like countless family reunions , there are moments when you can ' t wait for it to end .
jack and jill is an ill - advised , too long saturday night live skit gone wrong . it ' s a cartoon . it ' s a way for all involved to pad their pockets and a way for sandler to keep his friends employed .
the original film was the most successful film of 2011 at the south africa box office , and after parents were left in a migraine - induced blur of cutesiness , one can presume that children had a tougher time convincing their folks a second time around . both were critically slammed , but to those that cannot resist , the smurfs 2 didn’t smurf around with its formula - for better or worse ( but mostly worse ) .
jack ' s agency client , meanwhile , wants him to somehow get actor al pacino to appear in a dunkin ' donuts commercial . jack isn ' t sure how he ' s supposed to make that happen .
sandler has become a good actor of late , but here he gives over most of his talents to jill , who is so screechy , needy , and lovelorn that you can hardly blame jack for wanting to fade into the background .
at this point , adam sandler seems intent on outdoing the awfulness of the razzie scooping jack and jill . grown ups 2 doesn’t mine the depths of the comedic cesspool , but it does pierce the sewage line . the film is so trite and inconsequential , it thankfully spares the careers of the many talents involved , including steve buscemi and salma hayek … shaquille o’neal’s career is beyond rescue .
sandra bullock as the stranded astronaut in gravity which is the critics best film of the year . ( supplied )
we ' ve looked at the best films of 2011 , and spotlighted some titles we feared might get overlooked . now , without further ado , here are our picks for the worst the year had to offer .
in 2001 pacino received the cecil b . demille award ( a golden globe for lifetime achievement ) . his other awards included the national medal of arts ( 2011 ) and a kennedy center honor ( 2016 ) .
the television commercial is made , with pacino starring and singing as he promotes a new coffee -
dunkaccino
- with a rap song . but when jack shows it to him , pacino hates it and tells him to destroy every copy of this film .
worst actor : adam sandler – for both “jack and jill” and “just go with it” . judging from what i’ve just written , should anyone be surprised at this ? and to think he beat taylor lautner from “the twilight saga : breaking dawn part 1 . now that”s saying something !
though
bucky larsen ,
the nick swardson - starring film he wrote and produced , tanked at the box office ,
jack and jill
will most likely make money , coming out during the holiday season and playing to family audiences . but the poster , released today , is worth noting for its , well , digression from the advances he seemed to make on
funny people .
behind the black : there ' s a scene where norm mac donald ' s character goes on a date with jill . because he finds jill repulsive , he decides to hide in the bathroom . when jill comes looking for him , she opens the stall door to find it empty and leaves . . . only for the camera to pan up and show macdonald hanging from the overhead light ( apparently , jill has tunnel vision since she wouldve easily seen him there while entering the bathroom ) .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
but enough of that . there are a few funny moments in “jack and jill , ” most of them celebrity cameos that also serve to affirm what a cool , connected celebrity mr . sandler is . ( who , at this point , is arguing ? ) the most sustained of these is the appearance of al pacino as himself , falling for jill and giving the film a jolt of genuine zaniness . i’m sorry to say that this may be mr . pacino’s most convincing performance in years .
adam sandler plays twin siblings jack and jill in the latest from dennis dugan , a repeat sandler offender who has helmed i now pronounce you chuck and larry , you don’t mess with the zohan and last summer’s grown ups . laugh all you want , but dugan’s films make commendable bank .
villain : adam sandler for taking people’s money with jack and jill . go over to red letter media and watch the last half in the bag episode . it’s a really funny review of them ripping it apart and explaining their conspiracy theory for why it cost 79 million dollars to make .
having brought together a lot of his old “snl” gang for this past summer’s grown ups , adam sandler is going back to the pool to help out another old friend , by giving a small role to carvey in his upcoming comedy jack and jill .
iñárritu and bier : the misery pornographers of 2011 in january , the academy of motion pictures arts and sciences informed the masses that two of the greatest pieces of world cinema to have made it stateside were alejandro gonzález iñárritu ‘s biutiful and susanne bier’s in a better world . the latter film won the best foreign language film oscar the following month . finally getting a chance to see these movies , however , i saw not shining examples of what world cinema looks like , but rather middlebrow and gleeful depictions of human misery .
when it was first announced , adam sandler ' s gender - bending twin comedy
jack and jill
seemed something like an advanced act of internet trolling , and the actual film certainly lives down to expectations . yet the pic ' s general stupidity , careless direction and reliance on a single - joke premise that was never really funny to begin with are only the most obvious of its problems . the previous two pics produced this year by sandler ' s happy madison shingle ,
just go with it
and
bucky larson : born to be a star ,
grossed $ 103 million and $ 2 . 5 million , respectively ;
jack and jill
should fall somewhere between the two .
as it happens , though , it ' s neither sandler ( as jack ) nor sandler ( as jill ) who carries the movie . it ' s al pacino , who is downright hilarious and remarkably game as a wild - eyed version of himself .
jack ( adam sandler ) brings his twin sister , jill ( also sandler ) , to a lakers game . across the staples center , al pacino spots the siblings . smitten with jill’s swarthy “beauty , ” the oscar winner sends her a hot dog on which he has used mustard to pen his personal phone number . “call me , ” he requests .
though jack is ready to throw her out each morning , his wife ( katie holmes , underused ) insists he behave . more important , pacino , who sees jill at a lakers game , is instantly if unaccountably smitten . this appalls jack , until he realizes pacino would do anything for his new paramour — including appear in a dunkin ' donuts commercial .
should i see this film ? aww helllllllll no ! ! ! “jack and jill” is the equivalent of a 90 - minute bout of diarrhea ! it’s that bad ! not even the cameos in this film , from johnny depp to jared , the subway guy , are worth seeing . the only reason i’m giving this a half of a star is because of one scene where adam is watching a clip of “scarface” ( the famous “say hello to my little friend” scene ) on his laptop . that scene reminded me of the awesomeness that was al pacino . and this film best represents how far adam sandler has fallen in his career . in short , do not watch this movie . if someone lends you the dvd , burn it . literally ! like put it on top of a newspaper , pour some kerosene on it , light a match and watch it burn ! and then watch “the wedding singer” or any other film from adam’s early film career . or better yet , watch “scarface” or any other great film from al pacino . at least that’s better than suffering through this shitty movie !
but then , that ' s the funny thing about
jack and jill ,
funny in both senses of the word . though the jill problem is too insurmountable to ignore , almost everything else in this comedy succeeds . the central situation , about a guy who dreads the yearly visit of his needy and easily injured twin , has comic energy . even better , the side plot , in which jack might lose his business if he can ' t get al pacino to do a dunkin ' donuts commercial , is a comedy gold mine .
mr . sandler’s subtly self - lacerating performance in judd apatow’s “funny people” suggests that he is aware of the hollow , hateful side of what he does for a living . “grown ups” and “jack and jill” prove that , as long as it pays the bills , he doesn’t care . the essential ugliness of mr . sandler’s brand of comic bullying — which is punctuated by notably brutal bits of slapstick — is not lessened by his playing , in “jack and jill , ” the principal target of his own scorn . on the contrary , mr . sandler , done up in frumpy , bargain - shopper drag as jill , gives full and relentless voice to the woman - hatred that has always propelled his infantile shtick .
jill and jack ( also mr . sandler , obviously ) are twins separated by a continent and a chasm of luck , achievement and social status . when jill arrives from the bronx to spend thanksgiving at her brother’s gorgeous los angeles home , her presence provokes a steady barrage of rage and disgust . she is dumb — she doesn’t know what the internet is ! — crude and physically grotesque , and also loud and needy . she leaves sweat stains on the bed and talks in a high - pitched nasal singsong , broadcasting her feelings at maximum volume .
jill is offensive . her comments to her small nephew , adopted from india , are tasteless enough to get a producer fired from the oscars . she’s also overbearing , oblivious to social cues and ( shudder ) has unresolved incestuous feelings for her brother , which began in infancy when she would spoon jack in their crib and rest her little hand on his rump . as an adult she longs to do the same , creeping up behind him as he naps . “why can’t you lay with me ? ” jill whines indignantly when jack recoils from her .
jack russell terriers arguably hollywood’s favorite breed of dog had a great year , as it is featured prominently in two of the 2011’s most high - profile oscar contenders . i was less affectionate of cosmo for his role in beginners , but that had less to do with the little guy’s performance than it did my feelings of mike mills’ overpraised film . but the artist ’s uggie is not only the second - best animal performance of 2011 ( sorry , top prize there goers to miranda july as the cat in the future ) , but his heroism in saving his master from a burning fire counts as one of the best moments of the michel hazanavicius film . to the left is a picture of those two amazing animals ( courtesy of the hollywood reporter ) . somewhere in doggie heaven , eddie from frasier is up there smiling .
elsewhere , adam sandler ' s family comedy jack and jill launched to $ 26 million , while dreamworks animation and paramount ' s holdover puss in boots folllowed closely with $ 25 . 5 million . box office observers say the final lineup between the two won ' t be determined until monday morning .
sandler plays jack , a hassled family guy and advertising exec whose goofy , farting twin sister jill has come to stay for
the holidays
: that is , thanksgiving . this , of course , is sandler again , in profoundly unhilarious drag . jack desperately needs al pacino to take part in a planned tv commercial . al ' s not interested – but uh - oh ! hold your horses ! maybe he will agree , after all ! because the moment al sets eyes on jill , hubba , hubba , has he ever got the hots for the comedy unattractive man - lady who is jack ' s sibling ! incredibly , pacino plays himself .
katie holmes plays jack ' s wholesome , good - natured wife , and her performance looks as if it has been photoshopped in from some other film or some other planet . as for pacino , he socks it over gamely enough , and even sportingly sends up his reputation . perhaps he figures that a film this awful can ' t hurt his prestige . john mcenroe puts in a cameo so fleeting and depressingly pointless that i may have dreamt it .
brings together grown siblings who have drifted apart . jack sadelstein is an ordinary angeleno ; he is a partner at a reasonably successful advertising agency and he has a wife ( a flavorless katie holmes ) and two kids ( rohan chand , elodie tougne ) . jack ' s sister jill is a minute younger and a lot less well - adjusted . the lifelong spinster lives in the bronx with her pet cockatoo poopsie . a bigger woman , she is unintentionally loud and obnoxious .
sandler really stretches himself here delivering two nuanced and sensitive performances as chalk and cheese twins . jill is a particularly terrible comic creation that actually makes the ‘normal’ sandler character , …
2011 continues to stumble to the finish line and i ' m starting to get more than a little depressed at the overall box office numbers . this week we have three wide releases , if you stretch the definition of wide a little bit , as
game show appearance : for some reason , jill becomes a contestant on the price is right . . . and gets knocked out by the big wheel .
if you do still have a soft spot for the type of comedy , jack and jill will hit blu - ray and dvd on march 6 . the film , which follows adam sandler playing a happily married man and that man ' s needy and aggressive twin sister as the two meet up for the yearly family thanksgiving celebration , failed to earn much traction from critics or at the box office . regardless , sony pictures home entertainment seems hellbent on putting together a features - laden blu - ray and dvd release
the 32nd annual razzie awards observed several momentous firsts sunday night . the celebration of the worst in filmmaking held its santa monica , calif . ceremony on april 1 — i . e . april fools day — for the first time , breaking from its tradition of presenting its honors on the night before the academy awards . and for the first time in razzie history , one film “won” every single golden raspberry handed out : jack and jill .
sony pictures spent about $ 79 million to make
jack and jill ,
which appealed to a 53 % family audience this weekend . while sandler ' s films typically maintain strong holds at the box office , a number of kid - centric pictures are opening around thanksgiving and will present some serious competition .
in the early going , the pacing is so haphazard , the gag setups so cursory , that a number of scenes play like surrealist video - art installations with no obvious connection to one another : jill rides a jet ski in jack’s pool with no explanation ; then jack’s son scotch - tapes small animals to his naked torso ; then we get a non - sequitur sequence of jill getting knocked unconscious on the set of “the price is right , ” footage of which is then repeated five minutes later . in any case , a shot at redemption for both twins arrives when the two attend a lakers game , where pacino spots jill from across the court and develops an immediate attraction .
but enough of the exposition . time for my review . but first , let me state that i will do my review a little different than usual . my synopsis of the plot will be short , since stating the events of this film will give me , and you , a splitting headache ! also , i will divide the “my thoughts” section into categories . each category will be based on one of the awards that “jack and jill” won during the razzies . this is my way of showing you whether the film deserves all the accolades it’s receiving or not . capiche ? let’s begin .
all this matchmaking is hardly necessary , because jack’s nice mexican gardener felipe ( eugenio derbez ) practically salivates over this beast . felipe invites jill to join him for a regular mexican family pastime – picnicking in the park , playing soccer , eating chimichangas and “stealing white people’s wallets . ” this squirm - worthy moment is topped only by jill’s post - picnic run for the bathroom as the chimichangas make “a run for the border . ”
now , i ' m guessing that this story was probably written before stores started selling dasani and aquafina , because the only way that jack can grab some water is to go up a gigantic hill . and jill , being extremely co - dependent , decides that she wants to go with him to get some water .
families made up 53 percent of the audience for jack and jill , which cost $ 80 million to produce . bedtime stories , after opening to $ 27 . 5 million domestically , grossed $ 101 . million in north american and $ 102 . 8 million internationally for a worldwide cume of $ 212 . 9 million .


how i live now is a 2013 canadian-british speculative drama film based on the 2004 novel of the same name by meg rosoff .

it was directed by kevin macdonald and script written by tony grisoni , jeremy brock and penelope skinner .

the film stars saoirse ronan , tom holland , anna chancellor , george mackay and corey johnson .

it was screened in the special presentation section at the 2013 toronto international film festival .

how i live now ( film )

first novel success and film adaptation for meg rossoff and how i live now .
“ how i live now was the most fun i’ve ever had making a film , ” commented kevin macdonald .
it’s breathtaking how many tones and themes are skillfully juggled in
how i live now .

how i live now offers adolescents a lovely vision of holistic healing in the same countryside .
how i live now
makes world war iii seem boring , which would hardly seem possible .
how i live now is currently screening in select theaters , and is available on itunes and vod .
there ' s a lot left unsaid in how i live now - but it ' s unsaid with unusual force .
“how i live now” is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian ) . teenage sex and adult atrocities .
based on the ya novel by meg rosoff , how i live now finds itself hindered by its source material , even as it seeks to surpass it .
as i sit writing this , i’m a little dismayed at just how quickly my year as the eiff . . .
' i would have objected , but i too was expecting an early death and felt i needed someone to support the children when i was gone . '
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how i live now is a drama based on the novel by meg rossoff about a family living in the english countryside who face danger and separation during a time of war .
how i live now is likely to appeal to both teens and older viewers , and it thankfully doesn ' t blindly follow formulas , but allows itself to drift and flow .
kevin macdonald filmed his new feature how i live now on location in wales with rising star saoirse ronan . adapted from a novel by meg rosoff , the film tells the story of a new york teen sent to live with cousins in the english countryside as a global conflict erupts .
the cast of the upcoming film performs a step dance routine live from times square .
how i live now
? apparently how saoirse ronan lives now is in a world where gradually toning down the hamminess of a performance passes as character development . the script really could use a little . . . umm . . . everything . but for a low budget film , it actually does a lot with what it has .
i saw lots of people around the church , i presume a lot of people were press .
the dresses were magnificent but the heels - i wonder how they ' re going to walk in those .
how i live now stands as something all too rare : a movie about young people that young people may love — but not one that lies to them , and not one built for them alone .
and with that , i will go back to merely “like” or “dislike” with response to films , because i am now feeling quite pretentious and annoying .
how i live now centres on what happens to a group of young people when civilization begins to crumble . but it ' s also a poignant love story , a compelling , against - all - odds one at that .
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i love this film - one of those that improves with repeated watching . . . .
we ' ve just got the one film on the roster this week , but it ' s one that joseph
jay dub
wade reckons is well worth checking out . join him on his post - apocalyptic adventures as he spins yarns about how i live now .
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bride ' s father joked ' i ' ve lost two daughters now . . . but to great men '
and the estate ' s backyard—now occupied by a pool—is where the don dies later in the film .
' the film - makers have taken liberties with historical fact , ' is how one family member puts it .
on the outside , how i live now looks like a mess . part tomorrow when the war began , part the shining , part 28 days later , it ' s a hodgepodge of concepts that don ' t completely gel . so it ' s weird that the film is actually quite good .
films screened with live orchestra may have subtitles . subtitles are subject to the film’s age and quality of dialogue .
“grandly scaled , beautifully crafted , with a terrific performance from the always great saoirse ronan , how i live now is equally successful as a tense apocalyptic thriller and a great teenage romance , ” said magnolia president eamonn bowles . “we’re very happy to once again be working with kevin macdonald , one of the rare filmmaker who excels at both documentary and narrative features . ” magnet is eyeing a fall theatrical release for how i live now . the deal was negotiated by magnolia / magnet svp of acquisitions dori begley and director of acquisitions peter van steemburg with caa for the filmmakers . protagonist pictures is handling international sales . how i live now is a film4 and bfi presentation in association with protagonist pictures and entertainment one of a cowboy films and passion pictures production in association with prospect entertainment .
the best films i have seen at this year’s festival have been a trio of discoveries - films i had . . .
how i live now definitely has elements of an adventure story , but it deals more with the thoughts and feelings of its characters . it is a very engaging book and makes you think differently about what war and death do to the people who are surrounded by them .
sadly , the quiet nights of barn - fornication are not to last . the war reaches the children and how i live now is split in half . green is traded for red and brown . english troops show up and separate the family . girls to a far - off suburb and boys to a training camp . but before they are cruelly ripped from each others teenaged arms , edmond and daisy make a promise to escape their bonds and meet back at the farm with their family . and how i live now morphs into a survivalist feature .
watched it some time ago , then when i could not find it anywhere i could stream from i purchased the dvd . i enjoyed it . some of the cast stand out from the others , and those are the ones who are ( becoming ) a - listers now . so if you can never have enough apocalypse i do think this stands up to occasional re - watch .
when edinburgh asked me if i was directing a reading as part of my retrospective , i jumped at the . . .
it ' s a bit mean really ,
she said .
i didn ' t realise i needed a wristband otherwise i ' d have called up first and asked for one .
the recently released film adaptation of meg rosoff’s dystopian ya novel how i live now is set to disappoint on many levels . it’s not just that director kevin macdonald has produced a watchable if near - mediocre version of a best - selling ya title that is loved by many when his work on the last king of scotland ( another book - to - film project ) was excellent .
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i’ve been going to the cinema on a weekly basis for about a year now ; not because i am a big film buff ( the other day i asked if “reservoir dogs” was ‘the one with justin timberlake in’ ) but because as a humanities student i have a lot of free hours and orange wednesdays is the perfect remedy to that . i haven’t learnt anything particularly insightful about film in that time , except that pick - and - mix is exceptionally overpriced and you can afford to arrive at the cinema a good 30 minutes later than the advertised starting time and still endure a few trailers . therefore , i’ve never felt remotely entitled to make a valid judgement on the style , quality or script of film any further than “i liked it” . until now .
how sad that this eagerly - awaited film about an extraordinary genius has already managed to upset quite so many of those very people .
i didn ' t know what to think when i came into watching this film . i certainly wasn ' t expecting what i got . i like how they focused on the characters and really fleshed them out . it was a very real story but maybe it should have been more focused . it was both a coming of age romance story and a post - apocalyptic survival drama . it felt like it was trying to do too much . either way , it was still enjoyable .
and our bet is that it’s “ how i live now , ” the latest feature effort from kevin macdonald . while saoirse ronan was rumored for darren aronofsky ‘s “ noah , ” it’s likely there was a bit of conflict with “how i live now , ” which is now going in front of cameras . an adaptation of meg rosoff ‘s award - winning 2004 young adult novel ( the author posted this image to her blog ) , ronan will play daisy , a new yorker staying with english cousins when world war iii breaks out . as the country becomes occupied , she falls for her cousin , edmond , and has to protect her younger cousin piper from the invading troops .
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it was partly as a reaction to this back catalogue that macdonald was attracted to adapting how i live now .
what made me want to do this film , was to have a female lead , and make a female love story . all the films i ' ve made , including the documentaries , are quite male . i love the idea of working with kids and talking about love . ultimately , it ' s a simple love story , which goes wrong . at the end i want you to want these two people to be together . you want it to be right .
how i live now gives war and death their proper weight . no one gets any farewell
i ' ve been shot
swan songs . you ' re shot in the head , you ' re dead . kick the body out of the way , the end . important characters die in truly upsetting ways , and with no explanation besides
warwis hell .
so be ready for that .
limp young romance in the english countryside as some international tensions develop into actual firefights on the homefront . i spent the whole film waiting for something to happen , anything . i should better have made popcorn .
throughout the film only the character of piper is left in tact , a blessing given that the youngest character acts as a beacon of hope throughout both versions – but once again makes the viewer wonder why the production company bought the rights to a book such as how i live now , where the protagonist’s mental state is central to the reader’s perception of events only to change it entirely .
subscribe to trailers : urltoken subscribe to coming soon : urltoken like us on facebook : urltoken follow us on twitter : urltoken how i live now trailer 1 ( 2013 ) - saoirse ronan movie hd an american girl on holiday in the english countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out .
for now , we’ll just have to use our imaginations about what that was .
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the outbreak of world war iii is viewed through the narrow but steadily captivating lens of an american teenager dwelling abroad in “how i live now , ” a story of young love that quickens into a harrowing survival thriller . held together by a forceful performance from the ever - resourceful saoirse ronan , director kevin macdonald’s uneven but passionate [ … ]
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i was on the streets for her sister ' s wedding , so i just had to be here . we love all the royals . we just love pippa .
if you dropped a nuclear bomb on frances hodgson burnett ' s the secret garden , you would end up with how i live now . this exceptionally violent story drags a collection of country - mice kids through hell and back , at the outbreak of world war 3 . here ' s why this movie can stand up with the best of the apocalyptic young - adult films .
this sad physical decline is quite exquisitely realised in the film by the actor eddie redmayne , who is now widely tipped for an oscar for his performance .
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director patty jenkins also recently shared a touching note of testimonies from a kindergarten class that shine a light on how the new film has inspired young children , particularly girls .
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what starts as potentially interesting apocalyptic speculative fiction devolves into dreary sub - hunger games survivalism and banal teen romance in how i live now . young irish actress saoirse ronan is almost always worth watching , but not especially in this drippy outing , in which she morphs from sullen teen brat to can - do wilderness heroine under the influence of an attractive red - headed hawk trainer . commercial prospects look modest .
for macdonald , the secret was to make the kind of film that he would have wanted to see when he was a teenager .
i ' m proud of the film because i think it is complicated and breaking taboos . it ' s not the normal fare that teenagers are being offered . when i was that age i would have loved this film . i would have responded to the fact that it is not like anything else and that it represents the complexity of what you ' re going through as a teenager – that point where everything is new and exciting but also devastating . the first time you have sex , drugs , drink on your own , without parents . all those things that are not normally represented in mainstream film .
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there are quite a few limited releases on this week ' s list , including several that have earned more pre - release buzz that most limited releases earn . however , many of these films ' reviews are good , but not great . the book thief is one such film , but it could still find an audience in limited release , although its plans to expand wide are very unlikely to happen . how i live now and great expectations are in similar positions . more . . .
i just love it . i think it ' s so good for the village , so good for the country , and it just gives it a happy mood and we need a happy mood .
the book breaks taboos as the two cousins – daisy , 15 and edmond 16 –fall in love .
originally i wanted to cast 15 and 16 - year - olds and couldn ' t find them ,
says macdonald . instead , he cast saoirse ronan , 19 , star of the lovely bones and hanna and george mackay , 21 , a rising london - born star who has three films coming out in the space of a week – for those in peril and sunshine on leith as well as how i live now . macdonald lucked out with his lovers :
what happened during the course of film , and i ' m hoping that i ' m not speaking out of turn , is that they fell in love and it was very easy . it was saoirse ' s first proper boyfriend and , in a way , i think she was living through the same thing that the character is going through . i suspected what was going on but they kept it very quiet .
the director has wanted to adapt meg rosoff ' s award - winning young - adult novel , how i live now , for a long time . not your typical teen tale , it tells the story of daisy , a young american , who comes to stay with her eccentric cousins on a country estate in england for the summer . so far , so light , romantic comedy – and then world war iii breaks out .
the dystopian tale is more reminiscent of the road and blindness than it is of twilight . macdonald likens it to the hunger games , but how i live is a far tougher , genre - crossing proposition than that jennifer lawrence hit .
it ' s not made for a huge budget ,
says macdonald .
i deliberately didn ' t want to have american money in it and have that pressure of it having to make $ 50m in the first weekend . this is very much a film for europe ; for britain , i think . it ' s too dark for america .
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instead of treating that message like a superpower to acquire , the film delivers it as a subtle worldview . hidden under arrival ’s more palatable themes about overcoming cultural differences and uniting as one species is chiang’s more direct message about learning how to appreciate life’s moments , to live outside the bounds of time .
how the new film about stephen hawking ' s life has split his family : it was the glitziest of premières . so why did his two sisters and one ex - wife boycott it ?
' i thought eddie portrayed me very well , ' hawking , who nowadays speaks using a computerised system controlled by his cheek muscle , said recently . ' at times , i thought he was me '
wonder woman has become the biggest global live - action film ever released by a female director , after it grossed an eye - watering $ 653 . 9 million ( £514 million ) worldwide .
thankfully , the team behind the live - action version thought about this and all our other unanswered questions , too .
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' i thought eddie portrayed me very well , ' hawking , who nowadays speaks using a computerised system controlled by his cheek muscle , said recently . ' at times , i thought he was me . '
we often surprise producers and location managers with the diversity of locations available , and how easy it is to get around .
so the fact that his latest film ,
how i live now ,
adapted from a novel by meg rosoff , is about a band of teens and children in the british countryside trying to stay alive after london gets hit by a nuclear explosion bodes well for the quality of the film . and indeed , for much of its running time the movie is grab - you - by - the - back - of - the - neck immediate ; in its last third particularly , the bite - your - lip moments of suspense and tension mount to the extent that you may well draw blood .
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' i ' ve been privileged to gain some understanding of the way the universe operates through my work , ' he said . ' but it would be an empty universe indeed without the people that i love . '
disney confirmed that will smith will portray the genie in the upcoming live - action remake of aladdin , with the actor taking over the voice role previously filled by robin williams in the 1992 animated film .
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but now he’s faced backlash on twitter for “going against family wishes at the wedding” with his social media posts .
now , as this week ' s photograph suggests , the once estranged former couple are back on friendly terms .
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indeed , i gather some important plot - lines are causing enormous distress to members of the scientist ' s extended family , several of whom did not consent to being portrayed in the film .
i’ve been thinking quite a lot in the past couple of years about the history of the edinburgh . . .
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she stood and waved and looked just lovely . as all brides do , they glow , no matter how expensive their dress is .
a beverly hills mansion showcased in francis ford coppola ' s the godfather is now on the market for $ 195 million , touting an offer any ( billionaire ) fan of the film can’t refuse .
the brand told teen vogue in a statement : “the creative showcases a moment of unity , and a point where multiple storylines converge in the final advert . it depicts various groups of people embracing a spontaneous moment , and showcasing pepsi’s brand rallying cry to ‘live for now , ’ in an exploration of what that truly means to live life unbounded , unfiltered and uninhibited . ”
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according to public records , the two - story dwelling now has a market value of $ 3 . 39 million .
from this low - key and moderately promising set - up , how i live now descends into by - the - book romantic longing as well as inane survival melodrama flecked by some arresting doomsdayish imagery . with boys and girls separated by the army , eddie is carted off after stupidly provoking some soldiers , while daisy and little piper flee a forced - labor farm to chase through the endless forests looking for eddie , as if they ' d have a clue how to find him or a plausible way to survive . worse still , the two girls are boring together , with no dynamic ; piper is simply an irritant to the besotted daisy .
edinburgh international film festival today announced the award winners for this year’s 72nd . . .
edinburgh international film festival today revealed further details of the much - anticipated . . .
edinburgh international film festival and essential edinburgh’s immensely popular free open - air . . .
edinburgh international film festival is delighted to present a special screening of reichenbach . . .
“i am thrilled to join the legendary roster of icons who have represented their generations and worked with pepsi , ” said jenner in a statement . “to me , pepsi is more than just a beverage—it registers as a pop culture icon and a lifestyle that shares a voice with the generation of today . the spirit of pepsi—living in the ‘now’ moment—is one that i believe in . i make a conscious effort in my everyday life and travels to enjoy every experience of today . ”
you know what it’s like when you fall in love for the first time , and then world war iii breaks out ? well , daisy ( saoirse ronan ) , the spiky 16 - year - old american heroine of “how i live now , ” is about to find out . shipped off for the summer to relatives in the english countryside , daisy hides her vulnerability behind bleached - out bangs and coal - black eyeliner , compulsively washing her hands after contact with her free - spirited cousins and their chaotic farmhouse .
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stream of range rovers , bmws and mercedes benz cars are now offloading more and more fashionable guests adorned with fascinator hats .
the premise of experiencing an apocalyptic disaster from a far remove was famously explored in andrei tarkovsky ' s 1987
the sacrifice ,
itself a masterpiece of dread ( and redemption ) ;
how i live now
takes an approach that finds its poetry via the meticulous depiction of terrifying conditions complementing the story of a young woman finding herself . ( there are also hints , in its depiction of war from a young person ' s perspective , of elem klimov ' s remarkable masterpiece
come and see .
)
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looking at the dress , she was obviously looking for a romantic feel and i think [ giles deacon ] gave her that with this dress . i absolutely love his work , it was a great choice ,
d ' angelo says .
' she was worried i was going to die soon and wanted someone who would give her and the children support and marry her when i was gone , ' he wrote . ' she found jonathan . . . and gave him a room .
future learning and skills – giving everyone the opportunity to build a lifelong relationship with film .
the arrival of director priscilla cameron and actor melissa george to edinburgh international film . . .
the submissions process for the 2018 edinburgh international film festival has been extended ! . . .
we are delighted to announce that submissions for the 2018 edinburgh international film festival . . .
there is so much animation at the edinburgh international film festival this year ! . . .
edinburgh international film festival once again rolls out the green carpet with summer outdoor . . .
edinburgh international film festival announces focus on poland for the 71st edition of the . . .
edinburgh international film festival presents the scottish premiere of ewan mcgregor ' s directorial . . .
she ' s got the key hole back detail which is how to show a bit of skin without being too much ,
agrees bridalwear designer charlotte balbier .
i believe if you ' re going to show off the back detail then you must go high at the front , and she ' s done that . i love the high neck , that ' s my favourite part .
in addition to the aladdin casting , disney’s d23 expo revealed details regarding a plethora of upcoming projects , including a live - action dumbo film helmed by tim burton and starring colin farrell , michael keaton , eva green and danny devito .
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now living in an £800 , 000 cottage in the cotswolds , she has refrained from seeing the film , partly because she regards jane ' s version of events as being ' lopsided and full of half - truths ' .
he ' s kept us all waiting - as is tradition - but now is the moment we ' ve all been waiting for .
in an episode dedicated to the show within the show , “glow” illustrates its grand capacity for storytelling , and the very good tv podcast breaks down how .
flip through the photo gallery up top , and catch grease : live when it airs on fox january 31 at 7 p . m . est .
with increasing attention arriving on issues of diversity in the film industry , having this . . .
today ( thursday 8 march ) , edinburgh international film festival opens three exciting industry . . .
edinburgh international film festival is celebrating a successful 71st edition , which saw a sixth . . .
edinburgh international film festival ( eiff ) today announced the award winners for this year’s . . .
edinburgh international film festival will host a gala screening of ewan mcgregor ' s directorial . . .
maybe far fetched . maybe some unanswered questions . . . but i can ' t help feel it was planned that way , in order to just focus on the children ' s ordeal , journey , and life consequences . i was drawn in completely . . .
the critically acclaimed film tells how the couple met and fell in love during hawking ' s postgraduate career at cambridge university before tying the knot in 1965 , a couple of years after he ' d been diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease .
it was awkward doing the sex scenes ,
he adds .
i have not done that many . i remember before i made the last king of scotland , it was my first drama and i was lucky enough to get a masterclass from danny boyle . he gave me the best advice . he said , ' take all of the eroticism and romance out of it and reduce it down to a series of mechanical moves . make it like a series of dance moves . ' and that is sort of what we did .
' hi . i ' m linda o ' keefe . . . 45 years ago today , i disappeared and my killer was never found ' : police tweet as the 11 - year - old girl who was murdered in 1973 in a bid to publicize the cold case
“ wales has an amazing variety of stunning landscapes and contemporary environments in which to film , ” explained penny skuse of wales screen commission : “we often surprise producers and location managers with the diversity of locations available , and how easy it is to get around .
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. it ' s a good chance to support ultra - low - budget filmmaking and the reviews i ' ve read have been positive .
it doesn ' t feel like a year since i wrote my last blog , but so much has happened in between ! . . .
i ' m sure we ' re going to get lots of girls following her lead with this dress ,
hunt says .
it ' s an easy look for us all to emulate . it is what most girls dream of looking like , i feel .
we ' ve been asked not to speak to the press , i don ' t know why because we don ' t know anything .
' i hope he stays like this ' : kate and the archbishop of canterbury share a joke about sleeping louis as she . . .
oscar - nominated former child star [ saoirse ] ronan is a reason enough to see any film .
the uk’s screen - based industry skills body creative skillset will deliver the majority of the bfi’s future film skills programme , a key strategic priority of bfi2022 , the five - year plan for uk film .
arrival of the cast and crew from anna and the apocalypse to edinburgh international film festival . . .
the arrival of travis and wyndham wallace for the screening of their film almost fashionable at . . .
edinburgh international film festival & nbsp ; ( eiff ) has today announced glasgow - born . . .
it’s that time of year again – when the edinburgh international film festival rolls into town . . .
edinburgh international film festival ( eiff ) and royal scottish national orchestral ( rsno ) present . . .
from there , “how i live now” shifts into full - on disaster - movie mode as violent circumstances rip daisy and piper away from the boys and send them to london , where they are put to work at a labor camp . if we never get a complete picture of exactly what’s going on in the streets around them , let alone the world beyond blighty , it’s a limitation that nonetheless dovetails with the film’s dramatically fixed perspective , as macdonald wisely serves up a few fascinating , plausible details — the cold plates of spam and vegetables that pass for dinner ; the tablets that must be used to disinfect all drinking water following threats of mass contamination — and allows our minds to fill in the rest .
as people around the world talk about how beautiful pippa middleton looked on her wedding day , this morning viewers were given some workout tips inspired by her amazing arms .
arrival is a versatile science fiction film that communicates on many levels . it’s about language and cooperation , about people transcending barriers and immersing themselves in a new culture to understand a foreign race . the aliens , arriving in 12 monolithic space ships and known as heptapods because of their seven - legged giant squid appearance , are terrifying . but they are peaceful and want to help humanity , because their own non - linear perception of time tells them they’ll need our help thousands of years from now . louise’s journey into how the heptapods’ minds work — how the aliens communicate , and what that says about how they perceive reality — is a common genre trope , but director denis villeneuve uses it to subvert the usual routine of the hollywood blockbuster .
the new movie will never replace the original . it just can’t be done . but the live - action film does give the “tale as old as time” a bit of an update , and it’s enough to make us say , “aw , belle yeah . ”
★★★★★ ‘another outstanding event from the royal albert hall . these events really are the only way to fully immerse yourself in the movies’ the hollywood news on aliens live
the film shows how jane falls for the ebullient , beer - loving , 21 - year - old cosmology student , who socialises vigorously , rides bicycles dangerously , and even coxes a rowing eight . they kiss for the first time beneath fireworks at a may ball in 1963
roger ebert was born on this day in 1942 , and died a little over five years ago . i owe a good part of my success…
i love the lace , it looks so clean , so pristine , she looked immaculate ,
agrees couture designer edwing d ' angelo .
my mother actually named her dog after pippa . and my dog is named after george . i hope we get to see them !
' i know mary is very upset at some of the nastiness about their parents . she has been in touch with me about it . '
disney confirmed that will smith will portray the genie in the live - action remake of ' aladdin , ' with egyptian - born actor mena massoud in title role .
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if you like dystopian action with a romantic twist , then this is the film for you .
gareth ellis - unwin joins as new head of film . louise jury joins as director of marketing and communications
brittany farrell ( with megaphone ) in “whose streets ? ” the film is due out aug . 11 .
relive the thrilling suspense of jaws as edinburgh international film festival ( eiff ) and the royal . . .
edinburgh international film festival is delighted to announce this year ' s extensive & nbsp ; industry . . .
take 70 : edinburgh international film festival presents 70 years of highlights for it ' s 70th . . .
top awards for 4 films which premiered at edinburgh international film festival in 2015 & 2016 at . . .
a touching display of family unity was staged outside this week ' s big film premiere in leicester square .
he couple ' s hymns reportedly included be thou my vision ; glorious things of thee are spoken , and i vow to thee , my country .
the ending leaves a lot of questions about days of future past though : how do magneto and rogue have their powers back in days of future past ? i guess the “cure” wears off . why is professor x still in patrick stewart’s body in days of future past ? unexplained—but probably because they wanted patrick stewart in the movie .
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ippa ' s father michael middleton apparently joked in his speech that he had now
lost both his daughters . . . but to great men
.
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
edinburgh international film festival is set to go full - force into its opening weekend , hosting a . . .
he service is well under way now and we assume it is all going to plan . but we will find out in the next few minutes . . .
on the flip side , i really couldn ' t get over the fact that she ' s sleeping with her cousin . it got in the way of the relationship , because every time they started having very intimate moments my brain screamed
he ' s your cousin .
i probably could have gotten over it had i picked up on the
step cousin
thing mentioned earlier — but in the book , they ' re just cousins . but that ' s just my hangup on the whole thing , cause i ' m me . if that ' s not a big taboo for you , then you ' re good .
i hear # princeharry & # meghanmarkle have arrived at pippa ' s evening reception at bucklebury . . . & there may be pix . . . # pippaswedding
and a spokeswoman for table talk , who are reportedly catering for the event , said :
i ' m afraid we are not allowed to comment .
six of the seven child stars in the upcoming film adaptation of the stephen king book discuss the new horror movie .
ascent experience mount fuji — through a selection of 4 , 000 photographs snapped over 150 years . the dutch artist fiona tan has built this experimental film out of those stills . screenings at film forum in new york will be free .
photocall with michael socha , cast member of papillon , a film making its uk premier here at the . . .
while large - format 70mm film may have dominated news in the analogue world in 2018 - with new . . .
edinburgh international film festival ( eiff ) is set to go full - throttle in its opening weekend , . . .
there ' s still plenty of time left , though , since the lion king reboot isn ' t set to hit theaters until july 2019 , and there are plenty of actresses worthy of voicing queen nala . i guess we ' ll just have to be prepared for more amazing casting announcements and sneak peeks between now and then .
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this may well be what all film adaptations of books do but – in case there’s any doubt – it’s meant unsympathetically .
open the door to an action - packed programme of music , dance , circus , comedy , film , and more .
i think that description makes for a pretty good film . however , the execution of the storyline was feeble to say the least . whilst it was all very pretty , with lots of artsy shots of trees , horizons and fields , the pacing was terrible and made the whole thing unbelievable .
“i have a soft spot for harry and his new girlfriend . she is an american actress , so we’ve watched her on the television , ’ she told daily mail .
awakening the zodiac shane west and leslie bibb play a couple who find a 40 - year - old film reel that they believe was shot by the zodiac killer in california . they try to sleuth him out . this displeases the zodiac killer , who is probably a member of aarp by now .
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so far , so cosy . yet away from the glitzy film premiere , not every member of the hawking clan is entirely happy at the imminent release of the new film , which is based on jane ' s 2007 memoir , travelling to infinity .
, “wonder woman . ” own the digital movie and blu - ray™ now , and will be distributed worldwide by warner bros . pictures , a warner bros . entertainment company .
whoopi goldberg , kathy najimy and wendy makkena appeared on
the view
in honor of the film ' s 25th anniversary .
welcome to edinburgh international film festival ' s brand new event cinema experience - eiff : play . . . . . . .
it had been reported that meghan wore a long black dress and a white jacket to pippa’s wedding to james matthews but now it’s believed she wore something a little more like this .
lane and schoenbrun discuss how her interest in morgellons disease patients ( “the pain of others” ) and his exploration of the slenderman myth ( “a self - induced hallucination” ) led them to make archival films from youtubes .
may will not face a vote of no confidence . . . for now : pm warns furious tory brexiteers at showdown meeting that sacking her would mean handing corbyn the keys to no 10
in the film , both are over the uk age of consent with actor george mackay who plays edmond looking more manly than adolescent .
in a & nbsp ; night of vampire thrills , & nbsp ; edinburgh international film festival & nbsp ; will be . . .
unlocked in an espionage thriller from michael apted , noomi rapace plays a c . i . a . agent who is on the run and working to stop a terrorist attack in london . orlando bloom , michael douglas , toni collette and john malkovich are also in the film , but who knows whose side they’re on ?
it ' s britishness at its best , which is what we needed . she didn ' t want loads of sparkle , i ' m glad she stuck to her roots .
grease will be the word this weekend , as fox is set to premiere their live musical special derived from the 1971 theatre production ( which was succeeded by the legendary 1978 film ) ! a majority of pop culture aficionados are already well versed with the classic , but for the new generation it will be diving lesson into the world of broadway .
i ' m just gonna jump right out and say it , our world is decaying right before our eyes . it ' s an absolute dumpster fire out there , y ' all . that ' s ok , though , because a live - action version of the lion king is making its way to theaters and there is literally nothing as exciting as that . i mean , really , what a time to be alive . every day we inch closer to seeing the most iconic lions of the past century take on the big screen , and it seems like every day we get new information on the lion king ' s live - action cast to keep us prepared . today is no exception , and i ' m freakin ' all the way out because the lion king has cast its rafiki and sarabi . that ' s right , it looks like alfre woodard will be voicing simba ' s momma and john kani will be playing our favorite primate rafiki . talk about perfect casting .
pedro morelli’s zoom follows the existential crises of two live - action women ( alison pill , mariana ximenes ) and one animated man ( gael garcía bernal ) as they chase creative fulfilment and deal with body issues .
e are due to start our live - stream of the event shortly , but before then let ' s indulge ourselves with a few questions ( all of which we will find out the answers too soon ) .
e saw him tweeting when he left the house , but now pippa ' s uncle gary has arrived . he is with his daughter tallulah , meaning she obviously isn ' t a bridesmaid .
feeling lonely , unloved , and unvalued by the world ' s most famous living scientist , she eventually became emotionally involved with a choirmaster called jonathan hellyer jones — who is now her husband .
in exchange for increased powers of speech , isaac has to give up his near - telepathy with animals to edmond , who is now telepathic with both them and humans . no wonder then that by the end of the film ( which is , yes , different to the novel ) he no longer feels like talking to anyone .