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Emma Watson sexes up British GQ

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Emma Watson sexes up British GQTo help promote her role in writer/director Sofia Coppola‘s The Bling Ring, actress Emma Watson agreed to do an interview and cover shoot for the May issue of British GQ. In the interview Watson discusses her role as one of The Bling Ring, working with Coppola, her decision to stay away from period dramas (at least for the time being), and learning to pole dance while taking classes at Oxford in preparation for her role in The Bling Ring. You can find more pics from Watson’s photoshoot inside.

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The Natural Beauty of Emma Watson

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The Natural Beauty of Emma Watson

For his latest project, Natural Beauty, photographer and activist James Houston has but together a series of photographs featuring Emma Watson, Christy Turlington, Adrian Grenier, Brooke Shields, Arizona Muse, and Elle Macpherson with the proceedings going to Global Green USA. You can check out Emma Watson’s pics from her photoshoot, a short video introduction of the project, and the full press release inside.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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  • Title: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“Welcome to the Island of Misfit Toys.”

the-perks-of-being-a-wallflowerStories of loners searching for their place in the world are hardly new, and there are certainly more polished films which tackle the subject, but for its flaws The Perks of Being a Wallflower gets the emotion more right than most.

Taking on teenage suicide, closeted homosexual relationships, drug use, teenage sex, unrequited love, the complex psychological problems of an anxiety-riddled teen, and one or two other major themes I won’t give away here, the movie certainly doesn’t shy away from tackling hard issues and forcing its characters to deal honestly with both their choices and consequences.

Written and directed by Stephen Chbosky, who adapted his own novel of the same name for the film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower centers around Charlie (Logan Lerman), an awkward, introverted high school freshman who has seen too much pain in his young life. The brainy introvert starts high school all too aware old friends have moved into new cliques without him and is ill-equipped to make new ones.

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My Week with Marilyn

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  • Title: My Week with Marilyn
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my-week-with-marilyn-posterIt’s almost as shame Michelle Williams is so good as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn because her performance could easily overshadow what is one of the year’s best films.

There have been plenty of films I’ve enjoyed and appreciated in 2011, but I’ve waited a 11-and-a-half months to walk out of a theater and say I love a film. That streak is now over.

My Week with Marilyn based on Colin Clark’s memoir, recounts the young man’s first experience working on a film as the third assistant director of The Prince and the Showgirl directed and starring renown British actor Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and American sensation Marilyn Monroe (Williams).

My Week with Marilyn isn’t only a love story to the troubled actress, but also this age of filmmaking and celebrity when one of England’s greatest actors took a chance on an increasingly hard to work with actress who the camera loved. The experiment went so well Olivier would essentially give up directing and return to the stage.

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Harry Potter and the Complete Collection on Blu-ray

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  • Title: The Complete Harry Potter
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harry-potter-complete-blu-raySeven books, eight films, spanning an entire decade. The complete Harry Potter collection is available for the first time on Blu-ray and it’s definitely worth picking up (even if it is definitely lacking in terms of extras).

For the first time I sat down and was able to watch the entire Deathly Hallows in one sitting, and I’ve got to say it holds up well. From glancing through the collection the other titles also work well on Blu-ray. Warner Bros. has a larger set ready to hit stores next year, but, unless you’re a total Harry Potter maniac, having all eight films on Blu-ray in one slim case is all you really need.

The set is listed at $140, but with not too much searching you should be able to pick it up for about half that price (a little less than $10 per Blu-ray isn’t too shabby). The series has its highs (The Prizoner of Azkaban) and lows (The Order of the Phoenix), but it’s a great collection to own, especially at this price.

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