The latest addition to reality dating shows is VH1’s Naked Dating, a new series that will require serious editing and blurring in order to not offend the censors/audience. Naked Dating is a one-hour series that will, per VH1, “explore the art of romance free of pre-conceived notions, stereotypes — and clothes.”
Season one will consist of 10 episodes.
“At first, this seems like a show that’s all about a noisy, provocative hook – and we embrace that,” said Susan Levison, Executive Vice President, Original Programming & Production, VH1. “But when you go deeper, it’s really about something that we can all relate to – the search for true love. It’s also a series with heart and masterful storytelling – both earmarks of an engaging, must-watch show.”
“We created this show based on marrying a provocative idea with a back to basics philosophy. With all the dating options in the world, what happens if you take one man and woman and strip them of all their pretenses?” VH1 immediately understood our vision and is a fantastic partner on a show that uses a social experiment to provide a fun an entertaining look into how men and women interact when they bare all,” added Howard Schultz, President of Lighthearted Entertainment.
The Naked Dating Plot:
The series will play with the idea of what it really means to be naked in the search for love. Would your quest be more successful if you truly had nothing to hide? There’s no clothing, no jewelry, no phones and no conventions of society. Just you.
Filmed on a remote exotic locale, each close-ended episode will feature a man and a woman as they each date two different, naked suitors. At the end of the episode, the two romance seekers analyze what they’ve learned from their dates and themselves before deciding on whether or not to move forward with their prospective love matches. Once everyone has stripped away the artifices of our modern world and revealed their ultimate, honest selves, the results will be surprising.
Director Marc Webb says that this new Spider-Man movie is asking the questions: “If you’re Spider-Man, can you have another life? If you’re Spider-Man, can you be Peter Parker?” In the new The Amazing Spider-Man 2 behind-the-scenes videos, Webb also revealed audiences can expect a lot of fun situations in which Spider-Man has to negotiate with his other identity. And if the new videos are indicative of the tone we can expect from Andrew Garfield’s second outing as the webslinger, this sequel has a lot more humor to it than Webb and Garfield’s first Amazing Spider-Man.
The Plot:
We’ve always known that Spider-Man’s most important battle has been within himself: the struggle between the ordinary obligations of Peter Parker and the extraordinary responsibilities of Spider-Man. But in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker finds that a greater conflict lies ahead.
It’s great to be Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield). For Peter Parker, there’s no feeling quite like swinging between skyscrapers, embracing being the hero, and spending time with Gwen (Emma Stone). But being Spider-Man comes at a price: only Spider-Man can protect his fellow New Yorkers from the formidable villains that threaten the city. With the emergence of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Peter must confront a foe far more powerful than he. And as his old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, Peter comes to realize that all of his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp.
Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan), Bob Stookey (Larry Gilliard Jr.) and Sasha (Sonequa Martin) in 'The Walking Dead' (Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC)
Read on at your own risk as this is a recap and review and will give away spoilers for episode 10 of season four of The Walking Dead. You’ve been warned.
“I don’t want your help…I need it,” says Glenn (Steven Yeun) to Tara (Alanna Masterson) after saving her from a swarm of hungry zombies. The two reluctantly team up and hit the road in episode 10 of AMC’s horror drama The Walking Dead, with Glenn desperate to find Maggie (Lauren Cohan) after the epic prison battle sent the remaining survivors fleeing for their lives.
In last week’s season four midseason opener, “After,” viewers witnessed a weak and sick Rick (Andrew Lincoln) pass out and his son Carl (Chandler Riggs) take charge of their survival, killing the walkers who threatened their safety. Meanwhile, Michonne (Danai Gurira) went on her own flesh-eating murder spree, seeming to use them to let out her frustration and anger over the loss of the prison and her friends to the battle with the now-deceased Governor (David Morrissey).
Now, in “Inmates,” the second episode after the midseason break, the fate of the rest of the survivors from the prison is finally revealed. Tyreese (Chad L. Coleman) has become a surrogate father teaming up with Mika and Lizzie and carrying baby Judith – yes, he saved Rick’s daughter from being an appetizer for a walker – and coming across another original member of the group (that’s one spoiler that won’t be revealed here) while trying to stay safe in the woods and looking for other survivors.
Meanwhile, Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Beth (Emily Kinney) have teamed up and are on the run, just escaping two different groups of zombies. A despondent Daryl barely talks to Beth, who wants him to track and find other survivors, telling him, “We aren’t the only survivors…we can’t be.”
Maggie (Lauren Cohan), who escaped with Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and alcoholic Bob (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.), is determined to find Glenn and traces the school bus, where she last saw him and believes he’s still possibly on board, to find to her horror it’s filled with walkers. Needing to know if Glenn is in there as either a zombie or one of their meals, Maggie, Sasha, and Bob begin to let the walkers out the back door one by one to see if Glenn appears.
Glenn (Steven Yeun) and walkers in 'The Walking Dead' (Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC)
The scene then shifts to Glenn, who got off the bus to help other members of the prison group get out, passed out on a rooftop and waking up to a prison infested with walkers. Screaming for Maggie and struggling to regain his strength (remember, only days before the prison attack, he had the deadly ‘super-flu’ which killed half of the prison’s community), Glenn suits up in riot gear and smashes his way through the nest of walkers to discover Tara sitting in a cage still in shock from all the killing in the fight for the prison.
Knowing he can’t search for Maggie by himself in his weakened condition and not wanting to leave Tara, who he realizes didn’t take part in the fight because her pistol is still fully loaded, Glenn convinces her to join him on his search because they need each other if they are going to survive.
Suspenseful and extremely gory, The Walking Dead “Inmates” episode improves on the midseason premiere by incorporating multiple storylines and having very powerful performances, as well as answering the burning questions of what happened to all the other characters in the series after the fall of the prison.
There are two grade A stand-out performances in this episode. The first is by Lauren Cohan as Maggie with her strength and determination to find her husband Glenn and then her emotional mini-breakdown when she realizes Glenn got off the bus and is still alive out there…somewhere. It’s pitch-perfect with just the right amount of emotion and never reveals a false moment. The second is Steven Yeun’s portrayal of Glenn, who goes from confusion to fear to despair and finally to fierce determination to survive and find his beloved Maggie in about a 12-minute segment. It’s perhaps the best performance Yeun has given since the series began.
The writing and directing are strong and extremely tense, casting all the viewers’ heroes out amongst woods and roads full of hungry zombies with no place to call home and danger just on the other side of the brush.
Compelling, exceptionally well written, and acted, The Walking Dead’s season four episode 10 continues the post-apocalyptic drama series with a higher sense of tension and dread among the group while still trying to keep a small sense of hope alive for a few of the struggling survivors.
'Save My Bakery' (Photo Courtesy of Food Network)International Cake Exploration Societé Hall of Fame and Dessert Professional Hall of Fame inductee Kerry Vincent will be helping out bakeries in desperate need of expert assistance in the new Food Network series Save My Bakery. Save My Bakery is set to debut on March 19, 2014 at 8pm ET/PT and will find Vincent on the road and working hard to put local bakeries back on the road to success.
“For generations bakeries were the backbone of communities across America. Save My Bakery takes on the challenge of rescuing these businesses and the families behind them,” stated Bob Tuschman, General Manager and Senior Vice President, Food Network. “Kerry Vincent’s deep expertise combined with her take charge manner is just what these families need to get back on their feet.”
Details on Save My Bakery‘s First Episode [Courtesy of Food Network]:
In one episode, Viking Pastries, in Ardmore, Penn. is in need of Kerry’s help. Once a thriving neighborhood hot spot, this bakery is now on the verge of closing its doors. The shop has grown as stale as their old recipes, and they are in need of a younger clientele to sustain their business. Kerry brings in a licensed contractor and guides the owners through a complete remodel of the storefront. She also gives their baked goods a facelift in hopes of bringing the bakery back to life. In another episode, the owner of Schubert’s Bakery in Nazareth, Penn., is working long hours with limited results, and it has taken a toll on his business and his passion for baking. Kerry puts a new spin on their classic Moravian Sugar Cake and keeps the peace among the staff as she teaches them how to properly operate the bakery.
Demi Lovato has two special guests touring with her during her 2014 “The Neon Lights Tour,” with Lovato keeping things girl-centric by tapping Little Mix and Fifth Harmony to open her sold-out concerts. We had the chance to cover the February 13, 2014 stop on Lovato’s “Neon Lights Tour” held at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA and it was Fifth Harmony taking the stage first to get the already enthusiastic crowd going.
Fifth Harmony played a six-song set, opening up with “Me & My Girls,” and during their set, they also covered “Independent Woman” by Destiny’s Child. Fifth Harmony – Dinah Jane Hansen, Lauren Jauregui, Ally Brooke, Normani Kordei, and Camila Cabello – really knew how to get the crowd going.
Fifth Harmony’s setlist:
“Me & My Girls”
“Better Together”
“Leave My Heart Out Of This”
“Independent Woman”
“Don’t Wanna Dance Alone”
“Miss Movin’ On”
In between each set, a DJ was breaking it down, keeping the energy going, getting everyone ready for the next band, plus a magician that wowed the crowd. Then the crowd noise level escalated as Little Mix took over, playing a seven-song set, opening up with “Salute.” These women from England are reminiscent of the Spice Girls and had the crowd going crazy, backed by dancers and putting on a fantastic show.
Lucasfilm Animation’s busy showing off new characters that will be featured in Star Wars Rebels, premiering later this year as a one-hour special on Disney Channel. After its official debut, Star Wars Rebels (the series) will air on Disney XD channels.
Per Lucasfilm Animation’s official announcement:
In Star Wars Rebels, fans will see the rise of the Rebellion through Ezra: a 14-year-old con artist who learns to fight for a greater good. The seemingly-reluctant hero is revealed here in a video filled with character concept art, early animation, and creator interviews.
Growing up on his own in the age of the Empire, Ezra has had to rely on his wit and cunning to get by. As voice actor Taylor Gray explains, “He’s very street-smart, he’s a pickpocket, he’s a little thief. But he’s doing it all because he needs to survive.”
Executive producer Dave Filoni adds that Ezra is not a bad kid. Although he may enjoy stealing from the Empire, his behavior has been influenced by the world around him – a world that is under Imperial control.
But his hard life has also made his world smaller. “He doesn’t really trust anyone,” says Rayne Roberts, creative executive of Star Wars Rebels. “That’s kind of his motto in life. He has that hard edge at times.” When audiences first meet Ezra, he is not yet a Rebel and is not yet interested in restoring freedom to the galaxy – but that will soon change when Ezra is introduced to his new surrogate family: the crew of the Ghost.
Greg Weisman, executive producer, says, “His eyes get opened to the fact that there are people who care, who are trying to fight the good fight. And he becomes one of them.” Still, there is more to Ezra than even he knows.
Ezra is Force-sensitive, Filoni reveals, though he is unaware that he is tapping into this mystical energy field. Ezra knows he has some strange abilities, but they’re “instinctive and reactionary.” It is only through his relationship with Kanan, a Jedi Survivor and crew member of the Ghost, that Ezra will learn the true nature of his power. Together, they will forge new paths and destinies – and a rebellion will rise.
Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have also confirmed three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis will be presenting at this year’s Oscars. Day-Lewis is a five-time Best Actor nominee who’s won Oscars for his performances in Lincoln, There Will Be Blood, and My Left Foot.
Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Angelina Jolie and Louis Zamperini (Photo Courtesy of Universal Pictures)If you were watching NBC’s coverage of the Olympics on Sunday, you may have seen the first teaser for Universal Pictures’ Unbroken, coming to theaters on Christmas Day. Directed by Angelina Jolie, Unbroken is based on the bestseller by Laura Hillenbrand and tells the incredible true story of Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini. The Unbroken video that premiered during the Olympics coverage is narrated by Tom Brokaw and shows a few clips of Jack O’Connell as Zamperini as well as providing the basic details on Zamperini’s inspirational story.
The Plot:
Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII—only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Unbroken brings to the big screen Zamperini’s unbelievable and inspiring true story about the resilient power of the human spirit.
Starring alongside O’Connell are Domhnall Gleeson and Finn Wittrock as Phil and Mac — the airmen with whom Zamperini endured perilous weeks adrift in the open Pacific — Garrett Hedlund and John Magaro as fellow POWs who find an unexpected camaraderie during their internment, Alex Russell as Zamperini’s brother, Pete, and in his English-language feature debut, Japanese actor Miyavi as the brutal camp guard known only to the men as “The Bird.”
Stephen Fry played host of the event (commonly referred to as the British equivalent of the Oscars) which was held at London’s Royal Opera House.
BAFTA Awards Nominees and Winners
FELLOWSHIP
HELEN MIRREN
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
PETER GREENAWAY
BEST FILM Winner: 12 YEARS A SLAVE Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen
AMERICAN HUSTLE Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
PHILOMENA Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM Winner: GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman, Jonás Cuarón
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Justin Chadwick, Anant Singh, David M. Thompson, William Nicholson
PHILOMENA Stephen Frears, Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward, Jeff Pope
RUSH Ron Howard, Andrew Eaton, Peter Morgan
SAVING MR. BANKS John Lee Hancock, Alison Owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer, Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith
THE SELFISH GIANT: Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
COLIN CARBERRY (Writer), GLENN PATTERSON (Writer) Good Vibrations
KELLY MARCEL (Writer) Saving Mr. Banks Winner: KIERAN EVANS (Director/Writer) Kelly + Victor
PAUL WRIGHT (Director/Writer), POLLY STOKES (Producer) For Those in Peril
SCOTT GRAHAM (Director/Writer) Shell
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE ACT OF KILLING Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR Abdellatif Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval Winner: THE GREAT BEAUTY Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima
METRO MANILA Sean Ellis, Mathilde Charpentier
WADJDA Haifaa Al-Mansour, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul
DOCUMENTARY Winner: THE ACT OF KILLING Joshua Oppenheimer
THE ARMSTRONG LIE Alex Gibney
BLACKFISH Gabriela Cowperthwaite
TIM’S VERMEER Teller, Penn Jillette, Farley Ziegler
WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS Alex Gibney
ANIMATED FILM
DESPICABLE ME 2 Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin Winner: FROZEN Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Dan Scanlon
DIRECTOR
12 YEARS A SLAVE Steve McQueen
AMERICAN HUSTLE David O. Russell
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Paul Greengrass Winner: GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Martin Scorsese
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Winner: AMERICAN HUSTLE Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
BLUE JASMINE Woody Allen
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
NEBRASKA Bob Nelson
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 YEARS A SLAVE John Ridley
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Richard LaGravenese
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Billy Ray Winner: PHILOMENA Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Terence Winter
LEADING ACTOR
BRUCE DERN Nebraska Winner: CHIWETEL EJIOFOR 12 Years a Slave
CHRISTIAN BALE American Hustle
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The Wolf of Wall Street
TOM HANKS Captain Phillips
LEADING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS American Hustle Winner: CATE BLANCHETT Blue Jasmine
EMMA THOMPSON Saving Mr. Banks JUDI DENCH Philomena SANDRA BULLOCK Gravity
SUPPORTING ACTOR Winner: BARKHAD ABDI Captain Phillips
BRADLEY COOPER American Hustle
DANIEL BRÜHL Rush
MATT DAMON Behind the Candelabra
MICHAEL FASSBENDER 12 Years a Slave
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Winner: JENNIFER LAWRENCE American Hustle
JULIA ROBERTS August: Osage County
LUPITA NYONG’O 12 Years a Slave
OPRAH WINFREY The Butler
SALLY HAWKINS Blue Jasmine
ORIGINAL MUSIC
12 YEARS A SLAVE Hans Zimmer
THE BOOK THIEF John Williams
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Henry Jackman Winner: GRAVITY Steven Price
SAVING MR. BANKS Thomas Newman
CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 YEARS A SLAVE Sean Bobbitt
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Barry Ackroyd Winner: GRAVITY Emmanuel Lubezki
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Bruno Delbonnel
NEBRASKA Phedon Papamichael
EDITING
12 YEARS A SLAVE Joe Walker
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Christopher Rouse
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger Winner: RUSH Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Thelma Schoonmaker
PRODUCTION DESIGN
12 YEARS A SLAVE Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker
AMERICAN HUSTLE Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Howard Cummings, Barbara Munch-Cameron
GRAVITY Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard Winner: THE GREAT GATSBY Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn
COSTUME DESIGN
AMERICAN HUSTLE Michael Wilkinson
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Ellen Mirojnick Winner: THE GREAT GATSBY Catherine Martin
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN Michael O’Connor
SAVING MR. BANKS Daniel Orlandi
MAKE UP & HAIR Winner: AMERICAN HUSTLE Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell, Kathrine Gordon
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Kate Biscoe, Marie Larkin
THE BUTLER Debra Denson, Candace Neal, Robert Stevenson, Matthew Mungle
THE GREAT GATSBY Maurizio Silvi, Kerry Warn
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater
SOUND
ALL IS LOST Richard Hymns, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg, Gillian Arthur
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro, Oliver Tarney Winner: GRAVITY Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Paul Urmson
RUSH Danny Hambrook, Martin Steyer, Stefan Korte, Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS Winner: GRAVITY Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds
IRON MAN 3 Bryan Grill, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick
PACIFIC RIM Hal Hickel, John Knoll, Lindy De Quattro, Nigel Sumner
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
EVERYTHING I CAN SEE FROM HERE Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Friederike Nicolaus, Sam Taylor
I AM TOM MOODY Ainslie Henderson Winner: SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa
BRITISH SHORT FILM
ISLAND QUEEN Ben Mallaby, Nat Luurtsema, Emma Hughes
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES Megan Rubens, Michael Pearce, Selina Lim
ORBIT EVER AFTER Chee-Lan Chan, Jamie Stone, Len Rowles Winner: ROOM 8 James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner
SEA VIEW Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot
THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
DANE DEHAAN
GEORGE MACKAY
LUPITA NYONG’O Winner: WILL POULTER
LÉA SEYDOUX
The latest addition to reality dating shows is VH1’s Naked Dating, a new series that will require serious editing and blurring in order to not offend the censors/audience. Naked Dating is a one-hour series that will, per VH1, “explore the art of romance free of pre-conceived notions, stereotypes — and clothes.”
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