For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detective James that he's more than just a video-game junkie who's unworthy of James' sister, Angela. When Ben finally gets accepted into the academy, he thinks he's earned the seasoned policeman's respect and asks for his blessing to marry Angela. Knowing that a ride along will demonstrate if Ben has what it takes to take care of his sister, James invites him on a shift designed to scare the hell out of the trainee. But when the wild night leads them to the most notorious criminal in the city, James will find that his new partner's rapid-fire mouth is just as dangerous as the bullets speeding at it.

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Healthy eating is not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, stabilizing your mood, and keeping yourself as healthy as possible—all of which can be achieved by learning some nutrition basics and using them in a way that works for you. You can expand your range of healthy food choices and learn how to plan ahead to create and maintain a tasty, healthy diet.

Healthy eating tip 1: Set yourself up for success

To set yourself up for success, think about planning a healthy diet as a number of small, manageable steps rather than one big drastic change. If you approach the changes gradually and with commitment, you will have a healthy diet sooner than you think.

• Simplify. Instead of being overly concerned with counting calories or measuring portion sizes, think of your diet in terms of color, variety, and freshness. This way it should be easier to make healthy choices. Focus on finding foods you love and easy recipes that incorporate a few fresh ingredients. Gradually, your diet will become healthier and more delicious.
• Start slow and make changes to your eating habits over time. Trying to make your diet healthy overnight isn’t realistic or smart. Changing everything at once usually leads to cheating or giving up on your new eating plan. Make small steps, like adding a salad (full of different color vegetables) to your diet once a day or switching from butter to olive oil when cooking.  As your small changes become habit, you can continue to add more healthy choices to your diet.
• Every change you make to improve your diet matters. You don’t have to be perfect and you don’t have to completely eliminate foods you enjoy to have a healthy diet. The long term goal is to feel good, have more energy, and reduce the risk of cancer and disease. Don’t let your missteps derail you—every healthy food choice you make counts.

Healthy eating tip 2: Moderation is key 

People often think of healthy eating as an all or nothing proposition, but a key foundation for any healthy diet is moderation. But what is moderation? How much is a moderate amount? That really depends on you and your overall eating habits. The goal of healthy eating is to develop a diet that you can maintain for life, not just a few weeks or months, or until you've hit your ideal weight. So try to think of moderation in terms of balance. Despite what certain fad diets would have you believe, we all need a balance of carbohydrates, protein, fat, fiber, vitamins, and minerals to sustain a healthy body.
For most of us, moderation or balance means eating less than we do now. More specifically, it means eating far less of the unhealthy stuff (refined sugar, saturated fat, for example) and more of the healthy (such as fresh fruit and vegetables). But it doesn't mean eliminating the foods you love. Eating bacon for breakfast once a week, for example, could be considered moderation if you follow it with a healthy lunch and dinner—but not if you follow it with a box of donuts and a sausage pizza. If you eat 100 calories of chocolate one afternoon, balance it out by deducting 100 calories from your evening meal. If you're still hungry, fill up with an extra serving of fresh vegetables.

• Try not to think of certain foods as “off-limits.” When you ban certain foods or food groups, it is natural to want those foods more, and then feel like a failure if you give in to temptation. If you are drawn towards sweet, salty, or unhealthy foods, start by reducing portion sizes and not eating them as often. Later you may find yourself craving them less or thinking of them as only occasional indulgences.
• Think smaller portions. Serving sizes have ballooned recently, particularly in restaurants. When dining out, choose a starter instead of an entree, split a dish with a friend, and don't order supersized anything. At home, use smaller plates, think about serving sizes in realistic terms, and start small. If you don't feel satisfied at the end of a meal, try adding more leafy green vegetables or rounding off the meal with fresh fruit. Visual cues can help with portion sizes–your serving of meat, fish, or chicken should be the size of a deck of cards, a slice of bread should be the size of a CD case, and half a cup of mashed potato, rice, or pasta is about the size of a traditional light bulb.

Healthy eating tip 3: It's not just what you eat, it's how you eat

Healthy eating is about more than the food on your plate—it is also about how you think about food. Healthy eating habits can be learned and it is important to slow down and think about food as nourishment rather than just something to gulp down in between meetings or on the way to pick up the kids.

• Eat with others whenever possible. Eating with other people has numerous social and emotional benefits—particularly for children—and allows you to model healthy eating habits. Eating in front of the TV or computer often leads to mindless overeating.
• Take time to chew your food and enjoy mealtimes. Chew your food slowly, savoring every bite. We tend to rush though our meals, forgetting to actually taste the flavors and feel the textures of our food. Reconnect with the joy of eating.
• Listen to your body. Ask yourself if you are really hungry, or have a glass of water to see if you are thirsty instead of hungry. During a meal, stop eating before you feel full. It actually takes a few minutes for your brain to tell your body that it has had enough food, so eat slowly.
• Eat breakfast, and eat smaller meals throughout the day. A healthy breakfast can jumpstart your metabolism, and eating small, healthy meals throughout the day (rather than the standard three large meals) keeps your energy up and your metabolism going.
• Avoid eating at night. Try to eat dinner earlier in the day and then fast for 14-16 hours until breakfast the next morning. Early studies suggest that this simple dietary adjustment—eating only when you’re most active and giving your digestive system a long break each day—may help to regulate weight. After-dinner snacks tend to be high in fat and calories so are best avoided, anyway.

Healthy eating tip 4: Fill up on colorful fruits and vegetables 

Fruits and vegetables are the foundation of a healthy diet. They are low in calories and nutrient dense, which means they are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber.
Try to eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day and with every meal—the brighter the better. Colorful, deeply colored fruits and vegetables contain higher concentrations of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants—and different colors provide different benefits, so eat a variety. Aim for a minimum of five portions each day.
Some great choices include:

• Greens. Branch out beyond bright and dark green lettuce. Kale, mustard greens, broccoli, and Chinese cabbage are just a few of the options—all packed with calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, zinc, and vitamins A, C, E, and K.
• Sweet vegetables. Naturally sweet vegetables—such as corn, carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, yams, onions, and squash—add healthy sweetness to your meals and reduce your cravings for other sweets.
• Fruit. Fruit is a tasty, satisfying way to fill up on fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants. Berries are cancer-fighting, apples provide fiber, oranges and mangos offer vitamin C, and so on.

The importance of getting vitamins from food—not pills

The antioxidants and other nutrients in fruits and vegetables help protect against certain types of cancer and other diseases. And while advertisements abound for supplements promising to deliver the nutritional benefits of fruits and vegetables in pill or powder form, research suggests that it’s just not the same.
A daily regimen of nutritional supplements is not going to have the same impact of eating right. That’s because the benefits of fruits and vegetables don’t come from a single vitamin or an isolated antioxidant.
The health benefits of fruits and vegetables come from numerous vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals working together synergistically. They can’t be broken down into the sum of their parts or replicated in pill form.

Healthy eating tip 5: Eat more healthy carbs and whole grains

Choose healthy carbohydrates and fiber sources, especially whole grains, for long lasting energy. In addition to being delicious and satisfying, whole grains are rich in phytochemicals and antioxidants, which help to protect against coronary heart disease, certain cancers, and diabetes. Studies have shown people who eat more whole grains tend to have a healthier heart.

A quick definition of healthy carbs and unhealthy carbs

Healthy carbs (sometimes known as good carbs) include whole grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables. Healthy carbs are digested slowly, helping you feel full longer and keeping blood sugar and insulin levels stable.
Unhealthy carbs (or bad carbs) are foods such as white flour, refined sugar, and white rice that have been stripped of all bran, fiber, and nutrients. Unhealthy carbs digest quickly and cause spikes in blood sugar levels and energy.

Tips for eating more healthy carbs

• Include a variety of whole grains in your healthy diet, including whole wheat, brown rice, millet, quinoa, and barley. Experiment with different grains to find your favorites.
• Make sure you're really getting whole grains. Be aware that the words stone-ground, multi-grain, 100% wheat, or bran can be deceptive. Look for the words “whole grain” or “100% whole wheat” at the beginning of the ingredient list. In the U.S., Canada, and some other countries, check for the Whole Grain Stamps that distinguish between partial whole grain and 100% whole grain.
• Try mixing grains as a first step to switching to whole grains. If whole grains like brown rice and whole wheat pasta don’t sound good at first, start by mixing what you normally use with the whole grains. You can gradually increase the whole grain to 100%.

Avoid: Refined foods such as breads, pastas, and breakfast cereals that are not whole grain.

Healthy eating tip 6: Enjoy healthy fats & avoid unhealthy fats

Good sources of healthy fat are needed to nourish your brain, heart, and cells, as well as your hair, skin, and nails.  Foods rich in certain omega-3 fats called EPA and DHA are particularly important and can reduce cardiovascular disease, improve your mood, and help prevent dementia.

Add to your healthy diet:

• Monounsaturated fats, from plant oils like canola oil, peanut oil, and olive oil, as well as avocados, nuts (like almonds, hazelnuts, and pecans), and seeds (such as pumpkin, sesame).
• Polyunsaturated fats, including Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, found in fatty fish such as salmon, herring, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, and some cold water fish oil supplements. Other sources of polyunsaturated fats are unheated sunflower, corn, soybean, flaxseed oils, and walnuts.

Reduce or eliminate from your diet:

• Saturated fats, found primarily in animal sources including red meat and whole milk dairy products.
• Trans fats, found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, crackers, candies, cookies, snack foods, fried foods, baked goods, and other processed foods made with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Healthy eating tip 7: Put protein in perspective

Protein gives us the energy to get up and go—and keep going. Protein in food is broken down into the 20 amino acids that are the body’s basic building blocks for growth and energy, and essential for maintaining cells, tissues, and organs. A lack of protein in our diet can slow growth, reduce muscle mass, lower immunity, and weaken the heart and respiratory system. Protein is particularly important for children, whose bodies are growing and changing daily.

Here are some guidelines for including protein in your healthy diet:

Try different types of protein. Whether or not you are a vegetarian, trying different protein sources—such as beans, nuts, seeds, peas, tofu, and soy products—will open up new options for healthy mealtimes.

• Beans:  Black beans, navy beans, garbanzos, and lentils are good options.
• Nuts: Almonds, walnuts, pistachios, and pecans are great choices.
• Soy products: Try tofu, soy milk, tempeh, and veggie burgers for a change.
• Avoid salted or sugary nuts and refried beans.

Downsize your portions of protein. Many people in the West eat too much protein. Try to move away from protein being the center of your meal. Focus on equal servings of protein, whole grains, and vegetables.
Focus on quality sources of protein, like fresh fish, chicken or turkey, tofu, eggs, beans, or nuts. When you are having meat, chicken, or turkey, buy meat that is free of hormones and antibiotics.

Healthy eating tip 8: Add calcium for strong bones

Calcium is one of the key nutrients that your body needs in order to stay strong and healthy. It is an essential building block for lifelong bone health in both men and women, as well as many other important functions.
You and your bones will benefit from eating plenty of calcium-rich foods, limiting foods that deplete your body’s calcium stores, and getting your daily dose of magnesium and vitamins D and K—nutrients that help calcium do its job.
Recommended calcium levels are 1000 mg per day, 1200 mg if you are over 50 years old. Try to get as much of your daily calcium needs from food as possible and use only low-dose calcium supplements to make up any shortfall.

Good sources of calcium include:

• Dairy: Dairy products are rich in calcium in a form that is easily digested and absorbed by the body. Sources include milk, yogurt, and cheese.
• Vegetables and greens: Many vegetables, especially leafy green ones, are rich sources of calcium. Try turnip greens, mustard greens, collard greens, kale, romaine lettuce, celery, broccoli, fennel, cabbage, summer squash, green beans, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, and crimini mushrooms.
• Beans: For another rich source of calcium, try black beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, white beans, black-eyed peas, or baked beans.

Healthy eating tip 9: Limit sugar and salt

If you succeed in planning your diet around fiber-rich fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, and good fats, you may find yourself naturally cutting back on foods that can get in the way of your healthy diet—sugar and salt.

Sugar

Sugar causes energy ups and downs and can add to health and weight problems. Unfortunately, reducing the amount of candy, cakes, and desserts we eat is only part of the solution. Often you may not even be aware of the amount of sugar you’re consuming each day. Large amounts of added sugar can be hidden in foods such as bread, canned soups and vegetables, pasta sauce, margarine, instant mashed potatoes, frozen dinners, fast food, soy sauce, and ketchup. Here are some tips:

• Avoid sugary drinks. One 12-oz soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar in it, more than the daily recommended limit! Try sparkling water with lemon or a splash of fruit juice.
• Sweeten foods yourself. Buy unsweetened iced tea, plain yogurt, or unflavored oatmeal, for example, and add sweetener (or fruit) yourself. You’re likely to add far less sweetener than the manufacturer would have.
• Eat naturally sweet food such as fruit, peppers, or natural peanut butter to satisfy your sweet tooth. Keep these foods handy instead of candy or cookies.

Salt

Most of us consume too much salt in our diets. Eating too much salt can cause high blood pressure and lead to other health problems. Try to limit sodium intake to 1,500 to 2,300 mg per day, the equivalent of one teaspoon of salt.

• Avoid processed or pre-packaged foods. Processed foods like canned soups or frozen dinners contain hidden sodium that quickly surpasses the recommended limit.
• Be careful when eating out. Most restaurant and fast food meals are loaded with sodium.
• Opt for fresh or frozen vegetables instead of canned vegetables.
• Cut back on salty snacks such as potato chips, nuts, and pretzels.
• Choose low-salt or reduced-sodium products.
• Try slowly reducing the salt in your diet to give your taste buds time to adjust.

So, it finally happened: The boys got back together.
We’re talking about NSYNC, of course. After getting introduced by Jimmy Fallon as “the President of Pop,” the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award-winning Justin Timberlake took the stage for a career retrospective of his solo work beginning with (a seemingly pretaped) “Take Back the Night,” “SexyBack” into a super medley of “Like I Love You,” “My Love,” “Cry Me a River,” “Senorita,” “Rock Your Body,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” and “Pusher Love.” (Because of audio issues, unfortunately, it also sounded at home like it was “being played through a kazoo,” as one EW commenter put it).
Either way, that was all just a prelude to the real treat of seeing the other four members of your favorite late-nineties/early-aughts boy band ascend from underneath the stage. Together with JT, the boys-to-thirtysomething-men took everyone down memory lane with truncated performances of “Girlfriend” and “Bye Bye Bye” — with original choreography!
But the fun couldn’t last forever, and soon Justin sent the four tag-alongs back underground from whence they came.

With them out of the way, JT went on to serenade the crowd with his more recent jams “Suit & Tie” and “Mirrors.” Still, Timberlake didn’t forget his mates. Later, when accepting his honorary Moon Man, JT gave his old pals a shout-out, telling them he’s sharing the special prize with them. He did, however, add a caveat: “I’m keeping it at my house.”

(CNN) -- "Lee Daniels' The Butler" follows the life of Cecil Gaines, an African-American butler who serves in the White House under eight presidencies. Inspired by real-life butler Eugene Allen, Gaines (played by Forest Whitaker) witnesses the rise of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Vietnam and the election of the Barack Obama, all while simultaneously balancing the highs and lows of his family life.

Do we smell a Dunder Mifflin bun in the oven???
Why, yes! Yes we do!!
The totes adorbz couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski are officially on the road to parenthood, as one of their reps confirmed that they are expecting their first child together!!
How exciting!!
While there aren't any details on the gender yet, we hear that they are expecting their little bundle of joy in just a few months, which means we are officially on baby bump patrol!!
Congrats you two!!!

 

 

Fall for rich jewel colours this Autumn

As a celebrity, it is a must to be able to nail airport style, even after a long distance flight. One person who always gets it right is Emily Blunt, who looks glowing already after announcing her pregnancy. We love that she has gone for top-to-toe comfort with a striped grey jumper and suede desert boots - and still manages to look super chic.
The Devil Wears Prada actress looked devilishly good, as the relaxed shape of the harem-style trousers with the tailored tapered ankle create a flattering silhouette. What's more, the subtle purple colour pop of her casual trousers bring the outfit bang up to date, as jewel tones are set to be a big trend for the coming season.
Allow yourself to be bejeweled by the hottest hues around - from amethyst to soft sapphire or emerald green, and breeze into autumn by wearing some sumptuously rich tones. We have got it all covered for you - these Uniqlo cropped trousers are a gem of a find at £12.90. But then, we do love these luxe Stella McCartney trousers which are just the jewel in the crown. Why not try pairing yours with a pair of sharp stilettos and a blazer for a sleek evening outfit too?

RoboCop
In case you didn't know, there's a "RoboCop" reboot coming next year to the big screen.
The first trailer for the MGM/Sony Pictures collaboration just debuted on Apple iTunes.
Footage for the José Padilha ("Elite Squad") directed movie was screened at this summer's San Diego Comic-Con convention.

With Saw 2013, the latest incarnation of the franchise about to crash on to cinema screens everywhere, we thought it would be worthwhile revisiting the other movies for a reminder of how we got to this point. As you can imagine, this will be spoiler-tastic so if you don’t want any of the films ruined, look away now.
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Since debuting in 2004, the franchise has become the highest-grossing horror series of all time. Each film has had varying degrees of success with fans and critics, but everything looks to have been building up to this point, with SAW 2013 being billed as the last in the series. Whether that’s true or not probably depends on the movie’s performance at the box office, but the producers have done a good job of gradually filling out the Jigsaw universe with each film, so don’t be surprised if there’s a SAW 2013.
For those who know next to nothing about the series, it focuses on Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) who sees himself as a lethal moral crusader. He finds people who have followed a morally dubious path in life and attempts to help them see the error of their ways. To do so, he places them into deadly traps which can only be escaped by offering some form of physical or psychological sacrifice. His decision to test his subjects’ will to life stems from a terminal brain tumour, a miscarriage suffered by his wife and an unsuccessful suicide attempt he made.
A lot happens in all of the films, but I’ll try my best to give you a quick snapshot of each film in the series:

Saw
The original, and for my money best, film in the series, this is much more of a tension-packed thriller than a horror.
Two men,  Adam Stanheight and Dr Lawrence Gordon, find themselves trapped in a disgusting bathroom, chained to pipes. There is a corpse on the ground which is holding a cassette player, which each man uses to listen to a tape. They discover that Adam has been instructed to escape the room while Lawrence has to kill Adam before the clock hits 6pm. If Lawrence fails in his mission, Jigsaw will kill his wife and daughter.
After hearing the testimony of Jigsaw’s only surviving victim Amanda, former police officer David Tapp has reason to believe that Lawrence is Jigsaw (who killed his partner) and is keeping a close watch on the Gordon family home. Before Gordon’s wife and daughter are killed by Zep Hindle — also a victim of Jigsaw’s master plan — Tapp shoots at and chases Zep who escapes underground.
With time running out and gunshots audible from a phone call to his wife, Lawrence picks up a hacksaw, cuts through his foot and shoots Adam. Zep then bursts into the bathroom and is killed (in my favourite death of the series) by Adam — who survived being shot — with the cover of a toilet. Then, the ‘corpse’ in the middle of the room stands up, revealing the true identity of Jigsaw — John Kramer — and leaves the room, slamming it shut and leaving Adam to die.


Saw II
Jigsaw raises the stakes when he is discovered at his lair by detectives Eric Matthews and Allison Kerry, and Sergeant Rigg. He reveals a bank of monitors depicting eight people (including Amanda and Matthew’s son Daniel) locked up inside a house full of traps. Jigsaw says that those trapped in the house have two hours to find a way out or grab an antidote. However, Jigsaw says that if Matthews stays and talks to him, he will discover his son in a safe place.
In the house, Xavier realises that each of the eight victims has a number on the back of his or her neck. While the rest of them try to find a way out, he hunts them down to get their numbers, which Xavier believes combine to create the combination to a safe and the way out. Each of those trapped in the house dies in various ways until just Xavier, Amanda and Daniel remain. Daniel eventually kills Xavier with a hacksaw.
At Jigsaw’s lair, Matthews sees Xavier looking for his son and demands that Jigsaw take him to the house. The mastermind agrees and takes Matthews to the house, where he is attacked and locked up in the bathroom from the first film by Amanda, who is revealed to be Jigsaw’s assistant.
Meanwhile, back at the mill, a safe opens to reveal Daniel ‘safe’ and well.


Saw III
Here, we learn more about the history between Jigsaw and Amanda, as well as more information about how they came to be killers (I know, they don’t kill anyone, but really, they kinda do). We see Matthews, trapped at the end of the last film, escaping from the deadly duo. We also see Detective Alison Kerry and Detective Mark Hoffman probe several Jigsaw traps that were made inescapable, going against Jigsaw’s normal methods.
The main plot of this one follows Jeff Denlon, a man filled with grief after his son was killed by a drunk driver, move through a series of rooms where people are trapped. He discovers that all of them were involved in the trial of his son’s killer — the drunk driver, a witness who did not testify and a leniet judge — and is given the choice whether to save them or let them die.
Meanwhile, Jeff’s wife Lynn has been ordered to keep Jigsaw alive while her husband completes his game. If she does not, a series of shotgun shells on a collar a round her neck will detonate and kill her. As the movie progresses, Amanda begins to question Jigsaw’s devotion to her. While Jeff carries out his tasks successfully, Amanda refuses to let Lynn go and reveals that she had been the one who had designed traps which people could not escape from.
Amanda tries to kill Lynn but Jeff, who has reached the same room, stops her by shooting her in the neck. As Amanda dies, Jigsaw reveals that it was really her who was being tested all along.
Jigsaw then offers Jeff one last choice: if he forgives Jigsaw and lets him go, Jigsaw will save his family. If he chooses to kill Jigsaw his family will suffer. Jeff opts to slash Jigsaw’s throat with a saw and, before dying, Jigsaw reveals that Jeff’s daughter is locked in a room and he will have to undergo another test to save her. Meanwhile, as Jigsaw dies, Lynn’s collar explodes, killing her.

Saw IV
Detective Hoffman and Lieutenant Rigg stumble upon Detective Alison Kerry’s body, which had been rigged in an inescapable ‘Angel’s Wings’ trap by Amanda. They then meet FBI agents Strahm and Perez who are investigating the Jigsaw case. Strahm speculates that, given how high up Kerry’s body was positioned, Jigsaw must have had another protege assisting him.
Later, Rigg wakes up at his home to discover that he has been forced into a Jigsaw game which puts both his life and that of his former partner, Matthews, at risk. Rigg is implored to see the world as Jigsaw does, looking at criminals who have escaped justice. Rigg sees a female pimp, serial rapist and an abusive husband die, while managing to save the abused wife.
Meanwhile, Matthews is suspended over a melting block of ice and if he falls, Hoffman, who has been captured, will be electrocuted. Meanwhile, Strahm eventually finds his way to the factory where those two are trapped and he finds Jeff from the previous film, who he kills in self-defence.
Rigg, who was being tested to let go of his obsessions and acting more rationally,  finds his way to the factory too and rushes into the room where the captives are, triggering a mechanism that leads to Matthews being crushed and Hoffman’s electrocution. Rigg also shoots another man who is in the room, believing him to be Jigsaw’s new apprentice. However, Hoffman stands up and walks out, leaving Rigg to die and revealing himself as Jigsaw’s new protege.

Saw V
We see Strahm leave the building where Rigg had found Matthews and Hoffman after escaping from a Jigsaw trap. He believes that Hoffman is Jigsaw’s new apprentice and begins trying to find proof.
Meanwhile, five new victims are discovered in the film’s big trap. They are put through several traps, where they lose three of their number, before arriving at the final test and discovered that all five were meant to survive all of the tests so they could work together on the last task. (Phew. Almost confused myself there.) While the last two manage to escape with their lives, they have suffered a great deal of pain as their arms were mutilated.
Strahm eventually catches up with Hoffman, who had been planting evidence to pinpoint Strahm as Jigsaw’s apprentice and the two fight. Strahm pushes Hoffman into a box filled with glass, which was intended for himself as part of a test. The glass box then lowers into the ground while the walls of the room close in and crush Strahm.


Saw VI
The last of the series to date was a slight return to form after a disappointing few efforts and had plenty to say about the state of the American healthcare system.
William Easton, a health insurance worker, awakes in the film’s big game. He is forced to work with and against his co-workers, as well as choose which of them allows to live.  Meanwhile, a mother and son are locked in a cage with a lever labelled “Live” and “Die”. Eventually, Easton comes along and the pair recognise him as the man who had denied their late husband/father health insurance. The son, Brent, moves the lever to the “Die” position, which sees acid being pumped into Easton’s body.
Elsewhere, Hoffman, who had been watching over Easton’s game, is ambushed by Jigsaw’s wife Jill. She places him into a trap, insisting that Jigsaw had asked her to test him. However, despite the trap being apparently inescapable, Hoffman manages to free himself.
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So there you have it! All of the important info you need to know if you haven’t seen any of these films but still fancy seeing a horror movie which is not Paranormal Activity 2 this weekend. Saw 3D is likely to see Jill and Hoffman battle over Jigsaw’s legacy and I can’t wait to find out what happens.
Enjoy, gorehounds!

Zombies in the drugstore. Zombies on the roof.
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Zombies in the streets and making a mad dash for your windshield
Those walking dead pervade nearly every inch of screen of the much-buzzed-about, apocalyptical flick World War Z -- and they provide heart-pounding thrills with each staggered step.
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Of course, if there's one guy who can stop them, it might as well be Brad Pitt. He's Gerry, a retired United Nations investigator enjoying a quiet domestic life in the suburbs until he's summoned back to the job. Seems millions of people all over the world have become infected with a mysterious virus that instantly turns them into sinister you-know-whats. Do a quick IMDB scan of the star's resume and you'll see that he rarely delves into big-budget summer escapism fare (let's not count Troy). Yet the steely-eyed  actor -- who's pushing 50! -- has never looked more confident in the hero role as he treks from Philadelphia to South Korea to Wales trying to stop the bloodbath and find a vaccine. As one colleague wryly tells him after a near-death experience, "You're a tough bastard."
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The global chase moves swiftly, with some truly fantastic and tension-filled set pieces enhancing the drama. In Jerusalem (where officials have literally sealed off the danger), the bad guys form a towering ladder and scale a wall as the innocent sing in harmony on the other side. On a crowded commercial airplane preparing to land, one barking lap dog leads to terrifying chaos among the passengers. The scenes feel fresh and authentic.
While Pitt plays sleuth, his worried wife (The Killing's Mireille Enos) and two cute daughters bide their time on a military base, waiting for his phone calls. These filler scenes feel like a distraction and seem to function solely to illustrate his soft family-man side. Audiences might also pick up on a few disjointed action sequences and form too many unanswered questions about the ghouls themselves. (Why do they want to eat their prey anyway? To paraphrase The Princess Bride, are they dead or mostly dead?). Still, given its reported ballooning costs, production delays and overhauled third act, it’s impressive that the movie even has a beginning, middle and end, let alone intelligence between the lines.
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Perhaps most impressively, the project rates low on the camp-o-meter. Save for a wild-eyed doctor loitering in a medical lab, the massacres and the monsters aren't played for laughs. Heck, Pitt doesn't even fire off a single zombie-themed zinger. Oh no, better to just let audiences sit in the dark, paralyzed in a state of fear. Pass the popcorn!
World War Z hits theaters Friday, June 21.

Brad Pitt

       The son of a trucking company manager, Brad Pitt was born December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, OK. Raised in Missouri as the oldest of three children, and brought up in a strict Baptist household, Pitt enrolled at the University of Missouri, following high school graduation, studying journalism and advertising. However, after discovering his love of acting, he dropped out of college two credit hours before he could graduate and moved to Hollywood. Once in California, Pitt took acting classes and supported himself with a variety of odd jobs that included chauffeuring strippers to private parties, waiting tables, and wearing a giant chicken suit for a local restaurant chain. His first break came when he landed a small recurring role on Dallas, and a part in a teenage-slasher movie, Cutting Class (1989) (opposite Roddy McDowall), marked his inauspicious entrance into the world of feature films. The previous year, Pitt's acting experience had been limited to the TV movie A Stoning in Fulgham County (1988). 1991 marked the end of Pitt's obscurity, as it was the year he made his appearance in Thelma & Louise (1991) as the wickedly charming drifter who seduces Geena Davis and then robs her blind. After becoming famous practically overnight, Pitt unfortunately chose to channel his newfound celebrity into Ralph Bakshi's disastrous animation/live action combo Cool World (1992). Following this misstep, Pitt took a starring role in director Tom Di Cillo's independent film Johnny Suede. The film failed to score with critics or at the box office and Pitt's documented clashes with the director allegedly inspired Di Cillo to pattern the character of the vain and egotistical Chad Palomino, in his 1995 Living in Oblivion, after the actor. Pitt's next venture, Robert Redford's lyrical fly-fishing drama A River Runs Through It (2002), gave the actor a much-needed chance to prove that he had talent in addition to physical appeal.Following his performance in Redford's film, Pitt appeared in Kalifornia and True Romance (both 1993), two road movies featuring fallen women and violent sociopaths. Pitt's next major role did not arrive until early 1994, when he was cast as the lead of the gorgeously photographed Legends of the Fall. As he did in A River Runs Through It, Pitt portrayed a free-spirited, strong-willed brother, but this time had greater opportunity to further develop his enigmatic character. Later that same year, fans watched in anticipation as Pitt exchanged his outdoorsy persona for the brooding, gothic posturing of Anne Rice's tortured vampire Louis in the film adaptation of Interview With the Vampire. Pitt next starred in the forgettable romantic comedy The Favor (1994) before going on to play a rookie detective investigating a series of gruesome crimes opposite Morgan Freeman in Seven (1995). In 1997, Pitt received a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a visionary mental patient in Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys; the same year, Pitt attempted an Austrian accent and put on a backpack to play mountaineer Heinrich Harrar in Seven Years in Tibet. The film met with mixed reviews and generated a fair amount of controversy, thanks in part to the revelation that the real-life Harrar had in fact been a Nazi. Following Tibet, Pitt traveled in a less inflammatory direction with Alan J. Pakula's The Devil's Own, in which he starred with fellow screen icon Harrison Ford. Despite this seemingly faultless pairing, the film was a relative critical and box-office failure. In 1998, Pitt tried his hand at romantic drama, portraying Death in Meet Joe Black, the most expensive non-special effects film ever made. Pitt's penchant for quirk was prevalent with his cameo in the surreal comic fantasy Being John Malkovich (1999) and carried over into his role as Tyler Durden, the mysterious and anti-materialistic soap salesman in David Fincher's controversial Fight Club the same year. The odd characterizations didn't let up with his appearance as the audibly indecipherable pugilist in Guy Ritchie's eagerly anticipated follow-up to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch (2000).In July of 2000, the man voted "Most Sexy Actor Alive" by virtually every entertainment publication currently in circulation crushed the hearts of millions of adoring female fans when he wed popular film and television actress Jennifer Aniston in a relatively modest (at least by Hollywood standards) and intimate service.Pitt's next turn on the big screen found him re-teamed with Robert Redford, this time sharing the screen with the A River Runs Through It director in the espionage thriller Spy Game (2001). A fairly retro-straight-laced role for an actor who had become identified with his increasingly eccentric roles, he was soon cast in Steven Soderbergh's remake of the Rat Pack classic Ocean's 11 (2001), the tale of a group of criminals who plot to rob a string of casinos. Following a decidedly busy 2001 that also included a lead role opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic crime-comedy The Mexican, Pitt was virtually absent from the big-screen over the next three years. After walking away from the ambitious and troubled Darren Aronofsky production The Fountain, he popped up for a very brief cameo in pal George Clooney's 2002 directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and lent his voice to the animated adventure Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, but spent the majority of his time working on the historical epic Troy (2004). Directed by Wolfgang Peterson, the film employed a huge cast, crew and budget.The media engulfed Pitt's next screen role with tabloid fervor, as it cast him opposite bombshell Angelina Jolie. While the comedic actioner Mr. and Mrs. Smith grossed dollar one at the box office, the stars' off-camera relationship that made some of 2005's biggest headlines. Before long, Pitt had split from his wife Jennifer Aniston and adopted Jolie's two children. The family expanded to three in 2006 with the birth of the couple's first child, to four in 2007 with the adoption of a Vietnamese boy, and finally to six in 2008, with the birth of fraternal twins.In addition to increasing his family in 2006, Pitt also padded his filmography as a producer on a number of projects, including Martin Scorsese's The Departed, the Best Picture Winner for 2006. He also acted opposite Cate Blanchett in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's drama Babel. Interestingly, that film hit theaters the same year as The Fountain, a film that was originally set to star the duo. Pitt also stayed busy as an actor, reteaming with many familiar on-screen pals for Ocean's Thirteen. At about the same time, Pitt teamed up with Ridley Scott to co-produce a period western, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; Pitt also stars in the film, as James. The year 2007 found Pitt involved, simultaneously, in a number of increasingly intelligent and distinguished projects. He signed on to reteam with David Fincher for the first occasion since Fight Club, with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - a bittersweet fantasy, adapted by Forrest Gump scribe Eric Roth from an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man who falls in love while he is aging in reverse. When the special effects heavy film hit theaters in time for awards season in 2008, Pitt garnered a Best Actor nomination from both the Academy and the Screen Actors Guild. Also in 2007, Pitt produced an adaptation of Marianne Pearl's memoir A Mighty Heart that starred Angelina Jolie. In the years that followed, Pitt remained supremely busy. He delivered a funny lead performance as Lt. Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino's blistering World War II saga Inglourious Basterds (2009), then did some of the most highly-praised work of his career as a disciplinarian father in Terence Malick's The Tree of Life (2011) - a sprawling, cerebral phantasmorgia on the meaning of life and death that became one of the critical sensations of the year. He also won a great deal of praise for his turn as Billy Beane in Bennett Miller's adaptation of the non-fiction book Moneyball, a role that not only earned him critical raves but Best Actor nominations from the Academy, BAFTA, the Broadcast Film Association, the Golden Globes, and won him the New York Film Critics Circle award (though the institution also recognized his work in Tree of Life as figuring into their decision). ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

    Film Synopsis R.I.P.D. Latest movie titled RIPD ( Rest In Peace Department ) has a unique story that is about a department that handles criminals who have died , but are reluctant to hell . Script of the film was written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi . The film, directed by Robert Schwentke will be released on July 19, 2013.With a touch of comedy action movie starring Ryan Reynolds , Jeff Bridges , Mary - Louise Parker , Kevin Bacon and a few other famous names . RIPD is adapted from the same titled comic by Peter M. Lenkov published by Dark Horse Entertainment . The film will be available in 3D format , which will definitely make your viewing experience more ' life ' .synopsis ripdR.I.P.DFilm Synopsis R.I.P.D following :Tells the story of two cops from RIPD ( Rest In Peace Department ) , a department whose job is to protect and serve mankind and capture criminals who have died are reluctant to go to hell .Veteran sheriff Roy Pulsifer ( Jeff Bridges ) has spent his career as a legendary cop known for expertly tracking terrible spirit which cleverly disguised as ordinary people . Its mission ? To apprehend and prosecute criminals who tried to escape from the final judgment by hiding amongst humans on Earth .Here , Roy partnered with Nick Walker ( Ryan Reynolds ) , a policeman who died were killed by criminals . Nick himself wondered who had killed him and intends to take revenge while doing work against criminals in hell .They both work together to restore the cosmic balance ... or see hereafter tunnel began sending evil souls and temper with a very wrong way . Watch the full story on your favorite movies .R.I.P.D movie :

    Directed by : Robert Schwentke
    Producer : Neal H. Moritz , Mike Richardson , Lawrence Gordon
    Scriptwriter: Phil Hay , Matt Manfredi
    Players : Ryan Reynolds , Jeff Bridges , Mary - Louise Parker , Kevin Bacon , Stephanie Szostak , 
    Mike O'Malley , James Hong , Marisa Miller , Robert Knepper
    Genre : Action, Comedy
    Prime Release Date : July 19, 2013
    Studio : Universal Pictures

ACADEMY AWARD® WINNERS SANDRA BULLOCK (“THE BLIND SIDE”) AND GEORGE CLOONEY (“SYRIANA”) STAR IN “GRAVITY,” A HEART-POUNDING THRILLER THAT PULLS YOU INTO THE INFINITE AND UNFORGIVING REALM OF DEEP SPACE. THE FILM WAS DIRECTED BY OSCAR® NOMINEE ALFONSO CUARÓN (“CHILDREN OF MEN”).
BULLOCK PLAYS DR. RYAN STONE, A BRILLIANT ENGINEER ON HER FIRST SHUTTLE MISSION, WITH VETERAN ASTRONAUT MATT KOWALSKI (CLOONEY). BUT ON A SEEMINGLY ROUTINE SPACEWALK, DISASTER STRIKES. THE SHUTTLE IS DESTROYED, LEAVING STONE AND KOWALSKI COMPLETELY ALONE—TETHERED TO NOTHING BUT EACH OTHER AND SPIRALING OUT INTO THE BLACKNESS.
THE DEAFENING SILENCE TELLS THEM THEY HAVE LOST ANY LINK TO EARTH…AND ANY CHANCE FOR RESCUE. AS FEAR TURNS TO PANIC, EVERY GULP OF AIR EATS AWAY AT WHAT LITTLE OXYGEN IS LEFT.
BUT THE ONLY WAY HOME MAY BE TO GO FURTHER OUT INTO THE TERRIFYING EXPANSE OF SPACE.
“GRAVITY” WAS WRITTEN BY ALFONSO CUARÓN & JONÁS CUARÓN, AND PRODUCED BY ALFONSO CUARÓN AND DAVID HEYMAN (THE “HARRY POTTER” FILMS). CHRIS DEFARIA, NIKKI PENNY AND STEPHEN JONES SERVED AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS.
THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES TEAM INCLUDES MULTIPLE OSCAR®-NOMINATED DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY EMMANUEL LUBEZKI (“CHILDREN OF MEN,” “THE NEW WORLD”); PRODUCTION DESIGNER ANDY NICHOLSON; EDITORS ALFONSO CUARÓN AND MARK SANGER; AND COSTUME DESIGNER JANY TEMIME (THE “HARRY POTTER” FILMS). THE VISUAL EFFECTS WERE HANDLED BY OSCAR®-NOMINATED VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR TIM WEBBER (“THE DARK KNIGHT”). THE MUSIC WAS COMPOSED BY STEVEN PRICE.

    It's a bad day at the office for a durable 25-year-old franchise in A Good Day to Die Hard. Comprised of one shakily filmed action sequence after another, all of which are more preposterous than anything previously served up by the Die Hard series (and that's saying something), this fifth John McClane saga takes the New York cop (Bruce Willis) to Moscow and, of all places, Chernobyl, to help his CIA officer son (Jai Courtney) save modern Russia from its own worst enemies. Franchise fans and action-hungry audiences will pile in over this double holiday weekend, from Valentine's Day on Thursday to Presidents Day on Monday, but returns figure to tumble fairly quickly thereafter. Overseas draw should be quite strong.


         After a 12-year break, 2007's Live Free or Die Hard proved there was still plenty of life left in a series that many assumed would forever remain just a trilogy. The four films thus far have generated $1.13 billion worldwide, and this fifth installment certainly has enough sinister goons and crazy action to satisfy the mob that has made Fox's own Taken series such an unexpected success.
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But it must be said that, alongside the rebooted Bond franchise and the Bourne films, poor old McClane's vehicles look pretty cheesy, even if one of his rides here is a Maybach. The Bond series hasn't run out of ideas to the extent that it's begun dragging in hitherto unknown offspring with whom to team the leading man, but in Live Free or Die Hard we met John's daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and this time we're introduced to his estranged son Jack, a hunky undercover CIA operative who's trying to pull off a major coup by helping nuclear scientist Komarov (Sebastian Koch) spill the beans on the evil Defense Minister Chaganin (Sergey Kolesnikov), a rich gangster with ambitions for higher office.
Hearing Jack's in prison, John decides to head to Moscow to help but is warned by Lucy, “Try not to make an even bigger mess of things.” Of course, that's promptly what he does, naively intervening just as the courtroom where Jack and Komarov are sequestered in special booths is attacked. “You shouldn't be here!,” Jack yells at old Dad when he spots him -- and that's an understatement, as the operation turns into one of the most ludicrous and incoherent chase sequences ever filmed, with a truck, a van and a giant military vehicle trying to ram through bumper-to-bumper highway traffic. This is all covered by jittery cameras that look like they're mounted on a vibrating bed rather than a tripod and operated by little kids who've just been shown the zoom button.
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The MacGuffin here, which revives the specter of bad old Cold War days, is a file Komarov claims to have that confirms Chaganin's theft of huge amounts of U235, or weapons-grade uranium, at Chernobyl, where both of them worked at the time of the reactor meltdown. Chaganin's such a loose cannon that he could either use or sell the stuff to rogue buyers, so the fate of the world, as usual, could be at stake.
The sophistication of the screenplay is no greater than previous ones written by Skip Woods (Swordfish, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The A-Team). Some effort is made to spin a few pithy lines that the public might retain -- John at one point snidely calls his son the “007 of Plainfield, New Jersey,” a contemptuous Russian thug says to McClane, “You know what I hate about Americans? Everything. Especially cowboys” -- but the main aim clearly was to create as many action scenes as possible.

Unfortunately, John Moore has directed these sequences in a way that makes the incidents look so far-fetched and essentially unsurvivable that you can only laugh. McClane & Son evade hundreds, perhaps thousands of bullets in an untold number of fusillades, endure more than one crash through giant plate-glass windows with just a few scratches and walk away from a fall from several stories up. Their luck also holds when, stranded at night and needing to get to Chernobyl quickly, they survey the fancy cars outside a nightclub and steal one that just happens to have a trunk loaded with heavy artillery. Good thing it was a Chechnyan hangout, they agree.
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The big action climax happens in and around the Chernobyl compound where the nuclear material has lain waiting all these years. What happens is no less inevitable than it is in Bonds or Bournes or any other mass entertainment movies, but it's cheapened by a rather cut-rate-looking set and darkish photography that would have looked at home in a Cannon film back in the 1980s. The production mostly was shot in Hungary, with some scene-setting second-unit stuff of Russia providing proof of setting. It does make you wonder if Russians themselves won't resent the way they're represented here: thoroughly corrupt and in need of an American cop and the CIA to set them straight.
The fifth time around, everyone knows what to expect from Willis in this role, and the only funny part of it is how so almost puppydoggedly eager McClane is to repair the rift with his son. Aussie actor Courtney -- who played Varro on TV's Spartacus and the shooter in Jack Reacher -- is bigger and brawnier than Willis ever was and temperamentally is a pretty good match with his American veteran partner. German actor Koch, who memorably co-starred in The Lives of Others, is very good in the key Russian role, while Yulia Sniger is hot and fiery when angered as his daughter.
At 98 minutes, this is by far the shortest of the Die Hard films, the rest of which run more than two hours. But it ends not a moment too soon.