Sandra Bullock was in high spirits on Friday night as she helped kick off the Santa Barbara Film Festival. She added another honour to her already impressive award season tally, accepting the American Riviera Award from Forest Whitaker. All eyes are on Sandra as the favourite to win the Oscar, but Sandra's not so sure—she expressed her skepticism at the ceremony, saying, "I'm so not winning an Oscar." Other big winners from the evening included Emily Blunt, Saoirse Ronan and Carey Mulligan, who's also nominated for an Academy Award for her role in An Education.
The City—Ahh, my favourite trashtastic reality series this summer. Whitney gambles by letting Roxy work a big project for her fashion line. (Why Whitney? For the love of God, why???) Meanwhile, Erin and Olivia get into their biggest fight yet. Team Erin! (MTV)
Bondi Rescue—The boys in blue boardies are back (no Speedos!) and saving yobbos from the Bondi surf for the fifth season. This week a man dressed in wedding gear causes as stir with his wild antics. Sounds like a keeper. (Ten)
Grey’s Anatomy—The staff is nervous about their job security after the chief announces a merger. Meanwhile, a patient’s case is hampered by her schizophrenic son. (Seven)
Gossip Girl—Rufus is hurt when he discovers Lily has been lying to him. Chuck divulges some news that could ruin a friend to Nate and Little Jenny tries to get even with Eric.
The wait is over! The Vampire Diaries returned to Go! this week and it's so great to be able to sit down and watch an episode. The story picks up with Elena injured in a car crash and a creepy creature coming for her. But there were also amazing storylines picked up not just for Elena, but Bonnie, Jeremy and Alaric as well. So to start talking about this week's episode, spoilers and all, just keep reading.
Leonardo DiCaprio suited up this morning in Rome to join Martin Scorsese for a Shutter Island photo call. The duo is kicking off the worldwide promotional tour for the film before it opens here on February 18, a few months later than its original December release date. Leo's back in Europe after spending a few weeks filming Inception in Paris and London last year and, just like in 2009, he's also able to fit in some fun. This time, Leo's brought his bikini babeBar Refaeli and mum along for some family-friendly activities like exploring the ruins of Pompeii.
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan headed to Las Vegas over the weekend to get a head start on celebrating their first Valentine's Day as a married couple. They broke out the champagne for dinner on Saturday night at Planet Hollywood's StripHouse restaurant, ready to toast the fact that his Dear John was number one at the US box office. Channing and Jenna also had time to check out a fight during their romantic evening, before she tested her own luck with a little gambling.
It’s been a busy week for Aussie actors—Sam Worthington has been lining up a boatload of projects and there is also casting news regarding Eric Bana, Guy Pearce and Joel Edgerton. Eric is heading back to action movie territory and is in talks to star opposite Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) in Hanna, a tale about a teenage assassin. (We knew she was trouble as soon as we saw her in Atonement). Eric will play her father, who teaches her to become a cold blooded killing machine.
Meanwhile, Guy Pearce and Mary-Louise Parker (our favourite pot-dealing mum from Weeds!) are set to star in a psychological thriller called The Well. The film is being developed by Philip Seymour Hoffman’s production company and the storyline is still under wraps, but involves “a well-to-do Manhattan couple whose obsessive pursuit of salvation ultimately leads to destruction.”
And last but not least, Joel Edgerton will star in a prequel to John Carpenter’s classic horror movie The Thing. Joel will play a blue-collar mercenary helicopter pilot who helps stop the rampage when a trapped organism in Antarctica is freed and begins a series of attacks. The movie starts shooting in Toronto on March 15th. It's great to see so many Aussies getting work. Which film are you most excited about?
In the days following the Haiti disaster, celebs gathered in an effort to use their influence to encourage people to donate. George Clooney organised his Hope for Haiti Now telethon, while in the UK Simon Cowell put together a charity single with the help of his celeb friends and colleagues, including Kylie Minogue, Mariah Carey, Susan Boyle, Take That, Robbie Williams, Cheryl Cole, James Blunt, Westlife and James Morrison. And now the video has debuted. The clip features the stars recording the song, intercut with footage from the days following the earthquake. Watch it here and let me know what you think.
Skins returned last night for a third series on Fox8, this time with a brand new cast and all the swearing, sex, drugs, fun-loving teens and foolish adults that we've come to expect from the show. With Effy Stonem as the new nonchalant queen bee of the college (taking over from her older brother Tony's position in the first series) we met a brand new gang of characters—the three boys Freddie, Cook and JJ and the girls Naomi, Pandora (familiar from series two) and identical but oh-so-different twins Emily and Katie. So without further ado, here are a few of my comments on last night's episode:
It was a little weird seeing the new cast in the credits, I kept hankering to see Sid or Cassie or Chris... but that was always going to be the case with this first episode.
How awesome was the opening? I loved it—the rather gorgeous Freddie skateboarding down the street darting into and around traffic, showing that invincible feeling you have when you're sixteen. It was funny too and had the amazing song by F*cked Up playing in the background. Also, kudos to the writers for not opening with a familiar character—I was surprised we didn't get introduced to the series via Effy.
She arrives when Mr Stonem crashes his car, which showcased Harry Enfield in rather fantastically angry mode, shouting at the passer by. I found it so funny, especially when Cook interjected with the tomato sauce on his face, pretending that he'd been hit by his car. Still, lager and a joint at eight in the morning? Not sure I was buying that.
This Is England's Jack O'Connell plays Cook—he's almost Chris-like, though a little more brash.
To read more of my thoughts and to leave your own, just keep reading.
Bella and Fab are well and truly prepped for Valentine's Day and now it's our turn to hop on the love boat. So what better way to get into a smooching groove than by asking that most difficult of V Day questions: what is the most romantic film of all time?
All of the girls here at Sugar could be definitely be described as Sugarbombs, but in this instance we’re actually talking about something just as sweet—Benefit’s fabulous face powders that blend together to create the perfect “sugar rush flush.” Bella’s giving away two Sugarbombs each day until cupid comes to town, so what are you waiting for? Get your glow on!
