pictures Pretty Penny: December 2010

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Elton John and Husband Welcome New Baby

Iconic singer and proverbial piano man Elton John, is ringing in the New Year with a new present.

Sixty-two year old Elton and his husband, David Furnish, have become the parents to a 7-pound, 15-ounce baby boy born on December 25, Christmas Day.

Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California via a surrogate mother. Her identity is unknown.

Elton and David dated for 12 years, and then married in a civil partnership in December 2005, under a British law for same-sex couples.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Box Office

Little Fockers beat two Jeff Bridges movies...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-27/-fockers-tops-u-s-christmas-weekend-box-office-with-34-million-in-sales.html

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Playboy Playmate Crystal Harris Engaged To Hugh Hefner - Photo

Well, we can stop feeling sorry for 84 year old Hugh Hefner now.

Seems the old geezer has once again stepped into the world of blissful engagement and put a ring on 24 year old Playboy Playmate model Crystal Harris.

Harris graced the cover of Playboy in December 2009 while still 23 years young.

Hefner divorced his last twenty year old playmate in 2010, and divorced his first wife way back in 1959.

Way to go Hef.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Justin Bieber Stuffs His Bus For Christmas - Video

Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber stuffed his tour bus last night with toys from fans. The effort was aided by Atlanta radio station Q100 and The Bert Show.

Bieber’s fans where all asked to bring 1 unwrapped gift to his last concert on his North American concert tour on December 23, 2010. Justin planned to fill a tour bus and deliver the gifts to CHOA (Childrens Hospital of Atlanta) before Christmas.

Bieber has performed 86 shows on his American tour as well as visiting Japan, Germany, Spain, and the U.K. For such a small star, Justin Bieber seems to have a big heart!

Monday, December 20, 2010

Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah Ngangkung

Two horror comedies almost back to back released? Coincidence? Hmmm... and now there are at least three horror movies coming out soon... horror phase now?

Anyway, one's from the director of Zombi Kampung Pisang and the other's from David Teo...

Kak Limah tells the story of the same people from the movie Zombi Kampung Pisang... but this time they're dealing with the death and subsequent haunting of said Kak Limah... while Ngangkung tells the story of three guys who uses the supernatural to get a winning lotto number, with some consequences of course...

I saw Ngangkung first... to be honest, it does nothing for me... nothing much anyways... it's a pretty decent movie, a little laughing here and there... Shaheizy Sam's charms were kinda muted in this one... seems like a vehicle for Azad Jazmin...

Hantu Kak Limah on the other hand... very entertaining... and there were plenty of scary situations but interspersed with comedic moments and there were many scenes that would make you burst out laughing...

Although I don't like the part where Mamat Khalid tricks us at the end... it's the same like Zombi Kampung Pisang... they had to die in order to turn into zombies so how could you just inject a serum and have them all miraculously get back to being alive? Sigh...

And this revelation... about Kak Limah... cheated us out of the whole movie experience... a lot of the scenes doesn't make sense anymore... It's not a good practice to do that... you made something out to be one thing and then at the end, you say it's actually something else, so many scenes have been rendered useless and irrelevant now... sigh...

In this case, Ngangkung won because it did not do a 180 and declare it was just a dream...

Top 25

Inception and Johnny Depp tops IMDB 2010 Top 25 List...

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/12/20/johnny-depp-inception-imdb/

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Box Office

Tron Legacy beats out its competition!

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1654595/20101219/story.jhtml

Friday, December 17, 2010

It’s Official: Justin Bieber Is a Brat

We have been hearing it for a while now… “Justin Bieber is a spoiled brat”.

Yes, the sixteen year old teen sensation appears to be turning into somewhat of a diva and a practical joke lover. But reports are surfacing that says Bieber’s joking has started to go too far and many staffers are beginning to avoid the singer fearing they will be his next victim.

A BBC radio host mentioned the Bieb specifically when asked who his worst celebrity interview was. Another story broke that says Bieber told a television staffer to never fu***ing touch him again. Another prank backfired when Justin pushed a friend of his into a swimming pool not realizing the guy had his passport, phone, wallet, and expensive suit on him.

Earlier this summer he was almost arrested at a venue because he threw water balloons at a cop.

At other times the joking turns into bursts of total disrespect for someone as if, “I’m Justin Bieber and I can do anything I want and say anything I want.”

Others close to the singer say Justin’s mother, Patti, is growing concerned Bieber is growing up too fast, in an out of control celebrity frenzy, and that it has started to go to his head.

What did you expect?
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Nominations - SAG

Pretty soon, it'll be Oscar nominations...

http://www.sagawards.org/media-pr/press-releases/17th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards-%C2%AE-nominations-announcement

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Nominations - Golden Globes

The Golden Globes have announced its nominations...

http://www.goldenglobes.org/blog/2010/12/the-68th-annual-golden-globe-awards-nominations/

My faves are The Social Network, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, Tangled, Toy Story 3 and of course Glee! :)

Friday, December 10, 2010

Review - My Soul To Take

Wes Craven is definitely the king of horror. Wait, maybe it's Stephen King... but anyway, I kinda did not know this was Wes Craven's work.

I first saw the trailer on Trailer Addict and was instantly captivated by it. So I was looking forward to catching it when it comes out. Yes, yes, I am a horror/slasher movie junkie. One of my favorite movies is Scream (which is incidentally Wes Craven's handiwork as well).

And just like Scream, this movie started out with an intense scene, very bloody and kinda scary.

My Soul To Keep, the phrase, is a part of a classic children's prayer... also because the movie is all about souls... :)

The movie tells of a person with many souls in them... like multiple personalities... and that once the person dies, the souls linger on... the night the Riverton Ripper was finally killed, seven babies were born... and in each of them, the parts of the souls of the murderer lies in wait...

But only one of them got the evil soul... every year, on their birthday, the Riverton Seven does a ritual in which they defeat the 'Ripper' so that the Ripper would not be able to come after them in real life...

This year, they were interrupted... and the Ripper appears and offed them one by one until he gets to the one he wants... his own son...

The plot sounds great to me... hehehe... and so was the execution... unfortunately, the killings were a bit sudden and abrupt... like there was no milking of the tension and suspense of a cat-and-mouse scene between the slasher and the victim...

For example, one girl's throat was slashed immediately upon encountering the evil guy... not even allowed a scream or running away...

But I think all these quickie murders are setting up for the final showdown, which was quite a long one... So guess it works... :)

Acting-wise, everybody was not too bad considering they're a bunch of unknowns... except for the mother, who was Susan (Ross' ex, Carol's life partner) on FRIENDS.

All in all, it was a nice outing for me... I enjoyed the movie very much... being the horror/slasher junkie that I am...

Have a good weekend guys! Tonite is Hantu Mak Limah Balik Rumah at Midvalley...

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Trailer - I Am Number Four

I Am Number 4 is based on a book of the same name... about aliens on Earth, hunted down and killed in sequence... even mentioned Malaysia... starring Alex Pettyfer, better known as Alex Rider from the Stormbreaker movie... also starring Timothy Olyphant and Glee's Dianna Agron.