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Kerry Washington Teases Final 'Scandal' Season


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If there's one thing people know about Shonda Rhimes, it's that she's highly capable of creating gripping television for a wide audience. As the mastermind behind the likes of 'How To Get Away With Murder', 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Scandal', the television writer has shot herself right into the hearts of millions of TV viewers across the globe, bringing relatable and inspirational characters to the small screen.

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One of those characters is 'Scandal' lead Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington. Introduced back in 2012, viewers learned that this former White House Communications Director wasn't somebody you'd want to cross, but somebody who would be brilliantly loyal and trustworthy if you got on her right side.

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Cars 3 - Extended Trailer


Former Piston Cup Champion Lightning McQueen was a hero in his day, but it seems in the last few years technology has improved so much that he is constantly being out-run by newer and more advanced models. His latest rival is the super-speedy newcomer Jackson Storm, whose arrogant attitude makes McQueen desperate to beat him once and for all. Naturally, he's being bugged constantly about his plans for retirement, but to him it only feels like yesterday that he was a rookie himself making waves in the racing world. It doesn't matter how many tricks he learns to up his game, however, he'll never be the racer he once was. But his friends are nonetheless determined to train him up to be the best he can be, led by the young and enthusiastic technician Cruz Ramirez. He might never be able to match Jackson's speed, but that doesn't mean he can't outsmart him on the track.

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Kerry Washington Brings Her First Son Caleb Into The World


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Congratulations to Kerry Washington and her husband Nnamdi Asomugha, who have just revealed that they welcomed their second child - a son named Caleb Kelechi - into the world earlier this month in Los Angeles. A nice surprise baby brother for toddler Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha!

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According to reports, the 'Scandal' star and her NFL player husband of three years saw the birth of baby Caleb on October 5th at 9:56 pm, having announced the pregnancy back in May. Caleb is the couple's second child together, after their 2-year-old daughter Isabelle Amarachi. 

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Angelina Jolie Reportedly Hires 'Scandal' Crisis Manager Judy Smith


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Angelina Jolie has reportedly hired crisis manager Judy Smith, the woman who inspired the hit TV show ‘Scandal’, according to US Weekly.

Smith is said to be helping Jolie in her high-profile split from husband Brad Pitt, which continues to dominate headlines.

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Kerry Washington Calls Out Magazine Over Photoshopped Cover


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Kerry Washington has called out Adweek magazine for heavily photoshopping her image on their most recent cover. While the ‘Scandal’ star praised the article, she said it felt strange looking at the altered cover, which she described as ‘so different from what I look like when I look in the mirror.’

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Natalie Portman Joins Likes Of Meryl Streep & Kevin Spacey In Paying Tribute To Mike Nichols


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Natalie Portman has paid tribute to the late director Mike Nichols.

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Natalie Portman at the Childrens' Hospital Gala in Los Angeles in October 2014.

Read More: The Life and Career of Late Director Mike Nichols.

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Five Things Scandal Fans Need To Recap


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Tense US political thriller, Scandal, was back on American screens on Thursday night after an explosive season 3, figuratively and, of course, literally. And, while there may have been too many plot twists, storyline turns and character revelations for the average viewer to comprehend, we’ve got five refresher points that even the keenest watcher may want to scan over before embarking on the next season.

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Kerry Washington stars as Olivia Pope in the hit US political thriller, Scandal

Fitz won the election but lost his son

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Dear New York Times, Shonda Rhimes Is Not An ‘Angry Black Woman’


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Shonda Rhimes has taken to twitter to voice her displeasure towards a New York Times critic who suggested her autobiography should be called 'How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman'.

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On Thursday (Sept. 18th), New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley opened her review of ‘How To Get Away With Murder’, with the line "When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.”

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The 66th Prime Time Emmy: Who’s In Line To Make History?


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The 66th Prime Time Emmys are kicking off tonight at 8pm EDT on NBC, and with plenty of long-running shows still in the mix to pick up awards, plenty of actors, actresses, comedies dramas and miniseries are ready to make Emmy history with their potential wins. 

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In terms of ‘first timers’, Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" and  "House of Cards" could become the first online shows to pick up high end Emmy Awards. Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, the popular comedy, Modern Family and AMC’s five-season meth drama, Breaking Bad, could also make history. Modern Family could tie with Frasier on five awards for best Comedy Series, while Bryan Cranston could go level with Dennis Franz on four Best Actor in a Drama awards.

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The Definitive Guide To Watching The Emmys (When Your Favourites Got Snubbed)


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Few moments are more important in television than Emmy season. Like, how will we know which new shows are good, if the Academy doesn’t tell us? Alternatively, if your favorite show got snubbed this year, you’ll probably still be watching with your best ironic sneer, being all: “This got nominated over Orphan Black?” Hypothetically, of course.

So, whether your shows got nominated or not, here is the definitive guide to watching the Emmys this year. Works for beginners, as well as advanced TV maniacs.

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We could have done with a couple more nods for Orange, tbh.

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Can't Have It All? Check Out Kerry Washington, Doing Just That.


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After giving birth to a baby girl last month, Kerry Washington is already back working, which in her case means filming for Scandal, giving interviews and looking stunning on various red carpets. Speaking to the LA Times on June 10, Kerry did a Twitter fan Q & A, mostly talking about her pregnancy and motherhood.

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The bump was all we got to see of Washington's pregnancy.

One fan asked how she was finding the return to work after her short maternity leave, to which Washington responded: "So tricky because you know I don't talk about this stuff," but went on to say she feels "really blessed."

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ABC Announces Fall Roster - "Scandal" And "Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D." Are Safe


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Besides the five new series on ABC’s roster this season, the network is also renewing a number of its hit shows. Returning favorites include the Shonda Rhimes-penned Scandal (Rhimes is also debuting the thriller How To Get Away With Murder this fall).

More: The Shield actor Michael Jace shoots and kills his wife

The renewal notices came pouring late on Thursday to rescue a number of rookie shows from broadcasting limbo. The lucky winners include Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Resurrection and The Goldbergs as well as established hits Once Upon a Time (for Season 4), Castle (for Season 7), Scandal (for Season 4)and Grey’s Anatomy (for a record-breaking Season 11).

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It Happened Two Weeks Ago: Kerry Washington Keeps Birth Of Baby Daughter Remarkably Private


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Announcement time: Kerry Washington has given birth to a baby girl. The little one came into the world on April 21 (kudos to Washington for managing to keep it private until now). Her name is Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha, according to TMZ and Us Weekly. Washington usually keeps her personal life private and this has remained true during her pregnancy. The few bits of news released have included the original pregnancy announcement back in October of 2013, when Washington, 36 and her husband Nnamdi Asomugha announced that they were expecting. Three months later Washington’s pregnancy made news again, when the actress stepped out with her brand new baby bump at the 2014 Golden Globe awards on Jan. 12.

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Washington's Grecian gown at the Oscars emphasized her growing baby bump.

"I feel like I have the best date of the night," Washington, clad in a white Balenciaga gown, said for Us Weekly on the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. "My little accessory tonight." Asomugha later joined his pregnant wife at an after party, which marked a rare public appearance for the pair.

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Kerry Washington Gave Birth To Daughter - Two Weeks Ago!


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Kerry Washington has impressively managed to keep the birth of her daughter a secret for almost a fortnight!

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Kerry Washington at the Oscars in March.

The 37-year-old actress gave birth to her daughter on 21st April but has managed to keep the birth a secret. It was revealed on Friday (2nd May), after TMZ obtained a birth certificate, that Washington has named her daughter Isabelle Amarachi. Isabelle was born on 21st April at approximately 5pm at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Las Vegas.

Washington is best known for her role as Olivia Pope on the hit ABC drama, Scandal. Washington has been highly praised for her performance and has won or been nominated for numerous awards including a nomination last year for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

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Scandal! Kerry Washington Gives Birth To Daughter (And We Didn’t Know For Two Weeks!)


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So Kerry Washington sure knows how to keep a secret, the ‘Scandal’ star welcomed a baby daughter, named Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha, almost two weeks ago and nobody knew, until TMZ that is.

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The gossip site obtained the birth certificate which shows that little Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha was born on April 21st at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Kerry herself is still staying quiet on the latest addition to her family, but we’re guessing she has her hands full at the moment.

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Explosive 'Scandal' Season Finale, A Happy Ending?


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A church explosion, a rape accusation, meningitis and a dramatic resignation. Only in the finale of TV’s craziest show, Scandal. Within five minutes Sally and Andrew had managed to escape an explosion, which is then savvily spun into a PR stunt. Amid Fitz’ promises to her that he would divorce his wife, Liv tells the President that she believes his father, Jerry, had raped Mellie.

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The paternity of Fitz and Mellie’s son is established - Fitz is the father. Sadly this means that once again Olivia and Fitz are destined to be kept apart, but she explains that she would not want to be with someone who could leave his wife after such shocking news. Liv goes to visit her father, who is recovering from a stabbing, only to find her mother who tries to explain how she has acting with her daughter’s best interests at heart.

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"Scandal" Recap: The One Where Everything Happens, All At Once


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Lots of things happened on Thursday night’s episode of Scandal, most of them setting up for the big finale next week. In this recap you get two warnings: it might be hard to keep up and as unual WATCH OUT FOR ALL THE SPOILERS below.

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Kerry Washington's Olivia Pope had some tough choices to make in this episode.

In last night’s episode Rowan Pope joined Jake Ballard and the Gladiators in the search for a bomb, planted somewhere in Washington, while Fitz chilled out/was put under house arrest at the White House, putting him temporarily out of commission.
Elsewhere in the White House, things were taking a much more personal turn. Cooped up and alone, the First Lady is suffering some serious pangs of guilt. The Langston camp finds out that Mellie is trying to have a paternity test taken, but Olivia, being excellent at her job as ever, finds out and shuts down the whole thing. This means that it’s finally confession time for Mellie and she lets slip the secret of Little Jerry’s possible parentage. Liv is left shocked, but promises to find out the truth.

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Lena Dunham Goes All Old Testament On SNL


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Lena Dunham hosted and helped out the SNL team with a few sketches last night. And it was hilarious – mostly if you’re a Girls fan. Much has been written about Dunham’s Girls – mostly about its white-washed, middle-class, spoiled and completely self-unaware cast of characters. At least no one can say that Dunham herself lacks self-awareness though.

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Put Dunham and the SNL cast together and the fun never ends. Sort of.

In a sketch, based on the recent trend of religious flicks – Son of God and Noah being to prime examples – Taran Killan played Adam Driver as the Adam to Dunham’s Eve. The sketch was perfectly on point - wonder if it'll win the show some new viewers? Girls fans will recognize lines like: “Can you please not apple-shame me? I know I committed original sin, but at least it's original. I think I deserve some credit for that—or at least a publishing deal…”

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Bill Murray, Lupita Nyong'o, Benedict Cumberbatch Get The Vanity Fair Oscars After-Party Started [Pictures]


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Hollywood was out in full force for one of last night's biggest and most glamorous Oscars after-parties, hosted by Vanity Fair. After the star-studded ceremony had taken place, guests flocked to the annual party and its new specially designed setting at 8680 Sunset Boulevard, built under the direction of architect Basil Walter, according to the magazine.

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'Scandal' Star Kerry Washington Looked Elegant In A Dusty Purple Down.

Guests were greeted with cocktails and music as they arrived at the V.F. editor Graydon Carter-hosted event. A steady procession of movie star A-listers filed into the party to celebrate their wins, congratulate each other and try out a little bit of dancing. It was an evening of merriment and friendship, even between former lovers.

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Kerry Washington Is Excited To Host SNL, And Eminem Loves Cupcakes


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Last year was pretty brilliant for Kerry Washington: she starred in Quentin Tarantino’s slavery epic, Django Unchained, and her show – Scandal – was a huge success.

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Now reveling in the show’s second season, Washington - who is pregnant – looks like she's going from strength-to-strength. Well, rounding it off with a hosting performance on SNL with Eminem as your musical guest isn’t a bad way to compete!

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Following Accusations Of Lacking Diversity, SNL Books Kerry Washington To Host


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“Scandal” star Kerry Washington is about to reach another milestone in her career, as she has been drafted to host Saturday Night Live for the first time. Washington will take over the sketch comedy show on November 2, Deadline reports. Her appearance comes at a turbulent time for SNL, as the show has once again come under fire for failing to represent any kind of ethnic diversity. There is some truth to this, considering that Washington’s temporary addition to the cast rounds out the number of non-white people onstage to a meager total of four and out of them, Washington will be the only black female.

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Washington's booking brings a little diversity to the SNL stage.

The show came under some fire online recently, when cast-member Kenan Thompson got dragged back into the diversity controversy during a TV Guide interview. When he had to answer the question of why, for the sixth consecutive season, SNL had failed to hire a single black comedienne Thompson came out with a rather foot-in-mouth answer.

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Kerry Washington Is "Luckiest Broad In Showbiz" After Emmy Nomination And Marriage


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It's been a great year for Kerry Washington: the last twelve months have seen the actress star in gritty slavery western Django Unchained alongside Jamie Foxx, take on a lighter role as daughter Grace in romantic comedy The Peeples, and most importantly has seen her ABC political TV drama Scandal take off.

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Newlywed Kerry Washington Glowing After Her Emmy Nomination.

The cerebral TV drama focusses on Washington as 'fixer' Olivia Pope - an expert in crisis management - who identifies problems of the powerful and even the president and makes them go away before anyone else knows they exist; always following Pope's strong gut instinct. After discovering she was in line to scoop a 'best actress' Emmy, Washington told The Daily Mail "I'm the luckiest broad in showbiz. I just feel really blessed and humbled and grateful for this nomination," adding "I'm going to celebrate with my Scandal family after we have our table read today."

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Kerry Washington Scandal Emmy Award Nomination Marriage


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Kerry Washington discussed her recent marriage and Emmy nominations on Thursday (18th July). The actress was nominated for her first Primetime Emmy.

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Kerry Washington at the 2013 CFDA Awards, New York.

Washington has been nominated for the Primetime Emmys in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The drama series in question is ABC's Scandal. Washington plays Olivia Pope, head of a crisis management firm, who works with the US government covering up various indiscretions. The show has had two successful seasons and is currently filming the third. Washington will return to our screens for season 3 of Scandal on Thursday 3rd October. 

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One Show's Dip Is Another Show's Success: The Ratings Are In For TV's Big Finale Week


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The ratings from TV finale week are in and, as you might expect, it’s looking good for the last ever (tear) episode of The Office and CBS’s Scandal, while good ol’ American Idol takes its deepest plunge yet. According to USA Today, the singing competition, which crowned Candice Glover as the winner, drew in only 14.3 million viewers for Fox, less than half of its peak audience of 36+ million, who tuned in to the 2005 finale. At this point things are looking bleak for Idol, which is even trailing behind CBS’s Big Bang Theory. That show broadcast to 14.8 million. Some frontrunners in the newcomer category included ABC’s political drama Scandal, starring Kerry Washington. The series managed to draw in 9.1 million for its second season finale.

And last but not least of course there was The Office. The much beloved sitcom has never quite had a viewership on the scale of a talent competition. Still, with its extended 75-minute finale, which saw the return of Steve Carell and prompted a lot of nostalgia, The Office bowed out with 5.7 million people watching. All in all, though, it’s been an underwhelming season for television. Perhaps online productions of the kind Netflix has been working on this past year really are the way forward.

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The almost identical ratings, which spell doom for Idol, mean that BBT is flying high.

Scandal Season 2 Closes With Big Revelations All Round


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Spoiler alert.

TV season finales are abundant this week, but a particularly painful one has to be that of Scandal. The second season of the ABC series ended with a lot of drama, so pretty much the way it began. Fair warning though, this recap will contain spoilers for the finale.

DAD? Is it true? Is Rowan really Olivia’s father? Of course it’s true, this particular plot twist surprised very few people, as some fans guessed it as soon as Rowan (aka Mystery Man) showed up earlier this season.

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Video - Shonda Rhimes, Tony Goldwyn And Kerry Washington Make Their Arrivals At The Annual White House Dinner - Part 2


Among the red carpet arrivals for the prestigious White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Hilton hotel in Washington DC were Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, 'Grey's Anatomy' creator Shonda Rhimes, 'Scandal' star Tony Goldwyn and 'Django Unchained' actress Kerry Washington.

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Django’s Kerry Washington Stars In Tyler Perry’s 'Peeples' [Trailer And Pictures]


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Tyler Perry’s conveyor belt of movies has thrown up another light-hearted comedy, this time in the form of Peeples, directed by Tina Gordon Chism and starring Django Unchained star Kerry Washington and Craig Robinson. It centers around a well-off East Coast family celebrating a reunion weekend in the Hamptons. However, the retreat is interrupted when their daughter Grace’s (Washington) fiance Wade (Robinson) crashes the party to announce their surprise engagement.

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Wade Walker has been dating Grace Peeples for a year and he's desperate to meet the rest of the family, if only to ask her father for her hand in marriage. However, she still has major reservations about it given that her father is a formidable federal judge. When she jets off to the east coast for her annual family reunion in the Hamptons, Wade bravely follows determined to show his future father-in-law that he is good enough to join them as his daughter's future husband. Things don't go according to plan with an immediate personality clash and several major gaffes on the part of Wade, but he soon learns over the course of a very eventful weekend that there's more to this seemingly perfect family than meets the eye and he's prepared to stand up to them no matter what the consequences.

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Django Unchained Review


Excellent

Tarantino takes an unusually comical approach to a provocative topic, and the result is as controversial as expected. And also startlingly hilarious. At its core, this is another revenge-themed thriller, but Tarantino's snappy, constantly surprising aproach spirals out to explore racial issues over the past 150 years with humour, drama and, of course, grisly violence.

Set two years before the American Civil War in 1858 Texas, the story centres on bounty hunter Schultz (Waltz), who offers the slave Django (Foxx) what seems like a fantasy job: to work with him to capture white criminals dead or alive. Usually dead. Sure enough, everyone is shocked to see a black man not only riding a horse but carrying a gun. When Django helps find three notorious outlaw brothers, he earns his freedom, and Schultz then offers to help free Django's enslaved wife (Washington). This involves staging an elaborate sting on her owner, the bloodthirsty Mississippi plantation owner Calvin (DiCaprio), who runs a ring of slaves who fight each other to the death. But Calvin's butler Stephen (Jackson) suspects that something is up.

Waltz and Foxx have terrific chemistry in the central roles, with Waltz's lively intelligence bouncing off Foxx's physical and emotional intensity. This gives the film an underlying drive that keeps us engaged through the blood-soaked violence as well as the more slapstick-style sequences (a KKK raid led by Johnson and Hill feels like a lost sequence from Blazing Saddles). But Tarantino's screenplay is beautifully constructed to even out the tone with exciting action, harrowing nastiness and some darkly involving drama. All while quietly exploring the twisted history of racial relations in America.

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A Week In Movies Feat: Academy Snub For Bigelow, Django Scores Five Oscar And 5 Bafta Nominations And Robot & Frank Trailer Delights


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Oscar Nominations 2013

 

Academy Snub For Bigelow, Django Scores Five Oscar And 5 Bafta Nominations And Robot & Frank Trailer Delights

The big movie news this week, of course, was the announcement of this year's Oscar nominations, to which people reacted with the usual levels of surprise and anger. The biggest snub seems to be for previous winner Kathryn Bigelow, who was overlooked for a directing nomination even though her film Zero Dark Thirty earned five other nods, including Best Picture. 

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Quentin Tarantino On Newton School Massacre: "Tragedies Happen"


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Movie director Quentin Tarantino has defended violence in movies following Friday's school shootings in Newton, Connecticut, which left 26 dead. The Django Unchained director said he was tired of defending his films each time the U.S. is shaken by gun violence, saying, "tragedies happen," reports BBC News.

His lead actor Jamie Foxx said big screen violence can certainly influence people, telling press at a junket in New York, "We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does." Django Unchained follows the story of a slave living in the Deep South, who sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner, played by Leonardo Dicaprio. Kerry Washington - who plays Foxx's on-screen wife - said, "I do think that it's important when we have the opportunity to talk about violence and not just kind of have it as entertainment, but connect it to the wrongs, the injustices, the social ills." 20 children and six women died in the assault on Sandy Hook school by a lone gunman - thought to be Adam Lanza, 20 - last week. He shot dead his mother before driving to the school in her car.

Premieres for Tom Cruise's new violent action flick Jack Reacher were cancelled in light of the events in Newton, while the Fox network cancelled forthcoming episodes of Family Guy and American Dad.

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Newtown Shooting Reaction: Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino On Violence And The Film Industry


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Well, it was about time. The school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that occurred on Friday and, as the nation mourns the victims, the debates about violence in the media are just beginning.

The latest person to comment on this is actor Jamie Foxx, who, a bit ironically, stars in Django UnchainedQuentin Tarantino’s upcoming flick about slavery, which will feature quite a lot of explicit and violent scenes. While promoting the film on Saturday, the star braved the difficult topic, saying that Hollywood can no longer ignore the fact that on-screen violence influences people on some level.

"We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does," Fox said in an interview. Meanwhile, director Quentin Tarantino, who is known for his extremely violent and gory scenes, which are all part of his signature style, is once again struggling to defend his artistic freedom. Tarantino went on a bit of a tangent, explaining that he was tired of defending his films each time the nation was shocked by gun violence. He stated that “tragedies happen” and that blame should fall on those guilty of the crimes.

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"It's Always Racial": Jamie Foxx Discusses Django Unchained


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In a recent interview about forthcoming film Django Unchained, actor Jamie Foxx has admitted that “it’s always racial” as a black person. The quote comes in reference to the fact that some of the black community have criticized Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti western for not taking issues of slavery seriously enough in the film.

Foxx plays leading character Django, a man set free from slavery in order to work as a bounty hunter, as part of a deal that sees his buyer agree to help him find his lost wife; he told Vibe Magazine “as black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.” He added “I come into this place to do a photo shoot and they got Ritz crackers and cheese. I'll be like, ain't this a b*tch. Y'all didn't know black people was coming. What's with all this white sh*t? By the same token, if there is fried chicken and watermelon I'll say ain't this a b*tch? So, no matter what we do as black people it's always gonna be that. Every single thing in my life is built around race.”

Foxx was joined by Kerry Washington for the interview, and she said that, whilst it was clear to point out that it was a film, a work of fiction, there was no denying that they’d tried to treat slavery with as much truth as possible. “I remember there was this one moment in the script where Jamie's character was put in an awful crazy medieval metal mask” she commented. “I said, ‘That's some sick thing Quentin thought up.' And when I went to the production office to meet about my wardrobe, I saw into the research office. Twenty photos of real masks like that. It made me sad.”

Django Unchained Alternative Trailer


German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz is on the hunt for a brutal gang of murderers, the Brittle brothers. His search leads him to the only person who has information on the group, Django, who is a slave living in the deep south of the States. Schultz crosses his path as he finds Django shackled to a group of other slaves who are all being taken to auction. Posing as a dentist, Schultz requests to buy him from his owners. On the owners' refusal, Schultz ruthlessly shoots them to death and takes the slave. The bounty hunter promises to free Django and take him to rescue his wife, Broomhilda, who has been enslaved by a Mississippi plantation owner on the dead or alive capture of the Brittle brothers. On their success, Schultz frees Django as promised but the pair decides to stick together as bounty hunters full time. Their search for Broomhilda leads him to the 'Candyland' plantation owner Calvin Candie who has trainer Ace Woody train slaves to fight each other for sport. The bounty hunters arouse suspicion from loyal house slave Stephen as they arrive to explore the property under a false guise and soon become under threat by a dangerous organisation who are determined not to let them escape with Broomhilda.

This western drama is directed by the award-winning director, writer and Quentin Tarantino ('Pulp Fiction', 'Kill Bill', 'Reservoir Dogs') and includes a star-studded cast. 'Django Unchained' is a thought provoking story set in the deep south of America two years before the Civil War. It was inspired by 60s western 'Django' along with its sequels and includes a cameo appearance from 'Django' star Franco Nero.</p><p>It is set for release on December 25th 2013 in the US and January 18th 2013 in the UK.

Directed By: Quentin Tarantino

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The Details - Trailer Trailer


Jeff Lang is the morally questionable protagonist in this bizarre comedy. After 10 years of marriage with his wife Nealy, he begins to realise that their virtually loveless relationship is on the rocks, and all it took was an invasion of hungry raccoons who destroy the Lang garden and home after discovering a large number of worms in the undergrowth. Jeff develops a fixation on exterminating the raccoons and, along the way, seems to begin to exterminate his own life as he is drawn into a world of infidelity; namely with his wacky neighbour Lila. However, things do not go exactly as he had planned and he seems to wind up destroying his home worse than their garden pests.

'The Details' is a peculiarly dark comedy that certainly has plenty of nervous laughter moments but definitely leaves us feeling uncomfortable seeing the world from a character we don't particularly trust. It is the perfect story about the morally corrupt humans of the world who are not necessarily bad people, merely just instinctive and desperate people who rarely take time to contemplate the feelings of those around them - not dissimilar to the temperaments of the raccoons they so despise. Directed and written by the award winning Jacob Aaron Estes ('Mean Creek'), 'The Details' is set to hit US movie theaters on November 2nd 2012.

Directed and Writtten by: Jacob Aaron Estes

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Django Unchained Trailer


German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz is on the hunt for a brutal gang of murderers, the Brittle brothers. His search leads him to the only person who has information on the group, Django, who is a slave living in the deep south of the States. Schultz crosses his path as he finds Django shackled to a group of other slaves who are all being taken to auction. Posing as a dentist, Schultz requests to buy him from his owners. On the owners' refusal, Schultz ruthlessly shoots them to death and takes the slave. The bounty hunter promises to free Django and take him to rescue his wife, Broomhilda, who has been enslaved by a Mississippi plantation owner on the dead or alive capture of the Brittle brothers. On their success, Schultz frees Django as promised but the pair decides to stick together as bounty hunters full time. Their search for Broomhilda leads him to the 'Candyland' plantation owner Calvin Candie who has trainer Ace Woody train slaves to fight each other for sport. The bounty hunters arouse suspicion from loyal house slave Stephen as they arrive to explore the property under a false guise and soon become under threat by a dangerous organisation who are determined not to let them escape with Broomhilda.

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Mother And Child Review


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An excellent ensemble makes the most of a multi-strand female-centred film that drifts very close to melodrama as it explores various aspects of motherhood.

Fortunately writer-director Garcia is very careful to avoid wallowing in sentimentality.

Elizabeth (Watts) is a shark-like lawyer who easily seduces her new boss Paul (Jackson). She's had a difficult emotional life, and prefers to keep things under control, managing her friendships and relationships with icy distance.

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A Thousand Words Trailer


Jack McCall is a literary agent who has a way with words. He knows just what to say to use any situation to his advantage. For example: after joining a long queue at his favourite coffee shop, Jack became impatient and faked an emergency phone call in order to get himself to the front.

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Video - Photographer Doesn't Recognise Lost World Actress Camilla Belle - An Evening With Ralph Lauren Hosted By Oprah Winfrey Arrivals Part 3


Piers Morgan was just one of the many celebrities in attendance at An Evening With Ralph Lauren Hosted By Oprah Winfrey. The former Britain's Got Talent turned American TV personality seemed at ease with the photographers, joking with them as he smiled for photographs.

Actress Kerry Washington (Ray; The Last King of Scotland) wore a stunning black choker dress that was a hit with the photographers. The Lost World star Camilla Belle and model Lily Aldridge looked equally glamorous in their Ralph Lauren designed dresses

For Colored Girls Trailer


Tyler Perry re-works and Ntozake Shange's 1975 choreopoem/play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. The movie adaptation sees Shange's play given a new lease of life by Why Did I Get Married director/screenwriter Tyler Perry.

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