INTERVIEW: Michelle Rodriguez Prefers Tough Chick Roles

Don't expect BATTLE: LOS ANGELES star Michelle Rodriguez to play a damsel in distress anytime soon.  Michelle tells CineMovie, she will stick to playing strong women roles and leave the eye candy to those who did it well.

Michelle Rodriguez stars in BATTLE: LOS ANGELES as a Marine fighting the aliens on the coast of Los Angeles. Since her film debut as tough girl boxer in Girlfight, Michelle has landed  the tough as nails roles in many action films including Resident Evil, The Fast and Furious, S.W.A.T, and most recently in Machete and Avatar.  The Puerto Rican and Dominican actress doesn't mind playing the tough-chick roles as she recently told CineMovie's Zay Zay and credits Latina actresses such as Rita Moreno, Rosie Perez and Jennifer Lopez for paving her way to Hollywood.

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Dwayne Johnson On Returning To Action In FASTER

CineMovie's Viviana Vigil sits down with Dwayne Johnson as he returns to the action genre in FASTER alongside Billy Bob Thornton. Dwayne Johnson took a break from the shoot 'em genre to concentrate on family-friendly films (Tooth Fairy, The Game Plan), comedies (Get Smart, The Other Guys) and a dramatic role in Gridiron Gang. In his new film FASTER, Dwayne puts "The Rock" back into his performance as a man out for revenge after a gang kills his brother. Add a comment

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INTERVIEW: Eli Roth on Docu-Horror

Hostel director and Inglourious Basterds star Eli Roth dons a producer hat for his new horror flick THE LAST EXORCISM, a pseudo documentary-style shot film he calls a "first person horror experience".  

Eli Roth and THE LAST EXORCISM stars Ashley Bell and Patrick Fabian sat down with CineMovie to talk about their new film and why it even scared them after watching it.

Shot in a documentary-style format reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project, THE LAST EXORCISM creates a sense of realism for the viewer which creates a much more scary experience according to the writer/director of Cabin Fever. In the film, a documentary crew follows Reverend Marcus Cotton as a preacher man who explains to the camera that possessions are psychological and not real. The Reverend (Fabian) has made a career out of faking exorcisms to help people with their mental conditions and he takes the crew on his latest request for an exorcism to prove his theory.

When the possessed teen (Bell) stares into the camera with an eery look, the viewer feels the target of the possession and that is why Eli reveals makes THE LAST EXORCISM unique from other horror films.

Watch the interview for more with Eli and actors Ashley Bell and Patrick Fabian.

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Movie Review and Clip: Robert Pattinson in Remember Me

In the romantic drama REMEMBER ME, Robert Pattinson (Twilight Saga) plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has a strained relationship with his father (former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan) ever since tragedy separated their family.  In this clip from REMEMBER ME, Robert Pattinson's Tyler loses his temper with his father during one of his board meetings. 

Tyler didn’t think anyone could possibly understand what he was going through until the day he met Ally (Lost's Emilie de Ravin) through an unusual twist of fate. Love was the last thing on his mind, but as her spirit unexpectedly heals and inspires him, he begins to fall for her. Through their love, he begins to find happiness and meaning in his life. Soon, hidden secrets are revealed, tragedy lingers in the air, as the circumstances that brought them together threaten to tear them apart.

Set in the summer of 2001, REMEMBER ME is an unforgettable story about the power of love, the strength of family, and the importance of living passionately and treasuring every day of one’s life.

Remember Me also stars Academy Award® winner Chris Cooper, and Academy Award® nominee Lena Olin.

U.S. release via Summit Entertainment, March 12, 2010. Rated PG-13.

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Nicolas Cage Compares Jay Baruchel To Bogart and Nicholson

Actor Jay Baruchel is gaining new fans with his recent hits - How To Train Your Dragon and She's Out of My League including veteran actor Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage stars in THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE as a sorcerer training his new apprentice played by Jay Baruchel but in real life, the young actor needed no coaching from the Oscar winner. 

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Jay Baruchel began his career with Judd Apatow's tv series Undeclared and in numerous television guest appearances on Numb3rs, Just Legal and The Rules of Attraction before he moved to the big screen in a small role for Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004).  It was his role in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up starring Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl that finally got the young actor attention.  2010 proved to be Jay's year as he transitioned into leading man status with three major Hollywood movies including the break out hit How To Train Your Dragon which he voiced the lead role of Hiccup.   

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Nicholas Cage, a fan of Jay's performance in How To Train Your Dragon, praised his young co-star's ability to improvise and "jazz style" acting during a recent press event in Beverly Hills. "He, in my opinion, subscribes to jazz style acting.  He's not afraid to go off the page, improvise and throw something at you.  I can riff with him and some accidents happen where you get to a more real truth."

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Nicolas Cage also compared the 28 year-old Canadian actor's distinctive voice to Cage's acting heroes.  "I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones with the voices that are imitable.  My heroes are like Bogart, Eastwood, Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson.  Well Jay's got a voice. That's hard to have." 

Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel in The Scorerer's Apprentice

The Leaving Las Vegas star knows a thing or two about "imitable" voices since Nicolas Cage's own unique voice made him a break out star in memorable roles in Valley Girl, Moonstruck, and Joel and Ethan Coen's Raising Arizona.

Jay Baruchel in turn was flattered by Cage's comments and in awe of working with one of his childhood idols.  

"When you work with somebody who's close to hero status for you... it'll either make you wilt in the presence of greatness and you lose it all or I better bring my A game." 

Jay not only played an apprentice to Nicolas' sorcerer character but he took on the role of student when the cameras weren't rolling. 

"I got to show up on set everyday and have conversations with this guy who I've watched since I was a little kid.   I didn't want to blow it.  It just made me want to work as hard as I possibly could to be as good as he is."

 Nicolas Cage further added that Jay Baruchel's talent will take him far.  "He's going to be around forever."  If Jay is taking cues from his co-star in terms of navigating through Hollywood, then Nicolas Cage's prediction may be right.

THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE is in theaters July 14.

 

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