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I'm a big fan of Zach Braff on Facebook, he posts some hilarious stuff for his fans, and just recently shared a video on his page uploaded from December 2011 to YouTube, he recorded with his best friend,  Scrubs' Turk   (Donald Faison). T he video is a cover of Frank Loesser's "Baby It's Cold Outside" a Christmas classic, but with a JD and Turk twist, showcasing their beautiful bromance and adding some charming hilarity to a simple song. It got me thinking, there are very few celebrities uploading YouTube videos, that are having their own YouTube pages, for instance with the multi talented Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Here are some of my favourite videos, from two of my favourite actors/actresses who have a certain charming quality to them, which makes them even more endearing and stand out from the rest of Hollywood. 1. Zach Braff and Donald Faison share some Christmas joy and love with this brilliant, funny and very sunny cover of

A s Woody Allen films go this one has all the crucial ingredients of a classic: humour being the most recognisable, though at times it is incredibly dark. It also has a bleak look at relationships, amid betrayal and the backdrop and characteristic setting of New York as the filler for all the glamour within which Jasmine lives. San Francisco comes as the welcoming free spirited alter ego city to the high flying New York skyline. Jasmine has a complete mental breakdown T he story of Blue Jasmine , centres around a high flying Manhattan socialite with a fraudster husband, who among other things is an adulterer and all round con artist played by Alec Baldwin incredibly well with a great sliminess to him. Jasmine ends up living with her adoptive sister in San Francisco, Ginger (Sally Hawkins) who is a down and out character in relation to the sophisticated socialite existence Jasmine is used to. She is brought down to her sisters level, no town houses or charity functions to organ

I love Christmas films, especially when they're up there with the true classics, like It's a Wonderful Life and Christmas Carol . Roughly a dozen films that are shown on TV around this year are classics, for me, and watching them will get me all warm, fuzzy and over excitable about Christmas and the promise of the day. Soppy Christmas fan that I am. Meredith and Everett...the happy couple?! The Family Stone isn't on the same level as the James Stewart classic or even the Patrick Stewart classic, but features a decent ensemble cast headed by Diane Keaton, the matriarch of the family. The film centres around a very eccentric family of siblings consisting of Rachel McAdams, Luke Wilson and Dermot Mulroney. Everett (Mulroney) brings along his girlfriend Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) an uptight businesswoman, to the family gathering for their Christmas celebrations.  Family's are never normal, or perfect, especially when they're as eccentric and this cr

So it has been announced tonight live on national TV, and broadcast internationally for fans worldwide, that Peter Capaldi will portray the 12th incarnation of the Doctor. In a special show Zoe Ball announced the new Doctor after celebrating the previous 11 incarnations; possibly causing the whole of the internet and Tumblr to explode from the excitement of the casting. The day before, the BBC unveiled the new teaser trailer for series 3 of Sherlock , which revealed Mrs. Hudson, Lestrade, Mycroft, Molly and John with the imminent arrival and re-appearance from Sherlock after the Reichenbach Fall where he "died". This week has been full of exciting announcements and tonight topped it all off. Reaction has been quick and fast with Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook. Fandom pages, websites, fans and celebrities have been voicing their opinion on the actor stepping into the shoes after Matt Smith's 11th Doctor. Peter Capaldi's past roles includes the most famous

At 7pm tonight on BBC 1 an unveiling of the most iconic role in TV history, the sci-fi role of a lifetime: the Doctor from Doctor Who will be uncovered in front of a live studio audience of fans and worldwide at the same time. I think this makes up for the fact that fans at Comic-Con San Diego were the first to see the Doctor Who 50th anniversary trailer before the UK fans, who were there to begin with and always have been. You can tell I'm pissed about not being at the biggest nerd gathering in the world. Moffat is the man with the choice, his choice could affect the future of the show. It will be the right choice, but just like with Matt Smith who was the youngest actor to play the Doctor, who wasn't even born with Who on the box, they could make a controversial choice; a woman or a younger Doctor. It only took me half an hour into Smith's first appearance to fall in love with his portrayal of the Doctor. I am hoping it will be the same for the 12th. Somehow it

*SPOILERS ALERT IN THIS POST*!! T he time has come to squeal, if you're a Hunger Games fan. The second book in the trilogy has it's official trailer straight from it's premiere at Comic-Con yesterday. It has finally been uploaded to the social network YouTube and broadcast worldwide, something which I think fans can be very happy about as the trailer is possibly the best and most highly anticipated film of 2013 and looks like it might be even better than the first film. As the biggest Hunger Games fan, of the books primarily, but as a big fan of the decent film adaptation of the first book The Hunger Games; I have been waiting patiently for something to whet the appetite a bit more, to hold me over until November when the film will be released. W hat can we take from this official theatrical trailer. Well for starters it sets up the world for Katniss after winning the 74th annual Hunger Games. There is a sense of a possible uprising, hope for the other

1. The Spectacular Now I love a good high school drama that doesn't try to  be funny and doesn't attempt to fit into the same conventional archetypal high school film. A film focusing on real teenagers in real life situations is something anyone older or younger can relate to. It's been done before with The Breakfast Club, Perks of Being a Wallflower,  and possibly though not directly  10 Things I hate About You  and now The Spectacular Now . Starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller, relative newcomers with a back catalogue of decent dramas, this is their chance to shine, with past roles as George Clooney's daughter in  The Descendants  and the criminal son in  Rabbit Hole to name their incredible debuts into Hollywood.  This high school film focuses on adolescence in the 21st century, discovering who they are, who they could be and what they want to be. Through love, life, family, relationships. It looks like an unconventional story about two high school senio

Pre-review of Man of Steel 2013  is all about Man of Steel for me, ever since I heard they were making another Superman film a good six years after Superman Returns in 2006. It was critically bashed and stank commercially,  Returns didn't really create a new franchise or build a decent career for Superman himself, Brandon Routh who completely disappeared afterwards. Anybody would have had high expectations for this new fresh faced Superman reboot, simply for the fact that Christopher Nolan who re-imagined Batman could possibly do the same for Superman. Hype during the build up to MOS High anticipation. Epic music to whet the appetite. Three incredibly well edited epic trailers later, has increased the anticipation tenfold for the release on June 14th.   The combination of Zack Snyder, Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer should equal any decent summer blockbuster since the beginning of legendary comic book films with The Dark Knight.  It would hopefully be an ori

I bought and read To Kill A Mockingbird during a month long trip in Rishikesh, India. It was an intriguing read full of characters you really felt for, as well as being a brilliantly written, thought provoking story of childhood and what we perceive in our own imaginations and the reality of the circumstances which we find ourselves in. " S he seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl " Scout Finch (Page 127, Part two). The novel mainly consists of the significant elements of Scout Finches childhood growing up in the 1930's along with her brother Jem and their father Atticus Finch. The events are seen through the seven year old's eyes, her first love, her childhood games, taunting the Radley's-especially making up stories about Boo Radley, who is a complete recluse in Maycomb a small town in deep south Alabama. The book is full of dry humour childlike thoughts, feeli

I always love hype before seeing a film. This film has been an intriguing and at most times controversial film seen by the press, especially American press. It seemed to me to be quite unbelievable that it even got made, what with secrecy when it comes to uncovering CIA operations. If you look at Argo  for example and the surrounding news stories about how much you can reveal when making a film about an undercover operation. Especially since this particular film subject focuses on the assassination of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, with only two years having passed. The film was being filmed by Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal in 2011 about the attempt to find, capture and kill the most wanted man in the world, as it had been over 10 years since 9/11; when the news broke that the Navy SEALs had found, killed and buried the body of Bin Laden in the North Arabian sea. So with the film in progress of being made before Osama's death, the film had to stop and find out the rest of th

S unday 24th February 2013 was Oscar night and arguably the biggest night in the movie business. Again being in Rishikesh I was unable to watch the show live, as I have done once in the past. Not only is it a tiring, long arduous watch, but, especially more so if the hosts that year are under par for example to mention a year James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted. Hathaway was doing her best but Franco just let everyone down. Being in a completely different time zone anyway, being 5 hours ahead of the US, you hope the jokes are good ones, a little bit rebellious and garners some oohs and ahhs from the celebrity filled audience, some cringe worthy jokes or shockers. McFarlane hosts 2013 Oscars T his year it was hosted by Family Guy creator and comedian Seth McFarlane, who you would think could be a controversial host who pulls the punches in his show as the Griffin family, attacking every racial class, sex, denomination etc etc. but at the Oscars you have to be conservative w

As I am in Rishikesh at the present moment until 7th March, I have been unable to immerse myself in the film award season; missing out on watching the BAFTA's which is always broadcast around my birthday in February, something I am very happy to watch as a birthday present every year. I have managed to watch the whole show via YouTube (unofficially from the normal format of the BBC iPlayer, because you cannot watch it abroad in India). My first reaction is atypical, definitely expected results, some surprises but then again BAFTA are always a more sophisticated individual award ceremony. The only one in the season that is from the British Academy, signalling us out as one of a kind. The soiree weather as I could tell from the initial broadcasts afterwards, featured rain and sleet at the same time, something to greet the Hollywood stars with, only in England. If I go through the list of winners and my reaction of unexpected and expected winners:   - Outstanding British Fi