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Youth in Revolt
3 hours ago | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Miguel Arteta
Cast: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Zach Galifianakis, Ray Liotta, Justin Long, Steve Buscemi
Running Time: 1 hr, 30 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Plot: A tale about a young man whose reserved nature keeps the world at a distance. It isn’t until his awkwardly strewn together family is forced to go-into-hiding that he meets a young woman (from a similarly atypical family) who reawakens his lust for life and the possibilities that come along with falling in love. She’s a challenge, and while this proves too much for him, the young introvert creates a French (English-speaking) alter-ego to help him woo for into his life. This, as expected, proves to only add intrigue to the story, rather than make his courtship of her easier.
Who’S It For? Not sure if this is for straight-up SuperBad fans. Cera’s resume »
- Chris De Salvo
'Youth in Revolt': The Reviews Are In!
3 hours ago | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
See what the critics are saying about Michael Cera's latest coming-of-age comedy.
By Eric Ditzian
Michael Cera in "Youth in Revolt"
Photo: Weinstein Co.
The dilemma is clear, the solution utterly nutty. In "Youth in Revolt," Michael Cera's Nick Twisp plays a young romantic whose dweeby sensitivity is not going to win him the virginity-stealing affections of sultry tease Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday). Twisp's plan? Invent Mr. François Dillinger, an alter ego whose fire-starting, car-stealing ways might help Nick bed the gal of his dreams.
As far as savvy girl-getting strategies go, Twisp's might not be the wisest, as it soon becomes a little hard to differentiate between his true self and his law-breaking one. It certainly makes for a ton of laughs, though. What are the critics saying? With the film opening on Friday (January 8), the reviews are in. Let's take a look.
In Praise of Cera »
'Up In The Air' Songwriter Kevin Renick Amazed By His Real-Life, Feel-Good Tune
5 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Every year, it seems, awards season gives us some sort of feel-good Cinderella story. We all remember the “Slumdog” kids, or Keisha Castle-Hughes… hell, heartwarming awards season tales go all the way back to folks like Harold Russell in 1946’s “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Well, the tradition is continuing this year with one of the greatest real-life success stories we’ve heard in a awhile, and it involves Jason Reitman, a tape recorder and an unemployed musician who was in the right place at the right time.
“At that point I was telling myself ‘This is all I can do’,” St. Louis native Kevin Renick remembers of the fateful day he attended a lecture hosted by the “Juno” director in February 2008 and, out of sheer desperation, snuck him a cassette tape of a demo he had recorded. “I thought ‘This is not going to work. He’s probably »
- Larry Carroll
Michael Cera: 'I've Done A Lot Of Stuff I'm Really Ashamed Of'
8 hours ago | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
The endearing 'Youth in Revolt' star says he's broken the law and plans to do it again.
By Larry Carroll, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Photo: Stephen Lovekin/ Getty Images
On "Arrested Development," Michael Cera endearingly stumbled his way into our hearts. In "Juno," his awkward pauses and longing glances made orange Tic Tac-loving Paulie Bleeker one of the most lovable father-figures ever committed to film. In "Superbad," it was similarly his uncomfortable body language and uneasy smiles that made so many moviegoers look at him and remember themselves in high school.
Now Cera is bringing the art of the awkward pause to "Youth in Revolt," a long-awaited comedy that co-stars the likes of Steve Buscemi, Fred Willard, Ray Liotta and Justin Long. And on the eve of the film's release, we spoke to Cera about pretending to pleasure himself, putting George Clooney out of business »
The feminist year ahead
10 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This looks set to be an exciting year for feminism. Here Viv Groskop rounds up the books, films, theatre and marches that will inspire us all in the coming months
This is a big year for feminist anniversaries. It was 40 years ago that the first ever National Women's Liberation conference was held in the UK, that Germaine Greer published her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett published the life-changing work Sexual Politics. The year looks set to include a whole host of celebrations then, one of which is already underway – the Ms Understood exhibition at the Women's Library in London, which traces "the sisterhood and spirit of 1970s feminism" and runs until the end of March.
But this year's feminist calendar isn't solely historical. Three major new feminist books are to be published in Britain, the TV series Mad Men continues to explore the sexual politics of the 1960s, »
- Viv Groskop
Review: ‘Youth in Revolt’
14 hours ago | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Six years later, we are still feeling the heat and feeding the fire that we started with Jared Hess’ Napoleon Dynamite. While the popularity of its one-liners died out shortly after its release, the impact of Hess’ film can be felt in chintzy gifts at Urban Outfitters stores as almost a sense of déjà vu. It’s as if the aesthetic appeal of Napoleon’s non-adventure have been destroyed, vaporized and absorbed by our collective culture and subconsciously regurgitated back onto shelves.
That isn’t inherently a bad thing; it just is. And it’s noticeable. In the world of film, particularly so: the number of faux-indie flicks like Junebug and Juno can thank their lucky stars for inviting the world to embrace pastel-hued awkwardness, as can Wes Anderson’s retro stop-motion Fantastic Mr. Fox. It’s not a matter of the content or quality of these movies, but rather, »
- John Cooper
A Close Look at the Opening Titles of Up In The Air and the Press Tour Experience
21 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Among the many eye-catching aspects of Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, the opening titles are a definite highlight, sucking you right into the story from the start. And now you can watch a featurette introducing Shadowplay, the company that made them come to life on screen.
Some of the interesting things (or at least I found them so) you’ll find in the featurette is that the company has done the opening titles for all three of Reitman’s major feature films, Thank You for Smoking, Juno, and now Up in the Air, and it’s great to hear the designer talk about the different challenges of all three. All that’s missing is any input from the great Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, whose rendition of “This Land Is Your Land” just makes the titles really sing.
Reitman also put together Lost in the Air, where »
- Keith Demko
[DVD Review] Jennifer's Body
23 hours ago | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
If I can be grateful to Jennifer’s Body for anything (that’s a big if), it’s that it, at the very least, tried to inject some sorely needed life into the teen horror genre. It almost goes without saying that it failed, but after watching score upon score of nearly indistinguishable direct-to-dvd horror releases, it’s kind of nice to have something fail in entirely new sexual and cultural dimensions. Whether this will inspire any brave new worlds in horror remains to be seen, but for the moment, it’s nice just to break out the thesaurus.
Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) is the quintessential high school ‘mean girl’: she’s hot (perhaps the only adjective used to describe Fox in this or any other film), which seems to immune everyone in the general population against her abject and meaningless cruelty. Primary amongst her victims is Needy Lesnicky »
- Anders Nelson
Lee Daniels first African-American Directors Guild of America nominee
7 January 2010 11:29 AM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
The 2010 Directors Guild of America nominees include Lee Daniels for "Precious," the first African-American nominee for this award.
The official title for the directing award is the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2009 and features the following nominees:
Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker."
Bigelow is only the seventh woman to be nominated in the Feature Film category for direction (past female nominees include Lina Wertmuller for "Seven Beauties," Randa Haines for "Children of a Lesser God," Barbra Streisand for "Prince of Tides," Jane Campion for "The Piano," Sofia Coppola for "Lost in Translation" and Valerie Faris, who shared the nomination with Jonathan Dayton for "Little Miss Sunshine." A female has never won the DGA award but maybe this is the year -- Bigelow has already won Best Director from a number of critics' associations.
This is Cameron's second nomination. He was previously nominated in 1997 for "Titanic. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Scott Pilgrim: Flaming Sword and Early Reviews
7 January 2010 11:13 AM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Universal Pictures has released two official images from Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and they’re pretty sweet. The adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic book series stars Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman, and more.
In the story, Scott Pilgrim (Cera) meets the girl of his dreams and must battle her seven ex-boyfriends in order to date her. Evidently that entails wielding one kick-ass flaming katana in a futuristic-looking room. Check out the two pictures below.
Wright, who also directed Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, showed footage to a few of his filmmaker buddies recently, which sent them hurrying to Twitter with excitement.
Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) Tweeted his glowing review. “It is a game changer for Edgar and the genre. It moves the speed of light and carries more »
- Jeff Leins
Michael Cera Says 'Arrested Development' Is on the Way
7 January 2010 2:07 AM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Michael Cera has dismissed reports he's sitting out of the much-anticipated movie adaptation of TV comedy "Arrested Development", insisting he's onboard and can't wait for shooting to start. The show, which featured Cera, Jason Bateman and Portia De Rossi, was canceled in 2006, but went onto become a cult hit on DVD and TV re-runs, prompting talk of a movie.
Plans were recently put on hold amid rumors Cera has opted out of the film version after finding success in movies "Juno and "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist". But Cera insists the movie is on its way, and he's desperate to be a part of it.
He tells Us Weekly magazine, "The script is going to be written soon. I'm looking forward to it." »
- AceShowbiz.com
Cera Confirms Role In Arrested Development Movie
6 January 2010 5:41 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Michael Cera has dismissed reports he's sitting out of the much-anticipated movie adaptation of TV comedy Arrested Development, insisting he's onboard and can't wait for shooting to start.
The show, which featured Cera, Jason Bateman and Portia De Rossi, was cancelled in 2006, but went onto become a cult hit on DVD and TV re-runs, prompting talk of a movie.
Plans were recently put on hold amid rumours Cera has opted out of the film version after finding success in movies Juno and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
But Cera insists the movie is on its way, and he's desperate to be a part of it.
He tells Us Weekly magazine, "The script is going to be written soon. I'm looking forward to it." »
Stars in Rewind: Michael Cera - Mental Murderer
6 January 2010 11:32 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Many say Michael Cera lacks range. He's played the awkward, cousin-obsessed George Michael, the awkward university tour guide on Veronica Mars, awkward Evan in Superbad and Paulie in Juno ... you get the picture. But see, it wasn't always the way of the terminally awkward. Before all that, he was a mental murderer.
In an effort to show his range, Cera brought an old clip with him to an interview with David Letterman. Back before he hit Hollywood, when he was acting in Canadian TV and chilling in the same hood as the real-life Lars and the Real Girl guy (Brampton, Ontario), Cera had a brief guest role on La Femme Nikita. It was back in 2000, and Cera played a kid named Jerome who could not only control people's minds, but also kill them with the power of his own little mind, as he's caught in some weird foam fort thing. »
- Monika Bartyzel
Cera vs. Cera: Youth in Revolt
6 January 2010 11:00 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
In Youth in Revolt -- a Catcher in the Rye meets Fight Club coming-of-age film -- Michael Cera does what many have wanted to do to Michael Cera themselves personally: whup his own sorry ass. And that is definitely worth seeing. For me, personally, Cera's jig was up. What I found so endearing about him in Juno and amusing in Superbad became down right annoying in Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist and positively ridiculous in Year One. In a mere two years Cera had become over-exposed playing that same dry-witted, bumbling, reluctant hero. Cera's trajectory was enough to make one feel sorry for actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale). He was Michael Cera before Michael Cera became Michael Cera. Except after Michael Cera became Michael Cera, Jesse Eisenberg was reduced to a poor man's Michael »
- Zorianna Kit
Late Night Highlights: Cera Plays Taboo, Triumph Hits the Doggie Day Spa
6 January 2010 8:00 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
You have not played Taboo until you've played with Michael Cera. That's what Jimmy Fallon's viewers and one lucky audience member (who bore a striking resemblance to Cera's Juno co-star Ellen Page) learned during yesterday's edition of Late Night. That edge-of-the-seat guessing game, as well as the other must-see moments you missed while splicing together your Betty White highlights reel, after the jump. »
Anna Kendrick receives 'Rising Star' award at Palm Springs Film Festival Awards Gala
6 January 2010 5:59 AM, PST | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »
Though she knew she'd be receiving the award for months (having semi-accepted the honor back in October), Anna Kendrick was as lovely as she could be at this year's Palm Springs Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, California yesterday. Kendrick received the "Rising Star Award" at the festival for her work in Up In The Air. Other film celebrities in attendance of the gala were Morgan Freeman (Invictus), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Helen Mirren, Diablo Cody (writer, Juno, Jennifer's Body), Marion Cotillard (Nine), Rob Marshall (director, Chicago, Nine), Jeff Bridges (The Men Who Stare At Goats), Mariah Carey, Ivan Reitman (producer, Up In The Air), and Quentin Tarantino (writer, Inglourious Basterds). Photos of »
- thetwilightexaminer
Michael Cera Channels His Inner Badass For 'Youth In Revolt'
6 January 2010 3:50 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
But just how bad is the actor in real life?
Michael Cera in "Youth in Revolt"
Photo: Dimension Films
People love Michael Cera for the same reasons they don't take him very seriously. He's sweet, endearing, impossibly bony and ideally suited for the role of love-struck best friend who never gets the girl. Until now.
This weekend, Cera takes a sharp 180 with "Youth in Revolt," the eagerly anticipated big-screen adaptation of a cult-favorite book series. Sure, he spends a healthy dose of screen time in the persona of Nick Twisp — awkward, hopelessly romantic teenage outcast — but it's his work as Twisp's swaggering, cigarette-smoking rebel alter ego Francois Dillinger that will raise eyebrows.
Recently, we caught up with the 21-year-old "Juno" star and his director, Miguel Arteta, to discuss three key points in the split personalities of Twisp/Dillinger. They were quick to point out that behind Cera's »
DVD: Review:DVDs In Brief: January 6, 2010
5 January 2010 10:00 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Diablo Cody’s Oscar-winning Juno script announced the first-time screenwriter as a fresh, distinctive new voice, but her disappointing follow-up, Jennifer’s Body (Fox), suggests that Juno’s strengths weren’t necessarily in its clever-for-its-own-sake dialogue. Divorced from the fundamentals of character development and coherent themes, the Cody-isms in Jennifer’s Body are deeply annoying, tied to a familiar high-school-as-horror metaphor and a weaker take on the femme lycanthropy of Ginger Snaps. It doesn’t help that the two leads, Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, can’t handle the language as adeptly as Ellen Page, but even Page would have »
Blu-ray review: ‘Jennifer’s Body’
5 January 2010 8:51 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Jennifer’s Body is easily one of the most annoying features to arrive this year. Chalk-full of Caucasoid witticisms forced into virtually every line from Juno-scribe Diablo Cody, this genre-bending film wallows in mean-spirited mischief, self-importance and worst of all: shallowness. It’s the perfect venue for Megan Fox, whose previous films also embark on the same path of appealing to only the basics of male instincts.
Because if you can’t have more than five explosions, you’d better crank up the lesbian action. To the creative team behind this film, that’s what us dudes want. Jennifer (Fox) is a bitch. Self-absorbed, slutty, and a cheerleader, the raven-haired beauty doesn’t have many close friends; just a slew of suitors and nerdy gal-pal Needy (Amanda Seyfried) who verges on obsession with Jennifer while harboring some pent-up homo-love. According to their necklaces, the duo are BFFs though Jennifer »
- Erik Buckman
Casey Johnson, 'Iron Man 2' And 'Toy Story 3' In Today's Twitter-Wood
5 January 2010 3:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
The death of Johnson & Johnson heiress and fiancée to Tila Tequila Casey Johnson had a lot of Twitter-Wood's attention this morning a few of Johnson's close friends tweet their thoughts on her passing, including Paris and Nicky Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.
Elsewhere, it was business as usual. Jon Favreau entertained his leading man Robert Downey Jr. at the "Iron Man 2" office, and Lee Unkrich posted that animation is almost done on "Toy Story 3." Check out their tweets after the jump, along with a photo from Simon Pegg, what Diablo Cody's doing hanging around with Quentin Tarantino and which "New Moon" actress has been writing songs. I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter-Wood report for January 5, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@simonpegg http://tweetphoto.com/8053183 One of these men has won an Oscar ...
-Simon Pegg, Actor ("Shaun of the Dead," "Star Trek")
Casey Johnson pt. 1: @ParisHilton In bed crying, »
- Brian Warmoth
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