"Nothing says Christmas more than big hairy men in Santa hats," says Willie Robertson. And while that may be the most ridiculous statement he's uttered -- this week, at least -- there's no blaming the producers of A&E's Duck Dynasty for wanting to cash in on their show's popularity with, yes, a Christmas album. So here comes Duck the Halls, A Robertson Family Christmas, released on Tuesday for your listening… pleasure. (The show will also air a Christmas special on Dec. 11 at 10 p.m. ET.)
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'Duck Dynasty' Releases a Christmas Album (Seriously)
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Free Ride: Film Review
The Bottom Line
Smuggling-saga conventions are freshened somewhat by family-drama angle.
Venue
Hamptons International Film Festival (Phase 4)
Cast
Anna Paquin, Drea de Matteo, Cam Gigandet, Liana Liberato, Lloyd Owen, Jeff Hehpner, Yvette Yates, Ava Acres
Director-screenwriter
Shana Betz
THE HAMPTONS, NEW YORK — A loving portrait of a mother many would say deserves a much more critical eye, Shana Betz's Free Ride casts Anna Paquin as a roman-a-clef version of her own mother, a single woman who works as a drug smuggler in late-70s Florida while raising two daughters. Paquin's name will draw attention to the picture, whose parenting themes go only so far in making a familiar tale of the high life's perils feel novel.
Betz's debut feature presents her younger self (here named Shell, and played by Ava Acres) as a bystander who witnesses her mother's bad life choices but isn't old enough, as teen sister MJ (Liana Liberato) is, to have her coming-of-age shaped by the conflict they engender. We meet the family in Ohio, where Paquin's Christina, being regularly abused by her partner, picks the girls up from school one day and cheerfully declares they're driving straight to Florida.
There, a friend (Drea de Matteo's Sandy) has promised to set Christina up in a job doing light housekeeping at a mansion owned by her boss, "The Captain" (Lloyd Owen). The job's just a tryout for more illicit work: While it's not clear how Christina demonstrates her aptitude while dusting the mantel, she's soon being asked to ride along on boat charters that pick up bales of pot and bring them to the U.S..
Though she's told that her new job's central rule is not to have relationships within the organization, the gig is largely social: Smuggling trips are disguised as pleasure outings, and the party continues back ashore in bars where Christina and Sandy dance provocatively for their male coworkers. The captain moves the family out of their cheap motel and into a spacious farmhouse, complete with a horse for MJ. The barn doubles as a drug warehouse, and Mom makes her go-along values clear to a teen whose face betrays moral qualms, or at least fear of getting in trouble: "Wanna keep the horse? Then be cool."
The plot follows a familiar arc, with montages of hedonistic good times (including some druggy, gropey parties that are witnessed by the kids) leading to menacing turns of events and inevitable encounters with the Feds. Betz and her cast have a firm grip on the domestic side of things, with MJ's confused responses threatening to break the family up before the law can intervene, but the film's generosity toward Christina's decision-making is, however true to life, dramatically unsatisfying. A coda offers the director's actual mother, in voiceover, saying "you do what you can to take care of your family," a sentiment that may earn sneers from single mothers in the audience who've found less hazardous ways to make ends meet.
Production Company: Casm Films
Cast: Anna Paquin, Drea de Matteo, Cam Gigandet, Liana Liberato, Lloyd Owen, Jeff Hehpner, Yvette Yates, Ava Acres
Director-Screenwriter: Shana Betz
Producers: Susan Dynner, Cerise Hallam Larkin, Anna Paquin
Executive producers: Dan Keston, Mark Larkin, Stephen Moyer, Wendy Williams
Director of photography: Quyen Tran
Production designer:
Music: Jeff Russo
Costume designer: Alexis Scott
Editor: Danny Daneau
Sales: Cargo Entertainment
No rating, 85 minutes
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An Up Close Look at the East Coast Google Mystery Barge
The Google mystery barges docked near San Francisco and Portland, Maine are getting even more mysterious. We've seen the barge and heard the arguments about what's inside
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Cole Miller: “Unqualified People” Are Judging MMA
Cole Miller scored a big win at UFC Fight Night 30 last weekend, as the American Top Team featherweight worked his way to a unanimous decision win over Andy Ogle. Since Miller had lost three of his last four fights heading into the October 26th scrap, a defeat may have ended the fighter’s UFC run, which dates way back to 2007.
While Miller doesn’t contest the fact that his job may have been on the line versus Ogle, he doesn’t believe he’s 2-2 in his last four bouts. The reason being that Miller doesn’t think the judges got it right when he was handed a split decision loss versus Nam Pham, or more recently at UFC FN 26 when he lost by UD to Manny Gamburyan (which many folks believe should have been stopped in Miller’s favor to begin with after round one).
Thus, this is why Miller blasted judges in his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan last Saturday, and why “Magrinho” made the following comments while appearing on the latest edition of “The MMA Hour” (comments via MMA Fighting.com).
“I knew I had to win,” Miller said. ”I’ve kind of been up and down, but I’ve only been up and down because of what some 50 and 60-year-old judges have said about my fights. If you actually went back and looked at them, as far as I’m concerned, this is four wins in a row.”
“They’re not even qualified to be making the calls they’re making,” Miller added while referring to judges. “That’s kind of disgusting and that’s really unfortunate in our sport, because it changes the whole landscape of our sport. When you have unqualified people judging mixed martial arts, it changes the way that mixed martial arts is actually fought, because fighters are now adjusting their styles to please people that don’t know anything about our sport.”
“I love this sport,” Miller continued. “I really do. And I want to see it make progress. I don’t want to see it regress. With the judging in mixed martial arts, and how coaches are coaching the fighters, and how fighters are manipulating and molding their styles to please people that know nothing about MMA, it makes the sport regress.”
It’s certainly not the first time a fighter has fired away at the status-quo in terms of judging, and even if you don’t believe it’s as dire as Miller says, improvements need to be made. Particularly in situations where, as Miller alluded to, fighters are given rounds for just maintaining the top position rather than inflicting damage.
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Dominick Cruz returns for bantamweight title unification bout and Jose Aldo defends featherweight belt at UFC 169
After being sidelined for more than two years because of knee injuries, bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will finally fight again at UFC 169 Feb. 1 against interim belt-holder Renan Barao. Cruz last fought and won with a unanimous decision over now flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson in October of 2011.
After that, Cruz was selected as a coach of The Ultimate Fighter, opposite his rival Urijah Faber. The two had fought twice before and were set to have a rubber match after coaching TUF.
Cruz tore his ACL in a knee and was forced out of the fight. Barao stepped in to fight Faber in an interim title bout, which he won.
[Related: Johny Hendricks suffered second-degree burns while shooting commercial for UFC 167]
Cruz' recovery was delayed by a second ACL tear and surgery. Barao has defended his interim title twice in the meantime.
The main event of UFC 169 will include another title bout as featherweight champ Jose Aldo defends against Ricardo Lamas. Lamas has won four straight bouts heading into his long-awaited title shot.
Aldo has not lost in over seven years and 16 fights. He last fought and won at UFC 163, when he stopped Chan Sung Jung in the 4th round.
UFC 169 will take place SuperBowl weekend in Newark, New Jersey. Newsday first reported the two title match ups.
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Kelly Clarkson Says All She Wants For Christmas Is a Baby, Husband Brandon Blackstock Is "Excited About All the Practice"
No more time to waste! Newly hitched Kelly Clarkson is ready to expand her family -- and fast! While promoting her first Christmas album, this week, the "Catch My Breath" singer revealed during an interview with Valentine in the Morning on 104.3 MY FM that all she wants for Christmas is a baby bump.
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"I want babies, yep! I do," the 31-year-old exclaimed to host Valentine during their chat. "Everybody keeps saying, 'What do you want for Christmas?' And I'm like, 'I want to be pregnant.'"
The "Stronger" singer never thought much of having a family of her own, but admitted that becoming a step-mom to Brandon Blackstock's two kids from a previous marriage -- daughter Savannah, 12, and son Seth, 6 -- changed her outlook on motherhood.
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"I honestly never ever used to want to want kids because I'm kind of selfish with my career, but going to soccer games with Seth and doing homework with Savannah -- I just really love it y'all. It's so cool. It sounds so cheesy but it's such a bigger point to life," she gushed. "I really lucked out with the whole kid situation. They're amazing."
The "People Like Us" rocker also previously told Elvis Duran and the Morning Show that she's ready to be a mom. "I want babies like right off the bat!" she said during the Oct. 9 radio interview. "My first child will be a girl—I know it in my soul." She added to Valentine: "I kind of want to have two around the same age."
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Clarkson and talent manager Blackstock, 36, got engaged in December 2012 and tied the knot in an intimate Tennessee ceremony at Blackberry Farm on Oct. 20. Two days later, the blushing new bride shared a stunning wedding video via Twitter and pictures of her wedding dress next to her new hubby.
"I'm happy I found him," the blonde beauty told Valentine. "He was definitely worth the wait, but you just never know when its going to happen I guess."
As for trying to get pregnant fast? She quipped: "Well, he's excited about all the practice!"
Clarkson's first Christmas album, Wrapped in Red, features 14 songs and is in stores now.
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