Celebrities, Movies and Games: January 2012

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann - The Pirates of the Caribbean

The daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann, Elizabeth has been fascinated with pirates since childhood. During the Black Pearl's attack on Port Royal, she gives her name as Turner and is mistaken for "Bootstrap" Bill's child. She also is in love with Will Turner. Elizabeth abandons the "damsel in distress" image and in time her personality changes to that of a noble pirate.

Movies:

- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: (2003)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: (2006)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: (2007)

Keira Knightley - Pirates of the Caribbean High Seas Elizabeth Swann Doll

Her highly detailed costume includes a cotton blouse, printed vest with front buttons and lace-up detail on the back, cotton knee breeches, pirate’s jacket with “antiqued” button details, and a faux leather tri-cornered hat. Folder-over faux leather boots, faux leather sword strap, and resin sword complete the stunning reproduction; display stand included.

Keira Knightley - Pirates of the Caribbean Elizabeth Swann Court Gown Doll

Elizabeth Swann is an authorized likeness of Keira Knightly; she is approximately 16 tall and is crafted of fine quality vinyl/hard plastic with rooted saran hair. Elizabeth features 13 points of articulated movement and hand-painted face detail. She uses the Tyler Wentworth 16″ standard bending wrist body sculpt. Elizabeth Swann In Court Gown is dressed in a silk brocade court gown. Display stand is included.

Keira Knightley - Pirates Of The Caribbean Elizabeth Swann Life-Size Cardboard Standee

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Elizabeth Swann Standup

Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann Movie Stills

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Chronicle Movie Poster

Chronicle Movie poster

Chronicle

Release: February 3, 2012
Director: Josh Trank
Writer: Max Landis, Josh Trank
Cast: Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell, Michael Kelly

Synopsis: Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to them developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities, and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

Chronicle Trailer

Think Like a Man Movie Poster

Think Like a Man Poster

Think Like a Man

Release: March 9, 2012

Director: Tim Story
Writer: Keith Merryman, David A. Newman
Cast: Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, Taraji P. Henson, Terrance J, Romany Malco, Gary Owen, Gabrielle Union, Lala Vazquez, Arielle Kebbel

Four friends conspire to turn the tables on their women when they discover the ladies have been using Steve Harvey's relationship advice against them.

Think Like a Man Trailer

Yvonne Craig as Batgirl

Batman - the cult 1960s television series - Yvonne Craig Interview

Batgirl Statues

The Raven Movie Poster

The Raven Poster

The Raven

Release: March 9, 2012

Director: James McTeigue
Writer: Ben Livingston, Hannah Shakespeare
Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Synopsis: In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue, the film also stars Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper--part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe. But even as Poe is questioned by police, another grisly murder occurs, also inspired by a popular Poe story. Realizing a serial killer is on the loose using Poe's writings as the backdrop for his bloody rampage, Fields enlists the author's help in stopping the attacks. But when it appears someone close to Poe may become the murderer's next victim, the stakes become even higher and the inventor of the detective story calls on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before it's too late.

The Raven Trailer

Adrien Brody - Detachment Movie Poster

Adrien Brody - Detachment Poster

Detachment

Release: February 24, 2012

Director: Tony Kaye
Writer: Carl Lund
Cast: Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Lucy Liu, James Caan, Marcia Gay Harden, Blythe Danner, William Petersen, Tim Blake Nelson, Betty Kaye, Sami Gayle

Synopsis: Detachment is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment. A perfect profession for one seeking to hide out in the open. One day Henry arrives at his next assignment. Upon his entry into this particular school, a secret world of emotion is awakened within him by three women. A girl named Meredith in his first period. A fellow teacher Ms. Madison, and a street hooker named Erica, whom Henry has personally granted brief shelter from the streets. Each one of these women, like Henry, are in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

Detachment Trailer

Monica Bellucci as Persephone - Matrix

In the movies The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, Persephone (Monica Bellucci) is the wife of The Merovingian.

In The Matrix Reloaded, Persephone is attracted to Neo and offers to help him if he kisses her with the same passion with which he has kissed Trinity. Reluctantly, he complies and she helps him free the Keymaker. Later, she kills one of her husband's employees.

In The Matrix Revolutions, Persephone warns The Merovingian that Trinity would indeed kill everyone in Club Hel to free Neo from the Train Station, simply because she is in love. This suggests that Persephone perceives and understands love, and may be disheartened by the cynicism of her husband, who seems to be driven solely by greed and lust.

Monica Bellucci as Persephone Hot Bust

Monica Bellucci as Persephone Hot Bust: In addition to the realism that has become Gentle Giant’s hallmark, extra care has been taken with this 7-inch piece in the area of paint application. The texture and finish of her bright red latex costume, with the green luminous patterns of the Matrix over-printed in 3-D, create an exotic bust that will satisfy the most discriminating collector.

Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity

Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe

Keanu Reeves as Neo

Neil and Adrian Rayment as Twins

Monica Bellucci as Persephone stills

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Chronicle Movie Poster

Chronicle Poster

Chronicle

Release: February 3, 2012

Director: Josh Trank
Writer: Max Landis, Josh Trank
Cast: Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell, Michael Kelly

Synopsis: Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to them developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities, and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

Chronicle Trailer

Black Gold Movie Poster

Black Gold Poster

Black Gold

Release: December 23, 2011

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writer: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Menno Meyjes
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Frieda Pinto, Tahar Rahim

Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father-in-law.

Black Gold Trailer

Jane Fonda undressing in zero-gravity. Barbarella Stills (1968)

Barbarella Queen of the Galaxy

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.