VIDEO: Robert Pattinson and FKA twigs have a beach strut in the Maldives

VIDEO: Robert Pattinson and FKA twigs have a beach strut in the Maldives


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ROBsessed Giveaway: Win SOME BOYS and meet a Darkward for Fiction Friday!

ROBsessed Giveaway: Win SOME BOYS and meet a Darkward for Fiction Friday!

It's a new year and we have a bunch of new books to give away! How great is that???



Patty Blount helped us kick off the RobHoliday Season with the 4-book series, Christmas In New York and now she's kicking off our 2015 Fiction Fridays with SOME BOYS! Let's dive into Patty's complex and emotional story about some girls that say no and some boys that don't listen...

Some girls say no. Some boys don't listen. 

When Grace meets Ian, she's afraid. Afraid he'll reject her like the rest of the school, like her own family.  

After she accuses Zac, the town golden boy, of rape, everyone turns against her. Ian wouldn't be the first to call her a slut and a liar.  

Except Ian doesn't reject her. He's the one person who looks past the taunts and the names and the tough-girl act to see the real Grace. He's the one who gives her the courage to fight back.  

He's also Zac's best friend. 

Jennifer Brown, author of HATE LIST and BITTER END says SOME BOYS is “A bold and necessary look at an important, and very real, topic. Everyone should read this book.”
Kirkus says SOME BOYS is “A largely sensitive treatment of an emotionally complex topic…Readers will find themselves rooting…for both the romance and for Grace’s and Ian’s growth.”
Booklist says that SOME BOYS’ “powerful delivery, realistic dialogue, and well-placed hooks makes this a book that will be easy to sell to readers, especially reluctant ones.”
In a 4-star review, RT says “…you will be satisfied at the end of this powerful work.”

This is an intense story so get all your feels in order!

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• Giveaway is US only
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• You can enter once a day, everyday, until the closing date - Friday, Jan. 16th
• There will be 2 winners receiving SOME BOYS by Patty Blount
• Winners will be chosen by random.org and announced after the giveaway ends

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Who won our final RobHoliday giveaway + what fanfic are you reading?
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Congrats Brittney! You won our US prize! And congrats Alessandra! You won our worldwide prize! We'll contact you to get your information so you can receive your prizes.

FanFic Friday

The holidays are over and I'm back to talk fics! I didn't actually get a chance to read anything new during the height of the season but I did start up something new since then. I fellow fic reader found out how much I love Darkwards and AUs (alternate universe). I mean I LOOOOOVE them. I'm always down to try one out. I like when we stay within canon E&B coupling but they're out of character and when Edward is Dark with a capital D. Here in the Garden of Sin is the first story and the sequel, which frankly, you HAVE to read if you read the first, is Malice in the Garden. It's a quick read...or maybe I just didn't want to put it down. It's a good AU and I liked the different circumstances we're dealing with regarding Bella. It's creative and Edward has to work hard for what he wants. If you dig the AU world, give it a read!
I also finished Nightingale and it was delightful. I adore period fics and now I want a period, Darkward AU. *snort*
I'm still following Deep In The Heart Of Me by the minute. When I get the email alert for a new chapter, everything halts. If you've also been following, you know how impossible it is, how unthinkable it is to quit Tonio. That boy young man has gotten deep in the heart of ME. *cries*
Have you guys been reading anything lately??

If you want to purchase any of the latest books featured in this post, click the Amazon links to buy now!

Robert Pattinson continues his tour of "difficult, auteur driven and inspired cinematic projects" + MORE

Robert Pattinson continues his tour of "difficult, auteur driven and inspired cinematic projects" + MORE

We already mentioned IonCinema including Queen of the Desert in their Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015 and now they hit The Childhood of a Leader at #35.

The Childhood of a Leader
Director: Brady Corbet // Writers: Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold 

Working with the likes of Bonello, Östlund, Assayas, Hansen-Løve and Baumbach, when you count the 2014 festival release year alone, actor Brady Corbet (Mysterious Skin; Funny Games U.S.; Simon Killer) has built quite the impressive resume working with the auteur set. While The Childhood of a Leader is his feature length directing debut, this counts as back to back years working in the filmmaker capacity when you take into account his writing creds in Mona Fastvold’s overlooked ’14 title, The Sleepwalker, and the soon to be premiered Sundance short Rabbit, by filmmaker Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre. Initially announced as starring Juliette Binoche (Corbet’s co-star from Clouds of Sils Maria), she was later replaced by Berenice Bejo. It goes without saying that most of the attention will be placed on Robert Pattinson, continuing his tour of difficult, auteur driven and inspired cinematic projects, but Corbet also nabs Tim Roth and Nymphomaniac star Stacy Martin in the lineup. Set in 1919, this story tells the tale of a ‘would-be-fascist,’ and the screenplay is inspired by a wide range of authorial pillars, from John Fowls to Jean-Paul Sarte with a bit of Volker Schlondorff’s 1966 classic Young Torless (which also served as a point of comparison for Haneke’s The White Ribbon). The film has been described as partially about a family that relocates to France for the Paris Peace Conference and about the events leading up to the Treaty of Versailles. Early descriptions of the film also point to elements of horror. 

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Berenice Bejo, Stacy Martin, Tim Roth
Producers: Brady Corbet, Chris Coen (Jane Got a Gun), Helena Danielsson (Call Girl), Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre (Salvo) 

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. 

Release Date: With filming set for this January, the Venice Film Fest organizers must be eagerly awaiting a chance at showcasing this film.

Maps To The Stars released their US trailer today and The Playlist included the film in their 25 Best Films of 2015 We've Already Seen. Here's their verdict on the film:

Verdict: Soapy to the point of lunacy, overwrought to a near-camp extreme, and atypically messy from the usually hospital-corners Cronenberg, “Maps to the Stars” is also a huge, almost sinful truckload of fun. Assembling a wonderful cast who take delight in ripping to shreds the folly and hubris of the vacant Hollywood lifestyle, the film is a riot of inside-baseball winks about the film industry, and the deeply narcissist, rotten-to-the-core sellouts who populate it. Julianne Moore’s titanic performance as the fading star facing encroaching middle age (and therefore irrelevance) is so good that it won her Cannes' Best Actress award, and in one go ensures that she herself will never suffer her character’s fate. But all of the cast do sterling work: it’s a, "Hey, where you been?" to John Cusack, and a, "Hello, we’ll be seeing a lot more of you," to Evan Bird, especially. It’s may simply be a gonzo gothic telenovela (so much soap can only ever generate so much froth), but it’s a giddy good time at the pictures.

Robert Pattinson & 'The Rover' Receive 6 Australia Film Critics Association (AFCA) Award Nominations

Robert Pattinson & 'The Rover' Receive 6 Australia Film Critics Association (AFCA) Award Nominations



More great news for Rob & The Rover, they've received 6 nominations in the The Australia Film Critics Association (AFCA) Awards.

The AFCA Film Awards will be announced at the awards ceremony on February 7th at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne.

The Rover has been nominated in these categories:

BEST DIRECTOR
Rolf De Heer – Charlie’s Country
Sophie Hyde – 52 Tuesdays
Jennifer Kent – The Babadook
David Michod – The Rover
Michael & Peter Spierig – Predestination

BEST ACTOR
David Gulpilil – Charlie’s Country
Don Hany - Healing
Guy Pearce – The Rover
Nathan Phillips – These Final Hours
Angus Sampson – The Mule

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Noni Hazlehurst – The Mule
Erin James – The Little Death
Gillian Jones – The Rover
Susan Prior - The Rover
Sarah Snook – These Final Hours

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jai Courtney - Felony
Alex Dimitriades – The Infinite Man
Robert Pattinson – The Rover
Hugo Weaving – The Mule
Noah Wiseman – The Babadook

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Natasha Braier – The Rover
Ian Jones – Charlie’s Country
Radek Ludczuk – The Babadook
Ben Nott - Predestination
Mandy Walker – Tracks

Congrats and good luck to all involved!

Don't forget they also have 7 nominations in The Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts (AACTA) which takes place Jan. 29, 2015

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Robert Pattinson's LIFE and Queen of the Desert highly anticipated, expected at Cannes & MORE

Robert Pattinson's LIFE and Queen of the Desert highly anticipated, expected at Cannes & MORE

Siting at #8 for Queen of the Desert and #19 for Life, Rob's 2015 films get some strong love from The Playlist in their 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2015 list! They also gave a shoutout to Idol's Eye and The Trap in their honorable mentions section. Visit the link to check it out.





I liked that last line...."Expect a Cannes premiere..."
Oh we will. We most definitely will.

Dazed had some positive commentary in their Films To Watch For list and see Life as one to "clean up when award season comes around."
Hey U Guys had nothing but great things to say while including QOTD on their list of Must See 2015 Films Which Are Still A Secret: With such a skilled filmmaker at the helm and a brilliantly dense cast relaying the life and legacy of Bell, this looks set to be a hallmark release in 2015.
Thompson on Hollywood has QOTD as a festival hopeful on their 45 Films We're Looking Forward To In 2015 and IonCinema has Queen of the Desert as one of their most anticipated foreign films of 2015. Again...I'm liking the last line...



We'll be paying attention to all festival announcements but let us be real. We know where Rob belongs...

Gorgeous NEW Robert Pattinson Esquire Outtake

Gorgeous NEW Robert Pattinson Esquire Outtake

Please Sir........ I want some more (yes I'm greedy).

I enlarged the original pic (because, of course, I wanted a closer look)



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Robert Pattinson is nothing less than a revelation in The Rover + more year end accolades for Rob's films

Robert Pattinson is nothing less than a revelation in The Rover + more year end accolades for Rob's films

The cinematography in The Rover was perfect for the film and others agree. The film makes a showing in this best of 2014 cinematography video:



The Rover wasn't forgotten by people but I enjoyed this write up the best.

10 out of 10 - Nick Laskins Top 10 of 2014 via ThePlaylist:

I must confess that I had been looking forward to this one since it was first announced and before I knew a damn thing about the film. David Michod’s chilling “Animal Kingdom” remains one of the most startling and assured directorial debuts of the last decade, and my favorite from the current crop of gloriously pessimistic Aussie cinema that includes the films of John Hillcoat, Andrew Dominik’s “Chopper,” and Justin Kurzel’s “The Snowtown Murders.” And yet my already-colossal expectations were not just met, but exceeded by “The Rover,” Michod’s spare, brutal look at savagery and survival in a world abandoned and left to rot by the very people who once inhabited it. The film unfolds in the midst of a worldwide catastrophe called “The Collapse,” the causes of which Michod wisely declines to explain. Some have criticized the film’s leisurely pace and minimal plot, but when the mood and menace is this thick and gorgeous, it would be churlish to complain. Guy Pearce—who, in his whole career, has never been this feral or terrifying, even when he beat Shia LaBoeuf to within an inch of his life in “Lawless”—plays Eric, a frazzled shell of a man whose single-minded pursuit of his missing automobile forms the crux of the film’s slow-burning narrative. As his traveling companion, Robert Pattinson is nothing less than a revelation. The actor has often relied on his striking good looks and air of affectless-ness in the recent films of David Cronenberg, where affectless-ness is a consistent stylistic choice. As Rey, the stammering, sweet-hearted simpleton whose wardrobe looks to be on loan from a 90’s rap-rock band, Pattinson reveals newfound dimensions to his screen persona. He is daft, childlike, full of wonderment and fear. He and Pearce acclimate themselves effortlessly to Michod’s hellish milieu, which strips its “Mad Max” futurescape of all action-movie chicanery and unnecessary exposition and reduces it to the bare essentials. Some have called the film “dystopian,” although that seems unfair and not quite accurate—perhaps this collective misjudgment is to blame for the film’s performance at the box office. But any film that manages to successfully utilize Keri Hilson’s joyously insipid “Pretty Girl Rock” in its most emotionally charged moment has to be something pretty special.

The critics over at The Playlist were fans of The Rover and have included the film and the performances on several lists already documented here. They still gave The Rover an honorable mention on their 17 Best Films You Didn't See in 2014 even though the film appeared in an earlier version of this list:

Films like "The Rover," "The Babadook," "Blue Ruin" and "Obvious Child" should have been bigger hits than they were, but we've been shouting about them for a while, including in our year-end coverage, so we wanted to use the spotlight to shine on some darker corners.

The Playlist, like Buzzfeed, ranked Rob singing Pretty Girl Rock, as 4 out of 15 of the Best Movie Music Moments of 2014!

David Michod's "The Rover" is unrelentingly bleak, or very nearly so. Set in a post-apocalyptic Australia that makes the world envisioned by George Miller's "Mad Max" movies seem like a day at a multi-level spa, the narrative is defined largely by bloodshed, squealing tires, and grime. But it's during the movie's darkest section that Michod brings out the most wonderful moment of levity. Over a stark, wasted landscape, and stars Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson tromping over brush, a familiar tinkling piano starts to boom over the soundtrack, former Timbaland protégé Keri Hilson's outrageously wonderful "Pretty Girl Rock." It lets the audience say, "Wait! I know this song," plugging them into the character's mindset in a way that the movie hadn't previously accomplished, segueing to the next scene, where Pattinson halfheartedly sings along to the song in some bombed-out vehicle (notably the line "Don't hate me 'cos I'm beautiful" which has to have meta relevance for the actor). The upbeat nature of the song gives the movie hope, even if that hope is just as phony and shiny as the song itself (and over just as quickly). It's sometimes hard to make an emotional connection with a movie as single-mindedly brutal as "The Rover," but this moment, thanks to this song, lets you in. It's also amazing to think that, in the dusty distant future, people are still doing the pretty girl rock.

Here are the current collection of videos that showcased the year in film. The Rover and Maps To The Stars pop up and it's fun to try and catch the scenes!




And lastly, for now, Maps To The Stars also snagged a 6 out of 10 best films of 2014 from The Yorker:

6. Maps to the Stars Celebrity is often satirised, but not usually so well. David Cronenburg’s Maps to the Stars was appalling, trashy, and thrilling. Stunningly entertaining yet thought provoking and at times, moving. It was testament to the idea that perfect execution can sometimes be better than having the most original idea.

I love love love that Rob's films get on these year end lists and best of mashups. Chances are we'll be doing this dance again at the end of 2015. :)