The Entertainment Lounge

Chris Brown ft Usher & Rick Ross - New Flame

New moves, New hair.......same old Rick Ross

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwctEiWLe84

Slits hit a Dangerous High

Red carpet fashion is acquiring risque proportions with Kendall Jenner flaunting a dress with mile-long double slits that exposed her pelvic bones. Here's looking at some daring ensembles that left everyone gawking.

Rihanna: The thigh high slit on the Barbadian crooner at a pre-Grammy gala barely held the canary yellow robe together. All that leg show left everyone dazzled.

Lady Gaga: The singer known to be extreme with her style statements, did the same with a thigh-revealing high-slit dress that was a breeze away from a malfunction!

Megan Fox: The wine-red off shoulder dress is a perfect example of how a dangerous slit can make a dress look elegant and hot at the same time.

Transformers: Age of Extinction becomes first film of 2014 to earn $1 billion

Transformers: Age of Extinction' becomes first film of 2014 to earn around 1 billion dollars.

The Paramount title was now all but assured of becoming a billion-dollar baby by the end of its run, as it crossed over the 800 million dollars mark globally in its fourth weekend, the Hollywood Reporter reported.

Beginning its post-World Cup assault, sequel 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' almost beat 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' to win the global weekend race with 97 million dollars for an early global cume of 242 million dollars.

Age of Extinction opened to huge numbers in soccer-crazed markets where moviegoers were previously distracted by the now-completed World Cup, including Brazil, where it earned 16.5 million dollars. And in Germany, winner of the soccer championship, the movie launched to 11.2 million dollars, the biggest start of the year so far.

China continues to make Age of Extinction the No. 1 film of all time and film's biggest market, with massive earn of 285.7 million dollars. However, two new Chinese movies, 'Tiny Times 3.0' and 'The House That Never Dies', beat it over the weekend, grossing 30 million dollars and 21 million dollars, respectively, compared to 9.6 million dollars for Age of Extinction.

Ashton Kutcher sells Bachelor pad for $9.9 mn

Actor Ashton Kutcher, who is soon going to be a father, has sold his bachelor pad here for $9.9 million. The fiance of actress Mila Kunis, has sold his plush property after listing it a few months ago for $12 million, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The mansion, which was built in 2006, boasts stunning views of the Hollywood Reservoir and the iconic Hollywood sign, as well as half an acre of private land.

The three-storey house has five bedrooms, eight bathrooms and an elevator to move between floors.

Kunis also recently listed her Mediterranean-style house for $3,995,000.

Rita Ora fancies Justin Bieber

Singer Rita Ora says she fancies pop star Justin Bieber and likes the way he has evolved.

The 23-year-old says she likes how Bieber - who was blamed for triggering the end of her relationship with Calvin Harris after they reportedly became "affectionate" in the studio - has "evolved" into a man since shooting to fame, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

When asked by TV presenter Miquita Oliver on 4Music show "Rock the Look with Rimmel London" if she fancies the 20-year-old pop star, she replied: "Who doesn't?"

She then added: "I like how he's evolved, he's growing up, he's doing his thing. I like his stance and how he carries himself."

The Giver

Released in the United States on August 15, 2014.

Story: Jonas (Thwaite) lives in a utopian society that celebrates conformity and uniformity to preserve peace. He is chosen to be the next 'Receiver of Memory' and learn about the primal feelings of the past world. The more he learns, the more he realizes how fake his carefully engineered society is.

Review: A squeaky-clean city is portrayed in flat monochrome (a visual metaphor for a society controlled by a rigid code of rules, where individualism and the questioning of authority are discouraged) and is perched on a hilltop and surrounded entirely by clouds.

Its inhabitants dress more or less the same, aren't allowed to hold hands in public and they eat food that looks like it was cooked by a robot. Narrator and protagonist Jonas has a mom (Holmes) who repeatedly tut-tuts him, his dad (Skarsgard) and little sister when they say the 'wrong' things because in their perfect world, their entire lexicon is monitored by the seemingly benevolent Chief Elder (Streep). Emotions are excised from daily life and townsfolk are even told what time to go to sleep.

All of this is done because it is believed a machine-like existence will keep mankind's ills (wars, famine, deforestation, etc.) away from them. The Elder assigns people job roles in the manner of an assembly line sorting products. After Jonas is given his important role, the Receiver (Bridges, suitably grizzled) has to pass on these memories to Jonas.

Jonas is established as free-thinking, curious and even rebellious, and so the idea of giving insightful and revelatory thoughts to someone who has the potential to upset the carefully constructed order of things seems puzzling and even illogical.

Despite the impressive cast (Taylor Swift has a cameo), performances are uneven. Bridges and Streep stand out but the others are somewhat unconvincing. Conceptually, there are also bits reminiscent of *The Matrix* some Orwellian Big Brother ideology and dashes of *Divergent* in an overall attempt to convey the film's core message - do we sacrifice pain and pleasure in the quest to attain a 'perfect' existence?