US – Monday, March 15
The week's releases
Metro staff reviews the latest CDs, DVDs and books for your reading pleasure.
 
Forest Whitaker has some tough acts to follow
Broad comedy isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when people think of Forest Whitaker. But the Oscar-winning actor saw his latest film, “Our Family Wedding,” as a chance to stretch himself. He sat down with Metro to talk about his process as an actor and surviving a pastry fight with co-star Regina King.
 
Where did all of Robert’s rabid fans go?
Well, at least he still has his looks: Robert Pattinson’s first big non-”Twilight” film, “Remember Me,” had a dismal fourth place opening this weekend with $8.3 million in box-office sales (“Alice in Wonderland” remained No. 1 with $62 million, “Green Zone,” debuted at No. 2 with $14.5 million, “She’s Out of My League” was No. 3 with $9.6 million).
 
Metro’s spring ’10 guide to television
Check us out all this month for our picks for the best series premieres, season returns and must-see episodes.
 
Pattinson: A vampire in Brooklyn
Robert Pattinson has been playing Americans so often that he has forgotten how to talk like a Brit. In his latest, “Remember Me,” the “Twilight” heartthrob stars as a soulful young New Yorker attending NYU, but he insists he didn’t need any help sounding like a native. “I’ve never had a dialect coach or anything,” Pattinson says. “Ironically, I’ve only had a dialect coach for this film I’m doing now, which I’m doing in an English accent. I guess I’ve forgotten how to do an English accent.”
 
Published 23:18, October the 22nd, 2009
 
Bell would rather be dancing. Bell would rather be dancing.
Photo: COURTESY OF LIONSGATE
 

Different from what you ‘Saw’

Not just cut out to portray Jigsaw

What’s a role you’ve always wanted to play?

I’d love to play a gay nightclub owner who loves to dance and has a tremendous joie
de vivre.
 
Do you have someone in mind that you’re basing that on?

All the queens that I’ve ever met. A lot of tap dancing, you know. I mean, [Christopher] Walken’s played a lot of dancing roles. Maybe I can get one myself.

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Tobin Bell has been scaring the bejesus out of audiences since the “Saw” franchise premiered in 2004. He plays Jigsaw, the man behind that creepy puppet who sets up torture games. With no end to the series in sight — “Saw VI” hits theaters Friday — Bell doesn’t tire of talking horror and the human condition.

How much of Jigsaw can we expect to see in “Saw VI”?

A lot of what drives the action is what Jigsaw set up before we saw him die in “Saw III.” You see quite a bit of me in “Saw VI” because “Saw” doesn’t play out in a linear way, and so it’s jumping all around in time.

We hear you aren’t a fan of horror films.

No. I’ll stay home with you and watch the game or something.

How do you feel about filming all the gory stuff?

I’m more concerned about the real violence in the world. It’s an artist’s job not to make moral judgments about things but rather to portray anything that inspires them, that expresses something that exists in the human condition. If this sort of thing could really happen, then it’s fair game.

 
 
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MMMpod
The March MMMpod features conversation and music from Surfer Blood and The Allman Brothers Band (There's a double-bill you're not too likely to see. However, Gregg Allman does mention Hannah Montana!). We also speak with Vampire Weekend and the Dropkick Murphys.
 
 
 
Metro Life Panel