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Catherina Gioino

Catherina "Cat" Gioino is a native New Yorker, a huge movie buff and an amateur pizzaiolo. She currently works in transportation policy in New York, and previously was a breaking news reporter for the New York Daily News, and had stints at MSNBC, NY1, PBS and the Queens Gazette-- and was at The Knock since the beginning. When she's not biking around her hometown of Astoria or testing out the train system of another country, you can find her slinging wine and drinks at a friend's local bar.

Fashion & Beauty

Check Out Photos From The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

by Catherina Gioino
written by Catherina Gioino

The 2015 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show occurred last night at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, where the Victoria’s Secret Angels took to the runway in the brand’s newest designs. There were countless celebrities in the audience for the show, which was taped and will air on CBS on December 8 at 10 pm. The show, which was directed by Hamish Hamilton, was produced by a number of people and companies, including Edward G. Razek, Monica Mitro, Ian Stewart, Hamilton himself, and Done+Dusted, Inc.

There were plenty of people at the show, including Adrien Grenier, ?uestlove, Alexandra Richards, Andre Holland, Austin Mahone, Charlie Walk, Charlie Webber, Daniela Pestova, Darren Criss, Dylan Penn, Harley Viera-Newton, Ross One, Ireland Baldwin, Kellen Lutz, Kris Jenner, Caityln Jenner, Leigh Lezark, Matt Czuchry, Matt Harvey, Mehcad Brooks, Mohamed Hadid, Nick Cannon, Prince Amukamara, Johannes Huebl, Shane West, Shiva Safai, Tyga, Tyson Beckford, Vanessa Ray, DJ Ruckus and Brian Atwood. As for Angels, those included Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Behati Prinsloo, Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge, Elsa Hosk, Jac Jagaciak, Jasmine Tookes, Kate Grigorieva, Lais Ribeiro, Martha Hunt, Romee Strijd, Sara Sampaio, Stella Maxwell, Taylor Hill, and PINK model Rachel Hilbert. And also in attendance included Mitro, Razek, and the company’s CEO Sharen Turney, all as they listened to musical guests Ellie Goulding, Selena Gomez, and The Weeknd.

Check out pictures from the show and behind the scenes below.

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Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken To Star In ‘Eddie the Eagle’

by Catherina Gioino
written by Catherina Gioino

If you’re like me, you have two great loves in life: ski jumping and Christopher Walken. And when you find out that there’s going to be a movie with Christopher Walken about ski jumping, you can sure bet that the excitement is extraordinary.

That’s what Eddie the Eagle is going to be about- a British American sports comedy with Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, and Christopher Walken, about the 1980s Olympic ski jumper Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards. Directed by Dexter Fletcher and produced by Matthew Vaughn, Adam Bohling, David Reid, Rupert Maconick, and Valerie Van Galder, the film started shooting from March 9 to May 3 2015 at Pinewood Studios, London, and Germany.

Eddie the Eagle was the first ski jumper from Britain to participate in the Olympics. In Calgary of 1988, he lost both his competitions, but his story is inspiration because of the people involved. Jackman and Walken will play fictional characters in the film based on true people in Edwards’ life. Jackman will be Edward’s main coach, Bronson Peary, and Walken will be the mentor to both Edwards and Peary, Warren Sharp. The idea to make their characters fictional was because Edwards had numerous coaches in both Britain and in the United States and so the filmmakers thought it would be less confusing and more personal to go along the one coach route.

The film is set to come out April 29, 2016, and it will detail Edwards’ practice before the actual Olympic games, detailing how he had no funding, not even a budget to buy actual prescription goggles so he ended up wearing glasses under his goggles which made seeing a near impossibility.

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Alexander Skarsgard To Star In Tarzan The Movie

by Catherina Gioino
written by Catherina Gioino

Tarzan. Which one do you think of? For me, it’s the 1999 Disney film, others, the Ron Ely 1966 television series Tarzan, as well as the 1970 film, Tarzan: A Deadly Silence. 

And for this generation, it’s going to be the Alexander Skarsgard version, set to release on July 1, 2016. The film, directed by David Yates and written by Stuart Beattie, Craig Brewer, John Colle, and Adam Cozad, will star a number of well known people, including Skarsgard as Tarzan, Margot Robbie as Jane Porter, as well as Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, and Djimon Hounsou.

The story’s premise will follow Tarzan a while after he left Africa, to live on a civilized life with his wife Jane, as he lives as John Clayton III, or also called, Lord Greystroke. As he returns to Africa to serve as a trace emissary, he soon gets involved in Belgium Captain Rom’s (Waltz) deadly plot and now he must make amends and stop him before things go terribly wrong. Jackson will play George Washington Williams and Hounsou will play Chief Mbonga.

The film itself is almost twelve years in the making, as John August was asked in 2003 to make a live adaptation of the story in modern day times. The script bounced around a bit, Michael Phelps’ name was even attached to the project, and now it landed safely to premiere on its July date.

 

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Why Are Some Questioning The Ghostbusters Reboot?

by Catherina Gioino
written by Catherina Gioino

In September, director of the new Ghostbusters remake Paul Feig tweeted to an annoying heckler of the reboot to “Go f— yourself” in response to his constant bantering on Twitter and remarks against the film. The heckler says it has nothing to do with it being an all female cast, so what is it? What makes this reboot any different than any other unoriginal story that encompasses what Hollywood is made of today? Just for comparison:

  • Do comic book lovers cry about the newest sequel or spin off of an established super hero franchise? (ie, Spiderman, Batman, X-Men, The Avengers, Captain America, Superman, etc)
    • No, but if Hollywood dare makes Wonder Woman into a movie.
  • Do Star Wars and Star Trek nerds cry about reboots and remakes by the same director for both franchises?
    • But if they dare even think of stopping Princess Leia slave figures, God help them

Ok, that’s all I can think of at the moment, but seriously, why do we need to be such a sensitive society where all we think about is the wrongs of society with gender, reboots, films, and MPAA warnings? Why can’t we be like good ol’ Europe and worry about violence in films as opposed to petty stuff that just won’t get anyone anywhere?

*Rant over* But, watch some cool Ghostbusters stunt action below, and remember, reboots are the bread of Hollywood today.

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Film

Billionaires Boys Club. . . Again

by Catherina Gioino
written by Catherina Gioino

Nope, not the two part 1987 film, but a new biopic following the key players of the Ponzi scheme. The Billionaires Boys Club (or shortened to BBC) was an investment club started by Joseph Henry Gamsky, aka, Joe Hunt, in which BBC was originally the restaurant that Hunt dined at, the Bombay Bicycle Club. The club ended up getting the name after Hunt attracted sons from rich families after graduating from the Harvard School for Boys, and it soon turned into a Ponzi scheme where Hunt murdered two people after a con man, Ron Levin, gets involved with the scheme.

Kevin Spacey, Ansel Elgort, Emma Roberts, and Taron Egerton are all set to star in the newest version of Billionaires Boys Club, with Spacey portraying Ron Levin, Elgort playing Joe Hunt, Roberts playing Hunt’s love interest Sydney, and Egerton playing Dean Karny, a tennis professional who was also involved in the entire Ponzi scheme. James Cox, who previously directed Wonderland, is set to direct the script he also co-wrote with Captain Mauzner (who also worked on Wonderland).

The film will be produced by Holly Wiersma, Cassian Elwes, Tim Zajaros, and Chris Lemole, with Lemole and Zajaros acting as executive producers. Also executive producing include Crystal Lourd, Jere Hausfater, and Logan Levy, while the film is being financed by Armory Films.

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‘Baby Driver’ Coming Soon

by Catherina Gioino
written by Catherina Gioino

There’s something funnier about physical gag comedy. Almost all comedies these days are full of conversational humor, full of jokes that characters retort back to one another in an effort to make those comedies all the more hilarious. And then there’s Edgar Wright’s films, like Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and more. If there’s only one thing that could be said about those films, it’s that they use physical humor to make you laugh and possibly choke on that popcorn.

That choking is exactly why we’re excited for Baby Driver, a new film he wrote and directed, starring Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Ansel Elgort, and Jamie Foxx. The film revolves around a crime boss who forces a getaway driver to work for him as one of his employees is a trigger-happy cop killer. Spacey will play the crime lord who has worked his way up to earn that name, while Hamm will play the bank robber who kills cops, and Elgort will play the young getaway driver. Lily James will also play a waitress who acts as the love interest for Elgort, all the while Foxx is signed onto the project but his role is unknown at the current moment.

The film is set to come out March 17, 2017, however, so we’ll have a while to wait before it comes out.

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‘The Hunting Ground’ Reveals The Truth About Rape Culture

by Catherina Gioino
written by Catherina Gioino

It’s no surprise that now more than ever, rape and sexual assault victims are speaking out and bringing their cases to college officials. And it’s also no surprise that colleges are pulling out their entire arsenal in order to hide these rape allegations. Any accusation of that nature would make the college look bad, and it’s even worse for the college when the culprit is a star athlete who brings them millions of dollars.

That sentence was just appalling to write, so I can imagine how it was to read. That’s exactly what the film The Hunting Ground explores. It is a documentary written and directed by Kirby Dick that focuses on several rape victims from colleges all over the United States. Produced by Amy Ziering, it first premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on February 27, 2015. The documentary mostly followed Andrea Pino and Annie E. Clark who were both raped while enrolled at the University of North Carolina. They teamed up to lead a Title IX campaign against the school, which was then taken up by other rape victims at other colleges.

The film was moving. Pino and Clark shared their heart wrenching stories. Despite speaking out, their college did not act. There were numerous cases where victims spoke out about their situations and their cases were handled in a grossly inappropriate manner. In one case at Harvard Law School, a woman was raped, brought her accuser to the administration, knew her rights and had the rapist removed through expulsion. However, the following semester, the dean emailed her saying that the man had appealed and would be attending the school once again. Another case involved Jameis Winston, a quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who raped a girl and got away with it since he was the star football player for Florida State University at the time. He ended up leading the team to victory and earning the Heisman Trophy as a freshman (making him the youngest college player to do so).

The film really shines a light on all of the wrongs with the college system and how rape is handled on campuses. There are so many wrongs happening, that it begs the question: when will attitudes and perceptions about rape change? After seeing this documentary, you will start asking tough questions about rape and rape culture in America.

Watch the trailer here:

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Jon Stewart And His Four Year HBO Deal

by Catherina Gioino
written by Catherina Gioino

Jon Stewart fans, remain calm. Alas it was a terrible summer. First, Stephen Colbert announced that he would be ending his stint on The Colbert Report. But fans weren’t too worried, since we all knew he would return in the fall to take over for David Letterman. And then the news really hit hard, when Jon Stewart said he was done with The Daily Show. That’s when we freaked out. There was nothing left to turn to. There wasn’t a host opening. There wasn’t a segment in which he could become a recurring correspondent. We were losing someone.

Or so we thought. Stewart has just signed a four year contract with HBO to make all digital content, meaning that it would be streamed online and on HBO GO or HBO NOW and other digital platforms. Stewart is working with OTOY, a graphics company that will produce the videos with him, and although there is a chance he won’t be on camera, he still will narrate them.

As part of the deal, HBO gets “first-look options” for anything that Stewart will do, meaning that if he wants to develop a show or film, HBO gets first dibs. But nonetheless, this will prove helpful to Stewart, HBO, and fans everywhere. Whereas Stewart has stated that the show was an energy drain despite loving it, he can now make short videos that will be all the more accessible to his fans, which tend to lean toward a younger demographic.

 

 

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