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Rose Byrne is Sexy in GQ

I’ve always been a fan of Rose Byrne. No, let me rephrase that: I’ve always had a major geek crush on Rose Byrne. She has that perfect combination of girl-next-door prettiness and real acting chops. You can currently catch Rose Byrne on TV (I don’t know what she’s doing on TV, but she is) on the FX Channel’s Damages doing the lawyer thing opposite Glenn Close. And oh yeah, in case it needs to be said, Rose Byrne looks killer in a power suit on the show. Here’s Rose Byrne in the latest issue of Australia GQ looking as sexy as I’ve ever seen her. Seriously, this type of spread won’t do anything but increase my geek crush on this woman. Yow!

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Rose Byrne Tries TV with Damages

To be honest, I’m not sure what Rose Byrne is doing on TV, because she’s got a thriving movie career going, and showing up as a regular in a TV (and cable TV to boot!) can’t possibly be good for her burgeoning movie career. But anyways, here she is, in the cast of the FX Channel’s lawyer show “Damages”, where she plays Ellen Parsons. If you have cable TV, you’ve probably seen commercials for the show for a while now; it stars Glenn Close as a high-stakes lawyer in New York. (I’m not going to wonder what Glenn Close is doing on a TV series; it’s the “in” thing right now.) Anyways, here’s Rose Byrne at the premiere of “Damages”, looking good as always. And hey, I’m not complaining. Rose Byrne once a week is always nice.

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Video Clips from 28 WEEKS LATER Online

I have to admit it — the more I see and hear about “28 Weeks Later”, the more I’m looking forward to it. Granted, it’s not the level of “Transformers”-esque anticipation, but it’s pretty close, and that’s why the film should do reasonably well on its opening weekend. Yahoo! Movies has some exclusive clips online from the movie. There are a couple of cool ones, but my favorite is the “Stay Down, Stay Fast” one, where Jeremy Renner’s character leads survivors out of the city, only to get stalemated by not zombies, but Army snipers! See all the clips for yourself here.

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New 28 WEEKS LATER Poster, Positive Review

A new “28 Weeks Later” poster has surfaced here. This one actually looks decent, whereas the old ones has been just some lame, lazy photoshop work. I like this one. Six months have passed since the virus wiped out London. British citizens are now returning to District One as part of a U.S. military project to re-populate and re-start the city. But the infection still lives among carriers who show no outward symptoms. Starring Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau Jr, Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, and Catherine McCormack.

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Rose Byrne is the SUNSHINE of my WEEKS

There are two movies this year that I’m looking forward to (besides “Transformers” and all the usual suspects, I mean), and that’s the zombie sequel “28 Weeks Later” and Danny Boyle’s sci-fi actioner “Sunshine”. What do both films have in common? They both star the glorious Rose Byrne, who I have been enamored with ever since her turn as Briseis in the big-budget disaster “Troy”. At first I thought Rose was a Brit (just the name alone, you know), but as it turns out, she’s originally from New South Wales, Australia. A Rose, by any other name, has got nothin’ on Rose Byrne. Here’s Rose in the latest issue of InStyle UK.

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More Images from Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine”

Danny Boyle’s sci-fi movie “Sunshine” really intrigues me. It doesn’t look like a flat-out action-adventure, but more of a cerebral, intelligent suspense film. I like that. I don’t need an action scene every minute to love a movie, and “Sunshine” looks like that kind of movie. Plus, there are stills from the movie that makes me think this is going to be a very emtional movie. How can it not be, with guys like Cillian Murphy and girls like Rose Byrne in it? The film co-stars Michelle Yeoh, Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Troy Garity, Rose Byrne, and is directed by Danny Boyle. For some reason, there are still no release dates for it.

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“Sunshine’s” Posters Come to Light

Danny Boyle’s sci-fi adventure “Sunshine” finally comes to light (get it? come to light? “Sunshine”? Oh, I slay me). One is a foreign poster and the other is, I believe, the UK version. I’m very interested in seeing “Sunshine”, but for some reason, I just can’t get a “handle” on it. That is, I just can’t get a feel for the film, what it’s about, how it’s going to play out. Is it like Cameron’s “The Abyss”, where things move slowly until the end? Or more dreamy like Boyle’s “A Life Less Ordinary”, or more appropriately, Soderbergh’s remake of “Solaris”? I just can’t decide. The trailers confuse me, and I’m afraid they might have packed all the action into it. Anyways, here are the posters.

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Preview: Danny Boyle’s Sci-Fi Actioner “Sunshine” Trailer

Danny Boyle is a pretty good filmmaker with an insanely eclectic filmography. The dude went from a wacky drug-out flick in “Trainspotting” to a wacky (but pleasantly cool) romantic drama in “A Life Less Ordinary” to a zombie marathon in “28 Days Later”. His latest is “Sunshine”, a sci-fi thriller about astronauts in the near future sent to “re-ignite” a dying sun or else mankind is doomed. Boyle re-teams with “The Beach” and “28 Days Later” writer Alex Garland (who recently made noise by being paid a cool $1 million to write the now-defunct “Halo” movie). Check out the trailer and some movie stills for the flick. It definitely looks good, but I still have reservations about how the subject matter and constrained locales will translate into an action movie.

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“28 Weeks Later” Gets a (Crappy) Online Trailer

Via Cinematical, FoxAtomic has your first look at a rough, work-in-progress trailer for the horror movie “28 Weeks Later”, sequel to Danny Boyle’s London “rage infectee” zombie movie “28 Days Later”, a movie that, while I thought was cool, still believe to have ripped off Romero’s “Dead” trilogies so shamelessly as to be, well, shameful. The plot: “Six months have passed since the virus wiped out London. British citizens are now returning to District One as part of an American military project to re-populate and re-start the city. But the infection still lives among carriers who show no outward symptoms.” I have no idea how a Brit movie somehow roped Americans into the plot, but I’m guessing we’ll get blamed for everything again. I mean, shit, what can’t you blame on Americans these days?

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Three Shades of Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne was easily the best thing about that overbloated “historical” film “Troy”, it’s too bad no one took the time to mention how beautiful she was in that movie. I guess the sight of Brad Pitt’s naked buttocks was too much of a distraction. Oh well. Here’s Rose on the beach somewhere in three different shades.

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