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Jean Dujardin. Just saying his name out loud makes you want to melt butter with his face. The French heart throb captivated me in The Monuments Men recently, and it's hard not to love him in any movie he's in. He slayed The Wolf of Wall Street, and he won the Oscar for Best Actor in The Artist.

What can't he do?

But let us look at the other incredible Jean Dujardin facts, so we could love him even more.

1. He is one of the five only French actors to ever win an Academy Award.

The other actors were Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (1959), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996) and Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (2007).

2. Look at that stupid beautiful smile of his.

Ugh I love it so much.

3. He began contemplating a career in acting while serving his mandatory military service.

Wikipedia didn't elaborate on this but it would have been so interesting for him to think about acting while he crawled under wire or ran 10k. Also, when Dujardin was 24 years old, he began writing and performing stand-up comedy sketches in bars in Paris.

4. He's a really hot tamale.

Like, super tres tres hot.

5. He was in this hilarious Funny or Die video about bouncing back after the high of winning an Oscar as a foreigner.

            

And yet he still lands himself memorable roles in great films after The Artist. Your fave can never.

Happy Valentines Day! Whether you are relatively single or relatively in love, nothing will make you feel more loved than Valentines Day cards to fit your favourite film of 2013.

On our case, it was Pacific Rim.

And according to these makers of outstanding Pacific Rim-themed cards we have found while scrolling through Tumblr, many others think so too.

Without further ado, here are some of our favourite ones.








The illustrated Valentines are done by Benjamin Dewey. Some of the other ones are taken from Tumblr.

If you haven't seen Spike Jonze's Her by now, you should probably go watch it quick before you regret it. It is one of the most beautifully written movies I've seen in a long time, and the story with the world in it will suck you in and spit you out before you get the chance to beg the movie theater to take you back.

Besides it being a film you can't miss, the other standout feature in the film was The Moon Song, written by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

You would have heard Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix sing the song as their characters in the film, and it would have given you goosebumps.


Now that the song has become an Academy Award nominated song, the Moon Song is going places, and will be an official Karen O single, with three versions of it arriving in iTunes.

In one of the versions, Karen O sings it with Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig.

“I wrote the song as a duet,” Karen O explained. "I was really excited at the prospect of getting to record it with a male vocalist. Ezra was super cool and open, he slipped into character like a champ and damn he's got the goods."

Ezra Koenig

Listen to the duet below~

That Max, though~

Guess it would be difficult to come up with outstandingly suave winter outfits to represent style AND your country. But some of these uniforms this year are incredibly quirky.

It makes it all the more interesting to watch a guy in bright orange tights roll down a snowy ice sculpture, or whatever sport they do over there.

Here are some of the more interesting uniforms from the countries.

Czech Republic

These aren't that awful, but the fur hats could have been designed less like a raccoon butt and more like a hat.

Germany

Largely just concentrating to make a political statement, the result of it looks so unsavoury. The look is very bright and very attention seeking, but those are the only good things we can say about the outfit.

U.S.A

Holy smokes. What the hell is going on at the crotch area?

Russia

It might not be the worst looking drab, but they're the host of the entire thing. They could have done without the awkwardly big R U, awkwardly placed on their chests.

Norway

It might be a surprising look but this one is the best of the worst. The look is cheerful, but they do look like they belong in an acapella quartet.

Japan

What a contrast of colour. The blue shade is pretty neat, but they could have done without the crazy orange life jackets.

Latvia

Hey look, a character from Sesame Street decided to compete.

Lithuania

We can't even begin to tell you how much this outfit blows. On the plus side, the boots are marvellous. It might be their national colour, but it looks like pyjamas.

Official Volunteers

Looking at the details, it's kind of intricate and it has a sort of Japanese origami feel to is, but once you look at it on a person, it feels like they're wearing grandma's unfinished quilt.

Kazakhstan

It's smart that they added the yellow from their flag in the tiniest amounts in their uniform. But they could have used less yellow because its like a baby coloured the uniforms in with a highlighter.

Mexico

This is incredible.



Though we're here cracking jokes about the uniforms, we still have a great respect for the athletes. They're doing what regular humans can't do. Especially since most of us have never experienced winter. Good luck at the games and have fun wearing that crotchless skin tight disaster, America.