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Joe Wright's new "Pan" film project, which is his version of J. M. Barrie's classic "Peter Pan", has gotten a lot of media attention and angry fans lately due to the latest casting choice.

Rooney Mara is in final negotiations for the role of Tiger Lily.


As great of an actress, and as beautiful Mara is, we still can't get over the fact that they chose a white actress to play a Native American role, a role which is already scarce to find as it is for a real Native American actress.


The worst part is that we can't even say that they tried looking for a Native, as Prospector Films tweeted a response saying that, "(Native American actress) Kawennahere Devery Jacobs auditioned auditioned for the role but was told that they were looking for a Caucasian instead."


We love Rooney, and we're really excited for the film but this decision made by them was terribly irresponsible. So if they do decide to pick someone else, we at Bubblebeam Mag are proud to present these Native American actresses that could rock the part as well as Rooney could!

Devery Jacobs

She auditioned for the role and they turned her down because she was Native American? The 20 year old actress has been turning heads since she had been nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Aila in Rhymes for Young Ghouls, at the Canadian Screen Awards. Plus, she's breathtakingly gorgeous. How could they have turned her down?

Q'orianka Kilcher

Q'orianka had already took the world by storm with her role as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's "A New World" epic when she was just 14 years old! Now that she's 24, she could fit in the role as well as Rooney in terms of age, and she has the terrific acting chops to boot. A bonus fact about her is that she's a great environmental and human rights activist.

Julia Jones

The English, Native American (Choctaw and Chickasaw) and African-American actress has starred in the Twilight movies and ER, and has since than gained the adoration and a following worldwide. Twilight does that to people.

Vanessa Hudgens

She might only be a quarter Native American, but she can still look the part of Tiger Lily. She also has a massive fan following from her High School Musical days and she's not been stopping since with film projects like Spring Break and Machete Kills. Having her on board would also attract a lot more people to watch the film.

Ashley Callingbull

The Canadian actress even starred in Blackstone, an unmuted exploration of community, power and politics on a First Nation reserve. So she definitely fits the part. She's also a model, a prize winning beauty queen and an international motivational speaker for TED talks and Harvard. What more could you possibly want?


There are also probably more actresses that are of Native American descent who are out there and who are just waiting for a huge Native American role like Tiger Lily in Pan to come one in a blue moon, but the role would only be given to Caucasians.

Lots of other roles that were meant for other races, like olive skinned Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games, ended up being a role for Jennifer Lawrence.

The issue of given roles of other races to white actors is a big one, and it is something that needs to stop at some point, because actors of different races can do just as good of a job as Caucasians, and they can sell tickets (look at Pacific Rim!), we just need to be given the chance.

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.

That Max, though~

Brimming with anticipation, we at Bubblebeam Magazine 'fangirl' hard for our most anticipated upcoming movies. We're also ridiculously jealous that the people at Sundance gets to see it first. However, a brand new theatrical trailer for "The Raid 2: Berandal" has just surfaced on the internet.


Empire Online mentioned something about the trailer giving a little too much away but director Gareth Evans has assured everyone that "we’re really just scratching the surface".

We've watched it and though it contains a lot more footage of the action, we still have goosebumps from it and we don't feel like it gave a lot away.

We really can't wait for it the film to be available for viewing.


          

The nominees for the 2014 Academy Awards have been announced fresh and live, and already there were some expected films that should have at least received nominations but did not even get a nod.

But there were some nominations that we were pretty stoked about.

Let's talk about the snubs first.

The robbed.

Now that we've covered our favourites that didn't make the cut, we'll feature some who did get a nomination and who we want to get the statue.

The ones to root for.

I had just recently watched this film and I just had to write about it. I never really hide my love for things, but I do have to admit that action films are considered to be one of my guiltiest pleasures.

Action films tend to have a rather bad rep amongst snooty film enthusiasts, mostly because of the immense lack of plot, scenes with absolute no use or story except to show intricate fight sequences, and actors chosen only for their martial arts skills rather than their acting experience.

With that description, Indonesian's own crown jewel "The Raid: Redemption" is exactly that, but I'm here to tell you why it is a good thing and why you have to watch it anyway.


Who made this? Gareth Evans, a Welsh director who was so fascinated with Indonesian martial arts he is now based in the country and has created this golden masterpiece with his muse, Iko Uwais.

Who's in it? Iko Uwais, who is more like the Christoph Waltz to Evan's Quentin Tarantino. Yayan Ruhian, who played Mad Dog in the film is also a star player.


What is it about? Okay so the beauty of a perfect action film is that it doesn't have much of a twisting plotline. The plot if simple, a large group of cops try to catch the big chief of all bad guys who stays on the top of that building, and they have to go through all of the floors to reach him.

Kind of like a great video game.


Why should we watch it? The plotline alone had already made me feel intrigued, but if you can appreciate cinema in all forms "The Raid: Redemption" captures so many different brutal ways to die or kill that it is absolutely fantastic. It is also beautifully done in terms of cinematography and choreography, and you can bask in the vision that Evan's has created along with the bloody violent beautiful mess.



This is an absolute perfect film if you're a great fan of a great action film with a simple plot and massive minutes of just fighting and blood and weapons and combat, however, I personally also preferred more of the story and the dialogue and they didn't have enough of it. But that's the only thing I can say that was a slight downside to it.

You know what I also loved about it? It was Indonesian, with Indonesian dialogue and actors, and yet it still translated well to audiences who were reading the subtitles. It also gained a lot of attention and appeal from the U.S. and the U.K., I mean, that's huge. South East Asians getting the spotlight and winning awards from International Film Festivals make me so proud.

I'm excited for the sequel. The plot of "The Raid 2: Berandal" is unknown, according to IMDB, however it takes place 2 hours after the first film.

The trailer, which also gained a wide amount of attention online, was good enough to get me so intrigued I had to watch the first film in the first place.