Article: Bear Grylls Exclusive

Cameron Diaz is set to join Bear Grylls on the next season of 'Man vs. Wild', the action man has confirmed.

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Cameron Diaz is to learn how to survive in the wild.



The 'Bad Teacher' actress has agreed to join Bear Grylls on the next series of his adventure show 'Man vs. Wild' - which features the action man dropped into inhospitable locations and showing viewers how to endure the experiences - but the pair first need to work out a suitable time in their schedules.

Bear exclusively told Bang Showbiz: "She's agreed to it, which is great. So we're gonna try and do it in due course."

The 38-year-old actress will be following in the footsteps of comedian Will Farrell and also Jake Gyllenhaal, who just accompanied Bear on a trip to Iceland, with the survival expert describing him as the "fittest man in Hollywood".

He joked: "I have a rule not to take anyone who is fitter or better looking than me but I kind of let that slide and ended taking the fittest man in Hollywood."

Bear had to be "less reckless" after promising Jake's sister that he wouldn't take any crazy risks but admitted they still encountered some extreme situations.

He explained: "We hit these crazy storms. They were the worst storms they've had in Iceland in ten years. There was a jumbo jet blown sideways across a runway meanwhile I was up in this mountain with Jake being blown about like tumbleweed.

"For me it's great to take along someone who is really up for it like that and be able to push him as well."

Bear Grylls stars in 'Man vs. Wild', which premieres on the Discovery Channel on July 11.

Published: Elle Canada

* Article was written based on information acquired from my interview with Bear Grylls.

Film Review: Source Code

Director Duncan James is clearly a science fiction man. After the success he got from Moon, he is back with his next cinematic offering, Source Code.



The film starts with army helicopter pilot Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) waking up on a train to Chicago. But he is meant to be on tour in Afghanistan. And so the story begins with Jake doing a very convincing performance of a man who has woken up in another body.

We then learn that he has been recruited to become part of a government experiment that is being used to help fight terrorist attacks. Despite his confusion and pleas for an explanation about what has happened to him, the government team explain that a bomb has recently gone off on a train outside Chicago and it is up to him to find out who is responsible because they are about to detonate another bomb in the heart of the city.

What has this got to do with a ‘source code’? Source Code is the name of the government project which has been developed to allow reliving the last eight minutes in the life of a man who was on board the train when the bomb exploded. The theory is that each person contains a short-term memory that can be explored and while you are in that eight-minute cycle, you are basically in an alternate reality that allows you to explore and interact with your surroundings. It is more than a memory, it is real, but it is also a frozen moment in time that cannot be used to affect the present or future. It is not real, and yet in a sense it is.

Colter’s mission is to relive those eight minutes over and over again until he identifies the bomber and gets all the details needed to prevent the next attack.



There are going to be two types of audience members in this film. The ones who figure it all out very quickly and so are able to focus on the flaws…or the ones like me, audience members follow Colter on his journey with the same amount of confusion, desperately trying to figure out who the bomber is.

The latter will have much more fun watching this film because once you know who the bomber is, the Groundhog Day effect of the film will just become irritating.

Jake Gyllenhaal is slowly making his way up on my favourite actors list. His performance is exactly what is needed to make the army character lovable enough for you to not get annoyed by the lack of focus on finding the bomber. His love interest in the film, played by Michelle Monaghan, is the chatty Christina who is forced to watch Jake run around the train like a crazy man over and over again but still manages to make us fall for her just as much as he does.



Captain Carol Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) starts out cold and distant with Farmiga slowly revealing a more caring part of her character unlike her boss.

There are so many twist and turns that I can’t mention about this film that made it so enjoyable. I guess you just have to watch it to find out.

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Published: The New Current