Leonardo DiCaprio and Gossip Girls star Blake Lively: Hot New Romance

Leonardo DiCaprio has been photographed escorting Gossip Girls star Blake Lively around the south of France this week, and rumors are flying about their hot new romance. According to US Magazine, ever since his most recent breakup with on/off girlfriend Bar Refaeli, DiCaprio has been in “hot pursuit” of Lively, whom he first met last November at a business meeting in New York City. They met again at actor Jeremy Renner’s birthday party in January, where they “locked lips,” and most recently met up again at the Cannes Film Festival. This time around, DiCaprio was free to pursue Lively, who had broken up with her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley last September.

DiCaprio has reportedly been wining and dining his new love all over the French Riviera. US Magazine published photographs of them walking hand-in-hand on a moonlit street in Monte Carlo, where they stayed at the luxurious Hôtel de Paris next door to the casinos. On May 29, they were seen partying on board an opulent £32 million Benetti yacht owned by billionaire Sir Philip Green, founder of the British fashion store Topshop. US reports they arrived on the yacht “hand in hand” and a source told the magazine that DiCaprio introduced Lively as his girlfriend. “It sounds unlike Leo – but I’ve also never seen him like this with a girl,” the source is quoted as saying. “I would say they’re totally smitten.”

DiCaprio, who is 36, has a reputation in Hollywood for partying hard with lots of beautiful women, but Lively, now 23, has a more restrained, squeaky clean reputation, at least until recently. Lively’s good-girl image has taken a beating with the recent release of five photographs that are allegedly of her in the nude in front of a mirror. Lively claimed the photos were fake and threatened to sue the publications that printed them. The very next day, however, 17 more photographs appeared on the internet. Her representative told People Magazine, “Blake has never taken nude photos of herself.”

While upset over the release of the photographs, Lively has been consoling herself by spending time with DiCaprio in Italy. The pair moved on from the French Riviera to Venice on June 1, where People reports they went on a boat ride and met up with friends. Viva Italia!

Oh Leo... SURE you don't want to rethink your decision? Newly single Bar Refaeli unveils her top model bikini body

Bar Refaeli really seems to know how to make her ex jealous – by posting a photograph of herself in a tiny string bikini on Twitter.

If her former boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio stumbles upon this picture, he’s sure to be regretting his decision.

The 25-year-old model lay back on a cream leather couch aboard a super yacht in a black triangle bikini top and string pink and black bikini bottom.

Movie Review- Shutter Island

Directed by	Martin Scorsese
Produced by	Bradley J. Fischer Mike Medavoy Arnold W. Messer
Written by	Laeta Kalogridis Steven Knight Dennis Lehane (Novel)
Starring	Leonardo DiCaprio Ben Kingsley Mark Ruffalo Michelle Williams Patricia Clarkson Emily Mortimer Ted Levine John Carroll Lynch Elias Koteas Jackie Earle Haley and Max von Sydow
Music by	Robbie Robertson
Cinematography	Robert Richardson
Editing by	Thelma Schoonmaker
Studio	Phoenix Pictures Appian Way Productions Sikelia Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	February 19, 2010 (2010-02-19)
Running time	138 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$80 million

Review:
Director Martin Scorsese's latest collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio is a brain-scrambling good time.

The latest chapter in Martin Scorsese’s fruitful DiCaprio phase is the haunting psychological thriller Shutter Island. Based on the bestselling novel by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island casts Leo as U.S. Marshal Edward “Teddy” Daniels, a World War II veteran and recent widower assigned with investigating the escape of a female inmate from Ashecliffe Hospital, a facility for the criminally insane housed on an ominous island outside Boston Harbor.

Ashecliffe Hospital is the Casa Bonita of mental institutions, a decaying, storm-battered Gothic fortress packed with raving, homicidal crazies from all sides of the lunatic spectrum. Orderlies, dressed in asylum white and almost uniformly African-American, attempt to subdue their screams, while impassive physicians subject their brains to all manner of rudimentary — and often barbaric — experimental “treatments” considered cutting-edge in the early ‘50s. (Shutter Island's story is set in 1954, back when lobotomies were regularly dispensed and homosexuality was still officially classified as a mental disorder.)

The proprietor of this madhouse is Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), an effete, probing psychiatrist whose bowtie alone suggests a near-infinite capacity for evil. (Seriously — never trust any bowtie-wearer not named Pee Wee Herman. Just look at this guy.) He’s flanked by the German-born Dr. Naehring (Max Von Sydow), a vision of clinical Teutonic malevolence wrapped in a labcoat and wire-rimmed glasses. Needless to say, Marshal Daniels is immediately suspicious of both.

The case of the missing inmate proves to be something of a red herring, and Shutter Island an abrupt conspiratorial turn when Daniels reveals to his partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), his true motive for coming to Ashecliffe: Housed somewhere within its walls, he believes, is the arsonist responsible for the apartment fire that killed his wife, Dolores (Michelle Williams), just a few years prior. What’s more, Ashecliffe appears to be no mere hospital, but rather a secret government facility wherein gruesome, Nazi-inspired mind-control experiments are conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the hopes of gaining an edge on the Commies.

Suddenly, faint sounds of the cuckoo alarm can be heard, and as Daniels sets out to unravel the conspiracy, the conspiracy has already begun to unravel him. Wandering through Ashecliffe’s creaking labyrinth, he's beset by haunting visions and engulfed by Scorsese’s menacing, atmospheric blend of flickering lights, leaky ceilings, violent thunderclaps, deranged inmates, and other classic crazymaking cinematic conventions. Throw in some abrupt smash cuts, a jarringly arrhythmic score, and an undercurrent of Cold War paranoia, and you've got yourself one terrifyingly potent, batsh*t crazy stew.

Sometimes too potent. Shutter Island's narrative is bedeviled by inconsistent pacing, its slow burn all too often interrupted by overlong, exposition-heavy dialogue exchanges that effectively halt the film's momentum, forcing Scorsese to build the tension again from scratch as we struggle to process the revelations that have just been dumped upon us. And its extended "I see dead people" denouement strays into the hackneyed abyss of Shyamalan-land. Thankfully for us, it doesn't linger long enough to spoil all the brain-scrambling fun.

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