Some may say not possible. I spent many a sunny day inside watching the Goonies, ET and Stand By Me and my beloved Gulliver's Travels Ted Danson was my hero for many year after. I'm not sure about remaking movies people watched when they were young. I vividly remember the first time I watched Gulliver's Travels in front of what seems now to be the smallest TV screen on earth what I eat that evening, the smell of the house and even what I wore (I wont go in to detail)
I have yet to preview Jack Black but the trailer seems fun and inviting but PLEASE PLEASE Mr Black don't butcher one of my child hood fave's
Five teenage
friends living on one street all dream of a sinister man with a disfigured
face, a frightening voice and a gardener’s glove with knives for fingers. One
by one, he terrorizes them within their dreams – where the rules are his and
the only way out is to wake up. But when one among them dies, they soon realize
that what happens in their dreams happens for real and the only way to stay
alive is to stay awake. Buried in their past is a debt that has just come due.
To save themselves, they must plunge into the mind of the most twisted
nightmare of all: Freddy Krueger. Jackie Earle Haley plays the legendary
evildoer in this contemporary re-imagining of the seminal horror classic.
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST releases on DVD and Blu ray on October 25 2010.
Ithas come to my attention that 2010 will be enquiring a spoof before the year is out well.......... October
It's all Vampires, Werewolves and Lady Gaga !
This like the many spoof's before it has just packed vampire-themed movies, Into what looks like a poor storyline. Vampires Suckfinds
teenager Becca torn between two boys. As she and her friends wrestle
with a number of different dramas, everything comes to a head at their
prom.
It could be good. I'll watch it, I watch everything < I think they could possibly be my famous last words.
9021-uh oh (2008) Star, Trevor Donovan has like totally forgotten to pay his credit card, dude! The handsome fella has been hit up with a lawsuit by the credit card company for allegedly owing them over £28,000 in unpaid bills. Ouch, dude, at least you can take comfort in the fact you are 32 year old man still deemed youthful enough to get away with playing a high school student! Although, over here, if it was leaked that there was thirty something year old man pretending to be a teenager so he could enroll at high school, he wouldn't be slapped with a credit card bill! Guy, sort it out! You're too old to be playing high school kids and too old to be running up credit card bills!
Local police guard what little possessions the homeless teens of LA own from LiLO
Lohan Visit's homless teens. Wow, how noble of the ginger, no blonde, no black, no ginger again, haired 'star'. Now I admire anyone who takes the time to help out those in need as much as the next person, I mean I think what Eva Longoria Parker & all her fancy pals did over on Twitter for the people of Haiti was nothing short of amazing, but are we sure that lower than low Lohan's visit to the homeless shelter was a charitable act and not just a frantic scavenge hunt for needles? I am of course joking, don't shit your pants Linds (you know if you're wearing any today), I don't really believe that all homeless people are on drugs, it's just that, you know if you're seen knocking about with old Lohan people will make assumptions. The newly out on bail former star, spent the day talking, taking pictures and signing autographs for the homeless teens. Of course, what everyone living on the streets without proper food, or bed to sleep in wants, a signed picture off of one of those girls in Parent Trap! Come on Lindsay, you used be somebody. Stop messing about with drugs, you're giving them a bad rep!
Ahhh yes the ever popular teen vampire genre returns to our screens, No I’m not talking about the fourth edition of the much (over rated?) loved Twilight series, or the fantastically gratuitous True Blood. I am of course referring to the second season of The Vampire Diaries (TVD).
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that when I started watching TVD I was more than sceptical, shit, I’ll go so far as to say I went into it with the intention of hating it. Already a lover of such vampirical classics as ‘The Lost Boys’ (1987), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BTVS) and the recent True Blood the last thing I needed in my life was more vampire related angst, and sappy, indulgent angst at that, or so I thought. I, like many others, already believed that, excuse the heinous use of pun here, the genre had been done to death and that no more energy or time should be spent on the subject. However TVD had me sort of transfixed, compelled even, by the end of season one I found myself as eager for its return as I once had for BTVS and still am for True Blood. Although it’s unknown how much my new found eagerness is to do with the story and how much is down to a certain Damon Salvatore, the absurdly handsome, oddly camp, resident bad boy who injects much needed comedy into the show as well as off the scale amounts of general sexyness (technical term), played by the talented and, in my opinion under used Hollywood star, Ian Somerhalder.Now I know a big deal has been made over all this Twilight Saga crap with Team Edward Team Jacob etc and as yet I haven't picked, so it's only fair that I choose sides, so here goes, I am officially, 100% a firm, die hard Team.....TVD/Damon Salvatore!
I have come to this decision, of picking TVD over Twilight for some v.simple reasons. Unlike Twilight, TVD has oodles of chemistry and charisma especially between our tragic and morose lead trio. And again, sorry for comparing the two, unlike Twilight, TVD gets the balance between action, romance, comedy and drama just right, not one of the above aspects gets ignored or forgotten in order for the other to succeed. Lastly, and this is a biggie, TVD has BITE! Yes unlike the wet and depressing folk over at Twilight, TVD actually has heart and personality, and it's audience seem to genuinely care about what happens to the characters.
But for those of you that have been stuck in an ancient hidden tomb and missed season one, get off this page! For those of you that have developed a drink/drug problem since the show ended and the memories aint coming as freely as they used to, here’s a quick synopsis of TVD:
The Salvatore Bros.
The place is Mystic Falls, the time is present day (well 2009). In roll’s two obscenely handsome Vampire Brother’s. Stefan, the younger of the two Salvatore’s, is controlled and noble, he is tortured by his existence and denies himself human blood to avoid killing, instead choosing to survive on the blood of woodland animals. He has come back to Mystic Falls after falling in love with a high school girl. Enter Elena Gilbert. Elena and her younger brother Jeremy live with their Aunt Jenna after losing both their parents in a freak car accident. Stefan, determined to lead a normal life and hang on to his humanity enrols at the local high school, the very same one that Elena attends. ‘True love’ soon ensues between this good looking pair and things seem to be going well, but for how long....Meet Damon Salvatore, Stefan’s older, absurdly handsome, wickedly charming dangerous brother. Damon is the polar opposite of Stefan, though he could if wanted Damonn chooses to exercise no control over his vampire related desires and subsequently leaves a trail of death and destruction wherever he goes, not good for Stefan who is trying to keep a low profile. Damon has one goal, he wants to bring back a tomb full of trapped vampires imprisoned beneath the inhabitants of Mystic Falls very feet by a Witch way back when in 1864. Amongst such vampire’s is Damon’s one true love and the vampire who turned him and Stefan, Katherine, who don’t ‘alf look like Elena. The only problem is that in order to free Katherine all the other blood hungry vamps co-habiting with Katherine will be set free too, plus Damon doesn’t exactly know how to go about releasing a bunch of cursed vampires. So whilst Damon does whatever he deems necessary in order to reunite with Katherine, and Stefan tries to keep his ‘evil’ brother under control Elena and her high school chums are sucked into a world where the supernatural rules out. Along the way we of course encounter the odd love triangle. In his quest to find Katherine with the help of Stefan and his girl friend Eleana, Damon can’t help but start to develop feelings for her either and we begin to see some of Damon’s own humanity resurfacing.
With confusing emotions, hidden talents, supernatural abilities cropping up, and deep rooted secrets being exposed along the way we at long last reached the season finale.
In last season’s final episode we were left wondering a myriad of things; whether Caroline, Elena’s slightly bitchy, controlling neurotic friend, had survived the car crash caused by Uncle John Gilbert’s use of the supernatural devise designed to expose vampires, if Tyler Lockwood wasn’t a vampire then why had he been affected by the devise, had Elena’s misguided, tortured brother Jeremy’s attempt at becoming a vampire by killing himself with the blood of his dead vampire lover’s blood in his system a success, if ‘success’ is even the right word for what he was trying to do, and was Uncle John dead? But the big gun, the totally unpredictable, didn’t see that happening at all twist to end all twists came when an unsuspecting Damon finally bore the soul we all suspected he had hidden under those black gaping shirts and pale, pale, pale chest, and professed his love for Elena with a kiss. That was not the shock twist of course, that came when Elena, who was supposedly truly, madly, deeply in love with Stefan, Damon’s younger broodier much more predictable brother, kissed him back. Wait! I’m still not done, there was one final twist, the return of Katherine! Elena’s Doppelganger vampire ancestor returned from god knows where and begun reaping dopplegangeresque mayhem. You know, that old chestnut. So that’s where those crazy people down at the CW left us hanging.
And now the season premiere of The Vampire Diaries.
Sorry, I was trying to be all dramatic like those voiceovers you get just before the show starts...I don’t actually have the episode I have been lucky enough to see the opening couple of episodes and I can say that this season look like it is going to be fang-tastic (sorry had to be done!) but seriously the season does look like it is going to pretty spectacular! But for you unlucky ones out there yet to see the awesomeness that is TVD here’s a nice trailer to wet your appetites...
Never Let Me Go, due to be released in the UK on January 21st 2011 and starring possibly the finest young talent Britain has to offer in the wonderfully charismatic Carey Mulligan, already firmly established on both sides of the pond, Keira Knightly and relative new comer, although not for long if my spidey senses are correct, Andrew Garfeild.
Based on the Kazuo Ishiguro Novel of the same name.
This story follows three young adults; Tommy, Ruth and Kathy. We meet them as children as they spend their time in the, seemingly, picture perfect English boarding school where the inhabitants are ritually told that they are special, and must keep themselves healthy & well. Hmmm, very ominous. As they grow up into young adults we watch as they each try to come to terms with the power of their love for each other and try to hang on to, and make sense of their, past. Of course that is not all this trio will have to come to terms with as we join them on their journey and all the things they are seemingly fated to meet.
Finally, the show that took the world by storm last year is back for its much anticipated second season. Episode one is stuffed tighter with hotter, and more relevant, musical numbers than Jessica Simpsons jeans are with her own legs! (Yes she’s gained a bit of timber but still looks hot so I can say it)
Surprise star, Brittany
Glee makes a valiant return to our screens and thus far shows promise of continuing and improving upon all the things we loved about season one, however, there is also signs that some of the main issues I found wrong with the show may also be back with just as much enthusiasm.But on with the positive. The humour and heart of the show is relentless and obvious at times and subtle and unexpected at others. The songs are current and fun to watch and the characters don’t seem to have changed that much, thankfully in the case of the hilarious, and damn right maniacal at times, Sue Sylvester, the brilliantly precocious Rachael Berry and surprise hit of last seasons show Brittany.
Although I feel it is my duty to let all the returning, soft rock, mullet donning lovers out there know that season 2's opening episode kicks off without a single 70’s soft rock number in sight, ahhh bad luck Fleetwood Mac, really thought this could have been your year for a revival...
No, Glee’s new musical direction is firmly set in the present, with the rest of us, well for this episode at least. We join our favourite bunch of misfits back at school after a summer spent trying to get over their disappointing and unfair loss at Regional’s, well all except for last season’s surprise star ,who with my favourite quote of the episode; “people think I went on vacation, but actually I spent the summer lost in the sewers.’ It's easy to see why she is fast becoming my favourite character.
The uniform fits, but is there still room for Quinn in Sue's Cheerio squad?
Quinn returns having finally got rid of all that dead weight, oops, I mean baby weight, but apart from that there is no real indication or mention of what has happened to poor baby Beth. Instead Quinn has her mind firmly set on reclaiming her position as Queen Bee and head Cheerio, much to the annoyance of BFF and number one Frenemy Sanatana. Who since being given a more central role amongst the cast of Glee has, in direct opposition to Quinn, returned to school with added weight, notably around the chest area. Can you say High School boob job! Well Sue Sylvester can and she is not happy about it and wastes no time in demoting Santana to the bottom of the pile, well the Cheerleading pyramid to be precise.
There relationship survived the summer, but what season 2 have in store?
Rachael and her dull as dishwater boyfriend Finn are still an item. It doesn’t appear that much has changed with Rachael, her character is still in a state of constant combat between her relentless determination to become a star at any cost, and everyone else’s self-indulgent sense of morality and conscious. Booooo! Stop making out everyone does the right thing in the end! Finn doesn’t get off to the best of starts, losing his position in the football team followed by a disastrous and cringe worthy Cheerio try out that illustrates just how little space and self awareness he has. Never mind Finn at least you’re still....tall.
The remaining ‘Gleeple’ (that’s my new term for Glee related People. Clever isn’t it...) are also all present and accounted for, Mercedes and Kurt are still being used to play out every Gay & Black stereotype imaginable (they are most definitely Glee’s ‘Toofer’) and be the ‘good’ to Rachael’s ‘bad’ by continuing to give her a hard time for her admirable attempts at remaining top dog in Glee Club. Let’s hope the writers have bigger and more adventurous plans for their future. I don’t want to give the too much away regarding Rachael’s latest plot to oust this week’s potential threat, I’ll just say these four words: ‘Philippino midget, crack house.’ And no that is not the title of Gary Glitters next book.
Moving on...Artie has lost his Asian lover to the other all dancing, no speaking Asian of the group, but gained a new and annoying ‘New York gangsta’ lilt to his accent when singing. Stop that, or I’ll tell everyone at Glee you do in fact have the use of your legs and penis, I shan’t go into details about how I came to have this knowledge, it’s one of those friend of a friend things...
That’s the old character's pretty much covered, now let’s move forward with the obvious, but much needed, obligatory introduction of fresh meat. We get just this in the form of new female football coach Shannon Beiste (I believe it’s French for lack of estrogen.)who upon replacing the former Coach Tanaka is no all set to be Sue Sylvester’s new arch nemesis. Speaking of Sue she is still in top form, banging fellow cast members on the head with a hammer until they are unconscious and then proceeding to steal their wallets and the scene with just the power of words and comedy timing. Only, in this episode at least, she is not alone in her vile/hilarious endeavour at destroying and emotionally crushing those that stand in her way, enter the usually morally unshakeable and eternal Mr nice guy Will Schuster, who forms an unholy alliance with Sue in a bid to take down Coach Beiste after learning that both their budgets have been cut as a direct result of her arrival.
New football Coach, Coach Beiste stirs things up
All you slushy, gushy fools out there, don’t panic, before the episode is over Mr Schu see’s the error of his ways and makes a hasty return to the nice guy we all know him to be and comes good at the end thus reinforcing the popular and tired underlying message of practically every American TV show out there of ‘doing the right thing in the end.’
Next up Will thinks that in order to stand a chance in this year’s National’s new life has to be injected into the New Directions, and begins the auditioning process, which receives a less than tepid response from the students of William McKinley High, but does allow us the opportunity for new talent.
New talent, Sam
Other new faces entering our lives via the medium of TV include the new Quarter Back Sam Evans who at the moment is only showing potential for the title of ‘who can possibly be duller than Finn?’, and has an unusually and unnervingly large mouth, and one of those gay Bieber haircuts that make me want to sneak into the houses of all proprietors of such heinous hair do’s and Gillette Mac Three the living life out of them while they sleep!
Sunshine, newest addition for the New Directions?
Lastly there is new ‘singing sensation’ Sunshine. She appears to be a reject munchkin from a Philippine adaptation of The Wizard of OZ but she has an ‘Ammmaaazzzinnggg’ voice. *cough AutoTune cough*. Having said that she is cute and seeing as this is just the first episode we will watch this space and see what develops. Can she be the one to help boost the New Directions chances at Nationals this year! No, not if Rachael or those pesky, pushing thirty year old ‘kids’ over at Vocal Adrenalin have anything to do with it!
Goodbye Journey, Hello Jay Z. PLus Artie shows us his sex face....nice.
Musical numbers you can look forward to witnessing with your eyes and ears, providing you have them include:
An amazing, absolutely impromptu perfectly choreographed, make you want to gag with feel goodyness, interpretation of Jay Z ft Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind performed by the whole gang.
A vocally too good to be true rendition of Lady Ga Ga’s & Beyonce’s Telephone featuring the brilliantly precocious, hope she’s like it in real life, Rachael and newbie Sunshine.
And that’s what you’ll miss if you don’t watch Season 2 Episode 1 of Glee when it returns to your screens in January, so don’t yeah!
Produced, Written, Directed by and starring Gina Bofina.
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“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final adventure in the Harry Potter film series, is a much-anticipated motion picture event to be told in two full-length parts.
Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort’s immortality and destruction—the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten to tear them apart
Some may say not possible. I spent many a sunny day inside watching the Goonies, ET and Stand By Me and my beloved Gulliver's Travels Ted Danson was my hero for many year after. I'm not sure about remaking movies people watched when they were young. I vividly remember the first time I watched Gulliver's Travels in front of what seems now to be the smallest TV screen on earth what I eat that evening, the smell of the house and even what I wore (I wont go in to detail)
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