miércoles, 12 de noviembre de 2008

The L Word


The L Word is a drama tv series that portrays the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and men and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Los Angeles-area city of West Hollywood.

The pilot episode premiered on January 18, 2004. The sixth and final season is to premiere on February 22, 2009. Outside the US, the series is distributed by MGM Worldwide Television. The show was created and is executive-produced by Ilene. Other executive producers include Steve and Larry Kennar. Besides Chaiken, writers of the show have included Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche.

The episodes focused on the relationships between the principal characters, their family members, their friends, and their "outside" lovers. Jennifer Beals played the role as Bette Porter, an art museum director and unabashed control freak, who in the first season lived with her longtime partner Tina Kennard (Laurel Holloman), who chose to stay at home and assume the "housewife" role. And after being artificially inseminated, were both wife and mother in the relationship. Ultimately, Bette and Tina broke up over Bette's infidelity. The series' "audience-identification" character was Jenny Schecter, a talented writer who had moved next door to Bette and Tina to live with her fiancé, and later husband, Tim Haspel (Eric Mabius).


Unavoidably drawn into her neighbors' circle of lesbian friends, Jenny gradually came out of the closet herself, having a torrid affair with sexy coffee shop owner Marina Ferrer (Karina Lombard), breaking up with Tim, and entering into a series of not-altogether-satisfying affairs, and all the while trying to emerge from the shadow of a spectacularly miserable childhood. The "comedian" of the bunch was Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey), a glib-tongued bisexual journalist who had a habit of speaking first and thinking second. Also in the cast were Katherine Moening as Shane McCutcheon, a troubled promiscuous hairdresser. Erin Daniels as Dana Fairbanks, a professional tennis player who struggled with whether to stay in the closet professionally and whose insecurities made it hard for her to find a girlfriend; and Pam Grier as the only certified "straight" member of the group, Bette's older half sister and formerly successful singer, Kit Porter.

The cast in the second season included sexy deejay Carmen de la Pica Morales (Sarah Shahi), who at one point carried on simultaneous affairs with Jenny and Shane; wealthy Helena Peabody (Rachel Shelley), daughter of an influential female art collector; and documentary and adult filmmaker Mark Wayland (Eric Lively), who became Shane and Jenny's housemate.


domingo, 24 de agosto de 2008

Big Stan

Big Stan is a comedy film directed by and starring Rob Schneider and slated for wide release in the fall of 2008. On the radio show Loveline, Schneider stated that this film will be an "anti-man raping" film referring to prison rape.

Big Stan's main character Stan Minton(Rob Schneider), is a real estate con artist panics when he learns that he's going to prison for fraud. Stan's fear of jailhouse rape leads him to hire a mysterious guru, The Master (David Carradine), who helps transform him into a creative martial-arts expert. After his incarceration, Stan uses his newfound skills to intimidate his fellow prisoners. He gains their respect, and eventually becomes their leader, bringing peace and harmony to the prison yard. But the corrupt warden has an elaborate plan that could help him turn a profit by turning the prison into a warzone, and Stan is the only thing standing in the way.

viernes, 18 de julio de 2008

Ghost Whisperer


Ghost Whisperer is an American tv drama-fantasy-thriller that premiered on CBS September 23,2005. The show was created by John Gray. Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as Melinda Gordon, David Conrad,Camryn Manheim, formerly Aisha Tyler,and in a recurring role, kay Mohr.

Melinda inherited her "gift" which is the ability to see and talk with the spirits of dead people. Each episode deals with one or more ghosts seeking Melinda's help in relaying a message or completing a task that will put the spirit to rest, and allow them to "cross over" into The Light, a metaphor presented by the show as its conception of Heaven.

The series has now on its 3rd season premiered on September 27, 2007.

lunes, 14 de julio de 2008

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer Geroge Lucas. Set in 1957, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones film series pits an older Indiana Jones (Harison Ford) against agents of the Soviet Union, led by Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett), in the search for a crystal skull. Indy is aided by his former lover Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), the greaser Mutt Williams), and fellow adventurer Mac (Ray Winstone). John Hurt and Jim Braodbent also play fellow academics.

In 1957, Colonel-Doctor Irina Spalko and a convoy of Soviet agents posing as U.S soldiers infiltrate a military base in the Nevada desert. They force Indiana Jones to lead them to a crate in "Hangar 51, which holds the remains of an extraterrestrial creature that crashed ten years before in Roswell, New Mexico. Jones attempts to escape but is foiled by his partner Mac, who reveals that he is working with the Soviets. After a fight and an elaborate vehicle chase through the warehouse, Jones escapes on a rocket sled into the desert, where he stumbles upon nuclear test town and survives a nuclear blast by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator. While being debriefed, Jones discovers he is under FBI investigation because of Mac's Soviet ties. Jones returns to Marshall College, where he is offered a leave of absence to avoid being fired because of the investigation. While leaving, Jones is stopped by greaser Mutt Williams and told that his old colleague, Harold Oxley, disappeared after discovering a crystall skull near the Nazca lines in Peru.

domingo, 18 de mayo de 2008

Iron Man

Iron Man played by Robert Downey Jr. as Anthony "Tony" Edward Stark is a fictional character, a comic book superhero appearing in publications from Marvel Comics.

Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape and to save his life and help protect the world as Iron Man.Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.

lunes, 28 de abril de 2008

10,000 B.C

10,000 B.C is a 2008 American prehistoric movie starring Camilia Belle as Evolet and Steven Strait as D'Leh, directed by Roland Emmerich released on March 7, 2008.

As a member of a primitive tribe during the dawn of man, 21-year-old mammoth hunter D'Leh travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from extinction. D'Leh, leads an army and uncovers a lost civilization in pursuit of a warlord who kidnapped his love, Evolet. D'Leh and his army encounters saber-toothed cats, mammoths and other prehistoric creatures in the journey to save his tribe. Their ultimate fate lies in an empire beyond imagination, where great pyramids reach into the skies. Here they will take their stand against a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people.

lunes, 24 de marzo de 2008

Music and Lyrics


Music and Lyrics is a romantic comedy film released by Warner Bros. on Febraury 9, 2007 in UK. Starring Hugh Grant as Alex Fletcher, a washed-up 1980s pop star and Drew Barrymore as Sophie Fisher, a former English literature student. Music and Lyrics tells the story of their efforts to write a song for singer Cora Corman played by Haley Conett, and their subsequent romance.

Alex Fletcher is a former pop star. He enjoyed considerable fame and success during the 1980s and early 1990s as one of the founding members of the band "Pop!". Fifteen years after PoP! disbanded, Alex has acknowledged that he is a popular person. A chance to recapture his former stardom comes in the form of a duet with mainstream pop singer Cora Corman, whom he must compose a song titled "Way Back into Love" for in a matter of days. However, to Alex's dismay, he has not written a song in years, and tells his manager that he will need help from a lyricist.

Alex meets Sophie Fisher when she comes to his house to water his plants. Sophie is a former creative writing student reeling from a disastrous romance. She is also a writer with little confidence in her abilities. While Alex and a hired lyricist try to come up with words, Sophie comes up with words to herself while watering the plants. Alex requests Sophie's assistance on the song, and although she initially declines, after a series of conversations with him, she agrees to collaborate. There are signs of a budding romance as the two write the song, which they finish in three days.

lunes, 17 de marzo de 2008

Step Up 2


Step Up 2 the Streets is the sequel of the smash hit Step Up which ignited theaters in August 2006. It is story of a 16-year old rebellious street dancer Andie West played by Briana Evigan. After her mother died, she was taken in by her mother's best friend, Sarah. Since Andie often skips school and spends too much time as member of the notorious dance crew 410, Sarah wants her to go live with her aunt in Texas.

Meanwhile, her friend and older brother figure, Tyler Gage played by Channing Tatum (leading man in Step Up) convinces Sarah to give her another chance. She lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts. She finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the school’s hottest dancer Chase to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore’s underground dance battle called The Streets, she ultimately finds a way to live her dream while building a bridge between her two separate worlds.

After a humiliating prank from MSA, the 410 crew attacks Chase and vandalizes the school, after which Blake Collins, the director of the school and Chase's big brother, throws out Andie and forbids the school's students to participate in any competitions like The Streets.


A few days later while the school is hosting a fundraiser they all receive the text message telling them where 'The Streets' is being held. Andie chooses the ignore this but the other feel it nesessary to take part and go call on Andie, upon convincing her they head down the 8th and Main.They go to the building where the event takes place anyway, but the 410 do not let them compete as well as the crowd agrees. Since MSA believes the streets is more than just for dancing, they go in the streets, where the dancing really started, and perform in the pouring rain. Blake, who is observing, is impressed enough to allow Andie to return to the school, and integrate the dance style into the school program.