Watch this talented male or female singer from our neighbour, Indonesia. The costumes and makeup are so professionally done, notwithstanding the voices that go with them. Hudson and Jessica, we salute you. See that he also made the sign of the cross at the end of the performance and I guess he is a Catholic. Watch this for yourself to believe it!
Evelyn Salt interrogates a Russian defector, Orlov, who tells her about “Day X”, an operation organized by a powerful Russian since the Cold War, which will lead to the destruction of the United States. Orlov also mentions that at the funeral of the late Vice President in New York City, the visiting Russian President will be killed by a trained Russian spy named Evelyn Salt. Salt, who is shaken up at the accusation, attempts to contact her husband Mike, a German arachnologist, fearing that he will be in danger. Meanwhile, Orlov escapes, prompting Salt to escape herself—causing the CIA to think she is a spy. She flees back to her apartment and finds her husband missing. Salt resumes and grabs essentials as well as a venomous spider. After barely escaping a frantic highway pursuit, Salt takes a bus to New York City. The next morning, she sneaks into the heavily guarded St. Bartholomew’s Church where the Vice President’s funeral is being held and shoots the Russian President. She then encounters Peabody where she surrenders but escapes the NYPD.
A series of flashbacks show Salt growing up in the Soviet Union where Orlov taught her and many other children to obey him and ingratiate themselves into the American government. Then, when it came to Day X, he would command them to strike from various positions in the US. Salt meets Orlov who congratulates her on her killing. He brings her to a river barge, where he tests her allegiance by having another agent kill Mike right in front of her. Salt appears to be unaffected by this, thus passing Orlov’s test. He then tells her Part Two of Day X, which would involve seizing the United States’ stock of nuclear weapons. Salt, who had gone to Orlov only to discover his plans, kills Orlov and everyone else on the barge. She then goes to the rendezvous set up by Orlov to meet a NATO mole.
The NATO mole and a disguised Salt go to the White House. Once inside, her NATO counterpart suddenly starts shooting at Secret Service agents and detonates a bomb. The Secret Service, along with Winter, rush the President to the lower bunker of the White House. Meanwhile, the President, believing Russia is preparing a nuclear strike against the US, begins to transmit the launch codes from the nuclear football. Salt infiltrates the bunker and dispatches the bodyguards. Winter picks up a gun and kills everyone but the President, whom he knocks unconscious.
He explains to an astonished Salt that he was part of Orlov’s plan all along. Winter then uses the nuclear football to start the sequence for launching nuclear missiles at Tehran and Mecca. Salt asks Winter to let her in but before he opens the door, a playing news program reveals that the Russian President is not dead, but only placed in a near-death state from spider venom. He realizes that Salt is not on his side but she manages to break in, and after an intense struggle, she succeeds in knocking him down. Just after she manages to abort the nuclear missile launch set up by Winter, agents break in and arrest her. Winter goes free, but later Salt uses her chains to strangle him.
Salt is put on a helicopter with Peabody, and explains everything to him. A skeptical Peabody finally accepts she is telling the truth after he receives an SMS saying that her fingerprints were found at the barge, confirming her betrayal to Orlov. They both know that there are other moles out there, and Peabody agrees to let her escape, so she can find and kill them. He uncuffs her and Salt jumps into the river below, free once more.
Content by Mac Kline
Four Christmases is my favorite chick flick of 2009. It stars Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon and they make the perfect on screen couple. I wanted to see this film in theaters but just didn’t have the time. Luckily it showed up while I was looking through the satellite channels I got from www.Direct.TV one morning. It was kind of silly to watch a Christmas related chick flick in the beginning of summer but chick flicks are generally unrealistic to begin with so it wasn’t a far stretch.
Vince and Reese have the perfect relationship. They know exactly what they want and they are hopelessly devoted to one another. When they are forced to see their families for the holidays Reese decides maybe she wants to have a family and get married. Those ideas have always been a hush topic in the apartment as neither had ever wanted to get married or have children. Since Reese is changing the rules of the relationship Vince wants out. He decides to leave but it doesn’t last long. He truly loves Reese and maybe that really will concur all.
This film shows that as people grow older the things they want change. Just because the person you’re with doesn’t want something in life doesn’t mean they never will. When you find that right person you feel like you can do anything with them.
Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated 3-D feature film from Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9, 2010 in the US. The film stars Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, and Miranda Cosgrove.
Plot
In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences and flowering rose bushes sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by an army of mischievous little minions, we discover Gru (Steve Carell) planning the biggest heist in the history of the world: he is going to steal the Moon.
Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. That is, until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential dad.
One of the world’s greatest super-villains has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher).
As Andy, now 17, prepares to leave for college, his toys face an uncertain future, since he hasn’t played with them in years. He decides to take Woody with him, packing the others in an unlabeled garbage bag, which he intends to store in the attic. Unfortunately, when Andy’s sister distracts him, his mom inadvertently takes the garbage bag to the curb, thinking that it contains trash.
Woody, the only toy who realizes what Andy was trying to do, finds the others and tries to explain, but they refuse to listen. They decide instead to be donated to a daycare center, and Woody inadvertently goes with them. When the toys arrive at the daycare center, they receive a warm reception from the other toys, headed by a large stuffed bear (Lots-o-Huggin’ Bear, also known as “Lotso”). Seeing how happy his friends are at the center, Woody says goodbye to them and leaves for Andy’s house. He doesn’t get far before Bonnie, one of the center’s kids, finds him and takes him home to become one of her toys.
Meanwhile, Woody’s friends receive an unpleasant surprise when the group of young kids in the room where they are located plays with them too roughly. They then learn that Woody was telling the truth when Mrs. Potato Head, who lost an eye in Andy’s house, sees Andy becoming upset with his mom over the toys, and decide to escape. Buzz is the only one who gets out, but Lotso catches him and tries to bargain with him. Buzz refuses, and Lotso reprograms him, then turns him on the others and imprisons them.
At Bonnie’s house, Woody learns that Lotso was once owned by a loving girl named Daisy, but he snapped after discovering that she had replaced him after inadvertently leaving him behind. Lotso then took over the daycare center, making it a prison for the toys that were there. Woody decides to rescue the others from the daycare center and get back to Andy’s house before Andy leaves for college.
Woody sneaks in and comes up with an elaborate plan to bypass the security that Lotso has set up. They reprogram Buzz and nearly escape, but Lotso catches them on a dumpster, with a garbage truck fast approaching. Woody convinces the other daycare toys of Lotso’s treachery, and they toss Lotso in the dumpster. However, Lotso grabs Woody at the last minute, and Woody’s friends jump in to rescue him. The garbage truck then takes them to the city dump, where Woody rescues his friends — and Lotso — from an incinerator. Lotso, however, betrays them, but when he tries to escape, he is caught by a garbage man (revealed to be a grown Sid from the first film), who once had a Lotso of his own, and is tied to the front of the garbage truck, along with a few other mangled toys.
Meanwhile, Woody and his friends narrowly escape the incinerator, clean themselves up and make their way back to Andy’s house. Woody decides that his friends deserve better than being stored in the attic, and leaves a note on the box. Andy reads the note and donates the toys to Bonnie, introducing each toy and ending with Woody, who he says “will never give up on you.” Andy and Bonnie play with the toys before Andy finally drives off. As Woody and Buzz watch Andy leave, Woody introduces Buzz and his friends to Bonnie’s other toys.
On a farm in Britain during World War II, Mrs. Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is driven to her wits end by her hectic life. Between trying to keep the family farm up and running and her job in the village shop, aided by the elderly and slightly mad Mrs. Doherty (Maggie Smith), she also has three boisterous children to look after, Norman (Asa Butterfield), Megsie (Lil Woods) and Vincent (Oscar Steer). All of this she has to do while her husband is away at war. So when her children’s two spoiled cousins, Cyril (Eros Vlahos) and Celia (Rosie Taylor-Ritson) are sent to live on their farm and another war is being fought between the two sets of children, she is in need of a little magic.
So Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) arrives to take matters into her own hands. At first, the children do not listen and carry on fighting, but after a bang of Nanny McPhee’s stick, they soon realise that they cannot go on fighting, and the two eventually learn to tolerate each other. For instance, Megsie gives Celia some of her best clothing when the ones she brings are ruined, which had made her resort to wearing their mother’s wedding dress. Meanwhile, Mrs. Green’s brother in law, Uncle Phil (Rhys Ifans), has gambled away the farm and is being chased down by two hit women. He desperately attempts to make Mrs. Green sell her half of the farm, using many mean and spiteful schemes to make Mrs Green have no choice but to sell the farm. His plans include digging a hole so that the family piglets can escape. Mrs Green takes all the children on a picnic during which an ARP Warden, Mr. Spolding (Sam Kelly), warns them all about bombs and how he imagines a pilot might accidentally release his bomb in the remote area in which the family lives. At the end of the picnic Uncle Phil delivers a telegram saying that Mr. Green has been ‘killed in action’ in the war. Mrs Green believes the telegram, along with everybody else. But Norman says that he can “feel it in his bones” that his father is not dead. He tells this to Cyril, who at first says it is just because he is upset, but then agrees to support and help Norman to determine the truth. So the two boys decide to ask Nanny McPhee to take them to London to the war office where Cyril and Celia’s father works.
They travel to London with Nanny McPhee and ask Cyril’s father Lord Grey (Ralph Fiennes), who is very important in the War Office, what has happened to Mr Green. At first he scoffs at Norman when he tells him about his disbelief of his father’s death, but after Cyril angrily informs his father that he knows that his parents are getting a divorce, Lord Grey goes to check what has happened. While he is gone, Cyril tells Norman that he and Celia have been sent away because their parents will be splitting up, and Norman asks where Cyril and Celia will live. When Cyril replies “with Mum I suppose, not that it makes much difference, she only ever really sees us when she wants to show us off”, Norman tells Cyril that he and Celia are welcome to go and live on the farm with the Greens. Cyril’s father returns and tells Norman that his father is not listed as K.I.A, but M.I.A and that there is no record of a telegram ever having been sent to Mrs Green.
The boys then leave and Norman works out that the telegram brought to his mother by Uncle Phil was in fact a fraud, the meanest of all Uncle Phil’s attempts to get Mrs Green to sell the farm. While the boys were at the War Office, Megsie, Celia and Vincent were trying to stop Mrs Green from signing the papers and selling the farm, Just as Mrs Green is about to sign the papers, a huge bomb is dropped, but does not explode and is sticking out of the barley field. When Nanny McPhee returns with Norman and Cyril, the children go out to watch Mr Spolding dismantle the bomb, but he falls from the ladder and Megsie takes over. She succeeds with the help of the other children and Nanny McPhee’s putty eating bird. Nanny McPhee then helps to harvest the barley, with a little magic, and she and Mrs. Doherty, who seems to be familiar with her, watch the family celebrate. During their conversation, it is revealed that Mrs. Doherty is, in fact, baby Aggie from the first film. Nanny McPhee lives by a rule ‘when they need her but do not want her, Nanny McPhee must stay. But when they want her but no longer need her, Nanny McPhee must go.’ As Nanny McPhee walks away from the now happy family, the children and Mrs. Green chase after her, determined to prove they still need her. However they discover that they in fact do not, as they round a bend to see that their father is descending from the hill, passing Nanny McPhee along the way. Mr. Green (Ewan McGregor) in army uniform and with an injured arm, runs to the arms of his children and wife and rejoices in the discovering that after leaving three children to go to war, he has returned to find five.
Look at little Howard’s expression and smile. Such a talented young drummer in the making. I wonder who gave him drumming lessons to produce such skills at a young tender age!
Thanks to Shirley Wilkerson for the guest post.
Remember when the show “Lost” was in its last season? Remember how people would gather around your office the next day and discuss the program? Well, the reason many people were able to keep up with the show was due to DVR. With DVR, you can watch popular programs like “Lost” whenever makes most sense in your own schedule.
My husband is a doctor, and he always would miss the best television shows during their prime seasons. Often, he would complain to me about how distant he felt from his regular friends who were not doctors. They could catch the latest sporting events on television or shows like “Lost.” Then, one day, I decided to surprise my husband with the best gift of his life. I still remember the day so clearly, when he walked into the kitchen a week after “Lost” had ended, and I had the last episode playing. His face lit up, and he was so surprised to see his other favorite show (aside from sports) on television!
He could not get over it. When I told him I had recorded the show with a DVR I ordered through expertsatellite.com, he was thrilled. If you want to surprise your busy spouse, then record his or her favorite program. It is the surprise of a lifetime!
High school senior Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) moves with his mother (Randee Heller) from Newark, New Jersey to Reseda, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. Their apartment’s handyman is an eccentric but kindly and humble Okinawan immigrant named Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita).
Daniel meets a girl, Ali Mills (Elisabeth Shue), a high school cheerleader; but earns the enmity of her ex-boyfriend, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), a karate student. Johnny is the best student at the Cobra Kai dojo, where he is taught an unethical, vicious form of martial arts. Daniel knows some karate from books and a couple nights experience from the YMCA, but is the victim of repeated beatings from Johnny and his friends.
When Miyagi witnesses one of the beatings, he intervenes and defeats all five Cobra Kai with ease. Awed, Daniel asks Miyagi to be his teacher. Miyagi refuses, but agrees to go with Daniel to the Cobra Kai dojo in order to resolve the conflict. They confront the sensei, John Kreese (Martin Kove), an ex-Special Forces Vietnam Veteran who sneers at the concepts of mercy and restraint. Kreese and Miyagi agree to a match between Johnny and Daniel in two months’ time at the “All Valley Karate Tournament”, where Cobra Kai students can fight Daniel on equal terms. Miyagi also requests that the bullying stop while Daniel trains. Kreese orders his students to leave Daniel alone, but threatens that if Daniel does not show up for the tournament, the harassment will resume and Miyagi will also become a target.
Miyagi becomes Daniel’s teacher and, slowly, a surrogate father figure. He begins Daniel’s training by having him perform laborious chores such as waxing cars, sanding a wooden floor, painting a fence, and refinishing Miyagi’s house. Each chore is accompanied with a specific movement, such as clockwise/counter-clockwise hand motions. Daniel eventually feels frustrated, believing he has learned nothing of karate. When he expresses his frustration, Miyagi reveals that Daniel has been learning defensive blocks through muscle memory learned by performing the chores.
As Daniel’s training continues “in the open” his bond with Miyagi becomes closer. He learns that Miyagi lost his wife and son in childbirth at Manzanar internment camp while he was serving overseas with the United States Army during World War II. The loss of his family and Daniel’s loss of his father further strengthens the father-son surrogacy. Daniel also discovers that the outwardly peaceful and serene Miyagi was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for heroism against German forces in Europe.
Through the teaching, Daniel learns not only karate, but also important life lessons, such as the importance of balance, reflected by the belief that martial arts training is as much about training the spirit as the body. Daniel applies the life lessons that Miyagi has taught him to strengthen his relationship with Ali.
At the tournament, Daniel surprises everyone by reaching the semi-finals. Johnny advances to the finals, scoring three unanswered points against a highly skilled opponent. Kreese instructs Bobby Brown, one of his more compassionate students and the least vicious of Daniel’s tormentors, to disable Daniel with an illegal attack to the knee. Bobby reluctantly does so, injuring Daniel, but getting disqualified in the process. With Daniel unable to continue, Miyagi assures him he has already proven himself. Despondent, Daniel believes that if he does not continue his tormentors will have gotten the best of him. He persuades Miyagi to use a pain suppression technique to allow him to finish the tournament. As Johnny is about to be declared the winner by default, Daniel hobbles into the ring.
Kreese directs Johnny to repeat unethical moves to achieve victory. Despite the moves, and how many times Daniel is knocked down, he gets up again each time. Ultimately Daniel and Johnny are tied, both one point away from victory. Daniel, barely able to stand, assumes the “Crane Kick” stance, and delivers a blow to Johnny’s chin, winning the tournament. Johnny, having gained newfound respect for his adversary, takes Daniel’s trophy from the Master of Ceremonies and presents it to Daniel himself. Miyagi looks on proudly as Daniel celebrates his victory.
Marmaduke is a newspaper comic strip drawn by Brad Anderson from 1954 to the present day. The strip was created by Anderson, with help from Phil Leeming (1955-1962) and later Dorothy Leeming (1963-1969). The strip revolves around the Winslow family and their Great Dane, Marmaduke.
Marmaduke is a two-hundred pound two year old dog living in Urban Kansas with a Balinese cat named Carlos. His owner Phil (Lee Pace) works for Bark Organic dog food, and is very strict (in marmadukes eyes). One day Carlos tells him that he overheard Phil, and that they have been transfered to Orange County. They move in to their new house where they meet Phils boss Don Twombly. Don’s goal is to get Bark Organic in every Petco in the country. They meet at the dog park where Marmaduke meets a beautiful dog name Jezebel (Fergie), who is the boyfriend is Bosco a controlling and violent dog with his two minions Thunder and Lighting. Bosco intimidates Marmaduke, who does not want to fight. He then meets Mazie (Emma Stone) who develops a crush on Marmaduke. He also meets Guiseppe, a Chinese Crested dog who is afraid of everything, and Raison.They get together at night and crash a party for pedigree’s only, and are scared away by Bosco.
Marmaduke then asks Mazie to help him get a girl, whom she presumes is herself, but is actually Jezebel. Marmaduke then has Carlos pretend to be lost in the dogpark, and “fights” him. He then enters a surfing contes Phil put together for dogs, and beats Bosco, who is the surfing champion. They get in a dog fight, which appals the Petco exectutives.He then Jezebel on Mazie’s dream date, which the latter watches from afar. While the family is on Don’s boat, Marmaduke throws a party, with most residents of the dogpark coming, save Mazie, Guisseppe, and Raisin. Bosco crashes the party and discovers it was Carlos at the dog park. He then exposes Marmaduke, who loses his pedigree friends. He is left with no friends and a destroyed house. When Phil discovers the house in a wreck, he locks Marmaduke outside for the night. Marmaduke runs away, and leaves Mazie a toy that she gave him earlier in the movie.
Mazie goes to Marmaduke’s house, and Carlos tells her Marmaduke never returned. She then goes looking for him. In the morning the family discover him missing, and search for him too. Marmaduke in the meantime has met Chupadogra, a Mastiff who is feared throughout Orange County for presumably killing his owner. In reality, he ran away to lead the pack but they abandoned him. He has spent the time alone in the woods with nothing but a blanket and his old waterbowl,which reads “Buster”.Buster/Chupadogra tells Marmaduke to return to his family, and then distracts a dog catcher. Marmaduke leaves, but gets lost. Mazie and the family find him at the same time, but Mazie falls into the sewers after the street below her collapses. Marmaduke jumps in after her and Phil try’s to retrieve him, but the fire department try’s instead.
The fireman save Mazie, but loses Marmaduke in the raging water. By this time Phil has been fired for missing the meeting for the last chance with Petco. Phil then goes to the dam that the sewers lead to, and finds Marmaduke in the raging waters. He jumps in after him, and begs Marmaduke to let go of the stick he’s holding on to, and let the waters carry him to Phil. He reluctantly does, and is saved. Several kids got that on video, and put it on Youtube. Since it had almost seven-hundred thousand hits,he is re-hired. Phil then thinks about moving back to Kansas, but the entire family disagrees. He and Don are thinking of idea’s for commercials, having gotten Petco. They ask each other about if the dogs could talk to each other, and even dance. It shows Marmaduke, Jezebel, Mazie, Guisseppe, Raisin, and Buster, among others, dancing and singing What I Like About You, which turns out to be the commercial. In the end, Marmaduke and Mazie are dating, Marmaduke and Jezebel are friends, Buster has presumably gotten a family, and all is well.
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