Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Daniel Radcliffe

Sorry, he's really sexy!!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Radcliffe

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989 in London, England. He will forever be known as Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived.

Early life.
He was the only child born to Alan George Radcliffe, a literary agent and Marcia Jeannine Gresham, a casting agent. At age 10, he made his acting debut on BBC One's 2 part TV movie David Copperfield. When the first Harry Potter movie was released, the actor said attending school was hard, because classmates became hostile. He recieved education through on-set tutors.

Career
In 2000, author J.K. Rowling published her series of books, called Harry Potter, which is about a boy wizard named Harry Potter. And one day, producer David Heyman decided to make them into movies. The hardest part would be trying to find a relatively unknown British actor for this role. The director of the movies, Chris Columbus, happened to be watching David's first acting role on TV and that's how he decided that Radcliffe was perfect for it. In 2001, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone(as it's called in England) debuted. In the US, it went by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Basically the movie follows boy wizard Harry Potter as he begins his magical education at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. When it got to the movie for the 3rd book, the Prisoner of Azkaban, that's when the movies started getting darker and alot less kid friendly. The 4th one, the Goblet of Fire, was definitely not kid friendly, because in the movie someone dies. On the last day of shooting the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, pt. II, everyone, including Radcliffe himself, openly cried. At the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, Radcliffe won the award for Best Male Performance and Global Superstar.

Other acting work
After Harry Potter, he started doing other things. Like the movie December Boys, made in 2007. This movie is about 4 Australian orphans. At age 17, to prove he wasn't a kid anymore he starred in the Peter Shaffer play Equus. The first time this play went ahead was back in 1973. He took on the lead role of Alan Strang, a stable boy with an obsession with horses. The play made a lot of money and also Radcliffe had to appear in a scene completely nude. Lately, he starred in a 2011 Broadway play How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, where he played J. Pierrepont Finch.


Wow, he has a nice chest!!!!!!!!!!


Personal life
In 2009, he started speaking out against homophobia by filming public service announcements for The Trevor Project, which promotes awareness of gay teen suicide.

Ioan Gruffudd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan_Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd was born on Oct. 6, 1973, in Aberdare, Cynon Valley, Wales. He's currently 37 years of age. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England and started off doing Welsh language stuff. One of the bigger movies he was in was the 1997 movie Titanic, where he played Fifth Officer Harold Lowe or in the 2001 movie Black Hawk Down where he played Lt. John Beales. His recent work includes playing Lancelot in King Arthur (2004), Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic in the Fantastic Four movies (2005 and 2007), William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace (2006) and Tony Blair in W (2008)
Early life and family
His parents were both teachers. His father was headmaster at 2 Welsh schools in South Wales, and also has 2 siblings, a brother, Alun, who is 2 years younger and a sister named Siwan who is 7 years younger than him.

Career
He has starred in all kinds of stuff, like 102 Dalmatians, where he plays Kevin Shepard

Filmography
-Wilde, 1997  ,John Gray
-Titanic, 1997, Harold Lowe
-Solomon & Gaenor, 1999 Solomon Levinsky
-102 Dalamatians, 2000 ,Kevin Shepherd

-Another Life, 2001, Freddy Bywaters
-Very Annie Mary, 2001 Hob
-Happy Now, 2001 ,Sgt. Max Bracchi
-Black Hawk Down, 2001,Lt. John Beales
-Shooters, 2002, Freddy Guns
-The Gathering, 2002 Dan Blakeley
-This Girl's Life, 2003, Daniel
-King Arthur, 2004, Lancelot

-Fantastic Four, 2005, Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic
-The TV Set, 2006, Richard McAliister
-Amazing Grace, 2006, William Wilberforce
-Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, 2007, Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic
-Stories USA, 2007, Simon
-Agent Crush, 2008, Agent Crush
-Fireflies in the Garden, 2008, Addison
-Secret of Moonacre, 2008, Sir Benjamin
-W, 2008, Tony Blair
-The Kid, 2010, Teacher
-Horrible Bosses, 2011, Wet Work expert

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Mulan, My Favorite Disney movie

Mulan has got to be one of my biggest favorite Disney movies, has been since I was a little kid. When I was younger, my dad claimed we, as in me and my sis, made him watch it too much, but I don't happen to remember that. But sometimes he fails to realize we watch movies he likes 100 million times!!

Mulan

















When she went undercover in the Chinese military camp
Her dressed up to meet the Matchmaker
When she cuts her hair to go undercover
This proves Mulan can be a princess!!!!!
After the soldiers find out she is a woman, they leave her behind

 Her and her father in the garden near their house
 Her and Capt. Li Shang
 Her and the Emperor
Her and her father again

Capt Li Shang, the strict military commander Mulan runs into when she enters the Chinese Army

After he finds his father's battle armor, he finds out his father has been killed in battle

Shang congratulating Mulan on saving China from the Huns

Mulan's first encounter with an angry Shang

Throughout the entire scene showing her undergoing military training, she seems to mess things up...

Shang returning her helmet to her at her house.











Monday, August 15, 2011

Jim Sturgess

Sorry, but I think he is really sexy, plus I watched Across the Universe. Call me pathetic, but I'm a super huge Beatles fan, sorry!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836343/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sturgess
James Anthony Sturgess was born on May 16, 1978 in London, England. He is 6'

Trivia

His top 5 favorite albums are Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys, Pink Moon by Nick Drake, The Stone Roses self titled album, Demon Days by the Gorillaz, Rain Dogs by Tom Waits

More of a dog lover than a cat lover

His favorite Beatles song is A Day in the Life

Required a dialect coach to speak with an American accent in the movie 21

Was more than happy to provide his voice for a character in the movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Was considered for the role of Spiderman in the new movie.



Across the Universe, where he played Jude




































21. This movie is about a gambler, played by Kevin Spacey, who hires a bunch of smart MIT students to count cards in Vegas basically.


Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Kate Winslet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Winslet
All of this info can be found via the link above! :)
Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on Oct. 5, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England. She is an English-born actress and occasional singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 2008 movie The Reader. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Hollywood Foreign Press Association. She can do drama, comedy, period, contemporary. She recieved somewhat large recognition for her role as one of the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility.
She's also one of my biggest favorite actresses!!

Raised in Berkshire, she studied drama since she was young. Her 2 biggest movie successes have been Flushed Away in 2006, where she did the voice of a rat named Rita, and The Holiday in 2006, where her character switches places with Cameron Diaz's character.



She got her start on TV, on the BBC show Dark Season. Her first movie role was in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, where she won the role over 175 girls to play Juliet Hulme, who helps in the murder of hte mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker(Melanie Lynskey). Winslet noted: "With Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] and not knowing a bloody thing." Never knew she talked like that, lol!

The following year, she auditioned for the role of Lucy Steele in the movie based on Jane Austen's book Sense and Sensibility. This movie also starred Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman. She instead got the role of Marianne Dashwood. In order to prepare for the role, she had to read Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and learn to play the piano to make herself graceful. Director Ang Lee was worried about her getting a little too into the role, so he suggested that she learn tai chi.

In 1997, she starred in the James Cameron movie Titanic, about the ill-fated cruise ship. In the movie, she was to play shy, sensitive 17 year Rose DeWitt-Bukater, a socialite who survives the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 2004, she starred alongside Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, based on the life of J.M. Barrie, the man behind the story of Peter Pan. Her role was as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, whose sons inspired Barrie to write Peter Pan.

In 2006, she starred alongside Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black in The Holiday. In this movie, she plays Iris Simpkins, a society column editor for London-based newspaper The Daily Telegraph, who switches households with Amanda Woods(Cameron Diaz), a workaholic whose company makes movie trailers in L.A. And that same year, she starred in the movie Flushed Away, where she provides the voice of Rita, a sewer scavenging rat who helps Roddy St. James(Hugh Jackman) escape Ratropolis and get back to 'Uptop' as they call it, or Kensington.

On Nov. 22, 1998, she met Jim Threapleton, who she met on the set of the movie Hideous Kinky. They both have a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton. They divorced on Dec. 13, 2001. After that, she began seeing director Sam Mendes. And shortly after, they married, and had a son, named Joe Alfie Winslet.

She now runs a charity called The Golden Hat, which eliminates barriers for people with autism.

Monday, August 8, 2011

How do you remove chewing gum from glass?


Search
: gum off a window



Why: I had an accident. Man, that new Mentos gum sure is sticky.

Answer: There are 4 ways!

  1. Use canned air. You can buy it at an office supply store to shoot dust and crumbs out of your keyboard. Blast some on the gum, and it should harden and pull right off.
  2. Freeze it. Rub an ice cube along the gum, holding it in place until the gum freezes and the ice cube melts. The gum should come right off.
  3. Zap it with bug and tar remover. Sold at auto supply stores, this stuff is designed to removed smushed bugs and tar.

  4. Use official gum-remover like they do at movie theaters. You can buy it at an industrial cleaning supply store.

Source: eHow



The More You Know: Canned air comes out at -26 degrees Celsius / -14.8 degrees Fahrenheit. Here's a list of 101 Things to Do with It!



Friday, August 5, 2011

Jet Li

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Li

Li Lianjie was born on April 26, 1963, in Beijing, China. He is better known as Jet Li, because of his ability to perform martial arts very quickly. He is a martial artist, actor, producer, international film star and Wushu champion since age 11. He retired from doing Wushu martial arts when he was 17 and went in to acting, with his first film being Shaolin Temple. In 1998, he got his first role as a villain named Wah Sing Ku in Lethal Weapon 4. And his 1st Hollywood leading role was as a Beijing police man namd Han Sing in Romeo Must Die.
He can actually perform several types of martial arts, such as: Changquan(Northern Longfist style), Fanziquan(Tumbling fist), Baguazhang(Eight trigram palm), Taijiquan(Supreme ultimate fist), Xingyiquan(Shape intent fist), Zuiquan(drunken fist), Yingzhaoquan(Eagle claw fist), Tanglangquan( praying mantis fist). He also has studied some of Wushu's main weapons, such as: Sanjiegun(3 section staff), Gun(staff), Dao(broadsword), Jian(straight sword)

In 1998, he appeared in his first American movie, Lethal Weapon 4, where he played Wah Sing Ku, a villain working with the Chinese Triads. His next movie gave him the chance to play a lead role, that of Beijing police man Han Sing, who woos R&B singer Aaliyah's character Trish O'Day in Romeo Must Die(2000). He lent his voice and martial arts talents to help make the game Jet Li: Rise to Honor, and in 2003, he appeared alongside rap singer DMX in the movie Cradle 2 the Grave. Another good movie he was in was titled Kiss of the Dragon, where he played a Chinese government agent forced to work with a prostitute(Bridget Fonda) to help clear his name. In 2005, he took on a more serious role in the movie Unleashed, where he played Danny, a man who was taken from his mother as a child and raised to be a personal attack dog for a vicious loan shark in London.

Kiss of the Dragon












 Lethal Weapon 4














 Cradle 2 the Grave

In his offtime, he practices Tibetan Buddhism. In 1999, he married Shanghai-born, Hong Kong raised actress Nina Li Chi, with whom they have had 2 daughters, Jane and Jada. When Li was in the
Maldives on vacation during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, him, his 4 year old daughter Jane and 1 year old daughter Jada had to run for high ground to escape the tsunami that washed upon shore. And that knocked a piece of furniture into his foot, injuring it.  He also enjoys being charitable. He is part of the Red Cross Society of China, and he also helped out during the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, and he established the One Foundation , which helps disaster victims and works with the Red Cross to administer mental health awareness and suicide prevention.