Twilight - Movie Preview

release :	Friday November 21, 2008
genre:	Thriller
director:	Catherine Hardwicke
studio:	Seville Pictures
producer(s):	Greg Mooradian, Karen Rosenfelt, Mark Morgan, Wyck Godfrey
screenplay:	Melissa Rosenberg
cast:	Kristen Stewart, Nikki Reed, Peter Facinelli, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Reaser, Jackson Rathbone

Twilight Movie Synopsis

Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different. Not one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella decided to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change. But they do when she meets the mysterious Edward Cullen (Robert Pattison). For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. 

 

He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. But he doesn't have fangs -- that's just in the movies. And he doesn't drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that soulmate he has waited 90 years for.

But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy.

Somehow, they will have to make their unorthodox romance work. But what will they do when Laurent and James, the Cullens' mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for Bella?

Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book series by Stephenie Meyer.

Clarke quits as Chelsea assistant

Chelsea have confirmed that their assistant manager Steve Clarke has handed in his resignation, but have so far refused to sanction his departure from the club.

It is understood that Clarke - who has been at Chelsea for over 20 years as a player and a coach - wants to team up with his former Stamford Bridge team-mate Gianfranco Zola, who was yesterday confirmed as West Ham's new manager.

"Chelsea can confirm that West Ham have made an approach with regards to talking to Steve Clarke," a Chelsea spokesman said. "They have not been given permission to talk to him.

"Steve Clarke has tendered his resignation as assistant first team coach. We have not accepted his resignation. Talks are continuing."

The Chelsea manager Luis Felipe Scolari had words of praise for Clarke today, and revealed he tried to convince the Scot to stay with the club.

"Now I have been told he is going I am sad but I understand Steve. All people have projects in their life," said Scolari. "I don't agree with his decision but I am happy for him because I like Stevie. I like him as a person and as a coach and I wish him all the best."

"Yesterday I invited Steve to visit my house and we discussed the situation between West Ham and Chelsea," he added. I told him what I thought and this morning told [chief executive] Peter Kenyon what I think about Steve, that he is very important for me and for Chelsea.

"He is a man that is a link between me and the players and between me and the staff. He knows Chelsea very well and English players and clubs. I don't know what happened in the night but when I came here in the morning I heard he had resigned."

I'm selling up, says emotional Ashley

Mike Ashley last night planted a "For Sale" sign outside St James' Park with apparent reluctance but the club's owner is not about to offload Newcastle United at a knockdown price.

In a lengthy statement Ashley offered an impassioned defence of his modus operandi since buying the club in May last year and claimed Newcastle are only on the market because "you [the fans] want me out". Bargain buckets may be a feature of the billionaire Sports Direct owner's retail outlets but Ashley's insistence that "this is not a fire sale" indicates Newcastle could be on the market for some time.

City sources, who claim the 45-year-old has been seeking a buyer at the right price for some months, might demur but it seems Ashley's failed attempt to recapture Kevin Keegan, who resigned as manager nearly two weeks ago, finally convinced him to bail out. His decision to sell came as it emerged that Alan Shearer has been relieved of his ambassadorial duties with the club following critical comments made by the former Newcastle captain about the "strange" set-up at St James'.

"I am putting the club up for sale," said Ashley. "I hope that the next owner is someone who can lavish the amount of money on the club that the fans want. This will not be a fire sale. Newcastle is now in a much stronger position than it was in 2007. It is planning for the future and it is sustainable. I have the interests of Newcastle United at heart. I have listened to you. You want me out. That is what I am now trying to do but it won't happen overnight and it may not happen at all if a buyer does not come in."

Almost since the day he bought out the Hall family and ousted the former chairman Freddy Shepherd, Newcastle have been the subject of assorted takeover rumours and the latest centres on Xu Rongmao, a Chinese property developer who is seemingly keen to exploit St James' Park's city-centre position by redeveloping the high-value land around the ground.

It is understood that Ashley tried to make contact with representatives of Dubai International Capital last week but any talks are yet to take place and, in any case, DIC remains focused on Liverpool.

Talk of a local consortium buying him out appears fanciful as it is hard to identify north-east business people possessing either the money or the inclination to take over. Shepherd, though, last night claimed he had turned down potential involvement with two foreign consortiums keen to buy into Newcastle. He has previously told friends he will concentrate on attempting to purchase Real Mallorca but last night insisted "never say never" about a possible return.

Although the Indian billionaire Anil Ambani, head of the Reliance telecommunications group, claims to have turned his attentions to Everton, Ashley may be hoping to tempt the world's sixth-richest man after earlier interest in Newcastle.

While he waits to recoup his investment, Newcastle's owner is pleading for patience and, having launched an impassioned defence of the continental managerial structure presided over by Dennis Wise - who he says has done a "first-class job" - which so infuriated Keegan, Ashley is aiming shamelessly for a soft spot in the Geordie psyche. Tynesiders invariably put their "bairns" first so when he said, "I have really loved taking my kids to the games, being next to them and all the fans. But I am now a dad who can't take his kids to a football game on a Saturday because I am advised that we would be assaulted. Therefore, I am no longer prepared to subsidise Newcastle United", he will have intended to touch a collective nerve.

Speaking to inhabitants of a city where many people have lost, or are about to lose jobs at Newcastle's sponsors, Northern Rock, Ashley also played the "sensible" card stressing he was aiming to avoid creating another Leeds United out of a club on which he has spent more than £250m.

"I paid £134m out of my own pocket for the club," he said. "I then poured another £110m not to pay off the debt but just to reduce it. I am determined that Newcastle United is not only here today but that it is also there tomorrow for your children."

The Duchess - Movie Preview

release date:	Friday September 19, 2008
director:	Saul Dibb
studio:	Paramount Vantage
producer(s):	Gabrielle Tana, Michael Kuhn
screenplay:	Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders Thomas Jensen
cast:	Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Simon McBurney

The Duchess Movie Synopsis

Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), was the original "It Girl." Like her direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and adored by an entire country.

Determined to be a player in the wider affairs of the world, she proved that she could out-gamble, out-drink and outwit most of the aristocratic men who surrounded her. She helped usher in sweeping changes to England as a leader of the forward-thinking Whig Party. But even as her power and popularity grew, she was haunted by the fact that the only man in England she seemingly could not seduce was her very own husband, the Duke (Ralph Fiennes).

And when she tried to find her own way to be true to her heart and loyal to her duty, the resulting controversies and convoluted liaisons would leave all of London talking.

Terry Appeal To Fall On Deaf Ears

According to Times Online, the Blues must expect to be without their skipper for the next match against Manchester United on Sunday and probably also the next encounters against Stoke City and Aston Villa.

Chelsea came from behind to claim an impressive 3-1 victory at the City of Manchester Stadium yesterday, but the performance was marred by Terry's controversial dismissal.

The England skipper was given his marching order by referee Mark Halsey after bringing down City striker Jo late in the game, and the London club immediately indicated that they planned to launch an appeal on MOnday.

However, since Hasley deemed Terry's foul on Jo to be serious foul play rather than a professional foul, again according to Times Online, he will have little hope of escaping a three game ban since the the FA do not have the power to downgrade cards from red to yellow.

Babylon A.D. - Movie Synopsis

release date:	Friday August 29, 2008
genre:	Action
running time:	90 min.
director:	Mathieu Kassovitz
studio:	20th Century Fox
producer(s):	Alain Goldman, Mathieu Kassovitz
screenplay:	Mathieu Kassovitz, Eric Besnard
cast:	Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong

Babylon A.D. Movie Synopsis

It is the not-too-distant future. Thousands of satellites scan, observe and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest, a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopolises, and vast wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear meltdowns.

It is a world made for hardened warriors, one of whom, a mercenary known only as Toorop (Vin Diesel), lives by a simple survivor's code: kill... or be killed. His latest assignment has him smuggling a young woman named Aurora from a convent in Kazakhstan to New York City.

Toorop, his new young charge Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) and Aurora's guardian Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh) embark on a 6,000 mile journey that takes them from Eastern Europe, through a refugee camp in "New Russia," across the Bering Straight in a pilfered submarine, then through the frozen tundra of Alaska and Canada, and finally to New York. Facing obstacles at every turn, Toorop, the killer for hire, is tested like never before, in ways he could never have imagined—as he comes to understand that he is the custodian of the only hope for the future of mankind.

For the first time in his life, Toorop has to make a choice: to make a difference or walk away and save himself.