The Deathly Hallows!

At last the new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This film is set to be released on my birthday so I'm expecting, excitedly for it to be good!






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Beware of the dark

Who's seen Paranormal Activity? Did you watch it VERY late at night, in the dark, at home on your own? Did you have to stay up till 3am watching a silly fluffy film to distract your mind from what you had just seen so you could go to sleep? Well that's exactly what me and my scary moving loving friend Ocean.

But like many people we wanted more, and boy were we pleased when we heard that Paranormal Activity 2 was in production. Desperately waiting for this next edition, we decided to fill the void and attempt to watch Paranormal Ascendacy, a straight to DVD film that promised to be just what we were looking for if we were fans of Paranormal Acitivty...it was not! I could have filmed better on my iPhone 3GS. But today, only a few days after we watched this awful movie, the teaser trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 was released. And here it is for you to watch now...beware!



I'd love to know what you thought of these scary movies and what others kept you awake at night.




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Who is your True Blood boyfriend?

Here is a fun True Blood quiz, although I'm not sure I agree with my result, Lafayette?! I was hoping for Eric

Who is Your True Blood Boyfriend?

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Alex O'Loughlin is coming back

I know I'm British and shouldn't really say this, but I love American TV shows. Of course we produce great shows too but every September see's a whole new line up of TV shows across the pond. One of these shows, which I'm confident will get pick up for a full season (and hopefully make it's make over here) is the remake of Hawaii Five-0. This remake stars Alex O'Loughlin, the Australian actor who has a mass global following (including myself), but to the masses has been genuinely unknown until his recent role starring alongside Jennifer Lopez in The Back Up Plan (see below yummy pic).


O'Loughlin first won fans playing Vampire detective Mick St John in the brilliant Moonlight. If you haven't seen Moonlight you must, sadly it was cancelled short of a full season, but only months before the Twilight craze started...if only they kept it up. Anyway, many like myself still hold out hope that it will get renewed (The CW network are playing it to fill the void of the Vampire Diaries this summer), but at the moment O'Loughlin is tied up in Hawaii Five-O.


After the fail of O'Loughlin's previous show Three Rivers, a medical drama set around a transplant hospital (Don't even bother watching this unless you just want to see Alex), I've been keeping everything crossed for Hawaii Five-0 show since it's announcement late last year, and from the sneak peek (below) I've just seen, I am expecting great things. Luckily CBS know a grea thing when they see it, and they have be trying to find a successful show for O'Loughlin. This could finally be the successful show Alex O'Loughlin needs.

Gaga gone Madonna?

Like many of you this evening I have watched the new Lady Gaga video for her fabulous song Alejandro. Now you may have thought that the song reminded you a little bit of early Madonna, but this video clearly references Madonna (If you don't get the Erotica or Like a Virgin reference then you certainly will get it by the gun bra!).

Is Lady Gaga using this video as a tribute to the legend, or is she insisting that she is THE new Madonna? Let me know what you think.

Top 10 J.J. Abrams

For those of you that are watching Cloverfield (or watched it depending on when you're reading this post) here are my top 10 (in no particular order) J.J. Abrams movies and TV shows:

Alias: Starring Jennifer Garner with fabulous pink hair. I love a sci-fi Sspy drama although Chuck is my new favourite Alias was brilliant. I also here a little rumour that there may be a remake of the series coming soon.

Lost: It's had it's ups and downs, but I have stuck with it (although most of the last season is sitting on my V+ box waiting to be watched). It is truly a show that has changed the shape of recent sci-fi dramas and shows such as Heroes and Flash Forward have followed.

Cloverfield: Taking the actor/cameraman concept of the Blair Witch project and throwing in a great big...something that we never quite see. At the end of the film you will feel frustrated that it ends, but appreciate that it ends at the right point. But bring on Cloverfield 2 (only if its not going to ruin the first film)

Star Trek: A good take on the movie franchise and great casting.

What About Brian: Ok, maybe not his best work, but it was a series that had potential, then it went and became 'Brian's fine but what about all his friends'

Fringe: It's not a series that I've been watching, but I've always heard good things, my friends watch it and from the little I have seen it's a show that I need to watch...from the start!

Forever Young: I always loved this film as a kid, not exactly a film you would associate with J.J Abrams, but he sold the script for $2 million in 1992 (and Elijah Wood is so adorable!)

Armageddon: Another screenwriting example from J.J. Abrams, boy he does love his disaster movies
 

Regarding Henry: Starring Harrison Ford as a man who survives a shooting but looses his memory

Sadly from what is left that I have seen, Pallbearer and Mission Impossible III I can't really give either the last place in the top 10. So I shall leave it blank, but give you a list of what is in the pipeline from Mr. Abrams and perhaps there will be something that is worthy of being added to the list:

Star Trek sequel (untitled)
Mission Impossible IV
Little Darlings
Undercovers (TV)
Morning Glory
Super 8 (rumours are going around that it is an ET remake or something related to Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

Find out more about J.J. Abrams upcoming projects and back catalogue on IMDB

Would appreciate your comments on those included in the list

Gleeful Flash Mob

As this week sees the last episode of this season's Glee in the States (sadly next week for us Brits) I've been on browsing the web getting my 'Gleek fix' and stumbled across this brilliant video of a Glee flash mob in Rome.



Now who's with me in doing a UK flash mob? A little S.A.F.E.T.Y Dance maybe...?

Adaptations add bite to the book...

Now, I’m never one to say a film or TV adaptation of a book is ever as good as the read itself. I’m not much of a reader as I’m more of a visual person, but when I do read it’s usually something that I know I use as an excuse to be more critical of something I will be watching. Those that have read the Harry Potter books know that although the films are great, they are not even a dusting on the original stories in the books (the special effects don’t do JK Rowling’s descriptions justice).

But the recent rise in the ‘Paranormal Romance’ adaptation have pleasantly surprised me. I’ve been listening to the Sookie Stackhouse audiobooks (adapted to True Blood), which has an amazing narrator in Joanna Parker (on several occasions I forgot that she was just one person doing the voice of every character, including a brilliant Eric) and although the books are amazingly exciting, funny and a little on the erotic side, where Alan Ball has changed parts of the story for his True Blood series he has truly changed them for the better.

Another example is the popular ITV2 series Vampire Diaries. This series started out as a TV version of the Twilight Saga, but has quickly turned into a much darker, edger show. Again, with these books I am listening to the audiobook versions, I’m currently listening to The Fury, and it seems like they have taken some these characters names and the element of a diary, rings to allow vampires to stay out in the sun...and created an entirely new concept. If it wasn’t for watching the TV show I wouldn’t continue with these books, Elena is a selfish ‘queen bee’ who is rude to her friends and Bonnie is of Scottish decent, still a witch but really her only skill is to allow a paranormal being to use her body to communicate with Elena.

The final example I would like to raise, and I apologies if I offend any Twi-hard teenage fans out there is the Twilight Saga. There is a great story idea in these books, but they read as if they are written by a child. Often cheesy and feeling like a copy of the Sookie Stackhouse storyline these books annoyed me, but I kept reading as I wanted to know what happened next - I just wished someone else had told me. The films, so far, have taken the story of the books and, as you would expect from a film, taken out the fluffy descriptions (except for the pointless and cheesy slow motion running scene in New Moon) and just given us the story as it should have been told.

What interests me the most from these book to TV/Film is although you would expect to know what will happen next, these are adaptations that are ignoring the original idea of their creators and delivering something that has taken the world by storm and creating the new ‘Paranormal Romance’ genre.

Watch out here he comes....

I’ve just seen the season finale of Smallville season 9 and what an ending it was. I’m pleased that it has been booked for a tenth season, which will make it the longest running sci-fi TV programme ever, but this season finale not only teased us with a taste of Clark Kent post Smallville, but also showed that he now has the infamous suit, that we can only hope he will finally wear in the last scene of season 10.

Not only that, but the episode was action packed with cliff hangers to leave us gagging for the next season as well as a fantastic fight scene between Clark and Zod.  Smallville has really stepped up its game after a couple of disappointing seasons and as sad as I will be to see it end, I can’t wait for Clark Kent to become Superman after a decade of waiting.