Fallen Stars

Sucker Punch

The premise of the film is that Baby Doll ( Browning) and her kid sister are in anguish after the death of their mother. Their wicked stepfather is left out of his wife’s will. When the letch starts creeping up on her sleeping sister, Baby Doll grabs his gun, conveniently left in the drawer in his study, and attempts to shoot him. She misses him, but not her sister. Stepdad takes Baby Doll to a mental institution, leaving him free to lay claim on the estate. Baby Doll is quickly scheduled for a lobotomy, and just as the doctor is about to hammer her frontal lobe, the scene suddenly changes. The general setting is the same, but now the mental institution is a seedy gentlemen’s club, and the other inmates are burlesque dancers.

 The doctors and orderlies and security personnel become a dance instructor (Gugino), patrons and the sinister hustler Blue Jones (Isaac) who trades the girls’ misery for high roller cash.

Baby Doll very quickly concocts a plan to escape, and enlists the aid of her fellow dancers, Sweet Pea (Cornish), Rocket (Malone), Blondie (Hudgens), and Amber (Chung). The girls find themselves thrust into World War I trenches fighting clockwork zombies, battling orcs and dragons, dueling giant samurai warriors or fending off waves of Terminator-like robots on a speeding bullet train. Of course, things go south for the heroic ladies and they don’t all succeed in their escape.

Why'd you do it, John?

So, I've finally written a poem and although it may not be excellent, I loved every moment of thinking it up and writing it down. I've always desired to write something on the infamous 'Love Triangle' having been involved in a couple myself.

Top 5 Libran Beauties

1. Catherine Deneuve

Born 22 October 1943
 Catherine Deneuve was born in Paris, France, the third of four daughters. She made her movie debut as Catherine Dorleac in Les Collegiennes (1957), but later took her mother's maiden name so she wouldn't be confused with her elder sister, who was also an actress. She continued to appear in minor films until she was given a meaty part in Vice and Virtue. Although the elegant and always radiant Deneuve has never appeared on stage, she is universally hailed as one of the "grandes dames" of French cinema.

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" But that's what I like about film - it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing."

2. Monica Belluci

Born 30 September 1964
Born in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, Bellucci originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to earn money for school, and this led to her modeling career. Although enjoying great success as a model, she made her acting debut on TV in 1990, and her American film debut in Dracula (1992).

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" Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity."

3. Marion Cotillard

Born 30 September 1975
Born in Paris, Cotillard is the daughter of Jean Claud Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Raised in Orléans, France, she made her acting debut as a child with a role in one of her father's plays. She studied drama at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique in Orléans. Her turn as Piaf brought Cotillard the Oscar, the César (France's equivalent to the Oscar), a BAFTA award and a Golden Globe among other prizes. Trevor Nunn called her portrayal of "Piaf" "one of the greatest performances on film ever".

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" I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

4. Catherine Zeta Jones

Born 25 September 1969
Catherine Zeta-Jones was born on 25 September 1969, in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK. Catherine showed an interest early on in entertainment.  She first made a name for herself in the early 1990s when she starred in the Yorkshire Television comedy/drama series 'The Darling Buds of May'.  She starred in many big-budget blockbusters like Entrapment, The Haunting and  Traffic.

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"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."


5. Olivia Newton John

Born 26 September 1948
Actress/singer Olivia Newton-John was born on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Her performance as Sandy Olsson in Grease is ranked #89 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. Shortly after the success of Grease was considered for the lead role in a film version of "Evita". She had recorded "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" on her 1977 album, "Making a Good Thing Better".

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"There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end."

Supermoon on 19th March

In Astrology, a supermoon is a full or new moon that coincides with a close approach by the Moon to the Earth.
The combined effect of the Sun and Moon on Earth's oceans, the tide, is greatest when the Moon is new or full. Full Moons during lunar perigees exert an even stronger tidal force, resulting in more extreme high and low tides.  Previous supermoons happened in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005. Each year had extreme weather events ,such as, the deadly tsunami in Indonesia occuring two weeks before the 2005 Supermoon.
                     
On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years, lighting up the night sky from just 356,577 kilometers away. On top of that, it will be full. And one astrologer believes it could inflict massive damage on the planet.

Zbigniew Preisner

Zbigniew Preisner is Poland's leading film music composer and is considered to be one of the most outstanding film composers of his generation.
During the last twelve years Preisner has scored many international feature films including Hector Babenco's  At Play In The Fields Of The Lord, Louis Malle's  Damage, Luis Mandoki's  When A Man Loves A Woman, Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden, and  Charles Sturridge's Fairytale: A True Story.
Above is a score composed by him for the film 'Damage'...It's really beautiful!

All Things Venus In Scorpio (Films)

Here are the Best Movies, in my opinion, which potray the Infamous Venus In Scorpio Intensity and Obsession with ... whatever be the case.

1. BLACK SWAN

A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan ,Princess Odette, but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan. Its kind of like the Scorpio theme of death and resurrection ...but only in a different way.

2. NOTES ON A SCANDAL

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of
her students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Check out the music composed by Philip Glass for the movie. It's completely Venus in Scorpio.

3. DAMAGE

A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and his son. Completely obsessed, he wants to give up his current lifestyle to be with her. She has no intention of allowing him to do this, preferring to have her marriage to the son as a cover. They are eventually discovered, and must deal with the damage.

4. WUTHERING HEIGHTS

The story of unfortunate lovers Heathcliff and Cathy who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later Cathy's brother, now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Mr. Edgar Linton, at which point Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man but little can be done.

5. THE CRUSH

A journalist becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her advances.

Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)

 A haunting movie based on a novel by Joan Lindsay. The story is as follows...

The students from Mrs. Appleyard's School for Girls - a kind of boarding finishing school where decorum and etiquette are the most important subjects - are going on an outing to Hanging Rock, a local geographical landmark. Only one of them, Sara, is being left behind. The reasons for her exclusion are unclear, but it could have something to do with her unhealthy attachment to Miranda. At Hanging Rock, as everyone including the chaperones, Miss McCraw and Mlle. de Poitiers lounges in the afternoon sun, four girls go on an expedition of the rock formation. Three of them do not return and the fourth, when she gets back, is in a state of hysteria. Also missing is Miss McCraw. The police are called in, but their search turns up nothing: no bodies and no signs of foul play. When one of the girls, Irma, is discovered unconscious but largely unharmed a week later, she is unable to provide any clue about the whereabouts of the others - her memory is a blank.

    

Pardon Me, You're Stepping On My Eyeball!

If you think this book has got something to do with horror, you're so completely mistaken. I thought so too when I spotted it sandwiched between two mystery novels. Well, thanks to that library in particular, which didn't have anything worth reading except for boring romance stuff, I found my perfect Romance Book by Paul Zindel which I could totally relate to! I'm currently on the lookout for some of Zindel's other novels.
The story goes as follows...



Fifteen-year-old "Marsh" Mellow thinks the whole world hates him. Then he meets Edna Shinglebox, a classmate who looks as freaky and depressed as he is. Even though Marsh writes hate letters, carries around a raccoon in his coat pocket, and insults Edna constantly, Edna still likes him. After embarking on an incredible adventure that takes them halfway across the country, Edna and Marsh are surprised by what they learn about themselves and each other.

5 Christopher Pike Books I'll Never Grow Tired of Reading

1. BURY ME DEEP 



Jean is on her way to Hawaii for a week of fun in the sun. But the vacation gets off to a gruesome start. The boy sitting beside her on the plane suddenly chokes and dies. Jean tries to push the incident out of her mind when she arrives on the island, but that's impossible. Part of the reason is because Mike keeps coming back to her in her dreams. Horrible dreams filled with cold blood.

Two of Jean's friends are waiting for her in Hawaii -- Mandy and Michele. They have already made friends with two young men who teach scuba diving at the hotel -- Dave and Johnny. Jean and Johnny quickly become friends. But there are problems in paradise. Dave and Johnny have recently lost a partner in the ocean. No one knows how he died. No one can find his body. But then Jean finds Mike's body. It isn't where it's supposed to be, and it seems as if it's still got some life in it.

Horror rating: 4/5

2. REMEMBER ME

 

When Shari Cooper awoke at home after being at her girlfriend's birthday party, her family acted like she wasn't there. They didn't hear a thing she said. They wouldn't even look at her. Then the call came from the hospital. Her father and brother paled. Her mother started to cry. Shari didn't know what was wrong. Not until she followed them to the hospital. There she found herself lying on a cold slab in the morgue. The police said that it was suicide. Shari knew she had been murdered. Making a vow to herself to find her killer, Shari embarks on the strangest of all criminal investigations: one in which she spies on her friends, and even enters their dreams -- where she comes face-to-face with a nightmare from beyond the grave. The Shadow -- a thing more horrible than death itself -- is the key to Shari's death, and the only thing that can stop her murderer from murdering again.

Horror rating: 4.5/5

3.THE MIDNIGHT CLUB

Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die, was home to the Midnight Club--a group of five young men and women who met at midnight and told stories of intrigue and horror. One night they made a pact that the first of them to die would make every effort to contact the others . . . from beyond the grave!

A sad story which may not appeal to most horror freaks but It was totally worth my time.

Horror rating: 4.5/

4. THE LOST MIND

She didn't know what she had done.

She awoke in the woods beside a dead body. There was a knife in her hand, blood on her

clothes. Had she killed the young woman who lay beside her? She couldn't remember.

She couldn't remember anything.

Not even her own name.

It was as if someone had stolen her mind.

Stolen her soul.

Horror rating: 5/5

5. ROAD TO NOWHERE

Teresa Chafey is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast, she picks up two mysterious hitchhikers: Poppy Corn and Freedom Jack. Together the three of them tell stories: Teresa of her devastating relationship with her boyfriend, Poppy of a sad young woman she once knew, and Freedom of a talented young man with a violent temper. Yet as they talk, a darker story unfolds around them. A story of life and death, of redemption and damnation. It will be the longest night of Teresa's life.

Maybe the last night of her life.

Horror rating: 5/5

South India Trip

I came across monkeys, cows, cats...mostly CATS! Here are a few of them.