A picture of Kristen Stewart giving the paparazzi who took this shot her greeting as she and Taylor Lautner boarded a jet boat. Reportedly, as she and Taylor got off the boat, they practically ran to evade avid fans and photographers who where patiently waiting just to get a glimpse of them.

Kristen Stewart was spotted enjoying a smoke break outside her hotel balcony but arrogantly flipping the bird one more time at photographers.

Questions that arose include where Robert Pattinson, Kristen’s boyfriend, was during the tour. Also during the Eclipse promotional tour in Seoul Korea, the young actor was no where to be seen.

After Seeing Jake Gyllenhaal in his latest movie Prince of Persia I was wondering whose his new girlfriend considering that Reese Witherspoon just broke up with this hunk last December. It was a surprise when the two reportedly called it quits because Reese just wasn’t ready to tie the knot even after two years of dating. Shocking right?! That’s what I thought, but anyways, Reese and Jake who met during the set of Rendition kept their relationship discreet for some time before the press finally found out about it.

Recently, many women had been linked with Jake Gyllenhaal namely Gretchen Bleiler whose considered one of the most accomplished snowboarders in the world. She’s also famous for creating a snowboard collection for famous brands like Oakley. Jake also dated stars like Natalie Portman and Kirsten Dunst.

Just recently, there had been rumors circulating the Internet about Jake hooking up with Isabel Lucas, the hot chick who stalked Shia LaBeouf in Transformers 2 when he was away at college, disguising herself as a robot called the Pretender.

I’ve read from LaineyGossip that Jake and Isabel Lucas were spotted really cuddled up together at Garde Manger, a prominent restaurant in Montreal. Gyllenhaal is currently shooting the movie Source Code in Montreal, so luckily for Lucas, he would need someone to spend time with now that he’s single and all.

Jake was really awesome in his character as the orphan, Dastan, who was fortunate enough to become a Prince after being adopted by King Sharaman due to his selfless act of courage and bravery, after saving a childhood friend. We’re also thinking that he and Gemma Arterton, his co-star who played Princess Tamina, look super hot together. Gemma Arterton even admitted fantasizing about kissing Jake Gyllenhaal. Who wouldn’t? He was flattered by her compliment and even mentioned how Arterton wanted to eat his face or something like it.

There’s no confirmation yet from Jake who he’s currently dating and after all the women he’s been with and called it quits, I think he deserves some time to get to know his new girl. If you’re wondering what’s cookin’ with Reese Witherspoon, well don’t fret since the actress was spotted having a cozy dinner with Jim Toth in Santa Monica back in February and may still be dating the CAA agent until now.

Iron Man 2

After the many months and days I’ve waited, finally I got to see Iron Man 2 yesterday with my hubby. I was so excited to watch the movie that most of the day my thoughts were mainly focused on nothing else. Too bad my Vaughn couldn’t watch the movie with us yet because he’s barely two years old but anyway, I’m pretty sure he’d love to watch it someday.

What I like about Iron Man and Iron Man 2 is the fact that Robert Downey Jr. is playing the lead role as Tony Stark. Though, there were a lot of useless scenes in Iron Man 2 like Tony Stark’s elaborate scenes of self destruction but I still think that Robert Downey Jr. looks and acts great as Iron Man.

A couple of things that I miss in the film is Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Pots since I’ve noticed in the sequel, she didn’t have a lot of dialogue and cheesy scenes with Tony Stark except perhaps the kissing part which was of course surprising. The kissing scene was unexpected since I thought Tony Stark just didn’t show that much attention to her in the movie and if he ever did then I thought it wasn’t convincing. I mean it’s weird that if you’re dying wouldn’t you want to spend your last day with the one person you love instead of goofing off and acting like a jerk in a tin suit. But in fairness to Tony Stark he did tell Pepper that he wanted to ditch his birthday party and instead travel to Venice with her. I just thought he didn’t really exert any real effort letting her know he was attracted to her.

There is of course the matter of Don Cheadle replacing Terrence Howard as Rhodey in Iron Man 2. Don Cheadle I think is a great actor, no doubt about it; however, his aura wasn’t just as humorous when Terrence Howard was playing the role. I do understand that Terrence Howard was reportedly replaced because of his lack of professionalism during filming so Don Cheadle may have been great substitute.

Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer was surprising too since I never expected he’ll be in Iron Man 2. I liked his role; however, despite how annoying he was in the movie. There were scenes that really made me laugh especially when he danced those quirky weird steps during the Hammer Expo. He’s well suited for the role but I still think that his being in the movie wasn’t really necessary. They could have lessened the number of appearances he had in the movie.

I liked Mickey Rourke as Whiplash; I mean he always seemed to fit the perfect description of a villain. The only thing that bothered me was the difficulty I had understanding what he was saying most of the time because of the heavy Russian accent in the movie. This I thought was really important for me since I wanted to be engrossed with all the conversation that was going on in the movie but without luck it was impossible with Mickey Rourke’s accent.

Another surprising cast was Scarlett Johansson’s role as the Black Widow. I liked how she fought during her fight scenes but that’s already expected in Iron Man movies. I felt uncomfortable; however, every time she appeared with Tony Stark because I didn’t really know what she was about to do next or what her role was really all about. In the end, I figured she was just there out of Nick Fury’s order to gauge if Stark deserved to be part of the Avengers.

I know I made some comments when we watched the movie but so far these are the ones I remember. Still, over all the movie was worth watching  and I’ll definitely look out for the Iron Man 3 if they’re pushing through with the movie.

Back in High School I’ve always been fascinated with the mystical stories of ♥ Greek Mythology ♥. I just love reading each of the stories of gods and goddesses. I even recall writing a term paper about Greek Mythology which wasn’t really easy at the time due to the lack of resources. Just recently I found out that Hollywood was doing a remake of the 1981 epic movie, Clash of the Titans. The remake is soon to hit the theaters by March 26, 2009 with ♦ Sam Worthington ♦ as Perseus and ♦ Liam Neeson ♦ as Zeus. As a kid, I really enjoyed the first one and hope that the remake will be better considering that we have outstanding technological capabilities to apply CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) in movies. The Clash of the Titans trailer in HD is featured in this site. Check it out and see if the movie suits your tastes in movies!

My oh my, I can’t wait to watch ♥ Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ♥, which is soon to show May 28, 2010. of next year. The Prince of Persia movie is based on the video game whose main character, ♥ Prince Dartan ♥, teams up with the beautiful ♥ Princess Tamina ♥ to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world. I’m not really a gamer but I enjoy watching my husband play games on our PS2. I really liked the concept of the game but my favorites include Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within and Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.

The movie is said to be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Mike Newell. Jake Gyllenhaal who plays Prince Dartan in this movie is definitely gorgeous considering the muscles he built up just for the movie. See for yourself.

Honestly, I’m not quite certain when is the premier of New Moon here in Cebu   but I’m definitely looking forward to watching it, mostly because I’m curious whether the movie will turn out to be a disappointment just like the first one or it might turn out entertaining. I’m neither a fan of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, both I think are really amateur poor actors but I’m a big fan of the Twilight Saga books by Stephenie Meyer. I love reading books and luckily a friend at work lent me the first book and after that, I was hooked.

I’ve heard the premier night might be this November 21st perhaps in Ayala or SM. ♥ Val ♥ and I are planning to watch the movie after five days from its first show since we’d like to avoid the forecasted crowd.  Obviously!   I’m hoping to read the New Moon book again but I’m hesitating since I might end up comparing the movie with the book just like what happened the last time. Perhaps, just realizing now I might read the book after the movie so at least I’ll get to more objective rather than be a critic.

One of the things that me and my hubby have in common is watching movies. We just love movies specifically English movies. We’re not really into Filipino movies and that’s because they’re always predictable. Anyways, I’ve recently checked our external hard drive and was surprised that we have a total of 132 movies in it.

Our external hard drive can accommodate 160 GB of memory and we have used up 103 GB already! I guess we have to think about purchasing another hard drive since the movies we like to watch are piling up quickly than we’ve expected. We still have other DVD s stored in our closet and we just don’t have the time to save them yet on the drive.

I can’t wait to watch M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie, ♥ The Last Airbender ♥. The movie is based on the animated series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. According to IMDb, the movie will premiere July 2nd of next year. The cast includes hunky actor ♥ Jackson Rathbone ♥ who played Sokka, a teenage Water Tribe warrior and ♥ Dev Patel ♥ of Slumdog Millionaire who played Prince Zuko, the exiled son of the Fire Nation king Fire Lord Ozai.

Here’s a brief synopsis of the movie from imdb.com:

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. In the old days, there was peace between the four nations of the world. The Avatar — Master of all four elements — kept peace between the the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. Only the Avatar has the ability to Bend (manipulate) all four elements, but one day, he Vanished. Then the Fire Nation attacked, forcing a war on the other three nations for one hundred years. Now, for the good of the world, it’s up to 12-year-old Aang (Noah Ringer), the new Avatar, to return peace and balance by putting a end to the war and mastering all four elements. Aang must accept his destiny by stopping the Fire Nation’s war and defeating the Fire Lord for good.

This is definitely another movie I’m looking forward to watch. I’ve always been a fan of M. Night Shyamalan’s movies. His movies are way better and are like Las Vegas Shows. It’s that interesting to watch. Among my favorites are The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable and Stuart Little.

♥ The Notebook starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams

Just sharing my list of best movie lip-locks One of my favorite past time is to watch great movies preferably about romance, comedy or even fantasy! I enjoy movies with great story lines and ofcourse, great actors who know how to KISS! It really makes a difference since it makes you want to watch the movie over and over. My list can and will change if I get to watch other movies with better kissing scenes. In case, you haven’t seen some of the movies on this list then I would suggest for you to watch the movie, hopefully with no regrets! Enjoy!

 ♥ Never Been Kissed starring Michael Vartan and Drew Barrymore

 ♥ Catch and Release starring Jennifer Garner and Timothy Olyphant

 ♥ Penelope starring James McAvoy and Christina Ricci

♥ A Walk to Remember starring Shane West and Mandy Moore

♥ 50 First Dates starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore

 

♥ 50 First Dates starring Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock

♥ Spiderman starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst

♥ Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightly and Matthew McFayden

♥ Australia starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman

Weee! I just watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince yesterday at Ayala Center Cebu and boy oh boy, the movie was awesome!!! Sorry if you would have to read another post about this, I know there are a lot of blogs posting reviews and rants about the latest Harry Potter movie but really, I just can’t help it. Just like what I wrote in my other blog site bloggercorner.com, the movie was greaaaat! Though, I was disappointed when Lord Voldemort didn’t show but I understand they have to follow JK Rowling’s sixth book so it’s all good. I liked Ginny and Harry paired up. The chemistry between these two is just infectious! It’s also amazing how Daniel, Emma and Rupert look all grown-up compared to the earlier Harry Potter movies. I also felt really sad when Dumbledore died. I can’t wait for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows.I understand they had to split the movie into two parts. But I’d still be watching the movie in theaters since it’s worth every penny!

I tried looking for a comprehensive synopsis or review of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince since I couldn’t really understand everything that was going on in the movie. As much as I wanted to read the book, I just couldn’t find the time. Luckily I found a detailed spoiler of the movie from thebookspoiler.com. For those who haven’t read the book or watched the movie, this review is helpful.

Muggles are beginning to notice signs of the war spilling over from freak accidents and whatnot. The book opens with the Prime Minister (not specifically Tony Blair) meeting with the sacked Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge and the new Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour and talking about Voldemort.

We also see Black sisters Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy visit Hogwarts Potions teacher Severus Snape, where Narcissa makes Snape take an unbreakable vow (you die if you break it) that he will help her son, Draco, in a task he is about to go on (it is unclear what Draco is doing).

Harry is first seen in the third chapter, when Dumbledore comes to Privet Drive to escort Harry to the Weasley’s house. First they stop at the hiding place of a friend of Dumbledore’s, Horace Slughorn, where Harry almost accidentally convinces Slughorn to come to teach at Hogwarts. (We assume this is for the vacant Defense Against Dark Arts post).

Dumbledore tells Harry that he will be giving him private lessons of a sort and advises him to tell Ron and Hermione about the prophecy.

At the Weasleys’ Harry tells his friends about the prophecy, and receives his OWLs (a sort of standardized test). He doesn’t think he can get into Potions because he is one grade short of what Snape, the potions master, accepts. Harry also learns that Fleur Delacour (from Goblet of Fire) is engaged to Ron’s brother, Bill.

While the trio visit Diagon Alley to purchase robes and supplies, the meet Draco Malfoy and by an action of his (pulling his arm away), Harry guesses that Draco has been branded a Death Eater (A follower of the bad-guy Lord Voldemort). They follow Draco to a dark shop, Burgin and Burkes where he says something about “keeping that one safe” (important) and asks how to repair something.

When they arrive at Hogwarts, Harry is shocked to learn that Slughorn will be teaching Potions, not Defense Against Dark Arts, and (his loathed teacher) Snape will be teaching the Defense Against Dark Arts course. This means, however, that Harry can take the Advanced Potions course, but because he was not expecting it, he has no books and has to borrow one from Slughorn. Inside are additional potions tips and spells which put Harry at the top of the Class. These tips are from an elusive “Half-Blood Prince.”

The lessons with Dumbledore turn out to be looking into Pensieve memories, where Harry learns more about Voldemort’s past, especially his mother, Merope Gaunt, a basically powerless and abused witch who uses magic to force muggle (not wizard) Tom Riddle to marry her. We also see Dumbledore telling young Voldemort (called Tom) that he is a wizard and we see that Voldemort was one creepy little kid. We also learn that Voldemort likes to collect things which Dumbledore says is important.

A fellow student of Harry’s, Katie Bell, gets cursed by an opal necklace that she is force to pick up by the Imperius curse (it makes you do things against your will) while away from the school. Harry suspects Draco Malfoy, but he has an alibi. Harry starts learning many hexes and spells from his potions book (the Half-Blood Prince).

Just before Christmas, Harry overhears Draco Malfoy and Snape talking about the help Snape promised Malfoy in the unbreakable vow. When Harry tells this to Remus Lupin (a former teacher and werewolf) and Mr. Weasley at Christmas in the Weasley’s house, they both say that they trust Snape because Dumbledore does. Remus Lupin also tells Harry about Fenrir Greyback, the evil werewolf who bit him when he was a child (somewhat important). There is also something wrong with Nymphadora Tonks (another member of the Order of the Phoenix) which they suspect is due to her grief over her cousin Sirius (who died in the last book).

Harry looks inside the Potions textbook and sees that it is 50 years old, which he thinks eliminates his father and friends from being the Half-Blood Prince. Hermione does some research showing that the Half-Blood Prince could be anyone, even a girl, showing him something about a former Hogwarts student, Eileen Prince (kind of important).

In one of the lessons Dumbledore shows Harry about how young Voldemort covered killing his muggle (non-wizard) father and muggle grandparents (the Riddles) by pinning it on his wizard uncle (Morfin Gaunt). Dumbleore also shows Harry a memory where teenage Voldemort asks Slughorn about Horcruxes (we aren’t told what these are), but the memory has obviously been altered by Slughorn. Dumbledore sets Harry on finding out what really happened. We also see how a younger Voldemort killed a woman to get a locket owned by Slytherin and a cup owned by Hufflepuff (founders of Hogwarts).

When Harry at first tries to interrogate Slughorn about the Horcrux, he refuses to talk, then at another opportunity Harry’s friend Ron gets poisoned (Harry saves him) before Harry can ask. Finally Harry uses guilt about his mother (a favorite student of Slughorn’s) to get the real memory.

In the real memory we learn that Horcruxes are divisions of the soul that can be created when a person murders someone. Voldemort, to be immortal, killed and divided his soul 6 times, so he has seven pieces of his soul around. One is a ring that Dumbledore had already found and destroyed. One was the destroyed Diary of young Voldemort from Chamber of Secrets, one is stored in Slytherin’s Locket, and another in Hufflepuff’s cup. Another is stored in Voldemort’s serpent, Niagini, and Voldemort obviously has a piece of a soul inside him. Dumbledore does not know where the other one is stored, but he suspects that it is in an artifacts relating to Gryffindor or Ravenclaw (the other two founders of the school). This makes Voldemort immortal, because there are still places his spirit inhabits even after he has been physically destroyed. This is why Voldemort survived the rebounded curse when he tried to kill Harry the first time.

Dumbledore tells him that he has a choice to help him destroy the Horcruxes, and that he can choose to follow the prophecy or not. Dumbledore also tells Harry that the power he has that “the Dark Lord knows not” spoken of in the prophecy is love. Harry knows because he loves his friends, mentors, and dead parents, that he must fight Voldemort.

Harry’s life continues, including his beginning to date his friend Ron’s little sister, Ginny. Harry finds a spell in the Half-Blood Prince textbook labeled “For Enemies.” Harry gets into a fight with Draco Malfoy and uses it on him, but it seriously injures Draco, causing large gashes and bleeding. Professor Snape finds them and heals this, sort of reads Harry’s mind (Legimency), and then demands to see Harry’s books, but Harry hides the Half-Blood Prince book in the a special room called the Room of Requirement behind a vanishing cabinet and shows him Ron’s instead (important).

Harry receives a message from Dumbledore that he has found out where a Horcrux is and to help him destroy it. On the way Harry meets up with the Divination teacher, Trelawney, who made the big prophecy about him. Trelawney tells him about a strange occurrence in the Room of Requirement, and Harry guesses that Draco has succeeded in whatever he was planning. From Trelawney’s ranting, Harry realizes that the Death Eater who overheard the prophecy and told Voldemort about it (thus leading to Harry’s parents’ deaths) was Snape. Harry confronts Dumbledore, but Dumbledore insists that he trusts Snape and that Snape regretting bringing about Harry’s Parents’ Deaths. Dumbledore makes Harry promise he will follow any order given, and tells him to prepare for getting the Horcrux.

Before Harry leaves, he tells Ron and Hermione to round up their group (from Order of the Phoenix) and to watch Snape and the room of requirement. He then leaves with Dumbledore.

Harry and Dumbledore go to a cave by the sea (mentioned in one of the memories about young Voldemort). They go through this complex place to this pool where Dumbledore has to weaken himself by drinking a potion to get out a Horcrux, the locket. The potion weakens Dumbledore.

They return to Hogsmeade, and see a Dark Mark hanging over the Hogwarts castle. A Dark Mark is the symbol the Death Eaters that is usually sent up when they have murdered someone. Dumbledore and Harry fly to the Astronomy tower of the castle and prepare to enter when they hear someone approaching.

Dumbledore petrifies Harry while he is invisible to protect him, at the expense that Dumbledore (weakened still) is disarmed by Draco Malfoy. Dumbledore tries to talk Draco down, telling how Draco’s earlier attempts to kill him were half-hearted (the necklace and the poison that Ron drank). Draco Malfoy reveals that he was able to bring Death Eaters into Hogwarts through a pair of vanishing cabinets (one in the room of Requirement, the other in the dark shop from the beginning of the book). Draco insists that he has to kill Dumbledore, otherwise Voldemort will murder his family.  Dumbledore basically talks Draco down, but other Death Eaters show up, including the untransformed werewolf, Fenrir Greyback. The Death Eaters insist that Draco has to kill him, but then Snape shows up. Dumbledore appears to plead with Snape but Snape kills Dumbledore (the Avada Kedavra) and takes Draco away.

Harry chases after Snape and uses some of the spells he learned from the Half-Blood Prince book against Snape. Snape reveals that he is the Half-Blood Prince, and is able to deflect Harry’s attacks. Snape prevents any of the other Death Eaters from killing Harry, but basically stuns him while the Death Eaters and he leave Hogwarts and disappear.

Man of the students wake up, and find Dumbledore’s body on the lawn (it fell from the tower when he was murdered). Harry finds the locket, but sees that it is fake. Inside is a letter from a mysterious R.A.B. to Voldemort saying that he/she/it had taken the Horcrux and would destroy is when he/she/it could, knowing that soon he/she/it will soon be dead. Harry is distraught that Dumbledore was weakened for nothing. Ginny comes and takes him to the hospital wing.

They go to the hospital wing, where most of the people who had been fighting the Death Eaters were. Lupin, Tonks, Bill Weasley and Professor McGonagall had been patrolling the corridors for Dumbledore, while Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley had been on alert from Harry.

The only one seriously hurt, Bill, was practically mauled by the Fenrir Greyback and though he was not transformed (yeah, Fenrir is very creepy). Lupin speculates that Bill will be badly scarred and perhaps have some wolfish characteristics. Bill’s parents and Fleur show up, and Fleur is insistent about staying with him, despite any danger or change to Bill’s appearance. This leads to revealing that the reason Tonks was upset was that she was in love with Lupin but he was reluctant because he was a werewolf.

Later, Hermione finds from research why Snape called himself the Half-Blood prince. Snape’s parents were Eileen Prince (a pure-blood) and Tobias Snape (a muggle) so Half-Blood is correct, but Prince is his mother’s surname. The potions book previously belonged to his mother.

There is an elaborate funeral for Dumbledore, who is buried in a white tomb on the grounds, but it is unclear whether Hogwarts will be reopened. Harry proclaims to the Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, that Dumbledore is never gone as long as people at Hogwarts are still loyal to him. It appears that Ron and Hermione get together, but Harry basically breaks it off with Ginny because he says Voldemort would use people he loved against him. Harry plans to return to the Dursley’s (due to the protection it would give him) but says that even if the school re-opens he will not come back, because he has to track down the rest of Horcruxes so that Voldemort can be killed.