ANNA PAQUIN

Set in a rural, swampy Louisiana parish, the show centers around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her clan, Season 2 is more Sexier, the story-line is more muscular, and new and mysterious characters have joined the clan. Also they are beginning to get into back stories of some of the vampires and how they were created. Season 2 takes the story into the state of Texas. Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) finds himself in a very bad situation, but Sookie comes to the rescue. Each episode leaves you wondering what the heck is going to happen next. Season 2 takes you more and more to the Dark Side. Anna Paquin, the award winning lead actor gives another superior performance in each and every episode. Season 1 was great, Season 2 is fantastic. Well worth renting, I highly recommend it.  During the second season, the influence of Maryann Forrester and the conflict between vampires and humans is expanded. Most of the cast from the first season returns and several new main characters are introduced. The same style of interconnected story telling used in the first season is repeated, with the foremost plot focusing on Maryann Forrester being revealed as a maenad.  While Maryann begins establishing her hold on Bon Temps, Sookie is recruited by Eric to investigate the disappearance of his 2000 year old maker and the sheriff of Area 9 in Texas: Godric (Allan Hyde).While Sookie is absent from Bon Temps, Sam hires Daphne Landry (Ashley Jones) to join the Merlotte’s staff. Daphne begins a romance with Sam, is revealed to be a shapeshifter, and then later also exposed as working for Maryann. Jason also leaves Bon Temps for Dallas to join the Fellowship of the Sun, which Reverend Newlin has steered in a new militant direction despite the protestation of his wife Sarah (Anna Camp). It’s discovered that Godric is in the custody of the Fellowship,and one of Godric’s lieutenants, Isabel (Valerie Cruz), sends her human boyfriend Hugo (Christopher Gartin)to assist Sookie in infiltrating the church. Though Eric’s primary interest in Dallas is finding Godric, he also attempts to place himself between Sookie and Bill. To accomplish this, he enlists the aid of Bill’s maker Lorena (Mariana Klaveno); making a more prominent contribution to the cast after a brief introduction in the first season. In the penultimate episode of the second season, once the conflict in Texas is concluded, the vampire queen of Louisiana Sophie-Anne (Evan Rachel Wood) is introduced. Both Bill and Eric visit her in an attempt to find out how to defeat Maryann.

Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin & her Beau Vampire Bill

Beautiful and Sexy Paz Vega

PAZ VEGA is CARMEN: I loved this film, because of the story, the acting, the beautiful cinematography. This is one of the Sexier Carmen’s. Paz Vega wears the character of CARMEN as if she was born to play the part. A sexy, very breathy Carmen, a woman who gets very close and touchy with the men in her orbit. She says she has made a pact with the devil. This is a dark and almost demonic Carmen. A Carmen that invites men to the Dark Side. She demands violence from her suitors, and when other women gets in her way, she will draw blood. This is a lusty Carmen, very sexy, and there is ample nudity. This Carmen is even nude in church. It is worth renting.

Vega made her television debut in the Spanish TV series, Menudo es mi padre, which starred pint-sized rumba singer El Fary. After appearing in two other series in 1997 – Mas que amigos and teen drama Compañeros – she went on to grace the silver screen in 1999 in Zapping. The same year she also had a minor role in the David Menkes movie I Will Survive (Sobreviviré) alongside Emma Suárez, Juan Diego Botto and a cameo from Boy George.

She made her big break in 7 Vidas, also in 1999. The series was billed as a Spanish Friends and went on to become one of the country’s best-loved domestic sitcoms. Vega played Laura, a perky Andalusian girl who had come to stay with David, who had recently come out of a coma. The series was broadcast on Telecinco and finished April 12, 2006, albeit without Vega. The saucy 2001 film Sex and Lucia brought the actress to the attention of a larger audience. She then became much better known in the United States after a star-making role in the 2004 James L. Brooks film Spanglish opposite Adam Sandler. In 2007, she co-starred with Morgan Freeman in the independent film 10 Items or Less. In 2008, she co-starred with Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson in The Spirit. Vega is also a model. She is signed to 1/One Management in New York City.

Paz Vega very Sexy

The Lovely Paz Vega

Kitty and Nan King

TIPPING THE VELVET is a 3 part story of Nancy Astley, an oyster girl from the English town of Whitstable. Nancy falls in love with a stage performer named Kitty Butler. TIPPING THE VELVET derives from the Victorian era euphemism for cunnilingus. Nancy is played by Rachael Stirling, the daughter of Dame Diana Rigg. 1st Act. Nan moves to London and becomes a dresser for Kitty Butler, Kitty’s act is that of dressing up in men’s clothes and performing in the dancehalls of London. Nan quickly becomes part of the act, and they become lovers hot and heavy. Kitty dumps Nan and breaks Nan’s heart into a thousand tiny little pieces. 2nd Act. Heartbroken, and Heartsick Nan moves out and after a period of mourning the loss of Kitty, she begins to dress like a boy and walk the streets where she goes “ON THE GAME” she is rescued from the streets by Diana, who keeps her as her private whore/tart. Things go badly and Nan again must move on. Act 3 Nan goes back on the stage, she falls in love with a wonderful girl named Florence. Kitty Butler finds out that Nan is back and she tries to start up with Nan once again. Will she stay with Florence or go back to Kitty Butler, the woman who broke her heart. It doesn’t get any better than this, my heart was pounding as she made her choice. This is a tearjerker and sweet love story. Kitty Butler is played by Keeley Hawes (Scoop). Diana is played by Anna Chancellor. And Florence is played by Jodhi May (The Last of The Mohicans, and Sister My Sister) I loved the movie so much. Definitely a big 5*****Stars. Rent this one pronto, and there is an official BBC website for this movie with all sorts of goodies.

4 Main Characters

Ernie Dingo & Cate Blanchett

Burned Bridge is a brave and confronting 13-part series about the mysterious death of an Aboriginal girl in (Brooklyn Waters) a small coastal town. Burned Bridge is a love story involving two people convinced of the innocence of the prime suspect. Cate Blanchett, & Ernie Dingo are the lovers, this was very controversial when this film was made. Ernie Dingo heads a fine cast in Burned Bridge. He plays Vincent Burunga, the Aboriginal Liaison Officer at Brooklyn Waters who lives on the razor’s edge between loyalty to his people and and his official Government job as Liaison Officer. Cate Blanchett plays Beth Ashton, while recovering from divorce she inherits her grandfather’s estate in Brooklyn Waters. She arrives as an outsider but discovers more about her grandfather’s life. She finds out that her grandfather has had several children by Aboriginal women. Beth is now a blood relative of several inhabitants of Brooklyn Waters. The growing relationship between Burunga and Ashton is put to the test, having to survive the hostility between the Aboriginal and white communities as well as the obstacles of their very different backgrounds, attitudes and cultures. Cate Blanchett gets a challenging and confronting insight into his background when she travels with him to his home in outback Western Australia where traditional law is still strong within the community. Ernie Dingo must deal with her urban white environment when they pursue the accused youths case in Sydney. The third piece of the mini-series concerns the people of the Binbilla Aboriginal community just outside of Brooklyn Waters and its battle to reconstruct their community in their own way and restore their self-esteem. This is a strong and very satisfying series, Cate Blanchett before she was Cate Blanchett. She later Starred in Elizabeth, and the rest is history, as they say. I highly recommend it. well worth renting.

Victoria Thaine and Rachel Ward

The Local District Vet Kate McDonald (Rachel Ward) hires an assistant, Jill Blake, (Victoria Thaine). Kate is the Vet in a farming district called Paringa. Kate is a vet who cannot keep an assistant, the last ten assistants were either fired or bolted. Jill Blake is her last chance at getting an assistant, the agency has told Kate that if she cannot keep Jill as an assistant for at least 6 Months they will not be sending her any more replacements. Kate (Rachel Ward) is as hard as nails. Jill, her new assistant, young, small in stature is her equal, Tough As Nails. The two women have to learn to work together without killing each other. There is plenty of work, lots of vet stuff in this 6 part series. Each episode is a different situation that the two women have to deal with. But the main issue they have to deal with is the drought, or climate change, and a reportable disease that has infected most of the sheep in the district. Even though the disease is reportable Kate chooses not to report for fear of bringing economic ruin on the entire district. Jil of course has different ideas. This is a beautifully shot, well acted, picture post card Australian TV mini series, well worth the watch. I loved it.

Rachel Ward & Victoria Thaine

AUDREY TAUTOU

I just watched ” A Very Long Engagement” on cable, and I loved it. Audrey Tautou gives an heroic performance as a woman searching for her fiancé during World War I. She keeps on adding to her Iconic luster in every movie she stars in. Audrey Tautou is just a force of nature. This is a sprawling epic movie. Storytelling at it’s best. The acting and the script is magnificent, the photography is glorious. And surprise, Jodie Foster has a supporting role in this movie, and of course she is just fantastic. I liked this movie very much, and I recommend it.

AUDREY TAUTOU

SCARLETT JOHANNSON

Scarlett Johannson perfectly embodies the great melting pot nature of New York City – her father is a Danish architect and her mother an Ashkenazi Jew from the Bronx. They grew up with very little money, and her mother’s love for film served as a common point that they could rally around. Scarlett attended the prestigious Professional Childrens’ School and began acting in childhood. We first sat up and took notice with her role in the graphic novel adaptation Ghost World, but her real breakthrough came with 2003’s Lost In Translation, where she kept up with Bill Murray without breaking a sweat. Many more roles followed, as the Rubenesque beauty brought her creamy, milk-white skin and gorgeous body to the screen in films as diverse as Michael Bay’s The Island and Woody Allen’s Match Point. Throw in a music career and a ton of charity work and you have one class act who’s easy on the eyes.

SANDRA BULLOCK

LOS ANGELES — Sandra Bullock looks like a movie star as she lounges in a swanky hotel suite. She’s resplendent in her expensive chocolate designer dress and perfectly styled hair.

The actress’ facade might be resting comfortably in La-la Land, but her heart’s in her adopted hometown of Austin, Texas, where she lives with her husband Jesse James.

Bullock left the hairy Hollywood hype for the less pretentious Texan city almost seven years ago when she came to the conclusion that all the glitz was getting her glum.

As far as she’s concerned, L.A.’s a nice place to promote a movie, but she wouldn’t want to exist here anymore.

Those were the days, though. She had her Speed breakthrough, followed by another hit, While You Were Sleeping, and then there was the treadmill of movie upon movie.

Some were good, some not so good and some were in between — until 2000’s Miss Congeniality had Bullock showing up as producer and star.

Nothing improved for her, though. And along the way, she realized she was all about being a part of the movie business, not about being herself.

Now she’s the happily married owner of a downtown Austin bakery, but was in the city of angels to chat about her latest film, The Blind Side, which opens Nov. 20.

Based on a Michael Lewis non-fiction book, the John Lee Hancock movie version follows the teen years of pro football player, Michael Oher.

A homeless vagrant in Memphis, the picture tracks Oher, who’s allowed to enrol on a sports scholarship at Briarcrest Christian School, and is subsequently adopted by the school’s backers, the Tuohy family.

Bullock plays the feisty southern belle Leigh Anne Tuohy, who leads the charge to make the African-American Oher (Quinton Aaron) feel comfortable at the all-white Christian school and pushes him to excel at school and on the gridiron.

Country star Tim McGraw plays Leigh Anne’s husband, Sean. Real-life U.S. college coaches such as Nick Saban, Lou Holtz, Phil Fulmer and Tommy Tuberville have cameos.

Still, the driving force is Bullock. So it’s surprising to learn that Bullock initially turned down the role, which seems so right for her on screen.

“But I kept thinking it wasn’t going to work for me,” the 45-year-old says. “Politically, I am not like that person at all, and I don’t buy the Christians who use their banner like a shield.”

Writer-director Hancock, who spent time with the Tuohys to develop the film, persuaded Bullock to visit the family at their Memphis mansion.

The filmmaker says he knew Bullock would respond to the type-A personality. And she did.

Besides being exhausted from spending the day with Leigh Anne, Bullock admits she eventually became impressed with her, because “she walks the walk, and doesn’t just talk the talk.”

“And you don’t meet an energy like Leigh Anne’s, ever,” adds the actress. “So when I decided to do it, I felt a sense of fear in trying to tackle the portrayal, but also a sense of obligation.”

There was another reason she hesitated. Bullock doesn’t like to waste her time making a movie for the sake of it.

She did that too many times to count, during her “churning-them-out” phase, and she wasn’t always thrilled with the results, professionally, or with the after-effects, personally.

“Now, when I stare at a stack of scripts, I can’t bear to open them,” she admits. “I don’t want to step into that world. I want to enjoy where I am.”

That new Austin attitude seems to be working for her.

Pre-release buzz for Bullock’s Blind Side performance has been enthusiastic.

Last summer, she had a big hit with the romantic comedy, The Proposal, which earned an impressive $296 million US worldwide at the box office.

That’s thanks to Bullock, the lots-of-laughs script, and an oft-discussed scene when a nude Bullock slams into equally nude co-star Ryan Reynolds.

“Aside from all the right people and the right elements being in the right place,” jokes Bullock, “I think that the nudity in The Proposal had a great deal to do with it. Had I known, I would have done it a long time ago.”

Mavis played by Mere Boyton

Beth Heke Played by Rena Owen: quote: “Our people once were warriors. But unlike you, Jake, they were people with mana, pride; people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with you for eighteen years, then I can survive anything.” (Thus spoke Beth). This is a powerful and deeply troubling story of a Maori family in New Zealand. Jake, the husband Played by Temuera Morrison is Alcoholic to the max. Alcoholism is tearing this family apart, from stem to stern but you will see no recognition of alcohol being a problem. You will witness its devastation, the wreckage and the pain, you will see Jake unable to get in touch with his humanity in order to save his family and save himself , he is so beaten down by the alcohol.. I liked this film, even though it is hard to watch. The brutality of Jake the husband and father rings true because he does not even realize the effects of his brutality on the family. The character of the family friend Mavis Played by (Mere Boyton) has a very beautiful voice, she sings and sounds like a beautiful bird, and she is really, really attractive. The DVD has some good extras, photo galleries, interviews with the cast and director etc. Just as “Whale Rider” was beautiful and uplifting, “Once Were Warriors” takes you to the dark side…….. I’m left with the memory of after the house party there was blood on the walls, literally, blood on the walls. This is a Strong movie, not for the Squeamish. A 5*****Star Movie.

Hillary Swank

Actress Hilary Swank is set to star in Betty Anne Waters drama, which will be directed by Tony Goldwyn. Based on a true story, the Million Dollar Baby star shall play the title role as a single mother who though is a high school dropout, but works her way to college and law school – to free her innocent brother convicted for murder.

She juggles between her kids and work but that does not stop her from becoming a lawyer so that she can represent her brother after his attempts to appeal his conviction through public defenders have been exhausted. “There is a spirit and indomitability that Hilary brings that is a strong match for this character’s fierce commitment,” Variety quoted Goldwyn as saying.

The director has revealed that his first project meeting happened soon after the woman’s brother was released in 2001. He further added that his meeting was an unforgettable one since it was held in New York on the day of the World Trade Centre terror attacks.

Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank