Saturday, 2 October 2010

Will Smith

Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, was born Septembre 25, 1968 and raised in West Philadelphia. His mother, Caroline was a school administrator who worked for the Philadelphia school board, and his father, Willard Christopher Smith, was a refrigeration engineer, but his parents divorced when he was 13.
In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Today, he is a married with actress Jada Pinkett and he have two children and one son with Sheree Zampino in the first marriage.
Will Smith is a an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.
Fourteen of the 19 fiction films he has acted in have accumulated worldwide gross earnings of over $100 million, and 4 of them took in over $500 million in global box office receipts. His most financially successful films have been Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Independence Day, Men in Black, Men in Black II, I, Robot, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, Hancock, Wild Wild West, Enemy of the State, Shark Tale, Hitch and Seven Pounds. He also earned critical praise for his performances in Six Degrees of Separation, Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations for the latter two.


By Tânia Batista

Sunday, 26 September 2010

Elizabeth: The Golden Age


Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Is treachery or heroism at his heart? Does loneliness await her passionate majesty?




by Nance

Queen Victoria


Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London, on 24 May 1819. Victoria was the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876, until her death.


Her reign is known as the Victorian era, and was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military progress within the United Kingdom.


Her 9 children and 42 grandchildren married into royal families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the nickname "the grandmother of Europe". She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover; her son King Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
by Nance

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Jerry Maguire


The film tells the story of Jerry Maguire, a businessman who falls from grace, and that ultimately maintain only one client, a famous football player and problematic. Through this relationship, the film discusses issues such as friendship, solidarity and capacity to change.
The film also shows how the sport was becoming "just" a form of monetary and social ascension. There's a key excerpt from the movie Jerry Maguire asks his only client when he started playing as a child, playing for money. That is, lacks the "play for fun, for love." And it was only then that Rod Tidwell, his client, he plays with passion and can score a touchdown.

By Andreia

Freedom Writers- trailler



By Nance