Harry Potter Challenge – Day 18: Least fave book
Another hard choice, as each book really does have something special in it. I think that my least favorite book has to be the Chamber of Secrets. Mainly because it was quite difficult to stay interested in the book. It was just missing a little something that the rest of the books have.
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 17: Are you excited about The Deathly Hallows movie or scared it won’t do the book justice
I thought the first part was very close to how it was in the book, and hoping for the same from the second film. Keeping it as close as possible to the book is more important than the previous six installments as this is the end after all. I am very much looking forward to the Battle of Hogwarts, as think it will look incredible on the big screen. Not long to find out now!!!
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 16: Fave professor
Very easy choice for this one, none of the other Professors even come close to McGonagall. She really is just brilliant in every way. Strict but still so brilliant in every way. Her love for the quidditch team and doing plenty to try and help them get one over on Snape and Slytherin. Constantly trying to help out Harry, Ron and Hermione yet dis-paring that they always seem to be where trouble is occurring, even if they are just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 15: Who would be your best friends at hogwarts. (three only)
I am going for the very obvious choices of picking everyone’s favorite Hogwart’ students in Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger! Who wouldn’t want to be best friends with those three? The adventures they find themselves in each year they are at Hogwarts. They would always look out for you and be there for you. You would never have more loyal and trustworthy friends.
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 14: Team Voldemort or Team Harry
Team Harry!
No contest at all, you have to be team Harry or you wouldn’t keep reading and watching! You really do love him from the very start and stick with him until the very end. You go through so much with him, growing up and having to deal with all the talk of being the chosen one. The awkward teenage phase and when he starts to notice girls more. You really cannot be team of the man who must not be named. It is all about the boy wizard who we see grow into a man.
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 13: Least fave movie
Pretty tough one really as each film has so many good points and a couple of bad points. I am going for ‘Order of the Phoenix’ mainly because I think it feels like two totally different films and they had to leave so much out from the book that parts of it don’t really make very much sense. But from the start of the film it’s not very strange compared to the end as it seems to jump about too much, without really explaining somethings.
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 12: Fave ship
This one is so easy to answer and I am guessing not many people will go for this relationship. But my favorite in the whole series is Tonks and Lupin. It’s not really highlighted in the films, and hardly gets so much of a mention. But in the book it really blew me away, how she started changing because he rejected her. He did not want to harm her with being a werewolf and thought she was best well away from him. But they do get together and married in the end. Also contributed to sobbing whilst reading the Deathly Hallows.
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) Posters
More posters have been released for Crazy, Stupid, Love. I have to admit that I like the look of this cast and think it should be a funny film!
The Hobbit (2012) First Pictures
The first pictures have been released for ‘The Hobbit’ and Martin Freeman in full Bilbo costume! So annoying that we still have a year and a half to wait to see the first film part of ‘The Hobbit’. They are currently filming in New Zealand.
Footloose (2011) Poster & Trailer
The trailer has been released for the remake of the popular 80s film, Footloose. Not really sure about this myself as the original is such a classic. But I guess there’s only one way to find out for sure! Remaking 80′s films seems to be very in at the moment. We had the remake of ‘Fame’ in 2009. I wonder what we will be seeing a remake of next?
Pottermore is online!
J.K. Rowling’s announcement on what Pottermore is has just been made available for the first time after the owls began gathering. It is going to be a unique online experience reading the books, and finding out more information about the Harry Potter world.
The books will also be made available as E-Book’s for the first time!
This is all going to start in October but some fans will be able to get involved in July to help start creating the online world.
Watch the video here
Submit your email address on the site here to stay up to date with emails about when registration is open!
I have no idea what I was expected from this announcement but this is one way that the Harry Potter world is well and truly going to be kept alive!
Whip It (2009) Review
Bliss Cavender (Page) finds herself stuck doing things she doesn’t want to but finds a release when she gets into a roller derby team.
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 11: What character would you say you are most like
Not for the know-it-all brainy side of her, I’m not stupid but not as smart as Hermione. I am thinking more than she has two male best friends and doesn’t seem to get on with other girls as well as she does with the boys. That’s what I’ve mainly been like, very rare that I’ve had female best friends for very long. I just find males much easier to get on with, the same as Hermione.
The English Patient (1996) Review
World War II is coming to an end and we see nurse Hana (Binoche) taking care of dying patient and burns victim Count Laszlo de Almásy (Fiennes). His story of a great love affair is shown to us in flashback form.
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 10: Horcruxes or Hallows
For this one I’m going for Horcruxes mainly because I think its brilliant that Voldemort split his soul into so many pieces. Which everyone thought was so impossible. For Dumbledore to then start finding them and explaining to Harry that they must all be destroyed before Voldemort can die.
How manipulative each horcrux can be, with the diary possessing Ginny Weasley and the necklace making Harry/Ron and Hermione see very strange things if they wore it for too long. Just showing how powerful Voldemort really is.
Postcards from the Edge (1990) Review
Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is addicted to different drugs. After a stint in rehab and trying to get her life back on track. Whilst having to live with her mother to film a new movie.
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 9: Least fave male character
Wormtail/Peter Pettigrew
Probably a very obvious and popular choice for this one! We aren’t supposed to like him at all, after what he done to Harry’s parents and Sirius Black. But he has to be my least favorite character in the whole series. Not one good thing can be said about him at all. Don’t forget that he was Ron’s pet rat Scabbers for a while as well, which just makes him even worse.
Marilyn Monroe dress sells for £2.8m
Over the weekend the very famous white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe was auctioned and was bought for a very cool £2.8m ($4.6m). Possibly one of the most well known dresses in film history! The image of Monroe getting the gust of wind from the subway and blowing her dress up has to be one of the most well known as well.
An unreal amount of money considering it was bought for just $200 dollars and for it to make so much money, just shows how much of a pull Monroe still is in the Hollywood world. I don’t imagine this is something that will ever happen with dresses or any clothes from recent films.
Pottermore
Last week a website with the title Pottermore appeared with coming soon across it and J.K. Rowling’s signature. Leading up to an announcement which you can follow the countdown here. Nobody seems sure at all what the announcement is going to be about, but early talk has stopped rumours of a new book and stated that is not what it is all about. I guess we can still hope a little bit that we are going to get another book.
You can also follow on Twitter the account https://twitter.com/#!/pottermore which has made just two tweets and has over 72,200 followers! It really does just show the power of the internet and social network sites with how fast people heard about ‘Pottermore’ only 3 days and 2 hours to find out what its all about!
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 8: What do you think would be your fave lesson
Transfiguration
Mainly because I think it would be cool to turn an object into something different. Plus Professor McGonagall whilst strict does seem very cool at the same time. Being Griffindor’s head of house is a big pull towards that lesson too.
Harry Potter Challenge – Day 7: Fave female character and why
Without a doubt my favorite female character is Hermione Granger. She grows so much from the very start of it all until the end. Her intelligence helps out Harry and Ron a lot and they would not have got anywhere without her help. Always coming up with the best ideas and so likable.
