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Reading festival is one of the most renowned music festivals held in UK in the town of Reading. It is celebrated every bank holiday weekend in the month of August. It is being held in Reading since 1971. It takes inspiration from the events held in America. It has undergone several re-inventions over its lifetime, from being a Jazz Festival in the 1960s, dabbling with punk in the late 70’s and continually evolving into what we know now as the UKs most popular festival. Some legendary players at the Reading Festival include Metallica, The Killers, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and others. The festival, the world’s oldest popular music festival still in existence, has had various musical phases. In the twin-site era, rock, alternative, indie, punk and metal have tended to dominate. It is truly a delight for music lovers.Though there is no official Reading Festival lineup yet. But there are strong rumours that

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Brian O’Conner(Paul walker), gangster turned FBI agent, teams up with Dominic Toretto (Vin Deisel) to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating his operation.
The movie starts with Dominic Toretto, who is now an international criminal, leaving his girlfriend (Letty) to protect her from what lies ahead of him. But she is killed in, what the police say, is a run of the mill car accident. However, when Dominic visits the crime scene he discovers traces that lead him to believe that it was not just an accident but a cold blooded murder. Meanwhile, Brian is trying to round up a certain heroin importer by infiltrating into his organisation. When old friends Brian and Dominic realise that they after the same guy for reasons of their own, they decide to join hands once again and bring the bad guys down.
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Marley and Me is an American comedy drama starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. It is an awesome movie and I was spell-bound as some of the events were quite similar to what happens in our house. We also have a dog and after four years of him being our only baby, our daughter was born!

So anyone who wishes to enjoy the movie and is looking for a review first, the story goes like this. After their wedding, John and Jenny Grogan come to live in Florida where they are hired as correspondents by rival newspapers. While Jenny gets good work, John is somewhat bored of insignificant assignments.

John soon begins to sense that Jenny is craving for motherhood. He suggests that they get a dog first to know whether they are ready to take the responsibility of a family. They choose Marley, from the litter of yellow labs. He proves to be very naughty and hopeless though. They also take him to a trainer but she eventually expels him from the class.

Meanwhile the editor of John’s newspaper offers him a twice weekly column on travails of everyday living. John is at first in a dilemma but later thinks that the escapades of Marley would prove to be great material for the column. The editor agress.

Marley continues to wreck havoc in the household but this seems to be the perfect material for John column. People start liking his column so much that the circulation of the newspaper starts picking up. On the other hand, Jenny becomes pregnant but loses her child. The couple goes off to their belated honeymoon in Ireland and leave the dog with a young woman, but Marley is beyond any control!

After coming back from vacation, Jenny discovers that she is pregnant again and this time gives birth to a healthy boy Patrick. When she has a second son, Connor, she opts to give up her job and become a stay-at-home mom, and the couple decides to move to a larger house in the safer neighborhood of Boca Raton, where Marley delights in swimming in the backyard pool.

After two sons, John and Jenny also welcome a daughter, Colleen, to their family. Although she denies she is experiencing postpartum depression, Jenny exhibits all the symptoms. She starts growing impatient with Marley and John, who asks a friend to care for the dog when Jenny insists they give him away. She quickly comes to realize he has become an indispensable part of the family and agrees he can stay.

John celebrates his 40th birthday. Increasingly disenchanted with his job, he decides to accept a position as a reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer. The family moves to a farm in rural Pennsylvania. Life is idyllic until the aging Marley begins to show signs of slowing down. When it becomes clear surgery will not help his debilitating condition, the dog is euthanised and buried.

This movie is a story about ‘love’ actually though it is labeled “Sex and the City” because it is based on the famous American TV show by the same name. The story revolves around the high profile New York life of four friends Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Samantha (Kim Cattrall).

Carrie is an author and is in relationship with Big (Chris Noth) for the last ten years but they are not yet married. Charlotte is happily married but is childless so she and her husband visit China and adopt a girl Lily from there and are very happy thereafter. Miranda is also married with a son and is a lawyer. She finds it difficult to look at the emotional side of life. Samantha is a TV star and is dating a man but all that she can think of is sex and money. She is selfish and puts herself before others and so it is difficult for her to commit.

The film begins with Carrie and Big viewing apartments with the intention of moving in together. However, Carrie experiences doubts over the sensibility of this arrangement, explaining that they are not married, and as such she would have no legal rights to their home in the event of a separation. Big suggests that they get married.

Miranda hasn’t had sex with Steve (David Eigenberg) in six months. She is devastated when Steve reveals he has slept with another woman, and immediately separates from him. Samantha is living with Smith (Jason Lewis), who has a successful television career. She grapples with her persistent desire for sex with other men; her handsome and sexually active next-door-neighbor, Dante (Gilles Marini), in particular.

Carrie’s wedding plans escalate into such a lavish event that Big begins to experience doubts. Carrie does a photo shoot for Vogue. While returning a book to the library, Carrie sees a wedding being held there and chooses it for her own venue.

After an argument with Steve at the rehearsal dinner, Miranda, still upset about Steve’s indiscretion, tells Big bluntly that he and Carrie are crazy to be getting married, as marriage ruins everything. On the day of the ceremony, he decides he cannot go through with it, leaving Carrie devastated and fleeing from the library, where their wedding was supposed to take place. Big, however, changes his mind and intercepts Carrie as he sees her limousine drive past. Carrie, humiliated and betrayed, proceeds to attack Big with her bouquet, while he earns furious looks from Miranda and Charlotte. The four women subsequently take the honeymoon that Carrie had booked to Mexico, where they de-stress themselves.

On her return to New York, Carrie hires an assistant, Louise (Jennifer Hudson), to help her move back into her old apartment and manage her administration. Charlotte learns she is pregnant after a visit to her doctor. Miranda eventually confesses to Carrie about what happened during the night of the rehearsal dinner, and the two have a brief falling out. After reflecting on the argument she had with Carrie, Miranda agrees to attend couples counseling with Steve, and they are eventually able to reconcile. Samantha begins overeating to keep from cheating on Smith with Dante, but eventually realizes that their relationship is simply not working, and that she needs to put herself first. The two break up, and she moves back to New York. Charlotte for several months is concerned that something might happen to the baby, as her life seems to be too perfect.

A surprise encounter with Big at a restaurant leaves Charlotte so furious that she goes into labor. Big delivers her to the hospital, and waits until baby Rose is born, hoping to see Carrie. Harry passes on the message that Big would like her to call him, and that he has written to her frequently, but never received a reply. She finds that he has sent her dozens of letters copied from the Love Letters of Great Men book she showed him in the weeks before their wedding.

One hour before the locks are due to be changed on their shared penthouse apartment, Carrie travels to the home Big had bought for them to collect a pair of shoes she had left there. She finds Big in the walk-in closet he had built for her, and the moment she sees him, her anger at his betrayal dissipates. They later marry alone, in a simple wedding in New York City Hall, with Carrie dressed in the original dress she had bought in a vintage shop. They hold a get-together at a local diner with their friends. The film ends with the four women around a table in a restaurant, sipping cosmopolitans, and celebrating Samantha’s fiftieth birthday, with Carrie making a toast to the next fifty.

Fool’s Gold is an adventure/romance film about a married couple who rekindle their romantic life while searching for a lost treasure. The film was directed by Andy Tennant and reunites the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days stars Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson.

Benjamin “Finn” is a treasure hunter looking for a treasure from a Spanish galleon known as the Aurelia, that was lost at sea with the 1715 Treasure Fleet. In his search to find the treasure, his wife, Tess divorces him. Tess has been working as a steward on a huge yacht owned by multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt . Finn finds a clue to the location of the treasure and manages to get on Honeycutt’s yacht The Precious Gem and convince him, his daughter Gemma and Tess to join him in searching for the treasure. A local gangster named Bigg Bunny and Finn’s mentor Moe Fitch are intent on finding the treasure first.

The Precious Gem and Moe’s vessel compete to find the treasure in The Bahamas. As Finn attempts to secretly take down Moe’s search grid, Finn discovers a sword which is a clue to finding the treasure. Finn and Tess follow the clues to an ancient church and discover a diary describing the location of the treasure. Bigg Bunny and his associates, who have been following Finn and Tess, take Tess hostage and assume (incorrectly) that Finn was killed. Bigg Bunny forces Tess to aid him in the search for the treasure in a blowhole, the location revealed in the diary. Tess finds the treasure in a cave beneath the blowhole. Meanwhile, Finn and the Honeycutts enlist the help of Moe in taking the treasure out of Bigg Bunny’s hands. They arrive as Bigg Bunny sends one of his associates to bring him the treasure, and the other to take out Moe as he swims towards Bigg Bunny’s seaplane. The blowhole kills Bigg Bunny’s employee and traps Tess and Finn, while Moe tries to stop Bigg Bunny from taking off. Finn saves Tess only to have Bigg Bunny kidnap her from him again. Gemma gets Finn to Bigg Bunny’s plane on her jet ski and Finn leaps on the plane’s pontoon as the plane takes off. As Bigg Bunny attempts to shoot Finn, Tess kicks Bigg Bunny out of the plane and sends him into the ocean. The final Bigg Bunny employee, is taken prisoner by Moe (after he has shot Moe in the leg with a speargun).

Finn and Tess are reunited and save the treasure together. Finn, Tess, Nigel, Gemma, Moe and those who contributed in helping or finding the treasure open a museum displaying all of their finds.

A mighty heart is a very good movie to start with. It is based on real life story of Daniel Pearl and his wife Mariane Pearl. Her husband Daniel, South Asian bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to the elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returns. In the face of death, danny’s spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance , the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir “A Mighty Heart: The Brave life and Death of my Husband Danny Pearl.” Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son which Danny wanted to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. The performances of Angelina Jolie, Irfan khan and the rest of the cast is commendable. The story line is so strong that there was no scope of any flaw. A must watch!

Reading festival is one of the most renowned music festivals held in UK in the town of Reading. It is celebrated every bank holiday weekend in the month of August. It is being held in Reading since 1971. It takes inspiration from the events held in America. It has undergone several re-inventions over its lifetime, from being a Jazz Festival in the 1960s, dabbling with punk in the late 70’s and continually evolving into what we know now as the UKs most popular festival.

Some legendary players at the Reading Festival include Metallica, The Killers, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and others. The festival, the world’s oldest popular music festival still in existence, has had various musical phases. In the twin-site era, rock, alternative, indie, punk and metal have tended to dominate. It is truly a delight for music lovers. Interestingly chase for Reading Festival tickets has already started.

Though there is no official Reading Festival lineup yet. But there are strong rumours that Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon and AC/DC are going to be there.

Latte Grande is known in Italy as “caffè e latte” – the real meaning is “coffee and milk.

Ever wondered, how to make a Latte Grande at home? To start with you need following ingredients:

- 1/2 cup double strength espresso coffee.
- 1 cup milk
- 2 ounces milk for frothing
- Ground chocolate, cinnamon or nutmeg

Here is how you go about making Latte Grande;

- Pour 1/2 cup double strength espresso coffee into a 12 oz mug.
- In a small saucepan, heat the 1 cup milk until it’s hot. Do not boil the milk.
- Pour this hot milk into the coffee mug.
- Heat the 2 ounces of milk until hot, again do not boil.
- Pour this 2 ounce milk into blender/mixer and blend at the maximum speed for about 1 to 2 minutes. Just ensure it gets frothy.
- Scoop the foam and gently slide the foam onto the top of coffee mug.
- Dust with ground chocolate, cinnamon or nutmeg.

Voila !!! Your Latte Grande is ready.

Enjoy and do let me know!

Visually dazzling and emotionally resonant, Slumdog Millionaire is a film that’s both entertaining and powerful.

First Golden Globe now 10 nominations for Oscar. This film is really going to write history.

The movie is about hope, destiny, love and has magnificently captured the mystique of Mumbai. It’s amazing how Danny Boyle was able to capture the pulse, the chaos, the contradictions, the beauty, the mess, the color and the promise called India.

The movie covers the life long relationship between three childhood friends struggling to get out of the Mumbai slums. The film has very well packaged everything one would like to see in a good movie; love, adventure, emotion, drama, comedy, and timeless beauty of India all over. The scenes of violence are well done and has powerful value.

The hero despite being brought up amongst poverty, violence, child abuse and rape, is able to remain pure. He doesn’t go for the millionaire show for money, he goes there hoping that her childhood love will see him. He wants to answer as many questions as possible because that means more time on the show, thus increasing the chances being seen by his love.

Slumdog Millionaire attempts to deliver a simple message: triumph of the human spirit, integrity and karma.

In short: excellent job done by all.

Reign over Me is a okay sort of film written and directed by MIke Binder. One can say that it is worth a watch but that is it. It stars Adam Sandlar and Don Cheadle in the lead. It is the story of two high school roommates who get separated and meet after a long time just by coincidence. Don is a reputed dentist and has a family to look after, while Adam is alone as he has lost his wife and all three daughters in a car crash. This has made him utterly depressed and he tries to evade reality by living in his own different world. Don has everything but misses the company of a male friend. He later realizes that he thinks that his wife has too much control over him and both friends let it loose one night. Adam one day realizes that he requires treatment for what he is going through. He is observed by a psychiatrist played by Liv Taylor.She tells Don that till Adam pours his heart out to someone, he wouldn;t recover. But he doesn’t want to recover and is sent to a rehabilitation centre. Meanwhile, Don’s father passes away and this event brings the family close together again.