Surprise, surprise. We all know the Olsen twins are one of most popular celebrity twins. But, what about actors like Scarlett Johansson, Ashton Kutcher and supermodel Gisele Bündchen? Yes, they all have a thing in common? A twin that is less well-known.
Scarlett Johansson and her twin brother, Hunter Johansson
Scarlett Johansson has a twin brother, Hunter who left his job in 2008 to be campaign organizer for Obama in Denver!
Gisele Bündchen and her twin sister, Patricia Bündchen
Gisele Bündchen has a fraternal twin in Patricia who is camera-shy and acts as Gisele’s manager, the highest-paid supermodel in the world.
Earth is a special documentary by Disneynature, following the migration paths of four animal families. Featuring the voice of Patrick Stewart, the movie will be released on Earth Day 2009, which is April 22, 2009.
Gigantic is a romantic comedy starring Zooey Deschanel (Yes Man, The Happening). The movie is about a mattress salesman Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano) who finds his plan to adopt a Chinese baby augmented by the arrival of a young woman, Happy (Zooey Deschanel), who comes into his workplaces, falls asleep on one of the beds, and starts to affect his life upon waking up. The movie will be released on June 26, 2009 in the UK and on April 3, 2009 in US (limited).
Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee’s latest film is about a man working at his parents’ motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969. Starring Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy and Katherine Waterston, the movie will be released on August 14, 2009.
According to a researcher in Tokyo, Japan, music and sound not only can affect your mind but it can also make physical changes to your body.
The theory is that if women’s minds and bodies respond to the ringtone in the same way that they are known to respond to a real crying baby, then they will experience the same physiological effects as if they heard the real thing. If it’s heard often enough, over time their breasts will grow bigger.
Knowing is an action-packed science-fiction thriller starring Nicolas Cage. The movie premiered on March 20, 2009 in the US and opens on March 26, 2009 in Malaysia.
The movie begins with the year 1959 where a competition is held between the students of an elementary school. The winning idea from a student called Lucinda Embry is to bury a time-capsule of all the students drawing of the future they can imagine to be opened 50 years later. Instead of drawing pictures, Lucinda writes down numbers but is prevented from finishing them. Later, she goes missing and her teacher finds her in a gym closet, scratching the remaining numbers onto the wooden door.
Five decades later, the time capsule is opened and the drawings are handed over to the children. Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury), the son of John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) receives Lucinda’s envelope. John, an MIT professor and an astrophysicist, initially ignored the numbers but accidentally discovers that the numbers are no coincident but a serial of dates and death tolls of every major disaster in the last 50 years, with three events have not happened.
When John realizes the remaining numbers are the GPS coordinates, he witnesses a tragic plane crash which kills 81 people and he is almost traumatized by it as he has seen people burning before their death. After seeing an unknown man popping outside of his house occasionally, John decides to contact Lucinda’s daughter, Diana (Rose Byrne) to gain more insights, but is turned away.
After the second event John has predicted occurred, Diana and her daughter Abby visit John and Caleb. Both Caleb and Abby are able to hear the "whisper people" just like Lucinda. Initially, John thinks the last event will only kill 33 people but finds out it is actually "EE" backwards. After investigating Lucinda’s mobile trailer, they find out that "EE" stands for "Everyone Else". John then figures out there will be a massive solar flare which will kill everyone else.
Diana tries to get the kids to the cave where she believes could shelter them from the solar flare while John tries to figure out the last numbers scratched by Lucinda on the wooden door. Diana’s impatience makes her drive the kids to the cave without waiting for John. During the stop at the gas station, the "whisper people" hijack Diana’s car with the two children. Diana gives a chase in another car but is killed by a truck at midnight when she runs the red light, just like her mother predicted.
When John returns to Lucinda’s mobile home, he finds out that Caleb and Abby are safe in the hands of the "whisper people" who are revealed as celestial beings who invite the selected children to escape the disaster and help them start all over again in another planet resembling Earth. A solar flare hits Earth and kills every single life on the planet. Caleb and Abby are then seen dressed in all white in a beautiful landscape which has at least two moons, running towards a huge white tree.
Overall, the movie may seem interesting in the first place with the likes of Da Vinci Code, Final Destination, The Armageddon and Eagle Eye merged into one movie. But, with the ending, it seems like the movie which ripped off The Day The Earth Stood Still as well. Somehow, what amazes me is how everything is put together — the mystery of the numbers, the actions from the disasters, the terrifying "whisper people" who turns out to be celestial angel-like beings onto a single film.
Yahoo! has put together a list of the 100 films you must see before you die. Most of the movies in this list are old school classics except a couple of them. Still, they are definitely worth watching.
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Some of these films you’ve seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see!
Blood: The Last Vampire is a live-action action thriller based on a Japanese manga. A vampire named Saya (Gianna Jun), who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon is disguise. The movie will be released on May 29, 2009 in Japan and June 12, 2009 in UK. There is no US released date yet.
