Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

Although it’s said that most expecting Royal couples pray for sons, this queen longed for a daughter and Snow White was in all aspects the answer to her mother’s wish. But she was to be an only child as the queen took ill and died while Snow White was a young girl. The king, grief stricken with deep despair from the loss of his beloved queen, was lured into battle by a dark force. Never the less, he and his army were victorious and even managed to rescue a chained damsel being held prisoner. The king became enthralled with her beauty and on the very next day they wed, but there was to be no happy honeymoon for the new Royal couple. For she was an evil sorceress, but now she is the evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron). Her spells had well served their purpose so on that night she killed the king, brought in her army and took over his kingdom.

As Queen, she ordered the king’s young daughter to be locked away high up in a tower far from everyone and everything while she ruled the kingdom with her devoted brother Finn (Sam Spruell) at her side. Ravenna’s evil reign was so poisonous that over the years nature turned on itself; the land died, the people turned on one another and eventually all hope was lost. The Queen demands to be the only source of grace and beauty, but even she has a weakness; in fact she herself is the victim of a magical spell, except her’s was cast with love by her mother for protection. Her spell guarantees everlasting beauty, strength and unrelenting powers that can ever only be undone by the blood of one fairer than she. So to keep herself and her spell safe she relies on the truth and wisdom of a magical mirror to reveal“Who is the fairest of them all?” And for the past several years, the answer is always the same. However lately her beauty has been failing until finally one day, the mirror proclaims “On this day, one has come of age fairer even than you…” Snow White (Kristen Stewart) has been allowed to grow up and become the fairest of them all, and now she possesses the only thing that can destroy the Queen, the innocence of Fairest Blood. Gripped with anger and regret the Queen wants her killed but the mirror also informs her that she will achieve immortality by personally holding Snow White’s heart in her hands. Impatiently the Queen orders Finn to retrieve the princess from the tower, but Snow White overpowers Finn during a foolish moment of lax lust. She methodically escapes the tower and the Kingdom and then sets off on a quest to find Duke Hammund (Vincent Regan) with the hope that he can help her regain her father’s kingdom. Snow White swims through the sea and roams the land trying to stay ahead of Finn and the Queens soldiers until she stumbles into the Dark Forest; a disgustingly toxic swamp like wasteland that few have dared to venture and even fewer have survived to boast about. Once again Finn returns to the Queen to report his failure to retrieve the innocent princess, she sends him out to find someone that knows the forest and he returns with a troubled widower. Queen Ravenna commands the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to track and return Snow White, alive; but he refuses and cannot be swayed even by the threat of death. However, she persuades him with the promise of her power to bring his dead wife back to life. That proves to be an offer he can’t refuse. So the Huntsman leads Finn and the Queen’s soldiers out into the Dark Forest and, yes he does find Snow White. But as usual Finn fumbles again, he calls the Huntsman a fool and discloses that not even the Queen’s powers can bring his wife back from the dead. Well, after a scuffle both the Huntsman and Snow White vanish into the gloom of the forest. Meanwhile word of Snow White’s survival and escape has reached the Duke and he’s pleased to pass the news on to his son William (Sam Claflin), Snow White’s childhood best friend. William vows to find her and bring her to their castle for safety. He manages to infiltrate Finn’s search party and over time they finally catch up to Snow White, who by now has collected quite a group of protectors. Never the less, she still needs at least one more as William drops his disguise and pledges his allegiance to her safety, meanwhile the Queen is suffering from the severance of her better half, but the day ends in sorrow when not all protectors survive Finn’s surprised attack. William joins forces with the Huntsman, but to their dismay the Queen musters up enough magic to find Snow White and poison her. Her entourage mistakes her for dead, but continues to deliver her body to the Duke’s Castle; where, YUP, ya know it! True Love’s Kiss revives the fallen princess. And the Duke with his entire kingdom helps Snow White rain H3LL back on the evil Queen as she reclaims her father’s kingdom as the rightful heir.

Get The Gringo (2012)

American and Mexican Border Police are in hot pursuit of a couple of clowns on the run. The circus has come to town and its payday when the getaway car lands on Mexican soil with millions of dollars floating around in the back seat. Although Officer Vazquez (Mario Zahagoza) is more than happy to accommodate his newly unannounced guests, somehow this isn’t quite the “Sun and Fun” south of the border vacation that Driver (Mel Gibson) and his buddy had planned. Driver gets dumped in a crowded holding cell and then later transferred to general prison population where he quickly discovers that this place isn’t like any joint he’s ever been in before, and he’ll have to rely on his talents if he’s going to survive here. Within no time, he becomes a pathetically successful petty thief and befriends a 10 year old kid (Kevin Hernandez), who in time will tell and teach him the ropes of life in this prison. Soon he gets a visitor; a very unprofessional looking Embassy guy shows up with his police file. He points out that there’s no name in the file and it says Driver was caught at a downtown drugstore trying to buy valium without a prescription. He knows it’s an erroneous charge and he assumes that Driver is a career criminal because he doesn’t have any fingerprints. Driver doesn’t seem to trust the guy enough to give him any real information, and after they share a few sarcastic insults with each other, Driver knows he can’t count on this Embassy for anything. Eventually he gets back to talking with the kid again; and over time as they exchange secrets Driver realizes that this kid is his ticket out of prison. And in the end, if you look deep enough, sometimes there is some good in everyone.

Men In Black 3

Humans and other life forms have continued to thrive on planet Earth. But that’s only because unbeknownst to most, the evil Boglodite known as Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement) has been firmly chained, contained and locked away in a maximum security space prison on the moon called Lunar Max. Boris has spent the past 40 years scheming for his revenge against K, the MIB Agent responsible for his maiming and degrading incarceration. See, back then Agent K disrupted Boris the Animal’s alien invasion plans for earth; he also shot Boris’ left arm off in the process and then arrested him.

Today a small spaceship has crashed in an industrial area somewhere in New York City. MIB units are on site for clean-up and containment, Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) calls for attention while Agent J (Will Smith) uses his handy dandy Neuralizer on a gathered crowd of inquisitive bystanders and then J explains the crash as being fallen satellite wreckage. He follows Agent K away and they leave the scene discussing tonight’s upcoming event. The department has lost a fine commander, Agent Zed has passed away and K claims to have written a very moving eulogy for tonight’s memorial back at headquarters where we’ll also get to meet MIB’s new chief Agent O (Emma Thompson), who has become Z’s replacement. After the ceremony Agent O calls to inform K and J about recent reports of several humans suffering from alien parasites. They go to WU’S Seafood Restaurant where K suspects the owner of serving contaminated food to the customers, but while inspecting fish tanks in the kitchen, K discovers that WU may be involved in cooking up an even more dangerous meal. Several minutes later Agent O calls and confirms his suspicions, she informs him that the crashed spaceship from this morning was stolen by Boris the Animal after he escaped from Lunar Max. And as fate would have it, within the next several minutes Agent K is once again face to face with the dreaded Boglodite. Boris is about to release a deadly spray of spikes to kill K, but Agent J bursts through a steel door just in time to saves his life. After the commotion ends both Agents go back into WU’S and while MIB units clean up the area Agent K is reminiscing old regrets. J wants to go after Boris and he tries to get K to explain what happened 40 years ago, but K has been keeping a painful secret that he refuses to share, so he tells J to mind his own business and as J continues to pressure him; K ends the discussion by suspending J for the next 4 weeks. None of this settles well with Agent J, so he goes back to headquarters to do some research on the matter. Eventually he reaches a restricted area in the data files and (to his surprise) despite his senior agent Top-Secret security clearance level, his access is still denied. Shortly Agent O walks in and J soon discovers that she and K have a long history together that goes wayyy back, never the less; she’s of no help and is no more willing to discuss the past than K was, she sends him home with a word of advice, “Don’t ask questions you don’t want to know the answers to.” J takes her advice and goes home to unwind by playing videogames when the phone rings, its K and he’s finally ready to share some secretes of the Universe but J is being stubborn and he hangs up the phone before K can begin. On the other end K is both disappointed and yet relieved (he never really wanted to tell J anything about this part of the past) he knows Boris will be coming for him soon and he intends to be prepared when that event happens. However, K had no idea what Boris has in store for him so there was no way he could have been fully prepared. All of the sudden, BAM, and in an instant everything has changed! Well everything that is, except for Agent J’s memory.

The next morning J goes to visit K to get things straightened out, but when the door opens there’s some strange woman holding a baby and K is nowhere in sight; suddenly he begins to crave chocolate milk and he isn’t feeling very well. J needs answers so he immediately goes to headquarters to find out what’s going on! While inside, a strange man races to join him in the elevator, this man will not shut up; they finally reach the bottom floor where a different man informs J that Agent AA is his partner, J is looking for K but no one seems to know who K is. He begins to assume that the department is playing a joke on him. Moments later, Agent O walks up and agrees to take him to K. She leads him to a crystal headstone and explains that Agent K has been dead for 40 years; she further leads him to a computer and commands the data concerning Agent K and Boris the Animal, the computer displays a report explaining that Boris killed Agent K at Cape Canaveral in July of 1969. J demands that report untrue and after a bunch of senseless babbling and a split second gulping on a tall glass of chocolate milk, Agent O forcibly slaps him across his cheek, “Damnit it’s not the tic!” She tells him he may have been involved in a break in the timeline. After further explanation, J realizes that in order for him to save Agent K, he will have to travel back through time to July 15^th, 1969 and somehow find a way to stop Boris before he kills K.

Facebook Timeline Remover - summer edition

My dear friend, Mark Zuckerberg, added a new "update to the Facebook timeline", which prevents most of the users to see their own wall and/or their friends wall on Facebook. The man is relentless, which is commendable, but so am I... For you, those who face the situation described above, go to www.timelineremove.com and reinstall the add-on (it's version 0.4.9, which deals with the latest developments in Zuckerberg's money industry, hehe). But, before you do that, remove the previous add-on (I guess it is 0.4.5), via Tools - Extensions - Timeline remover - remove (Firefox). It works like a charm!