Films and TV

The main spoken language in Peru is Spanish. This mixture of cultural traditions has resulted in a wide diversity of expressions in fields such as art, cuisine, literature, and music and in recent years has seen many people wanting to jet off on their Peru holidays.

There was a time when the Greek islands or Turkey seemed adventurous, even exotic, destinations for the summer holiday. That is no longer the case.

Aided by low air fares, holidaymakers are expanding their horizons when it comes to getting away for a week or two and Peru Holidays seem to be a fond choice for holiday makers at the moment especially with the credit crunch.    

People all around the world download various materials each and every day which gets spread across the internet in the form of torrents, the biggest craze at the moment is downloading TV episodes and full movies like the new STAR TREK or WOLVERINE, then all that needs to be done is to put them onto a USB disk drive and share with friends. You can even now download complete series and even screener movies which have just been release in the cinema.

People downloading have to be not only careful as regards to the fact that this is illegal but also the fact that you actually don’t know what you are downloading and this could potentially cause you problems, Viruses being the big threat.

When new viruses, worms and other malicious attacks strike, every minute one a virus signature update creates a window of vulnerability that could have devastating consequences. Any information personal and otherwise can be taken and used for internet fraud. Introducing good USB security systems software is a new way to help prevent this from happening. USB security Systems provides 100% protection against any threats via USB disc drive.

No one as much as it has been tried is ever going to stop people downloading movies and putting them onto USB disk drive but the key if people are going to do it is to take extra precautions against internet fraud by using a good USB Security systems software program to help prevent this.   

Dirty sexy money season 2 has been a great season. The season is drawing a close and as it gets nearer to the season finale the more exciting the build up is getting. At the end of the last episode shows Jeremy Darling having a conversation with Simon Elder, of which Simon offers Jeremy the chance to be a hero and save the women he loves brother from any harm, the condition, to help Simon fake his death!

Lola, Jeremy’s girlfriend finds out about the plan and can’t let Jeremy go ahead with it and confronts Simon of his plans. Lola decides to do it instead therefore Simon goes through the plan with Lola. Simons shows Lola the information for his home security systems so that she knows how to disable the alarms when she arrives the next night, also on Simons home security systems is fall video footage of the entire building so that Lola would be fully aware of what was going on. Throughout the episode things happen and Simon finds out some news that he is going to father a baby with his ex girlfriend Karen Darling, as this now changes everything Simon calls off the plan for his exit. While Simon is at the Darlings party, as the plan is already in place and Simons home security systems were down, Lola ceases her opportunity to head to Simon’s home and search for information that may be able to give the whereabouts of her brother who is being kept hostage by Simon.   The end of the episode sees Simon elder being tied up and tortured by Lola threatening to kill him if he does not give her the information, then Nick George the family lawyer walks in right at the end of the episode before the credits role.       

The wait is finally over for Season 7 of 24 and is jam packed full with nonstop, jaw dropping action that will keep any viewer on the edge of their seats.  It is never a dull life in the world of Mr Jack Bauer I can tell you and series 7 was defiantly worth the wait. A good scene in the series so far was the attempt to gas out the President of Sin gala using the fire sprinkler systems in the safe room in a house. This scene shows Jack Bauer working undercover with those who want to cause terror on the USA. Their first attempt sees them being too late to cease the president who manages to get to the safe room with his wife and lock the door which then can only be opened from the inside, Jack knew that if he didn’t get the president to the terrorists behind the plot on the USA that his cover would be blown plus never find the ones behind the days attacks. It becomes Jacks job to create this deadly gas from house hold products and feed it into the fire sprinkler systems to force the president to open the door from the inside before the FBI can reach the destination. This is just a taster of what to expect from Day 7 of 24.

The Business (2005), a film brought to you from the makers of Football Factory, introducing a British crime/gangster film by well known British Director and writer Nick Love and starring the one and only Danny Dyer (known for being in other films such as Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001) and Mean Machine (2002).

Dyer plays the character Frankie a rough neck from London who narrates, in a particularly colourful fashion, his experiences following his murder of his mother’s abusive boyfriend. To escape justice for his crime, he accepts a job delivering a bag to bar-owner Charlie (Tamer Hassan) in Spain.

Charlie soon takes a liking to Frankie, and introduces him to his business associates. Through his business email lists Frankie soon gets to know these associates quite well and eventually gets invited to stay in Spain to work as a driver which later turns into more than just driving and  more into smuggling cannabis from Morocco to Gibraltar.

The film has all the ingredients common in most gangster films, living the high life then taking a giant fall. A great British film about greed, jealousy and betrayal makes this movie a one to watch.

Well rumour has it the Grandad or should i say great grandad Ken has his wicked way with the minx maneating Martha.

She is seen taking his hand and leading him into the bedroom.  Is this help the aged or what! I just cannot get my head round this relationship. Older man younger woman, yes but surely you don’t trade your spring chicken of a wife (Deirdre) for and older, older woman.

Is he going to sail off down the canal with Martha and disappear down the Manchester Ship Canal forever or will he stop off at the Library and collect a years worth of library books. Personally Ken i would go for the books if i were you a bit safer to read about it at your age.

Deirdre get out the love and grab some young man quick and have some fun before it’s too late! Kurt could do with cheering up yes he is that desperate.

                                       Sir Alan finally gets the chance to get rid of the boring useless science teacher. No wonder the education system is in disarray.  The very uncharismatic science teacher could not organise a drunken party in a brewery. Full of pathetic excuses for his continual failure and ability to vanish into insignificance.

He says he will be returning back to the classroom where no doubt his magnetic personality will transfix his class into some sort of trance because i doubt he could hold their attention enough to keep them awake.

He is, as Nick pointed out a ‘nice guy’, but nice guys very rarely win.

Alan Sugar had been waiting for an opportunity to get rid of him ever since the soap episode 2 weeks ago so it was no surprise he was thrown out..

Personally I thought ben should have gone as he is a complete and utter twit. All i can say is thank god he didn’t go to Sandhurst and consequently be put in a position of leadership and with a gun!!!  But twits and idiots make good telly! Why else do we watch this programme, it would be a real turnoff if some of the contestants were actually good at their tasks we all like to see them fail and the squirm in the boardroom.

The premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been delayed becuase of the fears surrounding the swine flu outbreak.

It looks like the release of the long awaited prequel to the Marvel Studios film has been set back until May 14.

Its a bit of a blow to Marvel as the latest instalment of the X-Men franchise is expected to top the $100 million mark domestically during its opening three days, but Mexico could add several million dollars to its box office tally internationally.

The recent swine flu outbreak has led the country’s three largest film exhibitors Cinepolis, Cinemex and Cinemark to temporarily close many cinemas in Mexico City and surrounding areas.

“Theaters are closed, and that’s why we can’t open the film,” said Tomas Jegeus, head of international distribution for Fox. “It’s that simple. But people are more than concerned in Mexico, and it would be stupid and irresponsible to open a film.”

Although its not a new technological development, many DVD replication and copying firms are now offering piracy protection as part of their service to stamp out illegal copies being made from the DVDs they produce via a macro-vision licences.

Although it will never completely stop piracy, it is a step in the right direction. It doesn’t help the main issue which has caused so much trouble with the films industry at the moment which is illegally downloading movies from sharing sites. Due to the credit crunch people are watching the Penny’s, so would rather download a film for free (illegally) than watch it in the cinema or buy the DVD.

Major Hollywood actors and actresses have also stepped in to help the industry - they all get a percentage of what profits a film makes however some have agreed to only take this percentage after the film makers have at least made back their investment from making the film in the first place.

Most A list actors and actress’s have agreed to taking this pay cut in an attempt to jump start the films industry openly whereas there is talk about making this compulsuary among all of them during these difficult times. This has already started to happen with some actors and actresses being forced to agree to these payment terms.

Its been a long wait for the BBC to find out how Ofcom was going to punish them after their poor handling of the the Sachs prank phone call controversy however, they have finally agreed on a £150,000 fine.

Oftom say that the BBC had breached the Broadcasting Code twice by airing the incident. The incident was when Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross decided to leave messages on veteran actor Andrew Sach’s phone - which involved Brand boosting about having relations with his grand daughter Georgina Baillie.

The TV watch dog said that the broadcast had “unwarrantably and seriously infringed” the privacy of Sachs and his granddaughter and described the programme as “gratuitously offensive, humiliating and demeaning”.

The BBC said:-

“We accept Ofcom’s findings,”

“As we said last October, this material should never have been broadcast and we apologised unreservedly for that”

“We note that Ofcom has found that senior management acted swiftly to mitigate the offence and damage caused by the breaches of the Code.”

“The BBC has since taken comprehensive action to deal with what were unacceptable failures in editorial judgement and compliance which led to the broadcast.”

As a result of this event, Jonathan Ross was suspended without pay for 12weeks, Russell Brand left his Radio 2 show and station controller Lesley Douglas quit.