Sleepy Hollow (film)
Release date(s) November 19, 1999
Running time 105 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 period horror film directed by Tim Burton. Based on the Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the film stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Sir Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, Richard Griffiths and Christopher Walken. The story centers on police constable Ichabod Crane sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman.
Plot
In 1799, New York City police constable Ichabod Crane is dispatched by his superiors to the Hudson Highlands hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, to investigate a series of brutal slayings in which the victims have been found beheaded. A frequent user of new, though so far unproven investigative techniques such as finger-printing and autopsies, Crane arrives in Sleepy Hollow armed with his bag of scientific tools only to be informed by the town's elders that the murderer is not of flesh and blood, rather a headless supernatural warrior from beyond the grave who rides at night on a massive black steed.
Crane does not believe them and begins his own investigation, until he comes face to "face" with the Headless Horseman. Boarding a room at the home of the town's richest family, the Van Tassels, Crane develops an attraction to their daughter, the mysterious Katrina, even as he's plagued by nightmares of his mother's horrific torture under his zealous preacher father when he was a child.
Delving further into the mystery with the aid of the orphaned Young Masbeth, whose father was a victim of the Horseman, Crane discovers within the Western Woods both the Horseman's entry point between this world and the beyond, the gnarled Tree of the Dead with the heads of his victims within, and his grave.
He finds the Horseman's skull is missing though the murders continue until Crane uncovers a murky plot revolving around revenge and land rights with the Horseman controlled by Katrina's stepmother, Lady Van Tassel, who sends the killer after her. Following a fight in the local windmill and a stagecoach chase through the woods, Crane eventually thwarts Lady Van Tassel by returning the skull to the Horseman, who regains his head and heads back to Hell along with her. His job in Sleepy Hollow completed, Crane returns to New York with Katrina and Young Masbeth in time for the new century.
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FELY R. AGUSTIN
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(horror film)
Casey Beldon is plagued by nightmare visions of strange looking dogs, and an evil child with bright blue eyes. While baby-sitting Matty, her neighbor's son, she hears Matty's voice over the baby monitor. When she goes to check on the newborn, she finds Matty showing the infants reflection, then he attacks her with the mirror, and says "Jumby wants to be born now". The next day, Casey's friend Romy tells a superstition involving newborns and mirrors: they shoudn't see their reflections for at least a year. When she comes back from her run the next day, an ambulance is outside her neighbors house, and another neighbor tells her "the baby wasn't breathing", indicating what Romy said was true. After being hit with the mirror, Casey's eyes begin to change color, which an optician explains as experiencing Tetragametic chimerism and Heterochromia. After questioning her father she learns she had a twin brother who died in the womb. Casey begins to suspect that the spirit haunting her is the soul of her dead twin wanting to be born so it can transfer to the world of the living.
Casey meets a woman named Sofi, who is revealed to be her grandmother. Sofi explains that she had a twin brother who was killed in Nazi experiments in Auschwitz when they were both just children during World War II. The boy was brought back to life by a dybbuk who intended to use his body as a portal into the world of the living. Sofi killed her twin to stop the dybbuk, and now it haunts her family for revenge. Sofi refers Casey to Rabbi Sendak who can perform a Jewish exorcism to remove the dybbuk. Rabbi Sendak doesn't believe her at first until he sees a dog with its head twisted upside down in his synagogue. During this time, the dybbuk kills Sofi and Romy, and Casey realizes it's getting stronger.
The exorcism is performed, but things go awry as the dybbuk tries to stop Rabbi Sendak from completing the ritual. Several people are wounded, and others are killed. The exorcism is finally completed, and the dybbuk is drawn back from the human world. Casey's boyfriend, Mark, gets possessed by the dybbuk and is severely wounded when Casey stabs him in the jugular vein to stop him from killing her and later dies with Casey by his side. Casey mourns him, and she soon finds out that she is pregnant by him, with twins.
ENERIO G. PETARCO
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Peter Parker has begun to feel secure in his life and plans to propose to Mary Jane. While Peter and Mary Jane are on a date, a small meteorite crashes nearby, and an extraterrestrial symbiote attaches itself to Peter's moped. Meanwhile, escaped convict Flint Marko falls into a particle accelerator that fuses his body with the surrounding sand. The result allows him to shape shift at will, becoming the Sandman. Peter's best friend, Harry Osborn, who seeks vengeance for his father's death, which he believes Peter caused, attacks him. During the scuffle, Harry injures his head and suffers from partial amnesia, making him forget his vendetta.
Later, during a festival honoring Spider-Man for saving Gwen Stacy's life, Sandman attempts to rob an armored car, and overpowers Spider-Man. Gwen's father, police officer Captain Stacy, later informs Peter and Aunt May that Marko is the one who killed Ben Parker. A vengeful Peter waits for Marko to strike again. The symbiote bonds with his costume while he is asleep; Peter discovers that not only has his costume changed, but his powers have been enhanced as well. The black suit brings out the more vengeful, insensitive, and arrogant side of Peter's personality, exemplified by a near-lethal attack on Sandman during a battle.
The shift in Peter's personality alienates Mary Jane, whose career is floundering, and she finds solace with Harry. Harry recovers from his amnesia and, urged on by an apparition of his dead father, forces Mary Jane to break up with Peter. After Mary Jane leaves Peter, stating she is in love with another man, Harry meets him at a restaurant and claims to be the other man. Later, Peter finds him at the Osborn mansion. With the help of the black suit, Peter is victorious in a brutal fight, which leaves Harry's face disfigured. Influenced by the suit, Peter exposes and humiliates Eddie Brock, a rival freelance photographer, who has sold fake pictures to The Daily Bugle supposedly showing Spider-Man to be a criminal. Meanwhile, Sandman recovers from his injuries, and swears revenge on Spider-Man.
In an effort to make Mary Jane jealous, Peter brings Gwen to the nightclub where Mary Jane works. He gets into a fight with the club's bouncers and unintentionally shoves Mary Jane to the floor. Peter realizes the symbiote-suit is changing him for the worse. He runs out of the nightclub and goes to a church bell tower to dispose of it. Initially he is unable to remove the suit, but the sound of the church bell weakens the symbiote, enabling Peter to break free. Eddie Brock is at the same church praying for Peter's death when the symbiote falls from the tower and takes over his body. The newly-empowered Eddie finds Sandman and suggests joining forces to destroy Spider-Man.
The pair put Mary Jane in a taxicab and hang it from a gigantic symbiote web. Peter approaches Harry for help, but is turned down. However, Harry learns the truth about his father's death from his butler Bernard, and arrives in time to rescue Peter; they form an alliance against the two villains. As the fight progresses, Eddie attempts to impale Peter with Harry's glider, but Harry jumps in the way and is fatally wounded. Peter recalls how the church bell's toll weakened the symbiote, and frees Eddie from it by clanging several pipes together to make sonic vibrations. Peter throws a pumpkin bomb at the symbiote just as Eddie attempts to rebond with it, causing both to be destroyed in the resulting explosion.
After the battle, Marko recovers and tells Peter that he had no intention of killing Ben Parker, and that it was an accident born out of a desperate attempt to save his daughter's life. Peter forgives Marko, who dissipates and floats away to his daughter. Peter and Harry forgive each other before Harry dies with Mary Jane and Peter at his side. After Harry's funeral, Peter and Mary Jane begin to mend their relationship.
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The movie opens up with Dominic Toretto and his new crew hijacking fuel tankers in the Dominican Republic. The crew consists of Letty, Rico, Tego and Han Lue. After a heist, Dominic believes that the trail is too hot and leaves Letty to go elsewhere. While he is in Panama City, Toretto gets a call from his sister Mia. She tells him that Letty has been murdered. Dom heads back to Los Angeles and examines the car crash that Letty was in and finds traces of nitromethane. Dom then goes to the only car mechanic that uses nitromethane and coerces him into giving him the name David Park, the man who ordered the fuel.
Meanwhile, FBI agent Brian O'Conner is trying to track down a drug dealer named Arturo Braga. His search leads him to David Park. Dom arrives at Park's apartment first and hangs him out of the window by his ankles before letting go. Brian, who was also on his way to Park's place, saves Park and Park becomes the FBI's new informant. Park gets Brian into a street race through Los Angeles; the winner will become the last driver on a team that traffics heroin between the United States-Mexico border for Braga. Dom also shows up to race. At the end, Dom and Brian are neck-and-neck, and Dom wins when he hits Brian's rear fender and causes him to spin out. Brian uses his power as an FBI agent to arrest another driver, Dwight Mueller, and takes his place on the team.
The day after, the team meets Fenix, one of Braga's men. It was revealed to Dom that Fenix was the person who murdered Letty. They drive across the border, using underground tunnels to avoid detection. Brian had prior knowledge that after the heroin was delivered Braga ordered the drivers to be killed (he was able to plant Letty undercover to capture Braga in exchange for Dom's freedom when she was murdered), and after a tense stand-off, Dom blows up his car to distract Braga's men and Brian hijacks a Hummer with USD $60 million worth of heroin. Both Dom and Brian drive back to Los Angeles. They hide the heroin in a police impound lot. The next day, Brian tells his superiors that he can lure Braga into a trap, forcing him to personally show up to exchange money for the heroin, so that the police can arrest him. He says he will do this if they will pardon Dom. At the drop site, however, the man who claims to be Braga is a decoy and Campos, the real Braga, escapes and flees to Mexico.
Brian and Dom head out to Mexico on their own to catch Braga. They find him at a church and apprehend him. As Braga's henchmen come down to rescue their leader, Brian and Dom drive through the underground tunnels back to the United States. During the final moments of the chase, Brian crashes his car and is injured after being T-boned by Fenix at the end of the tunnel. Before Fenix can kill Brian, Dom, who was not far behind, drives into and kills Fenix. As police and helicopters start streaming to the crash site on the U.S. side, Brian tells Dom to get out of there. Dom says he is tired of running. Despite Brian's request for clemency, the judge sentences Dom to 25 years to life. In the last scene of the movie, Dom boards a prison bus that will take him to Lompoc penitentiary. As the bus drives down the road, Mia and Brian, along with Tego and Rico (who assisted in the Dominican Republic heists), arrive in their cars to intercept it.
Donard Rasonabe
ReplyDeleteThe novels revolve around Harry Potter, an orphan who discovers that he is a wizard at the age of eleven.Wizard ability is inborn, but children are sent to wizarding school to learn the magical skills necessary to succeed in the wizarding world Harry is invited to attend the boarding school called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Each book chronicles one year in Harry's life, and most of the events take place at Hogwarts. As he struggles through adolescence, Harry learns to overcome many magical, social and emotional hurdles.
MAE ANN O. VELASQUEZ.
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Seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan moves to Forks, a small town near Washington state's rugged coast, to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother remarries to a minor league baseball player. She is quickly befriended by many students at her new high school, but she is intrigued by the mysterious and aloof Cullen siblings. Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in biology class on her first day of school; he appears to be disgusted by her, much to Bella's confusion. A few days later, Bella is nearly struck by a van in the school parking lot. Edward inexplicably moves from some feet away and stops the vehicle with his hand. He later refuses to explain this act to Bella and warns her against befriending him.
After much research, Bella eventually discovers that Edward is a vampire, though he only consumes animal blood. The pair fall in love and Edward introduces Bella to his vampire family, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie. Soon after, three nomadic vampires—James, Victoria, and Laurent—arrive. James, a tracker vampire, is intrigued by Edward's protectiveness over a human and wants to hunt Bella for sport. Edward and his family risk their lives to protect her, but James tracks Bella to Phoenix where she is hiding and lures her into a trap by claiming he is holding her mother hostage. James attacks Bella and bites her wrist, but Edward, along with the other Cullen family members, arrives before he can kill her. James is destroyed, and Edward sucks James's venom from Bella's wrist, preventing her from becoming a vampire. A severely injured Bella is taken to a hospital. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their school prom. While there, Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses. The film ends with Victoria secretly watching the pair dancing, plotting revenge for her lover James' murder.
"The land before time"
ReplyDeleteThis is a cartoon movie which is a product of dreamworks production. This movie is about the life of five young dinosaurs who make there journey from the test of the world. And it tells about how different kind of world we have in the past time compared from today. The story begins when a pitty a young boy dinosaur started to find his parents through finding the very beautiful place which his mother and father told him. because of a volcanic eruption pitty was separated from his parents in his journey he met friends who are also dinosaur and they will be the best friend of pitty who will join him in his journey. In their journey they meet many problems and troubles which laid them to strengthen their friendship and coordination to each other in order to surpass this difficulties at the end they find the place which the parents of pitty told him. Then they find their parents in that place which is like a paradise in the earth. and they live happily ever after.
Why i like this movie:
I choose this movie because it reminds me how important friends are in our life. It also tell us that their are no impossible things that we cannot do when we have the determination to reach this goal. Also by the help of our friends and parents and above all our savior Jesus Christ.
Donald Keven J. Estremos
"BLEACH THE MOVIE"
ReplyDeleteA valuable artifact known as the "king's seal" is stolen by a mysterious group. Hitsugaya Toushiro, the 10th division captain and his comrades were charged to guard this powerful and mysterious king's seal as it is moved from one location to the other,but a surprise attack by an unknown assailant from Hitsugaya's past decimates to defense and the king's seal disappears. Wounded and framed for crimes he did not commit. After the incident, Seiretei declares Hitsugaya a traitor and orders to capture and execute him. Hitsugaya defects from his title and pursues the thief, reaching into memories from his past for dues. the soul society looks for the answers to the location of the king's seal and who their enemy could be. It's up to Ichigo, and Rukia to clear the captain's name.
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Gumapac Leo C.
aNimELoVeR
NARUTO
ReplyDelete12 years ago, A nine-tailed demon fox attacked the shinobi village of konohagakure(The village of the Hidden Leaf). The Kyubi was considered so powerful, it was treated as a natural disaster in mythology. With single whip one of his nine tails. He could flatten mountains and cause tsunamis hit the shore. Then came one shinobi to seal the monster at the cost of his own life. That shinobi was the fourth hokage(Yondaime Hokage or Minato Namikaze).
12 years after the incident,naruto is an super-active kid. who trains to become a ninja. Naruto was hated with passion by many of the older villagers. However Naruto felt loneliness and sadness in his life, a pain that isn`t normal. He want to be acknowledged and pledged on becoming hokage, the title of referring the strongest ninja of the country. But he has a long way to go and meet many people he call friends.
Khevin Jan B. Busano
"GRIEF RELIEF"
ReplyDeleteDavid fajgenbaum remembers the exact date that his life imploded:july 17,2003.it was a warm evening in washington,D.C., and the 18-year-old freshman had just finished his first football practice at Georgetown University."it was awesome,"the former quarterback recalls.He called his parent in Raleigh,North Carolina,to let them know how well thengs were going.David's dad,an orthopedic surgeon,was oddly subdued. Finally,in a soft voice,he said,"son,your mom has brain cancer."I went from being happier than i'd ever been to total shock",says david.rushing home,he announced he was dropping out of college to support his mother through her illness.but anna marie fajgenbaum [pronounced"fay-gen-baum"],just 52 years old and diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma,was adamant that her son return to georgetown.David threw himself into his studies and grew increasingly isolated."i felt i was the only person on campus with a sick parent.when everyone's sitting around laughing and talking,you don't bring up your mother's latestMRI or say you've been crying."one october evening when David was home visiting,anna marie woke up weeping.she was worried about david and his two sisters."mom,i'm going to be okey,David assured her.then,out of the blue,he said,"and im going to help other kids cope with loss."a smile spread across his mother's face.he decided on a support group on his mom's initials,AMF.When anna marie died later that month,david started hearing from friends who'd never known his mom was sick.some had gone through the same experience.the mother of one of my best friends had also died of a brain tumor,"says david."how did we not know that?because we didn't talk about it."david graduated from georgetown last year and is studying public health at the University of oxford.Now 23,he plans to become an oncologist and will attend medical school at the University of pennsylvania in the fall.the National Student of ailing Mothers and Fathers Support Network[studentsofamf.org]has 2,000 participants on 23 capuses."Thes organization,"says David, "is about one thing:being there for one another.and every time i see those initials -AMF- i see my mom,and i know i am honoring her by helping others.
PJ LAPUENTE
" NARUTO"
ReplyDeleteI am a addict,i enjoy watching movies,different TV shows either Japanese,Taiwanese or Korean novels,and of course my favorite cartons,i brought a lot of VCD'S to watch,actually,me and my cousin had a collection of carton movies.But this one carton is very special,its just daily show but it really captured my heart,it's naruto.You can watch it daily.before,it is wired weekdays 4:30-5pm but now it has a new times lot its 9:30-10am also during weekdays.
Let me tell you same reason,i had with then.i watch naruto because in that TV show ,i found excitement ,true and love and also values,a simple act of kindness,bravery,friendliness and the love for countrymen.funny and unbelievable,inst it?and if you'd ever watch naruto shippuder,that tym,they had grow up.naruto had a crush on sakura {naruto's companion and a medical ninja of konuha}.sadly,sakura ignored naruto's feeling because she had a crush on utchija saski {also a ninja of konuha}.naruto and saski had a rivalry en terms of power,strength and love,maybe.naruto is very bully,it really fits his name izumaki.he loves strolling at the forest and practice different ninja techniques instead of sending himself to school,but he is very brave,his just like us Filipinos.he loves taking risks same as our"bahala na"attitude,and he would ever sacrifice for his friends and country,konuha.he also motivates his group mates,when they're loosing hope and mostly naruto love and trust his friends truly.every time they have a mission,he always sees to it that his companions are safe.sometimes his enemies wound discriminate him because he had only one technique mastered,kagebuchin technique,where he can be able to multiply himself as much his fight,not because he's a good fighter,but because he believes in himself and his abilities,also because he has a dream,to become a wokagi{ruler of the country},and he dedicates his life to save konuha and it's people.That's probably the reason why i like watching naruto,and also because they have funny faces too.
PANTINOPLE,M.