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Chelsea Football ClubClub Details:- Club Name: Chelsea Football Club Nicknames: The Blues, The PensionersGround / Stadium: Ground: Stamford Bridge, London, England Capacity: 42,360Founded: 1905Notable Staff:- Manager: Avram Grant Owner: Roman Abramovich Chairman: Bruce BuckEnglish Premiership Champions: 1954-55, 2004-05, 2005-06FA Cup Winners: 1970, 1997, 2000, 2007League Cup Winners: 1965, 1998, 2005, 2007Other Honours: Charity Shield/Community Shield: 1955, 2000, 2005 European Cup Winners' Cup: 1971, 1998 European Super Cup: 1998About Chelsea Football Club: Established in 1905 Chelsea have spent most of their history in the top flight of English Football. Based in London Chelsea play their matches at Stamford Bridge and are rivals with fellow neighbours Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham. In the early years Chelsea achieved little success however they grabbed the attention of the masses by signing big name players. A trait which some would argue continues today with the seemingly never-ending backing of Russian owner Roman Abramovich.Chelsea made little impact on English Football during the inter-war years but during the 1950s modernisation of the club led to their lifting the League Championship for the 1954/1955 season. During the 1960s Chelsea challenged for honours with a young talented side eager to impress but failed to win any trophies despite several near misses.In the 1970s and 1980s the club suffered through a period of financial instability caused by an ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge. Money worries coupled with the emergence of a hooligan element among supporters plagued the club throughout the 1980s. The team itself was at one of its lowest ebbs coming close to relegation to the Third Division. However things began to change and with a new team put together for a nominal outlay Chelsea secured the Second Division title in the 1983-1984 season and earned promotion back to the top flight.Chelsea suffered relegation in 1988 but bounced back to the top division immediately and attempted to secure themselves as a constant fixture in the First Division. With the appointment of Rudd Gullitt as player-manager in 1996 the fortunes of the club began to change with the influx of several top-class international players such as Gianfranco Zola. Chelsea secured the FA club in 1997 and began to establish themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the top flight. Claudio Ranieri guided the club to Champions League qualification in 2002-2003 and things were looking good for the London team.Chelsea were sold to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich in June 2003 for £140 million and despite over £100 million being spent on new players Ranieri was unable to secure any trophies. Ranieri was duly replaced by Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho. Mourinho then led the club to great success evidenced by lifting the Premiership title in 2005 and 2006, Chelsea becoming only the fifth team to win back to back championships since the Second World War.
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Avril Lavigne:-Born: September 27, 1984 - Belleville, Ontario, CanadaQuote From Avril Lavigne: "i dont want to be compared to Britney, Ashlee, Hilary or Lindsay. i want to be compared to me."Avril Lavigne Trivia Fact: Avril Lavigne was the youngest female artist ever to have a #1 album in the U.K.Early Years: Avril Lavigne grew up in the small town of Napanee, Ontario. She was discovered by her first manager singing country songs in a bookstore in Kingston, Ontario. At the age of 16 Avril came to the attention of Arista records head L.A. Reid, and she was offered a recording contract.Creating 'Let Go,' Avril Lavigne's First Album: With her new recording contract, Avril Lavigne moved to New York City. She was surrounded by some of the top songwriters and producers in the music business. Unfortunately, she was disappointed with her co-songwriters. Lavigne moved to Los Angeles and connected with Cliff Magness and the Matrix songwriting team. They helped put together the album Let Go.Pop Success: Let Go, released in 2002, when Avril Lavigne was 17, was nearly an instant hit. Within 6 months the album sold over 4 million copies in the U.S. "Complicated," the album's first single, reached #2 on the pop singles chart. "Sk8erboi," the followup, reached the top 10 as well and helped hone Lavigne's self-chosen image as a skater punk. She soon found herself spearheading a wave of independent young female singers and setting fashion trends. Ultimately Let Go sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.For the followup album Under My Skin, released in 2004, Avril Lavigne worked extensively with Canadian songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk. She also worked with three producers for the album: Butch Walker of the Marvelous 3, Raine Maida, Kreviazuk's husband, and Don Gilmore, producer of Good Charlotte and Linkin Park. The result was an album that sounded more mature and polished than Let Go. Under My Skin debuted at the top of the pop albums chart and included "My Happy Ending," another top 10 hit single.In 2005, Avril Lavigne announced her engagement To Deryck Whibley of the punk pop group Sum 41. After the announcement Whibley headed to Europe to tour with his group while Lavigne continued her Bonez Tour through North America.
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days "Greeted with universal approval from the critics, an exceptional, masterful piece of film-making that combines social realism, political comment and nail-biting tension" - Wendy IdeBabel "A stunning piece of cinema that hinges on one reckless moment of childish stupidity. The most exhilarating Oscar contender by a long stretch" - James ChristopherBlade Runner: The Final Cut "It has taken 25 years, three cinema edits and possibly a round trip to Mars for Ridley Scott to arrive with the definitive version of his sci-fi masterpiece" - James ChristopherThe Seventh Seal "Ingmar Bergman’s black and white masterpiece has matured like a great wine over 50 years [and had a welcome re-release a month before the director's death]" - James Christopher300 "A high-speed ride into the white heat of the battle of Thermopylae in 480BC. The result is something fantastic, voluptuous, bloody, ferocious and sublime" - Cosmo Landesman3:10 to Yuma "A thrill-filled ride across a flyblown dustbowl where the heroes are iconic, unwashed and deadly. They spit out killer lines like bullets" - Wendy Ide12:08 East Of Bucharest "Droll delight that questions the nature of historical record and the realities of postcommunist Romania with a slyly comic and disarmingly self-mocking tone" - Wendy IdeAlpha Dog "Cynics will doubtless fear the film for all the wrong reasons. They will fume about its credibility. They will wonder about the phenomenal number of tattoos on show" - James ChristopherAmerican Gangster "A gangster epic from Ridley Scott is no Goodfellas, but it has all the right ingredients for a fine crime flick" - Wendy IdeAnd When Did You Last See Your Father? "Blake Morrison’s delicate tear-jerking memoir stars Firth as the embittered son Blake, and Broadbent as the garrulous, insensitive father" - Kevin MaherThe Assassination of Jesse James "It's 1881 and when Brad Pitt swaggers into view, dressed from head to toe in black, we know we are in the presence of a superior bastard" - James ChristopherAtonement "Starry, sexy and unmistakably British, Atonement is the kind of film that comes along all too rarely" - Wendy IdeBeowulf "The dreary bête noire of English literature students, is given a surprisingly potent makeover by its co-writers Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman" - Kevin MaherBlack Book "Paul Verhoeven’s Second World War thriller is a remarkable departure for a director best known for Robocop and Basic Instinct" - James ChristopherBlame It on Fidel "Director Julie Gavras has created a very funny and moving look at the clash between the personal, the political and parental" - Cosmo LandesmanBobby "An eloquent requiem for what might have been, and a tragic reminder of how much that bullet cost" - James ChristopherThe Bourne Ultimatum "The latest Jason Bourne film leaves you truly shaken and stirred – but why is he reading The Guardian?" - Cosmo LandesmanBlue Blood "This assured and highly entertaining film could hold its own against pretty much any sporting documentary you care to name" - Wendy IdeThe Brave One "We haven’t seen Jodie Foster in a big dramatic role that really had some power to it since The Silence of the Lambs" - Cosmo LandesmanBridge to Terabithia "This is a remarkable film for children – and pretty powerful for adults. A sudden and unexpected twist should have all the family weeping together" - Cosmo LandesmanClimates "It’s a handsomely photographed film. Minutely observed, painfully honest and acutely perceptive, this is a mournful masterpiece" - Wendy IdeControl "By fateful coincidence, the Cannes debut of Corbijn’s cinematic homage to Ian Curtis fell just one day short of the anniversary of his suicide" - Stephen DaltonThe Counterfeiters "Germany seems to be producing a wealth of quality drama at the moment, the latest being a lean, urgent piece based on a real-life Second World War story" - Wendy IdeCurse of the Golden Flower "Zhang Yimou’s latest has spectacular, beautified action of the sort he delivered in Hero and House of Flying Daggers, combined with over-the-top melodrama" - Edward PorterThe Darjeeling Limited "It may not have you weeping in the aisles, but it will be with you for days after you see it" - Kevin MaherDays of Glory "Bouchareb’s film carries its message with dignity and a restraint that never dominates the storytelling. The result is the most powerful war film of the year" - Wendy IdeThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly "All of Julian Schnabel’s films have been about the struggle to create art. This is a gorgeously atmospheric and deeply affecting piece of work" - Wendy IdeDracula "Hammer’s 1958 account of the blood-sucking Transylvanian is back in cinemas, in a restored print, for Hallowe’en" - Edward PorterEarth "Wondrous footage from the BBC natural-history series Planet Earth has been remixed to create this documentary feature" - Edward PorterEastern Promises "A film about the horror and kindness of strangers, and an industry that enslaves young lives. Cronenberg doesn’t paint theme-parks; this is the curb-crawling reality" - James ChristopherEnchanted "I haven’t been as delighted and surprised by an old-fashioned Disney tale since I was a child" - James ChristopherFar North "Throw another log on to the fire because the story I’m about to tell blows as cold as an Arctic wind. The tale begins with a curse" - James ChristopherFlanders "The most potent antidote to a Bruce Willis myth that you could possibly inject. An extraordinary and raw piece of work" - James ChristopherFor Your Consideration "Christopher Guest’s timely comedy about the turmoil of winning an Oscar nomination is tinged with disgust and despair" - Wendy IdeFunny Ha Ha "The humour is never forced and the dialogue is completely persuasive. Bujalski is one of the most original film-makers of his generation" - Wendy IdeFur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus "Perhaps the biggest surprise is that it is the male director of Secretary who has painted this almost feminist fairytale of Arbus" - James ChristopherThe Golden Compass "That rarest of blockbuster beasts: a film that stretches children’s imaginations and stimulates their intelligence with important ideas and issues" - Cosmo LandesmanThe Golden Door "Gorgeous to look at, unfashionably optimistic and quirkily seductive, certainly one of my favourite releases of the year so far" - Wendy IdeHairspray "John Travolta has made plenty of mistakes as an actor, but he has rejected every film role that could tarnish his 1970s musical legacy" - James ChristopherHalf Nelson "Ryan Gosling gives one of the outstanding performances that only turn up every 10 years or so. A special film, rich with heart and laced with a bittersweet melancholy" - Cosmo LandesmanHallam Foe "It’s a testament to Jamie Bell’s growing talent that we can accept this half-crazed boy in a badger-skin headdress and warpaint as the lead" - Wendy IdeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix "The formulaic structure notwithstanding, the Potter films continue to be one of the most visually inventive and meticulously detailed franchises" - Wendy IdeThe Hitcher "So similar to the 1986 original you wonder why Meyers bothered. The answer is simple. The ingredients still scare us 20 years on" - James ChristopherThe Hoax "To describe Clifford Irving as a consummate liar would be an understatement. The man elevated bulls*** into an art form" - Wendy IdeHot Fuzz "Pegg and Wright dispense lines crafted from purest comedy gold amongst the cast like sweets. Even the briefest cameo appearance gets a laugh" - Wendy IdeI Don’t Want to Sleep Alone "Tsai Ming-Liang brings a dreamlike beauty to his native Malaysia: there’s a languid sensuality to the story" - Wendy IdeI'm Not There "Todd Haynes’s film about Bob Dylan is one of the greatest rock’n’roll swindles of all time. The real star is Cate Blanchett" - James ChristopherIn The Shadow of the Moon "For those who grew up with the Moon landings already a fait accompli, the film presses home the excitement, wonder and fear of an incredible journey" - Holden FrithInfamous "How many Truman Capotes does it take to nail the myth? Toby Jones defies the odds with an extraordinary impersonation of the author" - James ChristopherInto The Wild "I’ve always loathed Penn’s films, and suspected that they were given special praise because people love his veneer of I-hate-Hollywood hipness"- Cosmo LandesmanJindabyne "The Australian director Ray Lawrence turns a murder chiller into a debate about right and wrong within a marriage" - Wendy IdeKnocked Up "The story is hardly revolutionary – boy meets girl, boy gets girl pregnant, and life as we know it is thrown into turmoil" - Kevin MaherThe Last King of Scotland "Forest Whitaker not only plays Idi Amin, the most celebrated lunatic in African history, he is half-convinced he actually is him" - James ChristopherLast Tango in Paris "Bernardo Bertolucci’s erotic masterpiece - utterly dominated by a bullish Marlon Brando - still has the unnerving power to shock after 35 years" - James ChristopherLetters from Iwo Jima "You suspect Eastwood has a sneaking respect for the heroism of the Japanese, who, outnumbered and knowing they would die, fought bravely to the end" - Cosmo LandesmanThe Lives of Others "Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar triumph should have earned him a firework display, a team of nubile cheerleaders and a nifty title to add to his preposterous name" - Wendy IdeMichael Clayton "Gorgeous George is wonderfully jaundiced as Michael Clayton, an amoral corporate lawyer who has made his name by defending the indefensible, discovers" - James ChristopherA Mighty Heart "Winterbottom’s harrowing film about Danny Pearl, the reporter kidnapped in Karachi, is a raw account about the frantic efforts to get him back" - James ChristopherMiss Potter "The thought that Beatrix Potter might actually have enjoyed a sex life will doubtless come as a terrible shock to Mrs Tiggywinkle’s many admirers" - James ChristopherMr Brooks "Kevin Costner has come over all Jekyll and Hyde in a preposterously enjoyable thriller. Lead us into temptation" - Cosmo LandesmanMutual Appreciation "Shaping up to be the voice of a generation that communicates through dead air and stuttering silences, Bujalski returns with his second film" - Wendy IdeOceans 13 "It’s one of the smuggest franchises in cinema, but it’s also a guilty pleasure to watch. You know the score" - James ChristopherOnce "A unique film: a low-budget, low-fi modern musical that is scruffy, soulful and full of beautiful tunes about battered hearts and bruised hopes" - Cosmo LandesmanRaging Bull "Reissued in a new print, Scorsese’s 1980 portrait of boxer Jake La Motta should still stop younger audiences unfamiliar with it in their tracks" - Peter WhittleRatatouille "Anton Ego, the restaurant critic of The Grim Eater, is one of the greatest performances of Peter O’Toole’s career" - James ChristopherReprise "A playfully irreverent take on traditional Scandinavian pursuits such as depression and suicide attempts" - Wendy IdeRescue Dawn "The work of a man who is tired of being a legend and wants to make a living. Herzog’s most accessible, and enjoyable, film to date" - Cosmo LandesmanThe Savages "A satisfying sense of a rite of passage: the characters we leave at the end of the film are still flawed, but perhaps more fulfilled" - Wendy IdeSherrybaby "Maggie Gyllenhaal’s most memorable performance since Secretary. Sherry’s problems are revealed with all the gradual menace of a horror film - Wendy IdeSicko "This is probably the best of Michael Moore’s films, in the sense that you don’t have to share his leftist politics to appreciate it" - Cosmo LandesmanThe Simpsons Movie Homer Simpson, the oafish paterfamilias of America’s favourite dysfunctional family, emerges from his big-screen debut a bona fide Hollywood action hero - James BoneSleeping Dogs "Goldthwait’s inspiration is to coax genuinely affecting performances. Hamilton is wonderful as the bruised victim of an oedipal insanity for truth" - James ChristopherSparkle "A bittersweet joy, the film is a delicate daisy chain of unexpected sex and East London manners" - James ChristopherStardust "A magical kitchen sink is the only thing not thrown into the mix in this comic fairy tale, mixing humour, action and sweetness" - Edward PorterSunshine "The only thing more dazzling than the star throbbing at the centre of our dying solar system is the design on Danny Boyle’s visually arresting sci-fi pic" - Wendy IdeSuperbad "Avoids the regular pitfalls of the teen comedy and instead manages to be funny, crude and charming at the same time" - Cosmo LandesmanTaking Liberties "I came out of this eloquent mugging exhausted and in despair. It’s a film that champions free speech by a director who once championed Blair" - James ChristopherTell No One "It’s so rare to find in a thriller a character whose fate you could possibly care about – but you hope against all reason for a happy ending" - Cosmo LandesmanTen Canoes "It’s a hypnotically slow-burning, magical piece of film-making, the spell occasionally disrupted by disarmingly ribald humour" - Wendy IdeThis Is England "I don’t think Shane Meadows set out to shoot a state-of-the-nation parable. This is by far his most personal and powerful testimony" - James ChristopherA Throw of the Dice "The BFI re-release of Franz Osten’s 1929 Indian melodrama is one of those rare moments when you feel blessed to be sitting in the stalls" - James ChristopherTwo Days in Paris "Reveals the darker side of Julie Delpy, a wonderfully acrid and bleakly funny persona that her previous collaborators (mostly men) have clearly been keen to suppress" - Kevin MaherThe Upside of Anger "Binder has created a funny and dramatically engaging study of a dysfunctional mother trying to hold her family together as she falls apart" - Cosmo LandesmanVenus "It’s a romantic comedy with a difference: instead of meeting cute, we get prostate cancer, impotence, incontinence and death." - Cosmo LandesmanThe Walker "Woody Harrelson plays Carter Page, a gay and witty socialite whose “job†involves squiring the wives of the rich and powerful" - James ChristopherWhen the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan "On this riotous six-week tour of the US, we are introduced to the fastest violinist in the world; the mother of 47 children; and the daughter of a singer so fat that she looked like a cathedral" - Wendy IdeWithnail & I "Timely reminder of how British movies can have impeccable writing, bravura performances and deft direction without once resorting to either sledge-hammer plotting or narrative inanity" - Kevin MaherThe Wicker Man "Back from the celluloid grave, and no doubt inspired by the failure of last year’s flaccid remake" - Kevin MaherZodiac "So appealing are its characters, and the performances of the cast, so we become participants in a riveting jigsaw puzzle" - Cosmo Landesman28 Weeks Later "A blockbuster horror that chimes noisily with local fears: immigration, needy strangers, feral disease and Draconian laws" - James ChristopherAir Guitar Nation "Instead of portraying her subjects as sad wannabes, Lipsitz focuses on the theatricality, camaraderie and fun that bind the air-guitar community" - Cosmo LandesmanBlades of Glory "The writing is as slick as the ice rink they train on. This is a script that puts an Olympic effort into making us laugh" - Wendy IdeMy Blueberry Nights "Cannes celebrates 60 dazzling years with an opener so beautifully painted you can forgive it any number of sins" - James ChristopherDeath Proof "Tarantino's film is an eloquent lament for a sleazy age when drive-in movies were the norm and flea pits were tacky and smoky" - James ChristopherDie Hard 4.0 "He may be bald and on the wrong side of 50, but in Die Hard 4.0 John McClane is a hero for our times" - James ChristopherThe Good German "The first 20 minutes of Soderbergh’s black and white thriller are an old-fashioned sensation. It’s like discovering the missing reel in Casablanca" - James ChristopherLa Vie En Rose "Watching Olivier Dahan’s film about the life of Edith Piaf, it occurred to me that if you’ve seen the life of one tragic artiste, you’ve seen ’em all" - Cosmo LandesmanRocky Balboa "Spare a tear for Sylvester Stallone. The vintage beefcake is back for one last shot in Rocky Balboa, and only the most stony-hearted critic would deny him" - James ChristopherThe Science of Sleep "Eccentric, indulgent and yet somehow disarmingly sweet. It’s also the kind of confidently original work that’s almost impossible to summarise" - Wendy IdeStraightheads "Has the pornographic ingredients of a first-rate cult thriller. It's cheap. And there is copious footage of Gillian Anderson's naked breasts" - James Christopher
Prison Break:-Premiered: August 29, 2005When is it on?: Mondays at 8pm on Fox (Check local listings).Starring: Dominic Purcell as Lincoln Burrows Wentworth Miller as Michael Scofield Amaury Nolasco as Fernando Sucre Marshall Allman as LJ Burrows Wade Williams as Captain Brad Bellick Robert Knepper as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell Sarah Wayne Callies as Dr. Sara Tancredi Bill Fichtner as Special Agent Alexander MahoneTrivia Fact #1: Stacy Keach, who portrays Warden Pope, spent several months in a prison in England (cocaine possession) and models his character after the warden of the prison.Trivia Fact #2: Much of season one was filmed in an actual prison.Trivia Fact #3: Wentworth Miller, like his character went to an Ivy League school.Dominic Purcell (Lincoln) on the Success of the Series: "I suspected it was going to be a success, I suspected that people would like it and watch it. I certainly didn't expect it to do what it's doing internationally. Internationally, the show is a phenomenon; it's one of the biggest shows in the world. When you have 135 million Chinese people downloading the show every Wednesday night, you know you're on to something. In the Asian territory, they can't get enough of family, brotherhood, loyalty and honor. Wentworth and I and the Prison Break guys are huge down that way. In America, our home, it's a huge, solid hit."Does the Cast Get Along Off the Set?: Dominic Purcell has this to say about how the cast gets along... "We all have a great deal of respect for one another. The cast is all men, we're not 22-year-old boys who are still trying to prove their worth. We know what we're about as people, we know where we're going, what we want and we're professionals."Synopsis: When Michael Scofield's (Wentworth Miller) brother, Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) is convicted of murdering the Vice-President's brother and sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit, he devises an elaborate plan to free his brother -- by taking away his own freedom.The Plan: Michael spends months preparing a plan to free his brother from execution by breaking him out of prison. Michael is a structural engineer (with an Ivy League education) and happens to have access to the blueprints of the prison, so he has the map tattooed on his entire body (it is disguised as drawings). Next step, getting himself incarcerated at the same prison, which he achieves by committing armed robbery.Once inside Fox River, Michael manages to not only get in touch with Lincoln, but gets himself involved in a prison work program, which allows him access to the areas he needs to complete his escape plan.In usual television fashion, all does not go according to plan and before he knows it, other convicts are involved in the escape plan. While this may have been a hindrance at first, Michael soon realizes that each convict offers some sort of tool to assist in the escape plan.In the season one finale, the group escapes, but Westmoreland died in the process.Season two concentrated on the convicts vying to beat each other to the $5 million Westmoreland had buried years ago. Abruzzi, Tweener, Haywire and Veronica lose their lives along the way. By the end of season two, Michael, Bellick, T-Bag and Mahone find themselves behind bars in a Panamanian prison!