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Guru - Majestic Cinema will bring `Love Guru' very soon featuring
Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Mike Myers. Darren Roanoke (Romany
Malco), the star player of the Toronto Maple Leafs, is suffering from
stress because his wife, Prudence Roanoke (Meagan Good), has left him
for the Los Angeles Kings French-Canadian goaltender Jacques "Le Coq"
Grand (Justin Timberlake).
The stress causes his hand to shake, which affects his hockey
performance. Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) enlists the support of Guru
Maurice Pitka (Mike Myers) to help Darren with his stress so that the
team can hopefully break their losing streak. In addition to getting a
considerable payment, Pitka would be invited to Oprah Winfrey's show,
which he hopes would help him become the Guru, a place currently held by
Deepak Chopra.
Pitka succeeds, but feels no need any more to become more important
is his love for Bullard. However, in connection with a vow, Guru
Tugginmypudha gave him a chastity belt. Pitka returns to Tugginmypudha
to have it removed.
Tugginmypudha agrees that it can be removed now, and explains how to
do that; to Pitka's surprise no key is needed. A funny comedy to keep
you entertained will reveal soon at the Majestic Cinema!
 Dragon
Ball - Liberty Cinema is showing Dragon Ball which is tipped to
screen next month with the world premiere. The Goku (Justin Chatwin)
goes on a journey to find Master Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat) and gather the
seven mystical Dragon Balls before the evil Lord Piccolo (James Marsters)
does so. Along his way, he meets Bulma (Emmy Rossum) who then joins him
to help him in his mission.
When he arrived at Roshi's place, he is not welcomed with an embrace
but has to fight Roshi. Roshi soon learns that Goku is the grandson of
Gohan (Randall Duk Kim) and thus trains him to prepare him for the
ultimate battle with Lord Piccolo to prevent him from collecting the
powerful Dragon Balls.
Slumdog Millionaire - Majestic Cinema will reveal this
Oscar-winning movie next month at their cinema which is sure to take
local cinema patronisers by storm. 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a 2008
British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and
co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the
Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q &
A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. After screenings at
the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival,
Slumdog Millionaire initially had a limited North American release on 12
November 2008 by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, to
critical acclaim and awards success.
'Slumdog Millionaire' was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009
and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture and
Best Director. It also won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden
Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film. Despite the film's
success, it is the subject of controversy concerning its portrayals of
Indians and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors. Catch
Majestic bringing this award-winning movie to Sri Lanka soon!
Although Galileo made an immense contribution to modern science with
his telescope experiments the earliest record of the telescope comes
from the Netherlands, in 1608. But it was the further development of
this original invention by Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen and Jacob
Metius, by Galileo Galilei that set in motion one of the greatest
scientific revolutions of all times.
 Against
a backdrop of constant rivalry between the church and the scholars,
Galileo opted for a subtler method to tweak the intelligence of the rich
and powerful by hosting the world's first stargazing parties, in Piazza
San Marco in Venice and elsewhere. It's said that a picture is worth a
thousand words. For the first time people saw the true splendor of the
universe - that the universe was not as perfect as their religious
leaders claimed.
By 1610 he had discovered three of Jupiter's moons and eventually a
fourth now called Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The moons are also
known as the Galilean Satellites today, in honor of their discoverer.
Other discoveries by Galileo include the phases of Venus, lunar
mountains and craters and that the Milky Way was '...a mass of
innumerable stars...'
Galileo's findings confirmed Copernicus' model of a heliocentric
Solar System - that all the planets were revolving around the Sun and
not the Earth as it was originally believed, to the Church's outrage. By
1633 he was tried and convicted and a ban was imposed on the publication
of any of his works. He ultimately had to die while still under house
arrest. Galileo always believed that 'the purpose of the Church is not
to determine how the heavens go, but to determine how to go to heaven.'
While philosophers before him wrecked their brains over 'why' things
moved he worked to find 'how' things moved. Galileo firmly believed that
the secrets of the universe could be unveiled only through the universal
language of mathematics. In spite of the Church's attempt to stifle
curiosity and discourage further research into astronomy many - like
Isaac Newton - followed in Galileo's footsteps.
Galileo proved that the Earth is not distinct from the universe, but
part of it, through his experiments using his telescope with a
magnification of 32 times. Today telescopes hundred million times more
sensitive than Galileo's exist; the Hubble Space Telescope is one such
example. But the underlying blueprint has remained the same since 1608,
a legacy left behind by the legendary pioneer stargazer. - Sajitha |
