This fall a remake of the 1970s clas­sic Bionic Woman pre­mieres on NBC. Michelle Ryan, who plays the Bionic Woman, obvi­ously likes that role very much accord­ing to some reports on the web. Actu­ally, she’s not my type but I did like the orig­i­nal and I hope I will like the remake, so the actor’s hot­ness isn’t a decid­ing fac­tor here. Any­way, let’s take a look at the plot:

Jaime Wells Som­mers (Ryan) is a hard-working woman work­ing as a bar­tender. She is respon­si­ble for the care of her younger sis­ter too. By and large, she lives a nor­mal life. How­ever, this changes when she is hit by a car and gravely injured. Her boyfriend just takes her away to a secret facil­ity where an exper­i­men­tal and top secret pro­ce­dure is per­formed on her, which results in Jaime becom­ing the Bionic Woman. Unfor­tu­nately, this sal­va­tion comes at a steep price.

Of course, NBC has already whipped up a site with some infor­ma­tion on the show includ­ing some videos and images. Be sure not to miss the pre­miere on Sep­tem­ber 26th, 8/9c. I’m look­ing for­ward to watch­ing the show and I really hope it’s good.

Last Fri­day, we had to bury my grandma who died on the 23rd of August aged 85. Every­body includ­ing me was glad that she finally left this world after some years of suf­fer­ing. I wasn’t there in the end but every fam­ily mem­ber agreed that it’s good her suf­fer­ing finally stopped. Of course, I too am glad it’s over. The funeral was really some­thing, though. Lots of peo­ple and lots of flow­ers. I didn’t blend into the whole cer­e­mony although I played my part almost to per­fec­tion. It wasn’t much, just read­ing some sort of cur­ricu­lum vitae, which took me no more than four minutes.

From the very begin­ning I noticed how much I’ve changed and how much I resent some cus­toms still pop­u­lar with the peo­ple. But there has been a … shift in why peo­ple are cling­ing to their cus­toms. The old ones truly believe in what they do and there’s no deny­ing them. The younger peo­ple still fol­low the rules but only because it is expected. Some do not even believe in the things they do and say and oth­ers pick one or two suit­able things out of the whole crop and believe in them while dis­re­gard­ing the rest. As you can imag­ine, I did stick out because I stood apart. I had the guts to break with some cus­toms, thanks to my liv­ing apart from the peo­ple in my village.

For a sec­ond I thought about pleas­ing them, pre­tend­ing to be one of them. I dis­missed the thought shortly after because by doing so I’d for­ever be the grand­son of her. The son of my par­ents. I’d always have been mea­sured by their stan­dards and they wouldn’t have seen me as the per­son I am but rather the per­son I should be in their eyes. Stand­ing up to them by pub­licly demon­strat­ing that I honor their cus­toms but in the same time prov­ing that they aren’t mine meant much to me. Accord­ing to the sub­tle change in the peo­ple talk­ing to me, I did suc­ceed. I’m sad that it took such an occa­sion to make them understand.

… to pro­tect your fam­ily? That’s the ques­tion Kevin Bacon has to answer in Death Sen­tence. Obvi­ously, Nick Hume (Bacon) comes to the con­clu­sion that under the given cir­cum­stances there are no lim­its. Pro­tect­ing one’s fam­ily even jus­ti­fies killing oth­ers, as shown by the trailer. The film should be in the­aters on 31st August, 2007. As usual, there’s a nice trailer avail­able over at Apple.

I don’t know about you but I think I’d turn into some­thing like Nick Hume myself. I do under­stand his moti­va­tion and I know it’s against the law. On the other hand, nei­ther the law nor I are with­out flaws. I don’t think I’d ever kill a human being out of vengeance but doing so for self-preservation and the pro­tec­tion of my fam­ily sounds per­fectly rea­son­able. Well, that’s quite some­thing to pon­der about if I should ever come into a posi­tion like that. I seri­ously hope I never will. Accord­ing to the crime rate in my coun­try I shouldn’t fear.

Once again Ben­jamin Gates (Nico­las Cage) is on they way try­ing to solve mys­tery from ages long past. This time around Gates and his team are look­ing to dis­cover the truth behind the assas­si­na­tion of Abra­ham Lin­coln. To be more pre­cise, they want to uncover the mys­tery within the 18 pages miss­ing from John Wilkes Booth’s diary. In order to do so, they have to obtain the President’s Book of Secrets which is said to con­tain all kind of answers to unsolved mys­ter­ies – the truth behind the JFK con­spir­acy or the famous Area 51, for instance. Either way, I really loved National Trea­sure and I bet I’m gonna like the sequel too.

Teaser:

Trailer:

If you’re look­ing for HD con­tent, try Apple. Of course, you may wanna take a look at the offi­cial site. Cur­rently, the movie is set to be released on 21st Decem­ber 2007.