Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Based in J.K.Rowling's Bestseller, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
"A journey over your imagination"- The Warner Bros. Company
Director: Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe, Michael Barnathan, Duncan Henderson.
Genre: Fantasy (adventure and drama)
Rating: 10
Release date: 2002
Duration: 2h34'
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry;
Rupert Grint as Ronnie;
Emma Watson as Hermione;
Staring: John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters.
Plot: In Harry´s 12th Birthday the Dursley were so selfish that everything Harry wanted is to come back to the Hogwarts School of Witchcratf and Wizardry. But in the time he's ready to go, a strange creature called Dobby came to give bad news and warns Harry can't go back because of a catastrophe.
And it really happens. He's got to stand by the arrogant teacher Lockhart, avoid Corin, ignore Gina Weasley and Moaning Myrtle's chush for him and so on. But the most horrible thing is the petrification of Muggle-born students. Who's causing this? Is it Draco Malfoy, more dangerous than ever? Maybe Hagrid, making clear it's misterious past attacking Muggles with a giant spider? Or the person attacking and causing fear, panic and pain in the school is the principal suspect of everyone... Harry Potter himself? How is he and his best friends going to discovery and finish this menace that scares all Hogwarts?

Based on JK rowling's novel this film is really fantastic and helps you to realze that every family has the same wealth: the love between it's members. No family is better than another and everyone deserves to live and be happy. We have to understand that we cannot suspect from faithful friends, too.
We can all se that it took a long time to do this movie. Most of the special effects are lights and bolts coming from wands. The flying can should have taken a long and annoying part of the work. Its was interesting to know about the production, made by the same directors and Richard Francis-Bruce. John Seale had to work with the photography, helped by Chris Columbus and Duncan Henderson. No one knows how did they make the car "fly".
Soon Duncan had the idea of creating stunning creatures, ghosts and persons, like Dobby, Almost Headless Nick, the Moaning Myrtle, Aragog, the basilisk and even Hagrid. Yes, it was hard, to not say it took MONTHS, annoying and frustrating months working. But now the film has finished, aii those characters are the greatest part of the Harry Potter saga.
All Harry Potter films can be compared to this one, but it turned out great. Harry Potter looks a lot like Eragon or Percy Jackson sagas. Every fantasy novel has a little piece of Harry Potter on it.
Hope you enjoy the movie!!!

Welcome to Belo Horizonte

At first in the blog, we'd like you to see our city. It's not as known as Paris, Londres or Ontario, but for us it's the most wonderful city.
It's a long way to arrive here (I hope you have slept well), but there are many things you should see. Minas Gerais is about 3000 feet over the sea level. Many roads like BR-040 lead to the town. Be warned, it's very big, you might get lost there if you don't have a guide or map. Here is a map from the town.
There are many interesting things in Belo Horizonte, that makes the city a good place for you to travel in the holiday and vacations.
Personally, I think if you want to know the whole city you're going to take an eternity. The best places to visit are Pampulha, Praça do Papa and Mineirao. This photo shows Praça da Liberdade, a well-known place in BH, near Palácio das Artes. I hope you like it.

If you are looking for a place to stay, you should visit Hotel Mercury. Trust me, it's the best hotel you can find here.


If you are looking for a place where you can eat, I suggest you Macau. Fish and rice here are the best food you can find (that's a little odd, because we have no sea in BH). Every shopping here has a good restaurant.
Now if you want to go shopping, you went to the right place! The best shoppings here are BH, Diamond, Patio Savassi and Woods. When you feel like buying food, the best place you can go is Carrefour. Electrodomestics are on sale at Casas Bahia and Ricardo Eletro shops.

The language here is Portuguese. It may look hard to learn, it might even take years, but you can always find a Portuguese teacher or a dictionary. The best dictionaries are Oxford, Collins and Michaelis, but the best overall is Longman.

I hope you have a nice trip!

One year without the King of Pop

All of us lived a sad long moment waiting for the tour "This is It", from Michael Jackson, a show that was supposed to happen in 2009, but didn't happen. It's really painful to accept that the most wonderful (or strangest, perhaps) popstar of this generation.
There were a lot of polemic about his life, for the example, he'd got an awful reputation of a pedo after Gavin Arvizo's judgement. It is said that he was born black too, and that's just a half of it. We don't believe Michael was a pedo or has some kind of prejudice against black persons, but some people still think that it's the truth.



This is the greatest Michael Jackson's album and the best album ever in selling: more than 54 million copies! After it comes Back in Black from AC/DC (42 million copies), Greatest Hits from The Eagles (39 million), Bat out of Hell from Meat Loaf (37 million) and Dark Side of The Moon from Pink Floyd (36 million). The difference between Thriller copies and the 2nd placed, Back in Black, is about 12 million copies.
Thriller had two great hits: Beat It (such an awful videoclip, but the music has a very good beat) and Billie Jean (the Eternal Moonwalk). Rede Globo was receiving videos of people trying to make the Moonwalk with feet, hands and even Moonwalking animals!
Thriller itself has an awesome videoclip (it was more sucessful than the music itself).
And than the Bad and Dangerous ages began. Bad was the last album Michael recorded uninjured.
With the percussion party Olodum in Salvador, recording the vidoeclip in Rio de Janeiro, the artist recorded the song "They Don't Care About Us". It's videoclip, in our opinion, is almost as bad as Beat It's but as it the music is well-crafted (not enough to get into history).
Other minor records were HIStory, Blood On The Dance Floor, Invincible, Number Ones and The Essential.
Finally he recorded Thriller's 25th Aniversary in 2008 with his greatest hits. Injured, polemic and with a strange behavior, his debits were millions of dollars.
About a year past he suffered a heartbreak in his own home (LA). He was in Brazil three times: the first time was in 1974, he was 16 and the Jackson 5 were making a tour around South America, the second one was in 1993, he had two shows in Morumbi, and the third was in 1996 during the They Don't Care About Us records.
This is It shall be done by an orchestra in memory of him, but without him it won't be the same thing.