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Isn`t it an oxymoron - Adam Sandler in a serious movie? Not, it isn`t. And it`s strange. What`s the piano all about? And those coloured bars that sometimes appear? Nethertheless the film is good. And it`s positive (although Adam does smash some things during the process). I also liked the music.

The first few stories had a really good impression on me - a fresh language and quite interesting characters can be a sign of interesting things to come. However every next story tends to repeat the previous ones and pretty soon the book gets overwhelmingly boring. As a mater of fact, I didn`t make it past one third of the book. It seems that Mr. Maurois was an author for wide masses that wrote about the dull and boring problems in the love life of the bourgeoisie. I admit that having not read the complete book I am not able to judge it in an adequate way but I don`t care about that because more of the same bore cannot change the impression in the positive direction. It`s just no good literature by any means.

It`s the first Hitchkock movie I`ve seen and it`s good. The main point is in the fact that from the very beginning you know who the murderer is - it is not a detective, it`s much more a kind of anti-detective. The characters are nice, so is the camera work, and despite knowing what will happen, it`s still amusing to watch.

It was just like a strike of lighting upon my very head. Very rarely does a book move me half as much as The Collector did (although I didn`t even read it in the original language). The crazy maniac who collects butterfly and locks up a young girl in his basement is some form of that stupid sort of villain that appears in silly books but it`s not about the plot. It`s much more about the psychology of a completely insane person and of one of his victims (and don`t you think that it`s as simple as inducing fear or some sexual perversions - it`s much worse than that). And the ending is especially horrific.

A single father that has two childer sees in a vision that he must destroy demons that live among people. Nobody except for him can see that they are demons. And he starts slaying them with the help of one of his sons while the other one not without a reason thinks that his dad has gone berserk. The final is partly predictable. If it was meant to be a horror movie I was not very scared, not to say more.

A famous english writer spends summer in her publisher`s house in the country (in France). She stays together with the publisher`s daughter - a young woman that mostly has sex with elder men. The ending seems to be totally bizarre, not to say any more. A good film although I can understand why Good By Lenin came out on top at the European Film awards.

One of the most famous Ingmar Bergman movies. A 78 years old professor is on a roadtrip to collect an award for lifetime achievement. He sees lots of dreams and visions about his past and the way he turned into a living corpse that isn`t loved by anyone and that can not break the boundaries between itself and the other people. The film is quite sad but it`s not as depressive as say "The Seventh Seal". I really liked it but I guess that there are no Ingmar Bergman movies that I wouldn`t like. A powerful film it may be but "Det Sjunde Inseglet" still remains on the top of my list while this one finds itself above "Persona" and next to "Through a glass darkly".

It is a cartoon, as a matter of fact, and a highly praised one, it was even nominated for this year`s Academy Awards. Well I don`t see what`s the fuss all about, not being a fan of cartoons as such, not even cartoons for adults, which most certainly is the case here (I would also like to point out that in the Oscars there is no difference between cartoons for children and for adults which have very little in common and can not be easily compared one with another). I can say that the animation was interesting but the cartoon as a whole was a true boredom.

In here you can find all the novels about the worlds greatest detective. Three of them I had already read or seen on TV (but never in English), while the fourth one wasn`t that good. "The Valley of Fear", "The Sign of the Four", "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

At last something great! Amazing! It feels like heaven. The story of the Nose. The man who knew everything about aromas but nothing about anything else and was a one of a kind criminal. I don`t want to tell you the plot, because it would make no sense doing so. Also I would like to mention that it was the first book I read in German in the last few years, but even despite the problems with the language which very disturbing at first, I certainly felt what a great master of words Sueskind is. An absolute must for every fan of modern literature, although there`s nothing crazy about the book that you could discuss among `the cool people`. It just strikes you like a thunderbolt and there`s nothing more to it.