Missed chance

''The Stepford wives'' by Frank Oz with Nicole Kidman as Joanna Eberhard, Matthew Broderick as her husband Walter Kresby, Bette Midler as Bobbie Markowitz, Glen...read more

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The Game - No Masti

In ''The Game'', Michael Douglas is a rich character who has forgotten to be nice to anyone, even to himself. His loser-brother Sean Penn presents him with a ti...read more

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Don't!

The last time I was in Venice (Italy) is 38 years ago. I was twelve then and really don’t remember much, except a tiny little restaurant where I had the f...read more

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''Indian Love Story''

There are lots of Hollywood ''angel movies'', all of them so banal that I don't even remember their titles. In a way, Kal Ho Naa Ho is the same thing from Bolly...read more

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Personal choice

1. O Brother where art thou? by Joel & Ethan Coen (2000)

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Page turner

Yesterday I read ''Prey'' by Michael Crichton. The book had been on the shelf for about a year, but now I finally took it up. I took it up and didn't put it awa...read more

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Gosford Park: Upstairs - downstairs

I knew only little about Gosford Park before, only that it had won an Oscar and that one of my favourite actors (Stephen Fry) was in it. Outwardly it is a murde...read more

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Hmmph!

Yesterday I watched The Passion of The Christ. After all this uproar about the movie I just wanted to see for myself. The plot and text are taken from the bible...read more

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Lajja - still a long way to go

Yesterday I watched Lajja for the first time. (What does the title mean?) As this is an older movie, I'm not giving any information about the movie itself. For ...read more

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Mixed feelings

I watched Kuch Naa Kaho (something like: say nothing more?) only last week from dvd. In the beginning I was fascinated by the intro, I liked it very much. Enter...read more

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My favourite car

My Toyota Previa is now 14 years old and has done 270 000 km. It was always reliable, even at temperatures of - 20 °C. One day, at a filling station, there...read more

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Humming it all day!

I'm rather new to Bollywood movies, but the singing and dancing was something I did not find difficult to adjust to. Not only do these songs add atmosphere and ...read more

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View from Germay: Roja

With Roja one thing that strikes me in particular (but in a way with almost all Bollywood movies) is that -unlike in Hollywood- the bad ones are never completel...read more

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The satanic verses

In a way, when I first read Rushdie's Satanic Verses (when was that, by the time this fatwa was pronounced - I remember the bookstore assistant wrapping it in b...read more

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The best movie ever

O Brother, where art thou? is an odyssee set in Mississippi during depression. Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions (all three escaped convicts) have some ...read more

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Novel ideas

Peter Paget, MP., has the chance of his life: he introduces a Private Member's Bill in Parliament to legalize all drugs. His main arguments: The war on drugs is...read more

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This time I cried.

I am really not the crying type in movies, I think the last time I did cry was when Fury died and I was seven, but Baghban made me use tons of handkerchiefs. Fo...read more

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Once in your life you should go there!

Hawaii is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Since Oahu is already wonderfully described in the first review, I can concentrate on the Big Island, Hawai...read more

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View from Germany: HDDCS

HDDCS is one of my favourite Bollywood movies (I know ca. 40). Aishwarya is wonderfully beautiful and a wonderful dancer, and the music is wonderful, too. The m...read more

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View from Germany

One 2 ka four - What does that title mean? Two cops, Javed and Arun, try to nail drug dealer KKV. Javed is the senior of the two and an intelligent and responsi...read more

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