Es war einmal... So beginnen viele schöne Disney-Zeichentrickmärchen über bildhübsche Prinzessinnen und mutige Prinzen, die mit herzergreifenden Liedern und niedlichen sprechenden Tieren unsere Kindheit erfreuten. Doch was, wenn genau diese heile Zeichentrickwelt und ihre fast kitschig anmutenden Märchenfiguren aus vergangenen Zeitendurch einen bösen Zauber im New York von heute landen? So geschieht es in VERWÜNSCHT:
Die böse Königin Narissa verbannt Märchenprinzessin Giselle, ihre ungeliebte zukünftige Schwiegertochter, am Tag ihrer Hochzeit in „die Welt ohne Happy End“. Die Prinzessin im Brautkleid trifft am Times Square auf einen typischen New Yorker Scheidungsanwalt und Single: Robert denkt, sie sei einem Kitschroman entsprungen. Als Märchenprinz Edward in unserer Welt auftaucht, um seine Angebetete in ihr Märchenreich Andalasia zurückzuholen, ist das Chaos perfekt...
1 Mord für 2
Andrew Wyke ist durch das Verfassen von Krimis zu Reichtum gekommen. Der selbstgerechte Mann hat alles, was man sich erträumen kann. Aber er weiß auch, dass seine Frau ihn wegen des arbeitslosen Schauspielers Milo Tindle verlassen hat.
Wyke lädt den jüngeren Rivalen zu sich in sein entlegenes Anwesen ein und heuchelt Verständnis für die Situation, weist aber auch darauf hin, dass seine Frau Luxus gewöhnt ist und weiterhin einfordern wird. Um ihr ein schönes Leben bieten zu können, soll Milo die Juwelen Wykes stehlen und zu Geld machen. Milo geht auf das Angebot ein, ahnt allerdings nicht, dass Wyke Perfides im Schilde führt.
Wyke lädt den jüngeren Rivalen zu sich in sein entlegenes Anwesen ein und heuchelt Verständnis für die Situation, weist aber auch darauf hin, dass seine Frau Luxus gewöhnt ist und weiterhin einfordern wird. Um ihr ein schönes Leben bieten zu können, soll Milo die Juwelen Wykes stehlen und zu Geld machen. Milo geht auf das Angebot ein, ahnt allerdings nicht, dass Wyke Perfides im Schilde führt.
The Photograph
Poster The Photograph ini sederhana namun cantik, dikelilingi oleh sebuah hand-made frame yang ternyata dibuat oleh seorang perempuan dengan kutek banyak.
Kutek banyak ini juga jadi salah satu pencerahan gue terhadap dunia prostitusi. Sang perempuan yang -sangat klasik- menjadi prostitute karena terjerat hutang dan butuh uang, ternyata punya banyak kutek yang bisa dipakai menghias frame. Dikisahkan betapa dia merananya tidak dapat atap sehingga akhirnya harus tinggal bersama seorang fotografer tionghoa nyentrik dengan titel ‘Roemah Photo Tan’. Tapi justru dari sinilah cerita mulai bergulir.
Sepertinya yang ingin disampaikan dari kedua film ini adalah pertentangan budaya antara si Perempuan jawa yang lugas dan jelas menyatakan bahwa dia butuh uang therefore dia melacur, serta sang etnis tionghoa yang terlalu trauma dengan masa lalunya sehingga dia hidup untuk masa lalu dan percaya sekali dengan apa yang dia lakukan secara salah di masa lalu therefore dia hidup untuk membalas dosa di masa lalu. Dan somehow, mereka akhirnya bisa saling membantu dengan photograph itu.
Kutek banyak ini juga jadi salah satu pencerahan gue terhadap dunia prostitusi. Sang perempuan yang -sangat klasik- menjadi prostitute karena terjerat hutang dan butuh uang, ternyata punya banyak kutek yang bisa dipakai menghias frame. Dikisahkan betapa dia merananya tidak dapat atap sehingga akhirnya harus tinggal bersama seorang fotografer tionghoa nyentrik dengan titel ‘Roemah Photo Tan’. Tapi justru dari sinilah cerita mulai bergulir.
Sepertinya yang ingin disampaikan dari kedua film ini adalah pertentangan budaya antara si Perempuan jawa yang lugas dan jelas menyatakan bahwa dia butuh uang therefore dia melacur, serta sang etnis tionghoa yang terlalu trauma dengan masa lalunya sehingga dia hidup untuk masa lalu dan percaya sekali dengan apa yang dia lakukan secara salah di masa lalu therefore dia hidup untuk membalas dosa di masa lalu. Dan somehow, mereka akhirnya bisa saling membantu dengan photograph itu.
Bukan Bintang Biasa (The Movie)
Bukan Bintang Biasa, a group of five rising young stars who will show their skills in acting, singing and a little bit of dancing in the film. In the film, the five stars, i.e. Bella (Laudya Cynthia Bella), Raffi (Raffi Ahmad), Ayu (Ayushita), Dimas (Dimas Beck) and Chelsea (Chelsea Olivia), attend a fictionalized arts academy. Bella and Raffi were once inseparable, yet they chose to go on their own ways over an inexplicable reason. Their friend, Dimas, has a crush on a forgetful girl, Chelsea. Meanwhile, Ayu dreams to meet his dream guy via cyber-chatting. While they prepare for an anniversary celebration of their campus, a secret admirer steps in their lives, and his presence may ruin their friendship.
Alvin und die Chipmunks
Die drei Streifenhörnchen Alvin, Simon und Theodore verlieren ihr angestammtes Zuhause, als ihr Baum gefällt, mitsamt seiner tierischen Bewohner abtransportiert und als Weihnachtsdekoration in der Empfangshalle einer Plattenfirma aufgestellt wird. Der erfolglose Songwriter Dave blitzt unterdessen mit seinem neuen Lied beim leitenden Manager des Labels, seinem gönnerhaften und rücksichtslosen alten Studienkollegen Ian, ab und verlässt enttäuscht das Gebäude. In der Schachtel voller Muffins, die Dave aus Trotz bei Jett Records mitgehen lässt, finden die drei Chipmunks unbemerkt Unterschlupf. Nachdem die munteren Tierchen im Haus des Musikers ein Chaos anrichten, werden sie von Dave entdeckt. Als sich herausstellt, dass die Chipmunks nicht nur sprechen, sondern auch singen können, nimmt der Musiker die drei Hörnchen bei sich auf. Eine erste Präsentation bei Ian läuft aber schief und auch als Amors Gehilfen sind Alvin und Konsorten wenig erfolgreich. Es gelingt ihnen auf eigene Faust, eine zweite Chance bei Ian zu nutzen. Sie machen Karriere, werden aber vom skrupellosen Ian schamlos ausgenutzt. Erst als Dave lernt, die drei als seine Familie anzusehen, kommt er ihnen zur Hilfe.
Honigplätzchen
Ingredients:
100 g Honig
50 g Margarine
100 g geriebene Mandeln
200 g Mehl
1 Ei
75 g Puderzucker (+ ca. 25 g für die Glasur)
Zimt, Ingwer (gemahlen), Kardamom, Nelken (gemahlen), Backpulver
Directions:
Honig, Margarine, 1 Tl. Zimt, 1 Tl. Ingwer, je 1 Messerspitze Kardamom und Nelken in einem Topf erwärmen. Ei und Zucker cremig rühren und die Honigmasse dazumischen. Mandeln, Mehl und 2 Tl. Backpulver vermengen und mit der Honigmasse verkneten. 1 Std. kühl stellen. Teig ausrollen und Plätzchen ausstechen. Ein kaltes Backblech mit Backpapier auslegen und Plätzchen darauflegen. Im auf 175° vorgeheizten Backofen ca. 12 min lang backen.
Puderzucker mit wenig Wasser aufkochen und die Plätzchen damit bestreichen. Evtl. mit Zimt bestäuben.
100 g Honig
50 g Margarine
100 g geriebene Mandeln
200 g Mehl
1 Ei
75 g Puderzucker (+ ca. 25 g für die Glasur)
Zimt, Ingwer (gemahlen), Kardamom, Nelken (gemahlen), Backpulver
Directions:
Honig, Margarine, 1 Tl. Zimt, 1 Tl. Ingwer, je 1 Messerspitze Kardamom und Nelken in einem Topf erwärmen. Ei und Zucker cremig rühren und die Honigmasse dazumischen. Mandeln, Mehl und 2 Tl. Backpulver vermengen und mit der Honigmasse verkneten. 1 Std. kühl stellen. Teig ausrollen und Plätzchen ausstechen. Ein kaltes Backblech mit Backpapier auslegen und Plätzchen darauflegen. Im auf 175° vorgeheizten Backofen ca. 12 min lang backen.
Puderzucker mit wenig Wasser aufkochen und die Plätzchen damit bestreichen. Evtl. mit Zimt bestäuben.
The Messengers
The movie begins with a woman and her two children, son and daughter in an old farm house. She tells her son to be a big boy as they enter a bedroom, this is in black and white. The door is closed and begins to shake, the mother puts the boy under the bed, he is crying. the door bangs open and an invisible force throws her against the wall, the thing leaves the boy runs into the hall to his sister. She is just as scared and she asks 'Where's mom?' The force throws her over the banister of the stairs, she is dragged into the basement by her feet, leaving deep nail marks in the floor. The boy runs into the kitchen and hides in a cupboard, the thing comes and after a heart stopping moment pulls him out. The screen goes black.
Then there are the creepiest titles ever! And the screen is color and we see a car driving down the highway. They talk and come to the farm we saw at the beginning. Jess gets out of the car and goes into the house alone. She looks around and behind her the cupboard opens and closes behind her. She looks in and sees a little wind up tractor way back at the back. She reaches in trying to reach it and it lurches forward and begins to move, I jumped very high. She is going back out and hears a noise from the basement and the door is locked when she tries it. She goes upstairs and her dad talks to her about how she likes the house.
Mom sees a watermark on the walls and gets scrubbing. Later mom is flipping the sheets and making waves, the little boy is there and he sees two bloody legs under the sheets. jess and mom share an odd moment and Jess goes to the basement to put boxes down there, she hears a noise. A drifter comes. Weird things start happening and in the end you find out that the drifter was the one that killed the people at the beginning, he gets sucked into the ground by the ghosts of the son, daughter, and wife. They all live happily ever after!
Then there are the creepiest titles ever! And the screen is color and we see a car driving down the highway. They talk and come to the farm we saw at the beginning. Jess gets out of the car and goes into the house alone. She looks around and behind her the cupboard opens and closes behind her. She looks in and sees a little wind up tractor way back at the back. She reaches in trying to reach it and it lurches forward and begins to move, I jumped very high. She is going back out and hears a noise from the basement and the door is locked when she tries it. She goes upstairs and her dad talks to her about how she likes the house.
Mom sees a watermark on the walls and gets scrubbing. Later mom is flipping the sheets and making waves, the little boy is there and he sees two bloody legs under the sheets. jess and mom share an odd moment and Jess goes to the basement to put boxes down there, she hears a noise. A drifter comes. Weird things start happening and in the end you find out that the drifter was the one that killed the people at the beginning, he gets sucked into the ground by the ghosts of the son, daughter, and wife. They all live happily ever after!
Bee Movie
Frisch aus dem College steht Biene Barry B. Benson am Anfang einer lebenslangen Karriere bei Honex. ""Hol dir den Nektar, hol dir den Blütenstaub - mach den Honig!" - harte Arbeit, keine Abwechslung und ein Leben für die Honigproduktion! Das sind nicht gerade die besten Zukunftsaussichten für ein abenteuerlustiges Bienenmännchen und so verlässt er den Bienenstock mit der Fliegerstaffel, um irgendwo da draußen seine Bestimmung zu suchen. So wenig er es mit den Traditionen hält, so schnell bricht er auch das eherne Gesetz des Schweigens gegenüber den Menschenwesen, als er der New Yorker Blumenhändlerin Vanessa begegnet. Von ihr erfährt er, dass die Menschen seit Jahrhunderten den Bienen ihren Honig wegnehmen. Es ist Zeit, findet Barry, etwas dagegen zu unternehmen und die Menschheit auf Diebstahl zu verklagen
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Das magische Spielzeuggeschäft "Mr. Magoriums Wunderladen" gehört dem liebenswertverrückten Edward Magorium, der mit seinen fantasievollen Ideen seit 114 Jahren Wunder und Magie in die Herzen der Kinder bringt. Jetzt will Mr. Magorium seinen Spielzeugladen an die junge Molly Mahony übergeben. Doch je näher Mr. Magoriums Abreise rückt, umso mehr verändert sich der Zauberladen. Der einst so bunte und quirlige Ort wird immer grauer und dunkler. Bald liegt es an Molly und dem schüchternen Buchhalter Henry, den Spielzeugladen zu retten und dabei die Magie und den Glauben an sich selbst zu entdecken.
Dattel-Nuß-Ecken
Ingredients:
300 g Mehl
50 g geriebene Haselnüsse
1 Ei
150 g Honig
160 g kalte Butter
200 g Datteln
50 g gehackte Mandeln
1 Tl Zimt, gemahlene Nelken, Kardamon
Schokoladenglasur
Directions:
Mehl, Haselnüsse, Ei, Butter und 100 g Honig zu einem Teig verkneten und dann kalt stellen. Datteln fein hacken und mit Honig, Mandeln und Gewürzen vermengen. Den Teig halbieren und zu zwei gleich großen Rechtecken auswalzen. Die Dattelfülle auf die eine Teigplatte streichen, die zweite Platte darauflegen und andrücken. 20 min bei 200° backen. Danach abkühlen lassen, in Dreiecke schneiden und eine Spitze in Schokoladenglasur tunken.
300 g Mehl
50 g geriebene Haselnüsse
1 Ei
150 g Honig
160 g kalte Butter
200 g Datteln
50 g gehackte Mandeln
1 Tl Zimt, gemahlene Nelken, Kardamon
Schokoladenglasur
Directions:
Mehl, Haselnüsse, Ei, Butter und 100 g Honig zu einem Teig verkneten und dann kalt stellen. Datteln fein hacken und mit Honig, Mandeln und Gewürzen vermengen. Den Teig halbieren und zu zwei gleich großen Rechtecken auswalzen. Die Dattelfülle auf die eine Teigplatte streichen, die zweite Platte darauflegen und andrücken. 20 min bei 200° backen. Danach abkühlen lassen, in Dreiecke schneiden und eine Spitze in Schokoladenglasur tunken.
Import/Export
Olga, eine gelernte Krankenschwester, fristet ein unglückliches Dasein in ihrer Heimat der Ukraine. Sie will endlich beginnen das Leben zu genießen und beschließt kurzerhand nach Österreich auszuwandern. Gesagt, getan, prompt setzt sie ihr Vorhaben in die Tat um. Doch so einfach wie sie sich das vorgestellt hat ist es nicht. Ein fremdes Land in dem andere Sitten herrschen. Ihr guter Job in der Ukraine ist hier in Österreich wenig wert. Olga bleibt nichts anderes übrig als niedrigere Arbeiten zu verrichten. Schließlich endet sie als Putzfrau in einem Krankenhaus.
Paul ist Österreicher und hat soeben seinen Job als Wachmann verloren. Das bedeutet ein Fiasko für seine finanzielle Lage. Nicht das er schon verschuldet wäre, macht er bei seinen Freunden Neue. Mit seinem Stiefvater strebt er einen weiteren Versuch an, aus den Schulden zu entkommen. Er tritt eine Reise in die Ukraine an um Spielautomaten aufzustellen.
Import / Export; zwei Geschichten die scheinbar nichts gemeinsam haben. Die Export Geschichte führt von Österreich in die Ukraine. Die Import Geschichte geht von der Ukraine nach Österreich. Beide sind auf der Suche nach einem besseren Leben. Raus aus den alten Sorgen, rein in eine scheinbar bessere Welt. Beide besitzen den Glauben an sich und begeben sich auf eine Reise nach dem Sinn des Lebens.
Paul ist Österreicher und hat soeben seinen Job als Wachmann verloren. Das bedeutet ein Fiasko für seine finanzielle Lage. Nicht das er schon verschuldet wäre, macht er bei seinen Freunden Neue. Mit seinem Stiefvater strebt er einen weiteren Versuch an, aus den Schulden zu entkommen. Er tritt eine Reise in die Ukraine an um Spielautomaten aufzustellen.
Import / Export; zwei Geschichten die scheinbar nichts gemeinsam haben. Die Export Geschichte führt von Österreich in die Ukraine. Die Import Geschichte geht von der Ukraine nach Österreich. Beide sind auf der Suche nach einem besseren Leben. Raus aus den alten Sorgen, rein in eine scheinbar bessere Welt. Beide besitzen den Glauben an sich und begeben sich auf eine Reise nach dem Sinn des Lebens.
Kokosbuserln
Ingredients:
100 g Butter
100 g Zucker
100 g Mehl
150 g Kokosflocken
1 Ei
1/2 Pg. Backpulver
1 Pg. Vanillezucker
Directions:
Butterz, Zucker, Ei und Vanillezucker schaumig rühren und die Kokosflocken dazumengen. Mehl und Backpulver mischen und ebenfals dazu geben. Ein Backblech einfetten und kleine Häufchen der Masse auftragen. Im vorgeheizten Backofen bei ca. 175° goldgelb backen.
100 g Butter
100 g Zucker
100 g Mehl
150 g Kokosflocken
1 Ei
1/2 Pg. Backpulver
1 Pg. Vanillezucker
Directions:
Butterz, Zucker, Ei und Vanillezucker schaumig rühren und die Kokosflocken dazumengen. Mehl und Backpulver mischen und ebenfals dazu geben. Ein Backblech einfetten und kleine Häufchen der Masse auftragen. Im vorgeheizten Backofen bei ca. 175° goldgelb backen.
Perfect Stranger
Lloyd is American, successful in advertising, at the cusp of the wave, more or less happy with his long-term girlfriend Betsy, neat, organised and popular. Suze is British, chaotic, messy, single, a free spirit, who also happens to be a successful career woman. In short, they have nothing in common apart from their jobs, but chance brings them together when Lloyd gets the opportunity to trade jobs and apartments with a British colleague for a while. This colleague happens to be Suze. Suze is elated: finally she gets to see the US, live in New York, paint the town red, go on a spree. Lloyd, infinitely more conservative and sedate, is exhilarated at the prospect of living in jolly old England himself. Unexpectedly, his girlfriend decides to accompany him to London, in the hopes of being able to finish her thesis on Jane Austen there. (The thesis itself is hilarious, by the way).
Suze is having a whale of a time, especially when she meets hunky Nick who becomes her hot date for a few days. Lloyd isn't quite as happy. He is falsely accused of fraud and fired. To top it all, Betsy keeps badgering him about marriage and children. Suze, however, believes in the lovely American who helped her cook over the phone, listened to her pouring her heart out and made her laugh so often.
The two don't meet until the last fifty pages of the book. This was actually the only drawback of the book. The chemistry between them is palpable, and the final meeting singes the pages without a single kiss, but all in all, the romance received short shrift.
I really enjoyed the many digs at Americans and British alike, the cultural clash theme. Sometimes the characters seemed a bit exaggerated, especially Betsy and her mother. However, there is probably some truth to all those clichés.
I would recommend the book to those who like British chick literature with a lot of humour and a good dose of romance.
Suze is having a whale of a time, especially when she meets hunky Nick who becomes her hot date for a few days. Lloyd isn't quite as happy. He is falsely accused of fraud and fired. To top it all, Betsy keeps badgering him about marriage and children. Suze, however, believes in the lovely American who helped her cook over the phone, listened to her pouring her heart out and made her laugh so often.
The two don't meet until the last fifty pages of the book. This was actually the only drawback of the book. The chemistry between them is palpable, and the final meeting singes the pages without a single kiss, but all in all, the romance received short shrift.
I really enjoyed the many digs at Americans and British alike, the cultural clash theme. Sometimes the characters seemed a bit exaggerated, especially Betsy and her mother. However, there is probably some truth to all those clichés.
I would recommend the book to those who like British chick literature with a lot of humour and a good dose of romance.
Kosterkipferln
Ingredients:
210g Mehl
160g Butter
50g Zucker
140g fein geriebene Mandeln oder Haselnüsse
100g geriebene Schokolade
2 Eigelb
1 Päckchen Vanillezucker
Für die Glasur:
3 Rippen Kochschokolade
etwas Kokosfett oder Butter
Directions:
Die Zutaten zu einem Teig verkneten. Ca. 4cm grosse, 1cm dicke Kipferl formen und auf ein eingefettetes oder mit Backpapier belegtes Backblech legen. Bei 130 Grad 25 Minuten backen und auskühlen lassen.
Schokolade und Fett im Wasserbad schmelzen und die Enden der Kipferl darin tunken. Zum Aushärten auf ein Abtropfgitter oder Alufolie legen.
210g Mehl
160g Butter
50g Zucker
140g fein geriebene Mandeln oder Haselnüsse
100g geriebene Schokolade
2 Eigelb
1 Päckchen Vanillezucker
Für die Glasur:
3 Rippen Kochschokolade
etwas Kokosfett oder Butter
Directions:
Die Zutaten zu einem Teig verkneten. Ca. 4cm grosse, 1cm dicke Kipferl formen und auf ein eingefettetes oder mit Backpapier belegtes Backblech legen. Bei 130 Grad 25 Minuten backen und auskühlen lassen.
Schokolade und Fett im Wasserbad schmelzen und die Enden der Kipferl darin tunken. Zum Aushärten auf ein Abtropfgitter oder Alufolie legen.
Butterbrote
Ingredients:
210 g geriebene Nüsse
140 g Zucker
70 g Butter
100 g Mehl
110 g Puderzucker
3 Rippen geriebene Kochschokolade
1 Ei
Salz
Glasur:
2 Eigelb
110 g Puderzucker
1 Pg Vanillezucker
Zitronensaft
Directions:
Alle Zutaten verkneten und eine Rolle mit ovalem Querschnitt formen. In 1/2 cm dicke Scheiben schneiden und auf ein eingefettetes Backblech legen. Im vorgeheizten Ofen bei ca. 180° goldbraun backen und danach auskühlen lassen. Eigelb, Puderzucker, Vanillezucker und evtl. etwas Zitronensaft verrühren. Die Masse auf die Brote auftragen und im warmen Ofen kurz trocknen lassen.
210 g geriebene Nüsse
140 g Zucker
70 g Butter
100 g Mehl
110 g Puderzucker
3 Rippen geriebene Kochschokolade
1 Ei
Salz
Glasur:
2 Eigelb
110 g Puderzucker
1 Pg Vanillezucker
Zitronensaft
Directions:
Alle Zutaten verkneten und eine Rolle mit ovalem Querschnitt formen. In 1/2 cm dicke Scheiben schneiden und auf ein eingefettetes Backblech legen. Im vorgeheizten Ofen bei ca. 180° goldbraun backen und danach auskühlen lassen. Eigelb, Puderzucker, Vanillezucker und evtl. etwas Zitronensaft verrühren. Die Masse auf die Brote auftragen und im warmen Ofen kurz trocknen lassen.
Die drei Räuber
Es waren einmal drei grimmige Räuber. In der Nacht, wenn es dunkel war, lagen sie am Wegrand auf der Lauer. Verborgen unter weiten schwarzen Mänteln und großen schwarzen Hüten. Der Erste hatte eine Donnerbüchse. Der Zweite hatte einen Blasebalg mit Pfeffer. Der Dritte hatte ein riesiges rotes Beil. Es waren schreckliche Kerle. Sie plünderten alles, was sie kriegen konnten. Da geschah es einmal, dass sie in einer tiefschwarzen Nacht eine Kutsche überfielen, in der nur ein einziger Reisender saß. Das kleine Waisenmädchen Tiffany war auf dem Weg zu einer wunderlichen alten Tante, bei der sie in Zukunft leben sollte. Sie war entzückt, stattdessen auf die Räuber zu treffen. Weil die Räuber außer Tiffany nichts wertvolles in der Kutsche fanden, wickelten sie das kleine Mädchen in eine warme Decke und nahmen es mit in ihre Räuberhöhle...
Pfeffernüsse
Ingredients:
250g Mehl
125g Honig
75g Zucker
1 kleines Ei
3g Hirschhornsalz
1/4 Tl. Zimt
1/8 Tl. Nelken
1/4 Tl. weißer Pfeffer
je eine Prise Muskat, Koriander, Ingwer, Piment, Kardamon
Für die Glasur:
25g Staubzucker
Directions:
Den Honig auf kleiner Flamme erwärmen, bis er dünflüssig ist. Zucker, Ei und Gewürze unterrühren. Nach und nach das Mehl zuerst unterrühren dann unterkneten. Aus dem Teig Kugeln mit 2cm Durchmesser formen und auf ein eingefettetes oder mit Backpapier belegtes Backblech legen. Bei 180 Grad 10-15 Minuten backen und auskühlen lassen.
Den Zucker mit etwas Wasser aufkochen und die Kugeln damit bestreichen. Nicht zuviel Wasser verwenden sonst bleibt die Glasur klebrig.
250g Mehl
125g Honig
75g Zucker
1 kleines Ei
3g Hirschhornsalz
1/4 Tl. Zimt
1/8 Tl. Nelken
1/4 Tl. weißer Pfeffer
je eine Prise Muskat, Koriander, Ingwer, Piment, Kardamon
Für die Glasur:
25g Staubzucker
Directions:
Den Honig auf kleiner Flamme erwärmen, bis er dünflüssig ist. Zucker, Ei und Gewürze unterrühren. Nach und nach das Mehl zuerst unterrühren dann unterkneten. Aus dem Teig Kugeln mit 2cm Durchmesser formen und auf ein eingefettetes oder mit Backpapier belegtes Backblech legen. Bei 180 Grad 10-15 Minuten backen und auskühlen lassen.
Den Zucker mit etwas Wasser aufkochen und die Kugeln damit bestreichen. Nicht zuviel Wasser verwenden sonst bleibt die Glasur klebrig.
American Gangster
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.
Vanillekipferln
Ingredients:
50 g Puderzucker
210 g Mehl
75 g geriebene Nüsse
150 g weiche Butter
1 Pg. Vanillezucker
Zum bestreuen:
50 g Puderzucker
2 Pg Vanillezucker
Directions:
Butter, Zucker, Mehl und Nüsse zu einem Teig verkneten. Lange dünne Rollen formen und in gleiche Teile schneiden. Kleine Kipferl daraus formen und auf leicht eingefettetes Backblech legen. Bei ca. 180° goldgelb backen. Auskühlen lassen und vorsichtig vom Blech nehmen und in dem Zuckergemisch wälzen.
50 g Puderzucker
210 g Mehl
75 g geriebene Nüsse
150 g weiche Butter
1 Pg. Vanillezucker
Zum bestreuen:
50 g Puderzucker
2 Pg Vanillezucker
Directions:
Butter, Zucker, Mehl und Nüsse zu einem Teig verkneten. Lange dünne Rollen formen und in gleiche Teile schneiden. Kleine Kipferl daraus formen und auf leicht eingefettetes Backblech legen. Bei ca. 180° goldgelb backen. Auskühlen lassen und vorsichtig vom Blech nehmen und in dem Zuckergemisch wälzen.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Trisha McFarland is a plucky 9-year-old hiking with her brother and mom, who is grimly determined to give the kids a good time on their weekends together. Trisha's mom is recently divorced, and her brother is feuding with her for moving from Boston to small-town Maine, where classmates razz him. Trisha steps off the trail for a pee and a respite from the bickering. And gets lost.
As the hours turn to days, Trisha comes to the realization that something else is in the woods with her, too. She doesn't have a name for it, but she begins thinking of it as "the thing" in the woods and later knows it as The God of the Lost. Little by little, Trisha slips between reality and the dark place.
Soon the barrier between reality and hallucination is gone, and Tom Gordon becomes not just an idle fantasy to pass the time, but a "real" person helping her through this nightmare. Tom gives her the strength she needs and comes to her when everything is all but lost. Through it all, Trisha tries desperately to discover what she believes and what she can believe in.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon may never be considered King's best (or best selling) novel, but it is intimate and inviting. There is no real horror, but it is a compelling tale wonderfully told.
As the hours turn to days, Trisha comes to the realization that something else is in the woods with her, too. She doesn't have a name for it, but she begins thinking of it as "the thing" in the woods and later knows it as The God of the Lost. Little by little, Trisha slips between reality and the dark place.
Soon the barrier between reality and hallucination is gone, and Tom Gordon becomes not just an idle fantasy to pass the time, but a "real" person helping her through this nightmare. Tom gives her the strength she needs and comes to her when everything is all but lost. Through it all, Trisha tries desperately to discover what she believes and what she can believe in.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon may never be considered King's best (or best selling) novel, but it is intimate and inviting. There is no real horror, but it is a compelling tale wonderfully told.
Lucy Talk
Lucy Gordon is 24 years of age who lives in Burr Cottage in Berkshire with her two friends Bella and Jane. Her friend Mo also lived there however she moved out to see the world. Lucy keeps in touch through e-mail most days although she has never replied to one throughout the whole book. Which will become apparent why at the end.
Lucy works for a company called Widgetex Computers, in the Marketing department. She regularly tries to impress her boss Slave Driver by being talked into doing charity parachute jumps etc. She really wants the promotion of being his right hand man or should I say women, but unfortunately he went outside the company and employed Gabriella Peartree better known as Fruitbat by both her and colleagues. Before long Fruitbat has picked up on Lucy’s vulnerability and gets Lucy doing all the work and Fruitbat takes the credit when really spends most of her time on long business meetings with Slave Driver, do I need to say any more!!
Lucy is a very kind and innocent girl but incredibly naïve. Firstly she is dating a Pilot called Greg and it soon becomes clear that he only rings her when it suits and quite obvious that he is dating his neighbour Peach. However Lucy is blissfully unaware. Eventually Peach has to tell her of the affair, so Greg is finally off the scene.
After sometime she dates Alex who is a gorgeous and she thinks he is the perfect man. That is until she finally goes out on a date with him alone and finds that personality is an important factor after all.
Big Mike the Vet who is the next door neighbour is obviously smitten with her and is always there for her when needed. Yet Lucy has it in her head that he is the village womaniser and has several women on the go, which could not be further from the truth. He spends all his time talking to these women about Lucy, even the women have hinted how lovely he is but she just thinks that they are having an affair with him.
Her family are a right bunch, the Mother is desperate to be on Masterchef and has the most outrageous menus such as Deep-fried artichoke hearts with Vermouth and lime sauce and other strange concoctions. Her Father spends the whole of his time in the garden shed mending his tools. Her Sister Alice is dating Scrumpy who spends most of his time down tunnels on one protest after another. Her Granny lives with them and is constantly drunk, and not forgetting her Big Brother who had the sense to emigrate to New Zealand.
Throughout the whole book she is constantly writing messages to her Big Brother in New Zealand and Mo where ever she is, detailing the days events.
This book is well worth a read, it had me giggling in places and sometimes I found Lucy incredibly frustrating, which was the Author's intentions.
Lucy works for a company called Widgetex Computers, in the Marketing department. She regularly tries to impress her boss Slave Driver by being talked into doing charity parachute jumps etc. She really wants the promotion of being his right hand man or should I say women, but unfortunately he went outside the company and employed Gabriella Peartree better known as Fruitbat by both her and colleagues. Before long Fruitbat has picked up on Lucy’s vulnerability and gets Lucy doing all the work and Fruitbat takes the credit when really spends most of her time on long business meetings with Slave Driver, do I need to say any more!!
Lucy is a very kind and innocent girl but incredibly naïve. Firstly she is dating a Pilot called Greg and it soon becomes clear that he only rings her when it suits and quite obvious that he is dating his neighbour Peach. However Lucy is blissfully unaware. Eventually Peach has to tell her of the affair, so Greg is finally off the scene.
After sometime she dates Alex who is a gorgeous and she thinks he is the perfect man. That is until she finally goes out on a date with him alone and finds that personality is an important factor after all.
Big Mike the Vet who is the next door neighbour is obviously smitten with her and is always there for her when needed. Yet Lucy has it in her head that he is the village womaniser and has several women on the go, which could not be further from the truth. He spends all his time talking to these women about Lucy, even the women have hinted how lovely he is but she just thinks that they are having an affair with him.
Her family are a right bunch, the Mother is desperate to be on Masterchef and has the most outrageous menus such as Deep-fried artichoke hearts with Vermouth and lime sauce and other strange concoctions. Her Father spends the whole of his time in the garden shed mending his tools. Her Sister Alice is dating Scrumpy who spends most of his time down tunnels on one protest after another. Her Granny lives with them and is constantly drunk, and not forgetting her Big Brother who had the sense to emigrate to New Zealand.
Throughout the whole book she is constantly writing messages to her Big Brother in New Zealand and Mo where ever she is, detailing the days events.
This book is well worth a read, it had me giggling in places and sometimes I found Lucy incredibly frustrating, which was the Author's intentions.
Der Goldene Kompass
Der Goldene Kompass ist ein spannendes Fantasy-Abenteuer, das in einer Parallelwelt spielt, in der sich menschliche Seelen als Tiere manifestieren, sprechende Bären in Kriegen kämpfen und Kinder auf mysteriöse Weise verschwinden. Im Mittelpunkt der Geschichte steht Lyra, ein 12-jähriges Mädchen, das sich auf den Weg macht, um Roger, ihren besten Freund, zu befreien. Ihre Reise wird zu einer Mission, von der nicht nur die Rettung von Lyras Welt, sondern ebenso die unserer eigenen Welt abhängt.
200 Pounds Beauty
Die Sängerin Han-na Kang (Ah-jung Kim) wiegt rund 100 Kilo und ist trotz einer Hammerstimme dazu verdammt, hinter der Bühne zu singen - als Stimme für Superstar Ammy. Tag für Tag schwärmt sie dabei für den Produzenten Sang-jun Han (Jin-mo Ju), der für sie aber unerreichbar bleibt. Als sie eines Tages ihn und Ammy dabei zuhört, wie sie über sie lästern, fasst Han-na den Entschluss, sich komplett zu verändern: Sie sucht den plastischen Chirurgen Dr. Lee auf, den sie von ihrer Arbeit als Telefonsex-Anbieterin kennt, und zwingt ihn dazu, sie von Kopf bis Fuss zu verschönern. Nach einem Jahr ist aus Han-na die superschlanke und superschöne Jenny geworden, die prompt bei Sang-jun landet und als Sängerin Karriere macht.
Witch Yoo Hee
Ma Yoo-hee is the executive of an advertising company. She would never be caught dead wearing make-up and only ever wears black. Her hairstyle and glasses are severe, her only enjoyment in life appears to be the times when she's criticizing everything and anyone. All of her employees and co-workers fear her and she is constantly talked about when shes not around. Her stern and harsh nature has earned her the nickname 'witch' When it comes to romance she is hopeless. No matter how many blind dates she has, not one has ever led to a second. The reason for this is her negativity and her inability to loosen up and express herself. She however is completely oblivious of her faults and cannot comprehend why she is so bad when it comes to love.
Choi Mu-ryong is an aspiring chef with a passion for French cuisine. He has an innate ability when it comes to taste and perfection. Every piece of food and every plate he prepares must be perfect. However this tends to get him into a lot of trouble as when working in a kitchen every moment counts and there is not possibly enough time to take so much care in preparation and decoration of meals. His criticism of a head chefs cooking causes him to lose his job. His parents have never really approved of his aspirations and dreams to be a famous chef and insist he return to medical school. He decides to enroll back into medical school but changes his mind at the last minute and decides not to.
Mu-ryong discusses everything with his best friend and ends up going on a blind date to pretend to be someone else who backed out at the last minute. He declines at first since he already has a girlfriend, but his friend offers him money, and warns him however that the woman he will be meeting is rather different.
The woman he meets is Yoo-hee, and while under normal circumstances she would be rude, brash and boring, she tries to be nice and happy in an attempt to succeed on the date. However, her pretending is not very convincing and Mu-ryong figures that it would be a matter of time before she loses it. The date ends when Mu-ryong falls asleep for a moment, resulting in Yoo-hee throwing a glass of water at his face and calling him rude. He retorts back to her also, telling her to take care of her appearance the next time she goes on a blind date. The two then leave on bad terms.
While delivering food from his father's Chinese restaurant, Mu-ryong becomes involved in an car accident, coincidentally with Yoo-hee. They exchange insurance information and Yoo-hee learns that he lied to her on their date, realizing that his name is different, he is a year younger than her, and that he met her only as a favor to a friend.
Yoo-hee demands the money for the damage to her car to be paid within a week. However, Mu-ryong doesn't have any money, and yet Yoo-hee is unwilling to compromise with him. He decides to use his school tuition, which was given to him by his parents, to pay for her car. However, he loses the money after being mugged on the way to pay her.
Mu-ryong tells Yoo-hee he doesn't have the money but is willing to work it off, no matter how long it takes or what he must do for her to pay her back. Yoo-hee decides that Mu-ryong could repay her by working as her house keeper, since she continuously looses her previous keepers.
Meanwhile, Mu-ryong's girlfriend Seung-mi, who works at her father's restaurant, is expecting a new head chef: Johnny Kruger, a world renowned chef, who also happens to be Mu-ryong's idol and an acquaintance of Yoo-hee as well.
Choi Mu-ryong is an aspiring chef with a passion for French cuisine. He has an innate ability when it comes to taste and perfection. Every piece of food and every plate he prepares must be perfect. However this tends to get him into a lot of trouble as when working in a kitchen every moment counts and there is not possibly enough time to take so much care in preparation and decoration of meals. His criticism of a head chefs cooking causes him to lose his job. His parents have never really approved of his aspirations and dreams to be a famous chef and insist he return to medical school. He decides to enroll back into medical school but changes his mind at the last minute and decides not to.
Mu-ryong discusses everything with his best friend and ends up going on a blind date to pretend to be someone else who backed out at the last minute. He declines at first since he already has a girlfriend, but his friend offers him money, and warns him however that the woman he will be meeting is rather different.
The woman he meets is Yoo-hee, and while under normal circumstances she would be rude, brash and boring, she tries to be nice and happy in an attempt to succeed on the date. However, her pretending is not very convincing and Mu-ryong figures that it would be a matter of time before she loses it. The date ends when Mu-ryong falls asleep for a moment, resulting in Yoo-hee throwing a glass of water at his face and calling him rude. He retorts back to her also, telling her to take care of her appearance the next time she goes on a blind date. The two then leave on bad terms.
While delivering food from his father's Chinese restaurant, Mu-ryong becomes involved in an car accident, coincidentally with Yoo-hee. They exchange insurance information and Yoo-hee learns that he lied to her on their date, realizing that his name is different, he is a year younger than her, and that he met her only as a favor to a friend.
Yoo-hee demands the money for the damage to her car to be paid within a week. However, Mu-ryong doesn't have any money, and yet Yoo-hee is unwilling to compromise with him. He decides to use his school tuition, which was given to him by his parents, to pay for her car. However, he loses the money after being mugged on the way to pay her.
Mu-ryong tells Yoo-hee he doesn't have the money but is willing to work it off, no matter how long it takes or what he must do for her to pay her back. Yoo-hee decides that Mu-ryong could repay her by working as her house keeper, since she continuously looses her previous keepers.
Meanwhile, Mu-ryong's girlfriend Seung-mi, who works at her father's restaurant, is expecting a new head chef: Johnny Kruger, a world renowned chef, who also happens to be Mu-ryong's idol and an acquaintance of Yoo-hee as well.
Beowulf
This adaptation of Beowulf tells the story of how the warrior Beowulf helps King Hrothgar protect Heorot from the powerful Grendel. After defeating Grendel, Beowulf incurs the wrath of Grendel's mother, who seduces him in order to conceive a son. Beowulf leaves with Grendel's head to secure his reputation and claims to have also killed the mother. Fifty years after these encounters, Beowulf discovers that he has a third antagonist to battle with: a ferocious dragon that turns out to be his son. After a fierce battle that ends in the death of both warriors, Grendel's mother is once again left childless.
Tom und Jerry - Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte
Jerry's magic Nutcracker Christmas Kingdom brutally taken over by the stray cats. Jerry and 2 toy characters (pixy and horsey) blown trough several world decors, trying to make their way to the Toy Maker, by following the northern star, hindered by Tom and his soldier cats. Finally arrived at the Toy Maker's workplace, Jerry builds an army of toy soldiers to regain his magical kingdom, which he should have accomplished before the sun has fully risen above the horizon ...
Der Sternwanderer
Sprechende Tiere, magische Bäume, unwiderstehliche Gnome und hinterhältige Kobolde in einer Welt jenseits der unseren. Vorlage für den märchenhaften Streifzug war Neil Gaimans „Stardust", dessen Romane schon mehrfach Türen in betörende Fantasiereiche geöffnet haben. „Der Sternwanderer" nimmt einen mit in das magische Land Faerie, das durch eine Mauer von dem kleinen englischen Dorf Wall getrennt ist und zum Hauptschauplatz eines atemberaubenden Abenteuers wird. In einer schicksalhaften Nacht verspricht der junge Tristran (Charlie Cox) seiner großen Liebe Victoria, ihr als Beweis seiner Liebe den Stern zu bringen, der hinter der Mauer ins Reich der Feen, Hexen und Zauberer gestürzt ist. Gefahren, Wunder und Geheimnisse erwarten ihn auf der anderen Seite und sein gefallener Stern entpuppt sich als wunderschöne Yvaine (Claire Danes), die sich beim Aufprall das Bein gebrochen hat.
30 Days of Night
SPOILERS, you have been warned, but on the other hand I'd rather you read this please so that you don't go see this stupid movie. Okay, so Josh Hartnett decides he can't beat the vampires without their powers, so he injects himself with some vampire blood and goes out to lay the smack-down on the leader. Following an fight sequence, he defeats the leader, of course. Wide shot: Josh Hartnett standing in the middle of a group of vampires. Cut to: shot of Hartnett's love interest and some kid she saved, looking dramatic and scared. Cut back to, again, wide shot of Hartnett. Vampires are gone. Where did they go? They never appear again. No allusion is made to them leaving. No action is presented to describe them leaving. No ellipses is used to insinuate that there will be a sequel. ABSOLUTELY NO NARRATIVE LOGIC FINISHES THE STORY.
Nach 7 Tagen ausgeflittert
Eddie (Ben Stiller) ist schon seit Jahren Junggeselle. Doch durch den Druck seitens seines Vaters und seinem besten Freund Mac fragt er sich allmählich, ob er bei der Wahl seiner Frauen zu pingelig ist. Also heiratet er kurzentschlossen die verführerischen Blondine Lila (Malin Akerman). Aber schon kurz nach der Hochzeit beginnt Eddie zu realisieren, dass er einen schrecklichen Fehler gemacht hat. Und es kommt noch schlimmer: Bald nachdem die zwei ihr exotisches Urlaubsresort in Mexiko erreicht haben, verliebt sich Eddie in die bodenständige Miranda (Michelle Monaghan), die keinen blassen Schimmer davon hat, daß er in den Flitterwochen ist. Jetzt muß Eddie einen Weg finden, wie er sich aus seiner erst ein paar Tage alten Ehe herauswinden kann, ohne dabei das Mädchen seiner Träume zu verlieren.
Halloween
Als der zehnjährige Michael Myers in der Nacht von Halloween zum ersten Mal mordet, sind die Bewohner der Kleinstadt Haddonfield in Illinois fassungslos. Nur zu gern möchte man diesen schrecklichen Vorfall schnell vergessen. Michael wird in eine geschlossene Anstalt gesteckt, wo Dr. Loomis jahrelang versucht, mit dem Jungen zu kommunizieren. Während sich Haddonfields Teenager Jahre später auf ein neues Halloween vorbereiten, flieht der inzwischen 25-jährige Michael aus der Anstalt. Und nun ist niemand mehr vor dem eiskalten Maskenmörder sicher.
Get Karl ! Oh So Jung
There was a woman who used to be wanted by every man she met. Her name? Oh Soo-Jung. She was already engaged to Go Man-Soo who had graduated at the top of his class and even secured a great job! Well, that is until he blew the interview! Upon hearing this devastating news Soo-Jung’s world fell apart. The one reason why she wanted to marry him in the first place was so she can secure her future.
Believing that Man-Soo would end up with a dead end job, she left him at the alter on their wedding day and left with another man to New York! Fast forward 8 years into the future and Man-Soo is now known as Karl and is a famous pro golfer, while Soo-Jung is known as an old miss managing her friend’s boutique jewelry shop!
When Karl and Soo-Jung realize their almost 180 degree turned lives it becomes apparent that their motives are just as drastic! Karl wants to seek revenge on Soo-Jung while Soo-Jung wants nothing more than to have Karl back. So who will win in this battle? Will love begin to grow, which had been missing years ago?
Believing that Man-Soo would end up with a dead end job, she left him at the alter on their wedding day and left with another man to New York! Fast forward 8 years into the future and Man-Soo is now known as Karl and is a famous pro golfer, while Soo-Jung is known as an old miss managing her friend’s boutique jewelry shop!
When Karl and Soo-Jung realize their almost 180 degree turned lives it becomes apparent that their motives are just as drastic! Karl wants to seek revenge on Soo-Jung while Soo-Jung wants nothing more than to have Karl back. So who will win in this battle? Will love begin to grow, which had been missing years ago?
Der Date Profi
Wer ROGER kennt, weiß dass er ein Loser ist, auch wenn er Polizeiuniform hat, einen C1 Führerschein für Parkautos besitzt, weil er fährt ja mit einem Park Mobil auf der Straße, 10 Km/h schnell und schreibt Parskünder auf. Er liest täglich Selbsthilfe Bücher um stärker zu werden, er will mehr Selbstvertrauen, und sein Job st einfach ein Dreck.
Keiner will ihn so richtig, er hat einfach Probleme seine Mitte zu finden, oder mal hart aufzutreten. Und selbst bei sozialen Projekten bei denen er selbstlos den ‚großen Bruder' für Kinder gibt, möchte man ihn nicht mehr dabeihaben.
Er wird sogar von 2 Typen ausgeraubt und zahlt Ihnen die Parkstrafe von 80 US $, weil er sonst Angst hat, dass die Typen ihn vermöbeln. Er hat einen Kumpel, IAN, der will dass er ein Seminar besucht von Dr. P. , das er dann auch macht, 5.000 US $ kostet das Zeug.
Ein Seminar das alle seine Probleme lösen kann, wo lauter Loser hinkommen wie er bemerkt, was Top Secret ist, was von einem 2 Meter Typen bewacht wird, -LASHER, und was sehr einfach ist. Bescheiße alle die du kennst dann hast du eine Ruhe, so ungefähr in kurzen Worten zusammengefasst ist dass.
Und als Dr. P. Draufkommt dass ROGER eine AMANDA liebt, da wird es erst interessant, denn wegen dem ist er hauptsächlich hier alle sind dazu im Kurs um endlich Sex zu haben.
Keiner will ihn so richtig, er hat einfach Probleme seine Mitte zu finden, oder mal hart aufzutreten. Und selbst bei sozialen Projekten bei denen er selbstlos den ‚großen Bruder' für Kinder gibt, möchte man ihn nicht mehr dabeihaben.
Er wird sogar von 2 Typen ausgeraubt und zahlt Ihnen die Parkstrafe von 80 US $, weil er sonst Angst hat, dass die Typen ihn vermöbeln. Er hat einen Kumpel, IAN, der will dass er ein Seminar besucht von Dr. P. , das er dann auch macht, 5.000 US $ kostet das Zeug.
Ein Seminar das alle seine Probleme lösen kann, wo lauter Loser hinkommen wie er bemerkt, was Top Secret ist, was von einem 2 Meter Typen bewacht wird, -LASHER, und was sehr einfach ist. Bescheiße alle die du kennst dann hast du eine Ruhe, so ungefähr in kurzen Worten zusammengefasst ist dass.
Und als Dr. P. Draufkommt dass ROGER eine AMANDA liebt, da wird es erst interessant, denn wegen dem ist er hauptsächlich hier alle sind dazu im Kurs um endlich Sex zu haben.
Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy 3)
"Ptolemy's Gate" is the third and final book of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, following "The Amulet of Samarkand" and "The Golem's Eye". The story starts three years after where "The Golem's Eye" left off, and John Mandrake (Nathaniel) has risen rapidly to the position of Information Minister, engendering jealousy among more veteran members of the government. Instead of dismissing the djinni Bartimaeus, so that Bartimaues could recover, Mandrake has kept him continuously in this realm, leaving Bartimaeus very, very weak. Just as Bartimaeus is reaching the point where remaining on Earth could drain him fatally, a major plot to overthrow the government begins to surface.
Meanwhile, the former Resistance member, Kitty Jones, has taken on an assumed identity, as many people, including Mandrake, think that she perished at the hands of the golem, three years ago. Kitty has begun working for a magician, and secretly studying how to summon Bartimaeus, as she felt that he could tell her much that might help the commoners. Kitty pieces together Bartimaeus's past, which turns out to be quite interesting indeed.
Some consider the following statement to be divulging too much of the plot: Mandrake finally finds Kitty, just as the coup attempt starts, with an outcome that has consequences that are, in the context of this fictional universe, truly dreadful and catastrophic. Will any of them survive? I will say one thing: someone important does die, quite nobly. However, I will also say that, by the time the death occurs, there are several solid hero candidates.
Meanwhile, the former Resistance member, Kitty Jones, has taken on an assumed identity, as many people, including Mandrake, think that she perished at the hands of the golem, three years ago. Kitty has begun working for a magician, and secretly studying how to summon Bartimaeus, as she felt that he could tell her much that might help the commoners. Kitty pieces together Bartimaeus's past, which turns out to be quite interesting indeed.
Some consider the following statement to be divulging too much of the plot: Mandrake finally finds Kitty, just as the coup attempt starts, with an outcome that has consequences that are, in the context of this fictional universe, truly dreadful and catastrophic. Will any of them survive? I will say one thing: someone important does die, quite nobly. However, I will also say that, by the time the death occurs, there are several solid hero candidates.
The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince
With a foolish mother and the need to look after her younger sister, flower boy Go Eun Chan has had to give up the feminine image. It's a love story with Choi Han Kyul, who knows women well and thinks of himself as a great guy.
After accidentally being mistaken for a man, she starts working at Coffee Prince, and falls in love with the hot-tempered owner Choi Han Kyul. But Choi Han Kyul thinks she's a man, and furthermore doesn't believe in love. So she can't confess that she's a woman, and he continues thinking that the agonized Go Eun Chan is a man. Choi Han Kyul thinks he's experiencing feelings of homosexuality towards her, and gets heartsick laugh.gif . This side of him was drawn in a risky but fun way.
The part when he discovers that Go Eun Chan is a woman is shown in an undemanding way, and the story doesn't concentrate on just these two people, but also on the other people who frequent Coffee Prince.
After accidentally being mistaken for a man, she starts working at Coffee Prince, and falls in love with the hot-tempered owner Choi Han Kyul. But Choi Han Kyul thinks she's a man, and furthermore doesn't believe in love. So she can't confess that she's a woman, and he continues thinking that the agonized Go Eun Chan is a man. Choi Han Kyul thinks he's experiencing feelings of homosexuality towards her, and gets heartsick laugh.gif . This side of him was drawn in a risky but fun way.
The part when he discovers that Go Eun Chan is a woman is shown in an undemanding way, and the story doesn't concentrate on just these two people, but also on the other people who frequent Coffee Prince.
The Golem´s Eye (The Bartimaeus Trilogy 2)
Nathaniel and the devious djinn Bartimaeus are back, bickering as always, in a follow-up that rivals the first book in intensity and action. When we meet up with Nathaniel, he's 14 now, apprenticed to Jessica Whitwell, and the government's current "it boy." His growing reputation as someone who can get things done lands him the responsibility of dealing with the resistance movement's incessant raids. But when his progress in the investigation is hampered and with his standing in the government at stake, Nathaniel is forced to seek additional assistance.
Enter Bartimaeus, Nathaniel's reluctant (and often belligerent) servant. They're not far into their joint investigation when a series of horrible attacks --- committed by a Golem controlled by an unknown wizard --- sends them on a new course. They soon find themselves in Prague in a desperate attempt to uncover the true menace behind the attacks.
Enter Bartimaeus, Nathaniel's reluctant (and often belligerent) servant. They're not far into their joint investigation when a series of horrible attacks --- committed by a Golem controlled by an unknown wizard --- sends them on a new course. They soon find themselves in Prague in a desperate attempt to uncover the true menace behind the attacks.
Surf's Up
In der Antarktis ist es kalt, öde und langweilig. Das Fischgeschäft in "Shiverpool" ist hart und bringt wenig ein. Kein Wunder also, dass Cody dort raus will. Denn Cody ist ein Pinguin, der mit seinem Alltag nichts anfangen kann, sich aus Eis ein Surfbrett abbricht und lieber auf den Wellen reiten. Genau so wie sein Vorbild "Big Z", der das Herz des kleinen Pinguins damals im Sturm erobert hat, in dem er ihm eine Kette mit Anhänger umhängte.
Um Teilnehmer des zehnten jährlichen "Big Z Memorial Championsship" zu sichten, schwimmt ein Wal durch die Gegend und ein Talentscout bringt die Teilnehmer an Bord. Cody sieht hier die perfekte Gelegenheit gekommen, springt, trotz grossem Gespött seines Bruders, auf den Wal. Dort freundet er sich mit Chicken Joe an, einem verrückten Huhn, das so leicht nichts aus der Ruhe bringt.
Doch siehe da. Die Konkurrenz auf "Pin Gu Island" ist härter als angenommen und Cody muss merken, dass nicht jedermann fair spielt. Vor allem der grösste der Teilnehmer, ein unfairer Hagel namens Tank Evans, macht unserem Cody regelmässig das Leben schwer. Der Riese hat die letzten neun Wettkämpfe gewonnen und ist scharf auf die zehnte Trophäe. Das wäre auch ganz im Sinn des Hauptsponsors Reggie Belafonte, der sich darum bemüht, dass auch das Pinguin-Sportfernsehen immer die besten Bilder liefert.
Cody sieht sich ohne Chance, als er beim ersten Versuch gleich ins Wasser fällt. Es sind aber seine Freunde, zu denen sich inzwischen auch eine herzige Baywatch-Pinguin-Dame und ein komischer Einsiedler gesellen, die ihm beibringen, dass wahre Gewinner nicht unbedingt zuoberst auf dem Treppchen stehen müssen. Ausserdem hat der scheinbar durchgeknallte Geek scheinbar mehr zu bieten, als es auf den ersten Blick scheint.
Um Teilnehmer des zehnten jährlichen "Big Z Memorial Championsship" zu sichten, schwimmt ein Wal durch die Gegend und ein Talentscout bringt die Teilnehmer an Bord. Cody sieht hier die perfekte Gelegenheit gekommen, springt, trotz grossem Gespött seines Bruders, auf den Wal. Dort freundet er sich mit Chicken Joe an, einem verrückten Huhn, das so leicht nichts aus der Ruhe bringt.
Doch siehe da. Die Konkurrenz auf "Pin Gu Island" ist härter als angenommen und Cody muss merken, dass nicht jedermann fair spielt. Vor allem der grösste der Teilnehmer, ein unfairer Hagel namens Tank Evans, macht unserem Cody regelmässig das Leben schwer. Der Riese hat die letzten neun Wettkämpfe gewonnen und ist scharf auf die zehnte Trophäe. Das wäre auch ganz im Sinn des Hauptsponsors Reggie Belafonte, der sich darum bemüht, dass auch das Pinguin-Sportfernsehen immer die besten Bilder liefert.
Cody sieht sich ohne Chance, als er beim ersten Versuch gleich ins Wasser fällt. Es sind aber seine Freunde, zu denen sich inzwischen auch eine herzige Baywatch-Pinguin-Dame und ein komischer Einsiedler gesellen, die ihm beibringen, dass wahre Gewinner nicht unbedingt zuoberst auf dem Treppchen stehen müssen. Ausserdem hat der scheinbar durchgeknallte Geek scheinbar mehr zu bieten, als es auf den ersten Blick scheint.
Death Sentence
Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.
Nick Hume ist ein freundlicher, ruhiger Manager mit einer intakten Familie, einem guten Job und einem perfekten Leben. Bis er seines Tages mit ansehen muss, wie sein ältester Sohn von einer Straßengang brutal ermordet wird. Gequält von Trauer und Schmerz ist Hume bald nur noch von einem Gedanken besessen: Rache. Er wird zu Richter, Jury und Henker in einer Person, denn alle Beteiligten sollen für das grauenvolle Verbrechen büßen, erbarmungslos und ohne Ausnahme.
Nick Hume ist ein freundlicher, ruhiger Manager mit einer intakten Familie, einem guten Job und einem perfekten Leben. Bis er seines Tages mit ansehen muss, wie sein ältester Sohn von einer Straßengang brutal ermordet wird. Gequält von Trauer und Schmerz ist Hume bald nur noch von einem Gedanken besessen: Rache. Er wird zu Richter, Jury und Henker in einer Person, denn alle Beteiligten sollen für das grauenvolle Verbrechen büßen, erbarmungslos und ohne Ausnahme.
Billy Jean, Look At Me
Sumpah drama ini lucu abis, dari awal cerita udah bikin ngakak..
Ceritanya Choi Hye Sung adalah seorang penyanyi berbakat tetapi pengangguran dan hidup susah. Dahulu, Choi Hye Sung ini adalah artis yang sangat populer dan sempat hampir meroket namanya. Namun, suatu ketika Ryu Bang Hee (tetangga, sekaligus teman SMA-nya) secara tidak sengaja membuat Choi Hye Sung kehilangan ketenarannya sehingga jatuh miskin. Kini, setelah 10 tahun, Ryu Bang Hee ingin menolong Choi Hye Sung kembali ke industri musik.
Hmm.. dari sinopsis yang saya buat, keliatannya ga ada lucu-lucunya ya? hehehe.. sebenernya kelucuannya ada di tengah-tengah cerita. Jadi, harus nonton sendiri baru bisa merasakannya. :p
Judul Drama ini (Billy Jean, nal-bwa-yo) diambil dari syair lagu Michael Jackson (yang dinyanyikan oleh Choi Hye Sung): Billy Jean is not my lover.. tapi, adiknya Ryu Bang Hee (yang notabene kurang paham bahasa inggris) menyanyikannya dengan pengucapan yang salah, menjadi: Billy Jean nal-bwa-yo.. (catatan: is not my lover mirip pengucapannya dengan nal-bwa-yo dalam bahasa Korea). Nal-bwa-yo itu sendiri artinya adalah lihatlah aku (look at me). hehehe… Karena lagu ini pula, Ryu Bang Hee sering menyebut Choi Hye Sung sebagai Billy Jean. Suatu ketika, ada sebuah stasiun TV memberitakan bahwa mantan penyanyi berinisial B bunuh diri. Ryu Bang Hee panik setengah mati.. dikiranya B itu Billy Jean.. padahal namanya kan Choi Hye Sung.
Total dramanya ada 3 musim (season): 26 episode @ 30 menit. Durasinya yang hanya 30 menit ini terasa sangat singkat dan kurang, pdhal filmnya lucu banget.
Ceritanya Choi Hye Sung adalah seorang penyanyi berbakat tetapi pengangguran dan hidup susah. Dahulu, Choi Hye Sung ini adalah artis yang sangat populer dan sempat hampir meroket namanya. Namun, suatu ketika Ryu Bang Hee (tetangga, sekaligus teman SMA-nya) secara tidak sengaja membuat Choi Hye Sung kehilangan ketenarannya sehingga jatuh miskin. Kini, setelah 10 tahun, Ryu Bang Hee ingin menolong Choi Hye Sung kembali ke industri musik.
Hmm.. dari sinopsis yang saya buat, keliatannya ga ada lucu-lucunya ya? hehehe.. sebenernya kelucuannya ada di tengah-tengah cerita. Jadi, harus nonton sendiri baru bisa merasakannya. :p
Judul Drama ini (Billy Jean, nal-bwa-yo) diambil dari syair lagu Michael Jackson (yang dinyanyikan oleh Choi Hye Sung): Billy Jean is not my lover.. tapi, adiknya Ryu Bang Hee (yang notabene kurang paham bahasa inggris) menyanyikannya dengan pengucapan yang salah, menjadi: Billy Jean nal-bwa-yo.. (catatan: is not my lover mirip pengucapannya dengan nal-bwa-yo dalam bahasa Korea). Nal-bwa-yo itu sendiri artinya adalah lihatlah aku (look at me). hehehe… Karena lagu ini pula, Ryu Bang Hee sering menyebut Choi Hye Sung sebagai Billy Jean. Suatu ketika, ada sebuah stasiun TV memberitakan bahwa mantan penyanyi berinisial B bunuh diri. Ryu Bang Hee panik setengah mati.. dikiranya B itu Billy Jean.. padahal namanya kan Choi Hye Sung.
Total dramanya ada 3 musim (season): 26 episode @ 30 menit. Durasinya yang hanya 30 menit ini terasa sangat singkat dan kurang, pdhal filmnya lucu banget.
Hostel 2
Es beginnt am Ende des 1. Teils. Der zweite Teil behandelt zwar das gleiche Thema wie der erste Teil - man darf für viel Geld Menschen quälen und töten - ist aber grundlegend anders aufgebaut. Während der erste Teil in der ersten Hälfte nur Sexszenen zeigte, findet man kaum so eine Szene im zweiten Teil. Außerdem ist er um einiges blutiger als Teil 1, wobei dazuzusagen ist, dass ich da wohl nur die ungeschnittene Fassung im Kino gesehen habe. Er ist also auch ein kleines Gegenstück, vorallem, weil diesmal Frauen in den "Hauptrollen" sind. Genauso, wie 2 "Desperate Housewife" Ehemänner. Der Film ist jetzt nicht unbedingt schlechter, er ist ziemlich gleich auf. Aber ich denke, er wird die "Hostelfans" spalten. Die einen finden den Film ohne die Sexszenen nicht vollständig, andere werden den Film gerade deswegen besser finden als Teil 1. Außerdem ist die Handlung um einiges durchdachter.
Wer den 1. Teil noch nicht kennt: Keine Angst, es ist nicht zwingend notwendig ihn zu sehen, da es einige Rückblenden am Anfang des Films gibt.
Wer den 1. Teil noch nicht kennt: Keine Angst, es ist nicht zwingend notwendig ihn zu sehen, da es einige Rückblenden am Anfang des Films gibt.
Die Vorahnung
Das Familienglück von Linda endet jäh, als ihr Mann bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben kommt. Doch schon am nächsten Morgen begegnet ihr Jim quicklebendig in der Küche. Hat Linda seinen Tod nur geträumt? Allerdings ist Jim nicht mehr der liebevolle Partner, den sie kennt. Dann findet Linda in ihrem Zimmer starke Psychopharmaka, die sie offensichtlich seit Tagen zu sich nimmt, ohne sich daran erinnern zu können. Einen Tag später erwacht sie in der Realität, ihr Mann ist tot, ihre Tochter hatte einen grauenvollen Unfall. Allmählich kommt sie hinter ein Geheimnis, das ihr Leben zu zerstören droht. Als sie am nächsten Morgen wieder mit einem lebendigen Jim erwacht, begreift sie, dass sie in ihr Schicksal eingreifen muss.
The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy 1)
Worum geht es im Amulet von Samarkand?
Der 12-jährige Zauberlehrling Nathaniel beschwört den mächtigen Djinni Bartimeus, um sich mit dessen Hilfe an em Zauberer und Parlamentsmitglied Simon Lovelace zu rächen, weil dieser ihn einst gedemütigt hatte. Nathaniel beauftragt Bartimeus, ihm das Amulett von Samarkand zu bringen, welches sich zur Zeit in Lovelaces Besitz befindet, doch Nathaniel hat keine Ahnung in welche Gefahr er alle bringen wird. Simon Lovelace hat bereits einmal gemordet, um in den Besitz des mächtigen Amulets zu kommen, den mit dessen Hilfe will er die englische Regierung stürzen, um selbst an die Macht zu kommen und er wird nichts unversucht lassen, um sich sein Amulet zurück zuholen. Wird Nathaniel die Menschen, die er mag beschützen können? Können er und Bartimeus Lovelaces Pläbe verhindern? Lest selbst!
So manch einer wird jetzt denken: Oh nein - nicht noch eine weitere Harry Potter Variante, aber ich kann euch versichern, daß "The Amulet of Samarkand" alles andere als eine Harry Potter Kopie ist, schon gar keine blaße. Die Welt von "The Amulet of Samarkand" ist düsterer, London (dort spielt die Geschichte) befindet sich im Krieg mit Prag, Menschen ohne Zauberkraft sind Außenseiter und die regierenden Zauberer, tun fast alles, um ihre Macht zu vergrößern. Andererseits ist "The Amulet of Samrkand" auch witzig, mitreißend und spannend erzählt, so daß man das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen kann.
Zur Erzählweise: die Geschichte wird abwechselnd aus der Sicht Nathaniels (Er-erzähler) und aus der Sicht Bartimeus' (Ich-Erzähler) erzählt - dabei sind besonders Bartimeus' Randnotizen zum Schreien komisch (ich habe mehrmals laut gelacht), denn an Selbstbewußtsein mangelt es ihm nun wirklich nicht.
Der 12-jährige Zauberlehrling Nathaniel beschwört den mächtigen Djinni Bartimeus, um sich mit dessen Hilfe an em Zauberer und Parlamentsmitglied Simon Lovelace zu rächen, weil dieser ihn einst gedemütigt hatte. Nathaniel beauftragt Bartimeus, ihm das Amulett von Samarkand zu bringen, welches sich zur Zeit in Lovelaces Besitz befindet, doch Nathaniel hat keine Ahnung in welche Gefahr er alle bringen wird. Simon Lovelace hat bereits einmal gemordet, um in den Besitz des mächtigen Amulets zu kommen, den mit dessen Hilfe will er die englische Regierung stürzen, um selbst an die Macht zu kommen und er wird nichts unversucht lassen, um sich sein Amulet zurück zuholen. Wird Nathaniel die Menschen, die er mag beschützen können? Können er und Bartimeus Lovelaces Pläbe verhindern? Lest selbst!
So manch einer wird jetzt denken: Oh nein - nicht noch eine weitere Harry Potter Variante, aber ich kann euch versichern, daß "The Amulet of Samarkand" alles andere als eine Harry Potter Kopie ist, schon gar keine blaße. Die Welt von "The Amulet of Samarkand" ist düsterer, London (dort spielt die Geschichte) befindet sich im Krieg mit Prag, Menschen ohne Zauberkraft sind Außenseiter und die regierenden Zauberer, tun fast alles, um ihre Macht zu vergrößern. Andererseits ist "The Amulet of Samrkand" auch witzig, mitreißend und spannend erzählt, so daß man das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen kann.
Zur Erzählweise: die Geschichte wird abwechselnd aus der Sicht Nathaniels (Er-erzähler) und aus der Sicht Bartimeus' (Ich-Erzähler) erzählt - dabei sind besonders Bartimeus' Randnotizen zum Schreien komisch (ich habe mehrmals laut gelacht), denn an Selbstbewußtsein mangelt es ihm nun wirklich nicht.
Ratatouille
Remy ist eine von gutem Essen verwöhnte Feinschmeckerratte in Paris, die sich für ihre große Leidenschaft allabendlich in der Küche eines Edelrestaurants in Lebensgefahr begibt. Sein Vater und der Bruder verfolgen Remys Leidenschaft mit Argwohn: Warum kann er nicht ein normales Rattenleben führen und Abfälle essen?
Nighttime is My Time
Wow! I just finished Nighttime is My Time and it's a terrific mystery. So many possible villains: Gordon Amory, Jack Emerson, Carter Stewart, Mark Fleischman, and those are just the obvious ones. The plot has to do with a high school reunion and its attendant honoring of some of the class's most successful graduates. There are six of them. The four men mentioned above and two women, actress Laura Wilcox and Dr. Jean Sheridan, historian and best selling author. All of the guys had rough lives as youngsters and a couple of them intensely hated Stonecroft Academy and everyone in it. However, one of them hated seven girls in particular. One of those, Alison Kendall, drowned in her pool only a short time before the reunion and everyone is abuzz about that as the weekend festivities begin.
On another front, Cornwall Police Detective Sam Deegan is still trying to solve the twenty-year-old murder of another young woman in town, Karen Sommers, and soon finds himself up to his earlobes in more murders, similar in method to Karen's. Stonecroft Gazette reporter extraordinaire, Jake Perkins, is on the scene to record reunion events, and ends up a major player as people begin to go missing.
Ms. Clark has woven her tale very carefully, presenting the reader with a red herring here and there, and in general making one's skin crawl as the plot unfolds. The evil one is an active character in the story in the form of his real persona and his alter ego. Clark conceals the killer's identity from the reader, until she's ready to expose him, by using his alter ego's moniker, The Owl, and having him forbid his victims to speak...even think, it appears...his real name.
A piece of advice for high school students reading this book: Be careful how you treat your fellow classmates, particularly at the lunch table.
On another front, Cornwall Police Detective Sam Deegan is still trying to solve the twenty-year-old murder of another young woman in town, Karen Sommers, and soon finds himself up to his earlobes in more murders, similar in method to Karen's. Stonecroft Gazette reporter extraordinaire, Jake Perkins, is on the scene to record reunion events, and ends up a major player as people begin to go missing.
Ms. Clark has woven her tale very carefully, presenting the reader with a red herring here and there, and in general making one's skin crawl as the plot unfolds. The evil one is an active character in the story in the form of his real persona and his alter ego. Clark conceals the killer's identity from the reader, until she's ready to expose him, by using his alter ego's moniker, The Owl, and having him forbid his victims to speak...even think, it appears...his real name.
A piece of advice for high school students reading this book: Be careful how you treat your fellow classmates, particularly at the lunch table.
Residence Evil 3 : Extinction
Fast 99 Prozent der Erdbevölkerung sind mittlerweile durch das todbringende T-Virus der Umbrella Corporation infiziert. Bis an die Zähne bewaffnet, treten Carlos (Oded Fehr), L.J. (Mike Epps), Claire (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke) und Nurse Betty (Ashanti) die Flucht aus den zerstörten Städten an, in der Hoffnung noch weitere nicht infizierte Überlebende zu finden. Alice (Milla Jovovich) folgt dem Convoy, bereit an der Seite ihrer Mitstreiter gegen die lauernden Untoten und düsteren Machenschaften der Umbrella Corporation zu kämpfen. Doch dies ist nicht Alices einziger Kampf: genetisch manipuliert von Dr. Isaacs Experimenten, kann sie sich selbst nicht mehr trauen. Ihr letzter Ausweg ist, die Umbrella Corporation endgültig zu vernichten.
The Invisible
Teenager Nick Powell ist intelligent, gut aussehend und stammt aus reichem Hause, trotzdem fehlt ihm die Luft zum Atmen. Seit dem Tod seines Vaters hat seine Mutter die strahlende Zukunft ihres Sohnes minutiös durchgeplant, dabei würde Nick selbst doch viel lieber in London an seiner Literaturkarriere arbeiten. Aufgrund einer Verwechslung wird Nick eines Nachts von der Kleinkriminellen Annie und ihren Kumpanen überfallen und zusammengeschlagen. In dem Glauben, ihn versehentlich getötet zu haben, lassen sie ihr Opfer in einem Versteck im Wald zurück. Doch Nick ist nicht tot, er schwebt nur in einem lebensbedrohlichen Koma. Seine Seele löst sich vom Körper ab und er kann fortan in einer Welt zwischen Leben und Tod seine Umgebung beobachten, ohne dass seine Mitmenschen ihn dabei ihrerseits jedoch wahrnehmen könnten – für sie ist er unsichtbar. Irgendwie muss Nick es nun schaffen, die Polizei zu seinem hilflos verborgenen Körper zu führen. Wie er dies jedoch bewerkstelligen soll, bleibt ihm lange Zeit ein Rätsel – gerade da Annie, also ausgerechnet seine vermeintliche Mörderin, die einzige zu sein scheint, mit der er Kontakt aufnehmen kann…
A Time To Kill
The book is based in Clanton, Mississippi. Two drunk rednecks decide to rape a ten year old black girl. Her dad, Carl Lee Hailey, decides to kill the two rednecks. He gets his justice. He kills the two rednecks with an M-16 Automatic. He also accidentally hits one of the security guards. The security guard's leg has to get amputated. Carl Lee has to find a good lawyer. He finds a white man named Jake Brigance. The KKK comes back to Ford County for the first time in a long time. Carl Lee and Jake almost get killed many times throughout the book. At trial, Jake says that anyone with a daughter would kill the person that raped her. Carl Lee and Jake use an insanity defense. The case goes to the jury.
Next
A man with the ability to see the future and change the outcome of events before they occur is forced to choose between saving himself and saving the world in this supernatural thriller starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day, The Edge). Cris Johnson (Cage) is a Las Vegas magician who possesses the unique ability to witness the events of the immediate future moments before they happen. As a child Cris was subjected to a series of cruel experiments by government scientists and doctors, but a change of name and a new identity allowed the tortured psychic to elude detection and start a new life away from the prying eyes of his former captors. Though his clairvoyant vision only extends a few minutes into the future, it has still allowed Cris to eke out a living as a low-rent Las Vegas magician while earning a little extra cash at the blackjack tables. Up to this point in his life Cris has never used his power for anything substantial, but when he experiences a vision of Los Angeles being incinerated in a nuclear holocaust, the small-time magician realizes that he could hold the key to saving millions of lives. But as low as he has tried to lie in recent years, Cris has never completely escaped detection by the government. Now, as terrorists prepare to unleash the ultimate horror on an unsuspecting city, FBI counter terror agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) sets out to capture Cris and convince him to use his exceptional gift to prevent the nuclear nightmare from becoming a terrifying reality.
28 Weeks Later
28 Weeks after the Rage Virus has infected London, rebuilding begins with the assistance of the US Army. When the virus re-enters the fortified city, the survivors must escape their killers, both human and infected.
28 Weeks after the rage virus infected everyone in Great Britain, the U.S. Army inspects the city of London and announces that the city is now safe, because the virus has burnt itself out. The army begins to clean up London and brings in British refugees who were not infected. They are all quarantined on an island near the wharf in London. Don (Robert Carlyle) was able to escape the infected zombies, but his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) became a victim of the rage. Don is reunited with his two children who were abroad on a camping trip during the outbreak. Unfortunately for the new population of London, the virus is not totally dead; it only takes one person to start the process all over again. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)
The one person is none other than Don's wife Alice who was bitten by an infected boy when her village was attacked. Now that the family is reunited... the terror begins...
28 Weeks after the rage virus infected everyone in Great Britain, the U.S. Army inspects the city of London and announces that the city is now safe, because the virus has burnt itself out. The army begins to clean up London and brings in British refugees who were not infected. They are all quarantined on an island near the wharf in London. Don (Robert Carlyle) was able to escape the infected zombies, but his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) became a victim of the rage. Don is reunited with his two children who were abroad on a camping trip during the outbreak. Unfortunately for the new population of London, the virus is not totally dead; it only takes one person to start the process all over again. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)
The one person is none other than Don's wife Alice who was bitten by an infected boy when her village was attacked. Now that the family is reunited... the terror begins...
Lizenz zum Heiraten
Ben und Sadie (Mandy Moore) sind frisch verlobt und wollen nur eines: bis an ihr Lebensende glücklich sein. Die Sache hat allerdings einen Haken: Sadie ist Mitglied der St.-Augustine-Kirche, und dort führt Pastor Frank (Robin Williams) das Regiment – er gibt Ben und Sadie seinen Segen erst, nachdem sie seinen patentierten, „narrensicheren“ Ehevorbereitungskurs erfolgreich absolviert haben.
Pastor Franks rigoroser Lehrplan besteht aus völlig abgedrehten Lektionen, haarsträubenden „Hausaufgaben“ und drastisch intimen Schnüffeleien, die Bens und Sadies Beziehung auf eine harte Probe stellen. Glücklich bis an ihr Lebensende? Viel eher stellt sich jetzt die Frage, ob die beiden es überhaupt jemals bis vor den Altar schaffen...
Pastor Franks rigoroser Lehrplan besteht aus völlig abgedrehten Lektionen, haarsträubenden „Hausaufgaben“ und drastisch intimen Schnüffeleien, die Bens und Sadies Beziehung auf eine harte Probe stellen. Glücklich bis an ihr Lebensende? Viel eher stellt sich jetzt die Frage, ob die beiden es überhaupt jemals bis vor den Altar schaffen...
Enter the Phoenix
Hung ist ein mächtiger Triadenboss in Hongkong. Als er stirbt, soll sein Sohn Georgie die Nachfolge treten. Das Problem ist nur: er ist schwul. Als man Georgie aufspürt, gibt sich sein Freund Sam als Sohn des Triadenführers aus. Der echte Nachkomme Hungs muss sich derweil als Sam ausgeben. Auf der Beerdigung des Paten wird es brenzlig, denn unter den Besuchern befindet sich Chow Siu, der die Ambition hat, selbst die Triaden zu übernehmen.
Chuck und Larry - Wie Feuer und Flamme
Chuck (Adam Sandler) und sein bester Freund Larry (Kevin James) arbeiten bei der New Yorker Feuerwehr. Um nach dem Tod seiner Frau die Zukunft seinen Kinder abzusichern überredet Larry seinen Kumpel Chuck eine Scheinehe einzugehen. Alex McDonough (Jessica Biel) soll nun für die Behörden untersuchen, ob alles nur ein Schwindel ist, oder ob die beiden wirklich schwul sind. Für den Frauenheld Chuck ist es nicht leicht sich zurückzuhalten, besonders nachdem er in Alex scheinbar seine Traumfrau gefunden hat.
Rezept zum Verlieben
Im Privatleben wie auch als Meisterköchin des noblen Restaurants 22 Bleecker in Manhattan lässt sich Kate Armstrong (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) niemals die Butter vom Baguette nehmen – immer stellt sie sich ihren Aufgaben sehr direkt und mit großem Engagement. Freunde, Kollegen und Kunden erleben sie als beeindruckende Persönlichkeit, fühlen sich durch ihr Auftreten aber auch oft vor den Kopf gestoßen. Mit atemberaubender Konzentration rackert sich Kate durch jede hektische Schicht, koordiniert Hunderte von Bestellungen, rührt köstliche Saucen an, würzt und gart jedes Gericht bis zur absoluten Perfektion.
Zwischen Töpfen und Pfannen fühlt sich Kate am wohlsten – sie verlässt den Schutz ihrer berühmten Küche nur widerwillig, um Komplimente für ihre kulinarischen Großtaten entgegenzunehmen – oder sich mit einem Gast anzulegen, der ihre Kochkunst infrage stellt. Gegen Mitternacht fällt sie todmüde ins Bett, weil sie schon vor Sonnenaufgang wieder unterwegs ist, um den Konkurrenten auf dem Fischmarkt die frischesten Wolfsbarsche wegzuschnappen.
Als der schlagfertige, stets gut gelaunte und total coole Nick Palmer (AARON ECKHART) als neuer Koch zu Kates Team stößt, wird ihr Perfektionismus auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Denn Nick ist selbst bereits ein Star der New Yorker Restaurantszene. Mit seiner lockeren Art und seinem Faible für Opernarien wirkt er auf die Kollegen sehr sympathisch. Doch weil er weder das Leben noch die Haute Cuisine allzu ernst nimmt, kollidiert er sofort mit der völlig anders gearteten Kate – wie ein Messer, das mit schrillem Quietschen über einen Porzellanteller schabt. Trotzdem ist unverkennbar, dass es zwischen den beiden knistert ...
Zwischen Töpfen und Pfannen fühlt sich Kate am wohlsten – sie verlässt den Schutz ihrer berühmten Küche nur widerwillig, um Komplimente für ihre kulinarischen Großtaten entgegenzunehmen – oder sich mit einem Gast anzulegen, der ihre Kochkunst infrage stellt. Gegen Mitternacht fällt sie todmüde ins Bett, weil sie schon vor Sonnenaufgang wieder unterwegs ist, um den Konkurrenten auf dem Fischmarkt die frischesten Wolfsbarsche wegzuschnappen.
Als der schlagfertige, stets gut gelaunte und total coole Nick Palmer (AARON ECKHART) als neuer Koch zu Kates Team stößt, wird ihr Perfektionismus auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Denn Nick ist selbst bereits ein Star der New Yorker Restaurantszene. Mit seiner lockeren Art und seinem Faible für Opernarien wirkt er auf die Kollegen sehr sympathisch. Doch weil er weder das Leben noch die Haute Cuisine allzu ernst nimmt, kollidiert er sofort mit der völlig anders gearteten Kate – wie ein Messer, das mit schrillem Quietschen über einen Porzellanteller schabt. Trotzdem ist unverkennbar, dass es zwischen den beiden knistert ...
Hairspray
Busting onto the screen with a catchy ditty called “Good Morning Baltimore,” Tracy Turnblad (engaging newcomer Nikki Blonsky) declares her love for her city, singing, and dancing while strutting her stuff down the streets of Baltimore circa 1961. She’s a happy girl with a healthy appetite who can dance better than the kids on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV program made up of white teenagers with perfect teeth and perfect figures. Tracy’s given the chance to prove she has what it takes when one of the show’s female dancers is forced to take a nine-month leave of absence
During tryouts Tracy is put down and told off by the horrid station manager Velma Von Tussle (Pfeiffer) and her equally self-absorbed daughter, Amber (Snow). Even Tracy’s mother Edna (Travolta in one of the most interesting roles of his career) doesn’t believe someone of Tracy’s size (she’s beyond pleasantly plump) will ever have a chance at landing a spot on a TV series. But Tracy’s been taking lessons from the black kids she hangs out with in detention and her far-out moves help win her the job.
Tracy quickly figures out that what’s going on on the show isn’t fair and shouldn’t be tolerated. Velma’s more than just an obnoxious loudmouth; she’s a racist who won’t allow Corny Collins to integrate the show and only reluctantly puts up with the ‘Negro Day’ broadcasts. One day a month Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifah) takes over for Corny (James Marsden), spinning records and hosting talented dancers who don’t conform to Velma’s ‘whites only’ standards. Taking up the cause, Tracy proudly proclaims that every day should be Negro Day and joins Motormouth Maybelle and her friends to work on ending segregation – at least at the TV station.
During tryouts Tracy is put down and told off by the horrid station manager Velma Von Tussle (Pfeiffer) and her equally self-absorbed daughter, Amber (Snow). Even Tracy’s mother Edna (Travolta in one of the most interesting roles of his career) doesn’t believe someone of Tracy’s size (she’s beyond pleasantly plump) will ever have a chance at landing a spot on a TV series. But Tracy’s been taking lessons from the black kids she hangs out with in detention and her far-out moves help win her the job.
Tracy quickly figures out that what’s going on on the show isn’t fair and shouldn’t be tolerated. Velma’s more than just an obnoxious loudmouth; she’s a racist who won’t allow Corny Collins to integrate the show and only reluctantly puts up with the ‘Negro Day’ broadcasts. One day a month Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifah) takes over for Corny (James Marsden), spinning records and hosting talented dancers who don’t conform to Velma’s ‘whites only’ standards. Taking up the cause, Tracy proudly proclaims that every day should be Negro Day and joins Motormouth Maybelle and her friends to work on ending segregation – at least at the TV station.
Hello Miss!
Lee Su-ha (played by Lee Da-hae) inherited the historical home, Hwa Ahn Dang, of the Je-an Lee clan after her father left for Seoul with another woman years ago and her mother died last year of stomach cancer. That is when her dual life began as the head of the nearly-ruined clan as she refused to give up on the Hwa Ahn Dang. But one day she meets Hwang Dong-kyu (played by Lee Ji-hoon), who asks her to sell the Hwa Ahn Dang to him by any means. Dong-kyu is the grandson of a servant who 50 years ago ran away from the Hwa Ahn Dang after stealing its cow and a bale of rice. But after much bickering, Su-ha and Dong-kyu end up falling in love with each other.
Zimmer 1408
Mike Enslin (John Cusack) hat zwei erfolgreiche Bücher über Hotels, in denen es angeblich spukt, veröffentlicht. Nach dem Tod seiner Tochter stürzt er sich noch kompromissloser in die Arbeit. Derzeit fasziniert ihn ein besonders mysteriöser Fall: Im Zimmer 1408 des New Yorker Dolphin Hotel sind unter seltsamen Umständen bereits 56 Gäste gestorben. Um der Wahrheit auf den Grund zu gehen, schlägt Mike alle Warnungen des Hotelmanagers (Samuel L. Jackson) in den Wind und übernachtet in Nr. 1408 – ein kafkaesker Alptraum beginnt.
The Devil's Teardrop
Thriller readers can always count on getting extra value from Jeffrey Deaver--strong plots, fascinating research, believable characters and plenty of surprise endings. Like in The Terminator, the bad guys in The Devil's Teardrop just won't quit and create enough havoc in the last 50 pages to fill a whole new book.
Although Deaver's brilliant, wheelchair-bound forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme makes a guest appearance, the muscular scientist in charge here is Parker Kincaid--an expert in document analysis who'd much rather be checking the authenticity of letters from Thomas Jefferson than figuring out when a crazed shooter known as the Digger will strike again. But it's New Year's Eve, 1999, and the Digger has begun a reign of terror--promising to shoot into crowds in Washington, D.C., every four hours until he's paid $20 million. As Kincaid searches an odd ransom note for clues (and tries to maintain a low profile so that his vindictive ex-wife won't get custody of his young kids), we get to know the Digger better. He is a frighteningly invisible character with serious brain damage, who methodically obeys a set of instructions from an unknown handler. We also learn many amazing things about paper, ink and handwriting analysis, and watch as a relationship slowly and reluctantly develops between Kincaid and the FBI agent in charge. All this as the devious Deaver leads us down several garden paths overflowing with bodies.
Although Deaver's brilliant, wheelchair-bound forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme makes a guest appearance, the muscular scientist in charge here is Parker Kincaid--an expert in document analysis who'd much rather be checking the authenticity of letters from Thomas Jefferson than figuring out when a crazed shooter known as the Digger will strike again. But it's New Year's Eve, 1999, and the Digger has begun a reign of terror--promising to shoot into crowds in Washington, D.C., every four hours until he's paid $20 million. As Kincaid searches an odd ransom note for clues (and tries to maintain a low profile so that his vindictive ex-wife won't get custody of his young kids), we get to know the Digger better. He is a frighteningly invisible character with serious brain damage, who methodically obeys a set of instructions from an unknown handler. We also learn many amazing things about paper, ink and handwriting analysis, and watch as a relationship slowly and reluctantly develops between Kincaid and the FBI agent in charge. All this as the devious Deaver leads us down several garden paths overflowing with bodies.
The First Time
Mattie Hart has spent the past 16 years destroying the evidence of an unfaithful husband: she has brushed aside countless scraps of scribbled phone numbers, thrown away hotel receipts she finds in her husband's coat pockets, and ripped up love notes. Finally, with the recent discovery of yet another indiscretion, she realizes that shredding physical evidence has done nothing to prevent her emotional fraying. Yet before Mattie can confront Jake, a high-profile defense lawyer, and come to grips with the fact that he has never loved her, he moves out of their beautiful suburban Chicago home and into his latest young paramour's apartment. And then Mattie receives some devastating news from her doctor: she has Lou Gehrig's disease. Struggling with a guilty conscience, Jake moves back home to care for his wife and repair relations with their angry teenage daughter, Kim. After a bout of furious denial, Mattie finds herself in the compromising position of depending upon a man whom she has never fully trusted. She also must convince Kim that her previously absent father will be there for her in the future. This is rich stuff. While skimping on plot, Fielding has created an adept study of three flawed characters who, after years of playing head games, must learn how to communicate. Despite such heavy psychological drama, the tone lightens as together these three vanquish inner demons. In the end, even as the novel races toward tragedy, Mattie prevails. Fielding has again pushed a seemingly fragile heroine to the brink, only to have her fight back, tooth and nail. This time, though, death is not the greatest threat.
The House Next Door
the house next door ist ein sehr guter film und ich möchte auch gerne kurz etwas über die story schreiben:
Lori und Tom Peterson sind sehr glücklich, dass sie ihr Traumhaus gefunden haben. Schnell werden die beiden in die nachbarliche Gemeinschaft aufgenommen. Besonders Carl und Helen Schmidt aus dem Haus nebenan bemühen sich auf reizende Weise um das junge Paar. Doch Lori kann zu Carl kein Vertrauen fassen. Immer wieder glaubt sie ihn bei kleinen brutalen Entgleisungen zu ertappen. Eines Nachts schreckt sie vom Geräusch eines Schusses hoch. Und sie beobachtet, wie Carl etwas im Garten vergräbt. Für sie steht fest: Carl hat seine Frau getötet. Doch niemand will ihr glauben. Und Tom ist auf einer langen Geschäftsreise.
zu viel mag ich auch nicht verraten.
Lori und Tom Peterson sind sehr glücklich, dass sie ihr Traumhaus gefunden haben. Schnell werden die beiden in die nachbarliche Gemeinschaft aufgenommen. Besonders Carl und Helen Schmidt aus dem Haus nebenan bemühen sich auf reizende Weise um das junge Paar. Doch Lori kann zu Carl kein Vertrauen fassen. Immer wieder glaubt sie ihn bei kleinen brutalen Entgleisungen zu ertappen. Eines Nachts schreckt sie vom Geräusch eines Schusses hoch. Und sie beobachtet, wie Carl etwas im Garten vergräbt. Für sie steht fest: Carl hat seine Frau getötet. Doch niemand will ihr glauben. Und Tom ist auf einer langen Geschäftsreise.
zu viel mag ich auch nicht verraten.
Das Bourne Ultimatum
Nach seiner Flucht quer durch Europa und dem Tod seiner Freundin ist die Vergangenheit von Ein-Mann-Eliteeinheit Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) noch immer weitgehend unbekanntes, aber höchst gefährliches Terrain. Von Rache angetrieben und gnadenlosen Profikillern gehetzt, flüchtet Bourne nach einem heftigen Gefecht aus Moskau über Paris, Madrid und London bis nach Tanger und New York, um sein eigenes Geheimnis zu enthüllen. Mörderische Regierungsagenten, die Bundespolizei und Interpol sind ihm dicht auf den Fersen.
Princess Hours (Goong)
Princess Hours or more commonly known as Goong (2006) is a romantic korean drama. Story evolves around the current Crown Prince of the Korean royal family (This is just a fiction. Korea is no longer ruled by kings). The story started off with a deal made by the previous emperor and his good friend that their grandchildren will get married to each other. At that time, the royal grandchild intended was Yul but when Yul’s dad (Crown Prince at that time) died in an accident, then Shin (Joo Ji Hoon), Yul’s cousin, took over as the Crown Prince after the emperor passed away.
But Shin has someone whom he liked (Hyo Rin) and decided to propose to her. Shin was rejected so he agreed to take up the arranged marriage with Chae-kyung (Yoon Eun Hye). However, he still hangs around with Hyo Rin quite often. Meanwhile, Yul who just came back from overseas, fell in love with Chae-kyung. As both Shin and Chae-kyung are now the Crown Prince and Princess of Korea, their quite intimate relations with Hyo Rin and Yul respectively creates rumours after rumours, which jeopardise the status of the royal family.
After living with Chae-kyung for long, Shin began to like her. But will he be too late to prevent Yul from taking her? At the end of this drama, there was a little unexpected twist but still an acceptable one. Anyway, Princess Hours 2 is in the making.
I like the two songs from the OST; Perhaps Love and Close with you.
But Shin has someone whom he liked (Hyo Rin) and decided to propose to her. Shin was rejected so he agreed to take up the arranged marriage with Chae-kyung (Yoon Eun Hye). However, he still hangs around with Hyo Rin quite often. Meanwhile, Yul who just came back from overseas, fell in love with Chae-kyung. As both Shin and Chae-kyung are now the Crown Prince and Princess of Korea, their quite intimate relations with Hyo Rin and Yul respectively creates rumours after rumours, which jeopardise the status of the royal family.
After living with Chae-kyung for long, Shin began to like her. But will he be too late to prevent Yul from taking her? At the end of this drama, there was a little unexpected twist but still an acceptable one. Anyway, Princess Hours 2 is in the making.
I like the two songs from the OST; Perhaps Love and Close with you.
i-see-you.com
Seit Sohn Colby das Haus der Bellingers heimlich mit Webcams ausgestattet hat, verfolgen Millionen ihr Leben unter www.i-see-you.com.
Die nichts ahnenden Bellingers werden über Nacht berühmt. Als sie erfahren, dass alle intimen Details der Familie live im Internet zu sehen sind, ist der Schock groß. Bis Colby sie überzeugt, mit der Idee Geld zu machen: Um das Interesse noch zu steigern, engagieren die Bellingers also einen rassigen italienischen Koch und für Colby eine sexy Freundin. Als jedoch Mutter und Tochter gleichzeitig den attraktiven Koch verführen und Colbys echte Freundin auftaucht, ist das Chaos perfekt.
Zusammen ist man weniger allein
Der Nummer 1-Hit aus Frankreich ist eine temperamentvolle romantische Komödie mit Audrey „Amélie“ Tautou: Als weltfremde Putzfrau mit Zeichentalent wirbelt sie eine friedliche Pariser Männer-WG aus einem stotternden Historiker und einem schürzenjagenden Koch durcheinander. Dazu kommt noch eine vitale Seniorin auf der Flucht vor dem Altersheim. Es kommt zu höchst vergnüglichen Turbulenzen, bis die vier entdecken, dass es zusammen viel leichter ist, Träume wahr werden zu lassen.
Beim Ersten Mal
Der lebensfrohe Ben ist kein Kind von Traurigkeit. In einer Bar lernt er die bildschöne Amy kennen und nach ein paar gemeinsamen Drinks landen sie zusammen im Bett. Das böse Erwachen folgt acht Wochen später, als Ben das Mädchen erstmals wiedertrifft und von ihr erfährt, dass sie schwanger ist von ihm. Nach anfänglichem Hadern beschließen die beiden, es dem Baby zuliebe mit einer Beziehung zu versuchen. Und damit gehen die Probleme auch schon los.
Evan Allmächtig
Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) hat es geschafft und wurde zum Kongressabgeordneten gewählt. Gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Joan (Lauren Graham) und seinen drei Kindern zieht er in eine bessere Gegend und will ein dazu passendes besseres Leben starten. Sein Vorgesetzter, der Kongressabgeordnete Long (John Goodman) hält viel von ihm und gibt ihm bereits wichtige Angelegenheiten zur Bearbeitung. Doch es kommt alles anders: Gott (Morgan Freeman) möchte dass Evan eine Arche für ihn baut um ganz im Stile von Noah ein Paar von jeder Tiergattung von einer Flut zu retten. Zwar weigert sich Evan zunächst, aber Gott hat so seine Möglichkeiten zu bekommen was er will...
Von Frau zu Frau
Daphne Wilders (DIANE KEATON) Mutterliebe kennt keine Grenzen. Allein hat sie drei Mädchen großgezogen: die bedächtige, sympathische Milly (MANDY MOORE) die ausgeglichene Psychologin Maggie (LAUREN GRAHAM). Und die Töchter sind so gut geraten, dass andere Mütter nur davon träumen können.
Problematisch ist nur, dass die drei sie am liebsten erwürgen würden.
Daphne möchte ihre Jüngste Milly vor dem falschen Mann bewahren, der ihr selbst einst nicht erspart blieb, und will sie deshalb mit Mr. Perfect verkuppeln. Dabei verschweigt die Mutter geflissentlich, dass sie dabei eine Online-Partnervermittlung in Anspruch nimmt. Denn niemand weiß besser als Daphne, welcher Mann als Lebenspartner ihrer Tochter geeignet ist (von ihrer Kleidung und Berufswahl ganz zu schweigen). Und so ist das komische Chaos vorprogrammiert, denn Mom meint es ja nur gut, wenn sie ständig alles falsch macht – aus Liebe zu ihrer Tochter.
Ist Daphnes (äh, Millys) Traummann also der verantwortungsvolle Architekt Jason (TOM EVERETT SCOTT) oder doch eher der unkonventionelle Rocker Johnny (GABRIEL MACHT)? Daphne wird jedenfalls so lange drängeln, schmeicheln, Vorschläge machen, nörgeln und sich selbst in die geringfügigsten Entscheidungen ihrer Tochter einmischen, bis sie Millys eigenen Lebensentwurf korrigiert hat – oder ihre Girls in den Wahnsinn treibt.
Erst als Johnnys Vater Joe (STEPHEN COLLINS) einen tief in Daphnes Herzen glimmenden Funken entfacht, gerät die Matriarchin total aus dem Konzept. Endlich beginnt sie darüber nachzudenken, warum sie ihre eigenen Probleme auf Kosten ihrer Töchter lösen will...
Problematisch ist nur, dass die drei sie am liebsten erwürgen würden.
Daphne möchte ihre Jüngste Milly vor dem falschen Mann bewahren, der ihr selbst einst nicht erspart blieb, und will sie deshalb mit Mr. Perfect verkuppeln. Dabei verschweigt die Mutter geflissentlich, dass sie dabei eine Online-Partnervermittlung in Anspruch nimmt. Denn niemand weiß besser als Daphne, welcher Mann als Lebenspartner ihrer Tochter geeignet ist (von ihrer Kleidung und Berufswahl ganz zu schweigen). Und so ist das komische Chaos vorprogrammiert, denn Mom meint es ja nur gut, wenn sie ständig alles falsch macht – aus Liebe zu ihrer Tochter.
Ist Daphnes (äh, Millys) Traummann also der verantwortungsvolle Architekt Jason (TOM EVERETT SCOTT) oder doch eher der unkonventionelle Rocker Johnny (GABRIEL MACHT)? Daphne wird jedenfalls so lange drängeln, schmeicheln, Vorschläge machen, nörgeln und sich selbst in die geringfügigsten Entscheidungen ihrer Tochter einmischen, bis sie Millys eigenen Lebensentwurf korrigiert hat – oder ihre Girls in den Wahnsinn treibt.
Erst als Johnnys Vater Joe (STEPHEN COLLINS) einen tief in Daphnes Herzen glimmenden Funken entfacht, gerät die Matriarchin total aus dem Konzept. Endlich beginnt sie darüber nachzudenken, warum sie ihre eigenen Probleme auf Kosten ihrer Töchter lösen will...
High Society
Clemmie Colshannon's life appears to be on a fast track to nowhere - having lost her job and her boyfriend on the same day, she's retreated to the bosom of her family in Cornwall to recover. Fortunately, life chez Colshannon is never dull. Her mother has taken over the amateur dramatics society and is busy roping the locals into a production of Calamity Jane; brother Barney is going to extreme lengths to impress a girl; and sister Holly, who is a reporter on the Bristol Gazette, needs help with a story. Fellow journalist Emma McKellan, who writes the social diary, has gone missing days before she was due to be married. As Holly and Clemmie search for clues as to her whereabouts in an attempt to reunite her with her fiance, it's not long before the drama turns into a crisis and the whole family is forced to flee to the south of France with an ex-convict hot on their heels ...Wonderful characters, sparkling dialogue and a fabulously funny story make Sarah Mason's third novel unmissable.
Transformers
"You shoot, I'll drive!" .. Before time began, there was... the cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them... with life. That is how our race was born. For a time we had lived in harmony, but like all great power, some wanted it for good... others, evil. And so, began the war. A war that ravages our planet until it was consumed by death. And the cube was lost to the far reaches of space. We step in across the galaxy hoping to find it and rebuild our home. Searching every star. Every world. And just when all hopes seem lost; message of a new discovery took us to an unknown planet called... Earth. But we were already too late.
High-school student Sam Witwicky buys his first car, who is actually the Autobot Bumblebee. Bumblebee defends Sam and his girlfriend Mikaela Banes from the Decepticon Barricade, before the other Autobots arrive on Earth. They are searching for the Allspark, and the war on Earth heats up as the Decepticons attack a United States military base in Qatar. Sam and Mikaela are taken by the top-secret agency Sector 7 to help stop the Decepticons, but when they learn the agency also intends to destroy the Autobots, they formulate their own plan to save the world.
High-school student Sam Witwicky buys his first car, who is actually the Autobot Bumblebee. Bumblebee defends Sam and his girlfriend Mikaela Banes from the Decepticon Barricade, before the other Autobots arrive on Earth. They are searching for the Allspark, and the war on Earth heats up as the Decepticons attack a United States military base in Qatar. Sam and Mikaela are taken by the top-secret agency Sector 7 to help stop the Decepticons, but when they learn the agency also intends to destroy the Autobots, they formulate their own plan to save the world.
Autumn in Paris
Tara Dupont menyukai Paris dan musim gugur. Ia mengira sudah memiliki segalanya dalam hidup... sampai ia bertemu Tatsuya Fujisawa yang susah ditebak dan selalu membangkitkan rasa penasarannya sejak awal.
Tatsuya Fujisawa benci Paris dan musim gugur. Ia datang ke Paris untuk mencari orang yang menghancurkan hidupnya. Namun ia tidak menduga akan terpesona pada Tara Dupont, gadis yang cerewet tapi bisa menenangkan jiwa dan pikirannya... juga mengubah dunianya.
Tara maupun Tatsuya sama sekali tidak menyadari benang yang menghubungkan mereka dengan masa lalu, adanya rahasia yang menghancurkan segala harapan, perasaan, dan keyakinan. Ketika kebenaran terungkap, tersingkap pula arti putus asa... arti tak berdaya... Kenyataan juga begitu menyakitkan hingga mendorong salah satu dari mereka ingin mengakhiri hidup....
Tatsuya Fujisawa benci Paris dan musim gugur. Ia datang ke Paris untuk mencari orang yang menghancurkan hidupnya. Namun ia tidak menduga akan terpesona pada Tara Dupont, gadis yang cerewet tapi bisa menenangkan jiwa dan pikirannya... juga mengubah dunianya.
Tara maupun Tatsuya sama sekali tidak menyadari benang yang menghubungkan mereka dengan masa lalu, adanya rahasia yang menghancurkan segala harapan, perasaan, dan keyakinan. Ketika kebenaran terungkap, tersingkap pula arti putus asa... arti tak berdaya... Kenyataan juga begitu menyakitkan hingga mendorong salah satu dari mereka ingin mengakhiri hidup....
The Zahir
There are themes of love, belonging, separation, anxiety, heartbreak, understanding, alienation, need, want. Many settings, in many places including Paris, Madrid, Kazakstan. The themes are ones that absorb all humankind whether we realize them or not.
I read this book at a bad time in my life. It spoke to me deeply of love and understanding, in a way that I think many couples, many who have loved or lost will instantly empathize with. Following in the narrator's steps, we arrive where he does, gain wisdom as he does, and achieve enlightenment as he does. And hopefully, find and regain true love that had been neglected, as he does.
Coelho's native language is not English, yet none of his writing feels "translated" or stilted like happens to many foreign writings when they appear in English.
It is as if the author has a special gift for storytelling that transcends individual languages, the the vast number of countries in which his books have been published seems to support that.
Whether you are looking to be entertained by a lively tale, or are seeking solace and understanding as I was, The Zahir will fill your need. If you are in need of both then it behooves you to read everything this master storyteller has written.
I read this book at a bad time in my life. It spoke to me deeply of love and understanding, in a way that I think many couples, many who have loved or lost will instantly empathize with. Following in the narrator's steps, we arrive where he does, gain wisdom as he does, and achieve enlightenment as he does. And hopefully, find and regain true love that had been neglected, as he does.
Coelho's native language is not English, yet none of his writing feels "translated" or stilted like happens to many foreign writings when they appear in English.
It is as if the author has a special gift for storytelling that transcends individual languages, the the vast number of countries in which his books have been published seems to support that.
Whether you are looking to be entertained by a lively tale, or are seeking solace and understanding as I was, The Zahir will fill your need. If you are in need of both then it behooves you to read everything this master storyteller has written.
Sons of Fortune
A meddling nurse decides to play God and let one woman who gives birth to twins think one of them has died. She gives the other twin to her employer who has difficulty carrying a baby to full-term. So begins the story of two young boys whose lives parallel each other in remarkable ways through triumphs and tragedies. Nat grows up in his natural parents middle-class lifestyle while Fletcher becomes the heir to a wealthy family's largesse. Their days at boarding school and college are told in such a way that only enhances Archer's reputation as a master storyteller, albeit not so perfect on all factual information. Nat becomes a VietNam hero, Fletcher becomes a community savior. Both have lucrative careers in New York, but are brought back to their hometown in Connecticut. They are propelled into political careers that have them both running for Governor of the state. Meanwhile, an old nemesis of both is murdered and one stands trial while the other defends him. All the while, the reader is breathlessly waiting for the BIG NEWS to be revealed. Will anyone notice the similarities as they stand side by side? Will their innate connection tip anyone off to the true story? Will their lives change dramatically if the truth is ever revealed?
Unfortunately, an otherwise great book falters terribly in the final section. Senseless tragedy in each man's family only compounded this reader's frustration. After being dumbstruck at the ending, I can only offer this to those of you who share my feelings at the ending: go back and read the beginning of Chapter 31 and then reread the last paragraph when the mayor TURNS AROUND to face the two candidates.
Not perfect, but I still found it well worth reading and totally enjoyable if not a bit let-down by what could have been the most tear-jerking reunion ever, but wasn't.
Unfortunately, an otherwise great book falters terribly in the final section. Senseless tragedy in each man's family only compounded this reader's frustration. After being dumbstruck at the ending, I can only offer this to those of you who share my feelings at the ending: go back and read the beginning of Chapter 31 and then reread the last paragraph when the mayor TURNS AROUND to face the two candidates.
Not perfect, but I still found it well worth reading and totally enjoyable if not a bit let-down by what could have been the most tear-jerking reunion ever, but wasn't.
Das Gesicht der Wahrheit
Brenda Martin erscheint mit aufgeschnittenen Händen in einem Krankenhauses und behauptet, dass sie nur knapp einem Kriminellen entkommen konnte, der ihr Auto gestohlen hat. Was sie zunächst verschweigt: ihr Sohn, der auf dem Rücksitz geschlafen hatte, befand sich noch in dem Wagen.
vor allem aufgrund eines zeitweise langweiligen Hauptteils und einer richtig schlechten, kaum realistischen "Auflösung" ist Freedomland kein gelungener Mysterie-Thriller, für den man nicht einmal ins Kino gehen muss, es sei denn man möchte nun unbedingt wissen, warum genau das Ende so misslungen ist.
vor allem aufgrund eines zeitweise langweiligen Hauptteils und einer richtig schlechten, kaum realistischen "Auflösung" ist Freedomland kein gelungener Mysterie-Thriller, für den man nicht einmal ins Kino gehen muss, es sei denn man möchte nun unbedingt wissen, warum genau das Ende so misslungen ist.
The Simpsons Movie
Willkommen in der Stadt Springfield mit ihren gelben Einwohnern. Die Gemeinde lebt voller Frieden in verstrahlter Eintracht. Leider nehmen sie es mit der Mülltrennung nicht so genau und trotz einer dramatischen Vorhersage von Grandpa Simpson schmeißen sie all ihren Dreck in den anliegenden See. Bis auf die umweltbewusste Lisa scheint dies niemanden zu stören bis man eines Tages kurz vor der Katastrophe steht. Die Stadtversammlung beschließt das keinerlei Abfälle mehr in den See geschüttet werden darf. Das gilt natürlich nicht für Homer. Der hat ein Schwein zu seinem neuen Haustier gemacht und dessen Exkremente sammelt er in einen Stahlsilo. Als der zum bersten voll ist weiß Homer erst nicht wohin damit. Nicht lange überlegt, schmeißt er dieses Blechteil in den See und zettelt damit ein richtiges Schlamassel an. Die EPA, eine Organisation die für die Regierung arbeitet, setzt nach einer Absprache mit Präsident Schwarzenegger ganz Springfield unter eine luftdichte Glocke. Da sich dieser Umstand negativ für ganz Amerika auswirkt, raten Verantwortliche der Regierung das die gesamte Stadt vom Erdboden verschwinden soll. Wie kann Homer, wo er doch für diese Katastrophe verantwortlich ist, seine Heimat retten ? In dem flieht und nach Alaska auswandert ?
Die Töchter des chinesischen Gärtners
Die junge Li trifft auf der Insel des berühmten Botanik-Professors Chen ein, der dort inmitten einer prachtvollen und exotischen Pflanzenwelt lebt. Sie möchte bei dem Professor ein Praktikum absolvieren, wird allerdings nicht gerade mit offenen Armen empfangen. Unter seiner Autorität und unter der Isolation auf der Insel leidet auch seine Tochter An, die sich über die Ankunft der jungen Studentin freut. Eine Begegnung, die beider Leben verändert. Denn aus anfänglicher Sympathie erwachsen zärtliche Empfindungen, eine verschwiegene erotische Anziehung und schließlich leidenschaftliche Liebe. Und das in China, einem Land, in dem Homosexualität in den 80er Jahren noch als absolutes Tabu gilt. Als einzige Möglichkeit, unter dem Deckmantel der Normalität zusammen zu bleiben, scheint nur die Heirat von Li mit Ans Bruder in Frage zu kommen. Durch diese fatale Entscheidung gerät das familiäre Gleichgewicht aus den Fugen und die Liebenden balancieren fortan auf einem gefährlichen Grat…
Ocean 13
Danny Ocean and his Eleven are back in Las Vegas. This time, Danny tries to talk sense into Willie Bank, the owner of a series of highly rated "5 Diamonds" hotels who double-crossed one of Eleven, Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), on a hotel deal causing the man a heart-attack and coma-like state. After the ruthless and arrogant Bank suggests that Reuben "rolls over and dies", Danny and his team decide to take the Bank's stunning new casino out of business on the big opening night.
The third Ocean's movie is great fun and a wonderful mixture of genres that works as comedy/crime/thriller/revenge. Vegas is spectacular. The jokes are funny, the dialogs are witty, the directing is first class with the split screens, unusual angles, and the camera that always moves fast but does not rush. The acting is terrific. The absence of Julia Roberts and Katherine Zeta Jones is more than compensated by the presence of great Ellen Barkin who is a better actress than two and a hot beautiful woman, the real "cougar". Besides Ocean and his Eleven (who all have fun with their parts but this time Carl Reiner was simply outstanding), it was good to see David Paymer as an unlucky (or was he?) hotel reviewer and Eddie Izzard as a famous computer hacker. Did I mention that Al Pacino took the role of Willie Bank and he was excellent playing in his quiet mode without screaming which I like a lot? There are certainly the holes in the story and the absence of logic but I did not care a bit. "Ocean's Thirteen" is not about logic or plausibility or realism, it is all about fun and entertaining and it entertains admirably. It is a very successful and enjoyable sequel in the series of Ocean's movies and we all know that good sequels don't happen too often.
The third Ocean's movie is great fun and a wonderful mixture of genres that works as comedy/crime/thriller/revenge. Vegas is spectacular. The jokes are funny, the dialogs are witty, the directing is first class with the split screens, unusual angles, and the camera that always moves fast but does not rush. The acting is terrific. The absence of Julia Roberts and Katherine Zeta Jones is more than compensated by the presence of great Ellen Barkin who is a better actress than two and a hot beautiful woman, the real "cougar". Besides Ocean and his Eleven (who all have fun with their parts but this time Carl Reiner was simply outstanding), it was good to see David Paymer as an unlucky (or was he?) hotel reviewer and Eddie Izzard as a famous computer hacker. Did I mention that Al Pacino took the role of Willie Bank and he was excellent playing in his quiet mode without screaming which I like a lot? There are certainly the holes in the story and the absence of logic but I did not care a bit. "Ocean's Thirteen" is not about logic or plausibility or realism, it is all about fun and entertaining and it entertains admirably. It is a very successful and enjoyable sequel in the series of Ocean's movies and we all know that good sequels don't happen too often.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
I'd come across this book by John Boyne several times while browsing the book website from Indonesia. The back was rather fascinating. It said, more or less: this is a book about the journey of a nine-year-old boy. One day he arrives at a fence. Just hope you never have to cross such a fence. That's it. Quite interesting ..
I felt disappointed after a page or three. If I'd realised it was a children's book earlier (although it says on the back that it's not a story for nine year olds), perhaps that would have helped. But after three pages I 'got' what the story was about and had a pretty good idea about how it would end.
You see, the book is about a boy called Bruno who lives in Berlin. His parents are very strict. He's not quite sure what it is his father does for a living, but what he does know is that it involves wearing splendid uniforms. One day, Bruno comes to his room and finds the maid there, who is busy packing his stuff. The family is moving, because Father has a new job. He has been chosen for this very important job by an extremely important man called The Fury.
Are you getting it yet? I suddenly made the link with the fence and the striped pyjamas and just knew where it was the family would be moving. Then again, if you're reading this, you can't see the cover of the book with its distinctive greyish-blue stripes, so perhaps it's not all that clear yet.
The family moves to a place called "Out With", into a house where there's nothing to do for Bruno and his sister. From the window of his room, Bruno can see a fence. On the other side of the fence there are people that nobody in the house seems to want to talk about. They all wear the same striped pyjamas and matching cloth caps, and they seem to do nothing much except stand around and look sad. Looking at these people makes Bruno feel sad too, and uncomfortable, but he isn't quite sure why.
After some weeks, Bruno is bored enough that he decides to go exploring like he used to do at home, even though it has been strictly forbidden him. He walks along the fence and meets a boy who lives on the other side. The boy is called Shmuel and wears a striped pyjama like all the others on that side of the fence. They get to talking and find out they have the same birthday! A friendship develops that Bruno keeps hidden from his family.
so, the end is : the job of the father is a soldier from Hitler, and pyjamas is uniform of people in the "Out With" (Auswitch), so sad ending ..
I felt disappointed after a page or three. If I'd realised it was a children's book earlier (although it says on the back that it's not a story for nine year olds), perhaps that would have helped. But after three pages I 'got' what the story was about and had a pretty good idea about how it would end.
You see, the book is about a boy called Bruno who lives in Berlin. His parents are very strict. He's not quite sure what it is his father does for a living, but what he does know is that it involves wearing splendid uniforms. One day, Bruno comes to his room and finds the maid there, who is busy packing his stuff. The family is moving, because Father has a new job. He has been chosen for this very important job by an extremely important man called The Fury.
Are you getting it yet? I suddenly made the link with the fence and the striped pyjamas and just knew where it was the family would be moving. Then again, if you're reading this, you can't see the cover of the book with its distinctive greyish-blue stripes, so perhaps it's not all that clear yet.
The family moves to a place called "Out With", into a house where there's nothing to do for Bruno and his sister. From the window of his room, Bruno can see a fence. On the other side of the fence there are people that nobody in the house seems to want to talk about. They all wear the same striped pyjamas and matching cloth caps, and they seem to do nothing much except stand around and look sad. Looking at these people makes Bruno feel sad too, and uncomfortable, but he isn't quite sure why.
After some weeks, Bruno is bored enough that he decides to go exploring like he used to do at home, even though it has been strictly forbidden him. He walks along the fence and meets a boy who lives on the other side. The boy is called Shmuel and wears a striped pyjama like all the others on that side of the fence. They get to talking and find out they have the same birthday! A friendship develops that Bruno keeps hidden from his family.
so, the end is : the job of the father is a soldier from Hitler, and pyjamas is uniform of people in the "Out With" (Auswitch), so sad ending ..
2:37
Die Tür schließt sich, man hört nur dumpfe Töne und langsam rinnt Blut unter der Spalte auf dem Gang. Es ist 2:37 und die Todessekunde von …
Dies ist die Geschichte eines Selbstmordes, der sich im Kreise sechs junger Menschen begangen wurde. Das Geschwisterpaar Melody und Marcus sind beide durch die Unart ihrer Eltern in verschiedene Arten der Psychosen verfallen. Steven ist durch seine angeborenen Behinderungen zum Außenseiter der gesamten Schule erhoben worden. Sean ist ein drogensüchtiger Homosexueller. Luke ist ein Narziss mit verborgenen Problemen und Sarah ist dessen dumpfe, magersüchtige Freundin. Wer hat wohl die größeren Probleme ?
Dies ist die Geschichte eines Selbstmordes, der sich im Kreise sechs junger Menschen begangen wurde. Das Geschwisterpaar Melody und Marcus sind beide durch die Unart ihrer Eltern in verschiedene Arten der Psychosen verfallen. Steven ist durch seine angeborenen Behinderungen zum Außenseiter der gesamten Schule erhoben worden. Sean ist ein drogensüchtiger Homosexueller. Luke ist ein Narziss mit verborgenen Problemen und Sarah ist dessen dumpfe, magersüchtige Freundin. Wer hat wohl die größeren Probleme ?
Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix
Das fünfte Schuljahr in Hogwarts hat noch nicht angefangen und schon steckt Harry Potter bis über beide Ohren in Schwierigkeiten: Er muss sich vor Gericht verantworten, weil er in den Ferien unerlaubt gezaubert hat. Nicht nur das macht Harry schwer zu schaffen. Warum haben sich Hermine und Ron nicht bei ihm gemeldet? Wieso glaubt das Zaubereinministerium nicht, dass Lord Voldemort wiederauferstanden ist? Zu allem Überfluss ist auch noch die neuen Lehrerin für Verteidigung gegen die dunklen Künste ein großer Reinfall - Harry hat von Anfang an nur Ärger mit ihr!
Life of Pi
Ein schönes Buch. Es handelt von einem indischen Jungen, der nach einem Schiffbruch gute zweihundert Tage auf einem Rettungsboot mit einem Tiger zusammen überlebt.
Ein zentrales Thema des Buches ist die Religion, das aber in einer angenehm friedlichen und toleranten Weise behandelt wird. Weder fanatisch atheistisch, noch fanatisch religiös. Aber auch nicht kühl und agnostisch. Eher warm, verständig und trotzdem kritisch.
Das Einzige, was ich ein wenig störend fand, war die Episode mit der seltsamen Insel. Ansonsten ist die Geschichte realistisch unglaublich.
Ein zentrales Thema des Buches ist die Religion, das aber in einer angenehm friedlichen und toleranten Weise behandelt wird. Weder fanatisch atheistisch, noch fanatisch religiös. Aber auch nicht kühl und agnostisch. Eher warm, verständig und trotzdem kritisch.
Das Einzige, was ich ein wenig störend fand, war die Episode mit der seltsamen Insel. Ansonsten ist die Geschichte realistisch unglaublich.
Spiderman 3
Here are my notes, if you care to listen.
1. Too many characters. Either this is a story about Pete and Harry as the antagonist, or it's about the black suit. The Sandman should have been cut or held for four. I realize you needed him to enrage Peter into jealousy, and thus enhance the use of the suit and also see what this does to a man, but it was too complicated. You could have accomplished that with Harry. The love triangle was great. Use jealous. The revenge/we-never-caught-the-killer stuff was weak. The film’s theme was diluted because you used the "kitchen sink" approach. That never works. Rookie mistake.
2. Mary Jane had an interesting story line that was neither explained or followed through. Did Harry force her to say she was in love with someone else, or was she actually falling back in love with Harry? That kiss seemed convincing to me. That said, the ending wasn't as sweet as it could have been because this wasn't made clear. Of course a girl would dance with a guy who saved her life, but what's she going to do after that? Call up Harry's cousin Rich Johnny when things get rough? Come on MJ, we need a little more clarification on intentions.
3. The black suit came from outerspace. So? What does this have to do with anything? I know. I know. You're going to say that sometimes things don’t need to be explained. I agree. But I thought, and tell me if I'm wrong, that conflict should come out of character. If this is true, Peter should had done something boastful (as I'm assuming his tragic flaw was pride) in the beginning, i.e. when he's on the web with MJ and they're stargazing, she could say, "I'm thirsty" and he could say, "Don't get up." He could web some change into a coke machine (nice product placement) and then use a treetop to pop the top, this causes the switch to flip on a lab experiment (use your scene from sandman and scrap that story line), which makes the goo drop from whatever experiment they're doing. (Here’s where you also set up the bell stuff… it was too easy that he went to the church. Not explained, so therefore not anticipated and therefore no tension). That way, his use of Spidey-powers to showboat drink acquiring would have caused the goo to drop and hence, propelled us into plot with meaning and substance. Meanwhile MJ is put off by his boasting. You know how chicks hate macho moments on dates. It blows the romance. And here we go. It’s minute 6 and the story is off and running.
1. Too many characters. Either this is a story about Pete and Harry as the antagonist, or it's about the black suit. The Sandman should have been cut or held for four. I realize you needed him to enrage Peter into jealousy, and thus enhance the use of the suit and also see what this does to a man, but it was too complicated. You could have accomplished that with Harry. The love triangle was great. Use jealous. The revenge/we-never-caught-the-killer stuff was weak. The film’s theme was diluted because you used the "kitchen sink" approach. That never works. Rookie mistake.
2. Mary Jane had an interesting story line that was neither explained or followed through. Did Harry force her to say she was in love with someone else, or was she actually falling back in love with Harry? That kiss seemed convincing to me. That said, the ending wasn't as sweet as it could have been because this wasn't made clear. Of course a girl would dance with a guy who saved her life, but what's she going to do after that? Call up Harry's cousin Rich Johnny when things get rough? Come on MJ, we need a little more clarification on intentions.
3. The black suit came from outerspace. So? What does this have to do with anything? I know. I know. You're going to say that sometimes things don’t need to be explained. I agree. But I thought, and tell me if I'm wrong, that conflict should come out of character. If this is true, Peter should had done something boastful (as I'm assuming his tragic flaw was pride) in the beginning, i.e. when he's on the web with MJ and they're stargazing, she could say, "I'm thirsty" and he could say, "Don't get up." He could web some change into a coke machine (nice product placement) and then use a treetop to pop the top, this causes the switch to flip on a lab experiment (use your scene from sandman and scrap that story line), which makes the goo drop from whatever experiment they're doing. (Here’s where you also set up the bell stuff… it was too easy that he went to the church. Not explained, so therefore not anticipated and therefore no tension). That way, his use of Spidey-powers to showboat drink acquiring would have caused the goo to drop and hence, propelled us into plot with meaning and substance. Meanwhile MJ is put off by his boasting. You know how chicks hate macho moments on dates. It blows the romance. And here we go. It’s minute 6 and the story is off and running.
Der Alchimist
Dies ist das erste Buch das ich von Paulo Coelho gelesen habe, es wird aber ganz bestimmt nicht das letzte sein. Die Erzählstimme des Brasilianers ist außergewöhnlich. Die ganze Zeit über wurde ich an Antoine de Saint-Exuperys Werk "Der kleine Prinz" erinnert, obwohl die beiden Werke auf den ersten Blick kaum etwas gemeinsam haben. Dennoch teilen sie einige ganz zentrale Eigenschaften. Sie fließen förmlich über von außergewöhnlicher Weisheit. Diese Weisheiten sind in beiden Büchern in eine wirklich nette Rahmenhandlung verpackt, wenngleich der Alchimist weniger "kindlich" anmutet. Obwohl es sich bei beiden Büchern um relativ kurze Geschichten handelt, sind die Erzählungen "sehr langsam", soll heißen über das ganze Werk hinweg fühlt man sich in einer eigenartig beruhigten Stimmung.
Zum Inhalt: Ein junger Schafhirte träumt von einem Schatz der nahe bei den Pyramiden vergraben ist. Als dieser Traum wiederkehrt, ist er sehr verwirrt und bricht nach einigem hin und her auf, diesen Schatz zu suchen. So einfach jedoch wie er erhofft hatte ist es denn doch nicht und so entwickelt sich der junge Hirte immer mehr zu einem der ganz großen Weisen. Die Entwicklung des Charakters ist außergewöhnlich schön geschildert, und jeder Schritt der den jungen Mann weiter bringt wird leicht nachvollziehbar erzählt und so gefasst, dass der Leser diesen Schritt gemeinsam mit dem Hirten vollzieht.
Zum Inhalt: Ein junger Schafhirte träumt von einem Schatz der nahe bei den Pyramiden vergraben ist. Als dieser Traum wiederkehrt, ist er sehr verwirrt und bricht nach einigem hin und her auf, diesen Schatz zu suchen. So einfach jedoch wie er erhofft hatte ist es denn doch nicht und so entwickelt sich der junge Hirte immer mehr zu einem der ganz großen Weisen. Die Entwicklung des Charakters ist außergewöhnlich schön geschildert, und jeder Schritt der den jungen Mann weiter bringt wird leicht nachvollziehbar erzählt und so gefasst, dass der Leser diesen Schritt gemeinsam mit dem Hirten vollzieht.
Glück im Spiel
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer in a high-stakes emotional drama from L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson and Munich screenwriter Eric Roth. When his personal problems threaten to distract him from what could be his biggest win ever, seasoned poker pro Huck Cheever (Eric Bana) finds comfort in the company of singer Billie Offer (Drew Barrymore). Upon preparing for the biggest card game in the country, however, Huck soon realizes that his problems have only just begun when he finds that his opponent at the table will be none other than his estranged father, L.C. (Robert Duvall), a poker legend whose mythical reputation makes him a more than worthy opponent for his troubled son.
Die Hard 4.0
Hacker Matt Farrell, not knowing who he is working for, finishes work on a computer program and sends it to Mai Linh, who advises her boss and lover, Thomas Gabriel, that they can now proceed with their evil plan. The criminal mastermind begins killing hackers by exploding their computers remotely, and commencing the initial stages of a computer attack on US government networks.
Elsewhere, a young couple is making out in a car. Detective John McClane breaks it up; the girl turns out to be his estranged daughter Lucy. She leaves in a huff, refusing to acknowledge her father's last name but calling herself instead by her mother's maiden name, Gennaro. Meanwhile, The FBI command center's computers are momentarily interrupted, leading Deputy Director Bowman to order a roundup of all the hackers who could conceivably have been involved. McClane is sent to pick up Farrell, and his arrival interrupts Gabriel's remote detonation of Farrell's computer. Gabriel's assassins have the apartment under surveillance, and open fire. McClane kills several thugs who enter the apartment. The thugs finally blow up Farrell's computer, destroying the apartment. McClane and Farrell escape down the fire escape, McClane killing various henchmen on the way and Farrell marvelling at McClane's heroics.
McClane makes it to Washington DC with his charge. At the temporary FBI office, Farrell notices the pictures of the dead hackers on the wall. Farrell and McClane are redirected by the FBI to another office so that Farrell can be interrogated. While they are on their way to the the new office, Gabriel begins downloading a huge quantity of significant data from some mysterious government source onto his own computers, and shuts down the network controlling the traffic signals. Chaos on the roads ensues. McClane, Farrell, and their police escort attempt to contact the police to have a route opened for them, but have their radio communication intercepted by Gabriel and Linh, who direct them to an ambush. McClane suspects their communication has been intercepted, tests Linh by asking her a trick question, and reveals he knows she's a fake. Gabriel gets on the radio and advises McClane he knows everything about him, and wipes out his 401K. Our heroes attempt to evade the ambush, but are set upon by helicopter. McClane and Farrell escape the ambush in a cop car, and are chased into a tunnel by the helicopter. Gabriel opens the traffic on both sides of the tunnel, sandwiching our heroes in a massive pileup in the middle. McClane drives the cop car straight out of the tunnel and jumps at the last second, launching the car into the helicopter and killing the thugs.
McClane and Farrell escape on foot. As they try to contact the FBI via cell phone, they discover that the communication networks are down. Farrell reveals that he recognized some of the dead hackers from their pictures, and that he innocently wrote some code that may be being used in this computer attack, which appears to be a three-stage plan to cripple the United States by attacking its information infrastructure. The next stage will be to take out the power grid; this cannot be done remotely but requires intervention at the actual physical plants. Farrell reconfigures the cellphone to use a different network to allow them to communicate. McClane and Farrell commandeer an abandoned car. By pretending to be the son of its owner in a medical emergency, Farrell gets OnStar to remotely start it for them. They set off for the main power station controlling the Eastern seaboard.
Linh and a group of henchmen, disguised as FBI agents, infiltrate and take over the power station. As they commence shutdown procedures, McClane and Farrell arrive at the station. Their presence is detected, and henchmen dispatched to dispatch them. McClane and Farrell fight their way to the station's command center, McClane fights Linh, and Farrell manages to abort the shutdown sequence. McClane finally kills Linh by driving a truck into her and down an elevator shaft, where the truck explodes at the bottom. Seeing that the shutdown hasn't taken place yet, Gabriel calls Linh's cell phone. McClane answers and tells Gabriel that his plan has been foiled and Linh killed. Enraged, Gabriel redirects all the natural gas in the pipelines to converge on the power station. Farrell notices this on one of the computer screens, and he and McClane take shelter just before the station explodes. The destruction of the station causes a massive power blackout over Washington and much of the Eastern seaboard. Lucy McClane is caught in an elevator in the blackout.
Farrell and McClane go to visit "The Warlock" in Baltimore, who Farrell describes as an Internet Jedi. Traffic being a nightmare, McClane decides to fly the helicopter that Linh and her henchmen had used to arrive at the power station. McClane reveals he had a few flying lessons, but never completed the course; they have a rough landing in Baltimore. Meanwhile, Gabriel and a few select henchmen kill his other remaining employees and, travelling light, set out in a semi-trailer with a mobile computer command center in the back.
The Warlock lives in his mother's basement where he has set up his own "command center" -- an impressive collection of computers running on his own generators, interspersed with geek memorabilia. The Warlock is suspicious of the police, but reluctantly agrees to help. He reveals that Gabriel was formerly a highly-placed FBI computer security director, responsible for building much of the system, who discovered its vulnerabilities to attack. When Gabriel brought these vulnerabilities to the attention of his supervisors, ultimately interrupting a meeting of the Joint Chiefs to do so, he was denounced and publicly humiliated. The Warlock shows McClane and Farrell that one facility is still running and drawing massive power loads. This turns out to be the facility from which Gabriel was downloading data, and which Gabriel and several thugs have now infiltrated and taken over. Gabriel is alerted to Warlock's intrusions; he traces the intrusion back to Warlock's basement command center, and commandeers Warlock's computer and webcam to communicate with the group in Warlock's basement. He shows McClane images of his daughter in the elevator, and advises that he is going to get her. McClane sets off to find and kill Gabriel; he tells Farrell to stay behind, but Farrell insists on helping him. Lucy is brought to Gabriel at the data facility; a chip off the old block, she fights all the way before being tied up.
McClane and Farrell communicate with Bowman and show him an image of Gabriel. Bowman is dismayed; he tells them that the facility still running was designed by Gabriel as a failsafe in the event of an attack on the nation's infrastructure; it contains a backup of all the financial data from stock markets, corporations, and government agencies. Gabriel apparently intends to download this information onto mobile hard drives, allowing him to undetectably siphon off billions of dollars.
McClane and Farrell head to the data facility, and Bowman orders an F-35 fighter plane dispatched to the facility. Gabriel is alerted to their presence, and obtains the go codes for the fighter plane by accessing the military's data banks. Farrell, using one of the computers at the facility, manages to encrypt all the data that Gabriel has downloaded, making it useless to them without the decryption key which he alone knows. He is subsequently captured by Gabriel's thug and brought to the control center where Lucy is also captive. Lucy advises him he will need to reach down and find a bigger set of balls. McClane kills the various thugs sent to stop him, and communicates with Farrell via one of the thugs' walkie-talkies. Gabriel attempts to talk McClane down but is unable to do so. He puts Lucy on the radio, to "talk some sense" into her father, but she aids him by telling him that there are only five bad guys left. The bad guys escape in two vehicles: Gabriel, two thugs, and the captives in an emergency services van, and one thu
g in a semi-trailer carrying their portable computer control center. McClane jumps onto the back of the semi-truck as it leaves the facility, climbs to the cab, shoots the driver through the door, and takes over the truck, chasing the remaining bad guys and their captives in the van. In the van, Gabriel orders Farrell to unlock the data, but Farrell refuses, knowing that this is his only bargaining chip and that Gabriel will kill him once he has the data back.
Gabriel realizes they are being chased. He uses the go codes to tell the F-35 pilot to destroy the semi-truck. The F-35 fires various missiles and machine guns at the truck, virtually destroying it and a large portion of a highway overpass. As the truck begins to slide backwards down a destroyed ramp, McClane falls out of the cab and down the back of the ravaged trailer. The plane is about to deliver the coup de grace when it is damaged by a chunk of falling pavement. McClane falls onto the plane's wing. The pilot ejects, McClane slides down the spiralling plane and jumps onto another section of destroyed ramp, sliding down the ramp as the jet crashes and explodes just behind him.
The van carring the bad guys and captives enters a warehouse. McClane pursues them. Gabriel orders Farrell to enter the code to decrypt the information. Farrell refuses and is shot in the leg by Gabriel. When Gabriel puts the gun to Lucy's head and says he will count to ten, Farrell gives in and begins to enter the code. McClane arrives and shoots one of the henchmen, but is in turn shot in the shoulder by Gabriel. McClane dives behind a car, his gun on the ground near Farrell. McClane goes for his gun but is grabbed by Gabriel from behind. Standing behind McClane, Gabriel taunts him and tortures him by sticking his gun into the bullet wound in McClane's shoulder. Gabriel tells McClane that his epitaph will read "Always in the wrong place at the wrong time." McClane replies that it might read "Yippee ki yay, mother-" and pulls the trigger on the gun, shooting himself through the shoulder and killing Gabriel. Farrell has grabbed McClane's gun and shoots the other thug.
The FBI arrive and provide medical attention to McClane, Lucy, and Farrell. Farrell and Lucy separately indicate to McClane their romantic interest in each other. Lucy indicates that, for today at least, she's a McClane.
Elsewhere, a young couple is making out in a car. Detective John McClane breaks it up; the girl turns out to be his estranged daughter Lucy. She leaves in a huff, refusing to acknowledge her father's last name but calling herself instead by her mother's maiden name, Gennaro. Meanwhile, The FBI command center's computers are momentarily interrupted, leading Deputy Director Bowman to order a roundup of all the hackers who could conceivably have been involved. McClane is sent to pick up Farrell, and his arrival interrupts Gabriel's remote detonation of Farrell's computer. Gabriel's assassins have the apartment under surveillance, and open fire. McClane kills several thugs who enter the apartment. The thugs finally blow up Farrell's computer, destroying the apartment. McClane and Farrell escape down the fire escape, McClane killing various henchmen on the way and Farrell marvelling at McClane's heroics.
McClane makes it to Washington DC with his charge. At the temporary FBI office, Farrell notices the pictures of the dead hackers on the wall. Farrell and McClane are redirected by the FBI to another office so that Farrell can be interrogated. While they are on their way to the the new office, Gabriel begins downloading a huge quantity of significant data from some mysterious government source onto his own computers, and shuts down the network controlling the traffic signals. Chaos on the roads ensues. McClane, Farrell, and their police escort attempt to contact the police to have a route opened for them, but have their radio communication intercepted by Gabriel and Linh, who direct them to an ambush. McClane suspects their communication has been intercepted, tests Linh by asking her a trick question, and reveals he knows she's a fake. Gabriel gets on the radio and advises McClane he knows everything about him, and wipes out his 401K. Our heroes attempt to evade the ambush, but are set upon by helicopter. McClane and Farrell escape the ambush in a cop car, and are chased into a tunnel by the helicopter. Gabriel opens the traffic on both sides of the tunnel, sandwiching our heroes in a massive pileup in the middle. McClane drives the cop car straight out of the tunnel and jumps at the last second, launching the car into the helicopter and killing the thugs.
McClane and Farrell escape on foot. As they try to contact the FBI via cell phone, they discover that the communication networks are down. Farrell reveals that he recognized some of the dead hackers from their pictures, and that he innocently wrote some code that may be being used in this computer attack, which appears to be a three-stage plan to cripple the United States by attacking its information infrastructure. The next stage will be to take out the power grid; this cannot be done remotely but requires intervention at the actual physical plants. Farrell reconfigures the cellphone to use a different network to allow them to communicate. McClane and Farrell commandeer an abandoned car. By pretending to be the son of its owner in a medical emergency, Farrell gets OnStar to remotely start it for them. They set off for the main power station controlling the Eastern seaboard.
Linh and a group of henchmen, disguised as FBI agents, infiltrate and take over the power station. As they commence shutdown procedures, McClane and Farrell arrive at the station. Their presence is detected, and henchmen dispatched to dispatch them. McClane and Farrell fight their way to the station's command center, McClane fights Linh, and Farrell manages to abort the shutdown sequence. McClane finally kills Linh by driving a truck into her and down an elevator shaft, where the truck explodes at the bottom. Seeing that the shutdown hasn't taken place yet, Gabriel calls Linh's cell phone. McClane answers and tells Gabriel that his plan has been foiled and Linh killed. Enraged, Gabriel redirects all the natural gas in the pipelines to converge on the power station. Farrell notices this on one of the computer screens, and he and McClane take shelter just before the station explodes. The destruction of the station causes a massive power blackout over Washington and much of the Eastern seaboard. Lucy McClane is caught in an elevator in the blackout.
Farrell and McClane go to visit "The Warlock" in Baltimore, who Farrell describes as an Internet Jedi. Traffic being a nightmare, McClane decides to fly the helicopter that Linh and her henchmen had used to arrive at the power station. McClane reveals he had a few flying lessons, but never completed the course; they have a rough landing in Baltimore. Meanwhile, Gabriel and a few select henchmen kill his other remaining employees and, travelling light, set out in a semi-trailer with a mobile computer command center in the back.
The Warlock lives in his mother's basement where he has set up his own "command center" -- an impressive collection of computers running on his own generators, interspersed with geek memorabilia. The Warlock is suspicious of the police, but reluctantly agrees to help. He reveals that Gabriel was formerly a highly-placed FBI computer security director, responsible for building much of the system, who discovered its vulnerabilities to attack. When Gabriel brought these vulnerabilities to the attention of his supervisors, ultimately interrupting a meeting of the Joint Chiefs to do so, he was denounced and publicly humiliated. The Warlock shows McClane and Farrell that one facility is still running and drawing massive power loads. This turns out to be the facility from which Gabriel was downloading data, and which Gabriel and several thugs have now infiltrated and taken over. Gabriel is alerted to Warlock's intrusions; he traces the intrusion back to Warlock's basement command center, and commandeers Warlock's computer and webcam to communicate with the group in Warlock's basement. He shows McClane images of his daughter in the elevator, and advises that he is going to get her. McClane sets off to find and kill Gabriel; he tells Farrell to stay behind, but Farrell insists on helping him. Lucy is brought to Gabriel at the data facility; a chip off the old block, she fights all the way before being tied up.
McClane and Farrell communicate with Bowman and show him an image of Gabriel. Bowman is dismayed; he tells them that the facility still running was designed by Gabriel as a failsafe in the event of an attack on the nation's infrastructure; it contains a backup of all the financial data from stock markets, corporations, and government agencies. Gabriel apparently intends to download this information onto mobile hard drives, allowing him to undetectably siphon off billions of dollars.
McClane and Farrell head to the data facility, and Bowman orders an F-35 fighter plane dispatched to the facility. Gabriel is alerted to their presence, and obtains the go codes for the fighter plane by accessing the military's data banks. Farrell, using one of the computers at the facility, manages to encrypt all the data that Gabriel has downloaded, making it useless to them without the decryption key which he alone knows. He is subsequently captured by Gabriel's thug and brought to the control center where Lucy is also captive. Lucy advises him he will need to reach down and find a bigger set of balls. McClane kills the various thugs sent to stop him, and communicates with Farrell via one of the thugs' walkie-talkies. Gabriel attempts to talk McClane down but is unable to do so. He puts Lucy on the radio, to "talk some sense" into her father, but she aids him by telling him that there are only five bad guys left. The bad guys escape in two vehicles: Gabriel, two thugs, and the captives in an emergency services van, and one thu
g in a semi-trailer carrying their portable computer control center. McClane jumps onto the back of the semi-truck as it leaves the facility, climbs to the cab, shoots the driver through the door, and takes over the truck, chasing the remaining bad guys and their captives in the van. In the van, Gabriel orders Farrell to unlock the data, but Farrell refuses, knowing that this is his only bargaining chip and that Gabriel will kill him once he has the data back.
Gabriel realizes they are being chased. He uses the go codes to tell the F-35 pilot to destroy the semi-truck. The F-35 fires various missiles and machine guns at the truck, virtually destroying it and a large portion of a highway overpass. As the truck begins to slide backwards down a destroyed ramp, McClane falls out of the cab and down the back of the ravaged trailer. The plane is about to deliver the coup de grace when it is damaged by a chunk of falling pavement. McClane falls onto the plane's wing. The pilot ejects, McClane slides down the spiralling plane and jumps onto another section of destroyed ramp, sliding down the ramp as the jet crashes and explodes just behind him.
The van carring the bad guys and captives enters a warehouse. McClane pursues them. Gabriel orders Farrell to enter the code to decrypt the information. Farrell refuses and is shot in the leg by Gabriel. When Gabriel puts the gun to Lucy's head and says he will count to ten, Farrell gives in and begins to enter the code. McClane arrives and shoots one of the henchmen, but is in turn shot in the shoulder by Gabriel. McClane dives behind a car, his gun on the ground near Farrell. McClane goes for his gun but is grabbed by Gabriel from behind. Standing behind McClane, Gabriel taunts him and tortures him by sticking his gun into the bullet wound in McClane's shoulder. Gabriel tells McClane that his epitaph will read "Always in the wrong place at the wrong time." McClane replies that it might read "Yippee ki yay, mother-" and pulls the trigger on the gun, shooting himself through the shoulder and killing Gabriel. Farrell has grabbed McClane's gun and shoots the other thug.
The FBI arrive and provide medical attention to McClane, Lucy, and Farrell. Farrell and Lucy separately indicate to McClane their romantic interest in each other. Lucy indicates that, for today at least, she's a McClane.
Cradle and All
In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin.
In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition.
And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming.
Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she comes to care about and trust the young women, she realizes that both are in great danger. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering. Stepping into uncharted territory where the unknown is just the beginning, Anne must discover the truth--to save the young women, to save herself, and to protect the future of all mankind.
In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition.
And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming.
Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she comes to care about and trust the young women, she realizes that both are in great danger. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering. Stepping into uncharted territory where the unknown is just the beginning, Anne must discover the truth--to save the young women, to save herself, and to protect the future of all mankind.
Fantastic Four 2 - Rise Of The Silver Surfer
Für Susan Storm und Mr. Fantastic läuten die Hochzeitsglocken.
Die Gäste sind gerührt. Doch was stört den Frieden an dem Tag, der der glücklichste ihres Lebens sein soll? Ist es ein Vogel? Ist es ein Flugzeug? Nein, es ist der Silver Surfer!
"Mann, ist das cool", staunt Johnny die Fackel beim ersten Auftritt der quecksilbrigen Fremden aus dem All, bevor er seine Verfolgungsjagd startet.
Doch wer ist der Silver Surfer überhaupt? Werfen wir also einen Blick in die Enzyklopädie: »Norrin Radd stammt vom Planeten Zenn-La, der Heimat einer humanoiden Rasse. Als Galactus Zenn-La verschlingen wollte, bot sich Norrin als Herold an, falls Galactus seine Welt verschonen würde. Er versprach, Welten zu suchen, die den Hunger des Galactus stillen würden. Galactus war einverstanden und transformierte Norrin zum Silver Surfer. Eines Tages fand der Surfer die Erde, doch Alicia Masters konnte den Surfer davon überzeugen, daß die Menschheit es wert war zu überleben. Schließlich stellte sich der Surfer an der Seite der Fantastischen Vier (Fantastic Four) gegen seinen Herrn…«
Die Gäste sind gerührt. Doch was stört den Frieden an dem Tag, der der glücklichste ihres Lebens sein soll? Ist es ein Vogel? Ist es ein Flugzeug? Nein, es ist der Silver Surfer!
"Mann, ist das cool", staunt Johnny die Fackel beim ersten Auftritt der quecksilbrigen Fremden aus dem All, bevor er seine Verfolgungsjagd startet.
Doch wer ist der Silver Surfer überhaupt? Werfen wir also einen Blick in die Enzyklopädie: »Norrin Radd stammt vom Planeten Zenn-La, der Heimat einer humanoiden Rasse. Als Galactus Zenn-La verschlingen wollte, bot sich Norrin als Herold an, falls Galactus seine Welt verschonen würde. Er versprach, Welten zu suchen, die den Hunger des Galactus stillen würden. Galactus war einverstanden und transformierte Norrin zum Silver Surfer. Eines Tages fand der Surfer die Erde, doch Alicia Masters konnte den Surfer davon überzeugen, daß die Menschheit es wert war zu überleben. Schließlich stellte sich der Surfer an der Seite der Fantastischen Vier (Fantastic Four) gegen seinen Herrn…«