Most anglophones, sadly enough, know this movie by its English name, Life is Beautiful. Just - for the love of the movie - do not see the redubbed version of this film. You won’t die from a few subtitles, and the Italian spontaneity in this movie really adds to its value.
Jeepers Creepers starts off when two college students, Darius (Justin Long) and his sister Trish (Gina Philips) leave college to go home - they drive on a desolate highway, and are attacked by a truck. Next, they see a guy dropping some sheets down a pipe. Roped sheets. Blood-stained, roped sheets. Of course, they decide to go back and have a look. (bad move.. Bad bad move)…
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The books start off slowly, by painting a vivid portrait of Lyra, the books’ main character. Lyra is a 12 year-old girl with a heavy prophecy hanging over her. Early in the first novel, the reader learns that the existence of everything - in the widest possible sense of the word - depends on Lyra, and Lyra alone.
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Filth is about a less-than-charming Scottish Detective Sergeant, Bruce Robertson. He is an angry young man who is betting high on his upcoming promotion in the Edinburgh police force, and is willing to do whatever it takes to reach that goal..
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The plot is quite simple; We follow Kenneth (Or Ken Nott) a radio DJ on a moderately popular radio station in the time right after September 11. 2001. Surprisingly - or perhaps not, I am not quite sure yet - Ken is quite unaffected by the whole terrorist attack.
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The Crow Road is a novel written by Iain Banks in 1992, first published in 1993. It was later made into a television series.
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Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) is a surrealistic film created in 1928. It was written by two young, largely unknown men, Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel, and directed by the latter. Of course, both these guys got plenty more than their fifteen minutes of fame…
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… but the Blues Brothers aren’t just a film. They are a band. Actually, they are the band that revitalized the musical genre of Blues - at first as a mere coincidence, and later with more and more determination.
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Poe describes his older poems as “crude compositions of my earliest boyhood” (Poe 1845, page 55), and apologises � in tradition with other works of gothic fiction � for his own works by saying that The Raven and Other Poems is hardly worth reading: “I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself.” (Poe 1845, preface). A literary review / criticism of A Dream
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When I first was introduced to Iain Banks, I was amazed by his sheer storytelling power. Since, I have started reading a Banks book as every second book I’ve read. When I discovered that my local supermarket had a deal on hardbacks, and especially when I found banks’ book, I was hooked.
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