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Doo You See A Zulu?

Advantages: Captivating, one of the best films ever made.
Disadvantages: None whatsoever.

Zulu has to be one of my favourite films of all time. It was released in 1964 through Paramount Pictures by Diamond Films - a company set up by the well established actor Stanley Baker, who was looking to move more into the directing field. The film was directed by Cy Endfield, and co-produced by both Baker and Endfield, each with strong links to the story-line. Endfield was born in South Africa, where the events covered by the film took place, ...
...Zulu's is played by the Zulu Chief himself, Chief Buthelezi, and obviously the collaberation brings a real touch of authenticity to the Zulu's in this film and ensures that it is a real depiction of how the Zulu fighting strategies were carried out. Otto Witt - Jack Hawkins. He plays a cameo performance as the Swedish missionary but I found his role a little annoying and lack lustre up until his departure from the mission. Steaming drunk, he shounts ...

Gary25 12.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Zulu (DVD)

Cypher so good

Advantages: Intelligent, surprising and unsual
Disadvantages: May lack lasting appeal

After seeing this film I've recommended it to several friends (off-line in the real world) as being an intelligent cross between James Bond and the Matrix. The movie starts with the unremarkable Morgan Sullivan (Jeremy Northam) being signed up as an industrial spy and assigned his undercover identity as Jack Thursby. His surprisingly easy job is to attend and record (by use of a transmitter pen) a series of extremely tedious business lectures across ...
...new alter ego away from his boring married life and even develops a taste for scotch and smoking. At this point you think it may just be a movie about a normal guy going through a mid-life crisis and living vicariously as Jack Thursby but the rabbit hole goes much deeper than this. Enter the mysterious and exciting Rita Foster (Lucy Liu) who piece by piece starts to uncover what's really going on behind the scenes and the reason for the onset of ...

richb90 24.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Cypher (DVD)

The A Team Season 1

Advantages: Good No Swearing
Disadvantages: a Bit Boring

The A-Team. I first got into this when I was about 7 but then we got rid of sky and I couldn't watch it anymore. But then when I got a paper round and had a cash flow I bought season 1. I really enjoyed it and managed to get through them in one week. It's the best on in the whole the season's. They have a good message that is nasty people are always there you have just got to deal with them and not let them crush you. They are also good because they ...

BigCoffeee 16.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The A-Team - Series 1 (Box Set) (DVD)

I pity the fool..........

Advantages: Excellent family entertainment - action, fights, guns, car chases and no blood in sight!
Disadvantages: Rather dated now - only real fans will appreciate it's greatness!

.......that hasn't seen the A-team. Where have you been? Under a rock somewhere? Anyways - the A-team, easy to sum up - pure class. BA Baracus, Hannibal Smith, Murdock & Face all come together to provide us with quality saturday/sunday morning entertainmet. For those of you unaware as to who the A-team are, let me explain...... ....."In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men ...
...underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team." This was the opening line/narration to the programme and pretty much sums the whole show up. The A-team are a group of renegade guns for hire, hiding from it's own goverment, contesting it's innocence (against the accusations of crime) and still finding ...

kirk_lanckmans 14.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The A-Team - Series 3 (Box Set) (DVD)

The OC with super-powers

Advantages: feel-good show, family values etc
Disadvantages: predictable, simple stories and wooden acting

Smallville started in 2001 and follows the story of a young Clark Kent (Tom Welling), his progression through and problems he encounters along the way. The pilot episode starts off by showing the meteor storm in which Clark arrived and the destruction caused by this, of which Clark later feels guilty about. The meteors not only cause devastation but they also spray kryptonite all over Smallville, making people acquire special powers in Smallville ...
...we discover a resident of smallville has been infected by meteor rock (kryptonite) enabling them to have special powers. They usually are in dire need for help and / or are using this power selfishly and for no good. It is up to Clark and his trusting friends (who are unaware of his powers) to help and stop the 'meteor freaks'. The overarching storyline usually consists of Clark's growth and realisation of his powers, starting in the pilot episode ...

jamiebecks 17.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Smallville - Series 1 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)