Al Grant - Welcome To My World DVD

Advantages: Inspiring, powerful, simply presented and completely compelling.
Disadvantages: Not a single one.

...carrot peelings and onion skins. Growing fruit and veg. Shopping locally. Being aware of how far things have travelled to get to me. Using green electricity. Re-usable nappies. Buses. You know. All that stuff. I thought I knew, really knew why I was doing it, and to be fair I did. To an extent. The moral choice has never been something that I didn't get. But the science. The science evaded me somewhat. If you'd asked me a week ago to explain the science of climate change, I'd have probably mumbled something about CO2 and moved the conversation to compost, or riding bicycles to work instead of using cars - that kind of thing. This film has done more than reaffirm my beliefs in the actions I take to try and help the Earth get better, it has educated me, and knowledge, as they say, is power. ********** The Film Al Gore has been travelling... Read review

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Advantages: Hillarious, side splittingly funny at times
Disadvantages: Very similar to his previous shows

...Those familiar with Al Murray's pub landlord character will most likely have been won over by him already, and this DVD will surely reaffirm your love for the character and want very much to get in the next round from the landlords pub. This show is a cool refreshing pint of comedy fun. The show starts with Murray's routine of picking on the audience (in jest of course) about their profession, appearance, name and just about any comedy gold he can scrape from them and it is (without using the acronym "Lol") laugh out loud funny. Murray's quick wit and ability to think on his feet is astounding, he obviously must have some pre prepared jokes for this purpose but nevertheless he delivers them with snappy comic timing and confidence (gained through the shield of a comic character) with clever callbacks and memory that are also... Read review

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Advantages: Humour, action, adventure, locations,
Disadvantages: alot to take in while watching, very visual

...This movie, based on the same book by Clive Cussler, stars Matthew Connaughty as Dirk Pitt, Steve Zahn as Al Giordino and Penelope Cruz as Pitts love interest Dr. Eva Roshas. We get drawn into the movie first by viewing an iron clad during the civil war being shot at and escaping unharmed. Then we switch to the inside of, what I first thought was Dirks home, but actually is a NUMA research vessel and then switch to Nigeria where we get introduced to Dr. Eva Roshas, who works for the WHO (World Health Organization), reacting to an outbreak. While she is trying to get a further blood sample from a lighthouse along a beach she gets attacked. To her rescue comes Dirk Pitt, who is fishing in the waters close to the beach. After coming too on board of the NUMA research vessel she gets introduced to Al (in the funniest of ways, looking... Read review

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