Cluny Brown DVD

Advantages: Good acting, great story
Disadvantages: Some violence

...The other "Lost World" category featured pics of the Bob Hoskins BBC drama but was full of Jurassic Park 2 reviews so I've added this review here. This great BBC adaptation of Conan Doyle's famous novel was on TV over Christmas 2001 and the DVD and video were released about six months later. The basic story is that it's the early 1900s and academic Professor George Challenger (Bob Hoskins) believes there is a "lost world" where dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures still roam, even though they died out 65 million years ago. He leaves his museum in London and goes to the rainforests of South America in search of this mythical land. He takes sceptical rival academic Professor Leo Summerlee (James Fox) with him as well as hunter Lord Roxton who funds the trip(Tom Ward) and journalist Edward Malone (Matthew Rhys). They follow a map... Read review

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Advantages: Watchable.
Disadvantages: very far fetched and not always very scary.

...Having just returned from a trip to Manchester to visit family I got home and put my feet up ready to enjoy a film. The one I had chosen was Creep, a horror my son had recommended. I do like a good horror movie but this was not one of the best I have seen. It starts with the lead role Kate (Franka Potente) at a drugs and drink fuelled party announcing to everyone that she knows where George Cluny is going to be drinking that night and that she is going to offer herself to him. Kate has organised a lift from a friend but when she realises that her friend has gone on without her she heads out to flag down a cab, unable to get a cab her nightmare begins. As Kate is forced into taking a tube train and just makes it there in time to catch the last train, she dozes off and when she awakens she finds she is alone on the train or so she thinks... Read review

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Advantages: Great work from some talented actors
Disadvantages: Seems like at least some of it has been done before

...Jackie Brown is another Tarantino-style film that offers an interesting role for Robert De Niro and yet another job for Samuel L Jackson. At around the two and a half hour mark, this sadly is one of those films about which the most commonly said thing is that it is a good half hour too long. However, this is not to say that it is not worth watching. Jackson plays a gun runner who needs to get money from over the border in Mexico back into the USA and uses various moles to achieve this, one of which is Jackie Brown, an airline stewardess. The ending is very much that of a film of this genre, and although interesting one has to feel that it has been done before.... Read review

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