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More shoes than Trannies

Advantages: harmless feelgood movie
Disadvantages: Could have researched trannies much deeper

The film looks nice and the basic plot is OK. It's based on a true story about a boot & shoes factory that is on the verge of going under but is saved from the axe by starting to produce footwear for crossdressers, we then follow how that change effects those who work there. I'm sure the story was vigorously brutalized to have maximum impact on the viewers at the cinema. Non TV's (transvestites) and people who don't know any TV's are going to leave ...
...Lola's definition of TV (they're nothing like Brezhnev in a dress darling, get your research right) and thinking more drag queen. Lola can't seem to decide if she's a TV or a drag queen. Most drag queens are gay men pastiching women. Most TV's are straight men who want to wear womens clothes for pleasure, comfort or excitement. Simple as that. I have no idea where they filmed "The Angel Bar", but it looked very much like Madame Jo Jo's in Soho. If ...

atytyut2434 12.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Kinky Boots (DVD)

What a fashion show!

Advantages: brilliant performance, great story
Disadvantages: none

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 comedy-drama directed by the American film director David Frankel. He directed Marley & Me recently. The film got several nominations and several awards. For example Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. The screenplay was written by Aline Brosh McKenna based on the novel of Lauren Weisberger. The film was distributed by 20th Century Fox. The running time is 109 minutes. The classification is 12 ...
...Cooper (Andrea’s boyfriend) The Plot ------------ Andrea Sachs is a young woman who freshly graduated from Northwestern University and is looking for a job. She wants to be a journalist. She goes to an interview to Runway. She is not dressed as stylish as the members of the staff so everybody looks very strange to her. Her interview is not a success so she goes home but right after she reached the reception she is called back that Miranda gave her ...

D_i_a_n_e 08.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Devil Wears Prada (DVD)

The Laughs Aren't Filtered Out

Advantages: Remains refreshing after multiple views; a nice alternative to the slurry of poor recent comedy films
Disadvantages: Perhaps not to everyone's taste

...tongue firmly in cheek, deliciously abstract and a claim that is testament to the dark humour layered throughout the story. Thank You For Smoking has a wit which is unquestionably infectious - one of 2006's best comedies, and safe to say a "must-buy" on DVD. ...

craig200uk 09.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Thank You For Smoking (DVD)

Feel good family of Freaks.

Advantages: Funny, and all round good comedy and acting.
Disadvantages: none!

...believes she can win the Little Miss Sunshine beauty contest, 800 miles across the country. The film shows how even the most dysfunctional families can pull together when they need to. Steve Carell heightens the humour as a suicidal brother in law, living with the dysfunctional Hoover family. Foul Mouthed grandpa (Alan Kirkin) is a sex-obsessed drug addict, with a son – Richard (Greg Kinnear), who’s speeches to his children about winning are as interesting ...
...shown in the film) Also little girls reaching perfection, overshadowed by their parents own eagerness to succeed, is not the best way to start a young girls life; the early years of life is when our personalities develop. If young children are lead to believe their worth and value as human beings depend on their physical appearance, then this is likely to become their belief throughout their life. As much as the end is funny, it does seem to end ...

jamespaton 26.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Little Miss Sunshine (DVD)

Tar Very Much

Advantages: A sharp, funny satire with great performances and a brain.
Disadvantages: Some of the subplots are underwritten.

Nick Naylor is a master of spin; making his money from defending the rights of smokers the world over on Capitol Hill. Of course the Big Tobacco concern he represents is funded by the cigarette companies, but as long as he gets paid, Naylor doesn't mind. But then do-gooder Senator Finistirre proposes that cigarette packets should all be labelled as poison, meaning Nick has his work cut out to defend the indefensible. At first glance, writer-director ...
...big screen looks like a stab at style-over substance filmmaking. How can it not when it employs "Fight Club" freeze frames, a sardonic voiceover, mocked up TV shows and on-screen graphics with accompanying sound effects and fake magazine covers? But that's before you scratch the surface of the biting satire that lies at the heart of the movie. Without the solid framework that the story offers, this would just be another flash-bang film from a commercials ...

afy9mab 17.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Thank You For Smoking (DVD)