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Try out Time Team you'll love it!

Advantages: Great classic time team with all the Team
Disadvantages: Your favourite dig may not be in there

...Never seen it? Well heres the premise: Tony Robinson presents it, the Team do some research into a site which needs to be archaelogically dug then he acts like the layman and asks lots of questions about what they are digging and what they are finding and tries to get them to uncover the myseries of the site. But the archaelogists really make this programme. Mick is the chief arch and he looks like a mad professor with long wispy hair and never ...
...on his bike looking at the geometry of the area. John is the geophysics guy who picks up all the electro magnetic activity and stuff to guide them to where they dig and lastly theres Phil, this guy has so much energy, hes a west country chap with just so much enthusaism for what he finds it just sucks you in. Anyway, to the DVD! This DVD is a great one for getting into Time Team because it has all the interesting episodes on it! I mean, Time Team ...

Crowdpleaser 22.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Very Best Time Team Digs (DVD)

So what was the UK like 3 billion years ago?

Advantages: Amazing views of British landscapes, clever special effects.
Disadvantages: Titchmarsh can get on your nerves, and nothing new here for the academic

British Isles: A Natural History was a BBC television series in late 2004 in which Alan Titchmarsh travelled all over the UK to trace the origins of the country and find out how the landscape has changed. As a geography student I watched the series when it was on television, while studying for my A-levels at the time. I have to say that I did not learn a lot from the series; it is rather basic and gives a very broad overview of the past 3 billion ...
...if older members of the British public find this sort of viewing entertaining, but as a 20-year-old I can tell you that it seems to be a waste of valuable filming time when they could be showing more beautiful landscapes! Anyway, that's the great thing about the DVD, you can just skip past these bits if you want to! I have to praise the special effects in the series. Like any nature documentary it has the fast forwarded time series of flowers blooming ...

gg724 31.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of British Isles: A Natural History (DVD)

A half hour too far

Advantages: Great cast, epic military scenes
Disadvantages: Very long, not always compelling

No doubt this film did need to be this long (and at nearly 3 hours it is long) since this military exercise was of huge significance and of huge scale. When i recently watched this film for a second time i really did start to struggle to keep focussed on the film. There are large chunks of the film which although necessary, really do nothing to grip the viewer and let the mind wonder to other things. Now the film has some great redeeming points. ...
...ever seen in one film with the likes of Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier and Robert Redford all in great form in their own right. The plot is based around Operation Market Garden which, during WW2, was the biggest airborne mission ever attempted. Briefly, the plan was to drop several airborne divisions into different parts of Holland, capture all the bridges along the main highway ...

hooves 25.08.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Arnhem - A Bridge Too Far (DVD)

The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

Advantages: Archive footage, interviews, live performances
Disadvantages: None

...previous comment on the great Townes Van Zandt, or has heard and enjoyed his music, this DVD is a must see. If neither is applicable to you but you are interesting in an insight into the tragic workings of a genius, this is also a must. This is the an often heartbreaking, sometimes amusing, always fascinating account of the life and times of Townes Van Zandt: Texan troubadour, manic depressive, misunderstood drunk, lovelorn poet and close friend ...
...Everyone who meant anything to Townes (who hadn't passed away themselves) is covered from ex-girlfriend to son to numerous musicians both influenced by Townes and friends of his. All offer insightful and moving accounts of his enigma. Archive footage, some seen for the first time, shows Townes in more relaxed circumstances and at home. This gives the greatest insight into his torment, which you can sense even when Townes is at play. This is most ...

Nixu1980 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Townes Van Zandt - Be Here To Love Me (DVD)

668: The Neighbour of the Beast!!!

Advantages: Rockumentry!
Disadvantages: The Peter Pan of rock!

...and head of the 'best rock school in Philadelphia' (and the East Coast, according to the maestro), has modelled himself on Jack Blacks manic creation or vice versa, such is the similarity of these two headbanger's. Both, while wanting to teach the kids to find their "inner rock star" when schools out, bring other human qualities to the table, something Mr Barford my old music teacher never did. I was lumbered with the Triangle in primary school to ...
...essential ingredient of being a rock star. You can't help but not secretly admire this guy as he does get the best out of them, but not too shy to say if they have it or not to their face, Gordon Ramsey style! The kids... The Collins twins-two identical five-year-old blonde bombshell surfer boys with floppy fringes-don't seem to have much talent but just enjoy shouting a lot into the microphone, encouraged by their mum who also wanted to be a lead ...

thedevilinme 31.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Rock School (DVD)