Drama > A Drama > Altman, Robert > 12 years and over

Advantages: Enthralling, simply Enthralling
Disadvantages: Not Much Really

The Joffrey Ballet Company of Chicago is one of the most highly regarded dance schools in the world, build on hundreds of dancers determination, sweat, blood and tears it has managed to stay at the top of its game for over thirty years. The Company is an in-depth and heartfelt look into the lives of those who makes this the establishment that it is, mainly the movie centres around Ry a beautiful, up and coming dancer, who is steadily building her ...
...work as a waitress at the local sleazy nightclub. Whilst at a pub, playing pool she meets a young and handsome chef, Josh and starts a whirlwind romance. Neve Campbell really does deserve a lot of credit for this movie, she (although already a respected dancer) trained for seven months, eight hours a day to get to a stunning level technically, is credited as writer and producer and puts in one of the most compassionate and wonderful performances ... Read review

Advantages: Can be tense, shocking and unpredictable
Disadvantages: Appears to be a typical chick-flick on the surface

My reason for purchasing Match Point in the first instance was quite simple, Jonathon Rhys Myers was in it and for me that was as good an excuse as any to buy a new film. I'm so glad however that I did buy this film because not only does Rhys Myers play a fantastic part and look extremely handsome for the main but the film has become a firm favourite of mine. Chris (Jonathon Rhys Meyers) is an Irish tennis coach who after coaching Tom, the son of ...
..."There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can go either forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose." This line sums up the double-edged sword that the film is, as on more than one occasion the ball may go forward and Chris may uphold the life he has dreamed of but just as easily it may fall backwards and the world he has come to love may ... Read review

Advantages: Simply Superb
Disadvantages: None

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. ******************************* Produced and Directed by Frank Capra. Starring: Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey. Donna Reed as Mary (Mrs Bailey). Henry Travers as Clarence the angel. Lionel Barrymore as Mr Potter. James Stewart once said this was HIS favourite performance of all the films he had starred in. My favourite film of all time, something I oddly share with Dave Lister! I really should get out more. Introduction: ...
...in the acting stakes. It's a Wonderful Life is Stewarts crowning glory and long may it be an enduring classic. Greg. The boring stuff: DVD Features: Format: Black & White, Language: English with Subtitle option Region: Region 2 Number of discs: 1 Classification: U Run Time: 130 minutes ASIN: B000WOTTRE ... Read review

Advantages: Good film rooted in a real life story with good performances by the actors
Disadvantages: None that I can think of

...enjoyed this film. It is a emotional story which has a few twist and turns to keep you on your toes with some action scenes enlivening it. This is as well as a gritty realism from the true story behind the film of John Nash's struggle with mental illness. Lead actor Russel Crowe puts in a convincing and engaging performance as the brilliant but afflicted mathamatician John Nash. All the characters work well with Connelly combining well with Crowe ... Read review

Advantages: Superb at all aspects
Disadvantages: nothing at all

A Beautiful Mind…. Really I can say a beautiful mind of Producer, of Director of Writer and of-course of Actor Russell Crowe. This movie is one of my favorite movies and I have seen it at least five times. This movie is based on best-seller book as A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar. Story starts from Princeton University where John Nash (Russell Crowe) got admission as a new graduate student, where he meets with Charles, his roommate and both ...
...the concept 'governing dynamics' a mathematics theory. After completing his work he was appointed at USA's prestigious technical institute MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In MIT he started to teach calculus, and he placed some interesting problems before his students, and told them that some students can solve this in within hours, someone take days, someone even months and years also. One of his girl student Alicia Larde , solved ... Read review