Drama > Parental Guidance Drama > 15 GBP to 20 GBP

Advantages: Compelling political drama set in teh White House
Disadvantages: Helps if you watch it from Episode one - so buy Seasons 1 and 2 first

The West Wing is a brilliantly written drama that is set in the West Wing of the White House, where the President's political staff work. This gives the show an interesting view on American politics, as it shies away from the normal focus on senior politicians, but the hard working staff and their lives intertwined with their jobs. I think what it does best is it allows us a peek into the characters lives in such a way that it helps the stories along, ...
...Dr Abigail Bartlet, wife of the President John Spencer as Chief of Staff Leo McGarry Bradley Whitford as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman Janel Moloney as Donna Moss (Josh's assistant) Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler Communications Director Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn Deputy Communications Director Allison Janney as CJ Cregg White House Press Secretary Dule Hill as Charlie Young Personal Aide to the President These main characters are suplemented ... Read review

Advantages: Palatable
Disadvantages: Too surreal

...classic novel of the immortal Orlando by Virginia Woolf came free as a DVD video with the Sunday Telegraph. The DVD comes with little else than the film. The film was produced by a number of organisations with the participation of the British Screen and supported by The European Script Fund. Music was composed by David Motion & Sally Porter (The soundtrack is available on Varese Sarabande Compact Discs. This English language film in colour has a ...
...and two genders. Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The epic quest for love and freedom in the court of Elizabeth 1 as a man, and completes the search 400 years later as a women experiencing a variety of lives and relationship along the way, even changing sex. This journey takes Orlando across the frozen river Thames in pursuit of a Russian princess, into Central Asia for ... Read review

Advantages: Uncompromising, Enthralling, Great performances
Disadvantages: Uncomfortable viewing at times

...from her. She in turn promptly goes to buy it back, thus indirectly feeding and maintaining his addiction. Requiem For A Dream is a terrific and traumatic vision that perceptively captures the subconscious minds of people whose dreams are eating away at them. Please note - published elsewhere ... Read review

Advantages: good commetary
Disadvantages: poor choice of subject

I don't think Hollywood should be making any movies about 9/11. Not this, not United 93. They would have been better served donating the money raised to finance this film to the families of those who lost people in the twin towers. I am amazed they only got 1 big Hollywood name to try and hang this whole film on. yes, Nicolas Cage sells tickets but not all on his own. there should have been at least a few other names. And don't try telling me Maggie ...
...or what else she's been in. This film really can only be watched in the DVD format with the commentary of the men who were there and the rescuers (which is included along with Oliver Stone's commentary. You will learn some interesting things you may not have previously known but this story was NEVER strong enough to be a movie. TV featurette maybe, movie, no way. Sorry. ... Read review

Advantages: great story
Disadvantages: none really

...movie! This a review of the DVD version. Take the wonderful Sir Anthony Hopkins who is a fellow Welshman & we share the same birthday! Have him playing Burt Munro, a man who wants to ride his 1920's Indian Motorcycle faster than 200 mph ot the Bonneville Saltflats. He isn't a young man, in his 70's and his bike is rebuilt and held together with anything he can find. This is the story of his trip to America and across the country in his quest to ride ...
...him like everyone else at the Salt Flats. This is a true story but I would have liked to have known how many things in the film really are true (like the policeman letting him off after speeding in Nevada). My only real gripe with the movie is the accent of the taxi driver who takes Burt to Hollywood, his accent comes and goes which annoyed me a little bit. Watch it with an open mind and be enthralled. ... Read review