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Who's the victim?

Advantages: Gripping storyline
Disadvantages: Acting fairly mediocre

Introduction A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens, is a strangely gripping film that leaves you not sure whether to feel sorry for the main character or not. With names like Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters in the three main roles, it is not surprising that the film has attracted a lot of attention over the years, although I think that it is the strong storyline and cinematography, rather than the acting that stands ...
...in 1975. He came from a family connected to the movies - his father was a bit actor in Citizen Kane, his brother was a drama critic and his sister became a screenwriter. George first became a cameraman and moved his way up to director. His most well-known films include Swing Time (Astaire and Rogers 1936), Gunga Din (1939), Woman of the Year (1942), A Place in the Sun (1951) and Shane (1953). The actors/characters Edward Montgomery Clift was born ...

sunmeilan 17.01.2006 · Read full review
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Review of A Place In The Sun (DVD)

Nice girl meets Mr Very Very Wrong

Advantages: Good absorbing story, moving performance from Loretta Young
Disadvantages: Not classic material but still very watchable and engrossing

Starring: Loretta Young as Ellen Jones Barry Sullivan as George Jones Bruce Cowling as Lt/Dr Ranney Grahame This is a not great but quite watchable and absorbing 1951 drama about Ellen (a very lovely Loretta Young), who meets and falls in love with dashing handsome ex-World War II pilot George. He sweeps her off her feet and they marry and settle down into what should be quiet wedded bliss in Los Angeles suburbia. However, George soon develops a ...
...His personality begins to change from dashing and debonair to bitter and twisted, and having too much time on his hands, he begins to imagine that his wife and their equally dashing and handsome doctor (and George's old friend), Dr Grahame, are having an affair. He becomes completely insufferable, a sarcastic and demanding invalid. He guilt-trips Ellen and insists that she wait on him hand and foot, all the while berating and criticising her. Mr ...

thereddragon 13.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Cause For Alarm (DVD)

I Traveled Into The Future To Steal This Review From Myself

Advantages: Rachel McAdams, adequate adaptation of novel, polished presentation
Disadvantages: Eric Bana is miscast, failed to bring tears to my eyes

****************************************************************************** TITLE: The Time Traveler’s Wife RATING: ***½ (out of 5) CAST: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingston, Jane McLean, Arliss Howard, Alex Ferris, Brooklynn Proulx, Michelle Nolden, Carly Street, Katherine Trowell, Stephen Tobolowsky, Philip Craig, Tatum McCann. DIRECTOR: Robert Schwentke SCREENWRITER: Bruce Joel Rubin BASED ON THE NOVEL: “The Time Traveler’s Wife” ...
...Pitt (of all people) bought the rights to bring it to the screen. Released as counter-programming in Fall of 2009, The Time Traveler’s Wife did decent box office business. It was also greeted with a fair amount of negative reviews. Now that Warner Bros. has released on DVD and Blu-ray, is it worth a second look? As a young boy, Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana, Star Trek) miraculously survives a car accident which killed his mother. Right before his mother ...

eve6kicksass 08.02.2010 · Read full review
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Review of The Time Traveller's Wife (Blu-ray)

* Age Is Coming! *

Advantages: DK , funny
Disadvantages: sometimes not funny!

...Eastenders ,when I saw that Coming Of Age was on next , and after viewing the 'information' bit , was a bit curious about it , and so decided to watch it. For those of you who don't know , Coming Of Age is a British comedy show which is broadcast on BBC Three (Sky Channel 115). Created by Tim Dawson , the show is currently on it's second series. Each episode is thirty minutes long. Catch Coming Of Age on BBC Three at 10:30pm. The show is based ...
...are an couple , and so are Chloe and Matt , and fifth member of the gang DK (played by Joe Pasquales son) , who seems to live in a bubble. The five are a group of friends. The show follows them on their day-to-day life in six form. When I first saw this show a few weeks back , I was quite suprised at how good it was. To me it's like a kids comedy show , although the jokes are crude , which is obviously something you would not get in a children's ...

xdonzx 07.02.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Coming Of Age - Series 1 (DVD)

Greedy stock brokers

Advantages: Cast and story
Disadvantages: none

...from the Oliver Stone film, Wall Street. This eighties film is brilliant look at excessess. Wall Street is about a stockbroker, Bud Fox, who is desperate to succeed on Wall Street. He seeks the guidance of corporate stock speculator, Gordon Gekko, who is one of the best coporate raiders. Gekko is very ruthless and manipulates the markets to his own gain. He uses Bud's desire to succeed to his advantage and is leads Bud down a path of shady deals, ...
...airline company, which Bud's father, Carl, has worked at for years. The cast for this film features the following actors. Charlie Sheen - Bud Fox Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko Martin Sheen - Carl Fox Daryl Hannah - Darien Taylor Sean Young - Kate Gekko Terence Stamp - Sir Larry Wildman Tamara Tunie - Carolyn Franklin Cover - Dan Chuck Pfeiffer - Chuckie John C. McGinley - Marvin Hal Holbrook - Lou Mannheim Leslie Lyles - Natalie I really enjoyed ...

mozzie76 07.02.2010 · Read full review
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