A powerful and moving film
Review of Remember The Titans (Wide Screen) by
tracyevans88
Advantages: Shows how one group of men can change the views of many
Disadvantages: I cant think of any - it really is an amazing film that everyone must see
Well what can i say another dramatic masterpiece starring Denzel Washington. Based on a true story it tells how one american football team pull together to battle against the racial discrimination that has haunted our history.
We explore the growing relationship between two strong characters Gerry Bertier, who is a young white player, and Julius Campbell, who is a young black player. They are brought together within the team when Coach Boone (Denzel ... ...On a training camp before the football season begins the two races are made to interact with eachother and to unite as a team. This results in many heated conflicts however by the end of the camp the team present a united front and head back home.
When home they face all the racial discrimination that they thought they had left behind and are therefore forced to chose between the life that they have built for themselves or to revert back to their ...
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19.10.2007
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Take a swing at my balls
Review of The Legend Of Bagger Vance (Wide Screen) by
christianfilmcritic
Advantages: Great story and good performances
Disadvantages: Lack of decent DVD features
►►► Synopsis With the Depression suddenly sweeping across Savannah, local entrepreneur John Invergordon's (Harve Presnell) dream of owning the best golf course in the state looks to have become a badly time folly. With the stunning course having run up considerable debts, John takes his own life, leaving his only daughter, Adele (Charlize Theron), to deal with her unlucky inheritance. With the local banks snapping at her heels to ... ...golf match featuring the 2 best golfers in the land, Bobby Jones (Joel Gretsch) and Walter Hagen (Bruce McGill) along with one time local hero, Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon), who had once been touted as the next big golfer, before having served in World War I and returned a broken man. Not overly keen on returning to the golfing scene, Junuh soon finds that he is encouraged to pick up his clubs from some very strange sources. Not only does he get the ...
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09.11.2006
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Melina Marchetta's Book from Australia Visualised
Review of Looking For Alibrandi DVD by
jesi
Advantages: A seventeen year old girl comes to terms with who she is
Disadvantages: Mixture of Italian (with english subtitles) and English; No extras
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Josephine Alibrandi (played by Pia Miranda) is just entering her final year as a scholarship girl at an exclusive Catholic High School in Sydney, St Martha's. She wants to go to law school, and is determined nothing will stop her, certainly not her Nonna Katia (Elena Cotta), who emigrated as a ... ...she is supposed to be looking out for younger pupils (she is "vice captain") has been omitted; in the book, she has a fight with another girl (resulting in her calling on her (just-discovered) barrister dad to rescue her from the scrape) at the beginning rather than the end of the story ~ ~ at the end of the book, some things are a lot less "together" in the book than they are in the film; people prefer their films to end on an upbeat note ~ which ...
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30.09.2006
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I Ache For Grace
Review of Return To Me (Wide Screen) by
christianfilmcritic
Advantages: Gentle, Sweet, Sad but Funny
Disadvantages: A little predictable
...can watch and enjoy.
Return to Me is available on Amazon for only £4.97.
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These are just some of my favourite quotes from the scene, both touching and funny.
Bob Rueland: I miss Elizabeth.I'll always miss her. But I ache for Grace. Tyler Dayton: And then we went to see the gorillas and Mommy said it was you. Megan Dayton: I did not. Joe Dayton: Oh, really? Did you go to see the elephants? Megan Dayton: Watch it Joe. Marty: This ...
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20.02.2006
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Arabian Nights
Review of Arabian Nights DVD by
Merced
Advantages: Great for action adventure and romance
Disadvantages: May be a bit too long for some people
A swashbuckling fairytale of heroes, genies and fantastical creatures. The main story centres around Scherherazade played by Mili Avital who marries the sultan played by Dougray Scott who is bitter and vengeful against all women since his wife cheated on him with his brother.
The sultan decides that the woman he marries will be murdered the next day after the wedding night and Scherherazade who loves him volunteers to be the bride both to save her ... ...Sultan and believes she can turn him from his vengeful ways. To do this Scherherazade has to distract the Sultan each night with fantastical tales that then have their own full stories within the film.
The first tale is of Ali Baba played by Rufus Sewell and how Ali Baba discovers a theives den full of riches and decides to steal it and the consequences that he and his brother have to pay for that. The second tale is a humourous tale of a court ...
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09.06.2007
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