Drama > S Drama > 20 GBP to 30 GBP

Advantages: An epic thriller and a great DVD package
Disadvantages: None

...Opinion ********* Although JFK is based upon real events, director Oliver Stone has taken these and used a fair bit of poetic licence and created what is not only a modern day epic, but also a master class in how to make an exceptional movie. Even though the film does come across as slightly biased, with Oliver Stone using the big screen to demonstrate his opinions on the President Kennedy assassination, JFK is one of the most gripping movies to ...
...compelling film. But having watched JFK on numerous occasions, I honestly believe it gets better with each viewing, the story is still as thrilling as the first time and each time you notice something new or find yourself questioning something about the JFK assassination. ● Characters and Cast Even though the majority of characters in the film are based on real people involved in the President Kennedy assassination and the Garrison investigation, ... Read review

Advantages: Offbeat, humorous and thought-provoking
Disadvantages: A little too offbeat for some

...The Basic Plot Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) is an assassin living in Jersey City (although, we're never told that) who holds true to Bushido, the ancient Japanese chivalric code of the Samurai, and is guided in particular by the tenets of Hagakure, a series of commentaries and guidelines that were outlined in the early 18th century. The Samurai is a servant or retainer who pledges his life and sword to a master, and in Ghost Dog's case his ...
...several years before (or so Ghost Dog thinks) and by so doing unwittingly earned the future assassin's loyalty. Between jobs Ghost Dog lives in a shack on the roof of a building with only some carrier pigeons and some books to keep him company. His only human friends are a Haitian ice-cream vendor and chatterbox, Raymond (Isaach de Bankolé), who can only speak French, and a precocious-but-sweet little girl, Pearline (Camille Winbush), with whom Ghost ... Read review

Advantages: great story
Disadvantages: n/a

I watched this film last night on sky and I cannot believe that I have not seen it sooner especially as I have always been a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio and I was not disappointed by this film in the slightest. This film does require some concentration and at just over two hours it is a long film, but it well worth the watch with a great plot with enormous detail in the film as it based on a real event of Sierra Leone on the 1990's. Solomon Vandy ...
...family, his son goes to school and loves it, one day on the way home from school the village comes under fire and Solomon hides his son and tries to save the rest of the family, unfortunately he manages to saves his family but he is captured and is a slave for a rebel gang and is forced to mine diamonds. One day he finds a rare giant pink diamond which he manages to hide. Solomon then meets Danny Archer played by Leonardo DiCaprio who is a South ... Read review

Advantages: Good story, Witherspoon and Metwally are great
Disadvantages: Gyllenhaal is disappointing, torture scenes are horrid

...on DVD to see it! Rendition was one such film. The adverts on the television looked great and I was keen on seeing it, but didn't round to it in time, so I decided last week to hire it out on my Online rentals service and got around to watching it this week whilst Harry was napping. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian by birth, but has living in America for 20 years, works as a Chemical Engineer, and is married to an all-American woman, Isabella Fields ...
...subject but such films as Rendition and The Kingdom have taken tentative footsteps in that direction. They have begun to examine terrorism from both points of views, have filmed tough torture scenes for us to watch and have really brought a humanist element to the whole scenario. For me, this was quite a hard watch due to some of the scenes included, but it really made it hit home for me how hard the US strikes when they suspect foul-play, no matter ... Read review

Advantages: Actors are good, ambiance
Disadvantages: Perhaps a little confusing by moments

*** I'm reviewing the movie, not the DVD because the version I have is the Belgian one ;) *** Der Untergang, known also in French as La Chute and in English as Downfall, is a German movie about Hitler's last days in his Bunker in Berlin, with his generals, his secretary, some servants and Eva Braun. You have also the point of view of a SS doctor, who chose to stay for helping soldiers and civils, instead of running away with fellow SS and a little ...
...fighting against the Russians before realizing his mistake and becoming a little boy again. Storyline is good, I mean, I love the World War II but sometimes, American productions are... too centered on American success during this war. Excepting Saving Private Ryan, I don't really watch WWII movies. I love documentaries, so, it's enough for me. Der Untergang isn't an American movie but an European one and what is more important for me, it's not ... Read review