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BANGKOK HILTON - YOUNG NICOLE KIDMAN

Advantages: great mini-series, good cast, great storyline
Disadvantages: none

...was in a mini-series called Bangkok Hilton. It is the story of a young Australian girl who is duped into drug smuggling and ends up in the infamous "Bangkok Hilton" jail. CAST ++++ Katrina Stanton - Nicole Kidman Hal Stanton - Denholm Elliott Richard Carlisle - Hugo Weaving Mandy Engels - Joy Smithers Arkie Regan - Jerome Ehlers Lady Faulkner - Gerda Nicolson STORYLINE ++++++++++ Kat Stanton grows up in Australia. She thinks that her father ...
...is then remanded into the Bangkok Hilton prison, where she could face the death penalty if found guilty. She becomes friends with Mandy Engels who is also facing the death penalty for drug smuggling. She is fighting a system that she does not know and cannot understand. What happens to Kat now? Will she find her father? Will she be sentenced to death in prison? There is a real twist in the tail, but I cannot reveal any more. REVIEW +++++++ This ...

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Review of Bangkok Hilton (DVD)

A new Hitler tailor-made for the 1980s, 90s, 2000!

Advantages: Keeps you guessing
Disadvantages: Not for the faint of heart

WARNING! THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS AND PLOTLINE! THE STORY The story starts in Paraguay with a young man called Barry Kohler (played by a young Steve Guttenberg) he is watching a man dining. Another man turns up and whisks the diner away in his car. Barry follows the men to a bull fight where they join up with more men. Barry takes photos. Barry rings a man called Ezra Lieberman (played by Lawrence Olivier). He is a Nazi hunter and ...
...the men are Nazi followers and would like his help. Barry tells Ezra that he has sent him some newspaper clippings and photos. Ezra dismisses Barry and says he doesn't want to help. Underterred, Barry bribes a young boy to plant a bug in the house that the men go to. Barry hides in the garden listening. We then see 6 men gathered together. Another man joins them, he is Dr Mengele (played by Gregory Peck) He tells the men that he wants them to assasinate ...

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Review of The Boys From Brazil (Blu-ray)

A mans life needs at least 1 hour of our time

Advantages: Cleverly worked out
Disadvantages: Not action packed - some might find boring

BEWARE! THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS AND PLOTLINE! THE STORY The story starts with a young man of 18 on trial in court for murder. His life is in the hands of the jury of 12 men. If he is found guilty, he will be executed. All 12 must agree on a verdict. We learn that the boy is accused of killing his father. The father hit the young boy frequently and the prosecution see this as the motive. A witness who lived opposite boy and the father ...
...knife and an old man living below said that he heard the boy shout "I'm gonna kill you" before he heard something fall to the floor above. The old man ran to his door and says that he saw the boy running away. However, the boy says that he was at the cinema during the stabbing and did not return until 3 hours later where upon he was arrested. The men go into a room to decide if the boy is guilty or not. The men decide to take a preliminary vote. ...

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Review of Twelve Angry Men (DVD)

The finest show to ever grace the screens

Advantages: Everything, mostly the fab Ms Gless
Disadvantages: none at all

...most wanted thief in America. Cagney and Lacey are on the case, and soon discover he is up to his old tricks. Cagney becomes obsessed with catching him, after he challenges her, and the race is on as she tries to outwit the Grandest Thief of Them All. 10 - Recreational Use - Cagney, Lacey and Dory McKenna investigate the deaths of some senior citizens in properies owned by the same man, who it turns out is sabotaging all his buildings to raise rent. ...
...assist him with his work. Cagney disagrees with this and makes him aware of her nervousness about the use of drugs, but doesnt make an issue out of it - until the group have a social get together with Lacey and her husband Harvey at their apartment. It is later discovered that Dory used drugs at the home of the Laceys, which causes a rift between the partners - and Mary Beth offers some harsh, yet true advice to Christine about her love interest, ...

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Review of Cagney And Lacey - Series 1 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

Touching but sad story set during post-WWII Germany

Advantages: Touching, Emotional, handles controversial subjects sensitively.
Disadvantages: Can be a little slow in places

...woman during post-WWII Germany, and the effect it has on him throughout his life. It is a beautifully written book which has translated well on to screen, and combined with the excellent acting from Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes and the young David Kross, The Reader is not to be missed. At the start of an illness that will see him bed ridden for many months, Michael Berg is helped home by a brusque but alluring older women names Hanna Schmitz. On ...
...he realises that it signifies the end of the affair and the loss of Hanna from his life. Moving forward, Michael is studying a law degree and when he meets Hanna again during the middle of a controversial trial, he is shocked at the nature of the discovery. During this trial, Michael uncovers a secret Hanna has been keeping her whole life and struggles to decide whether to reveal this. Choosing not to, he now must live with the consequences for ...

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Review of The Reader (DVD)