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Often Overlooked But One Of Hitchcock's Best

Advantages: Great performances, story, direction, camara work
Disadvantages: None

This film is hugely under-rated in the Hitchcock filmography. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains this film must rank amongst one of the best thrillers of it's time, and any other for that matter. Why it is not spoken about in the same breath as North by Northwest or Night of The Hunter is a mystery to me. The film contains the perfect balance between dark thriller and dark romance and reaches a nail ...
...father commits suicide and in an attempt to prove her allegiance to the US cause agrees to be enlisted by US secret agent Devlin (Grant) to court and marry neo-nazi Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains) in order to monitor Nazi activities. Sebastian learns that his wife is a spy and reluctantly through pressure from his mother he agrees to kill her. Realising her danger, Devlin, now realising he is in fact in love with the woman he formerly loathed, ...

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Review of Notorious (DVD)

Damned United DVD - A damned good watch!

Advantages: Interesting & entertaining portrayal of one one of football's real characters
Disadvantages: Football movies aren't to everyone's taste, controversial character

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" Brian Clough was undoubtedly one of the all-time greats in English football. With an incredible 251 goals in 274 games, "Old Big 'Ead" deserved far more than the two international caps he actually received. After being forced to hang up his boots prematurely due to injury, he took up management at the age of 30 - and was the youngest manager in the football league. ...
...Highlights included taking Derby from the depths of Division 2 to the very peak of the 1st division (now the Premiership) and then, even more incredibly, taking unknown and unfancied Nottingham Forest from the second flight and winning back-to-back European Cups. Like his playing career, his managerial achievements should have led to recognition at international level, but Clough was, and still is, the best English manager never to manage England. ...

stevek181 22.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Damned United

COLD FEET - THE SECOND SERIES

Advantages: Excellent show, getting to know the characters
Disadvantages: none

The second series of Cold Feet continues a few months after the first series ends. All of the main 6 characters return and we pick up their lives in Manchester again. CAST ++++ Rachel - Helen Baxindale Adam - James Nesbitt Jenny - Fay Ripley Pete - John Thompson David - Robert Bathurst Karen - Hermione Norris Episode 1 ++++++++ It is six months since Rachel went to London when she was pregnant and did not know if it was Adam's or her ex-husband's. ...
...time supporting him, but she also sets him up on a date with Pete's colleague Amy. Adam is missing Rachel and wondering what her baby looks like. Episode 2 +++++++++ David is made redundant, so he decides he'd rather stay at home and care for his son than get a new job. This drives Karen mad. Rachel returns - without a baby but with some shocking news for Adam which turns his world upside down. Jenny tells Pete that she no longer loves him. and ...

kismet 20.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Cold Feet - The Complete 2nd Series (DVD)

Don't be Suckered

Advantages: It's intersting to see Gere playing against type and Molina is as dependable as ever.
Disadvantages: Pedestrian direction and writing and a film without a genre.

...and his publishers are on the brink of dropping him. Then he decides to write a bogus official biography of notorious billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. According to him, Hughes wants a million dollar advance and will only communicate with the publishers through Irving. Surprisingly the company falls for his scam. However, news of the book sparks a media feeding frenzy and Irving has to move fast to stay one step ahead of the pack. Director Lasse ...
...this based-on-fact tale. He lacks the eye for detail and the cynicism required to make this a biting satire of the celebrity-hungry media. Instead it plays out as more of a muted caper where Irving has to go to increasingly ridiculous lengths to stay ahead of the game. Sadly the film doesn't have quite enough gloss or sparkle to excel in this area. Truth be told, the production values make it look like a made-for-TV movie. The film stock is grubby ...

afy9mab 11.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Hoax (DVD)

They think it's all over

Advantages: funny
Disadvantages: rated 15

This specially extended version of the smash hit BBC1 series features not just Olympic silver medallist Rodger Black and men behaving badly Neil Morrissey but all your favourite rounds and a full scale school sports day. So if you’ve never seen David Gower catching raw eggs in lycra, or Gary Lineker hopping about in a giant crisp packet, now your chance. if you think the programme was good you will like the video.The clipsin this video haven ...

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Review of Benny's Video (DVD)