Drama > TBA Drama > 5 GBP to 10 GBP

Advantages: Great Family Viewing - good value for money
Disadvantages: the wait between series being released!!

The Waltons Season 2 dvd boxset ------------------------------------------------ As a huge Walton's Fan I was very excited at the release of the second series on DVD, and I was certainly not disappointed! For those of you who are not familiar with the Walton's - Shame on you! The Waltons was a drama series filmed during the 1970's. It was based on the Novels written by Earl Hamner, who narrates throughout the Walton's episodes. He wrote about ...
...1940's America, and is who the Character John-Boy is based. The Waltons are a large family consisting of: Father John Walton, Mother Olivia, daughters Mary-Ellen, Erin & Elizabeth, and sons John-Boy, Jason, Ben and Jim-bob. Also living with the family are John's parents Zeb & Esther. There are 24 episodes in total which are: The Journey The Triangle The Awakening The Honeymoon The Heritage The Gift The Cradle The Fulfillment The Ghost ... Read review

Advantages: A bold different indian film
Disadvantages: not for the usual bollywood fans

Naach - "Dance" (Hindi) As we would expect from a Ram Gopal Varma film this is a high budget, high gloss bollywood film. Naach is full of songs, crazy outfits and intense dance routines. Unlike Ram Gopal Varma's other big hits (Rangeela and Mast) this does not have the usual Indian film industry as a back drop. Instead it a a much more realistic version of how the industry works. Naach is not one of the usual fantasy based saccharine filled films ...
...and script writers have succeeded in making the characters in this film realistic. There are two leads in this film. Rewa is the female lead and plays the part of a struggling choreographer. Abhi is her best friend and plays the part of a wannabe actor. Both Rewa and Abhi are trying to get a foot into the bollywood film industry. They both have extreme drive and ambition and we begin the film by watching them try to realize their dreams. Rewa's ... Read review

Advantages: good if you like the gangster film genre
Disadvantages: somewhat of a weak plot

Family - Ties of Blood (hereafter referred to as just Family) is a Hindi language (aka Bollywood) film which was released in January 2006 and stars Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Aryeman Ramsay with Bhoomika Chawla, Gulshan Grover, Raza Murad and Shernaz Patel in supporting roles. Family was directed by Rajkumar Santoshi (who also wrote the screenplay) and produced by Amitabh Bachchan and Keshu Ramsay (whose son happens to play one of the leads). ...
...is from a middle class family and lives with his wife (Chawla), brother Aryan (Ramsay) and parents. Shekhar is settled in a good job as a chef whilst his wife is a doctor and Aryan is a bit of a loser who's not managed to settle down to any job in particular. One fine day, Shekhar is gunned down and killed by Viren (by accident) and the Bhatia families lives are turned upside down. Suddenly Aryan "snaps" into maturity and decides to take action ... Read review

Advantages: Great concept, excellent performance by Shahrukh, good direction
Disadvantages: Tries to take on too many issues, drags in the final 15 minutes.

...all Well yes and no, Swades has a fantastic concept of returning to ones roots and there are some pretty good moments in the movie, but serious flaws in screenplay and execution prevent it from attaining classic status. So here is my take on the movie. The Story Mohan Bhargava (Shahrukh Khan) is an engineer working with NASA in US for quite some time. On the occasion of his parents death anniversary, he remembers his forster mother Kaveriamma(Kishori ...
...be seen on the screen. Swades has got many high points that mark it out from the typical Bollywood fare. First things first Ashutosh Gowariker needs to be lauded for his courage and vision in attempting to look at the reality of India as it is. No sugar coating here, no speeches on the superiority of Indian culture vs the rest of the world, what is shown is simple reality. What Ashutosh has done is , he has simply put up a mirror to India and asked ... Read review

Advantages: Glamourous and attractive leads and some pretty decent acting
Disadvantages: Pretty much a carbon copy of Discloure and quite lengthy

Aitraaz tackled something new for Hindi films - namely sexual harassment in the workplace by a woman. The film deals with how it can potentially affect a man, his career, his marriage, his reputation and his whole life. ~*~ CAST/CREW ~*~ Aitraaz stars Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra with Paresh Rawal and Amrish Puri (who sadly died recently) in strong supporting roles. The film is directed by Abbas & Mustan Burmawalla and produced ...
...lengthy for their liking. Aitraaz was filmed in India and South Africa. ~*~ PLOT TEASER ~*~ Raj Malhotra (Kumar) meets Priya (Kapoor) by a bizarre accident when she comes to work for him as a legal assistant (he thinks she's a cleaner). Raj quite quickly falls head over heels in love with Priya and vice versa. The woman who was supposed to be his cleaner actually goes to his neighbour's house who is a lawyer (Rawal) and ends up working for him, ... Read review