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Death is HOT!!!!!

Advantages: Excellent acting, great story
Disadvantages: May be too long for some

...start of the film we meet Susan who is having a break n a café before going to work when she meets a very handsome stranger and they get talking but as they both leave and she turns the corner he is run over and killed. We then meet Bill who is a very rich business man but he is ill and he keeps hearing a voice. The voice then reveals itself as death. Death has taken the form of a recently deceased man, yes the man from the café who Susan met and ...
...if he can have more time as he wants to be able to go to his 65th birthday party which is only 2 weeks away. I exchange for this extra time Bill agrees to be deaths guide on Earth and show him what it is like. When Bill introduces death to his family he calls him Joe Black but Susan still feels the chemistry between herself and the man she believes was the one she met before. Will Bill be able to cheat death and what will happen with the chemistry ...

sewbizzie 20.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Meet Joe Black (DVD)

There's final hits and final hits. What kind is this one to be?

Advantages: One Of The Best Films To Come Out Of The UK.
Disadvantages: None!

...I first saw the film Trainspotting after hearing so much controversy about it on television, from reading about it in the newspapers and from everyone talking about it around me at the time. It was all everyone was talking about on it's release in 1996 and of course I just had to see it for myself to see what all the hype was about. Well I went to the pictures to watch this film and was quite shocked by this outrageously, yet brilliant tale of five ...
...ago that my husband purchased Trainspotting to add to our DVD collection as we both really enjoyed watching it over the years at various times on television (in a sick kind of way I guess). He picked it up second-hand for £1 at a car boot sale, so it certainly was a great bargain. This film really will not be suited to everyone though. I think you will either love it like I do, or absolutely hate it. It certainly is worth watching once though just ...

hillhead 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Trainspotting (DVD)

Problems in paradise

Advantages: Story and cast
Disadvantages: none

...will like his 2000 film, The Beach, which seems him work again with producer Andrew Macdonald and writer John Hodge. The Beach is about a young American backpacker Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is looking for something totally different experiences from his normal day to day life. He meets a weird stranger, Daffy (Robert Carlyle), in Thailand, who claims to be a former native of a rumoured paradise island, inhabited by wayward travellers. Daffy ...
...to go in search of the island along with two travellers, Françoise (Virginie Ledoyen) and her boyfriend, Étienne (Guillaume Canet) who he meets on his journey. Richard soon discovers that his dreams of an idyllic paradise are not always what they seem, as his search turns into a nightmare. This is a good adaptation of the novel by Alex Garland, The Beach. Some people may not like that some of the story has been changed slightly, but I think that ...

mozzie76 17.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Beach (DVD)

One of Bergman's Finest

Advantages: Not a trace of banality there
Disadvantages: Misogyny

The first thing to mention is a little known fact. This film is part of a trilogy: it is followed by 'Winter Lights' and 'The Silence'. So if one really wants to come to terms with what Bergman has to say about religion and God then all three should be watched. In spite of this 'Through a Glass Darkly' can very easily stand alone as a cinematic masterpiece. Nykvist's cinematography is something purely beautiful and each individual actor, without ...
...Sanity, Love, Sexuality, Artistic production, philosophy and more the film itself is bursting with meaning and the intellectual achievement on Bergman's part should not be underplayed. Although there are rather assertive overtone's of Freudian misogyny in the use of female hysteria yet one cannot necessarily mark this negatively. All in all it is a beautiful and thought-provoking watch and I would recommend it to all. Especially so to the fan of ...

spanner131 17.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Through A Glass Darkly (DVD)

Nothing much wrong with this do!

Advantages: Cinematography, stellar cast, faithfulness to original
Disadvantages: Keanu Reeves' wooden villain

...to teach the story of Much Ado About Nothing to traditionally disinterested 13 year -old SATs students. Though, it sticks ridgidly to the original text it does so in a way that makes the text come alive using a combination of excellent acting, high production values and judiciously selected moments of slapstick. The comic moments are genuinely funny and the shoes of the relatively small parts of Dogberry and Verges are filled impressively by the ...
...am sure this joke owes much to Monty Python). Indeed the cast list is of the highest calibre from Shakespearean veterans such as Kenneth Brannagh to Hollywood A-listers in the form of Kate Beckinsdale. Keanu Reeves is typically wooden and Claudio has the charisma of a comatose gnat but there are the only real smudges on this multi-faceted diamond! The story of 'Much Ado' is fairly easy to follow but it gives you a chance to enjoy the word play ...

matt_1509 18.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Much Ado About Nothing (DVD)