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Love will tear us apart

Advantages: Touching love story, beautiful desert scenery, well acted
Disadvantages: Very sad, jumps around a bit, perhaps a thinking persons film

...then look no further than The English Patient. I bought the English Patient on DVD at Sainsbury's a few weeks ago. I had just finished the book and thought I'd quite like to see what the film was like. I purchased it in a 3 for £30 deal. The book I read because it's on my Booker Prize winners list that I'm slowly working my way through this year. I have to be honest, although I liked the idea of it, I didn't enjoy it very much and had to force myself ...
...would like to re-read the book just to see how the director Anthony Minghella managed to create such a masterpiece from the same story I found dull on the page. Overview of the story *********************** If you have never heard of The English Patient then the following should help. The story is set at the end of the Second World War, in Italy, and for the most part moves between 1944 and up to two years before hand. The main character is a ...

Shoka 14.07.2006 · Read Full Review
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Review of The English Patient (Special Edition) (DVD)

A beautiful love story

Advantages: Great acting, beatiful cinematography
Disadvantages: None

The English Patient is an adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel of the same name. Set during WW2, it tells the story of Count Almasy (Ralph Fienns) who is found badly burned in the Sahara desert. He is moved to Tuscany and Hana (Juliette Binoche), a Canadian nurse, ends up taking care of him in an old italian monastery. Through flashbacks, we learn what happened to Almasy. He was in Cairo when he met Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), she ...
...usual, I won't tell you the whole story as I don't want to spoil the movie for you. The movie is set in both Tuscany and the Sahara desert. The cinematography is absolutely beautiful: this film is visually stunning (see the dreamy sand dunes in the opening credit). Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes and Krisin Scott Thomas were absolutely superb. The English Patient won nine Academy Awards and when you will have seen the movie you'll know why. The ...

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Review of The English Patient (DVD)

Brace Yourself For A Killer Season

Advantages: Superb cases
Disadvantages: None for me personally

CSI first hit our TV screens in 2000 and from the start was a massive hit. Since that date it has gone on to spawn two similar TV series’, CSI New York and CSI Miami, as well as numerous video games, board games and even figurines. The original CSI, sometimes referred to as CSI: Las Vegas, however is my favourite and so when I first decided that CSI was something I wanted to purchase this was the series that I began with. Each CSI series can be purchased ...
...find them sold in the split two DVD box-sets. This review is for the box-set series 4.1 and therefore contains, over three discs the first twelve episodes of the fourth series. What is CSI all about? CSI is fundamentally a crime series but and focuses primarily on the actions of the Crime Scene Investigators. More specifically it focuses on the CSI’s that work the graveyard shift in Las Vegas. Each episode documents the crime from the time ...

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Review of C.S.I. - Crime Scene Investigation - Vegas - Series 4 - Vol.1 (DVD)

Prison Break

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Disadvantages: -

Prison Break Prison Break" ( "Prison Break") - an American dramatic TV series started the Fox television in 2005 29 August. TV series tells of the man who is sentenced to death for a crime which did not. His brother, carefully prepare a complex escape plan, in order to avoid this penalty. TV series created by Paul Scheuring, prodiusuojamas "Adelstein-parousia Production" company with the "20th Century Fox TV. "Prison runaway" prisoners' unique history ...
...is built between the prison walls. Welcomed the television critics' jail fugitive "even nominated for two" Golden Globes "and is winning awards as best dramatic series. Now is Created 4 full seasons and FOX is going to create few more. I hope you liked review. Good luck and i wish you to see Prison Break ...

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Review of Prison Break - Series 1 Vol.1 (DVD)

You'll not be forgetting this Button!

Advantages: Fascinating story
Disadvantages: Just didn't wow me - would only see it once

...gets older. When I saw the trailers I was not impressed, but I was baffled as to how, or even why someone would go about making this film. Before you see the film, it really is hard to imagine. Story As an old woman lies dying, and a storm is brewing, her daughter begins reading her a kind of diary written by the man who started his life looking like an elderly man on his deathbed. His story starts in the early twentieth century, when his mother ...
...him at a care home. The nurse there found him and thinking he would not live long, brought him in. Day by day he seemed rather than getting worse, to be getting better. The diary documents all his childhood memories and the key things that happened to shape his life as he "grows," the people he meets and his experience of watching others growing old and dying. I could probably say more, but I won't. With this sort of film it may actually be better ...

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