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Slave to the System

Advantages: Shiny swords!
Disadvantages: There's no budget, no script editor and stunningly average acting.

...to have the story of Spartacus told to you with talking pictures, then it's the Kirk Douglas movie all the way. It's got a better script, bigger budget and far, far better actors. There really isn't the faintest need for a remake, especially such a poor one as this. If, however, you can be sold on a good-looking guy strutting about all oiled and not wearing many clothes, and some neat sword-fights (um, so if you're like me then) you might enjoy it, ...

Calapine 30.06.2006 · Read full review
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"Hello there, soldier. Ready to kill more Germans?"

Advantages: Expertly directed, shot, acted, written and edited. A vital, scathing message
Disadvantages: Frequently overlooked by modern audiences

With a film career spanning nearly fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick is often considered one of the great figures of modern cinema. He is also the perhaps the most consistent; his lean catalogue of thirteen features (his first, 'Fear and Desire' was near enough wiped off the face of the planet at the director's request) is choc-a-block with classics from the dystopian 'A Clockwork Orange' to the cerebral '2001: A Space Odyssey' to the ultra black ...
...mention, each one unique and brilliant in its own right. Even films that tore the critics like his final work 'Eyes Wide Shut' bode the same flair and overarching themes that make it quintessential Kubrick. 'Paths of Glory' from 1957, although not lesser known per se (on the contrary it is a film that is greatly admired), is definitely one of his more overlooked works, much like his other films of that early period in his career. A shame really as ...

Markula 23.03.2009 · Read full review
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Sex and the City

Advantages: funny, great performance
Disadvantages: long

...so many exciting reviews on Sex and the City that I decided I watch it. It is a real chick flick romantic comedy and that evening it was the perfect entertainment for me. The film was written and directed by Michael Patrick King. Actually he was the co-producer of the film as well with Sarah Jessica Parker and Darren Star. Michael Patrick King is an American film director and screenplay writer. Besides Sex and the City he wrote the screenplay of ...
...balance. She and Steve have sex about twice a year and even then she is not so involved. She is hurt and devastated when Steve confesses that he had sex with another woman. Miranda separates immediately from him and sees no chance to forgive him. Charlotte has a happy family since they adopted Lily. She is a beautiful girl. Charlotte soon realises that since they gave up trying to have a baby she is pregnant. Can she carry out the baby? My opinion ...

D_i_a_n_e 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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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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Empire Records!

Advantages: Great actors/performances
Disadvantages: non really

Empire Records Empire Records, a comedy with actors as Renée Zellweger, Liv Tyler en Ethan Embry. General information Running: 90 minutes Category: comedy year: 1995 Director: Allen Moyle Language: English Country: United States of America Actors : Rory Cochrane as Lucas Renée Zellweger as Gina Johnny Whitworth as A.J. Ethan Embry as Mark Liv Tyler as Corey Mason Debi Mazar as Jane Robin Tunney as Debra Anthony LaPaglia as Joe Reaves ...
...Empire Records Empire Records is a record shop in the nineties in Amerca. In the shop, the employees are teenagers that feel home there and can almost do whatever they want. They can wear what they want and play the music in the shop what they like. No stupid regulations like big chain shops have. The employees are like one big family and the manager Joe as the father, who loves them all. But on one day he leaves Lucas in charge to close up the ...

JL132 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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