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Chilling!

Advantages: Excellent special effects, gripping
Disadvantages: Story leaves much to be desired

When water temperature in the North Atlantic begins to drop significantly it would appear to be a warning of things to come, or at least that’s what Professor Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) thinks. He tries to convince the government that there is a natural disaster on the way but they refuse to believe the theories of a climatologist. Suffice to say Jack is right and soon after, horrendous weather hits the world, engulfing it with water and snow and when ...
...death on the spot. While this natural disaster is occurring, Jack’s son Sam (Jake Gyllehaal) is in New York for a competition with a few friends, when the weather worsens they’re forced to take shelter in a public library and Jack promises to rescue his son… but will he be too late? The Day After Tomorrow is another in a long line of disaster movies with a purpose of playing on peoples sense of reality and paranoia. Much like Armageddon portrayed ...

Great_reviewer07 22.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Day After Tomorrow (DVD)

If I ever saw it...this is how it would look

Advantages: Its Excellent
Disadvantages: quite graphic

...The Concept Traffic is a really intelligent look at the world of drug trafficking and offers a broad scale of insight. We see the trafficking process from its beginning in Mexico where attempts at its deterrence are much beleaguered by corruption, through to America's infinitely more constitutional attempt at tackling the problem. We are also the given the chance to see the happy upper class lives of those responsible for the drugs distribution ...
...the street and its effect on individuals and their families. The film involves countless harrowing scenes of habitual drug use and lacks the glamour with which drugs are all too often associated with these days. The flagrant snorting of cocaine and disturbing scenes involving both the smoking and injecting of Heroine are intensely compelling and the audience is not patronised or guarded from the rawness of these acts in any way. This makes the film ...

j22o2 20.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Traffic (DVD)

Frequency - one of the most underrated films ever

Advantages: Excellent plot, Heart warming story
Disadvantages: None

...--- the BASICS --- Frequency is a science fiction film released in 2000. It starred Dennis Quaid as Frank Sullivan and James Caviezel as John Sullivan, Frank's son. The film revolved around a CB radio which was able to transmit and receive radio waves between father and son during solar flares in the years 1969 and 1999. --- the PLOT --- (!!SPOILERS!!) Frank and Julie Sullivan were a happy couple living with 7 year old son John. Frank was a fireman, ...
...a man with the same frequency and call sign as his. John talked with him casually at first and later found that the man at the other end called his son "little chief", the name his father Frank called him in his childhood. An initial mixed feeling of disbelief and emotion turned to panic as John frantically tried to warn Frank that the fire next day (30 years earlier) would take his life and "if only he chose the other way", he would be saved. Frank ...

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Review of Frequency (DVD)

Not that far from heavenly

Advantages: Moore, Haysbert and Haynes' direction
Disadvantages: Quaid is out of his depth and the script can be a touch cliched

Far From Heaven is a beautifully made piece of cinema. Todd Haynes delivers a perfectly crafted homage to 1950's melodramas with a twist of 2000's disfunction. Julianne Moore stars as Cathy Whitaker the model housewife living in suburban late fifties Hartford Connecticut. To the world around her Cathy and her husband Frank (Dennis Quaid) have the perfect marriage, family, home and life. Cracks begin to appear when Cathy gets a late night call from ...
...he is 'mistaken' for a 'loiterer'. The true extent of Frank's 'loitering' is quickly revealed and Cathy's perfect world starts to fall apart. Cathy finds comfort in the most unlikely of places when her black gardener Raymond Deagon (Dennis Haysbert) catches her crying. The two start to form a friendship under the prying eyes of Cathy's dissaproving friends and neighbours. What starts out as harmless jibes soon turns to hateful gossip, whilst what ...

Zoe 06.11.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Far From Heaven (DVD)

Willie Beamen - what a player!!!

Advantages: good plot, great acting, fab ending
Disadvantages: not enough on field action, have to endure Willies vommiting

...neck!" Conclusion I think Any Given Sunday is won of the all-time greatest sports movies. Not only does it have a genuinely great cast and the acting is fantastic, but it explores some sides of American Football that not many people would know about, like illegal drug taking to enhance performance, physiotherapists who push players to play when perhaps they shouldn't because the pressure to win is so great and the ego's of some players. As I said ...
...gives is very memorable. Well worth purchasing on DVD. Director - Oliver Stone (Platoon, 1986, Natural Born Killers 1994 & World Trade Center 2006) Producers - Richard Donner (The Goonies 1985, Conspiracy Theory 1997, )& Oliver Stone Released - December 22nd 1999 (DVD 1st September 2000) Runtime - 150 minutes Thanks for reading. (also posted on Dooyoo under the same name) ...

beanie8844 27.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Any Given Sunday (Director's Cut) (DVD)