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Advantages: Good acting and good story
Disadvantages: None

...I bought when I got a VCR. This is one of those elegant Merchant-Ivory productions, which also include Maurice and A Passage to India, other E.M. Forster adaptations to film, that sets the late Victorian/early twentieth century world in upper- to upper-middle class England in such gracious light. The stars of this film include Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, the heroine, and Julian Sands as George Emerson, her free-spirited suitor, who ...
...without a jacket, or kissing someone (willing) in a field of poppies. However, this flies in the face of convention, which in Victorian and post-Victorian England simply isn't done. Lucy has already been courted; the official suitor of Lucy is the stuffed-shirt Cecil Vyse, whose personality seems like it is jammed in a vise. A perfect name. This role is played by Daniel Day Lewis, in a grand performance where he underplays his natural handsomeness. ... Read review

Advantages: Offbeat, humorous and thought-provoking
Disadvantages: A little too offbeat for some

...The Basic Plot Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) is an assassin living in Jersey City (although, we're never told that) who holds true to Bushido, the ancient Japanese chivalric code of the Samurai, and is guided in particular by the tenets of Hagakure, a series of commentaries and guidelines that were outlined in the early 18th century. The Samurai is a servant or retainer who pledges his life and sword to a master, and in Ghost Dog's case his ...
...several years before (or so Ghost Dog thinks) and by so doing unwittingly earned the future assassin's loyalty. Between jobs Ghost Dog lives in a shack on the roof of a building with only some carrier pigeons and some books to keep him company. His only human friends are a Haitian ice-cream vendor and chatterbox, Raymond (Isaach de Bankolé), who can only speak French, and a precocious-but-sweet little girl, Pearline (Camille Winbush), with whom Ghost ... Read review

Advantages: great story
Disadvantages: n/a

I watched this film last night on sky and I cannot believe that I have not seen it sooner especially as I have always been a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio and I was not disappointed by this film in the slightest. This film does require some concentration and at just over two hours it is a long film, but it well worth the watch with a great plot with enormous detail in the film as it based on a real event of Sierra Leone on the 1990's. Solomon Vandy ...
...family, his son goes to school and loves it, one day on the way home from school the village comes under fire and Solomon hides his son and tries to save the rest of the family, unfortunately he manages to saves his family but he is captured and is a slave for a rebel gang and is forced to mine diamonds. One day he finds a rare giant pink diamond which he manages to hide. Solomon then meets Danny Archer played by Leonardo DiCaprio who is a South ... Read review

Advantages: Good story, Witherspoon and Metwally are great
Disadvantages: Gyllenhaal is disappointing, torture scenes are horrid

...on DVD to see it! Rendition was one such film. The adverts on the television looked great and I was keen on seeing it, but didn't round to it in time, so I decided last week to hire it out on my Online rentals service and got around to watching it this week whilst Harry was napping. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian by birth, but has living in America for 20 years, works as a Chemical Engineer, and is married to an all-American woman, Isabella Fields ...
...subject but such films as Rendition and The Kingdom have taken tentative footsteps in that direction. They have begun to examine terrorism from both points of views, have filmed tough torture scenes for us to watch and have really brought a humanist element to the whole scenario. For me, this was quite a hard watch due to some of the scenes included, but it really made it hit home for me how hard the US strikes when they suspect foul-play, no matter ... Read review

Advantages: Actors are good, ambiance
Disadvantages: Perhaps a little confusing by moments

*** I'm reviewing the movie, not the DVD because the version I have is the Belgian one ;) *** Der Untergang, known also in French as La Chute and in English as Downfall, is a German movie about Hitler's last days in his Bunker in Berlin, with his generals, his secretary, some servants and Eva Braun. You have also the point of view of a SS doctor, who chose to stay for helping soldiers and civils, instead of running away with fellow SS and a little ...
...fighting against the Russians before realizing his mistake and becoming a little boy again. Storyline is good, I mean, I love the World War II but sometimes, American productions are... too centered on American success during this war. Excepting Saving Private Ryan, I don't really watch WWII movies. I love documentaries, so, it's enough for me. Der Untergang isn't an American movie but an European one and what is more important for me, it's not ... Read review