Drama > Edel, Uli Drama

A tale with a familiar ring to it...

Advantages: Good casting, decent effects and an enjoyable, well woven tale
Disadvantages: Not much aside of a hint of slightly duff acting

...buddy, whilst taking in The Sword of Xanten. PLOT Things start pretty well for our hero, Siegfried, who goes from simple blacksmith to a Queen-bedding, dragon-slaying, nigh on invincible hero of Burgund in short order. However, things are about to get complicated and less than pleasant for our brash young hero. Having slain the dragon Fafnir and thus ingratiated himself with King Gunther, not to mention his comely sister Kriemhild, Siegfried finds ...
...That may not sound so bad, but the treasure is the cursed treasure of the Nibelungs. An informative ghost is good enough to warn Siegfried of this fact, but the warning falls on deaf ears. Thus Siegfried finds himself in an ever more tangled skein of plots by those seeking the gold (the Kings advisor Hagan and a mysterious vagranty chap called Alberich), those seeking his heart (Queen Brunnhild of Iceland whom he *ahem* met earlier, and Kriemhild ...

baalzamon 03.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Sword Of Xanten (aka Curse Of The Ring) (DVD)

Forget Trainspotting!

Advantages: Very realistic.
Disadvantages: Dubbed English

Christiane F or ‘Wir kinder von Bahnhof Zoo’ Widescreen Version Plot line: “This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets ...
...Detlev Jens Kuphal - Axel Christiane Reichelt - Babsi Daniela Jaeger - Kessi David Bowie - Himself A friend of mine let me borrow the book of this a few years ago, the book is brilliant. I avoid watching a lot of films that are based on books that i have read but just had to see this one, was interested to see how the story would be portrayed on screen, I just hoped that this film wasn't going to disappoint. Christiane F or ‘Wir kinder von ...

andie2005 08.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Christiane F (DVD)

A kick in the Cossacks!

Advantages: Wonderful cast, great sets and a compelling version
Disadvantages: Possibly not 100% accurate

...retelling of the story of Rasputin the Mad Monk who worked his way into the Russian royal family at the start of the 20th Century up to the early phases of the Russian Revolution. The awesome cast for this TV movie includes Alan Rickman as Rasputin, Ian McKellen as Tsar Nicholas and Greta Scacchi as the Tsarina. Without trying to sound too pretentious this was a subject I studied at uni and I am always interested in any version of this story even ...
...Stolypin, who conspires to murder Rasputin in this film, was actually murdered himself 5 years before Rasputin was murdered. But hey its only a film! This film charts Rasputins rise from a drunken religious man who is known to no one, up to the point where he is considered the most powerful person in Russia and through to his demise which for once the historical rumours of his death are even more dramatic than his Murder in this film. The Mad Monk ...

gray001 23.02.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Rasputin (DVD)

Not As Shocking As It Was

Advantages: Turbulant tale of life in 50's brooklyn
Disadvantages: Very dark

...in 1991 the year after Last Exit To Brooklyn was released I remember watching the movie and thinking it was the most grim and disturbing movie I had ever seen. While 17 years later it certainly falls into the same categories, the passage of time means that the impact here is far less fierce. Last Exit To Brooklyn is set rather unsurprisingly in Brooklyn during the 1950's in a time where money was harsh and striking was the order of the day. Following ...
...bottom. I can't say Last Exit provides any joy, in fact it's one incredibly harsh journey, that only seems to witness the darkest parts of human nature. It's imagery so intense that the movies tales are literally burned into your brain. Harry Black (Stephen Lang) is the manager of a strike office; a man who has profited through every else's misery, using strike expense money like it was his own he has parties, drinks excessively, and shops in the ...

sghawken 02.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Last Exit To Brooklyn (DVD)

What could Have Been

Advantages: good story and acting
Disadvantages: A bit predictable

...business man who is making the most of his single life and wealth which he has. He is working on Christmas eve when he gets a message from an ex girlfriend asking him to call him. He takes no notice of the message but he is reminded of the time he gave up their relationship to return from England to American leaving her and their relationship behind. That evening as Jack is on his way home he stops a robbery and soon finds he is with a very strange ...
...different bed and next to the ex girlfriend which he got the message from. He soon discovers that he married Kate and they bow have 2 children. Jack is shocked by all of this and goes back to new York to find out how this has happened but he soon realises this is no mistake and the man he met the night before is showing him how his life could have been. Will Jack be able to settle into this happy family be life and not crave his old life back and ...

sewbizzie 24.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Family Man (DVD)