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BANGKOK HILTON - YOUNG NICOLE KIDMAN

Advantages: great mini-series, good cast, great storyline
Disadvantages: none

...was in a mini-series called Bangkok Hilton. It is the story of a young Australian girl who is duped into drug smuggling and ends up in the infamous "Bangkok Hilton" jail. CAST ++++ Katrina Stanton - Nicole Kidman Hal Stanton - Denholm Elliott Richard Carlisle - Hugo Weaving Mandy Engels - Joy Smithers Arkie Regan - Jerome Ehlers Lady Faulkner - Gerda Nicolson STORYLINE ++++++++++ Kat Stanton grows up in Australia. She thinks that her father ...
...is then remanded into the Bangkok Hilton prison, where she could face the death penalty if found guilty. She becomes friends with Mandy Engels who is also facing the death penalty for drug smuggling. She is fighting a system that she does not know and cannot understand. What happens to Kat now? Will she find her father? Will she be sentenced to death in prison? There is a real twist in the tail, but I cannot reveal any more. REVIEW +++++++ This ...

kismet 28.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Bangkok Hilton (DVD)

Alfie (original 1965)

Advantages: a product of its time. highly watchable
Disadvantages: slow in places

...performance is just brilliant. Alfie is a story of a young cockney limo driver who is out to have a good time. Set in the 1960's, when single people - who perhaps, single men were a lot more relaxed about commitment. Of course, the perspective of the film is definitely a male one, and the women in the film do not share the same relaxed views about commitment, in fact quite the opposite. This film was made in 1965 - two years before the Abortion ...
...abortionists' - and the original 1965 Alfie offers this true raw sense of realism. The re-make whilst being highly watchable and entertaining,just did not have the same effect. In the 1965 version, Alfie's guilt and self -loathing is visible, he truly did want to change his ways in that moment. ...

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Review of Alfie (DVD)

A modern classic

Advantages: As beautiful as any Merchant/Ivory production
Disadvantages: Lesser known because of its subject matter

...relationship and the contrast between Maurice Hall and Clive Durham. Both are undergraduates together, and through the course of very English educational encounters, discover in each other 'the love that dared not speak its name', a situation reinforced by all worldly standards. I heard it once remarked that one thing that makes so many people rankle at discussions of homosexuality is that many people rankle at frank discussions of ANY sexuality. ...
...we see the relationship between Maurice and Clive run full course, and see the classic options: Clive runs in a panic (rather literally) into marriage and a respectable life with a wife who seems to think she is a keen judge of human nature, but really hasn't a clue on this one; Maurice opts for love true to his nature albeit against society, even against his social class, but at what cost? Alas, we don't know. The manuscript was unfinished, and ...

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Review of Maurice (DVD)

A new Hitler tailor-made for the 1980s, 90s, 2000!

Advantages: Keeps you guessing
Disadvantages: Not for the faint of heart

WARNING! THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS AND PLOTLINE! THE STORY The story starts in Paraguay with a young man called Barry Kohler (played by a young Steve Guttenberg) he is watching a man dining. Another man turns up and whisks the diner away in his car. Barry follows the men to a bull fight where they join up with more men. Barry takes photos. Barry rings a man called Ezra Lieberman (played by Lawrence Olivier). He is a Nazi hunter and ...
...the men are Nazi followers and would like his help. Barry tells Ezra that he has sent him some newspaper clippings and photos. Ezra dismisses Barry and says he doesn't want to help. Underterred, Barry bribes a young boy to plant a bug in the house that the men go to. Barry hides in the garden listening. We then see 6 men gathered together. Another man joins them, he is Dr Mengele (played by Gregory Peck) He tells the men that he wants them to assasinate ...

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Review of The Boys From Brazil (Blu-ray)

"There's Only One Maltese Falcon"

Advantages: Great acting, great dialogue
Disadvantages: May not be for those who prefer lots of action

...I wouldn't say I'm the world's greatest fan of Film Noir or even of Humphrey Bogart. I like them, but other genres are higher on my list. When I first watched this, although I had heard of Humphrey Bogart, I had no idea what he looked like. I hadn't seen terribly many black and white films either. One fine day, some years ago, my mom got Turner Classic Movies. I can't remember why I turned it over onto TCM or even if it just happened to be on when ...
...and when I got to the end, I realised I needed to see it from the beginning as it was that good. And when I watched it again from the beginning, I thoroughly enjoyed it and have since watched it several times. The Story Humphrey Bogart plays Sam Spade, a private detective in 1930’s San Francisco. One day a woman walks into his office asking him to take on her case. She says that her sister has got involved with a man and that she wants him ...

Rebeccs 14.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Maltese Falcon (DVD)