Drama > Hooper, Tom Drama

Tennison and the war criminal

Advantages: Amazing performances, gripping story
Disadvantages: None

...have seen most of the Prime Suspect series, but, from the point of view of both the acting and the storyline, I think this is the best yet. Helen Mirren is always good, but she really surpasses herself here. As Detective Superintendent Tennison, she has always been a bit of a maverick when it comes to investigations; her management abilities always put the backs of the team up and she is happiest when working alone. However, this flaw in her character ...
...The topic of this Prime Suspect is obviously a very emotive one. It is all too close to reality and it made for very uncomfortable viewing at times. Watching the actress playing Jasmina, I found her description of the atrocities that she saw all too easy to believe, and really quite upsetting. There are also shots of massacred bodies and women coming to claim their men - in the form of a vision that Jane has - which I found quite distressing. And ...

sunmeilan 28.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness (DVD)

Damned United DVD - A damned good watch!

Advantages: Interesting & entertaining portrayal of one one of football's real characters
Disadvantages: Football movies aren't to everyone's taste, controversial character

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" Brian Clough was undoubtedly one of the all-time greats in English football. With an incredible 251 goals in 274 games, "Old Big 'Ead" deserved far more than the two international caps he actually received. After being forced to hang up his boots prematurely due to injury, he took up management at the age of 30 - and was the youngest manager in the football league. ...
...Highlights included taking Derby from the depths of Division 2 to the very peak of the 1st division (now the Premiership) and then, even more incredibly, taking unknown and unfancied Nottingham Forest from the second flight and winning back-to-back European Cups. Like his playing career, his managerial achievements should have led to recognition at international level, but Clough was, and still is, the best English manager never to manage England. ...

stevek181 22.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Damned United

COLD FEET - THE SECOND SERIES

Advantages: Excellent show, getting to know the characters
Disadvantages: none

The second series of Cold Feet continues a few months after the first series ends. All of the main 6 characters return and we pick up their lives in Manchester again. CAST ++++ Rachel - Helen Baxindale Adam - James Nesbitt Jenny - Fay Ripley Pete - John Thompson David - Robert Bathurst Karen - Hermione Norris Episode 1 ++++++++ It is six months since Rachel went to London when she was pregnant and did not know if it was Adam's or her ex-husband's. ...
...time supporting him, but she also sets him up on a date with Pete's colleague Amy. Adam is missing Rachel and wondering what her baby looks like. Episode 2 +++++++++ David is made redundant, so he decides he'd rather stay at home and care for his son than get a new job. This drives Karen mad. Rachel returns - without a baby but with some shocking news for Adam which turns his world upside down. Jenny tells Pete that she no longer loves him. and ...

kismet 20.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Cold Feet - The Complete 2nd Series (DVD)

Dam Good!

Advantages: great sports biopic!
Disadvantages: Factually inacurate

...one about football too. Well the good news is we have a belter here, Michael Sheen's quite brilliant performance as the mercurial football manger Brian Clough a work of art. He's absolutely nailed 'Old Big Ed' and if you throw in a brilliant script and a clever and contrived narrative thread you certainly have the best British football movie ever made. Not that the competition was strong mind. Based on David Pearce's award winning book 'The Dammed ...
...at Leeds United back in the 70s, Peter Morgan's brilliant screenplay extracts and then manipulates a storyline that never really happened, an erroneous bitter rivalry between Clough and the then Leeds United manager Don Revie, beginning when Clough thinks he is snubbed by the Leeds boss in his early days at Derby for a huge cup match. There are plenty of other /factual inaccuracies' in the film, some blatant to keep the thing moving forward like ...

thedevilinme 26.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Damned United (DVD)

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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Review of Sex And The City - The Movie (DVD)