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If you see one film in your life...this is it

Advantages: Gritty, dark and realistic.. you feel like you are there
Disadvantages: It is one of the few films I wished that could have been longer than three hours

There are some things in life you will always remember and I think this film is one of those things. I went to see it originally in the opening week of its cinematic release. I had heard about this film and was very interested to see it because I have a huge interest in the holocaust and what led to it happening. I knew before I went who some of the actors cast were and I also knew that it was a film lasting for three hours. The film gripped me lice ...
...lit...to it gradually changing into black and white. I was absorbed with the power of the nazis and the futility of existence for the Jews. What this film portrays so well is the need in capitalism for exploitation. The nazis, although intent on killing every jew, still believe that they should get the most out of them before they die. they feed them minimal calories and expect them to work round the clock, you hear them talking about this at different ...

excelsior81 31.07.2009 · Read full review
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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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1942 A Love Story - Love or Patriotism? Or Both?

Advantages: Good acting, fabulous songs
Disadvantages: Story a bit far-fetched in places

1942 A Love Story is a Hindi language film aka Bollywood film and as its title depicts it is set in 1942. This was a time of a lot of freedom fighting taking place in India against the British who had been in rule for quite some time. PLOT SUMMARY Naren is the rather spoilt son of the rich Diwan Hari Singh who is famous for sucking up to the British who are ruling over India. Naren doesn’t seem to do much with his life aside from ride horses ...
...CHARACTER/PLOT ANALYSIS 1942 A Love Story (I’ll call it 1942 for short) is a romantic drama starring Anil Kapoor as Naren, Manisha Koirala as Rajeshwari (Rajjo), Jackie Shroff as Shubhankar, Anupam Kher as Raghuvir, Danny Denzongpa as Major Hisht, Brian Glover as General Douglas, Manohar Singh as Diwan Hari Singh, Chandni as Chanda and Pran as Abidali Baig. Anil Kapoor played his role really well in this role. I’ve always liked him as an actor. ...

anonymili 18.09.2009 · Read full review
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Let the piano do the talking

Advantages: interesting story, excellent acting,
Disadvantages: expected more

...into this movie knowing about the oscars it had won and having been recommended by several friends, I expected something good. As a fan of period films, this movie is set in the 1850's, New Zealand. Ada (Holly Hunter) is a mute who with her young daughter Flora(Ann Paquin) braves the dangerous journey across the world. We see the movie start with them landing with all their belongings, including the priceless piano. Life begins in the leafy forest ...
...Things take a turn for the worse when her new Husband sells her piano a neighbour, George (Harvey Keitel). George however, tells Ada she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons. Through the lessons, we see a turbulant but intreging relationship form. This movie wasn't what I expected, yet produced some awesome performances. Inparticular little, Ann Paquin, the devoted daughter and voice of Ada to the outside world puts in a great performance. ...

rafomania 16.11.2009 · Read full review
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8mm DVD Review

Advantages: Characters, Tension.
Disadvantages: Not for everyone.

...(Chris Bauer) 8mm exhibits bad taste and may be shocking to most people, but to me it felt like a movie with serious intent, especially seen as though it tracks the descent of Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage), as the ordinary guy, into the nasty, immoral world of underground pornography. The character, understandably, is tormented, mentally, as he simply cannot accept why all the evil surrounding him exists. Notoriously panned by critics upon its release, ...
...Carter), Welles is handed an 8mm recording of the young girl being murdered- dubbed a "snuff film"- and has to uncover whether the film is real or not. Joel Schumacher brings the typical suspense and twisted horror that made Se7en so popular in its time, though, in a sickening kind of judgement, I must admit that I enjoyed 8mm a lot more. The atmosphere is one of the main features that I judge this film as being a success. The dark, surprisingly ...

andycarrington 01.04.2009 · Read full review
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