Sometimes you win sometimes you loose
Review of Match Point DVD by
MI9to5
Advantages: Can be tense, shocking and unpredictable
Disadvantages: Appears to be a typical chick-flick on the surface
My reason for purchasing Match Point in the first instance was quite simple, Jonathon Rhys Myers was in it and for me that was as good an excuse as any to buy a new film. I'm so glad however that I did buy this film because not only does Rhys Myers play a fantastic part and look extremely handsome for the main but the film has become a firm favourite of mine.
Chris (Jonathon Rhys Meyers) is an Irish tennis coach who after coaching Tom, the son of ... ..."There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can go either forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose."
This line sums up the double-edged sword that the film is, as on more than one occasion the ball may go forward and Chris may uphold the life he has dreamed of but just as easily it may fall backwards and the world he has come to love may ...
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05.09.2008
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It's a Wonderful Film
Review of It's A Wonderful Life DVD by
Maximus-Qualitus
Advantages: Simply Superb
Disadvantages: None
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
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Produced and Directed by Frank Capra.
Starring:
Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey.
Donna Reed as Mary (Mrs Bailey).
Henry Travers as Clarence the angel.
Lionel Barrymore as Mr Potter.
James Stewart once said this was HIS favourite performance of all the films he had starred in.
My favourite film of all time, something I oddly share with Dave Lister!
I really should get out more.
Introduction:
... ...in the acting stakes.
It's a Wonderful Life is Stewarts crowning glory and long may it be an enduring classic.
Greg.
The boring stuff:
DVD Features:
Format: Black & White, Language: English with Subtitle option
Region: Region 2
Number of discs: 1 Classification: U
Run Time: 130 minutes
ASIN: B000WOTTRE ...
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A Fantastic film well worth watching
Review of A Beautiful Mind DVD by
PeterTruss26
Advantages: Good film rooted in a real life story with good performances by the actors
Disadvantages: None that I can think of
...enjoyed this film. It is a emotional story which has a few twist and turns to keep you on your toes with some action scenes enlivening it. This is as well as a gritty realism from the true story behind the film of John Nash's struggle with mental illness. Lead actor Russel Crowe puts in a convincing and engaging performance as the brilliant but afflicted mathamatician John Nash. All the characters work well with Connelly combining well with Crowe ...
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05.09.2008
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Really a Beautiful Mind
Review of A Beautiful Mind DVD by
gemsarchitect
Advantages: Superb at all aspects
Disadvantages: nothing at all
A Beautiful Mind….
Really I can say a beautiful mind of Producer, of Director of Writer and of-course of Actor Russell Crowe.
This movie is one of my favorite movies and I have seen it at least five times.
This movie is based on best-seller book as A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar.
Story starts from Princeton University where John Nash (Russell Crowe) got admission as a new graduate student, where he meets with Charles, his roommate and both ... ...the concept 'governing dynamics' a mathematics theory.
After completing his work he was appointed at USA's prestigious technical institute MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
In MIT he started to teach calculus, and he placed some interesting problems before his students, and told them that some students can solve this in within hours, someone take days, someone even months and years also.
One of his girl student Alicia Larde , solved ...
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05.09.2008
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Dexter - Fall in love with a serial killer
Review of Dexter - Series 1 (Box Set) by
kohtera4
Advantages: New and fresh story line with actors that bring it to life
Disadvantages: The damn theme tune gets stuck in you head
...on the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Linsey. The stor is based around Dexter Morgan a forensic blood splatter expert who works for the miami police - this is quite ironinc really as Dexter holds a dark secret. He himself is a serial killer, but one with enforced morals placed upon him by his father Harry. The story is about Dexter and his shall we say urges and also his help in solving a new spate of sick murders that have started to happen ... ...plays the lead role of Dexter and oh boy can he play this role well. I would imagine that playing a killer devoid of emotion woyuld be a hard role however Mr Hall is inspiring throughout. It was like he was born to play this role. One of the best things about the series is the relationship between Dexter and his cop sister Debera. It really is a beautiful thing to watch as they almost form two sides of the same penny with Dexter emotionless except ...
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