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A MIdsummer Night's Review

Advantages: Funnier than other Shakespeare plays.
Disadvantages: The language is hard to understand.

...'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare, there are three different sets of characters and I am going to be discussing the theme of love and marriage and how each set is affected by this. The first set of characters within the play are the lords and ladies which consists of four main characters who are all affected by love in different ways. To begin with, Demetrius is being forced to wed Hermia by her father, Egeus. Hermia does not like ...
...in their eyes. Helena, the one who loves Demetrius, is always pestering him to take her back but he doesn't love her so therefore, he intends to marry Hermia. When Hermia and Lysander decide to run away however, all sorts of adventures take place and create a very enjoyable play within the human's story. However, there are another three characters involved in the human's story and that is Egeus, Theseus and Hippolyta. Egeus is the overprotective ...

Doni07 11.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (DVD)

Death is HOT!!!!!

Advantages: Excellent acting, great story
Disadvantages: May be too long for some

...start of the film we meet Susan who is having a break n a café before going to work when she meets a very handsome stranger and they get talking but as they both leave and she turns the corner he is run over and killed. We then meet Bill who is a very rich business man but he is ill and he keeps hearing a voice. The voice then reveals itself as death. Death has taken the form of a recently deceased man, yes the man from the café who Susan met and ...
...if he can have more time as he wants to be able to go to his 65th birthday party which is only 2 weeks away. I exchange for this extra time Bill agrees to be deaths guide on Earth and show him what it is like. When Bill introduces death to his family he calls him Joe Black but Susan still feels the chemistry between herself and the man she believes was the one she met before. Will Bill be able to cheat death and what will happen with the chemistry ...

sewbizzie 20.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Meet Joe Black (DVD)

How high is the water Mama..............?

Advantages: A Fascinating Insight into Johnny Cash's Life
Disadvantages: I Can't Think of Any

...sent me a DVD Called, Walk the Line. James Mangold's movie tells many great stories of Cash's strange and interesting life. He has fused together several meetings, conversations and two autobiographies and the end result is an engaging account of the first part of Cash's life. The film begins at one of Cash's major concerts, the Folsom Prison gig in 1968 but within minutes we are whisked away to Arkansas in the year of 1944. Here we see JR as Cash ...
...is the emotional core of Walk the Line and the magical chemistry between both actors had me caring about what happened to them and wanting everything to work out okay through the years of tours and performances and of course, all the demons that went with their lifestyle. June was a very religious person and her roots were firmly planted in the Bible. Her beliefs and Cash's determination to discover his lost self are the two things that save his ...

Praski 07.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Walk The Line (DVD)

A Father? More like a Pimp

Advantages: Good acting and good storyline
Disadvantages: Predictable and more for the women

...things I was taught and the wives of Henry 8th is one of them so the outcome of this film for me was already in the back of my mind. I did still want to see this film though as I wanted to watch the journey which the sisters took to get to the king, it also stars a few actors which I quite like. The Boleyn family are quite well off but the father, Sir Thomas is always looking for ways to better his families position. He watches his daughter grow ...
...connections but he decides that the younger sister, Mary can marry as she chooses. The girls grow and soon Mary is married and enjoying her life. The Duke of Norfolk, the girls uncle takes an interest in the family and gives the father a proposition which would make a missive impact on the family. He knows that the King is having marriage problems as his wife has given him a daughter and he only desires an air to his throne so the Uncle and Father ...

sewbizzie 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Other Boleyn Girl (DVD)

As I walk through the valley of Coolio's shadow of death

Advantages: Powerful and emotional film
Disadvantages: Similarity to other films

...John N Smith's 1995 film Dangerous Minds is no different. Set in an inner city school, it features an ex-marine (Michelle Pfeiffer) who comes into a school and is determined to help the pupils she is faced with, even if it means breaking the rules. Throughout the film, we see the dangers of teachers often left alone with volatile groups, but also the strong bonds that can be forged between individuals with the right help and guidance. What the ...
...to break away from the dangerous world outside of it. The characters all around her are convincing as well, and it's the sort of film where you have to concentrate quite hard to start with to work out who is who. Further into the film, the individuals become clearer. The often dark nature of the film makes it all the more powerful. Strong visuals, that don't often shirk away from the harsh reality the film is portraying, mean that the film's power ...

pmcds 04.12.2009 · Read full review
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