Drama > Robbins, Tim Drama

The Shape of Thingies to Come

Advantages: It's the future...
Disadvantages: ... and as usual it's not how we want it to be

...have been told all that Code 46 entails. In a world of cloning, where clones are subject to so many different factors - environment, climate, food culture, chance - that they are ultimately different people, it is very difficult for anyone to make 100% sure they are not engaged sexually with their own kin. Code 46 enables what is presumably some sort of world government to check all known couples trying for babies, and all females coming by them ...
...for the same director as Code 46, Michael Winterbottom. That film, The Claim, is fabulous. His last film, 9 Songs, is appalling. All of them are entirely different in mood, style and genre. However there seems to be a connection between many of his films, and it's not only in using FCB to write them (they've actually paired up about six or seven times in all now). In This World tailed some emigrant children halfway across the world from central ...

theediscerning 26.09.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Code 46 (DVD)

A Sunday evening lesson worth watching

Advantages: A cinematic delight, with a fantastic script
Disadvantages: I cannot think of one

...is fair to say that the Shawshank Redemption is by far, one of the most influential and important films of the late 20th Century. Why do I make such a huge statement....well, simply because I have never seen a film that made me laugh, cry, sigh, wince, scream, gasp and lose my faith in humanity...only to gain it back again at the end. I would say that most people who go to buy this film today would know the premis behind the story, a well to do and ...
...of racism, homosexuality, prison brutality, the abuse of power, the abuse of religion and importantly, how the institutions many of us cherish can end up failing people and being abused. The film is gritty, dark and sometimes humourous. It is so many things. It i sthe kind of film that ne needs to sit down to watch late on a sunday evening....but not too late as it will keep you awake thinking about it. Particularly the ending which is magical. My ...

excelsior81 31.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Shawshank Redemption (DVD)

A raw, gritty drama.

Advantages: Acting, cinematography
Disadvantages: Downbeat

This was a welcome return to form for the big man, Clint Eastwood. Since Unforgiven, Eastwood seemed to be going through the motions directing some stodgily average movies like Space Cowboys and Blood Work. But here, teaming up with L.A. Confidential's screenwriter, Brian Helgeland, he creates this ambitious, atmospheric mystery drama and gets some fantastic performances from his talented cast. Sean Penn is an explosive brutal force and has many ...
...he feels from losing his daughter. Tim Robbins has the difficult role as the rather simple minded Dave Boyle, an edgy, wild-eyed character who is haunted by his horrific past. Kevin Bacon and Laurence Fishburne make for a believable and likeable team as the cops on the case. Marcia Gay Harden gives yet again a fearless performance as Dave's confused and frightened wife and Laura Linney gives a sly take on a Lady MacBeth-style figure. It's an outstanding ...

Syklone 15.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Mystic River (DVD)

Hope is a good thing .. may be the best of it

Advantages: storyline , characters , actors
Disadvantages: the part showing the death of the librarian

...find any other movie matching the storyline , the emotions it takes you through the entire movie ... it really makes you think that "Hope Is a Good thing ...." may be the best of things that can happen to humankind... it makes you choose life than death .. it gives you power to survive in the worst of time .. it makes you do things that is impossible to even imagine in a normal situation .. I have got a personal copy of this movie and watch it whenever ...

CuteSurveyor 25.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Shawshank Redemption (Limited Edition) (DVD)

Computer Software To Die For?

Advantages: Good Story & DVD Special Features
Disadvantages: Computer Terms Used A Lot

Having watched this film I asked why has nobody I ask seen it? In recent years companies have been racing each other to come up with the best music player, mobile phone, television ect. When we buy a new product, e.g. a mobile phone, we don't really think about the work that's been put into it for it to be in our hands at that very second. Someone has designed it, created software for it and put a lot of time, effort and money into making the product ...
...release a product so badly they would do anything to make it happen. The film follows the work of a computer programmer named Milo Hoffman. Milo, with help from his friends, is trying to create a program which allows users to send data of any kind to any device in the world. For example you can send a video from your mobile phone to a palm device or e-mail address and the software will convert the video into the correct file size, type and make it ...

computerxpert 20.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Anti-Trust (DVD)