Drama > T Drama

Advantages: Good value set for a fan
Disadvantages: Only 2 are excellent films, Giant is not as strong

...legend in the making. East of Eden is based on John Steinbecks classic novel - it is a powerful performance. Rebel is by far the most exciting as a film, and is also filmed in colour. The character is much like Jimmy's own character in real life. Jimmy Dean had a difficult relatonship with his father and had lost his mother. The movie Giant is my least favourite, but worth seeing if you are a fan. Jimmy plays a small part, but has a really funny ... Read review

Advantages: Patrick Swayze in an early role
Disadvantages: No DVD extras

...reviewed the first boxset of North and South separately on: (http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/NorthAndSouthSeason1DVDReview5604842) (I know it's a plug!). ***The DVD*** Book 1 was really the introduction into the lives of the Main family in the Southern States and the Hazard family in the North and how these two families related to each other and how their relationships intertwined in the run up to the American Civil War. Our two main characters ...
...Charmed!). Swayze plays Orry Main, the plantation owner's son from Mont Royal plantation and Read plays George Hazard, and industrialist's son from Leigh High Station in Pennsylvania. Main and Hazard first meet on the way to the famous West Point Military Academy in the first box-set and the story continues ..... Hazard is now married to Constance Flynn (Wendy Kilbourne) and a high ranking officer in the Yankee army, while Main is still single and ... Read review

Advantages: Twelve and a half hours of quality entertainment
Disadvantages: No extras, expensive

...celebrate 50 years of the ITV channel, the set is made up of 8 discs in all, all key episodes from well-known dramas of the last 15 years or so. These include: Cracker - One Day a Lemming Will Die Brief synopsis: A young boy is found hanging from a tree in the middle of a wood. It is not at first clear whether he committed suicide or was murdered. Either way, his death seems to be linked to the fact that he was gay. Opinion: Robbie Coltrane, as ...
...the great dramas shown on ITV over the last few years. Just a couple of criticisms - the boxset was supposed to be celebrating the last 50 years of ITV, but all the dramas included were from the last 15 years or so. I'm surprised there wasn't more of a mix of older dramas, of which I'm sure there is any number. Another is, of course, the price. When you can get choice episodes like these free with a newspaper, it does make this set rather expensive ... Read review

Advantages: Great acting performances, brilliant cinematography, good transfer of stage to screen.
Disadvantages: Sometimes you are reminded it is an old film.

...And that by Maggie the cat bearing the heat for a while, she can accomplish just that. The only downside is that from the film work and the set design you are reminded that this is a piece which was made in previous decades - but the story is transferrable to today - and should it be made today, not a lot except the quality of fil would change. Recommended to all as a classic piece of acting, writing and film making from an original script. ... Read review

Advantages: Great production and direction shown off well in this widescreen version
Disadvantages: none!

...must see. The story of Cleopatra is a great one, and this film really delivers on a great script. The chemistry sizzles between Taylor as Cleopatra and Burton as Mark Antony and there are great supporting performances by Rex Harrison as Caesar, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowell, George Cole, Francesca Annis and Michael Hordern, to name but a few. THe most expensive film ever made, at the time, I simply adore every indulgent minute of it. This particular ...
...version with an even longer director's cut, but this is quite long enough, thank you!) If you've never seen this film then I strongly recommend it. This version has a few rather dated extras but nothing worth bothering with. This DVD is worth buying though as the film is such a great visual trat having it on a great big FST on widescreen is just what it deserves! ... Read review