Head On DVD

Advantages: incredible performances, strong characters you care about (even despite yourself)
Disadvantages: relentless in the bad things that happen, subtitles sometimes sketchy

Director Fatih Akin, a Turk born and brought up in Germany, won a shelf-ful of prizes for this film, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 2004. As a film, it will leave you emotionally wrung out, and portrays both the intense highs and the deep lows that come of falling to pieces, and how it feels to have no sense of belonging: two people who want to live but can't quite work out how, and how they could find out who they are together, ...
...alone. "What's the story?" It might seem the film it has reached its low point right at the beginning, when Cahit (Birol Unel), a 40-odd year old Turk living in Germany, drives his car into a wall in an alcohol-fuelled suicide attempt. Recovering in the psychatric ward, he meets Sibel (Sibel Kekilli), who keeps staging attention-seeking suicide attempts in just-out-of-teenage acts of defiance against her overbearing traditional (also Turkish) family. ... Read review

Advantages: 90+ minutes of a great metal gig
Disadvantages: None

...Introduction – Elegies is a Live concert DVD. Lauded by many has the best live metal band, Machine Head rip through favourites from their debut, Burn My Eyes to their then new release Through The Ashes Of Empires. Elegies find the band fighting to be heard over the loudness the singing crowd and the scenes from the raging pit. Their tight near perect album sound translates well to their live set has been crafted and strengthened through many years of playing non-stop worldwide. This DVD was recorded live in front of a sold-out 5000+ capacity crowd at London’s Brixton Academy in December 04. Elegies is the ultimate and only official Machine Head live DVD on the market and documents the abilities of the ultimate metal band. Set list – Song... Read review

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Advantages: Great live show, great band, great DVD
Disadvantages: Backstage footage lacking in interest

...Having been a Machine Head fan for a while now, I felt it my duty as a follower to purchase the live DVD from Amazon.co.uk. On arrival, it went straight into the DVD player, and I have to say has rarely come out since, having been played non-stop for the past three months. There is always something exhiliratingly brilliant about a good live performance, and this show is no exception. Playing in front of a 5,000+ sold out venue at London's Brixton Academy, Rob Flynn and the boys are truly on form. The opening music combined with footage of the waiting crowd before hand (as well as a small behind the scenes look at the band before they go on) builds up to the opening guitar line of Imperium, before an explosion of sparks and smoke mark the beginning of the pounding riff. The crowd go wild. Picture this scene: more than 5,000 people... Read review

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Advantages: Still Very Funny
Disadvantages: None

...Laurel & Hardy Volume 7 - Block Heads/Related Shorts ************************************************************ The magnificent Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in this wonderfully funny DVD. So let me take you on a tour of these 4 great films. This single DVD contains the following films: BLOCKHEADS - restored black-and-white version BLOCKHEADS - computer-colour version UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE - black-and-white version UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE - computer-colour version WITH LOVE AND HISSES - restored black-and-white version SHOULD MARRIED MEN GO HOME? - restored black-and-white version A small Synopsis of each movie and my humble opinions on each to follow: Block-Heads. *************** The war is over but no ones told Stan! He accidentally shoots down a passing French plane and it makes the papers... Read review

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