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Thank you for the music, Mamma Mia! triumphs

Advantages: Great music, vivid scenary, great setting
Disadvantages: Storyline could have been improved on.

As members of the british public will know, the musical is a genre that has died out over the last few years. Yes, we've had high school musical and that was good for the kids. But what about us adults? Anything since saturday night fever worth watching? ...

stozzerman 17.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Mamma Mia! (Blu-Ray)

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Fancy a shave?

Advantages: Great performances, memorable songs, darkly funny, sinister and totally Tim Burton.
Disadvantages: The squeamish will hate this, those who hate musicals will not find this enjoyable.

...**This review is also featured on DooYoo, under my username "MonsoonBaby"** There have been many, many adaptations of the tale of Sweeney Todd, which originated in an 1846 penny dreadful. It tells the story of Benjamin Barker, a man who has been transpor ...

MonsoonBaby88 21.11.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Blu-ray)

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There Goes My Hero, Watch Him As He Plays

Advantages: An excellent account of a great concert. Sound and picture are stunning
Disadvantages: Lack of extras and a £15.99 price tag

The Date There are certain concerts you go to that will long stick in the mind and it would be fair to say that the one I attended on Saturday 7th June 2008 is certainly one that will stick with me for many years to come. It was in fact the bigge ...

Andy.mack 21.12.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Foo Fighters - Live At Wembley Stadium (Blu-ray)

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A powerful film with an outstanding soundtrack

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...My mums a big Andrew Llloyd Webber fan, so I've gorwn up listening to her playing Cd's of songs from his various musicals . So, I already knew a few of the songs from this musical, but until recently I'd never seen it. It was while listening to me bawling ...

Thehonesttruth 15.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Phantom Of The Opera (Blu-Ray)

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Past the point of no return...

Advantages: Breathtaking and captivating. A cinematic feast
Disadvantages: None, but the music will remain in your head for some time afterwards!

...Brilliantly stylised, yet somehow believable, this musical is powerful stuff. It's one of those special films that make you want to see it again even as the credits roll. Based on the (somewhat confusing, so I'm told) novel by Gaston Leroux, Andrew Llo ...

Kenaomi 28.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Phantom Of The Opera (Blu-Ray)

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