Rugby League - Boots, Balls And Bellringers (DVD)

I love Rugby League

Advantages: Fantastic family sport - much cheaper than football
Disadvantages: None.

What is Rugby League. Rugby League is a sport that has its roots actually in football history although neither sport bear any resemblance to what we know them as today. Way back in the early days of the sport it was called football and this was played in schools, although each school seemed to have their own version of the rules. There where 2 versions of the game, the handling of the ball and the kicking game (19th century). These 2 versions later became know as the Football Association and the Rugby Football Union. During 1895 rugby had lots of problems mainly brought about by the fact that there where lots of northern working class team who had great success much to the disgust of the gentry who ran the game There where many disputes relating to time off work to play, where pay was stopped and as there where more ...

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The League of Extraordinary Gentelemen DVD (12)

Advantages: All round entertainment, great special effects
Disadvantages: none

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Twentieth Cenury Fox) Produced by Trevor Albert & Don Murray Directed by Stephen Morrington (Blade) Running Time 1 Hour 45 mins Special Features include:- Audio Commentaries Interactive Menus Bonus Footage Includes main feature sub-titles in English for the hearing impaired. Starring :- Sean Connery Shane West Stuart Townsend Peta Wilson Jason Fleming Set in the Victorian times (1899) in a different world dimension, Allan Quatermain a famous adventurer and crack shot marksman is tracked down by a consort for the queen in a retreat in ...

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The League Of Extraordinary Excrement

Advantages: well-directed, attractive, great concept
Disadvantages: shoddily scripted, badly plotted, some terrible acting

Call it arrogance. Call it stupidity. Or perhaps attribute it to the death of the wonderful Alexander Walker, without whose expert guidance I am left floundering on a sea of cinematic confusion. Whatever it is, it amounts to me being convinced that it's worth seeing a film that has been universally panned since I might like it after all... or maybe not. Actually, let's be fair. It's not that I didn't enjoy myself watching The League of Extraodinary Gentlemen, it's just that enjoyed myself for almost entirely the wrong reasons... CAST Allan Quartermain SEAN CONNERY Dorian Gray STUART TOWNSEND M RICHARD ROXBURGH Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde JASON FLEMYNG Tom Sawyer SHANE WEST Capt. Nemo NASEERUDDIN SHAH Mina Harker PETA WILSON Rodney Skinner TONY CURRAN Directed by STEPHEN NORRINGTON (Blade) Written by ...

ruth_cole 18.10.2003 (21.10.2003) · Read full review
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