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The Dark Lord Returns
Advantages: Great acting, good story, excellent special effects
Disadvantages: So much of the book is missing
Harry finds himself back once again at Privet Drive but has found peace at the playground where he likes to be by himself, that is until Dudley and his gang arrive. A storm is fast approaching so the boys start to run home. Disaster strikes for Harry when he is forced to use magic to fight off the Dementors which are attacking him and Dudley. As a result of the use of magic he is expelled from Hogwarts and soon finds himself at a strange house after ...
...Harry soon learns that this house is the control base for the Order of the Phoenix who are trying to fight of Lord Voldermort. Luckily for Harry he is given a trial and as he wins he is allowed back to Hogwarts. Things start to change at school though when the Ministry but in and soon they are trying to make out Harry and Dumbledore made up the whole story of Voldermort being back. Harry and a group of students who do believe him set up a new group ...
 sewbizzie 16.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (DVD)
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Darker and yet funnier than the previous films.
Advantages: Amazing special effects. Excellent acting.
Disadvantages: Unfaithful to the book in parts.
...film in its own right Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is one of my favourites of the series so far. This film is much darker than the others, the wizarding world has now admitted that Voldemort is back and Harry has to realise his ties with Voldemort more than ever before. Despite being a much darker film it is also more comedic than many of the others. The strong theme of romance and various different love stories give the film much needed ...
...are hilarious. The acting is of an excellent standard and Jim Broadment makes a welcome addition to the cast as Professor Slughorn. This film contains less action than many of the others, largely to focus upon the storyline and retell the wealth of information revealed in this book. In order to create more action there are several scenes in the film which do not appear in the book. Some I think work well (the dementors destroying the millenium bridge ...
 loobylou88 10.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (DVD)
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Stargate goes full circle and revists the pilot episode
Advantages: new special effects, new soundtrack, presented as a feature film
Disadvantages: important plot point removed
...I do wonder. When the Stargate movie came out it was an instant favourite of mine - it combined my love of ancient history (especially Egyptian mythology) with some great science fiction and plenty of military action. Perfect. Three years later speculation of whether they got home at the end of the film was confirmed as a TV series was produced with the first feature length pilot episode being titled "Children of the Gods" and once more they continued ...
...10 years of SG-1 TV episodes and two straight-to-DVD movies (so far) they decided to revisit the "Children of the Gods" story to recut it to produce a "tighter" story with some unused footage also included, redone CGI shots, and a brand new score which was no longer borrowed from the movie. For the most part it was great to watch this again and I liked what they did with it, what does disappoint me however is that they changed the ending so that ...
 jedi58 28.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Stargate SG-1 - Children Of The Gods (DVD)
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Forget TARDIS, let's take the bus through the wormhole instead!
Advantages: Some typical Dr Who writing and suspense
Disadvantages: Nothing special, which was a disappointment
...latecomer to the more current Doctor Who years. As a teenager, I watched a few of the older episodes, with various different actors playing the Doctor in his various reincarnations. A couple of years ago, my wife persuaded me to start watching the newer ones, with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, who managed, between them, to revive the character.
With Tennant having taken the Dr's helm for 3 years, he announced he was going to stepping ...
...the lead role of the Doctor with a bit more flair and regardless abandonment (if that was at all possible!) and was accompanied by a strong cast, including Michelle Ryan as thief Lady Christina De Souza, who boards a bus whilst on the run following her latest raid. The Doctor boards the bus too, following a strange wave signal, and when the bus enters a wormhole into another world, only he is not shocked. However, they soon realise that the world ...
pmcds 17.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Doctor Who - Planet Of The Dead (DVD)
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William Shatner Presents.........
Advantages: New Enterprise, original cast.
Disadvantages: Script is awful, not enough budget.
...effectively opened the door. With Star Trek V - The Final Frontier we have a complete mish mash of a story and complete and utter mess in continuity and a complete injustice to fans. The film begins with Kirk, Spock and McCoy on a camping trip, unknown to them a renegade Vulcan has taken hostages on the plant Numbus III. The planet being unique as it is the only place in the universe that Klingon, Human and Romulan live together. The Enterprise is ...
...have the gravity of a Star Trek film; this makes the film feel uncomfortable to watch. A good example with the script is the scene with Uhura and Scotty flirting together on the bridge or the fact that the Enterprise now has a staggering 72 decks when before it only had 11! This is never explained and yet can only be assumed that this is a mistake that continuity didn't pick up. Also the way the Enterprise has been fitted out looks just ugly, pipes ...
 Timbo3107 06.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Star Trek 5 - The Final Frontier (DVD)
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Samsung CLX-3175
Printer / copier / scanner - Colour - Laser - Copy Speed: 12 ppm, 16 ppm - Print Speed: 16 ppm - USB 2.0
Sony KDL-40W5500
 Stunning when used with blu ray and high definition broadcasts (*)
Rose Tattoo - Rose Tatoo
1 CD(s) - Heavy Metal - Label: Repertoire - Distributor: RSK/Trilogy Logistics - Released: 29/07/2002 - 4009910410325
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