The Work Of Director Chris Cunningham (DVD)

Working Girl - but not on the streets!

Advantages: Brilliant
Disadvantages: Lack of DVD extras, but the film itself is excellent

Harrison Ford seems to have a knack of getting the good roles. In Working Girl, he works with Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver to give us director Mike Nichols' 1988 film telling a story about office work in the 1980s. Essentially, the film doesn't have a special plot. It tells of Tess McGill (Griffith), a clever secretary who lands a job working for Katharine Parker at Trask Industries. When Katharine breaks her leg and Tess finds out she was going to steal one of her ideas, she decides to get her own back by pretending to be her own boss. The sparks fly as professional backstabbing ensues left, right and centre. Cue Hollywood cheese.............. Ford kind of takes a back seat in this film and lets Griffith and Weaver dominate the proceedings, and this is the right move. The script nails it with the spoft spoken Tess ...

pmcds 14.11.2008 · Read full review
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Why does no one like Chris...?

Advantages: Side splitting humour and rreal life troubles
Disadvantages: only series one on region 2 released so far

Creators: Chris Rock and Ali LeRoi Directors: Andrew Orenstein Producers: Chris Rock and Ali LeRoi, Kali Londono and Jim Michaels. Stars: Tyler James Williams, Terry Crews,Tichina Arnold,Imank Hakim amd Vincent Martella. Narrated by Chris Rock. Released in 2005 this comedy show is based around a kid who seems to struggle through life with everybody always against him? especially in the bosom of his rather strange family There are over 70 episodes made which were split into 4 series, with each episode lasting around 20 minutes long Sadly though, you can only get series one on region 2 DVD as of yet but this show is sometimes aired on television so do check your tv schedule for details? ** BRIEF IDEA ** Chris, (played by Tyler James Williams), is your average school kid whose life takes many twists and turns? he ...

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Review of Everybody Hates Chris - Series 1 (DVD)

ALEXANDER: Director's Cut

Advantages: A must see for all lovers of long historical epics.
Disadvantages: Could have shown more detail in the battle scenes.

This is an impressive looking production with sumptuous costumes and sets and a rousing score from Vangelis. The Director's Cut includes extra footage, as is to be expected. Oliver Stone chose a largely European cast for the film, with Colin Farrell as Alexander and Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy. In this film there are several Irish actors, including Farrell, so the main accent is of course Irish, which makes a change from the (by now) traditional British accents in film epics. It would be refreshing if a director had his historical cast adopt an accent authentic to the time and place i.e. in this case Macedonian or Greek. Val Kilmer, who plays Philip, Alexander's father, does change his, but to an Irish one like Farrell. Angelina Jolie, who plays Alexander's manipulative mother, is the only one who attempts a Mediterranean delivery ...

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Review of Alexander (Director's Cut) (DVD)