Thriller & Mystery

Miss Marple Box set (Joan Hickson)

Advantages: Has the best portrail of Miss Marple ever
Disadvantages: No special features

...Joan Hickson will always be the best 'Miss Marple'. Possibly as she was the first one I saw playing the part. I'm surprised that it took the BBC so long to releace them on DVD From the acting to the setting to the pacing... everything seems just right. Every part of Joan Hicksons performance (which earned her two BAFTA nominations) was perfect. She plays Miss Marple as the 'rather nosey busy body' who the criminal always seems to dismiss as past ...
...brain she can always solve the crimes faster than the inspector. Marple lives in her small village and knows everything that goes on there. Through this she knows the world. She is always saying 's/he reminded me of...' Unlike Poirot who always had a good relatioship with the Inspector, the relationship between Marple and the inspector in these storys is a little more strained. He thinks she's an interfering old busy body, which she is, but she always ...

mjc121 30.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Miss Marple Collection - Starring Joan Hickson (Box Set) (DVD)

The Transporter

Advantages: Statham, Fight/Car Scenes
Disadvantages: None

The Transporter was released in 2002 and is directed by Corey Yuen. It is available on Amazon.co.uk for around £5. It has a runtime of 92 minutes. ~~~ Synopsis ~~~ Jason Statham plays a deliveryman called Frank Martin. He's not your everyday deliveryman though. Taking whatever he is given and getting it to its destination, while following his own strict rules. When he breaks the rules he sets himself there are consequences. ~~~ My Opinion ...
...'Transporter 3' was released. The release of the 3rd movie gave me the encouragement to start from the beginning and watch them all in a short space of time and I'm glad I did. This is one of my favourite action movies of all time. It has it all, a good story, fast paced car scenes and of course fighting scenes. The fight scenes and the car chasing being the two biggest draw points. The fight scenes are very well choreographed and Jason Statham plays ...

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Review of The Transporter (DVD)

what story line

Advantages: good acting
Disadvantages: nothing to keep you interested

i watched this film over a period of two nights, because after the first night i was ready to turn it off. but i cant just watch half a film even if i hate it i still have to wath it all. the beging of this film was a very slow start and i didn't realy under stand what was going on. when i did start to catch on and just get into watching it, the whole thrill just stoped. i dont feel there was real line to this film not one to keep you interested ...

sara20 12.08.2004 · Read full review
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The Definitive Holmes and Watson

Advantages: Beautifully restored versions of the greatest Holmes and Watson of all time
Disadvantages: None a single one

...not conversant with the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films, they began as almost A-movies for Twentieth Century Fox first in Hound and then The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. At this point Fox decided not to film any further adventures but Universal, ever desiring to put together B-movie series, which might draw in audiences, negotiated with Conan Doyle's estate to gain the rights. Successfully so, they brought back Rathbone, as an angular, slightly ...
...Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes remained faithful to Conan Doyle's late Victorian, fin-de-siecle, milieu, Universal decided to update Holmes and Watson to the present day, and as such the first few films, including Sherlock Holmes in Washington and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon were patriotic flag-wavers, where Holmes was pitted against dastardly Nazis but it soon became clear to them that it was fog drenched London and/or ...

No_name 20.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Sherlock Holmes - The Definitive Collection (Box Set) (DVD)

Saw it once, no need to see it again, unless mocking them....

Advantages: Quite exciting and tense
Disadvantages: A masterclass in bad acting

I had long put off watching this film; in my mind it was lumped in with Hostel and other “torture porn” and I am firmly of the opinion that people who actively enjoy watching pain being inflicted on others are extremely weird. However one of my new year “ambitions” was to catch up on numerous films I haven’t yet seen. So I decided that, in the interests of being able to give an informed opinion instead of a hysterical, Daily Mail fuelled one, I would ...
...at how little violence there was in the film; most of it was merely described rather than shown onscreen. (Of course, this could also be due to the evident low budget.) That’s not to say it’s the kind of thing you should watch with your five year old. (And I’m afraid I have been somewhat desensitised to violence... the other day I was trying to think of the last film I watched where nobody died, and I couldn’t remember one.) However, I still maintain ...

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