Thriller & Mystery > 5 GBP to 10 GBP Thriller & Mystery

Digging up the past is what these guys do...!!

Advantages: great all round entertaining series
Disadvantages: none at all

...Anthony Calf) who becomes the new boss of UCOS, making the decisions of which cases to re-open and which to leave closed. This rather arrogant 'yes man' is more interested in making himself look good in front of his superiors, thus putting a lot of pressure on the team, constantly checking that they are obeying his every rule. * BRIEF IDEA… UCOS is a small team of four who re-open long closed cases and re-investigate them… usually coming up with ...
...rest…. Each episode offering a new case for the four person team to crack… with some interesting results. * What SERIES TWO DVD has to offer Episodes * 1... The team re-open a case from the 1980's involving a well known barrister who was found tied up and gagged in his car. * 2... A brutal attack in the mid nineties on a woman is re-investigated. * 3... A kidnapping from the early nineties is re-opened when the body which was thought to be the ...

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Review of New Tricks - Series 2 (DVD)

Discover Yourself Today.

Advantages: Jackson, dialogue, gets you thinking.
Disadvantages: Willis is a little below-par, meandering pace.

...situation whilst encountering Elijah. Unbreakable is, as with any other Shyamalan picture, a trick of the mind. It lulls you into one way of thinking, only to differ in perspective once you encounter it's twist (generally situated just before the ending). The performances on the whole, are sound; Jackson is the stand-out as the questioning Elijah, whilst Willis is amicable in the part of David, a security guard who probably wished he'd never encountered ...

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Review of Unbreakable (DVD)

Smoke and Mirrors

Advantages: Brilliant character development
Disadvantages: Won't suit everyone's taste

Spooks is one of those programmes that I just adore. Unfortunately however I can't say that I jumped on the Spooks bandwagon from the very start. To be perfectly honest though the reason for this was the fact that I was only 12 when the first series originally aired and therefore it just wasn't part of my viewing although my dad was watching it. I personally caught on during series 3 and then decided that the best thing for me to do would be to get ...
...the day-to-day operations of the Spooks is Tom Quinn played by Matthew McFadden. Despite his somewhat complex relationship issues Tom is more than dedicated to his job. He is respected and loved by his work colleagues but sometimes expects them to do more than can really be asked of them. Next in line Danny Hunter who is played by David Ovelowo. After going through a tough patch in the first series Danny seems to have sorted out most of his difficulties. ...

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Review of Spooks - Series 2 - Complete (DVD)

A twist in the tale...

Advantages: Episodes right length and not too long, interesting stories
Disadvantages: Some episodes can be disappointing compared to others

Tales of the Unexpected are a series of stories that have been adapted to be show on television. The stories are very different to each other but the one thing that they have in common is that they all tend to have an unexpected twist. Most of the time, these are very hard to guess. Tales of the Unexpected ran from 1979 to 1988. There were 9 series. The one that I am reviewing is the complete first series. I have just started to collect these as ...
...I came across them I remembered how much I used to like watching them years ago. I wasn't born when the first series was released but can remember my mum watching these in later years and that is how I started to get into them. I enjoy short stories with a twist (as you will also see from my Alfred Hitchcock Presents review) and have been enjoying watching these. This series comes in a two disc set. Six episodes are on the first disc and three episodes ...

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Review of Tales Of The Unexpected - Series 1 - Complete (DVD)

Old cases solved with new tricks

Advantages: great entertaining police show...
Disadvantages: Waterman singing the theme tune...again...

...With each episode offering a new case for the four person team to crack… * What the Series one DVD has to offer… Pilot episode… UCOS is founded with the intentions of investigating previously unsolved crimes… With the introduction of the small team, headed by dog shooting Sandra Pullman, they begin to investigate their first case, trying to prove who actually murdered a nightclub hostess twenty years earlier, sending an innocent man to prison. ...
...a murdered police woman after new evidence emerges from the bottom of a lake. * 2... When UCOS begins to look into some strange happening involving the Queens art collection they soon find more than they bargained, including fraud and possibly murder. * 3... A case from the early '80s , involving a nuclear power base, is re-opened but the team soon discover that the murder may be a cover up from a much higher power. * 4... A childs murder from ...

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Review of New Tricks - Series 1 (DVD)