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Silence of the lambs

Advantages: great story, good acting
Disadvantages: bit gorey, emtional issues

...because it is exciting and silence of the lambs is always exciting. I really enjoyed watching this way back when because it has an original storyline and excellent character portrayal from Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. The silence of the lambs focuses on Jodie Foster's character inteviewing Dr Hannibal Lector about Buffalo Bill, a man that is kidnapping and skinning women to make a skin suit for himself. He is clearly very deranged and odd and ...
...to people. It is not like the others which focus on Hannibal and his feasting on other people but the plot and story is still very disturbing and sickening yet I think that is what makes it so good because it disturbs us and keeps us watching. The director has thrown in many hooks to keep us so engrossed after all that is why we enjoy horror films. For me this is one of the most disturbing films, especially in the Hannibal Lector series because it ...

lilynettle 24.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Silence Of The Lambs (DVD)

Ain't a hard time been invented that I can't handle

Advantages: Acting, directing, camera, special effects
Disadvantages: Nothing

...good as Heat and everything was expecting it to be, because, to be honest, Heat is a brilliant film, one that is worth wtatching over and over again. The DVD is available from amazon.co.uk for £4.38. It's a bargain at that price in my opinion. Recommended. ...

pmcds 01.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Heat (DVD)

Who's playing games with who?

Advantages: gripping film
Disadvantages: slightly confusing

...was that drew me to the film 'The Truth about Charlie'. On the cover of the DVD it was described as gripping and also as an engrossing saga of sex lies and espionage. I usually enjoy a good thriller so I thought that I would give it a go especially as it was directed by Jonathan Demme who also directed The Silence of the Lambs. There was also something quite intriguing about the title as well. I didn't think that the title was that inspired at first ...
...in the word Charlie were a different colour to the rest, and were actually the same colour as the word 'truth'. This meant that I was drawn to the two words - truth and lie - which I thought was rather clever. There is an awful lot that happens in this film and you do have to concentrate quite a bit as you are watching. At the start, Regina Lambert (Thandie Newson) returns home to Paris after holidaying in the Caribbean to discover that her husband ...

kingfisher111 01.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Truth About Charlie (DVD)

Two Acting Greats turn up the 'Heat'

Advantages: De Niro and Pacino together
Disadvantages: would have liked more focus on the main characters

...in mind I do think Heat is one of the best action crime dramas I have ever scene. I am never bored watching it, and have completely lost count how many times I have indeed watched it. I may have wanted more focus on the main characters, but Michael Mann's directing never the less was superb in this, making an audience glued for three hours is not an easy task, which in my views Mann successfully did with this film. Although Braveheart was the movie ...
...the shelf, I think Heat was the best movie of that year. -------------------------------------------- My Thoughts on the Characters -------------------------------------------- The roles of the characters were picked perfectly. I could never pick a favourite out of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, they both bring so many talents to any part they pick to play, but undoubtedly in this movie you could not imagine the characters the other way round. ...

dempsey_review 13.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Heat (Special Edition) (DVD)

The first of many enjoyable series

Advantages: Tony Shalloub and Ted Levine !
Disadvantages: Not a full twenty-some episode series like House and other programmes !

Mr Monk works his way onto our screens in this first series as a beautifully unrefined obsessive compulsive detective who you know your going to get the joy to watch grow. While many people may feel bad laughing at what is essentially a debilitating psychological disease them people can rest assured that this show is not just about the fun. It takes the serious side of the problems, helping monk through them, and at the same time his friends (who ...
...favorite season one episode, Mr Monk meets Dale the Whale. Here a hugely obese man ( one so big he cannot fit through a door and is confined to his bed) is identified as killing a woman, with witnesses and even the victim crying out his name. Then enters our monk, who throughout a very personal episode (dealing with his wife Trudy) puts aside all his fears in order to convict the evil Dale. It is one of the more emotional episodes and i choose this ...

asfolath 29.10.2009 · Read full review

Review of Monk - Series 1 (DVD)