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Spooks - Series One

Advantages: Amazing programe with great special effects and awesome actors.
Disadvantages: hard too navigate special features etc on the dvd

This box set is amazing. Got it for christmas and ended up watching 6hours worth of it on christmas day. Thats how addictive and awesome it is. At first the way that the DVD is set out it can be abit confusing too work out where to find everything but once that is worked out it is easy to use. The dvd is great as it includes lots of extras such as interviews with just about everyone involved in the making of the film (Actors,Director,Producers,Editors,Writers ...

charliee-1-2-3 15.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Spooks - Series 1 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

One for the guys!

Advantages: Brilliant fight sequences
Disadvantages: A good but occasionally weak storyline which can rely on the action a bit too much

The Transporter is the first in the trilogy of brilliant action movies starring Jason Statham, The Transporter is followed Transporter 2 (2005 ) & the aptly named Transporter 3 (2008) which I am yet to see. However I?m here to talk about the film that started it all, The Transporter was released 2nd October 2002 & was greeted with a mixed reception from the critics, the film had an average of a 53% rating which means just over half of the critics ...
...Despite it?s average reception the film did quite well at the box office, grossing an estimated $43,928,932 on a budget of $20,900,000. The Transporter is rated a 15 which is to be expected & it runs for approximately 94 minutes. The Transporter is directed by Louis Leterrier & Corey Yuen. Louis Leterrier is most famous for directing this film, the first sequel & Fearless, a martial arts film starring Jet Li & Morgan Freeman. Corey Yuen, the more ...

Great_reviewer07 19.02.2009 · Read full review
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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)

children of men

Advantages: fantastic actors, effects and storyline
Disadvantages: none

Children of men is a movie by Alfonso Cuarón It is based in 2027 where the uk is at war with itself and especially immigrants, Women are no longer fertile and the youngest person in the world who was 18 years old has just died, It follows a story about a man called theo (actor clive owen) who lives in london,Theo hears from his ex wife julian (actress Julianne Moore) who needs theos help to get certai papers to help an immigrant she has with her, ...
...dark and war torn, The drama was amazing and i really enjoyed the whole film, Effects were good, great variety of amazing actors and a good story line that had never been done before. All in all a fantastic film but not suitable for children under the age of 15. ...

vikkiz 19.10.2009 · Read full review
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"Don't You Wish You Put Up The Drapes"

Advantages: Twisty turny thriller with a vicious streak
Disadvantages: No special features

...and taking their hair. Malice turns out to be nothing like what you first expect, aspects considered important at the start turn out to be minor, while the little hints of story turn out to become major events shaping the way the movie looks. This is a movie about betrayal of trust, and honesty, more than its original conception from opening credits as a serial killer thriller. Why I feel Malice is comparable to a Giallo movie comes from a surprising ...
...whole villain element that makes Malice in my eyes a winner, although the build up to those events is equally enjoyable, it's always great to watch a movie that has a certain unknown quantity about it. Malice gives you a real feeling for the community that the story revolves around, while being a university community (usually involving a big area) you get the feeling that everyone knows one another. The bars are local haunts, and you understand ...

sghawken 22.03.2008 · Read full review
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