Drama > E Drama

Advantages: a product of its time. highly watchable
Disadvantages: slow in places

...performance is just brilliant. Alfie is a story of a young cockney limo driver who is out to have a good time. Set in the 1960's, when single people - who perhaps, single men were a lot more relaxed about commitment. Of course, the perspective of the film is definitely a male one, and the women in the film do not share the same relaxed views about commitment, in fact quite the opposite. This film was made in 1965 - two years before the Abortion ...
...abortionists' - and the original 1965 Alfie offers this true raw sense of realism. The re-make whilst being highly watchable and entertaining,just did not have the same effect. In the 1965 version, Alfie's guilt and self -loathing is visible, he truly did want to change his ways in that moment. ... Read review

Advantages: A great compelling story
Disadvantages: A touch overlong

...I at last come across The Boys From Brazil. I cannot remember when exactly I first saw this movie, however the movie stays in my head and is certainly memorable. This is a very deceptive film, people often assume its a boring war film. That was the answer I used to get anyway "Why do I want to watch a war film?" The Boys From Brazil is not a war film, this movie was well before its time, dealing with issues that frequently occur in today's movies ...
...Idolises Lieberman and eventually finds the evidence he need to win Lieberman round. He makes a tape recording of Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) ordering a series of assassinations around the globe. And announcing that the Nazi forces shall again rise and this time take full control of the world. Getting this information costs Kohler his life, and Lieberman becomes haunted by the fact that he ignored Kohler's warnings. With information gathered ... Read review

Advantages: great mini-series, good cast, great storyline
Disadvantages: none

...was in a mini-series called Bangkok Hilton. It is the story of a young Australian girl who is duped into drug smuggling and ends up in the infamous "Bangkok Hilton" jail. CAST ++++ Katrina Stanton - Nicole Kidman Hal Stanton - Denholm Elliott Richard Carlisle - Hugo Weaving Mandy Engels - Joy Smithers Arkie Regan - Jerome Ehlers Lady Faulkner - Gerda Nicolson STORYLINE ++++++++++ Kat Stanton grows up in Australia. She thinks that her father ...
...is then remanded into the Bangkok Hilton prison, where she could face the death penalty if found guilty. She becomes friends with Mandy Engels who is also facing the death penalty for drug smuggling. She is fighting a system that she does not know and cannot understand. What happens to Kat now? Will she find her father? Will she be sentenced to death in prison? There is a real twist in the tail, but I cannot reveal any more. REVIEW +++++++ This ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to watch
Disadvantages: Basically an extended episode

...I'd write a review on Sex And The City from a males point of view. Before any comments are made I was dragged along with my girlfriend and had no choice in the matter! She is a massive fan of Sex And The City and over the years I've been subjected to my fair share of it so while I know the characters and some of the background, there is plenty that I don't know. From what I can gather, the Sex And The City movie is set a few years after the last ...
...of as "that one off Sex And The City." There is no doubt this film is purely aimed at women! I went on the opening night and the cinema was at least 90% women. This, obviously, meant that there was a ridiculous amount of "oooohhh's" and "aaahhh's" which got quite frustrating at times. I'm a person who wishes people would just shut up in the cinema! So, as a bloke what did I think? It was ok. There is no way I'd go watch it again even though my ... Read review

Advantages: Involving Storyline
Disadvantages: A Bit Slow to Get Into and Slightly Gory

...and you can see why Cleaner was, for me, a must watch movie. Samuel L. Jackson plays the role of Tom Cutler, a retired cop who has now set himself up with the very pleasant business of cleaning the aftermath of bloody, gory crime scenes. Following a standard clean up job Cutler has to return to the premises where he encounters the wife of the victim, Ann Norcut [Eva Mendes] who is oblivious to any crime having being committed in her house or Cutlers ...
...of the situation Cutler makes his retreat and begins some investigation into events. It soon becomes apparent that he has cleaned up a murder that, contrary to all the paperwork etc, had never been documented as a murder. Calling on the help of his old cop friend, Eddie Lorenzo [Ed Harris], Cutler begins the journey to discover what is going on and who has set him up. However, this journey opens up old wounds about the murder of his own wife, his ... Read review