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Advantages: A true story
Disadvantages: Not a brilliant film

Introduction I imagine only a few young things will have not heard of John Reginald Christie, who murdered a young woman, Beryl Evans, and her baby and managed to get her husband Timothy accused of her murder. Timothy Evans was eventually hung for this and constituted one of the biggest travesties of justice that this country has seen; to the extent that it was one of the factors that led to the end of the death penalty. Directed by Richard Fleischer, ...
...about the life of Christie. The director Richard Fleischer died just a week or so ago of natural causes. He also directed The Jazz Singer and Conan the Destroyer. The story As the story is so well-known, there seems little point in hiding what happens - too late anyway, I've already told you in the first paragraph. The interesting (and gruesome) part of this film is finding out how the murders of Beryl Evans and her baby were committed, not least ... Read review

Advantages: Gripping, amusing, horrifying tale
Disadvantages: Not one

...that despite the rave reviews 11:14 bombed in the US resulting in the Great British public being unable to see the movie until 3 years later, in a somewhat muted release. 11:14 tells the story of an event then backtracks to the situations that led up to that event from the perspective of five very different individuals. 11:14 is a movie about karma, morality, and deception that will have you glued for its 80 minute duration. What stands 11:14 apart ...
...Swayze and Henry Thomas. 11:14 sits on a kind of Twilight Zone style platter, the different stories all which have some pretty disturbing moments could either sit as individual pieces or as here link together to make the pieces of a bigger puzzle. It's unlikely that you'll watch this movie without paying a thought to the Guy Pearce movie Memento, because its styling is very similar, although 11:14 leaves you with absolutely no unanswered questions, ... Read review

Advantages: A story to get you thinking
Disadvantages: you can get lost with the plot at times

This is a movie that will certainly get your mind racing about everyday life. It is a story that questions luck, well being and happiness against the fortunes of fate. Plot Outline****** The story tells us of the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability. How happiness can be struck down as fast as what life brings ...
...be what you think it should mean. A one minded and confident young attorney questions his own acts when he faces a dilemma if his own. A middle aged man decides to change his life. A woman who is now trying to come to terms with her husbands other love life. An envious businessman seeks revenge on a cheerful co-worker. And an optimistic young cleaning woman awaits a miracle. All these normal everyday people don't know each other but find themselves ... Read review

Advantages: gripping, intriguing, black & white film, brilliant acting
Disadvantages: none really!

...a Georgian immigrant (Tzameti is 13 in Georgian) whose poor family is living in France. Life is different for this family. He works as a roof repairer, and he is doing a job for Jean-Francois Godon (Philippe Passon), who is a morphine addict. Sébastien overhears conversations between Godon and others, which suggests that Godon will be receiving a large amount of money soon, through some sort of activity. A cop spies on Godon nearby. Godon suddenly ...
...containing a receipt for a paid hotel room and a train ticket. This letter is blown out of the window and is intercepted by Sébastien. Lured by the prospect of money and intrigued by the instructions the letter contains, Sébastien decides to follow the instructions, pretending to be the late Godon. Little did he know that he will be plunged into the clandestine world of gamblers, who take their chances on human lives. ** Acting ** This film rests ... Read review

Advantages: Visually Stunning, Strong Characters, Excellent Sountrack
Disadvantages: Beginning Drawn Out

...upto the best standard. 1492 falls into the category of almost a masterpiece. 1492: Conquest Of Paradise was originally released at the cinema in 1992 to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the new world. It stars Gérard Depardieu in the starring role as Christopher Columbus. He is a simple man but a visionary who does not accept everything he is told to believe as the truth. The first thirty minutes of the film are about his ...
...to create a quicker trade route to India by sailing west. He encounters skepticism and the very real danger of being labeled a heretic. These are the days of the Inquisition and even the smallest thing could get you burned alive. Columbus is a charismatic person and uses it to his advantage with Queen Isobel, played by Sigourney Weaver (previously seen in Scott's Alien) whom he befriends. This makes him enemies in the Spanish court. Eventually, ... Read review