The Cost of achieving IRA's goals?
Review of Harry's Game DVD by
tejusramakrishnan
Advantages: Good insight into IRA
Disadvantages: Anti Establishment, Controversial
It was made for Itv in the early 1980s. An assasin is sent by the IRA to assasinate a minsiter and through a brilliant disguise he succeeds in shooting the minister and then manages to outwit the authorities by using crowded zones to his advantage. It is an attempt to portray the human side of people who commit acts that are against the law. It shows the ruthless side of irish republican army in its attempts to secure its goals. Howevr it did have ...
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17.11.2006
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THREADS DVD - SOMETHING YOU HOPE WILL NEVER HAPPEN
Review of Threads DVD by
pc2308
Advantages: CHILLING VISION OF A NUCLEAR WAR, WELL WRITTEN & PRODUCED
Disadvantages: A LITTLE DATED
The long awaited release of this feature on DVD has finally come to pass. There was a great deal of interest in this film that saw the old VHS version selling on certain auction sites for as much as £34 a time.
The film is about two families drawn together after their daughter Ruth becomes pregnant by her fiancee. Both families try and come to terms with the fact that their son and daughter are having a baby with neither of them having any money. ... ...start their life together.
However, things happening abroad make the nation paranoid about the possibility of a nuclear attack and adverts appear on the television about what to do in the event of an attack. Families go out and buy up food and construct homemade shelters within their houses. Then the unthinkable happens and Britain is struck by a Nuclear attack. The aftermath shows the results of the attack. No power or water with food starting ...
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21.04.2007
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best thing on the bbc
Review of Casanova DVD by
giksy21
Advantages: funny, well acted, love story
Disadvantages: none
...put out on the bbc, casanova was a three part drama series. An all star cast perform in this, with Peter o'toole, David Tennant, Rose Byrne, Laura Fraser, Rupert Penry Jones, Nina Sosanya, and Matt Lucas.
The young Casanova is played by David Tennant, who we know now as the star of Dr who, also on the bbc. He has also starred in harry potter and the goblet of fire as Barty Crouch junior (also my wife loves him, so i believe him to be a good looking ... ...close, and exiled from venice, casanova becomes a librarian in a castle. A young parlour maid comes to him, and he is taken again by the one thing that kept him so alive when he was in his prime. Sex. One last pursuit, to see if the magic has died.
So, he tells her his story. And as it goes on, edith, the made, comes to feel for him, and to grow fond of him. He tells, if you pick through the crazier exploits, a love story. When in naples, he meets ...
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22.11.2007
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Newman as charismatic as ever.
Review of Cool Hand Luke DVD by
Tof17
Advantages: Great scenario, oustanding acting performance..
Disadvantages: Absolutely none for me
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Luke Jackson aka Cool Hand Luke is sent to correctional jail in 1948 (prisoner number 37) but intends to live his life as he pleases, not willing to conform to the prison rules, he escapes |