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Advantages: Excellent detective yarns. Beautiful scenery.
Disadvantages: Suffers from mis-casting

...his brilliant collection of Inspector Rebus novels about the paranoid, screwed up, hard drinking Scottish police inspector. ~ ~ Rankin is one of the UK’s top crime writers. Originally from Fife in Scotland, he is now based in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, where his fictional detective, John Rebus, has his beat. He has won a number of “Golden Dagger” awards for his Rebus novels, and when a new book is published, it invariably shoots to the top ...
...before someone decided to transfer Rebus to the silver screen. Or in this case the TV screen, as Scottish Television originally released the three novels featured on this DVD as a series of stand-alone episodes in conjunction with a production company called Clerkenwell Productions. Quite how I managed to miss the original screening of Rebus on TV is a bit of a mystery, but at least I was able to get my hands on this DVD after reading about its ... Read review

Advantages: It is based on real life notorious Mobster Frankie Fraser
Disadvantages: This film may dont be everyone's cup of tea due to the volience showed

Gangster No.1 was released in 2000 where Lock, Stock and Two smoking Barrels and Snatch where the two highly praised best British Gangster films. With these two gangster films out Gangster had a lot to live up to, and it did just.that. The violent story of the rise and fall of an East End London gangster, starting in swinging 1968 Soho, and spanning 30 years it shows brutal murder, sticking torture coming from the eyes of the victim and also by ...
...at a deluxe London hotel, Gangster now aging sits at the top of the table, (played by Malcolm McDowell) becomes upset when hearing...is due to be released from prison. He leaves and he remembers in flashbacks how his young self (played by Paul Bettany) first joined the vicious mob. The year 1960, the swinging 60s where in London, money and woman where plentifully and gangs fought round every corner for power and the position King of underworld. ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliantly told, knowingly acted, superb throughout
Disadvantages: None

...country, KNIFE IN THE WATER deservedly, in my opinion, won top honours at the Venice Film Festival. A great film. (A film-only review; not to be associated with the format it comes on, available bonus features or plastic bits that may or may not be attached to the casing.) ... Read review

Advantages: Such a brilliant story.
Disadvantages: Its so upsetting

...have everyones eyes glued to the screen, you just cant wait to see whats going to happen next. Tom Hanks plays Paul Edgecombe, a security gaurd working a death row. Paul and the boys ahve had some strange convicts pass through their cells, but nothing could prepare them for the 8 foot giant, John Cofee, who had been wrongly convicted of raping and murdering 2 young girls. While on his time on death row, Cofee displayed some fascinating skills, in ...
...has been given a very special gift, and decided to use him to help an old friend. But will Cofee still having to go back on death row, will he want to help others or to stop the demons from inside him. Great film for getting the hankies out to. ... Read review

Advantages: Luke Wilson playing a serious role....
Disadvantages: The Policeman investigating a murder on his own

I quite enjoyed the film. I didn't find it scarey, although it was edge of the seat stuff. It was good to see Luke Wilson play a serious role for a change, as I have only ever seen him in comedies (Anchorman, Old School). It made a change to have something different in a film, with the main theme based arounf 'snuff' movies. If you are not familiar with 'snuff' movies, and it is alleged to actually be true, snuff movies are films of people being ...
...I suppose!! The main part of the film takes part at a run down motel in the middle of the American countryside. The main characters played by Wilson and the gorgeous Kate Beckinsale are offered a room at this motel after their car breaks down. Whilst in the room, Wilson tampers with the video, and this is when they realise that the room they were in were actually the ones shown on the videos Wilson was playing, and that these were used for the Snuff ... Read review