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Advantages: So interesting, fun to watch, educational
Disadvantages: I want more episodes!!

I really love 'The Life Collection' from David Attenborough. The complete series of 'Life in the Freezer' was the third dvd of the collection that I bought. The series itself has six episodes which are all on one disc. They were originally transmitted in 1993. The six episodes are: Episode 1: The Bountiful Sea - All about the Southern Antarctic Ocean and the species in it Episode 2: The Ice Retreats - About when Spring comes and the wildlife ...
...the extreme conditions and how life continues, against all the odds. Episode 6: Footsteps In The Snow - The first man to stand in the South Pole and the struggle to get there. The dvd has a total running time of 174 minutes and each episode is around 30 minutes long. There are no special features on this dvd apart from the option of 'scene selection', this is quite a common feature on dvds these days, and nothing that special but it is nice and ... Read review

Advantages: Real-life documentary
Disadvantages: none

...channel flicking and came across Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel. After watching for 15 minutes i was hoocked. Deadliest Catch is all about the men who risk there life for the catch of a life time - Alaskan crab. The Alaskan crab are fished of the coast of dutch harbour in the Bering sea. The men and crew fish for the crab twice a year in the winter for two types of crab King crab- which are bigger and the largest of the crab. make more ...
...the smaller of the crab, also known as snow crab due to there white colour, takes in less per pound... Each season, approximately 250 crab fishing boats converge on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in search of Alaskan king crab. Crab vessels cost several million dollars to build, and tens of thousands of dollars to operate annually. The boats range in size from 40 to 200 feet; each crew typically consists of one captain and three to nine deckhands. To ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent value, great selection of his best documentaries
Disadvantages: Lack of extras, missing Max Clifford documentary

...Louis Theroux: The Man Louis Theroux is best known as a documentary maker specialising in films about off-beat, quirky subcultures around the world (but predominantly in the USA) and also for his celebrity profiles of some of Britain's more eccentric personalities. He started out his television broadcasting career with a few segments on a documentary show by Michael Moore called 'TV Nation' in the mid-1990s. His first major series, Weird Weekends, ...
...with a series called 'When Louis Met...', originally aired on British television between 2000 and 2002. During 2003, Louis made three special episodes before disappearing from our screens for three years. In which time he signed a deal to make ten films for the BBC over the course of three years. To date, five of those films have been broadcast on television since the start of 2007. His interviewing style is quite unique, mainly due to (what I think ... Read review

Advantages: wonderful film of a true story
Disadvantages: none

I remember watching Apollo 13 when it first came out at the cinema in 1995. Base on the real events of the unsuccessful moon mission in 1970, it would have been possible to hear a pin drop as the entire audience watched as the events unfolded - and this was even when we knew what happened. For the purpose of this review I am going to assume that most people know the story of Apollo 13 - if you don't and you are likely to watch the film it's probably ...
...on the Apollo 13 mission which was intended to be the third moon landing by US astronauts. The mission was led by Commander Jim Lovell (played by Tom hanks) who had already circled the moon on an earlier mission. His crew was meant to be Fred Haise (Bill Paton) and Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise) but a threat of contracting the measles while in Space meant that Mattingly could not go and his place was taken by Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon). The film charts ... Read review

Advantages: Incredibly dark, superbly funny, an exquisite display of acting ability.
Disadvantages: A little cheesy at times, glamorises depersonalization disorder a little.

It has been quite a bumpy road for Matthew Perry since 'Friends' finished in 2004. When you play the same character in a successful sitcom for ten years it's always going to be difficult to be seen as anything other than that character ever again; it's all too easy to get typecast and with 'Numb' Matthew Perry plays a part incredibly different to that of his 'Chandler Bing' character in 'Friends'. 'Numb' was given a somewhat limited release in the ...
...do this slick black comedy film justice. Written and directed by Harris Goldberg, 'Numb' is an intelligent romantic comedy film and one which I personally thoroughly enjoyed watching. 'Numb' has been written from the personal perspective of Harris Goldberg about events which he has experienced in his life and this is therefore something that makes the film all the more enjoyable and provides the film with supremely heightened realism. Hudson Milbank ... Read review