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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: brilliant ending, great cast
Disadvantages: hard to understand the beginning

...Barbara has been writing these notes in her diary, and when Sheba moves in with her, thinking its her only option, its not long before she descovers the diary, and all the horrors that lie in it... The characters performances are all flawless, providing a very realistic account of the tale. I think that the film did the book great justice, and recommend it to anybody who wants to sit and watch a high quality drama. ... Read review

Advantages: good for all the family
Disadvantages: quite a short series (6 episodes)

This is the first series of the ITV show. It shows a family, Danny, a vet, his daughter Rosie, his wife Sarah, and her two children Evan and Olivia that go on holiday to Africa to release a monkey back into the wild, but end up buying a place called Leopards Den out there to renovate and make into a guest hotel. A lot of adventure and family fun make this dvd very enjoyable for all the family to watch. It was filmed on location, in Africa and so ...
...the only problem with this being you will wish there were more! The performance from the cast was floorless, and i could never fault it. They put everything into making you believe they were a real family, and the characters we are introduced to in Africa are also well acted, adding a great deal of humour to the series; especially Duplecy, the African man who owns Leopards Den! The series is warm hearted and is all about believing in your dreams ... Read review

Advantages: Good, enjoyable chick flick, great acting, and chemistry between lead roles
Disadvantages: Had more potential

Movie title: Life or Something Like it Date released: 2002 Director: Stephen Herek Cast: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub Rated: PG13 Runtime : 103 minutes Plot Someone once said, live everyday as if it were your last cause one of these days its gonna be. Lainie Kerrigan (Jolie) believes her life is perfect. She has her dream job, perfect guy, perfect apartment, and so her perfect life. Although ...
...perfect. But her carefully planned life is thrown into chaos with a metting with a homeless man claiming to be a Prophet (Shalhoub). He gives her three predictions, with one being her death next week. When the first two predicitions comes true, Lainie has an emotional breakdown, and it is left to her archenemy, cameraman Pete (Burns) to show her the important things in life. Opinion This is a rare occassion to see Jolie in a chick flick film, and ... Read review