Andie MacDowell Pays the Bills

Advantages: Keeps her off the streets.
Disadvantages: Dull. Dull. Dull.

...The Last Sign (2004) I wish. Watching Andie MacDowell set up a direct debit would generate greater levels of excitement and tension. Sadly, in reality, MacDowell plays the part of recently widowed Kathy. She finds herself better off without her alcoholic and abusive husband, but has begun receiving anonymous phone calls and experiencing disturbing coincidences and flashbacks. It is affecting her social life and could result in a total breakdown. First up, I was getting mixed messages about how Kathy felt. There was no sense of freedom from her husband's accidental death, and little background to go on. It's never a good sign that you need to refer to the back of the DVD case for a plot point. The slow moving plot feels deliberately vague in an attempt to make something from nothing. Eventually we get round to a few supernatural...

ThePolarOne 07.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Last Sign (DVD)

FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
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Andy Mcnab is getting lazy with his writing

Advantages: Quite full of action
Disadvantages: Same man, same storyline, different place

...As you can see from my previous book reviews I have been very lucky in choosing some pretty good reads. But boy was I hugely disappointed in this latest in Andy Mcnabs series of books featuring the indestructible Nick Stone. My opinion When I first seen this copy in my local library I couldn't wait to get it home. But after the 1985 prologue and only four chapters in, I quickly came to realise that this was basically the same storyline, where we see Nick Stone coerced into something he really doesn't what to do, get seriously beaten up lose a good friend but eventually prevails against the evil tyrant who rules from afar. The only difference is the location. Thesis O.K now that I have had my little rant here is the thesis of the book, We first see Nick Stone in 1985 where he is on a mission to rescue some nuns from rebels in...

toon_33 20.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Recoil - Andy McNab

John's Immediate Action Andy McNab review

Advantages: Good information, very detailed
Disadvantages: Some language not suitable for younger readers.

...This is a real read and not for the faint hearted. The language is pretty graphic as are the details of Andy McNabs varied life. From the moment he was left in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to. I can understand why the government tried but failed to ban this book. McNab has been involved with conflicts around the World, including as a boy soldier fighting the IRA. He guides us through a world of surveillance and intelligence gathering, counter terrorism and hostage rescue. The details are as gripping as one of McNabs Nick Stone novels. First hand experience always gives you a better ability to write fiction more so than any writer who has to do their research. I also found it admirable what these men go through in order to get into the "Regiment" in the first place. Enjoy, hope this helps. John...

johanni333 01.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Immediate Action - Andy McNab

YAMAHA DVD-S 557 this is THE DVD player of all time.

Advantages: Brilliant DVD player, perfect quality
Disadvantages: cant think of any

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plainpaul 22.02.2009 · Read review
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Andy C's selection of...finest?

Advantages: Lots of great titles
Disadvantages: No general mood

...This CD was supposed to be a first really massive compilation of drum'n'bass all time best titles. And it did a good job. But it definetly could have done much better. It's obvious that Andy C wanted to represent d'n'b of all the kinds in his compilation. Here we will find some great jump-up tracks, some funky stuff, some moody tracks and some easy to hear ambient d'n'b. But this also results in an absence of a general mood of a compilation, of some idea that could make these tracks stand together. There's nothing like that here, and fading of some tracks to the others sometimes looks simply odd. Another thing is that although good titles are in good numbers here, there are too much weak ones between them. Because of these two things we have the biggest disadvantage of both CD's: although great tracks are included and the mixing...

aeroclub 08.01.2006 · Read review
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Bunny suicide hotline. Please hold...

Advantages: Dark humour
Disadvantages: Not for the really young

...Andy Riley is a man of amazing imagination with a cruel twist. However with four best-selling books under his belt all laced with black humour (something serious given a funny twist) he must be doing something right. Long ago my fiancee nicknamed me bunny. A cute and cuddly name which seemed to stick. I already own two of his books 'The book of bunny suicides' and 'Great lies to tell small kids' so when I passed 'Return of the bunny suicides' with my new nickname I couldn't resist. The concept of the book is simple. For a reason which is never made clear (maybe they ran out of carrots) bunnies are having a serious crisis. The bunny suicide hotline has failed them and they are all on the journey to the next life. Sounds cruel right? Yet for some reason which is endearing to Andy he manages to make you smile, giggle or burst into...

ovetta2001 21.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Return of the Bunny Suicides - Andy Riley

KIDNAP AND KILLING IN KABUL

Advantages: Good Characterisation, Fast paced Narrative
Disadvantages: None, unless you do not like the genre of book

...follows is a trail of drug marketing, people smuggling and conspiracy from within as Nick?s quest for justice takes him from the dusty streets of Basra, to London, Dublin and eventually the Afghanistan capital, Kabul. My Opinion I have long been a fan of Andy McNab; from his nonfiction accounts of war-torn Iraq in Bravo Two Zero and his life as a soldier in Immediate Action, to his fictional series of books featuring ex SAS soldier Nick Stone; he really knows how to grip the reader and draw them in. His descriptive storytelling gives an accurate feel for the scenarios and problems encountered in the face of battle. In Crossfire ? as in his other fictional books ? his knowledge of the subject is strong. Many military writers leave me wondering if their sole experience of anything remotely resembling a warzone is watching Dads...

tractor-boy 19.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Crossfire - Andy McNab

FREE DVDS

Advantages: up to date dvds, four weeks free hire with 3 dvds at a time,
Disadvantages: see review

...My recent quest for FREE DVD hire I visited and many DVD web sites that offered a free trial. Now call me tight (no that wasn?t an invite), but I like bargains and freebies and am not ashamed to say so. My quest took me to enough sites to hire DVDs for about four months so far (with plenty to come too). My latest free DVD site also happens to be the best I have tried for several reasons (see rest of op); the site in question is Blockbuster.co.uk. Other sites that I have had free rentals from and then cancelled have all been similar, two weeks free trial with two DVD?s per time ? which in effect gives you about four free DVD?s. With Blockbuster?s things are different slightly ? which add a great deal of benefit to us the customer. Firstly, you get FOUR whole weeks free rental, which equates to at double the length of time most...

dabmim 18.06.2004 · Read review
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