Bianchi Via Nirone 7 2005

Advantages: Great price and beautiful ride
Disadvantages: Lots of small probelms and so many expensive upgrades to be done

...Bianchi Via Nirone 7 2005 Alu-Carbon Xenon Compact/Triple Drive Size 59 LiquiGas/Bianchi Team Colours (see photo at botom of review) £574.99 The bike and the ride In late summer of 2005 I purchased a Bianchi Via Nirone 7 from Evans online at the website (http://www.evanscycles.com/) and was impressed with the delivery within 3 days. The parcel was well protected and all I had to do was open one end of the box, wheel the bike out, adjust the handlebar orientation and basically it was good to go riding. I changed the saddle for a Bontrager Race X Lite saddle as an upgrade - saddle selection is a very personal choice for comfort on the long rides. After inflating the tyres to a high pressure (I use 100psi to allow for the humps and bumps on the Great British roads). The handling of this bike with carbon fibre forks, stem...

hert1137 15.02.2007 (21.02.2007) · Read review
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Review of Bianchi USA Inc Giro Triple

Look out for Big Red!!

Advantages: Solid Bond film
Disadvantages: Not as good as Dr No

..., and Daniela Bianchi is sexy as Bond Girl number 2, Tatiana Romanova. My Opinion Many consider this the best Bond film of all of them. I was not too sure about it. The performances are very good, and we are introduced to some scary villains in Red and Rosa, and the organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E. raises its ugly and sinister head, but I rated Dr No higher than From Russia With Love. The direction and plot are okay, but I think Young did a better job in Dr No. The scenery is once again breathtaking, and the special effects, while limited and dated, are impressive. Perhaps it was the tale itself that I was not as enamoured with, but I was not hugely impressed by this Bond film. Conclusion A good film, but not great. The DVD is available from amazon.co.uk for £5.98. This review may also be posted on dooyoo.co.uk. Thanks for reading....

pmcds 15.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of From Russia With Love (Ultimate Edition) (DVD)

Cold War Classic

Advantages: Sean Connery, good story,Daniela Bianchi
Disadvantages: A little dated now

...the right amount of cool authority in the role. Robert Shaw (as seen in Jaws and The Sting) plays the villainous Red Grant as a member of SPECTRE who is not only trying to kill Bond but also try to destabilise Russian relations with the West. Shaw as usual puts in a first rate performance. There is the obligatory Bond Girl in the shape of Daniela Bianchi who is a much better actress than many of the 2D girls who followed. She is really quite plausible and enchanting at the same time. Bianchi plays Tatiana Romanova a Russian spy who is double crossed by Shaw in the stealing of a decoder. The plot is well executed with many twists and turns along the way. The end is a little predictable but presented very well. The film also features the use of some exotic locations such as Venice and Istanbul which add to the overall nice look of the film...

polydeuces 14.10.2001 · Read review
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Review of From Russia With Love (DVD)

Finney Doesn't Do it For Me!

Advantages: star cast, excellent acting all round
Disadvantages: no David Suchet

...Poirot is returning to England from Istabul on the Orient Express, his journey is a last minute one and other passengers in first class show open dismay at his boarding the train with them. When one of the passengers is stabbed a dozen times and killed on the train Poirot investigates, partly due to guilt as the murder victim asked him for help just before he was killed and partly as a favour to his old friend Signor Bianchi who is also on the journey. With a carriage full of potential suspects, how on earth will Poirot find out what actually happened and who was responsible? Murder on the Orient Express was released in 1974 with a story set roughly 40 years before that. The scene is set early on in the film to show what contempt British hold "foreigners" in when a colonel sees Poirot sneezing and says "What a funny little man...

anonymili 12.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express (DVD)

Why am I watching this?

Advantages: Pretty Funny
Disadvantages: Not a horror, made by an insane Italian

...Well that's what I wondered for 80 odd minutes! It was an obscure concoction of badly made Italian horror, and accidental comedy. The cut version was known as "Nights of Terror", quite why I don't know as there was nothing terrifying about it. If you saw one of these zombies, you would probably be dead before you finished laughing at how crap they looked! The cast was... Karin Well .... Janet Gianluigi Chirizzi .... Mark (as Gian Luigi Chirizzi) Simone Mattioli .... James Antonella Antinori .... Leslie Roberto Caporali .... George Peter Bark .... Michael Claudio Zucchet .... Nicholas Anna Valente .... Kathleen Raimondo Barbieri .... Prof. Ayres (as Renato Barbieri) Mariangela Giordano .... Evelyn (as Maria Angela Giordano) and it was directed by a lunatic known as Andrea Bianchi, who made such other...

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Review of The Zombie Dead (DVD)

Great Movie by Mexican Director González Iñárri.

Advantages: Well organised,great soundtrack,natural playing and the actors shows their high performances.
Disadvantages: Maybe the making reminds a little Pulp Fiction.

...betrayal, anxiety, death, sin, selfishness, and pain. Cast: Director:Alejandro González Iñárri Star:Humberto Busto ,Gerardo Campbell ,Rosa Maria Bianchi ,Dunia Saldivar ,Gael Garcia Bernal ,Emilio Echevarria ,Goya Toledo ,Alvaro Guerrero ,Vanessa Bauche ,Jorge Salinas ,Marco Perez ,Rodrigo Murray Screenwriter:Alejandro González Iñárri Composer:Gustavo Santaolaya Costume Designer:Gabriela Diaque Director of Photography:Rodrigo Prieto Production Designer:Brigitte Broch Executive Producer:Francisco Gonzalez Compea ,Martha Sosa. If you like this kind of movie go for it....

kaan128 15.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of Amores Perros (Love's A Bitch) (Subtitled) (DVD)

Classic Bond

Advantages: Sean Connery, styllish and atmospheric
Disadvantages: Lacks the spectacle of later Bonds

...as a cultivated English gentleman - ordering Red Wine with fish. "You may know the right wines," comes Grant's chilling reply. "But you're the one on your knees." Old fashioned suspense, absent from later Bond films, is very much in evidence in From Russia With Love. Daniela Bianchi is endearing and beautiful as the female lead - light years above recent Bond actresses. And naturally Sean Connery is cool, unflappable, witty and every inch James Bond. I find it interesting that people often have a misconception about Connery being a relatively serious Bond - the series only turning to tongue in cheek escapades when Roger Moore took over. Actually Connery is very laid back, permanently amused and doesn't seem to be taking proceedings tremendously seriously. He's having fun. From Russia marks the first advent of Q and we get our first...

arthurpringle 30.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of From Russia With Love (Ultimate Edition) (DVD)

Did They Have Viagra In The Sixties

Advantages: See opinion
Disadvantages: See opinion

...exactly what the West and Russia are up to in the global intelligence stakes. Along the way they want to get rid of our hero James, as they are sick and tired of him thwarting their evil machinations. ~ ~ The leader of SPECTRE, appropriately called “Number 1”, despatches a beautiful Russian agent named Tatiana Romanova, (fetchingly played by Daniela Bianchi) to feed James false information. We never actually see the face of the mysterious “Number 1”, only a hand stroking a pure-white cat that constantly sits in his lap. He is listed in the film’s credits as Ernst Blofeld, but there is a question mark placed against where the actor’s name should appear. So cunning is this organisation that the delectable Tatiana doesn’t even realise that she is in their employ, and thinks she is acting on behalf...

the_mad_cabbie 11.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of From Russia With Love (DVD)

Welcome To The Slashwalk

Advantages: Some great preservation work
Disadvantages: Poor character development

...specifically corpuscles. For the movies director Andrea Bianchi, this movie is somewhat a masterpiece his career varied from gross out movies to hardcore pornography, here he manages a partial synergy by delivering a pretty gory thriller, with enough nudity and semi-clothed stars to keep his more hardcore adult movie fans happy. It seems that the director was trying to harness a new genre, and while other movies before and after have tried, this is one of the more illicit of the Italian sex thrillers. I mentioned earlier the sort of mish-mash of storytelling and style, for those familiar with the Italian movies Bianchi's work includes The Nights Of Terror AKA The Zombie Dead, Zombi 3; a movie that touches on the "It's so bad it's good" style, similar could be said about this offering. When not trying to titillate, the movie really goes...

sghawken 10.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Strip Nude For Your Killer (DVD)

Lidl - Worth a second look

Advantages: Cheap and surprisingly cheerful!
Disadvantages: No baskets

...everything else they sell are cheap. Almost all of Lidl?s goods are own-brand. There is a huge amount of choice; everything from tinned vegetables through to pet food and household products. Rather than being packaged in dull, corporate own-brand packets and tins, each product is attractively packed with a picture of the contents. Actually the picture is a big help as many of the goods have their contents written in the language of origin. (without the picture to help me I would never have known that Fagioli bianchi di Spagna was Italian for butterbeans!) You will need a magnifying glass to read the small print on the label that states that the product was ?Specially produced for Lidl?. So far, all the own-brands that I have bought from Lidl have been as good as named brands or other supermarket brands - the difference is that they are...

weenawoo 06.01.2005 · Read review
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Review of Lidl (Shop)