Point Blank - shooting game for the Nintendo DS

Advantages: Fun for a while
Disadvantages: Not enough long-term depth

...Point Blank is a game for the Nintendo DS. The game is based on the arcade game where you can play forty mini games relating to shooting. Although there are a few 3D levels, the game is primarily viewed in 2D. There are five different modes in the game, with four different difficulty levels and with forty mini games to complete. The game is played using the stylus, which is very effective when selecting items which you want to use your weapons on. It's a much better way of playing games such as this than on other consoles, and I found actually playing the game very easy and comfortable. The different games are all based on similar themes, ie, using the stylus to select items. The games vary only slightly, for example, there are levels for shooting birds and levels for shearing sheep. But the concept behind the game really doesn...

julwhite 25.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Point Blank (Nintendo DS)

The Music Live At The Blank Canvas

Advantages: High-energy groove-dance-rock-funk music - fantastic band!
Disadvantages: Mostly their old stuff - I'd like to hear some of their new songs live.

...This DVD is of Northern funksters The Music at their 2003 tour's homecoming gig at The Blank Canvas, Leeds. Through the clouds of smoke (dry ice?), coloured lights and oceans of waving arms and flailing crowd-surfers, we see the young dance-rock crew struttin' their groovy stuff across the stage. The first thing that struck me (as I have never seen them live before... hopefully I'll get to see them one day...) was how much their songs sounded like the studio versions: I'd always thought that a lot of the sounds on their debut album "The Music" required assistance from drum machines, synths, keyboards etc., but they don't. The Music manage to get futuristic dance music out of 4 boys with guitars! Singer Robert Harvey's voice seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it thing (like Marmite): unusual, unearthly, unique, unmistakable, and suited...

helen666 02.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of The Music Live At Blank Canvas (DVD)

There are no Blanks fired in this movie

Advantages: Darkly comic yet stylish; flowing action
Disadvantages: none

...Grosse Pointe Blank is a black comedy, rich in humour and style; witty without being glib, charming without being sentimental; fast paced, delightful and thoroughly enjoyable. John Cusack plays Martin Blank, a hitman who has lost his appetite for the 'job' and wants out. However, getting out is not easy and he is persuaded by various parties that a final job is due. Concindentally, it is at Grosse Pointe where he has also been invited to his High School reunion. Minnie Driver is a DJ at Grosse Pointe, specialising in instantly recognizable eighties hits and some sharp repartee. She was also dumped by Cusack at the High SChool Prom yet still has a hankering for him and his strange ways. Dan Ackroyd plays a fellow hitman, pissed at Cusack for stealing his 'hit' and intent on either killing him or getting him to join the Hitman...

rvb13 01.10.2001 · Read review
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Review of Grosse Pointe Blank (DVD)

Right to the blank!

Advantages: Original
Disadvantages: Nothing

...This is a film I love and when I say I love it I really mean I LOVE THIS FILM!. I have seen it now around 10 times and I'm sure I will continue to watch it and love it for years to come. The film is based around the central character of Martin Blank (John Cusack) who is a hit man with issues, these issues revolve around his relationship with Debi his child hood sweet heart that he jilted at the school prom. Now to say this film is out and out funny would be inaccurate as its a more subtle humor that belies its true nature, at its heart this film is dark VERY dark and on 1st viewing you may even miss how dark it is and there in lies the beauty of this picture you are never quite sure what the film is ether doing or trying to be and this is not always a good thing but it's handled with such light fingers by Director George Armitage any...

masternewt 30.07.2004 · Read review
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billy blanks tae bo

Advantages: will make you sweat, quite easy to understand
Disadvantages: looking at tv as his left is your right

...Have been wanting to try billy blanks workout dvd's for a long time so decided to look on amazon and got it for 3.95. I thought since so cheap might aswell give it a go. Tae bo blends your own hidden strength with moves from self-defence, dance and boxing. This dvd contains two parts, instructional and tae bo basics. The best way is do the instructional part first for a few times to get use to the moves which are quite hard to master. Billy is a good instructor and you warm to his personality very quickly, he shows you the best way to stand, how to position your arms to punch and legs to kick correctly so you do not hurt yourself. The main part of the dvd is only about 20 minutes long but my god you sweat it combines what you have learnt from the instructional part of this dvd with fast moves. I find trying to copy Billy is...

samgaz 14.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Billy Blanks' Tae-Bo (DVD)

BLANK ............... PLEASE DISREGARD

Advantages: funny
Disadvantages: true to life maybe ...

...please disregard this blank page .................. I messed up BIG TIME !!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I confirm that this review is based on my experience and is not taken from other sources. I am aware of the legal consequences if I should infringe the rights of a third party. I confirm that this review is based on my experience and is not taken from other sources. I am aware of the legal consequences if I should infringe the rights of a third party. I confirm that this review is based on my experience and is not taken from other sources. I am aware of the legal consequences if I should infringe the rights of a third...

Janej47 26.09.2005 (14.12.2009) · Read review
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The Blank Canvas of The Beatles!

Advantages: One of the most amazing collections of songs you will ever hear - so varied and exciting
Disadvantages: There are some weak links and some songs you do really wonder about...

...Loves You? but also takes them back to their passion of Rock ?N? Roll music, all rounded up and tied together with experimental sounds and riffs that a critically acclaimed album such as ?Sgt. Pepper?s had given them the confidence to continue to work with and expand upon. ?The White Album? is pretty much a blank canvas as the band take so many different, colourful directions that it?s difficult to determine exactly how the album might have sounded if the band had worked solidly together on each and every track. 1968?s album release is arguably the most important release in the bands later history; yes, ?Sgt. Peppers? was more than a little daring and had an original theme but really, it can be classed as an evolution of the previous album, ?Revolver?. I?m not putting either of those albums down; ?Revolver? is perhaps my favourite Beatles...

MizzMolko 01.06.2009 (05.06.2009) · Read review
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Review of Beatles, The (The White Album) - Beatles (The)

Point Blank 2 v Point Blank

Advantages: It involves using G-con guns so it's fun
Disadvantages: It is the same as Point Blank 1

...OK, I'll admit it, I spent a fortune on the arcade machine and then went out and bought Point Blank and 2 guns for my Playstation, and I love it! Point Blank involves shooting your way through stages without loosing all your lives either alone or with a friend. It is cartoon based and designed to be fun to play, not gory like some of its rivals. When I saw Point Blank 2 in the arcades, I couldn't see how it had changed much, but eventually I decided I loved the original so much that I had to have the sequel. To be honest, not much seems to have changed. The stages are virtually identical and the gameplay seems to work in the same way. The only change that jumped out at me was that I didn't seem to be able to set a life limit on the arcade version and I never did see the point of playing with unlimited lives. We gave...

Kkaos 23.04.2001 (27.04.2001) · Read review
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Review of Point Blank (PlayStation)

The TV space would be better off left blank

Advantages: nil
Disadvantages: boring

...Blankety blank, a TV quiz show showing its age, and so is Lily Savage! The programme is a total farce and not worth watching. The humour is dull, the panelists are thick and if it wasn't for the contestants, the whole thing would collapse, for it they who come over as intelligent and sane, the rest of the cast................well! It is put on during a time when most people have other things to do, if they don't have other things to do and start watching this programme they soon will find something else to do. The viewing figures must be poor, as is the comedy and intelligence! My advice is this.........when Blankety Blank is on, switch the telly off and visit ciao....

willsmj 17.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of BBC1 - Lily Savage's Blankety Blank

Look who's turned up at the reunion!

Advantages: entertaining film
Disadvantages: none

...What do you do when you are invited to your high school ten year reunion but you have spent those last ten years being a professional killer? Do you make up some boring subarban lifestyle or do you tell your former class mates what you actually do? This is the dilemma facing Martin Blank (played by John Cusack) in High School Blank. It's hard to decide exactly what genre this film fits. I would probably describe it as a romantic comedy with a few killings thrown into the pot as well. Whtever you call it though, Gross Point Blank is an entertaining and funny film which is well worth watching on DVD. At the start of the film, we meet Martin Blank. He's doing OK in his chosen career but things could be better especially when one planned killing goes a bit wrong. In order to make amends he is comissioned to kill someone else...

kingfisher111 31.12.2008 · Read review
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