A Reintroduction to Glen Campbell

Advantages: Classic songs sung beautifully, great instrumentalists and orchestra
Disadvantages: For me there really are none!

...Introduction I grew up listening to the music of Glen Campbell as my father was a huge fan and had many of his albums back in the 60s and early 70s. At that time, Campbell was at the peak of his success as a solo singer. Born in Arkansas in 1936, Campbell began his musical career as a session guitarist and singer, appearing on many classic recordings of the era, including "Tequila" by the Champs and "You've Lost That Loving Feelin'" by the Righteous Brothers. He toured with the Beach Boys and also played on "Pet Sounds". My father frequently used to rave to me about how good a guitar player Campbell was when I was younger. In those days I didn't really appreciate his skills but its acknowledged these days that he is one of the greatest guitar players of all time. When he broke out as a solo singer in the 1960s on the fabled...

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Review of Meet Glen Campbell - Glen Campbell

Bruce Campbell: the Man with the Screaming Brain

Advantages: Brilliant performances, A bit different, Hilarious
Disadvantages: None really but probably won't appeal to everyone

...odd business. Williams winds up sharing his brain with streetwise Russian taxi driver Yegor when a mad scientist gets hold of them both, and although the two couldn't be more different, they share a common enemy - the woman who killed them - so they set out for revenge. It's somewhat understandable that this film would be a little on the B movie side, as it's written and directed by none other than Bruce Campbell, star of the classic Evil Dead films. If you're a Bruce fan, you'll love Man with the Screaming Brain. Now that Sam Raimi has taken on his bigger and better Hollywood films (Spiderman amongst others), Bruce Campbell has taken over the role of B movie horror director it seems. Although it does have its (very slight) serious moments, Man with the Screaming Brain is, overall, a hilarious mix of brilliant acting...

Magdalena 05.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of The man with the Screaming Brain

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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Ow Bruce it's God...???

Advantages: brilliant family fun for Carrey fans
Disadvantages: none, unless you don't like Carrey

...Director: Tom Shadvac. Producers: Jim Carrey, Tome Shadvac, James D. Brubaker, Michale Bostick, Mark O'Keefe and Steve Koran. Writers: Steve Koran, Mark O'Keefe and Steve Oedekerk. Stars: Jim Carey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Ann Walter, Steve Carell, Catherine Bell and Nora Dunn Released in 2003 this hour and 41 minute (101 minute) comedy follows the life of a disgruntled news reporter who feels totally let down by God himself? leading to some rather strange situations. ** BRIEF PLOT ** Bruce Nolan, (played by Jim Carrey) is not happy with his life and feels as if God is laughing at him from above? Firstly, his job as a television reporter isn't going well as he keeps failing to achieve that promotion to anchorman that he so desperately wants. Secondly, his relationship with his girlfriend, Grace Connelly...

blissman70 15.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Bruce Almighty (DVD)

Bruce Lee Story

Advantages: Excellent Movie, Brilliant Acting
Disadvantages: Aparrently not full truth to life

...The Bruce Lee Story Last night I sat in at watched this movie on TV, I am not very into martial arts but I like life stories so I watched it. Basic Intro? It started off as Bruce Lee as a young boy living in china with his father and his father is teaching him how to fight and defend himself in the real world. His father had no choice but to send his son away once he was old enough in order for him to have a better life. So off he went to America where he ended up washing dishes for a living as he was seen very different by the Americans. One day as he was working out in the gym, he was spotted for his moving skills and his fighting skills and was asked to teach the people what he knows. So, he started teaching his fighting moves, it started with 2 boys, then 1 girl, then a huge class. It was this class where he met his wife...

lesleyanne18 04.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story (DVD)

Bruce alrighty

Advantages: good idea
Disadvantages: badly executed, seen it all before

...Hands up who hasn't been to the cinema in ages, all the four time a year visitors, all of you who thought 'mmmmm i haven't been to the cinema in ages and that Jim Carrey is a funny guy, i saw him on Jonathan Ross and the adverts look H. I. L. ARIOUS' Well all you popcorn munchers, you'll probably love this. I didn't but more on that later Bruce almighty is Carreys return to mainstream comedy after the misfire that was The Majestic (anyone seen it?) and sees him try and return to the gurning loveable everyman in a supernatural situation a'la Liar Liar. Starring as Bruce Nolan, a field reporter for a local news station, Bruce gets all the quirky stories that may endear him to the public as a wacky guy, but doesn't get him the professional respect he requires to get the coveted anchor job. At work the race for the anchor job gets...

pablodiabloescobar 30.06.2003 · Read review
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Review of Bruce Almighty (DVD)

In Bruce we trust.

Advantages: Some cheap laughs, OK if there's nothing else on
Disadvantages: Tired, formulaic

...Bruce Nolan works as a local news reporter, reporting soul-destroyingly boring stories in his home town of Buffalo. When he hears that his arch rival, Evan Baxtor, has been promoted to anchorman, he loses control completely, all his frustrations and anger pouring out. Live on TV. He is promptly sacked, and when he crashes his car and is beaten up, his day can't get any worse. He blames God for all the disasters in his life, and begins a vicious hate campaign against God, whoever he is, for giving Bruce Nolan such a bad life, despite the fact he has a dedicated girlfriend in the form of Grace, a nursery-school teacher who adores him. God, sick of all the abuse he is getting from Bruce, decides to let Bruce step into his shoes and see what a difficult job he really has. Contacting him via a pager, God leads him to his offices...

JessL 20.12.2003 · Read review
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Review of Bruce Almighty (DVD)

Step away from the motion picture Bruce!

Advantages: Silly Bruce Campbell references
Disadvantages: Everything else

...Set in a small town called Gold Lick (population 339 according to the sign) and for those who blinked before the kid knocked over the wooden sign it read "Protected For Those Who Died. Beware Those Without Bean Curd" (it says that although some letters are missing), I assume the 4 kids (Jeff the Bruce Campbell fan, Clayton his cooler friend, Big Debbie who doesnt go to school & Little Debbie) are Goths or Emo (who else would want to get laid in an abandoned Chinese graveyard?). After removing some sort of amulet from the abandoned mine entrance Jeff awakens an undead Chinese person who kills Clayton and the 2 Debbies, we then cut to the real Bruce Campbell coming off the set of some low budget movie and meeting his agent (played by Ted Raimi) in a strip bar. This is really a movie for die hard Campbell fans (you'll be spotting...

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Review of My Name Is Bruce (DVD)

Dark Satanic Depths (Scar Night: Deepgate Codex - Alan Campbell)

Advantages: compelling, moody, imaginative, well written
Disadvantages: too long

...only very vaguely hinted: I suspect there is room for that in the later volumes of the Deepgate Codex. Campbell takes his idea to its logical conclusion by showing how core beliefs of a culture would shape the way it conducted all kinds of tasks, from technology to war. Some of it is pretty stomach churning, but not particularly gratuitous. The reader winces, but accepts that that's how things must be in that city of chains. I don't like horror, and thus I didn't like the moments when the "dark fantasy" mode risked turning into the horror, but overall it stayed this side of the genre divide. There is action aplenty in The Scar Night, though the story starts to unfold rather slowly - the first 100 or so pages, in fact the whole first section (entitled, quite meaningfully, Lies) sets the scene. It's long, but enough mysteries...

magdadh 05.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Scar Night: Deepgate Codex: Bk. 1 (Deepgate Codex Trilogy 1) - Alan Campbell

Keep Working on that Dream Bruce

Advantages: None to mention
Disadvantages: Feel let down

...I never really got Bruce when he was in his prime, he was always one of Mum's favourites so it couldn't be cool to like him right? In recent years however I have come to appreciate 'The Boss' and his work especially his early work - singles such as Dancing in the Dark, Born in the USA, Born to Run, Streets Of Philadelphia (great song, brings a tear to my eyes), Glory Days... the list is endless. Now I totally get it! I thought Working on a Dream (his 24th album so I am told) would become a classic album in years to come and having missed out in the early days thought 'hey I'll have some of that' Oh dear, oh dear. 'The Boss' is showing his almost 60 years vocally, sadly he can't pelt them out like he used to (he is almost 60 though fair play!) but its a dissapointment. The opening song Outlaw Pete is one paced and very repetitive...

jinxyjo 18.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Working On A Dream [Digipak] - Bruce Springsteen