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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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Bringing Carla home

Advantages: A good thriller
Disadvantages: Plot holes, need to suspend disbelief

...Jack Bauer (no, not THAT Jack Bauer) is a workaholic businessman who has little room in his life for anything else, including his girlfriend with whom he is supposed to be on holiday. Hoping he can follow her later, he is on the underground on his way to an important meeting when he sees a little girl with a woman. That little girl then gets off the train, leaving her stuffed toy behind; when Jack tries to chase after her, he sees a poster in the train window - advertising the disappearance of the very little girl, called Carla, he has just seen. A chance meeting with the Carla's mother, Laura, means that Jack gets involved in the police investigation into Carla's apparent kidnap - and that involvement soon becomes deeper than he could have ever imagined. Can he do what the police can't - bring Carla home? Made back in 1991, long...

sunmeilan 12.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of In a Stranger's Hand (DVD)

***Life is A Cabaret***

Advantages: funny, original,
Disadvantages: girly again, sorry boys

...Connie and Carla are two waitresses who dream of making it big with their cheesy cabaret act. Unfortunately, their act is limited to airport lounges, where most of their audience are grumpy and asleep. They've been best friends since school, live with their mommas and have loser boyfriends who have no faith in them either. Then one day, they witness their boss being shot in a argument with some mobsters, and they hit the road, heading straight to LA, where they figure they'll never get found. So, they rent an apartment and look for work, which is pretty hard going as there is not much call for cabaret acts in LA. Then one night, they end up in a gay club, which is where they find the ultimate disguise- drag queens. Heavy makeup and deep voices convince the other drag queens that they are in fact men dressed as women and they build up...

fabulous_girl 15.05.2006 (17.05.2006) · Read review
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Review of Connie And Carla (DVD)

Life's a drag

Advantages: It's fabulous darling
Disadvantages: Vardalos needs to let go of the reins sometimes

...Connie and Carla are two lounge singers who have to go on the lam from their native Chicago after witnessing a mob hit on their boss. They decide to hide in a place with ?no culture and no dinner theatre? and so end up in Los Angeles where they disguise themselves as drag queens and become the toast of the town. But things get complicated when Connie falls for her friend?s straight brother, who isn?t interested because he thinks she?s a man. All that and the Mafia boss has sent a Russian thug after them? Nia Vardalos was the brains behind ?My Big Fat Greek Wedding? a couple of years ago. A take on her stand-up routine turned into a massive sleeper hit. It wasn?t the best comedy to hit the screens, but it was a feel-good movie that rang bells for many of its viewers. ?Connie and Carla? is similar in that it takes a well-worn formula...

afy9mab 30.06.2004 · Read review
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Review of Conie and Carla

'It's Showtime!.......'

Advantages: Great laughs, loads of singing
Disadvantages: no action or gory bits!!!

...Connie and Carla is the hilarious comedy Directed by Michael Lembeck and written by the writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Nia Vardalos). I first saw this film about a year ago at a friend's house and absolutely loved it so when I managed to pick it up at a Boot Sale for £1 i was chuffed! Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) have been best friends almost forever. They have always dreamed of fame and fortune with their cabaret act but their careers in show business are going nowhere fast. After witnessing there boss being shot by a couple of mobsters they hit the road looking for somewhere to hide. They decide on LA as they think they will never be found there. They need to look for a job to be able to pay the rent on the apartment they get but with no hope. Then they stumble upon a Gay Club with Drag Queens...

NewYork2006 29.07.2006 · Read review
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God's Callgirl

Advantages: Gripping, informative
Disadvantages: May be found quite hard going

...Carla Van Raay's autobiography "Gods Callgirl" details the life of a naive, immature girl, then woman who is devoted to God but goes from obedient convent girl to sexual prostitute over the course of her life, but remains as naive as ever. This life story is divided into three parts and develops the tale of this Dutch girl's life over the course of the book. Part one examines the life of a child abused by her father, yet finding she felt abandoned and alone once the abused ceased and her devotion to God from a very young age. As a school girl she idolising the convent and her sole ambition in life is to serve God as a nun in one of Australia's many convents. As an early teenager feeling unloved at home by her family yet supporting her mother in everyday chores and childcare of her brothers and sister she found herself believing she...

carysb 14.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Gods Call Girl - Carla Van Raay

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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Review of Yamaha DVD-S 557

Enough to Keep you reading?

Advantages: plot, characters
Disadvantages: /

...To say that I enjoy reading would be the understatement of the Century. There is something wonderful about picking up a book and being transported to a whole new world where anything really is possible. Although I have my usual genres I stick to, I do like to dip in and out of others as a pleasant change. I also like to sample the work of authors I am unfamiliar with, and when I was faced with 'The Things That Keep Us Here' by Carla Buckley, it came to my attention that I had neither heard of the author nor did I tend to read the apparent genre much. I was sure that this was definitely going to be quite an interesting read for sure! Despite not knowing anything about the book or the author, I could make my mind up about the cover straight away. On the front of the dark book you can see nothing more than a hand, the side of a head...

Amy69 31.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Things That Keep Us Here - Carla Buckley

Charming Chansons

Advantages: A fine debut album from Madame Sarkozy
Disadvantages: Pardon her French

...Bruni was a virtual unknown to me when by chance I first heard a selection of downloaded sample tracks from this CD. 'Quelqu'un m'a dit' was the first album release of Mlle Carla Bruni and every time it sends me to sleep, but I mean that as a complement. I think it's the manner in which Bruni's husky rasping voice utters those intimate French vowels, almost whispering at times, as if blowing sweet nothings in my ear. If only my school French mistress had spoken like this; I would have attended every lesson and passed my exams with flying tri-colours. Carla Bruni is an Italian-born heiress, former supermodel and now the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. She received a lot of stick recently following an appearance on the Jules Holland show. I feel that this was more to do with her move into politics rather than a true...

Zmugzy 10.02.2009 · Read review
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