Midnight Cowboy

Advantages: For lovers of the film, the period or the music of John Barry.
Disadvantages: A bit too easy listening for some

...Midnight Cowboy was director John Schlesinger's 1969 classic Oscar winning masterpiece portraying the shattered optimism of the American dream starring Jon Vought (father of Angelina Jolie) as male-prostitute Joe Buck and Dustin Hoffman as his sleazy scheming friend Enrico 'Ratso' Rizzo. The film follows Texan Joe as he naively sets off for New York to earn his fortune as a hustler. Upon arrival he finds little success and things only get worse when he befriends greasy con-merchant Rizzo. This album is a true soundtrack of the film in that, unlike many modern soundtracks, it truly follows the sequence of events in the film rather than just being a collection of hit songs banged together and added to the movie after it's finished. The original version of Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talking" appears just as it was in the film as...

Zmugzy 10.09.2008 (10.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of Midnight Cowboy - Original Soundtrack

Midnight Cowboy : A piece of cinematic genius from all involved

Advantages: Superb acting & directing, highly atmospheric, something for everyone
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...MAIN CAST: Joe Buck (John Voight) Rico ?Ratso? Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) Cass (Sylvia Miles) Shirley (Brenda Vaccaro) Mr O?Daniel (John McGiver) Sally Buck (Ruth White) RELEASED: June 1969 RUNNING TIME: 1hr, 56mins DIRECTOR: John Schlesinger PRODUCER: Jerome Hellman SCREENPLAY: Waldo Salt Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 movie adaptation of James Leo Herlihy?s novel of the same name, and I believe this novel was first published at some point in the early 1960s. My first viewing of the film Midnight Cowboy was in about 1973-ish when it was doing its second cinema run in the UK. I?d recently read the novel, and hadn?t been too impressed with it. I was thus a little dubious as to whether I?d like the movie or not, but was persuaded by my ex-husband (who?d seen it before I met him) to trot along to the cinema with him, he...

CelticSoulSister 08.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Midnight Cowboy (DVD)

Cowboys and Indians Abbott & Costello style

Advantages: Good routines, some good songs and fun story
Disadvantages: A bit of an oddity by todays standards

...than 25 films. Ride ?Em Cowboy sees Abbott and Costello playing two hotdog and peanut sellers at a rodeo show in New York. Duke (Bud) and Willoughby (Lou) are their normal incompetent selves and soon find themselves trying to get away from their boss. In doing so they soon find themselves on a dude ranch employed as cowboys, something they are really not good at. Mixed into the plot is the famous singer ?Bronco? Bill (Dick Foran) and the girl he falls for, who is also the daughter of the owner of the ranch. She thinks he is a fraud because he has built himself a reputation as a rooting tooting cowboy, when it is all made up so he has a great stage persona. Bill?s only chance to win her over is to help the ranch out. Throw in a bunch of crooks and some Indians after Willoughby because he inadvertently proposed to a squaw and you have all...

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Review of Ride 'Em Cowboy (DVD)

Howdy cowboy!

Advantages: a great little toy for 18 months plus
Disadvantages: none

...The clip clop cowboy is a really fun little toy from Tomy and both my two little girls really love it. It is made from sturdy plastic and comprises of a bright yellow horse ridden by a cowboy. The colours are really bright and it is a really attractive toy. The best thing about this toy though is not what it looks like but what it does. If your child presses down on the cowboy's hat you hear a loud neigh from the horse who then proceeds to take his cowboy for a ride. The horse and cowboy travel for about a distance of one metre before stopping with another neigh! As it moves, all the horse legs are moving up and down and so is its head while all the time you cah hear it clip clop! It is great fun to watch (if you're two!) and great fun to chase after as well! Both sounds and movement are fairly realistic. Tomy say that it is...

kingfisher111 15.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Clip Clop Cowboy

Ride 'em Cowboys.....

Advantages: A Great film, very entertaining. Great Special Effects.
Disadvantages: It's sad too!

...Space Cowboys was released on video and DVD in 2001 by Warner Brothers. It is a single sided disc that has a number of Special features and also some enhanced DVD-Rom PC features. For those who like to know, the Special Features and Technical Specifications are as follows. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive menus Scene Access Theatrical Trailer 4 Behind the Scenes Documentaries Languages in Dolby Digital 5.1: English Subtitles: English/ Arabic/ Romanian/ Bulgarian/ English for the Hearing Impaired. DVD-Rom PC: Space shuttle Challenge. Links to Original Web-site. TECHNICAL DETAILS: Widescreen 2.35:1 Running Time 126 minutes, approx. Dual layer format ? Region 2 encoding (Europe, Middle East & Japan only) ? Colour, Widescreen, PAL CAST: Clint Eastwood - Dr. Francis D. 'Frank' Corvin James Garner - Tank...

tange 03.09.2001 (10.09.2001) · Read review
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Review of Space Cowboys (DVD)

Cowboy Bebopping the movie

Advantages: Memorable characters, excellent animation
Disadvantages: Music is all Jazz. Bounty hunters again? Man...

...significant role than Jet, but the script could of easily have been adjusted to be watched without them at all (they arethe ones who lead Faye into finding Vincent). You can tell a massive amount of time and effort was put into animating and bringing this movie to life. The illusion of movement is extremely realistic (especially during the intro, that was amazing how they animated that). True that as a Japanese animation some things were exaggerated, but overall they made the illusion of gravity, applied the laws of physics extremely well. The fluid motion also requires it to all be clear and sharp. This is important since it is going to be on DVD (I got the video tape but its a very high quality video tape) so if there are any discrepencies then you'll see it. Now I've always wondered why they call it Cowboy Bebop. Well apparently the Cowboy...

china_wolf 10.02.2005 · Read review
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Review of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Animated) (DVD)

Holiday !

Advantages: Nice sweet film, romantic comedy
Disadvantages: Not the best romantic comedy I have seen, some may find it too sickly sweet!

...where she discovers Amanda. They decide to take a break from their troubles and get away from the men in their lives so house swap for a couple of weeks over the Christmas period. Amanda swaps her luxurious modern house in California for Iris?s quaint little cottage in the English countryside. Iris soon makes friends with Arthur a retired screen writer and sets about trying to help him. Her love interest comes in the form of Miles (Jack Black) a film composer who works with Amanda?s ex. Amanda meanwhile meets Graham (Jude Law) who is Iris handsome brother and has an eye for the ladies. Will it be a holiday romance or will both these women find love when they least expect or want it? ***** My Thoughts ***** Having missed this at the cinema I was very keen to rent it to watch, certainly keener than my husband who did agree...

AJ26 14.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Holiday (DVD)

Space Cowboys

Advantages: Big stars, some comedy, well acted
Disadvantages: A little too long

...What can I say - Space Cowboys!! The not so big hit of 2000 starring Clint Eastwood (who also directed and produced the film), Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner (yes he is still alive!!). The film starts by showing our four heroes as young (yep in the 50s) pilots and engineers working on the supersonic/space testing program for the American airforce. Suddenly withdrawn from the program because of NASA deciding to send a monkey into space they all go their separate ways. Forty years on our not so young heroes are asked to help out with an ailing Russian communications satellite. By using blackmail they manage to convince the world that they are the only ones able to fix the satellite and must therefore be allowed to finally fulfil their dream of going into space (why they couldn't just pay $14 million like everyone...

Xcom 19.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of Space Cowboys (DVD)

What's your cowboy making today?

Advantages: paractical and fun activities
Disadvantages: none

...The Usborne activity book 'Cowboy Things to Make and Do' is a really practical and fun book to entertain small children for many hours. There are loads of different things to make including a Wild West wanted poster, a sherrif badge, a cowboy hat and a cowboy belt. All of these activities are given their own double paged spread and have very bright and colourful instructions to follow. There are also over 200 stickers but these donot seem to be related to specific activities. The instructions are all very easy to follow. They are broken down into very small steps and each step is generally accompanied by an illustration which helps your child to know exactly what he or she should be doing. I do have one small criticism though which is that the equipment and materials needed are not listed at the beginning of the activity which means...

kingfisher111 09.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Usborne Cowboy Things to Make and Do - Emily Bone

The Holiday - a good chick flick

Advantages: Lighthearted, good cast
Disadvantages: Predictable

...The Holiday is a chick flick type film although it is not quite your normal chick flick. It is based around the story of two girls , Amanda, played by Cameron Diaz and Iris played by Kate Winslet. Amanda is a film trailer producer who has just broke up with her boyfriend, she lives in LA. Iris lives in Surrey in a little cottage and is a writer for a paper. She is still in love with her ex boyfriend who she works with and has just found out he is getting engaged. Amanda starts searching on the Internet for some sort of holiday to get away and try and forget what has happened. She stumbles across Iris's cottage on a website and contacts her about coming over to stay. Iris jumps at the chance after all the pain she has been put through. So the two girls decide to swap homes for the holidays. Once swapped Amanda meets Iris's brother...

wendz86 19.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Holiday (DVD)