THE PRINCE

Advantages: Contraversial
Disadvantages: Introduction is long

...GENERAL INFORMATION The Prince is the work of Machiavelli that describes primarily how a Prince (Ruler) can retain his empire. In the book he describes how different empires can use different strategums to retain power, and which are the most affective. Including political and warfare strategies that have been a success and those that have failed as examples. Machiavelli discusses in The Prince the different kinds of Principalities then goes on to say that the essential foundations for any state, whether old or new, are sound laws and strong military forces. He discribes different defences and military strategies. Other subjects discussed are the reputation of the Prince, Generosity Vs Parsimony, Cruelty Vs Mercy, Avoiding contempt and hatred, Gaining honours, Nobles and staff, Avoiding flatterers and Fortune. Nicolo...

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"There'll be no morning for us" - Hopefully not Helen.

Advantages: Christopher Lee, great imagery
Disadvantages: Lots of boring dialogue

...come about. Similarly the music was more something that would go with a perilous climb up a cliff than a gothic horror. DVD The DVD had an hour long documentary called The Changing Faces of Christopher Lee which involves Christopher Lee sitting in his living room talking about himself and his films. He seems to have a prop from each one he talks about and has a story to tell about each. He confirms that in Prince of Darkness he refused to talk because the lines were terrible and also shows us some behind the scenes footage taken during the making of that film. He also gives us a demonstration of sword fighting when talking about the musketeer films and how to draw a gun when talking about his westerns. He even still has a piece of the actual wickerman from The Wickerman . It?s a very good documentary with lots of information...

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Review of Dracula - Prince Of Darkness (DVD)

A Prince and reality?

Advantages: wasted an hour when i was hungover
Disadvantages: a waste of an hour i could have been doing something else

...that Paige is a very focussed young woman the sort who puts off people by being focussed to the exclusion of anything else. Eddie (Prince Edvard of Denmark) is a playboy prince he has no focus and does nothing except have fun to the chargin of his parents and delight of the paparazzi. Until he decides he needs to get away and discover himself, in of all the places Winsconsin. So he enrolls at the college that Paige attends and running in to her early earns her dislike. She is dismayed when he becomes her lab partner in her main Chemistry class. But after she gives him a piece of her mind about his 'spoilt little rich kid' ways he decides to change (anyone else find his skinny body a total turn off?), starting with a job at the bar in which she also works. This is his way to win her over. Predictably he achieves this as she...

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Review of Prince And Me (DVD)

Princes Corned Beef

Advantages: Great tasting corned beef, good value for money
Disadvantages: High fat content

...I have always been a fan of corned beef, both used cold for sandwiches and cooked in dishes such as corned beef hash. However, I am quite fussy over the brand of corned beef that I use. I have tried various brands from the cheapest to the most expensive, but I always stick with Princes Corned Beef nowadays as it is the best I have found by far. ~The Product~ Princes corned beef is the tastiest corned beef on the market in my opinion. It is sold as a block, not sliced so you can slice it as thick as you need to yourself. The corned beef is tinned and comes complete with a key which opens the tin from the bottom. Princes corned beef is made with 100% beef and this comes across in the taste. It does have a salty taste to it, but not as bad as other brands. It is the least salty tasting corned beef I have found, which gives...

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The Prince Of Darkness

Advantages: See opinion
Disadvantages: See opinion

...lives will be lost before this battle is won. As a Christian, the thought of this abhors me, but what is the alternative? To sit on our hands and do nothing to protect our very way of life, and the very lives themselves of our children. In the title of this opinion I called bin Laden the “Prince of Darkness”. Again I did not do this lightly. I believe evil to be loose in the world, and this man to be one of its main orchestrators. Let good prevail....

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The Prince Of Tides : A glimpse into a tortured childhood

Advantages: Very well acted, absorbing, intense, shocking in parts
Disadvantages: A little mawkish at the end

...of the storyline away, but I'll speak a little about my own feelings on The Prince Of Tides. I watched this film on the recommendation of a friend, and I was a little apprehensive because my friend's and my own tastes in films, music etc. doesn't always coincide, but when she told me this was about delving into the history of a deeply dysfunctional family, I decided to give it a watch - at the time I was going through some counselling myself, dealing with a few of my own childhood issues, and I thought it may be something I could perhaps identify with. I settled alone one evening to watch The Prince Of Tides, and as the film rolled on and got into the storyline, my eyes were becoming more firmly glued to the screen. I found one or two parts of it touched a little too close for comfort on a couple of my own childhood experiences, but that was...

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School's Out For....Ever

Advantages: When it's creepy, boy is it creepy
Disadvantages: Z grade cast, small feeling production

...John Carpenter's 1987 horror outing 'Prince of Darkness' crept out quietly onto DVD much like it slipped apologetically into cinemas on its original release. Certainly the last work of any great quality from the once highly regarded director who these days seems entirely unsure of how to put together a decent film. 'Prince of Darkness' is undeniably no masterpiece, but there are enough reassuring signs that Carpenter still had the 'knack'. A low key, small scale piece of apocalyptic cinema, 'Prince' both succeeds and suffers at the hands of it's low budget origins. Written by Carpenter, the movie clearly has aspirations beyond its means as it tells of the discovery of a sinister casket in an inner city church. This casket has been locked away in the basement for many years, and further investigation by a priest, and then a team...

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Review of Prince Of Darkness (DVD)

The Other Side Of The Mirror

Advantages: Do you like nightmares?
Disadvantages: Do you like nightmares?

...I love horror movies, I live horror movies and I never, never spook. Its been like that for years, for as long as I can remember. However back in 1988 two horror movies sent a shiver down my spine and I suspect that they made me skip a heartbeat; one of these movies was Italian horror shocker Alien Terror, the other John Carpenter's Prince Of Darkness. John Carpenter has always been on the top of the wave when it comes to trends; when Hollywood played with Westerns, Carpenter took the western genre to a modern time, and into New York ghetto's. When Hollywood made ghost horror, Carpenter made horrific ghosts that hide in the fog. And lets not forget that Carpenter practically fathered the serial killer franchise in Halloween. Prince Of Darkness took something old and made it new; a combination of zombie horror and something sinister...

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The Dark Place

Advantages: PI character, Belfast setting, a cast of potentially interesting characters
Disadvantages: Characters not really developed enough

...mostly felt quite detached from the story. Millar makes an effort to establish his detective as a sympathetic character ? a dark past, a father, an ex-wife and teenage daughter, a current romantic interest, thwarted literary ambitions, a sense of humour and regular discomfort from his piles ? but he stays a fictional character. Millar uses a lot of quotations from other literary works, Irish, American and English, 16th and 20th century, but for me the references to Raymond Chandler only made me feel disappointed that Karl Kane isn't really Belfast's answer to Philip Marlowe. The most emotionally moving scenes in the book involved Karl and his father, and these are not central to the main story. I would probably try another book in this series if I came across one, but wouldn't actively seek one out. I am more tempted by the author...

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Review of The Dark Place - Sam Millar

The Dark Knight returns

Advantages: Still to the high standards of the first film
Disadvantages: 152 minutes in length!

...Gordon off to a tee. Gordon as a character has a destiny and I hope that in the following films that this plays out to entirety. Oldman's performance in The Dark Knight is spot on. The saddest part of the cast is the late Heath Ledger; we all know that Ledger passed way earlier this year. His input into this film is staggering. His take on The Joker is what the cinema just hasn't seen for years and I think that it is this film that Ledger will be remembered for as he effectively grounds the character and totally rebuilds him into a totally different type of villain that we haven't seen before in this genre of film. His Joker has all the trademarks of the comic character in appearance such as the green hair and build, but what Ledger has done is to take his attitude towards life and increase it by 200% so that the character in the film has...

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