Boys Don't Cry Film Review

Advantages: Characters
Disadvantages: Depressing

...Hilary Swank plays Teena Brandon, a 21-year-old from Lincoln, Nebraska, who lives under the alias Brandon Teena, believing that she is a man trapped in a woman's body. In a bid to feel accepted by her group of friends, she cuts her hair short, flattens her chest with tension bandages and puts socks down the front of her pants to look more masculine. She hopes one day to fall and love with a woman, declare her secret, and be understood. Boys Don't Cry is a bleak and emotional tale concerned with the subject of sexual identity. Brandon is a character that feels the need to dress like a man to match the inner self. To "him", he is not living a lie, despite having to disguise his physical appearance with various attire; it's society, on the whole, that has the problem accepting he is different from the norm. The gender distinctions are...

andycarrington 11.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Boys Don't Cry (DVD)

Please don't bother looking in the basement!

Advantages: DVD makes a great coaster.
Disadvantages: An hour and a half of my life that I wont get back

... The big red button phenomenon Throughout your life, I am sure that you have had a moment when you know you should not do something, but you really want to. Like in the film's, when there is a big red button with 'don't push' written beside it. Try as you might, you cannot resist the urge to press it. Well, in my life this phenomenon has led me to grow my collection of films to include several movies from the 'video nasty' genre. Generally these films are terrible, and there should be no reason for you to want to watch them. However, there is something niggling me, right at the back of my otherwise empty head. Why was it banned? What is the reason why this film was initially not put up for public release? Occasionally a real cracker comes up, like the scarily gory 'Cannibal Holocaust', or possibly the most disturbing film in...

giksy21 20.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Don't Look In The Basement (DVD)

Don't Sweat It

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: Repetitive

...?Don?t Sweat The Technique? came out in 1992, and was named after one of the big singles from the album. It came as the final album from the legendary New York Hip Hop duo Eric B. & Rakim parted ways, and so in a final effort would push out one last killer release to keep fans happy before pursuing solo careers. 1. What?s On Your Mind?? To open the album, you have Rakim doing something which he tried out for the first time on the album prior to this as h adapts his rhymes to very different themes as this one is dedicated to a grl who he spots whilst on the subway, and he lets his rhythmic storytelling ability take over from this point onwards. The Isley Brother-esque feel to the grooves behind it give it a oftness which is rarely seen in their material. **Four Stars** 2. ?Teach The Children? As you can probably guess from the title...

XICripZ 08.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Don't Sweat The Technique - Eric B. & Rakim

Just don't open.

Advantages: Purdom never directed again
Disadvantages: Terrible film

...watched and waited. I mean I watched Scream yesterday as well and it really highlighted how weak this film was. Scream is a great example of a slasher film that is also a mystery film, Don't Open 'til Christmas is at the other end of the spectrum. The identity of the killer was actually really obvious I mean who else could it had have been. Let me think who's the killer? Is it maybe the mysterious guy who seems to have no other point in the film? The story was horrendous and full of little annoying bits. Every time a Santa Claus was killed they would usually be chased for about 10 minutes first and this just felt really drawn out and pointless. It wasn't scary, it wasn't adding to the plot. You knew they were going to die, they were usually characters we hadn't yet met and we just knew they were going to die there was no need for the crappy...

Phelthew 25.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Don't Open 'Til Christmas (DVD)

Boys don't cry, & girls fall asleep while watching

Advantages: Based on a real story, excellent performance [Hillary Swank]
Disadvantages: Extremely dull and not engaging

...Boys Don't Cry (1999) [film only] I heard so many things about the beauty of this touching film that I was really tempted to watch it, and I did that only recently. It represents the real story of a man who lives in a body of a woman called Teena Brandon. Because Brandon would have wanted people to refer to "her" as a male, I'll do so in this review. Since he gets into so much trouble with the police in his city, he travels to Falls City, Nebraska to start a new life, and he goes by the name Brandon Teena. There, he meets a young woman and they fall in love before she knows anything about his female body, which he hides with bandages or enlarges with a sock in the trousers. Unfortunately, because his lover used to be in love with an ex-convict, Brandon gets into trouble. His true identity is revealed brutally, he gets raped...

sottovoce82 10.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Boys Don't Cry (DVD)

Don't say a word, (Ill never tell)

Advantages: Exciting and full of intrigue.
Disadvantages: None.

...I thought Don't Say a Word was an outstanding psychological thriller, it was exciting and mind bending, it really keeps you thinking about what on earth is happening from beginning to end. The basics of this film are as follows: The film is all about the robbery of a $10 million gem where two men ou of the gang take the stone leaving the person in charge of the robbery, Patrick, very angry. The film is actually set 10 years later but include flashbacks to the time around this robbery. Next we move on to meet Dr Nathan R Conrad who is a child psychiatrist, he is asked to meet with a teenage patient, Elizabeth. She is a very disturbed person who has very child like qualities. Patrick, having recently been released from prison, and his gang break into an apartment that they use as a base to keep an eye on Dr Conrads wife, Aggie. (she...

Lele76 16.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Don't Say A Word (DVD)

Pretend you don't See Her!

Advantages: Suspense, good story, good characters
Disadvantages: None

...Mary Higgins Clark has been described at the Queen of suspense and with this book she does not fail to deliver. Pretend You Don't See Her is a murder mystery book, full of suspense that was published in 1997. Mark Higgins Clark is a US author, born in 1924. According to a biography I read about her, as of 2007 she has written twenty-four suspense novels which have sold over 80 million copies in the United States. Pretend you don't See Her features Lacey Farrell in the main role. She is in real-estate but on one unfortunate day whilst showing a luxurious skyline co-op, she witnesses a murder and actually spies the attacker. She manages to hear the dying words of the victim (Isabelle Waring) who gives her a copy of her dead daughter's journal which she believes hold clues about the killer. So, in the book we have two murders...

Spottydog11 30.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Pretend You Don't See Her - Mary Higgins Clark

Ssssh! Duck Don't Wake the Baby.

Advantages: Easy to read aloud with illustrations to highlight the story.
Disadvantages: Pop up could easily get ripped.

...getting impatient and wants to go out but the Goat insists on washing the dishes and asks Duck to pick up the toys. Goat finally asks Duck to put the dishes away - this is a big mistake as you can probably guess what happened. This catastrophe is portrayed by a huge pop up page . Finally the Goat takes Baby for a ride in the car while Duck cleans up the mess. I think the expression ?Ssssh, don?t wake the baby? must be very familiar to any family with small children. I know that my grandchildren have heard the phrase time and time again especially when one of them is asleep and therefore the story has some appeal to early readers. The text is bold with a few words on each page and is illustrated with clear diagrams to help young children follow the text. There is a good use of different font sizes to stress certain events using words like...

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Review of Ssssh! Duck Don't Wake the Baby - Jez Alborough

Don't Let Those MFers Sleep

Advantages: Bangers throughout
Disadvantages: A couple of mildly-effective elements

...?Tough Guys Don?t Dance? came as the third album from the Welsh Drum & Bass producer High Contrast. The 2007 one came as a breakthrough record for him as he finally had the ability to take his sound beyond the typical fan base and explore it further with his soulful style. 1. ?If We Ever? You have him kicking off the album in the best way possible with what was the biggest single from the album. It has him showing the power of his beats with one which has the whole thing centred around one of the most empowering breaks you find in the D&B world,. It was a club banger of its time, and sets things up nicely for the future. **Five Stars** 2. ?Everything?s Different? As it moves on a little, you see that You find that the local Jazz singer Ian Shaw joins him by assisting on the vocals to give the music that little extra something has...

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Review of Tough Guys Don't Dance - High Contrast

Big Girls Don't Cry, They Get On With Things!

Advantages: Great story, great writing, lots to learn
Disadvantages: Not as widely known as it should be

...Big Girls Don?t Cry is a novel by American author Connie Briscoe, first published in 1996. It was one of her earlier novels, the second I believe, and she has written several since. She is not an author we hear much about on this side of the Atlantic, and despite having discovered Big Girls Don?t Cry in the late 1990s, I?ve never sought out any of her other novels. Big Girls Don?t Cry is the story of Naomi Jefferson, a black American born in the 1950s, to a middle class family. The novel opens in 1963, when Naomi begins to discover the ugliness of racism, and takes us through to the present day (1990s). In the sixties she discovers boys, friendship and racism, and suffers tragedy; in the seventies she goes to college and becomes disillusioned with life and politics; and in the eighties she decides a career is what she needs, but its...

eilidhcatriona 24.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Big Girls Don't Cry - Connie Briscoe