Doors Closing

Advantages: Compelling enough crime story
Disadvantages: Not a patch on the Rebus stories

...Doors Open - Ian Rankin Before I talk about the book ?Doors Open? written by Ian Rankin let me tell you a little story of my own. Many years ago I was the chief cashier in a branch of a high street bank. It was a small branch with a low foot flow of customers. However, it was in the very wealthy Belgravia area of London so what customers we did have were of the well heeled variety, premiership footballers and senior politicians were regulars. Even if they weren?t famous many of our customers were titled and came from famous families. These customers requested a lot of cash over the counter so we would hold rather more in our safe than similar sized branches elsewhere. Most weeks this would be around two to three hundred thousand pounds, at busy times it could reach perhaps three quarters of a million pounds. The money was held...

brereton66 16.10.2009 (13.11.2009) · Read review
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Mirror, mirror on the wall

Advantages: Not absolutely awful.
Disadvantages: Clichéd storyline

... Synopsis The film begins with a security guard running through an empty underground. He comes across a mirror and starts apologising to his reflection, but then suddenly it seems like he's not talking to himself, he's talking to the mirror. He tries to clean the mirror but accidentally breaks it, then everything changes, his reflection is no longer following him, but picking up the shard of glass. As the reflection pulls the shard across its throat, a gaping wound begins to appear on the security guard's throat. Jump along an unspecified amount of time, and we meet Ben Carson, an ex police officer, who's just about to start his new job as a security guard/night watchman at a burnt out department store, which is awaiting insurance claims before work can start on refurbishment. Ben is estranged from his wife, Amy...

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Review of Mirrors (DVD)

Mirror, Mirror, ZZZZZZzzzzz

Advantages: Cough!
Disadvantages: It exists

...During the American writers strike that affected every popular US television show, 24 star Kiefer Sutherland found that he had time to take up a movie role between series. Keen to return to the horror genre after the movies Flatliners, and The Lost Boys bought him worldwide fame the actor received the script for Alexandre Aja's (The Hills Have Eyes, Haute Tension) mirrors and quickly snapped up the opportunity. Mirrors sadly for Sutherland is not going to follow in the success of his previous dalliances into horror. Five years ago the Mayflower department store in the centre of New York suffered a terrible fire, but several years on the owners and the insurance company have still not settled over various issues in the insurance policy. Ben Carson (Sutherland) recently suspended from the police force (after accidentally shooting...

sghawken 21.09.2008 · Read review
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Sliding Doors

Advantages: Easy To Watch
Disadvantages: Nothing Fantastic

...Sliding Doors is a film which brings to the screens the question ?what if?? it was released in 1998 and is still managing to bring in plenty of viewers due to its unique story and layout which has been copied, but not as successfully, since. What?s it all about? The movie is a romance story about Helen, the film follows her in her struggles through her life, work and especially her love life. The starting and main point of the film is at the beginning, she is catching a train which turns out to be a major pinpoint of her life. The film is then split into two stories, one in which follows on from her catching the train, and one of which follows on from her missing the train. This small event in Helen?s life changes everything and the consequences of either one is flashed back to throughout the film, and she experiences...

amyloop 12.10.2009 · Read review
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mirror, mirror

Advantages: great fun
Disadvantages: ?

...Hi! I am mother of two (boy 6 and girl 1) and I and as well my kids love vetch toys. They are in wonderful bright colours and full of great melodies. As I mention before last year we bought for my daughter big bundle of toys from ebay- that save us a lot of trouble to find a perfect toy and the most important save us a lot of money! And there it was laying somewhere on the bottom of the parcel a "v tech Light-up Learning Mirror ". At first my daughter wasn't interested in it, she had a lot of toys to play but as weeks past she started to look in the mirror- looking at her self- the toy become part of her daily routine. She's now 19 month and still plays with it- or rather looking at her self. This toy is has got a perfect shape and light as a fewer, it can be easy held by babies little hand. Your baby can play with it everywhere- in...

redeyes22 02.01.2009 · Read review
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Mirror Mirror on the wall...

Advantages: smells nice, firms skin
Disadvantages: results only last a few hours

...A couple of months ago, I had one of those crazy moments. I looked in the mirror and could see lines on my neck, so convinced myself that I urgently needed neck cream! Now you would think that neck cream is a pretty standard thing, but I looked online in all the obvious sort of places, yet found the choices were surprisingly limited, and from those that were available, I couldn't really find one that appealed. I knew Lush made a neck cream, but that it came in a small size and was pricey, but surprise surprise, I bought it anyway. I'm sure I have some weird implant in my brain somewhere forcing me to buy one of everything that Lush make! Mirror Mirror is described by Lush as 'a firming face, neck and breast cream.' Now personally, given that it comes in a tiny 45g bottle, I have no intentions of trying it on my face as I have plenty...

pink_champagne 14.01.2009 · Read review
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Mirrors Edge

Advantages: Nice effort at a new concept
Disadvantages: Riddled with bugs and flaws

...Mirrors Edge is a fine game, Don't let me say it's not. But Mirrors Edge is a perfect example of a good game overcome with flaws. The idea and plot are original and very compelling, the kind of plot that would make a good movie and gameplay that challenges the tide of mainstream mediocrity that is poured forth from Game manufacturers these days. The first Person aspect Of the game is a welcome break; such games that allowed such ranges of movement include Assassins Creed, notably a third person experience. Mirrors edge made the brave attempt to put their game into first person to make the experience more personal, to put the player in the characters shoes. However this bravery is not without its problems, occasionally you will be faced with a nice, free flowing movement area only to jump to a ledge and have to search for your next...

m4tt_king 12.02.2009 · Read review
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Mirror Mirror on the wall

Advantages: Im thinking and will get back to you
Disadvantages: Boring, dull.Photograph and print quality poor and a waste of 32p

...Ive been pretty bored this week, doing top secret government work...(maybe). So Ive spent alot of time by myself waiting for action. Yesterday was so boring that I decided to buy a paper, but the newsagent only had copies of " The Sport" or "The Mirror" by the time I got my fat ase out of bed this morning. I couldnot really be seen with"The Daily Porn" paper so The Mirror it was. First of all, I found the ink rubbed on to hands worse than other papers. A small point but in ths day and age I think printing ink and paper should be of a higher quality. The front headline was about Dannys from Popstars, girlfriend who had a bust up for two years with her mum over Danny....Who cares????. Tomorrow a three page colour supplement with more blured family photos... Yippey!!!.Im waiting to her what Marlenes budgie Joey was to say...

bazza1603 20.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Mirror

Living Life On The Mirror's Edge!

Advantages: Original Gameplay, Clean And Crisp Visuals And Plenty Of Fun.
Disadvantages: Weak Story, Steep Learning Curve And High Difficulty Level.

...=Mirror's Edge Xbox 360= Are you brave enough to take a leap of Faith into the unknown? *Introduction* Mirror's Edge is an original and unique new title, heavy influenced by both 'Parkour' and 'Free Running'. Parkour (a French word, literally translated means-the art of 'Movement') is a type of urban sport which founding principles are for a human to get from A to B, in the shortest time possible-with no tools. The runners movements are also a huge issue, and 'flowing' is considered a fundamental part of the discipline. It is far better to get from A to B in smooth and rhythmic like motions, then it is to stop, start and not be at all fluent. Parkour is almost always done in a 'urban environment', usually one with small buildings, drain-pipes, steps and several different sized furnishings. Almost anywhere from...

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Mirrors - beware of what you see

Advantages: Original and different than releases in the last few years
Disadvantages: appointing ending

...***Why I watched Mirrors*** Honestly, I had just taken a new free trial with LoveFilm and as a horror fan I loaded the first 10 horror films I had not seen to my list and this was the first to arrive. Other than the brief description online I did not know anything else about this film. ***Cast*** Kiefer Sutherland as Ben Carson (24, The Lost Boys) Amy Smart as Angela Carson (The Butterfly Effect, Scrubs) Paula Patton as Amy Carson (DeJa Vu) Cameron Boyce as Michael Carson (Eagle Eye) Jason Flemyng as Det. Larry Byrne (Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Mean Machine) ***Plot*** The film starts of with a man being chased by something unknown to us but that has completely terrified the man. He seeks refuge in a room at the subway and we witness his unexplainable death (I do not want to give the story away). The film skips forward...

clumsy221 01.11.2009 · Read review
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