East Is East

Advantages: Performance. Story.
Disadvantages: None

...East Is East was released in 1999, and its a comedy movie. It is based on a play by Ayub Khan & directed by Damien 0'Donnell. The movie revolves around a Pakistani British Family. Cast: Om Puri (As George Khan) Linda Bassett (As Ella Khan) Jordan Routledge (As Sajid Khan) Raji James (As Abdul Khan) Chris Bisson (As Saleem Khan) Emil Marwah (As Maneer Khan) Jimi Mistry (As Tariq Khan) Ian Aspinall (As Nazir Khan) Archie Panjabi (Meenah Khan) Lesley Nicol (Aunt Annie) Plot : The movie is set in 1970's, George Khan who is settled in Salford near Manchester and is married to a British Woman Ella, they have seven children (Six Boys & One Girl), George & Ella runs a Fish & Chips shop near their house. Annie also helps Ella as she is her friend. George is very dominating & wants everyone to live the life as he wants them...

majeedkazi 19.05.2008 (22.05.2008) · Read review
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Go East!

Advantages: somewhere a bit different
Disadvantages: city boys & girls doing coke in the toilets

...Normally this section paragraph is where I write some witty (hopefully) mood setting babble, but this time, luckily for all of you review readers out there, there is no mood to set. So let's just get on with it, I am going to be reviewing Village East, it is where Snarf and I go when we can't be bothered to cook, or just want a quick drink, it is our closest drinking hole. Where is Village East? Village East is located on the fashionable Bermondsey Street, which is a very short walk from London Bridge Underground & Mainline station & about 5 mins from my front door. I have attached a map to help you all out. Why Should I go? There are plenty of reasons to be in this particular area of London, Village East is within a stones throw of many popular London attractions, such as Borough Market, The Cutty Sark, Tower Bridge, Tower...

tazzywazzy 24.04.2007 · Read review
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East Midlands Airport

Advantages: Easily accessed, not too busy
Disadvantages: Not a huge range of destinations

...East Midlands Airport is a regional airport located in Castle Donington in Derbyshire. There are flights available to many European destinations, as well as Egypt, USA (Florida) and the Caribbean with charter airlines. I have flown from this airport many times and it is my favourite airport mainly due to it's location, ease of access and relaxed atmosphere. It is easily accessed by car from the M1 (Junction 23 and 23A) or the A50 which is the road I use when travelling from Staffordshire. I live around 50 miles from the airport but the A50 is a relatively quiet road so it's a nice 40 minute drive and I can start my holiday. I find it's easiest to travel to by car but there are local rail links and the airport can be reached from Loughborough, Derby and Nottingham railway stations, depending on where in the country you are...

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EAST IS EAST

Advantages: Funny, good direction, excellent cast, good story
Disadvantages: Some may find some scenes disturbing

...Introduction ~~ East is East is another good recent British film. And like the majority of other good recent British films East is East was made by Filmfour. East is East is set in Salford, near Bradford in the 70's and it focuses around the antics of the Khan family. George Khan, the father was born in Pakistan and by marrying Ella who is English he moves to England. Then him and his English wife Ella have seven children in Salford. But that's where the problems start; his children. They simply want to be English and do what English people their age do and choose who they marry. And with a big difference in opinions between George and the children big problems arise? Story ~~ If you read the script for East is East you would think of it as quite a serious and dark film and with the scenes of domestic violence it is quite dark...

Disillusioned 03.09.2001 · Read review
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East Is East Is Excellent

Advantages: Funny, thought-provoking, well-acted and scripted
Disadvantages: Lots of swearing

...East Is East is one of my favourite films; one that I have seen countless times. As well as owning the DVD, I have watched it twice on TV and twice in school (once in Religious Studies and in Citizenship). It has been both criticised and commended in equal measure - some have described it as the best British film in years, others have said it's racist, anti-Islam and stereotypical. You'll hear my views on that later! THE STORYLINE Set in 1970's Salford, the Khan family make the Simpsons look perfectly well-adjusted. George Khan, a strict Pakistani Muslim who runs a chippy, rules over his household with an iron rod; feared by the rest of his family. He has seven children, and is married to the long-suffering Ella. Despite having an English mother and being of British nationality, he insists that his wayward children are...

JessL 25.01.2004 · Read review
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East Infection

Advantages: Good little Ep
Disadvantages: Well it's an EP, so only 6 tracks!

...East Infection is a 6 track EP by Gogol Bordello that was released in January 2005, some 6 years after the band's first release. They obviously polished their sound during that time because there is a much more cleaner sound to this little EP. This little EP is incredibly experimental though, the 1st track East Infection is chaotic, quick and catchy with short parts of what seem to be jazz guitar, Ave B. without doing anything particularly special is a pleasant gypsy acoustic styled song to listen to, not too heavy this one, Mala Vida is upbeat and sung in spanish, it has a very latin feel to it whilst Copycat is a weird track that uses reggae vocals on top of Chemical Brothers or Prodigy style electronica and features very humorous lyrics. Strange Uncles from Abroad has a System of a Down feel to it but with some awesome strings...

dangaroo 25.08.2008 · Read review
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Auditioning for East 15

Advantages: Probably the best school to offer an MA. Not at all pretentious.
Disadvantages: Rapidly improving reputation but doesn't have the prestige of some drama schools

...I had a different experience of auditioning for east 15 than lubbly jubbly. I admit I came to audition for East 15 with prejudice. I had first heard of East 15 back in the 80s when I studied Theatre and Performing Arts at a local college. East 15 was not particularly highly thought of at the time. I spent 15 years working in the real world before deciding to make a leap of faith and return to my first love, Acting. I auditioned for East 15 because of advice from my drama tutor who insisted East 15 was extremely up and coming and was now giving competition to schools such as Mountview, Rose Bruford, Central and LAMDA. He really rated it. In fact he knew people who chose to go to East 15 over these schools. I still attended with prejudice however. I was surprised to find I loved the place and thought the audition process was very...

adrianrelph 24.03.2008 (30.11.2009) · Read review
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angel fire East

Advantages: really good story
Disadvantages: none

...Angel Fire east is part of a three book series entitled the word and the void series. The three other books in the series including this one are. 1.Running With The Demon 2.The Knight of the word 3, Angel fire East Background The word and the void series follows two main characters John Ross A knight of the Word and Ness Freemark who has been passed magic since birth. The word and the void is represents the story's own version of God Against the devil. The word represents God and anyone from the void is like the creatures of the devil. It is up to both John Ross and Ness to Make sure that the void does not win the war of good against evil. John Ross has the ability to dream of the future so that he can put a stop to whatever the demons are planning. If he fails Armageddon will happen. Story Begins John Ross is walking...

jonathan21 07.05.2009 · Read review
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Port out starboard Home POSH- 'East of the Sun' by Julia Gregson

Advantages: Easy to read, good characters and a bit of history thrown in
Disadvantages: A little rose coloured look at India i suspect

...East of the Sun by Julia Gregson ISBN 978-1-4091-0251-9 WHAT ATTRACTED ME?: Once again I was the cover of this book, a beautiful peacock in the foreground and Indian border down the bottom. The colours are green and muted yellows and gold for the border. It looked reminiscent of a romantic image of colonial India. THE AUTHOR: The author Julia Gregson was a former Hardie Amies model and she moved to Austrlia where she took up journalism. This took her to New York, Los Angeles, India and Vietnam as a foreign correspondent for magazines. She was inspired to write this novel by her husband telling her about the Indian ?Fishing Fleet? of young women who came out on the liners to look for suitable husbands as there were so many available men compared to women in India in the 1920s. THE STORY: The heroine of the novel is Viva Holloway who...

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East of Eden

Advantages: Excellently written, totally absorbing
Disadvantages: Rather large!

...another Steinbeck so this one was put away on my shelves until I had pulled myself together a bit more. Steinbeck excels in gritty realism, sometimes shocking and disturbing but written in such a way that you find yourself absorbed in his books and are reluctant to leave the familiar characters he describes. ***The story*** East of Eden focuses on the stories of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, living in the Salinas Valley. Adam has a brother called Charles, with whom he has a very difficult relationship akin to that of Cain and Abel (the dominant theme of the book), both of them fighting for their father?s love. When Adam marries the frankly terrifying Cathy and they move to California the focus switches onto Adam?s twin boys Caleb and Aron (look at that?another C&A) who have a similarly fraught relationship, ultimately...

historywitch 10.06.2007 · Read review
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