First Light by Geoffrey Wellum - A Compelling & Evocative Read

Advantages: A moving, compelling and evocative personal account of a true hero.
Disadvantages: None

...INTRODUCTION We owe an immense debt of gratitude to the service men and women who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedoms, none more so than to the brave ?Few*? of the Royal Air Force (RAF) who defended our skies against the sustained waves of bombers that the Luftwaffe hurled at English cities during the Battle of Britain in the autumn of 1940. (*the phrase comes from a Winston Churchill's speech made on 20th August 1940, when he said "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few ".) Geoffrey Wellum was one of those men, patrolling the blue skies in his Spitfire with his fellow pilots of 92 Squadron at the tender age of 19, an age where for many of us, the most important decision revolved around which pub to go to with our mates on a Friday night. He left school, at 17, to join the RAF two...

Hishyeness 06.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of First Light - Geoffrey Wellum

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Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Rushed Out

Advantages: It's a brief 80-minutes, Chan is great
Disadvantages: Tucker is more annoying than ever, thin tired plot

...The Rush Hour films are not exactly high art, they're standard buddy cop movies that follow the usual format of two characters coming together and despite their differences, beating the bad guys and saving the day. The first film served its purpose and its main achievement for me was bringing the talents of Jackie Chan to a wider audience. It certainly made me check out his eastern films such as The Police Story series, films that show his madcap fight choreography and death defying stunts. The second film was pretty much like the first, entertaining but easily forgettable; needless to say it was a bigger hit than the first. Now this third instalment is a classic example of when a studio needs to put out another instalment of a cash cow just to bring in some of those big summer bucks. The plot follows the usual path...

utero 09.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Rush Hour 3 (DVD)

Always in a rush

Advantages: Great book for children
Disadvantages: small writing

...Mr Rush is number 30 in the Mr Men collection. He is a purple triangular shaped man and he wears a little yellow hat. The cover of the book is white and it has a picture of Mr Rush at the bottom and above this is the title in black lettering. The back cover is also white and has smaller pictures showing the other characters available in the collection. THE STORY The story starts by telling us that Mr Rush is the fastest thing on two legs. He is always in a rush and most of the time he is in that much of a rush he never finishes things properly. One morning Mr Rush woke up with a jump, he only managed to have 3 hours sleep as he was rushing around the night before and now he was late. He got up and rushed into the bathroom but he was rushing so much he only managed to clean one tooth and then he rushed down the stairs 3...

sewbizzie 01.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Mr Rush - Roger Hargreaves

What a Rush

Advantages: Good coverage, lasts
Disadvantages: Costly

...I'm not much of a make up wearer, usually because I lack the time rather than the desire, however I am a glasses wearer and sometimes feel lost behind my lenses, so no matter how little time a day may present I always make sure that I put on a little eye shadow and mascara in the hopes that people will see my eyes and not just my glasses when I speak to them. Until recently I was quite stingy with my money and loved buying cheap eye shadow compacts but I started to find that the colours I was using were making my eyes sore where I would keep rubbing at them and decided to invest in a more expensive brand. Rimmel Colour Rush Eye Shadow- Rimmel Colour Rush eye shadow comes in several forms, a mono (single) block of colour, duo, triple and quad. Each comes in a small compact with a clear flip lid, there are 13 colour tones available...

piggypine 13.02.2008 · Read review
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Adventure platforming on the DS - Sonic Rush

Advantages: Lots of game play, easy to get into
Disadvantages: Can be a bit frustrating

...Sonic Rush Adventure is a primarily 2D platform game, with some 3D elements, for the Nintendo DS. The game is the follow-up to the Sonic Rush game, but with enhanced presentation, graphics and in my view much improved game play. The 2D graphics are very playable, although there are 3D cut away scenes and sub-games to play in places, and more than in the previous game, Sonic Rush. I found the controls easy to access, with the action being fast-paced but not too fast as to be too challenging. Some parts of the game require you to use the stylus to navigate between different areas of the game, but this is perfectly easy to control. As for the game, it is very easy in places, but can be challenging as you would expected as the game progresses. It's also one of those games where you can easily miss things throughout, so those who really...

julwhite 25.06.2009 · Read review
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The fairytale of August Rush DVD

Advantages: sweet fantasy and fairytale
Disadvantages: one dimensional characters

.... Lyla asks her father where he is now and he admits he does not know. With Evan, Wizard encourages Evan to busk using his talent and maybe as a callout to his parents. Evan takes a lot of money for his talent. wizard thinks Evan can go far with his talent and renames him to 'August Rush' after seeing it on the side of a van. After her father's revelation, Lyla is distraught and ends up in New York, sensing that her son is there. She goes to the government child agency looking for help and meets Mr Jeffries, who was Evan's welfare officer. Mr Jeffries is looking for Evan and places missing child posters but Wizard finds it and tears it down. Mr Jeffries meets Wizard looking for a number of children including Evan, but Wizard refuses to say where he is so Mr Jeffries puts a call into the police. Wizard tries to get August a gig...

jupiter28 14.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of August Rush (DVD)

Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
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Rush Hour

Advantages: Great Film, great laugh!
Disadvantages: Hmmmm...none as yet..

..."The fastest hands in the East meet the biggest mouth in the West" A couple of friends and I went out last weekend to see Rush Hour 2, having seen Rush Hour in the cinemas and thoroughly enjoyed it, we decided to see Rush Hour 2 which was a great film too. Anyway, I decided to revisit the first film in its DVD form. Ahhh I bet you thought I was going to about Rush Hour 2 in the wrong category eh? This is my first review and I decided to look around the site reviewing others before I wrote my first review, and I saw that reviews in the wrong catergory are not favoured by the powers that be the ciao community. Anyway back to the DVD. I am a big fan of Jackie Chan movies, I think his stunt work is incredible and his acrobatic abilities are great though his acting is questionable. Chris Tucker is also a great charcter and the high...

wildberry 20.08.2001 · Read review
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Review of Rush Hour (DVD)

A Definitive Rush

Advantages: World-class percussion and bass, thought-provoking lyrics
Disadvantages: None

..."Have a listen to this. If you don't like it, there won't be much point in listening to any of their other stuff." These were the words that formally introduced me to the veteran Canadian trio of Rush (thanks Si). Now like many students before, I had heard "The Spirit of Radio", and like most, had marvelled at the twiddly bits. What I was totally unprepared for, was that the band's most famous song is not within a country mile of being their best. What I also learnt over the course of absorbing the group's considerable catalogue, and some will no doubt hotly debate this, is that the proponent of said twiddly bits is the threesome's weakest link. True, a weakest link that most modern rock bands would give their collected right arms to have, but nonetheless recipient of Anne Robinson's dispassionate farewell. How can I even...

TallTone 06.09.2001 · Read review
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