Heath Ledger: The Life & The Death. :(

Advantages: The quotes made me cry at the end
Disadvantages: Everything really, badly written, badly structured, badly edited

...As today is the anniversary of his death, I thought I'd post this on this site tonight. Heath Ledger was one of the most talented actors in Hollywood before his untimely death. The Life of Heath Ledger Born Heath Andrew Ledger in 1979 in Perth Australia, it wasn't long before Heath picked up the acting bug. He had many different stints in TV shows including Home & Away but it wasn't until his first Hollywood film '10 Things I Hate About You' which was a film based loosely on Shakespeare's play 'Taming Of The Shrew' that Ledger was known. After 10 Things, he went on to make a total of 15 films, all of which were loved by people around the globe. He has stared across some of the best names in Hollywood, from Mel Gibson, Kate Hudson, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Caine . Despite being well known from films like A Knights Tale...

DixieChick10 22.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Heath Ledger: His Beautiful Life and Mysterious Death - John McShane

Heath's Ledger-ndary Role

Advantages: Daunting view of life as a drug addict
Disadvantages: This movie will never get a wide enough audience to get the desired effect

...This moving Australian drama tells the story of the relationship between two young lovers played by Abbie Cornish (Candy) and Heath Ledger (Dan) whose life takes a turn when their fleeting passions for various drugs turn to habit. Over the years having seen a great number of similar tales I have to say this movie stands head and shoulders above the rest; and if I were the Minister in charge of education I?d be entering this movie into the national curriculum. The story focuses in the positive and negative uses of drugs, the initial period of drug taking finds Candy and Dan smoking joints, but as they find the effects having a lesser effect on them they progress to Heroin and onto more experimental types. While at first things go well there is a lot of focus is shown to the fact that you need to fund your habit. And the story shows...

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Review of Candy (DVD)

FREE DVDs

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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Review of dvds365.com

The Crossley Heath Grammar School

Advantages: Wonderful sense of community, brilliant teaching
Disadvantages: Segregation and bullying

...The Crossley Heath Grammar School, known to most as "Crossleys", is a victorian edifice, situated at the top of Saville Park, The Moor to locals, in elegant grounds. The facilities have changed little since their victorian days, but recent expansions include a new Technology wing, a language wing, a new porta-cabin for the sixth form and current plans include a sports' hall with facilities for teaching, thus creating more teaching space within the school building. Do excuse the slight cynicism when it comes to Crossleys, I'm currently in my seventh year there, familiarity breeds contempt. This does not mean that I dislike the place, I love it to bits, enough to wear my school jumper out and about when it gets cold. Crossleys is a selective school, so admission is by 11+ exam only, unless you move into the area at a later date, in...

Galadriel1010 10.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Crossley Heath School, Halifax, West Yorkshire

Allen and Heath GL3300 - Great piece of kit.

Advantages: Can give great mixing recording.
Disadvantages: A lot can go wrong - you need to always watch what is going on.

...Allen and Heath GL3300 One of my all-consuming passions is the fascination with good quality audio sound and I have spent a lot of money on home Hi-fi in trying to perfect this. When I was approached by a member of the Church audio team (September 2003) to assist in the setting up of the audio system in the new Church I was over the moon, and could not wait to get my hands on the equipment. This training night for the new equipment was in the Church 4 days before the opening ceremony. 4 of us arrived for the training night and it soon became obvious that there was only myself and another man who was ok with the technology and were confident in the technical terms being used by the installer, the other two men slowly made their was out of the Church. I think it was the site of the Allen and Heath GL3300 Mixer desk, which put them...

mark1961 20.12.2004 · Read review
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Review of Allen&Heath GL3300

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...

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Review of Panasonic DVD-S54

Allen & Heath Xone 62 Mixer

Advantages: Sound quality, build
Disadvantages: None

...This in an overview of my experiences with the Xone:62. It is not an in-depth look at the units specifications because this is readily available from the Allen & Heath website. This review is a comparison between the Xone:62 and other sub-£800 mixers. Background I have never owned a Xone:62, but have had extensive use of one through four years of djing at club nights. I currently own the Xone:32 which is its little brother if you like - instead of having six channels it only has three. Apart from this characteristic, they are pretty much identical. I am currently saving for a Xone:62 because of the fact that it has three extra channels. Pro's Firstly, and probably most importantly, the sound that this unit produces is without doubt better than any of the Pioneer series (DJM 600 & 500), and the Ecler series (Nuo 4 & 5...

benaldo3333 03.03.2008 (11.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of Allen & Heath Xone 62 Mixer

Heath a Hero

Advantages: Heath, Horses, Boy meets girl, comedy etc
Disadvantages: erm......

...I'll have to admit before writing this that I have quite a large soft spot for Mr Heath Ledger who happens to play the main character in this film so in my opinion that already makes the film a hit for me!! This film has a good story line involving several different aspects to attract different audiences. Theres a 'boy meets girl' type story line, a 'good vs evil' story line, along with an action storyline and suspense 'will he wont he be caught'? Also the involvement of horses in the plot obviously is an attraction for me, although a horse falls over in one scene and even after seeing the film several times i still flinch! Heath Ledger plays william and Lord Alrich Von Lichtenstien, one and the same character which can only be fully understood when watching the film. William decieves the world into believeing he is a knight, but...

horseshoe86 10.07.2003 · Read review
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Review of A Knight's Tale (DVD)

From Breathless Beauty... To Pretty Park

Advantages: Nice short walks, picnic tables, swimming area.
Disadvantages: Rubbish dumped in river and lack of bins.

...Now a non-smoker going on 14 months, I decided, seeing as I can actually walk a goodly distance without dropping to the ground and gasping for air (seriously), that I needed to become more active. Luckily for me my husband absolutely loves the outdoors, and was more than happy to join me in my endeavours? which ended up taking us back to Knettishall for what we hoped would be a nice leisurely stroll on the heath. We had good memories of Knettishall. When the boys were younger, we used to pack them in the car on hot summer days and take them down to the ?watering hole?, as we used to call it. The ?watering hole? was exactly that ? a sandy-bottomed swimming pond naturally created by the Little Ouse River. The boys used to love jumping off the short ledge and into the water, which, in turn, drove our poor dogs crazy with worry as...

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Review of Knettishall Heath Country Park, Suffolk

Down but not out

Advantages: Good restaurant, pleasant staff
Disadvantages: Some uncomfortable beds, tired decor, no air conditioni

...Down Hall Country House Hotel is situated in Hatfield Heath in Hertfordshire. I have stayed here on three occasions, most recently last weekend to celebrate my wedding anniversary. The time before that was three years ago when I spent my final night in the UK here before moving to Bermuda for two years. Reservation and prices I did not see any discount rates available through the intermediaries I sometimes use, like laterooms.com, so I booked directly with the hotel via their website about six weeks in advance. Or at least I thought I did. A couple of days before our anniversary, I could not find a confirmation of booking and realised that I did not remember seeing one ever. I called the hotel and they had no trace of me, they told me they had room but the dinner, bed and breakfast rate for two was now £215 whereas I had...

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Review of Down Hall Country House Hotel Heath, Hatfield Heath