The Hills

Advantages: Funny, tacky
Disadvantages: None

...The Hills is my guilty little pleasure. There's backstabbing, friendships, boyfriends, clubbing, making up, breaking up, in fact this programme has everything! The Hills is actually a spin-off television series from the very popular show, Laguna Beach. This show followed a bunch of high school students through their life in Laguna Beach, California, a very affluent, beautiful area right on the coast of Southern California. One of the main characters was Lauren Conrad, often referred to as LC. She, in my opinion is quite a pretty, nice mannered girl, if somewhat spoilt. She has the clothes, looks, long blond hair and drives a very nice convertible car. I do like her and I think she is quite entertaining. She often seems to have a rough ride where some of her friends are concerned but that is life, and more importantly that is life...

Spottydog11 15.08.2008 · Read review
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* Not-In Hill *

Advantages: Plot , Characters , Script!
Disadvantages: None!

...Despite it?s huge success , the film Notting Hill had never appealed to me . I don?t know if was because of the fact that I was only about ten or eleven when the film came out , and so because of the ?cover? of the DVD , as a child , I instantly thought ?that looks boring? , and so I had always had that opinion of the film , despite the saying ? Never Judge A Book (or in this case , a film) by it?s cover). However , many years later , I am sat in a media studies lesson in college, when the teacher tells the class that we are going to be watching clips from movies and then analysing the setting , speech , lighting , etc. The first film to come on was Notting Hill. Most people had seen it and some were saying ?oh this next bit is funny? whilst we were watching the clip. Whereas I hadn?t seen it. I found the clip that we watch to be...

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Heading for The Hills

Advantages: Real life, entertaining, inspirational, addictive, good bonus features.
Disadvantages: None

...So what exactly is The Hills? The Hills isn't a film or TV drama but it is a reality programme produced by MTV. It follows the lives of four girls living in Los Angeles. The show isn't scripted and everything that happens within the show is actually the girls' real life. Fans of Laguna Beach will already be familiar with Lauren Conrad. After appearing in MTV's reality programme Laguna Beach, Lauren, (or LC as she was formally known by her friends) has moved to Los Angeles for a new life in the city. The Hills is a spin off to Laguna Beach, and also follows three other girls, Heidi, Audrina and Whitney. The show began filming in August 2006 over a nine month period and shown on MTV before being released onto DVD. Even though it is now two years old, for some reason it has only just been released onto DVD in the UK. Cast...

lozzy_lou178 29.06.2008 · Read review
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March on up to the top of the hill....

Advantages: Amazing views of Prague once you reach the top!
Disadvantages: The staircase made me feel dizzy.

... Petrin Hill Petrin is a hill in the centre of Prague, and it takes some climbing to get to the top! It rises 130m above the left bank of the Vltava River and it's covered in parks, making a great site for a lovely walk, and it's a favoured recreational area for the people of Prague. You can see the hill from Charles Bridge and on the top of Petrin Hill in Prague you may notice an Effiel Tower like tower at the very top. This is the Petrin Hill Observation Tower. It's a 60 metre tower which is much smaller than the Eiffel Tower, however as it's on the top of Petrin Hill it does have almost the same altitude as it's French lookalike. It was built in 1891 and was used as not only an observation tower, but also as a transmission tower. Today though this tower is a good tourist attraction as it offers spectacular views of Prague...

GemmaC25 17.10.2009 · Read review
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The Hills Have A Remake

Advantages: dark and creep
Disadvantages: too dull to be very scary

...CONTAINS SPOILERS! I've not seen the original so I won't be comparing this to that. Apart from the minor scare and the guy killing the 2 scientists at the start this is really boring for a very VERY long time. The travellers dog gets killed (we see nothing apart from it's body) and then not much happens. We're almost 40 mins into the film where their truck is sabotaged by the hill people (they use a stinger on it) and then lots of not much happens. The dad of the family walks back to the truck stop and the son-in-law finds a vehicle graveyard in a crater (and really should have sussed what was happening by then, it's totally obvious). The truck stop owner kills himself and the dad of the family is caught by the hill people and things actually finally start to happen. The son-in-law returns to the camper and the families second dog...

atytyut2434 20.08.2008 (16.08.2008) · Read review
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Love in Notting Hill

Advantages: great film, fun actors, great location
Disadvantages: None

...Have you ever sat at work daydreaming that one day Brad Pitt (feel free to delete/add name as appropriate) would walk in , see you an instantly fall in love and that you would marry and live happily ever after? Well that's exactly what happened to Hugh Grant or should I say, William Thacker in this movie Notting Hill. William is a book store owner in a cute little part of Notting Hill. Not many people visit his store so when Julie Roberts wanders in one day he thinks all his Christmases have come at once. Julie plays the part of Anna Scott, a multi award winning actress and Superstar (much like Julie Roberts herself). At first she does not see the cute side of William. At one of their first meetings he pours orange juice all over the front of her top. The she meets his room mate, Spike, played by the brilliant Welsh actor Rhys Ifans...

Spottydog11 23.05.2008 · Read review
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Haunted House on a Hill

Advantages: Brilliant for its time and today
Disadvantages: Rather short, Only 71 minutes

...House on Haunted Hill was made in 1959 by William Castle a prolific director of horror films including the original Rosemary's Daughter and 13 Ghosts. It is definitely one of the best horror films of all time. The film starts and are introduced to Watson Pritchard the owner of the house. He ominously informs us of the houses history. How his brother and sister--in-law have been murdered there along with 5 other people. Then we meet Mr. Loren (played by Vincent Price) he is a millionaire who has decided to throw a party in the house for his wife. He invites five complete strangers to come along all of whom are in need of money and he has promised them $10,000 each if they stay the whole night. In this group we have a test pilot, a psychiatrist, a journalist, a employee of Loren's called Nora and Pritchard the owner. They've all never...

Phelthew 11.08.2008 · Read review
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Beverly Hill Ninja

Advantages: Great humour and comical fights
Disadvantages: none (unless you're a Ninja.. then this may offend you)

...fact he is turning out to be a much bigger problem than first thought.. Haru is far from the perfect Ninja that the legend stated but his heart is in the right place and he's constantly trying to be the best he can be? The troubles really begin when Haru is left to guard the temple whilst the 'real' Ninjas go on a mission, when a mystery blond woman, Sally Jones, (played by Nicollette Sheridan) turns up looking for help. When Haru begins to help Sally it is not long before things get really confusing for Haru and the other Ninjas?forcing Haru to head to Beverly Hill in the hope of helping Sally and clearing the bad name he has given the Ninjas? With the temples Sensei, (played by Soon-Tek Oh) fearing for Herus safety he decides to send Gobia, (played by Robin Shou), his top Ninja, to discretely watch over him? which is a lot...

blissman70 04.09.2008 · Read review
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Hits from the Hill

Advantages: The beats are brilliant, the vocals absolutely excellent.
Disadvantages: The music lacks lyrical depth.

...'Black Sunday' is the super second album from the American hip-hop group that is Cypress Hill. The album was released in 1993 and consists of a grand total of fourteen tracks; it's a great little album from Cypress Hill and one which comes complete with a high number of top tracks. I'm not exactly a massive fan of hip-hop, I do however have a great appreciation for the genre at times and when I'm in the mood for the music there are a couple of albums that I almost always reach for; 'Black Sunday' is one of those albums. Beginning with 'I Wanna Get High' the music immediately makes its impact, the beat is absolutely infectious and the vocals always are excellent to listen to here. The chorus is brilliant, the track just works and in every area is just absolutely fantastic to listen to. 'Insane in the Brain' is the next excellent...

RazzaLazza 05.09.2008 · Read review
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notting hill

Advantages: good film great actors
Disadvantages: n/a

...As you can probably tell by not I love my chick flicks and this is another one that I enjoyed. With Hugh Grant and Julia Robert and Rhys Ifans who is one of the funniest people that I have seen in a film for a long time. William Thacker who is played by Hugh Grant owns a book shop in Notting Hill, where this film is set. One day the famous actress Anna Scott played by Julia Roberts visits the bookshop. William thinking that he will never see her again he walks out of the shop and a minute later collides with her and spills orange juice all over her. William is quick to invite her to his place to clean herself up. Then all of a sudden to the surprise of William Anna kisses him. What happens then is not like your normal love story and with a little help from his mad flat mate Spike played by Rhys Ifans and his friends, Max and Bella...

jo_field26 26.05.2008 · Read review
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