John the Entertaining

Advantages: Very emotional writing
Disadvantages: Quite slow paced

...Up until now, I'd only ever heard of ''John the Revelator'' as a song. Judging from the several mentions of the song in the story and given that author Peter Murphy works in the music press, I suspect that's where the title of this novel came from as well. How much I enjoy the song depends on which version of it I hear, but with no such concerns with the book, I was able to enjoy it fully without worrying if someone had done a better version elsewhere that I was missing out on. John Devine is a teenager stuck in a small Irish town with a single mother, no real friends and a rather worrying fascination for bodily parasites, mostly intestinal worms. His only human contact is with his mother Lily, Mrs Nagle, an elderly neighbour and Harry Farrell, a local jack-of-all-trades. His only break from the house and from school is Sunday Mass. Not...

Soho_Black 06.08.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of John the Revelator - Peter Murphy

John Lewis

Advantages: Great range of services
Disadvantages: None

...John Lewis is a department store with 29 shops around the UK. They offer a wide range of high quality goods in departments such as: gifts, lighting, pictures, china and glass, linens, haberdashery, furnishing and fabrics, womenswear, lingerie, beauty, nursery, menswear, audio, toys and kitches/kitchenwear. Within the store they stock not only their own range of goods but also other branded names such as, Jigsaw, Joules, Levi and Warehouse in clothing, Bobbi Brown, Clarins and Clinique in the beauty section and Bose, Apple and Canon in electricals. As you can acertain they sell a wide range of products from knitting needles and wool to high end audio systems. All items are of great quality and if anything falls below the standard you will expect they have a great returns and refund policy with a flexible 28 days. They will even return...

rachieb123 12.10.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of John Lewis (Department Stores)

The great green mile

Advantages: Excellent film
Disadvantages: none

...Never before have I seen a film that has done the book justice. The Green Mile was adapted from the book with the same title written by Stephen King. Because I had read the book first, quite some time ago, I wasn`t expecting it to be that good even though I`d read some great reviews about it. Death row is known as the long mile, but because this row had green flooring it was named the green mile. The leading actors in this film are Tom Hanks who plays the character Paul Edgecomb, Michael Clarke Duncan( John Coffey), Sam Rockwell ( Wild Bill), Michael Jeter (Edward Delacroix), Doug Hutchinson (Percy Wetmore), and David Morse (Brutus"brutal"Howel). John Coffey, the very lovable, gigantic black man, is sentenced to death row for the murder of two little girls. This was the only character who was not as I pictured him in my mind...

sue26 23.05.2001 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of The Green Mile (DVD)

8 Mile Film Review

Advantages: Rap Battles
Disadvantages: Uninteresting plot and characters

...If hearing Eminem's voice on numerous radio stations and music television channels wasn't enough, director Curtis Hanson decided to create the rags-to-riches Hip-Hop musical 8 Mile to exhaust all mainstream possibilities and tell the world how great the white rapper is. I don't really hate Eminem: Admittedly, I did enjoy some of the tracks on The Marshall Mathers LP (which I regard as the height of his career as a music artist). It's just that anything he has done since then seems like an excuse to make Hip-Hop more acceptable to a commercial audience. Gone are the days of him wanting to "Kill You": He now prefers to dress up as a superhero for the video of "Without Me", declaring himself as the saviour of popular music. After all, a white face at the forefront of the culture means more money for the A & R offices of the music industry...

andycarrington 20.08.2009 (22.08.2009) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of 8 Mile (DVD)

* The Naked Mile *

Advantages: Some bits are funny
Disadvantages: Not so good as the rest!!!

...American Pie : The Naked Mile is the is the fifth American Pie , following American Pie : Band Camp. The movie was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on 19th December 2006. This film was directed by Joe Nussbaum. Running time of the movie is 97 minutes. The unrated version lasts for 102 minutes. The film is about Steve Stiffler's cousin Erik. For those of you who have not seen an American Pie film ; Stiffler is the 'mad/wild/rude' character in the first three American Pies. So this movie focuses on Stiffler's cousin who is nothing at all like Stiffler , and so he feels under pressure to live up to his 'cousin's' wild ways. The title of the movie is 'naked mile' because the college students have to run a mile naked! I am a major fan of the first three American Pie films. The storylines are great , the characters I grew fond...

xdonzx 14.10.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of American Pie Presents The Naked Mile (DVD)

The Green Mile

Advantages: Good, original story
Disadvantages: Bit long

.... Prison guards Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) Brutus Howell (David Morse) and Dean Stanton (Barry Pepper) become accustomed as prison guards on death row to see dangerous and unpleasant murderers spend their last days on the Green Mile but on one mid-summer day there is an exception. John Coffey. An eight feet tall giant accused of murdering two children. Except John Coffey seems no murderer, he’s afraid to sleep without a light on and is basically a gentle giant. John Coffey changes the lives of all the prison guards; he tests their faith and sanity and above all changes their belief in miracles. The prison guards on the Green Mile have an unexpected strange experience with John Coffey that involves clever mice, brutal and gory executions and revelations about Coffey’s innocence and true identity. Cast ~~ Paul Edgecomb played...

Disillusioned 26.06.2001 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of The Green Mile (DVD)

Gr8t Mile

Advantages: Story, Acting, Soundtrack
Disadvantages: Not for those that do not like hip-hop/rap

...8 Mile Movie: Life has not been kind to Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith (Eminem). His pregnant girlfriend broke up with him and he gave her his car, although he finds out that she was just pretending. He has a dead end job in a car manufacturing plant and because he is homeless he has to move in with his mum and baby sister in a trailer park. But B-Rabbit has a dream, he wants to be a rapper and we see him at the beginning of the film preparing for his "battle" in the grimy toilets of a dilapidated night club called The Shelter, he is nervous and actually vomits in the toilets before making his way through the hyped up crowd to the stage, the crowd is mainly black youths, the other rapper he is battling against is black as are his crew, with the exception of his friend Cheddar Bob (Evan Jones) he is the only white guy there; a white guy in...

sjp1966 30.11.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of 8 Mile (DVD)

What happens on the Mile, stays on the Mile

Advantages: Fantastic film with great special features
Disadvantages: No other film stands a chance against it!

...Paul Edgecomb is a security guard, but he is a prison guard with a difference. He is a prison guard of imminent death - guarding men whose life would end unnaturally, and whose final steps would be taken down the iconic "Green Mile" The scene is Cold Mountain Penitentiary, Louisiana and the time is during the Great Depression. Edgecomb was the head prison guard of death row that had been renamed the Green Mile due to the green floors in the wing. Here Edgecomb and his team of competent and diligent prison guards watch over the men whose heinous crimes have caused them to be tried, convicted and sentenced to death. One day a new inmate joins the "Green Mile" by the name of John Coffey, an incredibly tall, well built black man who has been convicted of savagely raping and murdering two little white girls...

yummy.mummy 12.03.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of The Green Mile (DVD)

The Green Mile

Advantages: Fantastic cast, beautiful direction, great story
Disadvantages: Films running time may be off putting for some

...The Green Mile Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan, Doug Hutchison, Barry Pepper Story: Louisiana 1935. Paul Edgecomb is head warden on the green mile, Penitentiary’s death row. Paul and his fellow guards attempt to maintain a pleasant atmosphere while convicted felons await execution at the hands of ‘Old Sparky’. However the line between their personal and professional lives becomes blurred when John Coffey, convicted of murdering two young girls, enters the mile. Appearing as a gentle giant, and with the miraculous power to heal, could Coffey be guilty of such a heinous crime? It must have been a no-win situation for a certain Frank Darabont. It had been five years since his last project, the universally adored ‘Shawshank Redemption’, a film many...

Crib79 06.02.2004 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of The Green Mile (DVD)

What happens on the mile stays on the mile.

Advantages: A good movie
Disadvantages: Not as good as Shawshank.

...I watched a good film last night. I say good film as it is. It in not the best but it is a good watch. Let me set the background for you. Its a moody, dramatic Prison film set in the 1930's. Its not just any prison film. This one is set on death row. ONe of the most evil places imaginable. Except, this death row is different. the people (bar one) are actually very polite, respectable criminals who seem to have no hostility towards the world. You only actually see 4 prisoners on the row throughout the film. The Prison Wardens all seem like pleasant chaps who communicate and live with their wards very well. There is never a problem on "the mile". Death Row is called the mile. This death row is called the Green mile due to its lime coloured. One of the inmates appears to have special powers on this Mile. John Coffey...

andycharger 15.10.2001 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of The Green Mile (DVD)