The Taking of Pelham 123 Remake: John Travolta, Denzel Washington

Advantages: Fantastic if you like action, and Denzel Washington is brilliant
Disadvantages: John Travolta might be a bit too old to be playing these roles

...Long gone are the days where you'll see John Travolta donning flares and swinging his hips to music from the 50s as he once did for his role as Danny Zuko. Replace flares with shotguns, and "Blue Moon" with a hell of a lot of swearing, and you'll have your expectations set for the new film The Taking of Pelham 123. Starting out with a fast-paced MTV style montage of downtown Manhattan, we immediately start to feel the earthy, grungy, high-action vibe created by director Tony Scott (responsible for hits such as Top Gun, Deja Vu and Man on Fire). John Travolta plays Ryder, a stereotypical baddie with a funny moustache to match. Together with his team of half-competent crooks, they manage to hijack a subway train, and, despite claiming they aren't terrorists, terrify the crap out of everyone. Denzel Washington plays his usual hero role...

Stephoohla 19.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Taking Of Pelham 123 (1974) (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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John Travolta, bridges & the Queen Vic

Advantages: Have had a lot of nice dreams.
Disadvantages: Some of them haven't been so nice.

...I've had some truely remarkable dreams in all of my 35 years on this Earth. Some have been nice, some have been daft and funny, and some have been just plain weird! I'll tell you about the weird ones. Don't laugh at them! Afterall, you can't control what goes on in your head when you're asleep! 1) JOHN TRAVOLA & THE QUEEN VIC Yes, you read the title right. Let me explain. Me and my mum were sitting in the Queen Vic (Albert Square) having a drink. This was a few years ago, and Grant Mitchell and his then girlfriend Lorraine (with her deluded son Joe). They (Grant and Lorraine) were serving behind the bar. Then walks in John Travolta with a whole big crew of people with him. Only, John Travolta was stark raving naked. Ziltch. Nothing! And, as I was sitting, you can guess where my eyes first landed! Believe me when I...

Louise90 25.03.2004 (26.03.2004) · Read review
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Review of The Weirdest Dreams I've Had

Am I John Travolta's twin

Advantages: Fun site with a good range of free e-cards
Disadvantages: Loud and many unfamiliar names

....famousbirthdays.com but also other websites containing the celebrity’s name, e.g. fan club. •• FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS •• To find out who has the same birthday as you or a friend, click on the relevant month on the left hand side of the page, and it will display a list in date order. I share my birthday (18th February) with John Travolta, Yoko Ono, Cybil Shepherd and Wiggglypufff (sorry, had to sneak this one in). You can then click on the celebrity’s name and it will do a Yahoosearch for other related websites. One nice touch is further links below the date take you to other sites telling you important events on the date. I’m proud to day that on my birth date in 1876 a direct telegraph link was established between Britain and New Zealand and in 1930 Pluto was discovered by Clyde W (is that pronounced dubya...

offy 10.05.2002 · Read review
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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...

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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
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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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Would you want to be John Malkovich?

Advantages: A modern comedy with a twist.
Disadvantages: Non in my opinion!

...Review of ?Being John Malkovich? , DVD format. Production Year: 1999. Genre- Comedy . Classification: 15 years and over ASIN B00004U8OC .Run time 112 minutes. The DVD Being John Malkovich is from Universal Studios, a modern comedy with a sci-fi/fantasy twist. The DVD I am reviewing is a one disc standard edition, with a few special features such as theatrical trailers, cast interviews and special effects information. I have to admit that I do not generally watch special features or bonus material on DVDs as I do not find it adds to my enjoyment as a rule. Cast Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, W. Earl Brown, John Malkovich, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Charlie Sheen Director: Spike Jonze The Plot Craig Schwartz, played by John Cusack, is a struggling street...

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Review of Being John Malkovich (DVD)

Nicholas Cage and John Travolta,what a combination

Advantages: Great plot, great actors
Disadvantages: Can get confusing!

...What happens when you bring together two of Hollywood's foremost actors together? You get an explosive combination, that's what! Nicholas Cage and John Travolta are brought together in style in this brilliant action thriller. It's directed by John Woo, so you can expect quite an amazing film, with action all the way, great special effects, and some great dialogue. The idea of the film is this. FBI Agent Sean Archer, played by Travolta, has his life wrecked by super criminal Caster Troy (Nicholas Cage) when Troy kills his son. His lifelong obsession becomes the capture of Troy, and his ultimate imprisonment. This is where the unrealistic part comes in. Archer undergoes a radical new treatment which allows him to swap faces with Troy, and assume his identity, in order to incriminate him. However, a simple police operation turns into...

Excelle 28.12.2000 · Read review
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Review of Face/Off (DVD)

Drink Like Richard Burton Dance Like John Travolta

Advantages: Bold, Inventive, Brilliantly Produced
Disadvantages: None

...from understated to impassioned as the pace and volume pick up. The harmonious (and highly unfashionably folky) chorus, is both infectious and completely original. Only James could pull something this grand off without sounding like cretins! As the guitars gather in intensity a lonely violin sound is added to the mix, before the song reaches a fuzzy, frazzled, glorious conclusion. Booth sings; ?Daniel drinks his weight Drinks like Richard Burton Dance like John Travolta Now? It was incredibly brave of James to not finish the album with ?Getting Away With It? - yet closing track ?Alaskan Pipeline? is almost the definitive album closer of all-time. If ever a band were signing off in style then this track is it. The song is practically a raised hand and a faint smile from a crowded carriage as the train chugs out of the station...

andystrong 17.02.2004 · Read review
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