Julie & Julia- A delicious journey!

Advantages: Award worthy performances,strong screenplay
Disadvantages: the subject might not appeal to many

...Julia and Julia is director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two books:one written by Julia Child and another by Julie Powell.Any film that takes life from life itself is usually good and this film is no different. The film tells the story of Julia Child,the author of the famous cookbook and Julie Powell,a simple working woman who decides to make Julia's recipes by herself and decides to write a blog about it.The two stories(one set in 1940s when Julia was young and another set in 2002 when Julie is reading Julia's book) run parallely on screen and unfolds gradually on screen. Both women share lot of similarities in their respective lives and the director lays it down beautifully for the viewer to experience. If you feel this is a film for women,you are certainly mistaken.Yes,the central characters are women and it involves cooking...

aadnan613 20.11.2009 · Read review
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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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Miss Julie, the Dog Whisperer

Advantages: Mostly characterization? plus the play is short and makes a good read
Disadvantages: A little painful like all tragedies

...Miss Julie OR Countess Julie (1888) A tragedy in one act By August Strindberg (1849 - 1912) Like any other "classic" tragedy, August Strindberg's Miss Julie represents the fall of its heroine; she is a beautiful and rich twenty-five year old woman who committed the terrible sin of having sex with her servant. Well, things are a little more complicated than this, so let's examine her character. Julie's parents collaborated in preventing her from owning a clear gender; her mother wasn't of noble birth, she believed in equality and freedom, was dominant and taught her daughter, Julie, everything that a boy should know. Her father's subservience to his wife and subsequent incident he was fooled in, caused the little girl to hate men from some time, and then even when she found out the truth, she never managed to have a clear idea...

sottovoce82 20.11.2007 · Read review
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Nearly All About Julie

Advantages: Interesting read
Disadvantages: Nothing about her recent times

...That's Another Story is the autobiography which has been written by Julie Walters. Julie was born in 1950 in Smethwick in Birmingham. She had a happy childhood and starts to book by telling us about growing up and all about her family. Julie talk a lot about life at home with her parents and what it was like when her Grandmother came to live with them. She feels that she learnt a lot from her Grandmother and that is why she is so good at playing the old lady parts. As she grew up she found she did not do too well at school and was shocked when she got accepted into a girls school. She found her place as the class comedian and this is how she passed her time at school. She later found she had no interest in further education like her brothers had go on to do. After leaving school she decided she would try and get herself a job but she...

sewbizzie 18.10.2008 · Read review
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Lascivious Bodies - Julie Peakman

Advantages: Well-researched, well-written
Disadvantages: None

...The book, Lascivious Bodies, a sexual history of the eighteenth century, by Julie Peakman PhD, is an extremely well-researched and well-written book. It relates the history of the astounding sexual revolution that took place in the 18th century. Peakman draws upon contemporary official records, diaries and letters from the time, all which provide the reader with fascinating and somewhat shocking glimpses into the sexual lives of the rich, the famous and the ordinary people of the 18th century. For those of us whose ideas and views of how people in the past viewed sexual matters, the book comes as a surprise. However, it must be remembered that this view is usually based upon the far more prudish and restricted Victorian era. But Peakman's book raises the suggestion that the morally repressed and repressive Victorian attitude...

Martinscholes 29.01.2006 · 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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Lindsay's in alot of trouble - 4th of july

Advantages: slight differentiation from just murder club
Disadvantages: too coincidental that some events happen

...4th of July is the fourth book in the women?s murder club series by James Patterson. This series revolves around 4 women who work together as a team to solve murders in San Francisco. 4th of July is mainly about the lead character in the series, detective Lindsay Boxer, as she fights a court case after becoming embroiled in a shoot out with two kids Background of author: James Patterson is one of the biggest selling authors alive today, repeatedly hitting the bestsellers lists with every new book released. His other credentials include coming up with a slogan for Toys R? Us. He has collaborated with a number of co authors on his books, including Maxine Paetro, Andrew Gross and in this book, Michael Ledwidge. Andrew gross has now gone on from co authoring to release his own book, 'the blue zone', which largely follows in...

jimmijamie 22.08.2007 · Read review
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French Cuisine not only for Americans

Advantages: great story
Disadvantages: Meryl Streep's performance

...One summer evening we were walking in the town centre and I saw the poster of Julie and Julia. I saw that Maryl Streep is staring the film so I wanted to watch it. I read several reviews on it but not seen until last week. Julie and Julia is a drama comedy written and directed by Nora Ephron. I decided that I won?t watch another film where the director and the screenplay writer is the same person but I couldn?t resist to Meryl Streep. She is such a brilliant actress and I really like her films, so I walked in the trap again. Nora Ephron is an American screenplay writer, producer, film director and novelist. She is famous for the screenplay of When Harry Met Sally. She wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle and wrote, directed and produced You?ve Got Mail. The classification of Julie and Julia is 12 years and over. The running time is...

D_i_a_n_e 18.11.2009 · Read review
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Food Frenzy

Advantages: nice story, nice scenes of Paris
Disadvantages: Meryl Streep annoyed me a bit

...Julie Powell?s life is in a bit of a rut. She is nearing her 30th birthday and sick of living in a poky little apartment in a bad part of town and dealing with abuse from the public over the phone in her job in a government department. There is one thing in her life which gives her pleasure and that is cooking, there?s nothing she likes more after a long day at the office to come home and read through her cookbooks and whip up some delicious morsels for her husband and friends. There is one old cookery book in particular that she loves, The Art Of French Cooking by Julia Child and she sets herself the challenge of cooking all the recipes from this book over the course of a year while writing a blog about her experiences in the kitchen. Things do not always go smoothly over the year, her relationship with her husband starts to suffer...

wigglylittleworm 07.09.2009 · Read review
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With passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible

Advantages: Brilliant cast and acting, sweet, funny film and tasty food
Disadvantages: A little long and not to everyone's tastes (the film not the food)

...Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia tells the memoirs of two different women who are separated by time but share a love for food. In the 1950's, Julia Child moves to Paris with her husband where she begins to take cookery classes in a bid to fill her uneventful days. Surpassing both the expectations and cooking skills of her teacher and the other chefs in her class, Julia decides to write a French cookery book for Americans. In 2002, call centre worker Julie Powell moves into a tiny apartment over a Pizzeria in New York. While her friends' high-flying careers are brandished in front of her, Julie becomes unhappy with her job and new home. So, with the help and support of her husband, Julie takes on a challenge to cook every one of Julia's recipes in a year while documenting her successes and fails in an online blog...

frankiefromings13 25.09.2009 · Read review
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