Kathy Bates at her best

Advantages: Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh are superb
Disadvantages: Deals with child abuse and wife-beating - can be disturbing

.... The director Taylor Hackford, born in the US in 1944 is probably best-known for his directing and production of 'Devil's Advocate', another cracking film starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino. He has also produced Ray, Proof of Life, La Bamba and Against All Odds. The plot Kathy Bates stars as Dolores Claiborne and the film opens with a scene showing Dolores apparently beating her employer, played by Judy Parfitt, to death. As a result of this crime, her estranged daughter, Selena (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh) pays a visit home for the first time in years after finding out from a faxed newspaper article that her mother is in trouble. Relations are strained, but Selena is reluctant to see her mother go to prison. The film then backtracks to Selena as a little girl and the fond relationship she had with her father. She then becomes...

sunmeilan 03.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of Dolores Claiborne (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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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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Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs. A review

Advantages: A fanstatic read
Disadvantages: None

...Kathy Reichs has been described as "another Patricia Cornwall." This is unfair on Kathy Reichs because, unlike Patricia Cornwall, Kathy Reichs is a real forensic scientist. Because, after all, Patricia Cornwall only ever typed up the notes of a forensic scientist, whilst working as a secretary in a pathology laboratory. In Monday Mourning the skeletons of three young girls are found in the basement of an old building that is currently a pizza parlour. Yet a mysterious 'phone call from an old lady soon tells Tempe Brennan (the forensic anthropologist heroine of Kathy Reich's novels) that the building was not always a pizza parlour. Some years ago it was a very different type of a parlour. With a rather unsavoury reputation. Detective Luc Claudel dismisses the three skeletons as historic and of no interest to the police. But Tempe...

Martinscholes 01.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Monday Mourning - Kathy Reichs

Kathy's own fatal voyage...

Advantages: Constantly poses questions to the reader...
Disadvantages: ...The ending didn't quite 'do' it for me

...To be perfectly honest Fatal Voyage - in my humble opinion at least - was Kathy Reichs worst offering thus far. I am a big fan of Kathy Reichs and believe that - usually - she leaves other similar authors, i.e. Patricia Cornwell standing. With Fatal Voyage however it might just well have been written by Patricia Cornwell, the plot and characters seem a little too 'samey' for my tastes. I wouldn't however totally discount Fatal Voyage, it does have it's gripping moments though unfortunately these were too few and far between to keep any suspense going throughout. The denoument was a complete dissapointment, it's almost as if the first 449 pages were geared for a big climax, posing quiestions throughout and causing the reader to question themselves about just what is actually happening. Then on the final page to finally 'clear...

mr_lee_06 24.08.2007 · Read review
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Improve your eyesight? Don't be stupid!

Advantages: Get rid of vision problems without questionable laser eye surgery, totally FREE!
Disadvantages: Takes commitment and determination

...Do you think people who develop vision problems such as short or long sight are stuck with these problems for life? Do you think they are purely hereditary and just 'bad luck' on their part? Well, the good news is, you're wrong! And no I'm not talking about having your eye sliced opened and part of it burnt off (..laser surgery for those of you who didn't get what I meant!) The Bates Method for improving eyesight naturally is a method that was discovered at the beginning of the 20th century by Dr. W. H. Bates, M.D. (1865-1931). He was a prominent American ophthalmologist who developed a method whereby one was able to improve their sight and restore the natural habits of seeing which have been lost through strain, tension and the resulting misuse of the eyes. The aim of the method is to teach people with vision problems how to achieve...

carly_pussycat 23.11.2005 (27.12.2006) · Read review
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Review of The Bates Method

Bates Isabell Dressage Saddle

Advantages: Comfortable and you can change the gullets
Disadvantages: Can be a bit expensive with the gullets

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sweetpea_sweetpea 04.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Bates Isabell Dressage Saddle

Master Bates

Advantages: Retains some Hithcock styling
Disadvantages: Anachronistic and ineffective

...When office worker Marion Crane is entrusted with $400,000 in cash, she finds the temptation too great to resist. Packing a few things into an overnight bag, she takes the cash and leaves town to meet her boyfriend Sam, and start a new life with her ill-gotten gains. The drive out to see Sam is some considerable distance, and after a caution from a traffic police officer, and an outbreak of torrential rain, she finds herself off the main road, and heading towards a quiet motel. Staying over for the night seems like a logical thing to do, and she proceeds to check in. At first, she can find nobody in the motel, but attracts the attention of the owner of a mysterious looking house, which sits atop a small hill just behind the motel. A young man – Norman Bates – comes down from the house to greet her, and welcomes her into...

LostWitness 19.06.2002 (17.02.2004) · Read review
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Review of Psycho (DVD)

"Master Bates Sounds Wrong!"

Advantages: funny family movie
Disadvantages: acting isnt top notch

..., instead she had a large body drier fitted to the wall which acted much like a hairdryer. As I have previously stated Brooke Shields character of Anne Jamieson had two young children Tess Jamieson (Genevieve Buechner) and Bates Jamieson (Benjamin B. Smith), whom both played very big parts in the film. I was actually very impressed with the acting from these youngsters as they portrayed their characters really well. In fact at times throughout the film I actually thought that their acting capabilities were a lot better than that I had seen from Tom Green and Brooke Shields. Between the two children I thought that Genevieve Buechner portrayed the character of a stroppy 11 year old rebellious pre teenager really well, as her emotion and moodiness was spot on and you also got the impression that the moody pre teen was all a front and that...

just.bcoz 14.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Bob The Butler (DVD)

YAMAHA DVD-S 557 this is THE DVD player of all time.

Advantages: Brilliant DVD player, perfect quality
Disadvantages: cant think of any

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plainpaul 22.02.2009 · Read review
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