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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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Michael Myers Lives

Advantages: Solid acting | Quite good directing
Disadvantages: No imagination | Some annoying characters

...been a year since the events of Halloween 4. Jamie (Danielle Harris) is now in a children?s hospital and has not spoken a word since Halloween night of 1988. Her stepsister Rachel (Ellie Cornell) and friend Tina (Wendy Kaplan, who was also in Halloween 4 but has a significantly bigger role in the sequel) regularly visit her in the hospital hoping she will recover from the fateful Halloween night. Her Uncle isn?t quite dead just yet though. After being shot down the mineshaft he took refuge in an old hermits house and stayed there for one year. Now it is Halloween once more and Myers has awoken with the purpose to try and kill his niece again. However since the events last year Jamie has built a telepathic bond to her Uncle and she can sense when he is about to kill next which Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) urges her to try and tell him...

3rdRockSatan 15.10.2002 · Read review
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Mike & The Mechanics - Hits

Advantages: Very likeable and playable album
Disadvantages: None

...MIKE & THE MECHANICS "Hits" - Relatively cheap to purchase these days ... I wouldn't pay anymore than £6.99 I am just listening to it as I write this ... very beneficial! This album is a collection of the bands hits from 1985 through to 1996 and includes songs that the band have experienced great success with in various regions of the world over an eleven year span. The album sleeve is fairly basic, with a cartoon design of a mechanic slumped asleep upon a tyre, resting upon his tool box in front of a gas filling pump. The inner sleeve is a 6-page booklet of photographs, along with a list of the tracks and information regarding the year they were produced and whom they were written by. When Phil Collins opted for a solo career in 1985, Genesis bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford decided to form his own pop/rock band "Mike...

newty1977 22.01.2006 · Read review
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Who? Mike JONES!

Advantages: Big hits
Disadvantages: Repetitive

...Mike Jones is a Houston-based rapper. He specializes in this the H-town style of rap which also involves 'Screwed and Chopped' in this style, the music is cut and jerked about, or at least it sounds like this to create an original sound. This style slows down the tracks and this album was brought out later with a second disc using the same tracks that are screwed and chopped. Many who do not listen to this music will think that the music has some digital glitches in them, but this is the effect that they are trying to create. "Who is Mike Jones?" is the debut solo album from this album. He chose to give it this title due to his name being so regular, its very common in America. This album was recored in 2004, but it wasn't until late in 2005 when it was released by Swishahouse. Jones' Swishahouse label mates feature on this album...

XICripZ 27.02.2008 · 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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Mike Myers in almost mature movie SHOCK HORROR

Advantages: Almost watchable
Disadvantages: Still makes you retch

...YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH BAYBEE!!! Mike Myers certainly knew exactly what he was about when he created Austin Powers and brought him to the big screen with International Man of Mystery, quickly following it up with The Spy Who Shagged Me. The crowds, mainly sick young adolescents who laugh their socks off at toilet humour and fart gags, certainly flocked in in their millions and put a multitude of dollars in the bank of Austin's creators. It certainly wasn't remotely clever, subtle or deep and relied on the very lowest common denominator for its appeal. The first time you watched these you could certainly find yourself quite amused and tittering at the dumb ass pulp stupidity of it with its patent lack of abashment and love for the very thought of bodily waste. A second viewing, however, would just leave you feeling acutely embarrassed...

dave27 29.01.2004 · Read review
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Shrekadelic baby Mike Myers excels as ogre

Advantages: Funny, impressive animation, sarcasm, voice acting
Disadvantages: Its a kids film, so happy ending and no great plot surprises, not such a bad thing.

...characters are overrunning his swamp following an eviction order by the local ruler. The Ogre(Shrek, voiced in a Scottish accent by Mike Myers of Waynes World and Austin Powers fame) meets up with a talking donkey (Eddie Murphy) and they go to the castle of this very short local bigwig, his castle and kingdom is a sarcastic take on Disney world and them parks, with turnstiles, strict littering rules and people wearing large prostetic heads. Throughout the film, sideswipes and sarcastic comments on the nature of modern sanitised fairy tales (Shrek uses a fairytale book as toilet paper) abound, and most of them are very funny, especially if you have sta through most Disney reworkings of these tales. Shrek and the donkey agree to rescue a princess from a dragon in exchange for the deeds to his swamp and hilarity ensues. The princess they rescue...

Raybid 30.06.2001 · Read review
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Taking the Mike's on a two-way taste test

Advantages: Tries hard to be other than an alcopop
Disadvantages: The taste - see full op

...ol' Mike's Hard Lemonade, just goes to show how much he loves ya, and telling y'all about what he's eating and drinking. However, the fact it itself was on offer helped. The bottle itself is the usual 275ml one, with clear glass, and black and yellow labels, with the design of a lemon silhouette on. Also, each label has a stupid slogan on - "Grab life by the lemons", "Make it Mike's", "Tastes kinda like homemade lemonade with vodka" - some clearly snappier than others. This is just silly, and loses marks in trying to appeal to the yoof market with nonsense spelling (or just plain no sense). PACKAGING gets 3 stars, so from now on in we'd better be a bit more scientific. AROMA On popping the bottle we remember we're "working" for our readers at ciao, and so try and find a scent. Now theediscerning hasn't the world's best...

theediscerning 12.03.2003 · Read review
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'His 'N' Hers' By Mike Gayle

Advantages: entertaining
Disadvantages: none

...'A cat. A flat. And a couple who think it's over'. I remember Mike Gayle from his agony uncle days at Bliss magazine, which is why I originally started reading his books. 'His 'N' Hers' tells the story of the relationship between two people called Jim and Alison. Jim and Alison met at university. They were together for years, purchased a flat together, got married and had a cat. Then they, very suddenly, got divorced, divided up their stuff and moved on with their lives. At the point at which the novel begins both Jim and Alison have new partners [Alison is about to get re-married] and both seem to be doing fine. That is until their cat [who has been living with Alison] dies. Alison contacts Jim to let him know what has happened and they meet for the first time in three years. This, naturally, makes them both reminisce about their...

princesslaura 07.07.2008 · Read review
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Mike Bassett for England

Advantages: An absolutely faultless flick in which EVERY cinematic element is 100%
Disadvantages: You will want to watch it time and time again!!!

...Mike Bassett: England Manager is a comedy and an absolutely hilarious one at that!! This is actually one of the few comedy films that is actually far funnier than it's teaser trailer!! In fact, it is so funny that it makes me feel proud to be English in that this film, in my opinion is THE Brit-flick of 2001!! Ricky Tomlinson (of 'The Royle Family' fame) plays Mike Bassett, a down and out football manager who is chosen to manage the England team. The film follows his time as England manager and the trials and tribulations that come along with such a post. Scarily enough, many of what goes on actually reflects real life football as we know it; contributing to it's hilarity!! Mike Bassett is a manager who doesn't appear fit enough to be a primary school P.E. teacher, let alone England manager; in fact I am surprised that Ricky...

Weez 08.10.2001 · Read review
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