* Castrol Mile High Miles Club. . .

Advantages: Good for older engines.
Disadvantages: None really.

...CASTROL HIGH MILES or MILE HIGH OIL! . This brand of oil reviewed here is known as Castrol High Mileage motor oil, it is non synthetic oil, or more commonly known as a traditional mineral based oil. There are no synthetic additives added. The viscosity of this oil is 15W-50 15 means the thickness of the oil in low temperatures, W means it complies with the requirements for winter conditions, and 50 means the thickness of the oil at high temperatures. This newer synthetic type oil may be more suited for newer engines, but the old mineral oil is best in engines over say ten years old, or 100,000 miles, although different engine makers recommend different things nowadays. Synthetic oil has become really popular, and has been in production for many years now. The old mineral oil still has it's place though, and this particular...

smudgeybabes 07.02.2008 · Read review
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Nana Might Forget... But She Will Always Love You!

Advantages: Beautiful and sensitive story about a difficult subject.
Disadvantages: none!

...Mile High Apple Pie by Laura Langston is another book we discovered at the library. My daughter was attracted by the red front cover and smiley picture on the front, but it wasn't until we got home and read it that we realised how relevant it actually was to us at this time. Margaret's Grandmother is starting to forget things. She once lived on a houseboat, played the piano and made the most delicious 'mile high apple pie'. Nowadays though she mainly sits quietly in her chair and struggles to remember the names of her favourite musicians and flowers. She still knows how to make apple pie though. Margaret's Dad has warned her that Grandma will get worse, and one day may forget them too, but she doesn't believe it. As her Gran starts to forget more, even her way home, Margaret decides to be her Grandmothers 'Remembering'. She is...

Rhiana 27.10.2009 · Read review
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Review of 8 Mile (DVD)

Green Mile High Club

Advantages: Thrilling
Disadvantages: Eh? Disadvantages

...Well, I could just say how great this book was, but reading through the other reviews I decided that this has already been done somewhat. So I decided to just tell you how it made me feel when I read it. You've probably all seen the film or read the book so you know what it's about. But how did it make you feel? For anyone not au fais with the basic plot, here it comes so hold onto your seats! The story is set in a small "death house" in 1932 in southern USA. It's narrated by an old man whom we find out is Paul Edgecombe, the ex-chief of the death row, the cell block where people who were sentenced to death were kept, awaiting execution by electric chair; "Old Sparky." The name Green Mile comes from the fact that the walk is often called the "Last Mile" in other prisons but here it has a green floor, hence the name. Paul Edgecombe...

glidercwh 11.03.2003 · Read review
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Review of The Green Mile - Stephen King

The Green Mile

Advantages: Good, original story
Disadvantages: Bit long

...Introduction ~~ Based on the Stephen King novel the Green Mile and directed by Frank Darabont the Green Mile is the finest film of 1999 in my opinion. Though despite it still being an excellent film it doesn’t quite match up to the book and I would recommend that you see the book before the film. It is within the walls of Coal Mountain Louisiana State Penitentiary's death which the prison guards nickname the Green Mile that the majority of the story takes place. **Please don’t read the bottom bit of the opinion if you haven’t seen it as it may spoil it! Story ~~ The story is told almost entirely in flashback form with a few modern-day sequences where we see Paul Edgecomb as an elderly man. The telling of the story in flashback form works well as it matches the structure the Stephen King novel used...

Disillusioned 26.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Green 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
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DREAM FOR MILES

Advantages: Dreamy, chilled out music
Disadvantages: Repetitive and formulaic

...Robert Miles first conceived the idea of his ground breaking record “Children” after continually watching horrific news reports. The main road through the island of Ibiza also happened to be where a number of the biggest clubs were – and still are – located. Countless young lives were lost on the road, as loved up clubbers would make their way from the clubs in the early hours of the morning, only to be mown down by psychotic drivers. The love of Mediterranean teenagers for their scooters was also highlighted as a major problem. Such teenagers were highly vulnerable to the dangerous traffic, as they would often ride with virtually no physical protection and more often than not in a high state of euphoria from the mixture of drugs and music that they had just tasted in the clubs. The song Children was therefore...

LostWitness 16.05.2002 · Read review
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Review of Dreamland - Robert Miles