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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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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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The Long Goodbye

Advantages: (+) interesting story, quite different (+) suprises, twists and turns! (+) hard to put down
Disadvantages: (-) A little more description possibly needed though not essential!

.... BRIEF INTRODUCTION The Long Goodbye is a novel first published in 1953 and was based around Chandler's famous detective Philip Marlowe. The book contains many autobiographical elements that relate to the author's own life. It has been ranked as one of Chandler's best works. The Long Goodbye was given the Edgar Award for Best Novel two years later in 1955. The novel begins outside a club called The Dancers. Marlowe meets Terry Lennox outside the club; he is a drunk and has many scars on his face. The two men become friends over the next few months, though the friendship is an 'uncomfortable' one. However, late one night, Lennox turns up at Marlowe's home asking for a ride to the airport; Marlowe agrees as long as he doesn't know why his friend his running away. As he returns to Los Angeles soon after, Marlowe is arrested...

vcarina88x 11.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler

The Long Good Friday

Advantages: Bob Hoskins
Disadvantages: Story

...Prior to watching The Long Good Friday, I thought people were actually taking the piss when they said Bob Hoskins played a gangster in one of the most respectable British crime films ever made. "Not Bob Hoskins who played the overweight plumber Mario in the Super Mario Bros. movie?" I said. Apparently so. Urgh. Surprisingly, the once fat, balding, video game protagonist is really quite impressive in his earlier work here. He plays Harold Shand, a notorious London businessman of the criminal underworld, who aspires to go straight in the late-1970s by redeveloping the old docklands property as a venue for the 1988 Olympic Games. He's an aggressive character, but looks after his crew; his speeches about the country's membership of the European Union are fuelled with intelligence and British pride; he is well groomed and has a beautiful...

andycarrington 25.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Long Good Friday (DVD)

Super DVDs Last All Summer Long

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Disadvantages: See opinion

...interpretations I draw from it. There are lots of little clues which may get overshadowed by the rich imagery and beautiful score ? keep your ears open and you may well ?get it? when the movie turns into a god-damn Radiohead video. It?s a vivid fairytale for grown ups, and if I didn?t like it, I sure as hell wouldn?t have forked out £20 from my local (ish) Safeway for this 2 disc box set thingummy. ***THE PACKAGING*** A flimsily spined slip cover with shiny silver lettering is all that stands between you and your DVDs. The choices of imagery for the montage are a little odd, with shots of minor characters and events seemingly put there to make you go ?Ooh! Future!? I noticed a bizarre legion of faded circles emanating out from Jude Law?s ear, you have to look closely but they?re there ? inexplicable! Maybe he has bionic hearing?who knows? The slip...

peppersinclaire 05.04.2002 · Read review
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Long Tall Janie

Advantages: Excellent selection, great sizes, nice staff
Disadvantages: Prices

...My profile photo doesn't really show the fact that I'm actually 5 foot 9! Now this does have it's advantages but equally disadvantages. Clothes shopping is and can be a nightmare if I don't go to the right shops. The biggest brand shops are now doing 'tall' sections like New Look, Dorothy Perkins, H&M and many more. They are good but trousers are still a bit of a problem. I would end up having to go the next size up and having the waist inches to big! It was horrible and not great I got recommended a shop in Edinburgh called "Long Tall Sally" which is for women who are tall! Long Tall Sally It is a clothing range and shop designed for women over 5 foot 8. It is a fairly old brand, first developed in 1976 for tall models orignially. A year later though there was a gap in the market and now has 22 shops all over the UK. It was...

scotlandizdabest 31.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Long Tall Sally (Shop)

A Very Long Title

Advantages: A marvellous recreation of an idealised world, fantastic performances and a huge heart
Disadvantages: None

...Manech and Mathilde are childhood sweethearts separated by the First World War. When Mathilde hears that her fiancé is dead, she refuses to believe it and sets out to discover what happened to him. Along the way she learns that her lover was one of five men found guilty of cowardice and sent out to die in the crossfire in no-man?s land. But despite all the accounts she cannot reconcile herself to his death and searches for truth behind the stories. Visionary French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a unique way of looking at the world and has previously impressed with such thematically and literally dark sepia-toned films as ?Delicatessen? and ?The City of Lost Children?. He also introduced the world to the romantic whimsy of ?Amélie?, starring the elfin Audrey Tautou. In ?A Very Long Engagement? he marries dark and light to create...

afy9mab 21.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of A Very Long Engagement (DVD)

20, 000 Miles too long!

Advantages: Features some places we rarely hear about
Disadvantages: Moaning, over-privileged pseudo-heroes

...When we succumbed to the advertising and bought a set top digital television box, we were rather disappointed (an under-statement) to find out exactly what you get for your (one-off) payment of fifty quid. I can safely say that during the first three months the only thing we made a point of watching was "Long Way Round", which had already been screened on Sky One. My feelings about the book more or less mirror what I thought about the television series but I bought the book on impulse when I saw it on e-bay without having seen a copy in the shops. Therefore I did not know whether the book accompanied the series (in which case I hoped that it would enhance what I had already seen and add some new details which hadn't been seen on the show) or whether it was merely a verbatim book version of the TV show. "Long Way Round" is...

fizzytom 19.05.2005 (20.05.2005) · Read review
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Review of Long Way Round

Long Vodka

Advantages: It is a Drink
Disadvantages: You need an expert Barman To Pour It

...Well I noticed the bottle of bitters advertising this product and decided that it needed explaining. As this is not a product it is a drink, and to my knowledge no one has started selling it in bottles. I would disapprove if they did. A long vodka is possibly one of the finest ways to drink vodka invented next to Zybrowka and Apple Juice. It was also the first drink I learnt to pour behind a bar. You start with 3 to 4 dashes of bitters in side a long glass and fully coat the inside surface of the glass with them, pouring off any excess. (This is important as the bitters will give you the runs the next day). Once you have done this, add a good measure of vodka fill the glass up with ice then lemonade or soda water, add a dash of lime cordial. Serve with a slice of lemon and lime in the top and ice. The taste is hard to...

Champ666 11.08.2004 · Read review
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The long Road has arrived

Advantages: more good tracks from nickelback
Disadvantages: a couple of weaker tracks

...Are you a nickelback fan? I am....I saw them last December at Wembley and they were superb. After listening to 'Silver Side Up' over and over and seeing their fab live performace I have been eagerly awaiting their new album. At last 'The Long Road' has been released......... FLAT ON THE FLOOR The opening track on the new nickelback album is very upbeat and fast track. This is what I would call a 'typical' nickelback track. Lots of loud guitar and fast track which Chad Kroegers voice fits perfect too. Like I said before a quick track at only 2 mins 2 seconds long. DO THIS ANYMORE I really like this track though it took me a couple of times to listen to it to come around to it. It is one which reminds me of 'too bad' from the previous album. SOMEDAY The first single of the album....I abosolutely love this track...

tracy2002 03.11.2003 · Read review
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Review of Long Road, The - Nickelback