Pulling off the biggest scam of your career with confidence

Advantages: A cool and stylish con movie with plenty of twists
Disadvantages: Not enough character depth

...Confidence was the exact feeling i had when i saw this and parted with three of my english pounds to the lady behind the counter at Blockbuster a few years ago. Although the film had fallen under my movie radar, i saw the cast and thought that this film at least would be good enough to keep me entertained for the evening, it turned out to be more than that. A rental turned into a purchase, a purchase turned into me lending it out which led to other purchasing and talking about it. Any film that can pull off some good twists is worth watching in my opinion, this is definately one of them. PLOT - At the start of the film we meet Jake, our lead character who is dead, good start right! He narrates briefly as to how he ended up being dead and learn that he is the leader of a confidence trickster crew or a group of grifters. As we...

Capodon 30.09.2009 · Read review
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The Perfume of a Princess!

Advantages: Smells Very Distinctive, Long Lasting, Beautiful Bottle, Very Feminine
Disadvantages: May be too sweet and floral for some

...One of my favourite things to treat myself to is perfume and those who have read my earlier reviews will know that I am a self confessed perfume addict. I love the different varieties you can buy all with their own distinctive scents and pretty bottles. I have worked hard at my perfume addiction though and have really cut back on the amount that I buy ? these days I adopt a one in one out rule as I started getting far too many bottles of half used fragrances sat in my wardrobe (any perfume lover knows that you keep bottles out of daylight to keep them smelling fresh). Before we went on honeymoon I used up a couple of bottles of perfume and so I decided to treat myself to something new rather than buy a replacement for the fragrances that I just finished from the duty free shop at the airport. I had already been and tested a few...

shazzaspannered 18.03.2009 · Read review
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Confident fragrance

Advantages: Floral, lasts the day
Disadvantages: Spciy after tones are not so desirable

...Tommy Hilfiger originally launched the fragrance True Star in 2004 with promotion by singer Beyonce. The idea behind this perfume was to portray the radiance and confidence of the star as well as her more personal and private side. I have to say I am not a fan of Beyonce myself, in fact I would not generally be allured by a perfume promoted by a star, but after sampling this fragrance in my local cosmetics store I simply had to buy it. The bottle itself is very feminine, tall and slender and dipping at the centre. The glass is opaque with a hint of blue and the top has a chrome effect. Tommy Hilfiger say that the bottle was designed to resemble an award, being smooth and slender to fit into a woman's hand. This fragrance is floral yet quite heavy, although not over bearably so. Tommy Hilfiger describe it has having contrasting...

Ann-Marie_B 17.09.2008 · Read review
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The Princess and the Perfume

Advantages: Light and delicate scent, sexy
Disadvantages: Slightly expensive

...If you've already read my Vera Wang Princess Satiny Body Lotion review, you will know I recieved this perfume along with the gift set from my boyfriend for my Birthday last November. And as promised, I said I would write a review about the Vera Wang Princess perfume, so here I am now. Vera Wang, if you haven't heard of her, is a lady from New York. At frist she was an editor for Vogue magazine,then going on to do other things. She started designing dresses for celebrities and now owns her own Wedding Dress collection. She has her own Vera Wang accessorie collection and more importantly her own fragrance collection, including more scents than just the Princess collection. As the story goes, Vera Wang Princess collection is a new spirit in fragrance, inspired by a modern-day princess. Confident, indipendent, with a total zest...

loise007 01.02.2009 · Read review
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Confidence: Grifters galore

Advantages: Standard fare for genre, good plot twists at end, solid performances all round
Disadvantages: Standard fare for genre, little depth, nothing 'special'

...Confidence (James Foley, 2003) is a slick crime thriller in the style of the Ocean's Eleven films or The Thomas Crown Affair. It takes a slightly 'grittier' look at the subject, but still contains enough plot twists to keep you guessing (and give you a sore head on the first few watches!) and manages to be an enjoyable grifter romp. Story: The story follows a group of confidence tricksters, or grifters as they are called in the film, as they try to avoid getting arrested, or worse, killed, for stealing money off the wrong person. The film begins with a view of the main character lying on a road, dead, and tracks his life for the previous few weeks leading up to his death. It 'begins' with a formulaic introduction to the characters and idea of grifting by following a successful job with Ed Burns guiding the audience as the narrator...

lurchyboy2 01.06.2008 · Read review
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No confidence in this film

Advantages: Ed burns is tasty
Disadvantages: everything else

...this role. Confidence was trying to be something it wasnt and it tried really hard to be that something. I also think that they wasted the talents of Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia who are excellent actors in their own right. Dustin Hoffman's character was odd and quite creepy and Andy Garcia is introduced into the film quite late on and looked so grubby I didn't even realise it was him until a bit later in the film. Rachel Weisz is ok in this film but she has such a terrible accent that you wish they had just mae her keep her British accent. She doesn't seem to have the sassiness or the style that is required and quite frankly she seemed a lot better in "The Mummy". There have been too many films that have done this type of con with a twist such as "The Usual Suspects", "Reservoir Dogs", "The Grifters" and "House Of Games...

shadia 27.08.2003 · Read review
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Confide In Kylie

Advantages: Two great albums combined
Disadvantages: The absence of the other 5 brilliant songs

...Kind Of Bliss, and its far more euphoric and has a belter of a lyric written by Kylie. Dreams is dull as all hell and spawned the original title of the 1997 album Impossible Princess. Its as drab a ballad as you've ever heard, but at least has a good grasp of irony. Jump is another trippy slow burning track that doesn't exactly grab you by the throat but more slithers at your taste buds and will eventually pull you in. Drunk is another dance track with attitude as Kylie muses about not being happy until she's drunk and you take all of her. An enticing offer, its another of the most interesting tracks on the album. The album finishes off with the title track, the utterly engaging epic that is Confide In Me. This is the best single Kylie Minogue has ever released, an 8 minute sexy beast that stands head and shoulders above...

bilbob20 19.01.2007 · Read review
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Ibiza Hippie by Escada perfume!

Advantages: beautiful light smell!
Disadvantages: Hard to find, and a little expensive!

...Escada Ibiza Hippie I got this perfume in a Collector?s Edition pack of 5 Escada Perfumes; Island kiss, Rockin? Rio, Pacific Paradise, Sunset Heat and Ibiza Hippie. I first heard of Escada when I bought Pacific Paradise on the Ferry on the way to Italy, from then on the smell always reminded me of that holiday, and became one of my favourite perfumes. So when I saw this pack for £12.50 for 5 small bottles (4ml each), I just had to buy them to try them all, so I could choose my favourite one! And I must say they were all delicious! With such strong fruity smells which stuck around all day, my only problem was there wasn?t enough of it in the bottles, and I tended to use half a bottle each time I used it! But it gave me a great experience of using them all so I could choose which ones I wanted in larger bottles rather than...

stephbond89 15.11.2009 · Read review
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Perfume -Compelling Cinematography

Advantages: Haunting visual and sound effects.
Disadvantages: None

...born without a body odour, and it is perhaps his own lack of a scent that stokes his obsession with odours. At the age of 13, Jean-Baptiste is cruelly sold to a tannery, where he spends his days surrounded by the foulest of smells. Luckily for him, he is one day sent on an errand in town, and it is there that he discovers the most intoxicating scent... that of perfume. Managing to become the apprentice of a renowned perfumer, he quickly learns the trade and eventually surpasses the genius of his master. In his pursuit of the perfect perfume, Jean-Baptiste comes across a beautiful young woman in the streets of Paris, and is seduced by her scent. The natural fragrance of a beautiful woman is intoxicating, and in a desperate need to capture it, he will resort to murder. His murderous obsession with scent, and his desperate need to...

GoFigure 12.02.2008 · Read review
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THE PUTRID SMELL OF PERFUME.

Advantages: A very interesting film, sticks closely to the book.
Disadvantages: Shocking images.

... PERFUME Released in 2006, and directed by Tom Tykwer Perfume is a harrowing tale of the Drama genre. The story is taken from the book 'Perfume' written by Patrick Suskind. Synopsis Set in 18th Century France in a small sleepy town a mother gives birth to Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. She immediately abandons him in the Parisian fish market, under a filthy market stall rife with rats and the stench of fish. Immediately Jean-Baptiste is enveloped in a putrid smell of the markets wares of rotting meat, maggots, and old food, which are presented to us in a series of snapshots. The child sniffs the air, and these are the first smells his young highly developed olfactory senses are greeted by. The mother is hung for her crime of child abandonment, and the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille begins...

Morning_Becomes_Electra 25.01.2008 (26.01.2008) · Read review
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