King of Queens

Advantages: Funny, good characters
Disadvantages: None

...King of Queens is an American sitcom set in New York. The King in question is Doug Heffernan and the Queens they relate to is actually the suburb of New York he lives in with his wife Carrie. I think this title is a really clever play on words and sets the scene for quite a funny sitcom in my opinion. Doug and Carrie are the main couple in this sitcom and it?s really them that the whole show revolves around. They have a nice relationship but bicker like most couples and they really play on each others stereotypes to get the laughs out of the audience. For example Doug is rather fat and so they definitely play this up on the show. He is generally always eating my Carrie facilitates this by buying him or making him his favourite foods. Doug is played by the very funny Kevin James who has been in movies such as Hitch, I Now Pronounce You...

Spottydog11 01.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of The King of Queens

Drama Queen!

Advantages: Superb script and acting, challenging your views, simply fantastic
Disadvantages: Some scenes are just speculative

...I was quite shocked to see that ITV were screening the Oscar winning movie "The Queen" already on Sunday night, so I knew I had to tune in to see what all the fuss was about. As you may or may not know, The Queen won lead actress Helen Mirren an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Award at the Venice Film Festival for being the Best Actress, along many others both for Helen Mirren, and the film was a whole. It has been hugely successful, and because of this I was thoroughly looking forward to seeing what all the fuss was about! The film shows us the events from when Tony Blair was elected as Prime Minister in 1997, to the death of Princess Diana at the end of August 1997. It focuses on the backlash that came about against the Queen when she did not appear to speak publicly on the Princess' untimely death...

mummy2harry 08.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Queen (DVD)

Queen of Harts

Advantages: The performances of the whole cast, subtle and powerful
Disadvantages: Perhaps a bit pro-royalist

...One of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning films of last year was Stephen Frears?s The Queen, starring the Oscar, Bafta and pretty much every other award-winning Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II. The film begins with the election of 1997, when Tony Blair (played here by Michael Sheen) became PM for the first time. We watch as he nervously conducts his first meeting with the queen, in which she has to formally ask him to become Prime Minister and all that official stuff. The film then moves forward to Sunday 31st August 1997, which everyone over a certain age will remember was the day when Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed were killed in the Paris car crash. Saddened, but hardly grief-stricken, the Royal Family (Prince Phillip played by James Cromwell, the Queen Mother by Sylvia Sym and Prince Charles by Alex Jennings...

l-m-n-o-p 09.07.2007 (10.07.2007) · Read review
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Review of The Queen (DVD)

Queen of the Valley

Advantages: Interesting, very interesting!
Disadvantages: The most famous tomb is now closed.

...Day 1 in Egypt, site number 2 (and it is only 09:30), so let's do away with the babble and launch right in.... ~What's this place all about then?~ The Valley of the Queens is the burial site for the Queens & children of the Pharaohs of the 18th, 19th & 20th dynasties (1550 - 1070BC). It is said that there are about 70 (some claim as many as 85) different burial sites in the area. Probably the most famous tomb here is that of Queen Nefertari*, which is the largest and most spectacular in the valley. Unfortunately, this tomb is now no longer open, we were told by our guide that a couple of years ago there was some rain in the valley, which caused some damage to Nefertari's tomb. The Egyptian Government went about restoring the damage, and spent roughly a cool million on it. To recuperate the funds they opened the tomb, but...

tazzywazzy 06.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Valley of the Queens

QUEEN

Advantages: An EXCELLENT musical experience
Disadvantages: NONE

...Queen's FIRST album and one of their best. There is only one song that I personally don't like, Keep Yourself Alive, just because I heard it too many times. Another person commented in their review that "My Fairy King" had strange "wailing" at the beginning of the song. I think that wailing is GREAT and is sort of a signature sound of the earlier Queen material. It makes the song unique!! They also featured Roger's screeching on "In the Lap of the Gods", "Ogre Battle", and "39". I wouldn't want to hear these songs without the famous high pitched Roger-isms. They're an integral part of the experience!! Brian May's guitar work/songwriting on this LP is sheer perfection along with Freddie's vocals, instrumentation and songwriting. Track List: 1) Keep Yourself Alive 2) Doing All Right 3) Great King Rat 4) My Fairy King...

fawneyedgirl 14.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Queen - Queen

HM (Helen Mirren) The Queen

Advantages: Superb performances from Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen
Disadvantages: The rest of the film not quite as good as it could have been

...After all the Oscar nominations for best costume, score, director, original screenplay and movie and Helen Mirrens's best actress winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II, I really wanted to see The Queen (2006) and having missed it at the cinema it was on our DVD rental list. But to my surprise ITV were showing the Stephen Frears directed film this evening to coincide with the 10th anniversary with the death of Princess Diana so I settled in to watch it. The film focuses on the events, reactions and responses of the Royal Family, the British public and government in the week from the death of Diana to her funeral in 1997. In brief the film starts with the election of the New Labour government and the new Prime Minister Tony Blair (wonderfully portrayed by Michael Sheen) and sets the scene early on of a nation which is changing...

Suzela 03.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Queen (DVD)

Queen's debut is nothing compared to later albums.

Advantages: Good, groundbreaking music.
Disadvantages: Not at all like Queen's later material.

...Queen's self titled debut album was released in July '73 to a mixed reaction. Queen had become popular some years before on the live circuit, and many were anticipating a pulsing album with Queen at the top of their game, but as we all know this didn't come until the fourth album, A Night At The Opera. While the music was good, very good in fact, the record label was holding them back, telling them to do things differently. Many will point out the drum sound on the album, very tinny, you can barely make it out. While Roger Taylor wanted the drums to be loud and explosive, the record labels drum sound was "famous across the land" and so Queen were forced to go with the label. It would be a few albums later until Roger Finally got what he wanted. The albums front cover features Freddie Mercury standing under a beam of light...

Joshrawr 25.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Queen - Queen

Torn between two Queens

Advantages: A great Historical Read
Disadvantages: None

...I recently decided to take a look around my local library knowing I would want something to read on my holiday, however I was shocked to see the lack of books on the shelves. Now this could be a good thing in that more people are borrowing books but I suspect it could well be a lack of funding by Derbyshire. With nothing taking my fancy I decided to check out my local Tesco instead but typical of me I managed to buy the middle book of a trilogy, so decided to order the first and last books on-line at Tesco.com but needed another book to get free delivery. Knowing I would enjoy a book by Philippa Gregory as I have read most of her Tudor Court books before I picked The Other Queen without even knowing what the book was about. Still without even reading the back of the book I chucked it in the suitcase with a couple of others...

paulpry118 04.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory

The Snow Queen, a winter favourite in my family

Advantages: A great DVD with an excellent performance by Ms Fonda.
Disadvantages: May not appeal to everyone

...Review of The Snow Queen DVD The DVD Produced in 2002 by Brightspark pictures, The Snow Queen carries a PG (Parental Guidance) certificate. It has a run time of 169 minutes and the genre is Science Fiction/Fantasy. Cast includes:- Bridget Fonda, Chelsea Hobbs and Jeremy Guilbaut. Producers:- Robert Halmi, SR, Robert Halmi, JR, Matthew O'Connor, David O'Connor. Director:- David Wu. Special features include Photo gallery, Trailers, Behind the Scenes Featurette, Brightspark MovieTrailers. ASIN: B002KMD5ZI The Plot The Snow Queen is an adaptation of the story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. Gerda's mother was found dead in the snow when she was just eight years old. Since her mother's death, Gerda has lived with her father, Wolfgang. Wolfgang is a morose and bitter man, he owns an Inn, in a mountain...

brittle1906 31.10.2009 · Read review
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Queen of the exclusion zone soap watchers

Advantages: Witty and satirical
Disadvantages: Might offend some

...Queen Camilla follows the royal family, who find themselves in exile thanks to the policies of the government of the Cromwell Party. Jack Barker, the Prime Minister, is an avowed republican and has sent the royals to the Flowers Exclusion Zone in the Midlands. This is run by local "businessman" Arthur Grice, who has risen to the top thanks to a life of thuggery and business acumen, and the estate is captive to all his businesses, including even the school (Arthur Grice Academy) and the privatised police force. Here we meet the only straight copper on the beat, Dwayne Lockhart, who has joined in part to escape his undesirable status from his family in the zone. Exclusion Zones are where people deemed as socially undesirable are sent and trapped thanks to electronic tagging. The inhabitants are under surveillance 24 hours a day...

larsbaby 26.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Queen Camilla - Sue Townsend