The Best of Leonard Cohen

Advantages: Cohens influencial greatness, lovely songs
Disadvantages: ...No Hallelujah

...OPINION I first heard of Leonard Cohen at a friends house as a record, the song was "Suzanne" and I loved it. I remembered the name and to my delight I found his CD in the Woolworths price crunch a while back now. His songs are so calming but have lyrics that explore ideas of religion, isolation, sexuality and complex interpersonal relationships, so as calm as they seem their underlying provocations are deeply moving. ARTIST Leonard Cohen is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. His earliest songs are rooted in European folk music, his 1970's music encompasses pop, chaberet and world music and since the 1980's his high baritone voice took on more low registers, often accompanied by electronic synthesizers and female backing singers. His writing has influenced lots of singer-songwriters and more than...

jpearson772 03.11.2008 · Read review
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Rob Roy: Of Valor and Honor

Advantages: Strong performances by a talented cast
Disadvantages: A bit more gratuitous violence than you'd want young children to witness

...Note: Some plot details are disclosed in this opinion. Based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy is the kind of movie that you just almost have to like. With a script that is largely unmarred by shades of moral gray, good is clearly good, evil is clearly evil, marital love and fidelity triumph over all challenges, and justice prevails at the end of the day. It is, in a word, wholesome. Toss in a healthy dose of standing stones, Highland lochs, and good Scottish scenery in general, and--well, you just about have to like this movie. At least, Himself and I do. We own a VHS copy, and when we crave escape to the Highlands or exposure to political and personal honor (try to find either these days), we pull out Rob Roy for uplifting dose of courage and valor--plus a wee bit or romance. During its best moments, this film makes...

BawBaw 14.01.2005 · Read review
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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...

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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...

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Rob Roy - an interesting wok of fiction

Advantages: Good fights
Disadvantages: Why get an Irishman to play a Scot?

...Not bad for another summer blockbuster, this one actually has a good (if inaccurate) story. It is the film of the legend of Rob Roy MacGregor who tricked into debt by a Scottish laird sought to settle the score. Filled to the brim with period duels and honour, along with some very over the top hats this is an entertaining adventure film with a respectable story. Tim Roth and John Hurt play the villains, and as I mention a lot, British actors play the best villains (I don?t recall either of them in a bad film). The fact that (predictably) the hero walks off with wife and kids at the end, when the real Rob Roy was hung drawn and quartered let the film down for me, and I felt used Scottish History to cash in. But don?t let that put you off a good film, with some outstanding performances....

pabdesign 12.08.2000 · Read review
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At least Rob Grant can see it coming

Advantages: funny, couldn't put it down
Disadvantages: finishing it

...more complex, but nothing you couldn't handle! One of the biggest highlights of the book was the sheer volume of comedy, The jokes in there are never over done or strung out and are definitely not in short supply. There is also something for everyone, ranging from comedy in its most blunt form, to a political satire in other places. The characters integeral to the plot are few, and at times can seem underdeveloped, but i can assure you they are not. Rob Grant is direct and to the point without getting bogged down with the past and it does not really detract from the characters at all. All in all Incompetence is a great book and i would highly recommend reading it. It is a laugh a minute, whilst providing a satisfactory plot and at times can be scarily insightful as to what Europe is heading towards!...

robynpennock 07.09.2005 · Read review
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Our Rob or Ros

Advantages: Very Funny
Disadvantages: None

...interesting changes took place in the 7th series: Co writer Rob Grant decided to leave the series leaving Doug to carry on with some brought in writers. Chris Barrie decided that he would only appear in four of the episodes and so Kochanski was brought in. The dynamics of the show changed forever, not always for the best. The show itself got more hardcore Sci-Fi, great. Disc 1. ****** Episodes 37. ~ Tikka to Ride~ The crew time travel to a very well known 'Grassy Knoll' with some hilarious results. Time travelling paradoxes are all over the place and this was a proper sci-fi episode. 38. ~ Stoke Me a Clipper~ The episode where Rimmer finally becomes 'Ace' What a guy! The real ace is mortally wounded and before he dies he bequeaths his wig and cigar to Arnie so that he can carry on the 'Ace' legacy. Goodbye Big man, but...

Maximus-Qualitus 24.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Red Dwarf - Series 7 (DVD)

Woop Woop Arf Woop Woop

Advantages: moving, inspiring, thought provoking story
Disadvantages: not readily available in all bookshops

...Do you know Brad Cohen? No? Well, I?m not surprised. Not many people know Brad Cohen. And until a few months ago, I was not aware of his existence either. But that changed when, bored one weekend, I happened to come across a movie on one of the many movie channels on SKY that made me want to find out more about a person I had never heard of, would probably never meet, yet who?s life intrigued me immensely. The movie was called ?Front of the Class? and was based on the biography of teacher Brad Cohen who, despite a disability that could have made him withdraw from ever leaving the house, became a role model for so many people and is showing people that living with a disability that you cannot hide, does not necessarily mean your life was not worth living or you have no future in a world where everyone strives to be ?normal?. I was...

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What Was Sacha Baron Cohen Thinking?

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Everything

...Sacha Baron Cohen is back, this time as one of his many lesser known alter egos known as Brüno. Brüno is a gay Austrian fashion reporter, after causing chaos at a fashion show in which Brüno attempts to walk the catwalk wearing a Velcro outfit he is swiftly fired from his job. Brüno decides that he will travel to America in order to find fame, while in America he obtains a black baby by swapping the child for his iPod. Brüno then realises that he?s not getting famous because he?s an extremely camp homosexual, he decides that to become famous like Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt he must revert to being a straight man? I tried really hard to give a decent plot synopsis but unfortunately that?s the best I can do, Sacha Baron Cohen has stooped to a new low with this film, poking fun at people in the most offensive and crude way possible. My...

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Review of Bruno (DVD)

1 + 2 = a great book

Advantages: A funny and novel novel
Disadvantages: None

... FRACTAL MURDERS By Mark Cohen This is a unique first novel from Mark Cohen as fractal geometry is the basis for the book, with its wisecracking, tough private investigator protagonist - Pepper Keane. I hated maths at school and did wonder how I would enjoy, or if I would understand, this book but Mark Cohen's research is obvious in his writing, and makes the fractal principle not only understandable but interesting as well. Yes Mr Goodall (my poor old maths teacher) I did say 'understand' and 'interesting'!!!! When an apparent suicide, a robbery resulting in the victim getting shot in the back of his head and a murder rape victim are all connected by the fact that the three of them were all professors specializing in Fractal Mathematics - the discipline that analyses geometric shapes to identify patterns...

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