Milk- Sean Penn's oscar nod is deserved!

Advantages: Story.Performances
Disadvantages: Might not appeal to few for the subject and the genre

...and does that with much fluency and with aplomb! Harvey Milk is played by Sean Penn, and boy didn't he deserve the Oscar nod here! He is fantastic, carrying an irresistible charm yet very commanding and confident. Its the performances by the cast which takes the film to a new level altogether. Milk is a very well made film and not once does the viewer get uncomfortable of the whole homosexuality issue,It is rather dealt with utmost confidence and flair by the director. The story is well written, gripping in most parts. I won't go into details of the story since most of us know it is supposed to be around politics, so i will leave that to yourself. If you are thinking if you should watch this or not, you should stop thinking and get a copy immediately. You don't want to miss this film, ohh, by the way, the ending is brilliant!...

aadnan613 17.07.2009 · 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...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Sean Penn IS Harvey Milk! The film of the year!

Advantages: Watch a compelling Sean Penn performance and learn some history!
Disadvantages: I am hoping the DVD extras will include some actual documentary footage of Milk?

..., "Good Will Hunting", offers the closest comparison with "Milk". At it's heart is the focus on a man who finally makes himself step out into the world to realise his true self. Matt Damon hid his intellect and mathematical genius for fear of what he might achieve. It takes Robin Williams' therapist to liberate him. Sean Penn's incarnation of Harvey Milk waits until he turns forty to take his life on his destined path, moving from New York to San Francisco with his younger lover (the excellent James Franco). But it's the realisation of the oppression by police and neighbourhood residents that same-sex couples experience that catapults Milk into campaigning to become one of the city supervisors. We see him galvanise the throngs of gay activists who increasingly populate the Castro district of San Francisco before he finally becomes a city...

MOONITO 15.02.2009 · Read review
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Jay Sean... Who Is He????

Advantages: fantastic album
Disadvantages: -

...Now for some reason I am really getting into R & B just lately. IN one of my recent reviews I referred to a R & B album being possibly the first and last that I may ever buy, well that has changed and overnight I seem to have become quite fond of this kind of music, someone has obviously influenced me, but I can't think who. Jay Sean, a couple of weeks ago, if someone mentioned his name to me I wouldn't have had a clue who he was, possibly an actor, singer maybe, I would have been oblivious to who he was, however his album has now found it prized place in my ever increasing collection of R & B music. Jay Sean, is a British Indian singer, originally born as Kamaljit Singh Jhooti. Although I had never heard of him before he has actually released two albums in which My Own Way is the second album. Majority of the tracks that have been...

blondgem 11.06.2008 · 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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A Backpacker's Pespective of Sean Paul

Advantages: Memorably Catchy Beats, some good lyrics, Hip-Hop / Reggae Fusion, actual GOOD Club Songs
Disadvantages: A lot of songs are crappy, Difficult to understand Sean Paul

...Believe it not, i actually enjoy some of Sean Paul's work, even though im a backpacker. Sean Paul's infectious beats and somewhat good lyrics (those which i can understand), aren't too bad at all. In 2002, he released Dutty Rock, which is a club favorite... but how will it fare against a hip-hop head? Track List & Rating 1. Dutty Rock Intro (NOT RATED) 2. Shout (Street Respect) (2 Stars) 3. Gimme The Light (5 Stars) 4. Like Glue (5 Stars) 5. Get Busy (4 Stars) 6. Top Of The Game f/ Rahzel (4 Stars) 7. Police Skit (NOT RATED) 8. Ganja Breed f/ Chico (3 Stars) 9. Concrete (2 Stars) 10. I'm Still In Love f/ Sasha (3 Stars) 11. International Affair f/ Debbie Nova (4 Stars) 12. Can You Do The Work f/ Cecile (3 1/2 Stars) 13. Punkie (3 Stars) 14. My Name (5 Stars) 15. Junkin Punny (2 Stars) 16...

bigdiship-hop 23.08.2004 · Read review
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Jarvis Penns - Sutton Coldfield

Advantages: Pleasant surroundings, good food and leisure facilities
Disadvantages: room not to the standard of some hotels

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sue.51 23.03.2001 (24.03.2001) · Read review
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Kidman, Penn, and an assassination attempt...

Advantages: Tense, beautiful art direction, excellent musical score, Kidman, Penn, Keener
Disadvantages: A bit too predictable; the ending lets it down

...The Interpreter is a thriller set in the United Nations - well, some in Africa (another fictional country - Matoba - fictional African countries are sure getting popular these days, we recently saw one in Sahara as well!) Interpreter Sylvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) works at the UN, and one night when coming back in to pick up some things she left there due to the building being evacuated for a security alert, she overhears a plot to kill the hated President of that country when he comes to give an address to the General Assembly. Taking this information to the security people the next day, she finds herself under the spotlight as special agents Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) and Dot Woods (Catherine Keener) question her story. As the storyline progresses, more and more inconsistencies are found with Broome's testimony and background, but is...

CaptainDisaster 22.05.2005 · Read review
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They Fought The Law... But Did The Law Win?

Advantages: Detailed analysis, occasional sniping between contributors
Disadvantages: You really need to have seen the film

...of critical theory, the book also throws up a number of things that are definitely there, such as the playful mobile camera work in the opening sequence in the high street. The book kicks off, after the inevitable editor's introduction, with essays by Arthur Penn (the director) and David Newman (one of the writers), which chronicle the slow journey from the initial screenplay to the finished film and its immediate public reception. Following this come close examinations of various key elements of the film. Visual style is looked at (all the groovy discontinuous editing in the opening scene, and the mobile camera along the high street - loads of point of view stuff), as is the initial fury over the graphic violence in the film. Most usefully for my essay, that particular article compares Bonnie and Clyde with Oliver Stone's Natural Born...

Olly_Plimsoll 13.07.2005 · Read review
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Take Me There? Are You Mad?

Advantages: Brief hints of quality
Disadvantages: Generally weak

...In 2007 the then-17-year-old Miami-raised Pop, R&B and Reggae singer Sean Kingston made his debut with a self-entitled release. Born in Jamaica?s capital, the singer shot to fame with his hits ?Beautiful Girls? whilst using Reggae influence in music which is based mostly in R&B and Pop. 1. ?Intro? 2. ?Kingston? After giving us an understating of who he is, you see that he leads us into the first track with a Pop Rap track as he comes out with a tune which has him speaking on why exactly he chose to take on the name of his hometown as his stage name on some hard beats. This kind of Hip Pop doesn?t really appeal to me as you see that he starts things off with a rather unimpressive tune with some rather simplistic rhymes. **Two Stars** 3. ?Take You There? He moves things on a bit as he throws down one of the singles from the album...

XICripZ 30.09.2009 · Read review
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