Sophia Beach Hotel/Apartments - Kos town

Advantages: within 1.5 km of Kos Town, quiet, plenty of sunbeds as a lack of guests.
Disadvantages: rude staff, dirty/filthy rooms, poor A/C, poor plumbing

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Grahame00 02.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sophia Beach Aparthotel, Kos

Escape with Ava Gardner and Sophia Loren!

Advantages: Great cast, good disaster film, some good special effects
Disadvantages: Not the best film ever

...I love escaping into the world of films. I love many kinds of films, but two of my favourites are disaster movies (having been brought up by a Dad who loves The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno) and films starring classic actresses. I love Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood and the like. So imagine by glee when I heard of a disaster movie starring two screen legends ? Sophia Loren and Ava Gardner! The Cassandra Crossing was also nice and cheap ? just £2.98 from Amazon ? so how could I resist?! The plot is typically dramatic, of course. A man has been exposed to the plague virus and boards a train from Stockholm to Geneva. The authorities need to prevent the plague spreading, so they seal the train full of 1000 passengers and re-route it to a bridge called the Cassandra Crossing. However, the bridge is perilously...

KarenUK 31.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Cassandra Crossing (DVD)

My saint bernard Sophia

Advantages: loving gentle protective always eager to please loyal and obedient
Disadvantages: expensive to feed, can have alot of health problems, a very large dog that needs alot of space

...settle in and to meet our 3 year old daughter sophia. Do you want to know the funny thing? the dog was called sophia too, and when they met it was like they where soul mates. doing everything together. sleeping eating playing. They loved eachother. if sophia my daughter fell over sophia the dog was always at her side to help her up and lick away the tears. my daughter could even sit on the dogs back while eating a bowl of cereal and she would just sit there looking adoringly at her. five months passed and sophia the st bernard had put on 28 kg. she now weighed 68 kg and was happy healthy and loving life maybe for the first time. but her weight gain took a long time and kept fluctuating . we took her for her eye operation which went well and was a sucess. Then shortly after sophia the dog went off her food. she would not eat a thing...

lisapearce 17.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of St Bernard

Don't get mad, get even

Advantages: Fab cast and funny storyline
Disadvantages: A little silly and cheesy

...John Tucker is the ultimate heart-throb - gorgeous, popular and head of the basketball team. But he's also a complete player. He dates three girls at the same time, all from different cliques so they never find out. But when the latest set of girls he dumps find out they've all been going out with the same guy, they decide to band together in a bid to get revenge. They bring the new girl in school in on their plan and shape her into the perfect girl in the hope of making John fall for her. And once he does, humiliation and heart-break is what's in store for John Tucker. ~ Cast ~ John Tucker - Jesse Metcalfe Kate - Brittany Snow Heather - Ashanti Beth - Sophia Bush Carrie - Arielle Kebbel I remember seeing this when it first came out at the cinema and really enjoying it so I was quite excited to watch it again when it...

frankiefromings13 01.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of John Tucker Must Die (DVD)

A breath of boredom

Advantages: Maurice Chevalier's cheeky smile
Disadvantages: Boring and very poor and not worth the time unless you like Barbara Cartland books!

...This is one hell of a boring film with no real plot and doesn't deserve to have been made let alone issued. Sophia Loren and Maurice Chevalier are too good for this film and could have done with a far better script. Basically it starts with Sophia Loren living in exile and meeting an american man who causes her to fall off her horse as he tears around Austria in his motor car. He falls in love with her and she returns to Vienna from exile after receiving a pardon for her indiscretions, but she doesn't let the american know who she really is. He travels to Vienna to meet with her father not knowing that that is who he is, he then finds out Sophia is to be engaged to a Russian prince. All terribly boring and then he goes on try to show her how much he loves her. Her father sees this and convinces her to follow her heart right...

sexybabe7825 24.11.2007 (30.12.2007) · Read review
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Review of A Breath Of A Scandal (DVD)

A Land Army girl from Walker Street

Advantages: A well crafted story set against a backdrop of the 2nd World War
Disadvantages: None in my view.

...unpleasant girl-friend, Val. Hannah is spotted by the murderers and she flees back to the country in fear of her life as she knows that Val's brother and his gang are violent criminals who will stop at nothing to cover their own backs. Hannah's new posting is on an Essex farm with Raven, a mysterious young war widow and Ginnie, a Home Counties girl from a good family, Ginnie has a fiance serving abroad. The three girls are strangers at first but a firm bond between them soon develops. The farm they work on is mainly crops and they find themselves learning about sugar beet production, crop rotation and other arable farming matters. The farm is owned by the James St John and his aloof artist mother, Sophia. Sophia avoids the Land Army girls as much as possible and both she and her son have an air of mystery about them. Hannah is a cheeky...

brittle1906 14.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Walker Street - Irene Roberts

A bad Accident

Advantages: Jeffery Dean Morgan is lush
Disadvantages: Pretty much everything

...Synopsis Dr. Emma Lloyd is a popular New York radio DJ, whose practical love advice is listened to and loved by women everywhere! Off-air, her own love life is running smoothly with Emma planning her wedding to her dependable fiancé Richard. That is until she makes the shocking discovery that she's already married... To someone else! With her life in crisis Emma sets out to track down her mystery man - in order to annul the marriage. However as events unfold, she discovers that following her own advice is a lot more difficult than she anticipated! Story Patrick Sullivan is a New York fire fighter, he's been dating his girlfriend Sophia fr 5 months and is planning to marry.... that is until Sophia calls Dr Emma Lloyds, Real Love phon in showand ells the doctor of her doubts and cold feet. Emma advises Sophia to call the wedding...

hollywoodmum 12.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Accidental Husband (DVD)

My second favourite Agatha Christie ever...

Advantages: Keeps you intrigued until the end. Surprising ending, quite takes your breath away.
Disadvantages: Just that the ending is so good, you can't forget it, so re-reading means it has to be done knowing the ending.

...Introduction My second favourite Agatha Christie ever, second only to Sleeping Murder. How she managed to think up so many excellent plots is beyond me. There is no-one to even touch the number of quality books that she had published. Anyone who hasn't read one, please do - there's something to charm everyone. The plot Charles Hayward returns from his Foreign Office post abroad, with the aim of asking his girlfriend, Sophia Leonides, to marry him. He is shocked to find on arrival that her grandfather, Aristide Leonides, has died and that it was not an accident. His father being the Assistant Commissioner, means that Charles has special access to information and he accepts Sophia's invitation to go and stay with the Leonides family to help solve the murder. If the murderer is the "right" person, ie Aristide's young widow, Brenda...

sunmeilan 28.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Crooked House - Agatha Christie

Tristan and Isolde,

Advantages: an enjoyable plot and convincing dialogue well executed, good photography and direction.
Disadvantages: historically and politically naive

...I had never previously heard of this film before watching it, and wasn't expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover a charming, well-executed romantic historical tale which moved along with sufficient aplomb to keep me entertained from beginning to end. The film is set in the British Isles after the fall of Rome, and the Irish are warring with the fragmented tribal states of England. Against this backdrop the film depicts a love story between the English Tristan (James Franco) and the Irish Isolde (Sophia Myles)- after falling into a coma and thought to be dead, Tristan is set out on a burning funeral boat across the channel and ends up washed ashore on the Irish mainland, where he is nurtured back to health by Isolde, the daughter of the sly and machiavellian leader of the Irish tribes. They fall in love, but Isolde...

Burning_Darkness 12.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tristan And Isolde (DVD)

Weepie to end all weepies

Advantages: Ultimate romantic film
Disadvantages: Maybe a little dated but in many ways that's a bonus too

...This film has iconic status and rightly so. A couple of times they have tried to do re-makes. One dismal attempt with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren and a more modern re-working, Falling In Love, with Robert de Niro and Meryl Streep ( which was OK) but David Lean's classic is, simply, perfect. Written by Noel Coward , it was made during the Second World War at a time when Britain badly needed escapism and romance. The nation adored this drama starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnston as two married people who meet by chance and fall in love with all the anguish these liaisons incur. It's touching on many levels. Because it was made 60 years ago, there are no graphic sex scenes. The couple never, in fact, consumate their relationship due to conflicts of loyalty and honour. Conflicts which can't be...

bookaddict 19.07.2009 · Read review
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