Advantages: Gives your car the dump valve sound without increasing insurance premiums
Disadvantages: Does nothing to increase your cars speed and the sound is always the same

...There are car enthusiasts who know everything about cars, then there are the rest of us!! For the purists out there you will never be able to compare or compete with a great turbo conversion and dump valve kit regardless of the cost. Well for the enthusiasts who perhaps lack a bit more technical knowledge, or budget we still want our car to turn heads. The SABER-EDV is a dump valve simulator. This product creates the Whoosh sound associated with turboed cars which have a dump valve fitted. It doesn't increase your cars speed, nor insurance premiums, it merely gives your car the sound of a dump valve to help create the illusion that your car uses a turbo. Obviously if you pop your bonnet you will soon realise your little 1.2 nova will not be packing a turbo, but for the un-initiated - will they even know what a turbo looks like... Read review

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Advantages: cast / acting / special fx
Disadvantages: few that I can think of

...Spider-Man 2 Review The best superhero film yet? You’re going to hear a lot of critics telling you that Spider-Man 2 is so much better than Spider-Man. This I think is a little unfair as it, at least in part, diminishes the original. And let’s not forget that was a very good film indeed. It was especially notable when so many other films that year were below par. The original X-Men film for instance, (which was of course thankfully followed up by a far superior sequel) the rather confused Daredevil and a tedious first (and hopefully only) big screen outing for the Hulk. Direction and Cinematography Sam Raimi’s direction is assured and often stylish but did anyone else notice that the framing of almost the entire film seems to be really up close? 75% of the time the tops of people’s heads were cut off. It looked like the projector... Read review

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Advantages: Shatner is fun, story is effective, directed with an edge
Disadvantages: The bad ending, not for those who hate spiders

...****************************************************************** TITLE : Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) RATING: ***½ CAST: William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, Lieux Dressler, Altovise Davis, David McLean, Natasha Ryan, Joe Ross, Marcy Lafferty, Adele Malis-Morey, Roy Engel, Hoke Howell, Bill Coontz, Whitney Hughes, Jay Lawrence. DIRECTOR: John "Bud" Cardos SCREENWRITER: Alan Caillou & Richard Robinson; Stephen Lodge & Jeffrey M. Sneller (story) STUDIO: Dimension Pictures / Arachnid Productions, Ltd. RUNNING TIME: 95 min RATED: PG (US & UK); for some bloody scenes and brief nudity. DVD AVAILABILITY: 2.50 GBP from Amazon; ASIN #B00006I042 ************************************************************ ****** INTRODUCTION: ARACHNAPHOBES BEWARE... Read review

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Advantages: Great special effects, villainous acting
Disadvantages: the overall story, is too long

...Spider-Man, the web-crawling wonder, your friendly neighbourhood hero, first appeared way back in 1962. He was a new kind of hero, different from al those that had gone before not only because he was a teenager himself, like most comic readers, but that he also was beset by the everyday trials and tribulations that most normal people struggled with to. He was an immediate success and sealed the fortunes of the Marvel Comics company and the future of superhero comics in general, leading to the collapse of pretty much every other genre of comics until very recently. Spider-man became the only hero that comes close to matching the iconic stature of DC’s Batman and Superman and is as much a recognised figure to comic readers and non-readers alike. Ever since 1967 Spider-Man has been regularly on TV, mainly in animated series... Read review

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Advantages: A sturdy, fuss-free and versatile plant which is easily propogated.
Disadvantages: Flowers are uninspiring.

...Seventeen years ago this month my husband’s Aunt died. She was a dear lady and her plants were her pride and joy. As we cleared her house I packed as many as I could into the car and brought them home with us. Spider, as he became known, went into the conservatory. Well, it’s not exactly a conservatory, more a sort of lean-too veranda, but “conservatory” has a rather more elegant ring to it, don’t you think? Well, Spider came in for some healthy neglect pretty well straight away when I spent much of the following months in hospital and it was spring before he got more than the occasional sip of water. He’s a survivor, though and he came through it all. Spider plants, or Chlorophytum, to give them their correct name have been grown indoors for over two hundred years. There’s a good reason for this – they’re not a fussy plant... Read review

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Advantages: Great start to the SpiderMan franchise
Disadvantages: None

...SpiderMan, my favourite superhero. I remember reading all the comics and annuals growing up and even had some of the toys …. Marvel had a great idea to start bringing characters from their comics and make them into movies. One of the first was Spiderman. Stan Lee's comic book hero was about to come to life. Sam Raimi the director (Evil Dead) wanted to stick to as much of the comic adaption as he possibly could without changing much of the storyline when Peter Parker became Spiderman. The actors who are involved in this include Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker / Spiderman), Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane Watson), and William Dafoe (Green Goblin). Everybody was so sure that this would be a success Tobey and Kirsten were signed up for three SpiderMan films. The villain writers and producers chose was the Green Goblin who is the most well... Read review

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Advantages: quite fun webslinging
Disadvantages: no long time playability

...Spider man genre of games comes onto next gen, however not with as big as of a bang as we at first thought. I must admit I have been a big fan of the spider man games however this one simply isnt as good as the others of their time. When games come onto nex gen consoles it is expected that the games will be amazing and truly breathtaking. I must admit its an improvement, however it isnt the improvement which we were all hoping for. The storyline follows the films storyline and adds aditional storylines in order to keep the user hooked. Too be totally honest I havent seen the film yet. Simply havent had the time. This means that I am not totally sure of the storyline and how well the game follows the film. However from what I have being able to gather the game doesnt follow the storyline entirely. This is a disapointment indeed. You... Read review

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Advantages: Setting, performances, fascinating psychological study.
Disadvantages: Some dialog difficult to hear, pacing may annoy some.

..., and Spider is no different. It may be a more simplistic tale than the others, but it still has the ability to get under the skin and bother the viewer. The man we saw getting off the train was Spider Cleg (Ralph Fiennes), a man released to a halfway house from the asylum where he has spent most of his life. While there though, his mind begins to fall back into thoughts of his childhood, and the events that led to his original internment. He recalls an incident involving his mother (Miranda Richardson) and father (Gabriel Byrne) that changed his entire life and shaped him into the disturbed man that he is today. From that, the story may sound like nothing particularly special, but in reality, the story itself is not the important part here. Of course it's necessary, but the whole film is an exercise in psychological study more than... Read review

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Advantages: Great touchy feely book
Disadvantages: none

...Incy Wincy Spider. Until recently, I had never seen or heard of this book, but it has proved quite a hit with the young children I teach. The author is the creator of Bob the Builder, and one of my favourite books, The crunching Munching caterpillar, so I am surprised I had never heard of it. The book is a “touchy feely” kind of book, in that the spider’s web and the threads which attach his web to various objects are silver and are slightly raised from the page, to give them an almost glittery effect- very popular with young children. The story starts with the spider merrily spinning his web, when a gust of wind blows him out of the barn. So starts his adventure, as the wind blows him onto different animals; a pink pig, a grey goat, a black and white cow, a duck, a brown horse and finally a cockerel. When he finally lands... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to look after, can stand some neglect, easy to propagate, cheap
Disadvantages: Feed at your peril

...There are many suitable plants for indootrs which will last well, look good and possibly help the quality of the air in your home. One such plant is the spider plant. BACKGROUND Packing the down stairs of my house up a couple of weeks ago ready for some much needed, but equally much dreaded work, I carried all of my plants upstairs into the spare bedroom for safe keeping. I was amazed at just how many spider plants I have and the size of some of them. When my Mum died, back in 1975, I took her indoor plants home, as I knew she had really cherished them. To this day I would hate to throw a living plant away, even if I did not want it. I would have to find a corner or a home for it. Silly but then that's me. For many years after Mum died I still had her original Spider Plant although most... Read review

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