Advantages: A great deal, see review
Disadvantages: minor details really, see review

...baby" and "Zooropa". From 1990 to 2000, U2 made 5 original albums ("Achtung Baby" [1991]; "Zooropa" [1993]; "Passengers" [1995]; "Pop" [1997]; "All that you can't leave behind" [2000]).There are two best of U2 divided into two periods : 1980-1990 & 1990-2000 and songs which do not appear on U2 albums but on films soundtrack. If you compare the CD and the DVD, you'll note that there are more videos on this DVD, that's why I find it definitely more interesting. The main difference is that on the CD, you'll find the song "The first time" (which first appeared on "Zooropa") and as for the limited edition, a number of b-sides and remixes whereas they are not on the DVD. To be honest, I don't remember exactly when I bought this DVD and how much it was. I remember that a friend had lent me hers but I definitely wanted mine. So, I found... Read review

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Advantages: All the videos ever released and more
Disadvantages: only 2 live peformances

...The Smashing Pumpkins: 1991-2000 Greatest Hits Video Collection visually charts the progress of the band from grunge rockers to AOR stars. The grainy early videos ("Siva snd "Rhinoceros") depict the progressive psychedelia of their early sound. Despite the continuation of an alternative music style on Siamese Dream (the group's first album with Virgin), the videos from this era become more mainstream in a blatant attempt to get MTV airplay. Matching the commercial and accessible style of the album, the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness videos are big-budget numbers. Drawing on their long-standing fascination with 70s youth culture, the "1979" video provides another romanticised depiction of that period, while the awarding-winning "Tonight, Tonight" is a clever remake of Méliès Trip to the Moon. The epic style... Read review

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Advantages: Big action movie, great stunts with a decent plot.
Disadvantages: You need to know something about computer.

...Chan is trying to portray. Is he trying to scare those who are already scared of everything screwing up when the clock strikes 12:00am on 1st January 2000….or is he showing that the only way a Millennium exist is due to terrorist and human errors. Looking into the casting, Aaron Kwok (who I've been brought up with) was outstanding and convincing as Peter Li. Although I don't think I was attached to his character, I emphasised with what he was going through. However, I felt it was Chan's fault to create Peter as a martial artists. Since when does a geek knows how to do Kung Fu? From playing Tekken computer games? It is plausible that Peter knows Kung Fu, but Chan should have established that early on in the film, rather than just seeing Peter kicking butt when he needs to. One particular action sequence that keeps you on the edge... Read review

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Advantages: Resonable updating of a classic tale
Disadvantages: Bad jokes, and sickening scenes

...Do you like a mouthful of sick? No neither do I, but that's what your likely to get if your over 15 attempting to watch Sydney White. Now don't get me wrong, this movie will pass the time and I can't deny that on one or two occasions the corner of my mouth twinged. The trouble with Sydney White is that it's all so old, it's all so creepy and almost bum lickingly disturbing. Yes I have just made up my own language to describe this plagiaristic trip into Disney territory. Sydney White played by She's The Man star Amanda Bynes is a girl on her way into college following the footsteps of her oh so popular mother. White senior (now dead) was a legendary pupil at an illustrious school. Sadly Sydney has little in common with her mother and is a bit tomboyish in her style. This is much to the annoyance of to sorority queen Rachel Witchburn... Read review

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Advantages: setting, Will Smith and great acting
Disadvantages: Slightly Pretentious

...A truely original film, that totally amazed me when I saw it as I was a fan of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and never realised quite what a talented actor Will Smith was. This was one of his first major film roles but you would never guess, he plays a working class man who manages to work himself into the lives of several upper class families in the wealthy side of New York, under the pretense that he is the son of Sidney Poitier. The film is based on a play and it shows in the format and the dialogue based script. However dont let that put you off if your not a fan of plays, its a thouroughly entertaining watch with some great actors like Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen and Heather Graham help add some class to it. The story itself is based on real events although the slightly naive families are probably a little more careful nowadays... Read review

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Advantages: Great singalong songs
Disadvantages: need more extra's

...Kylie Minogue - Live In Sydney [2001] Kylie Minogue concludes her On a Night Like This tour on home ground in Sydney. This was filmed on 11th May 2001. On the DVD the disc is perfectly packaged, just like Kylie. The menu is beautifully laid out with easy to access options, which include playing the whole concert, chosing your fav track from the track selection option, watch the video for Spinning Around and even visit Kyle backstage. Songs include Love Boat Koocachoo Hand on Your Heart Put Yourself in My Place On a Night Like This Medley: Step Back in Time, Never Too Late, Wouldn't Change a Thing, Turn it into Love, Celebration Can't Get You Out of My Head Your Disco Needs You I Should Be So Lucky Better the Devil You Know So Now Goodbye Physical Butterfly Confide in Me Kids Shocked Light Years What... Read review

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Advantages: Arse-baring antipodean pure pop antics
Disadvantages: Poledancing Olivia Newton-John covers

...She’s not going to go away, you know. Brit Awards, sell-out concerts, No.1 singles and albums, she’s even been on Parkinson for God’s sake…who’d have thought 15 years ago that Kylie would still be here? Just goes to show that a lot of determination and even more arse-baring pays dividends in the end. “Live In Sydney” is a two hour video (also available on DVD, DVD fans!) which has the enticing prospect of Kylie performing twenty of her greatest hits. Kylie’s concerts always seem to have been no-expense-spared pop extravaganzas that improve year on year, so I was looking forward to this one. The show starts with a quick retrospective of Kylie’s videos to date accompanied by lift-muzak type interpretations of her big hits. Pink spacesuits, bubble baths, feather boas, black... Read review

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Advantages: A seventeen year old girl comes to terms with who she is
Disadvantages: Mixture of Italian (with english subtitles) and English; No extras

...international awards when it was first published. In 1993 it won the CBC Book of the Year Award, the Multicultural Book of the Year Award, and the Kids Own Australian Literature Award (KOALA). Melina Marchetta is currently working as a teacher in a Sydney High School. She started writing the book when she was 22 and finished writing the screenplay when she was 33. She wrote an essay for the Screenplay version (first published in 2000 by Currency Press Ltd; Copyright © Belle Ragazze Pty Ltd 2000, adapted from the novel "Looking for Alibrandi" by Melina Marchetta) entitled "Re-visiting Alibrandi" as an introduction. In it, she said: "Writing the script has been a long and very emotional process which involved breaking the novel in pieces and putting it back together in a different way while retaining the essence. To do this, I had to put... Read review

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Advantages: Great humour included!
Disadvantages: None

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Advantages: A wonderful movie, thats all that needs to be said
Disadvantages: Some people out there may view it as a chick flick, though it is most surely is not

...************************************************************************************************************ YES, I DID SEE TONI IN SYDNEY ************************************************************************************************************ On a personal note, I want to say that while I was shopping in Sydney back in November of 2000, I found the actual video shop where Muriel works at. It had a huge poster in the entrance, showing Toni Colette smiling behind the counter, including an autograph as well as the inscription, “That You For Hiring Me!!”... Read review

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