There will be blood - oh yes there will!!

Advantages: Spooky, mad movie
Disadvantages: A bit long

...cut but they did add to the story though. I will not ruin the ending but it left me a bit shocked. The film was very well received by cinema goers. It made $40.1 million in North America and $32.7 million in the rest of the world, with a worldwide total of $72.9 million, well above its $25 million budget. There are not too many extras on this DVD, there are just some pictures and research for the making of the movie. The film lasts for approximately 152 minutes and is rated 15 due to very strong language....

Spottydog11 07.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of There Will Be Blood (DVD)

There will be Oscars

Advantages: An immediate classic
Disadvantages: As it never doubts its viewers' intelligence it's not for everyone

...Ostensibly 'There will be Blood' is a film about oil, what it's actually about is much harder to define. The bare bones of the plot are taken from a 1927 novel, straightforwardly titled 'Oil!', and at its simplest it's the story of Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his rise to wealth and power in that business over the first thirty years of the 20th Century. The bulk of the narrative takes place in the California community of Little Boston, which Plainview descends on after a tip they're sat on top of an ocean of oil. Here he meets resistance from Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), the local self-styled church leader, and competition from larger oil companies. As its title suggests 'There will be Blood' is concerned with religion, and fittingly its themes are large and biblical. It is a film about fathers and sons, about duelling brothers...

Zoe 20.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of There Will Be Blood (DVD)

There Will Be Blood

Advantages: Astounding cinematography, grpping plot, mesmerising lead performance.
Disadvantages: That ending might throw some viewers a touch.

...Brilliant as he is, the "auteur" tag flung about in relation to Paul Thomas Anderson from at least Boogie Nights has always seemed a touch premature. Yes, those films were astounding, but could were they REALLY the work of a wholly unique voice? The truth is, Boogie Nights was the best film Martin Scorsese never made and Magnolia could've easily fallen from Robert Altman's fingers (albeit with a touch of post-MTV sheen). Only Punch Drunk Love, his fourth feature, felt in any way distinctive (and even it had a fair wallop of the Kubrick's about it). With There Will Be Blood, though, Anderson has crafted a film that truly feels like it could have been made by nobody else. It is a bold, idiosyncratic epic shot through with a lo-fi, indie-flick intimacy. It is at once cacophonous and quiet. A contradictory, Old Testament fable...

DavidJay 13.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of There Will Be Blood (DVD)

All about me. One Day there will be no more 'One Days'

Advantages: All about me.
Disadvantages: Probably of no interest to readers!!

...All About Me For my 100th review with Ciao, I thought I'd do something different and after considering various options and ideas, decided to write this piece. I hope readers won't be too bored with the ramblings of a middle aged reviewer!! In The Beginning I was born in Folkestone, Kent on 19th June 1958, my Ciao name, Brittle1906 reflects my birth date, so no surprises there! I was an only child, but have a large extended family of cousins and aunts, my youngest aunt is only 6 years older than me, so although I was an 'only' I was rarely lonely as a child. My parents both worked for the Post Office full time, so I spent much of my early life with my grandmother and my aunts, giving me the best of both worlds, an only child at home and the youngest of a large family at grandma's. My childhood was a happy one, I was fortunate...

brittle1906 19.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of All About Me

Where there's a Will

Advantages: Entertaining, informative, a fun read
Disadvantages: Author sometimes appears too good to be true

...the time to get to know people. As relationships become deeper, Will often re-evaluates his initial perceptions of people and changes his opinion. Initially he made me think of writers like Bill Bryson and perhaps this is the sort of stuff Bryson might produce had he more time to get to know people and places. Bryson's views are usually created from brief visits and his immediate reaction can often seem harsh and critical but Randall's were tempered with the experience that comes with time. If there is one aspect that stands out above any other it is the brilliant way Randall points out just how much India is a country of contrasts; we see the poverty of the slums where the ashram is situated and, on the other hand, the wealth and glitz of Bollywood and the Indian film industry when the sudden re-appearance of the Dutchwoman presents Randall...

fizzytom 27.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Indian Summer - Will Randall

Where Theres A Will There's A Grace

Advantages: Funny show.
Disadvantages: Very stereotypical.

...comic actors on American television were hired to play the sidekicks to Will & Grace. Jack McFarland is a very very gay eccentric struggling actor, who has been friends with Will for a long time. Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally who played Grace's best friend Karen provided us with the most laughs in the show. The writers were fantastic at giving these two characters one liner that will just having you rolling about in your seat laughing. The show was always controversial as I don't think there had been another show that used homosexuality as one of its lead themes at that time. The show was also one of the first to air a gay kiss, and openly stereotyped gay men as people who loved to shop, wore tight clothing and were all together perfect, and they were criticized for this however I don't think this offended anyone really as the show...

DixieChick10 22.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Will & Grace

Where there's a Will..

Advantages: Superb characters, deeply entertaining if you stick with it
Disadvantages: Use of obscure, seldom used words, unorthodox structure

...remembered someone reading a newspaper he could later summon up the image and then turn the pages over and read over that person's shoulder. This is one of those novels where it's pretty difficult to give a plot precis but it's something like this... As the novel starts, Ian Wharton explains gives an example of what constitutes his idea of fun. I won't spoil it for you by saying what that is, but I will say that it's probably nothing like your idea - it's certainly not mine. The story follows Ian from childhood and how his relationship with the bizarre and, for me, unnerving, Mr Broadhurst - he reminded me of one of those blundering, verbose gentlemen from a Dickens novel - a man who was a kind of father figure for Ian in his formative years. It is Mr. Broadhurst who nurtures Ian's strange skill and encourages him to use it malevolently...

fizzytom 26.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of My Idea of Fun - Will Self

I lost my WILL to live !!!

Advantages: None.
Disadvantages: Poor film

...Will Hay - Where there's a Will. ********************************** This film stars Will Hay and Graham Moffatt. No Moore Marriott on this occasion. Introduction: ********* An early outing from Will Hay and Graham Moffatt as a solicitor and an office boy respectfully involved in a bank robbery. Synopsis: ******* Will plays Benjamin Stubbins a useless and penniless solicitor who has his office directly above a bank! He makes unwitting friends of a gang of thieves who think his office is ideally placed. He pretends to be a success to his daughter whilst his office boy keeps dropping him in it. The ending at a Christmas party is as daft as it was dull. Opinions: ******* A poor film from Will and Moffatt. It never really gets going. The plot is slow and sluggish with jokes and humour sparsely peppered throughout...

Maximus-Qualitus 07.08.2008 (28.07.2008) · Read review
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Review of Will Hay - Where There's A Will (DVD)

Will you marry me?

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

.... The pc may update a couple of files needed to run the applet but then you are taken on to an exclusive vaulted web area. It would have been fab but the competition had ended! There is a Making of Leave Right Now! and a mini movie from his Album Launch back in November 2003. So it is stuff worth seeing! Shame about the compettion because I would have liked the chance to win a signed polaroid! Nevermind! The CD cover is a picture of Will, all happy and jolly, parading about, I think, Hadrians Wall, but dont quote me on that! Let me know if I m wrong and where he really is!! Wearing his trademark scruffy blue jeans accompanied with dark blue T shirt and Black jacket. Well, i have to say he looks gorgeous, because he usually does! (I say usually, not always!!) The background is of a lovely landscape, blue sky, green fields and a tree! Yes...

kerryzach 12.01.2004 · Read review
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Review of Friday's Child - Will Young

Bret Hart - The Best There Ever Will Be!

Advantages: plenty of quality matches, Bret Hart
Disadvantages: I hate recalling the Montreal Screwjob

...-Hart Foundation vs. The Nasty Boys -Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect -Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog -Bret Hart vs. Bam Bam Bigelow -Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect -Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart -Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart -Bret Hart vs Hakushi -Bret Hart vs. Diesel -Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog -Bret Hart vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin -Bret Hart vs. The Undertaker (One Night Only, 09/20/97) -Bret Hart vs. Chris Benoit The Verdict -To me Bret Hart will always be The Best There is, the best there was and the best there ever will be -Few wrestlers have the technical skill of a Bret Hart nowadays. The list is short and included Kurt angle and Samoa Joe. -Bret Hart was good technically as well as on the mic. Not many can do that nowadays. -Hart's story is tragic. He has lost many loved ones including family members like Owen...

TheChosen1 08.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of WWE - Bret Hitman Hart - The Best There Is (DVD)