Pieces

Advantages: Alright slasher
Disadvantages: It's been done before. Lynda Day

...It's 1942 a young boy is playing peacefully I his bedroom. However, somehow it's a jigsaw of a naked woman he has and his mother is annoyed at discovering this and finding heaps of pornography hidden all over his bedroom. She demands that he goes and gets her the matches so she can burn it all but the weird child being a true blue porn fan instead gets an axe and brutally, albeit very unrealistically, kills his mother. He is then found in the blood covered room after cutting her into several pieces. Many years later and we have a random scene of a woman skating about on some University grounds before she crashes into two men carrying a mirror across a road. That scene seems pointless and is forgotten. But then another young woman is sitting on the lawn reading her book when she is disturbed by a man with a chainsaw cutting...

Phelthew 05.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Pieces (DVD)

Pieces of a jigsaw

Advantages: Great entertainment, hilarious!
Disadvantages: Not sure it's supposed to be funny!

...In the early nineteen forties, a young boy resents his mother's intrusion into his bedroom and takes an axe to her, pretending afterwards that he was an innocent bystander. Some forty years later, young girls on a college campus begin to be picked off by an electric saw-wielding madman. It seems that the killer must be someone on the campus, perhaps a teacher, and the police officers in charge of the case, along with a fast-thinking student, do their best to keep on the killer's tail. Yet the murders continue, each one gorier than the last. Will they ever catch the murderer? And what is the link with the young boy? For some strange reason, there is a following for horror films that are so bad that they are good - I, for one, am a fan. Pieces, or Mil Gritos Tiene La Noce (One Thousand Cries Has the Night) as it was originally called...

sunmeilan 28.08.2008 · Read review
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Bits and Pieces

Advantages: Some very decent music
Disadvantages: For the fans, the new songs are a bit of a let down

...Five years is a long time in the music business scene. Although it doesn't seem that long, it is five years since Anastacia hit the charts for the first time with "I'm Outta Love". Since then, so much has happened. In the five years since then, we have seen any number of pop groups split up, TV start to create pop stars and for most of those artificially created pop stars to crash and burn. Madonna has reinvented herself twice and, until diagnosed with breast cancer, Kylie has just kept going. In those five years, Anastacia has released three studio albums, selling 3 million copies of these in the UK and more than 20 million around the world. She has also battled and beaten breast cancer herself, although further away from the limelight than Kylie's current battle. It's not just a strong voice that Anastacia has, but...

Soho_Black 23.12.2005 · Read review
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The Piece Hall, Halifax

Advantages: Lots of history
Disadvantages: Only about 20 shops in total

...250 years ago the West Yorkshire town of Halifax was at the centre of the textile trade. A few decades later textile mills would spring up all along the valley in which Halifax sits but back in the 1770's most of the cloth was made in the local people's houses on handlooms. The Piece Hall opened in 1779 as a place where these traders could meet and trade their cloth. It was built to replace a smaller building called The Cloth Hall. Today The Piece Hall is a Grade 1 listed building. It stands in the heart of town centre and is now used largely as a shopping complex. I was in Halifax yesterday and The Piece Hall was one of the places that I wanted to see. I easily found the main entrance as it is clearly sign posted from everywhere within the town centre but upon arrival I was greeted by the not quite so quite imposing entrance to...

micksheff 21.12.2008 · Read review
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The Three Blundering Musketeers!

Advantages: wonderful animation, great fun story
Disadvantages: None from my house

...the new King. He sets his helpers the task of Kidnapping her but things go wrong and Princess Minnie then goes to see him and demands that she is given Musketeer bodyguards. As the Captain want Princess Minnie kidnapped he decides that he will make Mickey, Donald and Goofy Musketeers and give them the job of protecting her as he believes that they are so useless he will still be able to go ahead with his plan. Mickey, Donald and Goofy are all so excited about becoming Musketeers and protecting the Queen but thing go horribly wrong for them when they are on duty and the Princess does get kidnapped. Will the new Musketeers be able to rescue the Princess and stop the Captain becoming the King? This was a lovely film which had me laughing out loud at some parts. The story was great and it gave a completely different take on previous Three...

sewbizzie 20.04.2009 · Read review
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80 pieces for easy construction

Advantages: easy to fit together
Disadvantages: none

...Mobilo children?s construction bricks are really good for small children particularly those with poor dexteritory they are suitable for children aged 3 to 7 years old. Those at key stage 1 and 2. Be wary though with younger children as some of the pieces can be quite small and if children put them in the mouth it is possible they might swallow. This set is a fantastic set with 80 pieces it includes standard 1 and 2 cube brick pieces triangular slope pieces. Flat ladder like pieces of varying lengths a few heads and a few wheels there are connector pieces too. To describe mobilo bricks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are not conjoining bricks like Lego but open cubes that are joined together by flexible connecting disks. These discs fit into a mobile brick easily and another mobilo block is easy to join onto it. The pieces snap...

mumsymary 14.09.2009 · Read review
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Three Men and a Little Lady

Advantages: Funny, English scenes
Disadvantages: None

...Three Men and a Little Lady Last time we saw Mary she was a cute little baby and her mother had just decided to stay in New York with Mary's three daddies, Peter, Michael and Jack, instead of moving back to England. Peter, Michael and Jack, Jack being MAry's real father, had grown very attached to Mary, despite their previous bachelor lifestyles and couldn't imagine thier lives without her. Fast forward 5 years and the guys and Mary's mother Sylvia have got their routine down perfectly. They all take her out for a walk, they have a special rap they sing her as a bed time song and life is good. However, we all know that when things are going well and life is settled and content, generally something happens to stir things up. The thing is Edward, Sylvia's fiancee and he wants to marry Sylvia and take her and Mary back to England...

Spottydog11 25.11.2009 · Read review
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~ Frank's First Three Years ~

Advantages: Excellent tracks and good covers
Disadvantages: some tracks not so great

...Even though I am not a major fan of Frank I have a huge liking for this album and thought I had to tell you about it. I only own this album as I mostly download my songs but as I was going to buy ?Love Ire and Song? but decided on this one instead which i was greatly impressed by. Who Is Frank Turner? I wouldn?t know why anyone wouldn?t have heard of him but for those who haven?t Frank Turner is a Folk song writer and singer who was a former vocalist for the punk band Million Dead. He was born in 1981 and has released several successful albums including the compilation album ?The First Three Years?. Frank became known when he joined Million Dead in 2001 and stayed with them for four years releasing two albums; after they spilt he decided to become solo and has done many shows around London. The First Three Years As...

blackmagicstar4 24.03.2009 · Read review
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All In One Piece - Really?

Advantages: Fun to read humorous story with an element of real life to it!
Disadvantages: None

...All In One Piece by Jill Murphy *I thought that I would review this children's book, as a tribute to all those parents who understand just how difficult it is, to get ready for a rare night out.* ***What's it all about?*** Well, this is another in a series of books about the Large family - a family of elephants and the evening when Mr and Mrs. Large get to venture out, to the office-dinner dance. Of course the children can't go and so grandma comes to babysit. Granny arrives at tea time and the children are bathed and ready for bed. Granny lets them do some painting, whilst mum and dad go upstairs to get ready in peace. However? Luke watches his dad shaving and ends up getting the foam on his trunk. Dad tells him to go away. Whilst Mrs. Large is concentrating on doing her hair and make up, she doesn't see baby...

LAURALILIA 20.01.2009 · Read review
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QUORN PIECES

Advantages: realistic looking,lowcal
Disadvantages: expensive, weird taste

...This was the first time that I had seen these and thought I would try them. You get a 300g bag for around £1.92 and for 100g you are looking at around 94 calories, so from a dieters point of view they are excellent, especially being low fat and high protein. The bag is the usual orangey yellow quorn with the item on the front and to be fair, it does resemble what it looks like on the package and you do get a lot of pieces in the bags to make them worthwhile getting, although I wouldnt say they would stretch for more than 2 people per bag. Smellwise, they dont smell of anything until cooked, and then you get a clear chickeny mushroomy sort of smell. You can cook them in a variety of ways, but I boiled them in chopped tomatoes as that seemed to make them the nicest. On cooking, they stay moist, but you have to be very careful...

macteykith 01.03.2006 · Read review
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