The Station Agent

Advantages: excellent writing, acting, direction...
Disadvantages: none.

...The Station Agent is an extraordinary film for a number of reasons. The first is that it is stunningly simple in story and script and yet intriguingly complex in theme and emotional resonance. The second is that it has a strong social conscience without a hint of condescension. The third is that it is funny, touching, sweet, lyrical and beautifully paced, which is sadly not something we see every day. This tiny crystalline gem of a movie took the critics by storm and as far as I can see, they were entirely within reason to praise it to the skies. The Film Stuff: Finbar McBride - PETER DINKLAGE Olivia Harris - PATRICIA CLARKSON Joe Oramas - BOBBY CANNAVALE Cleo - RAVEN GOODWIN Emily - MICHELLE WILLIAMS Written and Directed by THOMAS McCARTHY in his directorial debut. 88 mins Certificate 15 Fin lives...

ruth_cole 11.04.2004 · Read review
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Philip Schofield's Travel Agency

Advantages: Wide Holiday Choice
Disadvantages: Only West Country branches

...LET?S GO TRAVEL???? Have you heard this name before? If you live outside the South West of England, you may not have heard of this Travel Agents, unless you happen to have seen Philip Schofield on the television advert, advertising it. LET?S GO TRAVEL, which is the largest Independent Travel Agent in the South West of England, has 35 outlets scattered over Cornwall (down as far as Penzance), Devon, Dorset and Somerset. 30 of these outlets are Travel Agencies, and the others are a Business Travel Division; a Leisure Travel Call Centre, running travel clubs for organisations nationwide; and Specialist Cruise and Ski Centres. LET?S GO TRAVEL is the fastest growing Independent Travel Agency in the U.K. with their Head Office based at Barnstaple, in North Devon. This location includes the Personnel Department, Accounts...

Rosassnaps 21.04.2003 · Read review
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With a Bang and a Clunk (Polity Agent - Neal Asher)

Advantages: decent world, good technology, lots of action
Disadvantages: Boring: too much technology, too many battles, not enough social background

...questions and possibly save the Polity from destruction. Meanwhile, a haiman (a human highly augmented with AI) Orlandine engages in a careful research on the Jain node she has in her possession - will she manage to control and harness its power or will it subsume and destroy her? Even from this brief plot teaser you can see that with Polity Agent we are firmly in the realm of high-tech space opera: interstellar travel through U-space, anti-gravity transport, spaceship battles, anti-matter guns, violent annihilation of whole planets. On top of this we have a good dose of post cyber-punk motifs including benign ruling AIs, humans augmented with electronics, Virtual Reality, mighty information gridlinks and memcrystals. Add genetic modification, bio-machines and a powerful nanotechnology that breeds like a combination of biological...

magdadh 22.04.2009 (29.03.2009) · Read review
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My Secret Agent.....

Advantages: Too many to mention!
Disadvantages: Bit fiddly, but worth it in the end!

...This is just an overview or insight into the world of Microsoft Agent. Hopefully it won't bore you to tears! This is merely meant as a general informative review about the product, rather than the technical in depth how to install/setup sort of review (apart from a bit at the end). That might come later, depending on how this is received!!!! Microsoft Agent is a technology, generally included as part of Windows XP (Home or Professional Editions), that enables you to use characters (or 'Agents') to 'humanise' applications, create 'talking' websites or presentations etc. This basically means you can have a character that appears on screen that can carry out basic tasks including saying 'Hello, welcome to our company' when someone looks at your website, or 'Hey, you have mail from Fred Bloggs' when used in conjunction with 'Agent...

sallysmith1973 01.07.2005 · Read review
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Best Travel System but for how long?

Advantages: all in one solution
Disadvantages: Heavy and large when folded

...We bought the Graco Quattro Tour Travel System after looking at everything on the market comparing costs, accessories, weight etc. This travel system was for my first child so I had no previous experience to help me. The whole concept of the travel system is revolutionary; my mom was so impressed. Having the car seat/infant carrier which effectively turns the buggy into a pram and also means that your baby who has fallen asleep in the car can be effortlessly moved into the buggy, is a marvelous invention! We bought the Graco fro Babies R Us in January 2005 for £190. It came with an auto base, weather shield, foot muff and changing bag (the only thing I have had to buy additionally is a parasol). The autobase is a brilliant idea. You fix it in the car once and the infant carrier just clicks in place. No messing around...

mashford01 10.07.2006 · Read review
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Travelling compactly

Advantages: Folds up compactly, bright colours, use as a cot or play pen
Disadvantages: Thin mattress base

...~*~*~INTRODUCTION~*~*~ My mother in law wanted to buy a travel cot when my son was born as she will be looking after him when I go back to work. We looked around on the internet and when she saw the Graco compact she decided that was the one, she loved that it was nice and bright and thought my son would enjoy playing in there as well as sleeping. We ordered it from Kiddicare but unfortunately they have stopped selling it. I have since seen it on Amazon, Halfords and Ebay though for roughly the same prices. ~*~*~FEATURES~*~*~ -Suitable from birth to around 3 years. -It comes in a handy carry case, making it easy for travel. -The travel cot unfolds easily and I actually put it up in a couple of minutes on my first attempt. -The sides are mesh which is nice and soft for wriggly babies banging their heads, also...

ashton08 12.09.2008 · Read review
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The Time Traveller's Wife

Advantages: beautiful story, moving
Disadvantages: none

...My husband bought himself Audrey Niffenegger?s The Time Traveller?s Wife as he is a sci-fi fan. He read the book and put it on the bookshelf. After a few weeks I read a few reviews on it and discovered that we have this book so I started reading it. It was a very engaging reading I could hardly put the book down. When we heard that there will be a film based on this exciting and brilliant novel we decided to go together to the cinema to watch it. Well, I had to wait a lot until I could really watch it but it was worth waiting for it. The Time Traveller?s Wife was planned for a fall 2008 release but it was delayed until August 2009. The reason of the delay was that they had to do a reshoot and they had to wait for the meadow to look the same again and funny but for Eric Bana?s hair to grow out again. He had a role in Star Trek where he...

D_i_a_n_e 26.11.2009 · Read review
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A real travel agent

Advantages: Friendly Staff. No hard sell.
Disadvantages: Brochure supplies not always as good.

...You may have seen this new travel agent on the High Street. They have quite an eye-catching sign, dark blue with white writing. Advantage Travel are actually a group of independant travel agents, who joined together to give them some clout against the "big boys". I have booke my third holiday at my local Advantage Travel Centre and the staff are really helpful - they remember me from previous visits and always have time for a chat. Because they are independent, they don't push me towards a particular holiday company (Lunn Poly will ALWAYS push Thomson/Skytours/Crystal, because they make more money that way). Last September, I asked for a fortnight to Greece this May, and they checked everyone flying from my local airport. Thomson/Airtours/First Choice/jmc/Kosmar/Libra/Olympic/Sunmed and more - and found me two weeks named accom...

ONscotland 28.03.2001 · Read review
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Lovely estate agents

Advantages: Sold my house at asking price
Disadvantages: I don't receive service like that everyday

...Moving house is said to be one of the three most stressful things you can do,(besides bereavement and divorce). The last thing you want or need from your estate agents then is bad service, incompetence or inability to do the job. Fortunately for me, I got none of these. The estate agents we chose to sell our flat a few months ago I could not praise highly enough. Why did we choose Connells? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With a little baby, we had been thinking of selling and moving for a while, so when we were in estate agents asking for house particulars, we were interested to see how they reacted to us and potential buyers, so we had an idea what they would be saying about our property behind our backs! I am sad to say that some estate agents really do live up to the dreadful reputation. I had comments such as "ooh, you don...

nancymac 31.08.2003 · Read review
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A bulky travel system

Advantages: Big Shopping basket, Suitable until baby wants to walk, Great for Ramming people out of the way (joke)
Disadvantages: Very Heavy, Bulky and Hard to find somewhere to put the pushchair when not using it.

...I bought this travel system because i thought it looked good, boy was i wrong. Ever since i brought it i hated but my partner wouldnt let me take it back because he liked it. -Car Seat- My son never liked the car seat so it didnt get used much. It scrunched him up to much and even though they say you can use it until the baby is 29lbs my son would fit in it when he got to 20lbs. The only good thing about the car seat was that it was easy to fit into a car and onto the pushcchair to make it a travel system. -Pushchair- As i said above my son didnt like it in the carseat so i had to put him in the pushchair from about 2weeks old, this pushchair is ment to be suitable from birth. The strap did not fit properly so many times i found that my son had wriggled out from them, this is not good especially when you start having your...

thiswayhome 17.04.2007 · Read review
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