 | back to black : amy winehouse 2 out of 7 people found this review helpful
I think Ms Winehouse's colourful and controversial reputation gave me expectations of something a little more radical than what was presented on this album. I find her vocal powers and inflexions a bit too... read full review |
 | The Good Shepherd 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
What is it with Matt Damon and his interest in the secret services? This is another in the genre. It is a hard film and difficult to get into. It takes place over a 30-40 year period, and starts with Damon as m... read full review |
 | intermezzo 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
INTERMEZZO *** Before we invented the "art house" film was this a film for the "cultured" film goer? It is the classic love triangle: happily married man, with kids, falls passionately... read full review |
 | Madame Burtterfly DVD 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
This is probably Puccini's most poignant and tragic opera. If it works (and it rarely does in the opera house), you go home feeling suicidal. The score is exquisite, lush superb; the story is about male ch... read full review |
 | Monster's Ball DVD 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
A bleak, painful & quite nasty little film about a brutish, red-neck man , Billy Bob Thornton, who finds his humanity through his need to express love and affection (as apposed to getting his end away). Goo... read full review |
 | Drowning mona 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Basically this film has an Agatha Christie plot: Mona (Bette Midler) dies in a car accident. Accident discovered to be a sabotaged vehicle and through flash-backs it is discovered she possibly was not the int... read full review |
 | Funny Girl 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
FUNNY GIRL****** Though it never did Streisand's bank account, or super-star status any harm, her’s was definitely a case of a career peaking too early. This, in my opinion, was the best thing she did... read full review |
 | Spooks -Code 9 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Quite frankly, that this rubbish should masquerade under the title of Spooks - a gripping , imaginatively cast, excellently scripted and superbly acted and directed series- should be prosecuted under trade ... read full review |
 | "On a clear day" suitable for a wet one. ON A CLEAR DAY ** A vehicle for Streisand at her peak in the early 70s, this film should have been so much better than it turned out. With, I suspect, a massive budget (locations shots in Brighton Pavili... read full review |
 | Spellbound SPELLBOUND ******Given this 1945 B & W classic was nominated for 6 academy awards, won the Oscar for the score, had scriptwriter Ben Hecht, producer Selznic, was directed by Hitchcock, had designs by Dali... read full review |
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