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| 13 May 2008 | Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Complete Series | BJ Mclean |  |
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The Kolchak series was commissioned after the popularity of the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, and the 1973 sequel, The Night Strangler. The series ran for 20 episodes from September 1974 to August 1975.
Each episode shows our weatherbeaten hero, Carl Kolchak (a reporter for the Chicago Independent News Service), encountering some supernatural goings-on. The weird occurrences or other-worldly beings usually have left behind a trail of bodies, hence the reporter's interest.
Not just any bodies mind you - people drained of blood, prematurely aged, robbed of bone marrow, spines snapped, or killed with medieval weaponry.
Kolchack has to get to the bottom of these mysteries, despite local authorities' ignorance or denial of the true cause of the murders, while Kolchak's boss Tony Vincenzo finds his stories a bit hard to swallow.
The series deservedly has a huge cult following, and X-Files creator Chris Carter has acknowledged it as the inspiration for Mulder & Scully; not to mention other similar shows like Eerie Indiana or Friday the 13th The Series. A vintage classic!
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| 11 May 2008 | The 4400 - Series 4 - Complete | Freddie Milne | |
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I personaly love this show. i have purchased seasons 1,2 and 3 and have watched season 4 on the internet. This show is the new generation of sci-fi (much better than star trek). After watching season 4 i would say i want Jordan's cult to win against everyone else because NTAC are boring.
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| 11 May 2008 | Happily N'ever After | Michelle Moore |  |
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After the release of Cinderella: - a twist in time a few months back, it seems strange that yet another take on the Cinderella story is about to hit our screens. The only difference with this film is the mention of other fairytale characters such as Snow White, Rumpelstilzkin, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel. As you can imagine, Fairytale Land is dominated by damsels in distress and their princely saviours, and follows a predictable course in which maidens are saved, villains defeated and everyone lives happily ever after. After the balance of good and evil is disrupted, the inhabitants are forced to choose sides.
As a film made for the viewing of children, the beginning out of sequence narrative may have them slightly confused on the order of events. But as we are caught up to the point the stepmother becomes ruler, the children will become familiar with the characters. There is Ella, two wicked step sisters, wicked step mother, a handsome yet dumb witted prince, the princes servant Rick, the wizard in charge of fairytale land and his two side kicks. The appearance of Cinderella may not however be, as children today will recognise her. Forget the blond hair and quite reserved persona, this Cinderella, or Ella as she is called is more of a modern woman.
Casting director Ruth Lambert hasn't gone star-crazy the way so many other animated movies do. This film has strong voices such as Weaver, Gellar and Prize Jr for key parts. It’s not quite clear when watching Gellar and Prinze Jr together on screen if they were the best people for the parts. They have been married for a number of years now, worked on the Scooby Doo flicks and now this film. There are arguments and Gellar’s character going after someone else. For an adult watching it may be a little unnerving, but as children are none of the wiser regarding their personal lives they are likely to love the interaction between the two. On the plus side, even though this is a cartoon film, viewers can hear through the characters voices that so much effort has been put in, rather than standing in front of a microphone and reading from the script.
Screenwriter Rob Moreland is good with the one-liners but unfortunately the plot runs weak in some places. It's an interesting idea that Ella should prefer the servant boy Rick to the attractive prince, but the romantic tension never really takes off. This new cartoon flick will be an enjoyable experience for all the family. Its packed full of all your favourite characters, some humour to keep children and adults entertained and still has good battling evil with a fight to the finish.
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| 09 May 2008 | Gavin And Stacey - Series 1 | em | |
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CRACKING DVD!So hilarious this is one you will watch again and again and still find it funny.A brilliant cast and fantastic scipt this is one dvd you will not regret buying!
TIDY!
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| 09 May 2008 | The Kite Runner | Jevon Taylor | |
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“The Kite Runner” is an engaging story of childhood betrayal and adult redemption. It is well told, but not a spectacular film. I didn’t read the book that this film is a translation of as I thought it was a kind of “buy 2 get 1 free” in Waterstones glimpse into the lives of the exotic and less fortunate for middle-brow middle-class (nice) white women living in suburban England. Watching the film, however, I had to dismiss some of this prejudice. It is a good story populated with sympathetic, if not complex, characters, and that is, really, enough to make a film worth watching. Nevertheless, there were a few things about “The Kite Runner” that I had a problem with. The greatest of these was that it all looked like it was filmed on set, a physically contrived world occupied by extras and actors, crew and camera. It lacked the realism that all other films I have seen about / set in Afghanistan have, and that is something I missed. Perhaps because of this, the film failed to capture any sense of place, either of landscape or cityscape. Neither did it convey much of a sense of distance, culturally as well as geographically, between Afghanistan and the USA (or therefore time). This is a major flaw considering the film’s protagonist is a displaced Afghan refugee. Similarly, the sequences where kites soar above Kabul, and later a park in the USA, potentially spectacular and intended tense / emotional highpoints, were lacking. Whilst I want to blame this on the CGI of the cities beneath the kites, I think my disappointment with these scenes was actually symptomatic of my inability to empathise fully with the characters and / or locations. Despite this, however, the film has just as many good moments, some of them quite shocking, and, as I have said above, does tell a good story. A story worth watching.
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