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Introspective review

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago on 27 October 2010 03:34 (A review of Introspective)

I was expecting to the point clever pop songs and instead I got long aimless electronic treatments. Too much Lowe too little Tennant.

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1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die (1001 Must See Before You Die) review

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 13 May 2010 08:09 (A review of 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die (1001 Must See Before You Die))

I would have preferred this to be a coffee-table style book with pages double the size here but a great print collection of paintings both known and unknown to me.

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Armageddon Trade, The review

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago on 5 April 2010 07:27 (A review of Armageddon Trade, The)

A real page-turner, even for a laborious reader as I! A movie or 24 style TV show in the making.

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Carousel review

Posted : 1 year, 10 months ago on 2 April 2010 03:58 (A review of Carousel)

What an unpleasant lead role Billy Bigelow is. And then there is the wooden dialogue but the songs at least save this film most of all 'You'll Never Walk Alone' a rousing agnostic spiritual.

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Pure videos, but not enough

Posted : 1 year, 11 months ago on 11 February 2010 07:39 (A review of Destiny's Child - The Platinum's On The Wall [2001])

This is a no thrills collection of their videos but unfortunately only up to their first LP. This collection is long overdue an update to include videos from their second album and subsequent singles.

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Uncovered

Posted : 2 years, 9 months ago on 2 May 2009 02:40 (A review of Barbra Joan Streisand)

An underwhelming collection of covers - if your hearts not in them Barbra why bother?

She lacks in the modern parlance a lack of emotional intelligence - merely content to show off her vocal gymnastics whether this is required or not.

Her version of the James Taylor classic 'You've Got A Friend' where even the outro was given a pointless xerox attempt I found the most laughable moment of the entire collection.

A version of John Lennon's 'Love' was the collection's only saving grace, and that just barely.

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Click review

Posted : 4 years, 1 month ago on 25 December 2007 11:31 (A review of Click)

Agree with Scott - a 21st Century 'It's A Wonderful Life' - a tale still worth telling - even if you probably get to see the Frank Capra film every Christmas anyway! - and at no point did I want to fast-forward (sorry!) the film though feel it could have made more of the remote control idea and technology generally.

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Eastenders

Posted : 4 years, 3 months ago on 12 October 2007 03:22 (A review of EastEnders)

This show must have had cast of thousands by now.

I don't watch Eastenders very much these days though I used to watch it regularly.

It is well written - if Charles Dickens was alive now he would have probably been one of their leading script-writers! - and well acted and was a departure from many British Soaps such as Coronation Street which again though well written and acted are located in a bubble without much base in reality. Eastenders is in a bit of a bubble too -no-one reallys live in a place like that do they where no-one owns a washing-machine and spend all their spare hours and cash in one pub! - but was more gritty dealing with life has most of us experience it. Another soap out at the time it started, Brookside, dealt with similar topics but was even more doom-and-gloom and over-the-top tragedy than found in Albert Square.

But now I feel it has become formulaic spinning out the same old stories and tragedies - especially tragedies! - and I have lost interest in the show and its characters.

I like the quote that most of now live in a world where our friends are Friends and our neighbours are Neighbours! And well I no longer wish the inhabitants of Walford to be my friends or neighbours.

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