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The Devil Wears Prada [2006]

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starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Adrian Grenier, Simon Baker
directed by: David Frankel

Release Date February 05, 2007
This is a very pleasant and charming film with some great lines in it. Well worth watching.

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Blood Diamond [2006]

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starring: Leonardo DiCaprio
directed by: Edward Zwick

Release Date June 18, 2007
This film, based on the dreadful events of 1990's Sierra Leone (limbs hacked off, families massacred etc) is in the 4 to 5 star range. It could be upsetting for some people to watch, because it DOES show brutality, sadism, indifferent UN officials suffering from compassion-fatigue. In a word, it is realistic. My wife, the daughter of an ex-RAF air traffic controller, who was born in Tanganyika territory (now Tanzania), found it very upsetting to see, partly because as a child she watched something very similar happening across the border river in Congo in the 1960's.

The film does show the Africans as people, not just a backdrop to fighting and adventuring...and for once, the white people are not shown as almost all wicked or stupid, ... Read More:

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Wire In The Blood Series 5 [2007]

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starring: Robson Green, Simone Lahbib, Mark Letheren, Emma Handy
directed by: Peter Hoar, Paul Whittington, Richard Standeven

Release Date July 07, 2008
Love Wire in the Blood. Think it's really intelligent, makes you pay attention. Tony Hill is an amazing character.
I'm just wondering why the Texas episode Prayer of the Bone was not included in the DVD, copyright? And could you get it somehow, or would you have to have an American DVD-player?

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Mickey Mouse Club House - Storybook Surprises

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by: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Release Date March 17, 2008
Love Wire in the Blood. Think it's really intelligent, makes you pay attention. Tony Hill is an amazing character.
I'm just wondering why the Texas episode Prayer of the Bone was not included in the DVD, copyright? And could you get it somehow, or would you have to have an American DVD-player?

CD-Charts Position 195
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High Society [1956]

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starring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund
directed by: Charles Walters

Release Date May 26, 2003
Next time you have a rainy afternoon to spend with a box of chocs and a video, you can't do better than this. If you hanker for a time when everyone was elegant, witty and blessed with a honeyed voice, this is for you. The music is, of course, the main focus; but there's some brilliant acting going on here as well.

Smashing.

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I'm Not There [2007]

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starring: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Marcus Carl Franklin

Release Date July 14, 2008
A much more interesting and watchable film may have emerged if the Hayden Christianson 'Dylan' character from 'Factory Girl' was juxtaposed with Cate Blanchett's 'Dylan' character from 'I'm Not There'. The result might have been a lot shorter, but much more interesting.

As it is: Too long, often incomprehensible (even by Dylan's worst excesses), too much time on Richard Gere and the young boy (as talented as Marcus clearly is) and unbelievably boring. I wish my husband hadn't bought it for me, because I would feel guilty selling it off. But I can't bring myself to play it again, even with Blanchett being the only top-rate performance. Save your time and money.

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Hot Fuzz [2007]

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starring: Anne Reid, Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Edward Woodward, Paddy Considine
directed by: Edgar Wright

Release Date December 17, 2007
The idea of a film about a British policeman in a small country village is more likely to conjure up thoughts of Midsomer Murders rather than Bad Boys II. However Edgar Wright manages to fuse together the fast paced action of one with the typical Englishness of the other in the excellent comedy Hot Fuzz written by and starring Simon Pegg. It is a hysterically funny police comedy with lots of action and spoof horror.

Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is the Met's number one police officer, but he is so efficient that his co-workers want to get rid of him. He is promoted to sergeant and moved to the small town of Sandford in Gloucestershire. When he gets there he is disappointed by the lack of crime in the village, and he is bewildered that the accident rate ... Read More:

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Deck The Halls [2006]

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starring: Matthew Broderick, Gary Chalk, Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth, Alia Shawkat
directed by: John Whitesell

Release Date November 26, 2007
Just wanted to say that we own and love this DVD. I bought it from Amazon last christmas along with several other festive DVDs. This is our family favourite, my kids laughed their socks off. Great Christmas fun.....roll on December!

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Becoming Jane [2006]

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starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith

Release Date September 10, 2007
This was much better than I thought it would be having read that the story didn't hold together and wasn't based on any real fact. If it was intended as a love story then it's ok. Are biographical films ever based truly on reality? Julie Walters is excellent as Jane's mother and thanks to another reviewer for mentioning where I'd seen Anne Hathaway before.

I'm not keen on Jane Austen's novels (forced to read them at school), except perhaps, "Northanger Abbey", for which the recent TV adaptation was excellent. "Becoming Jane" has more depth than was portrayed in the poor cinema trailer. It's not as good as say, "Miss Potter" but worth a watch on a rainy Sunday evening.

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Pokemon: Jirachi Wish Maker

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by: Pokémon

Release Date October 23, 2006
This the best pokemon movie of the series and this should have received awards for the greatest of this feature. Pokemon is still a force to be reckoned with and this a essential purchase for any pokemon/manga fan..