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Madelson: The Real PM? DVD Review
31st August 2011 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Peter Mandelson drifts around like a bespectacled apparition, as sinister when licking yoghurt from his tie as his is when berating the then Shadow Chancellor George Osborne after the first televised leaders’ debate during the 2010 election campaign. Mandelson: The Real PM? is a documentary which attempts to expose the man behind the death mask. It is an often compelling, entirely partisan piece of work which charts almost 10 months...
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Review: Princess of Persia – wait…what?
24th May 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
This film has sand dunes. Head gear. Swords. Peter O’Toole. Omar Sharif. And incredibly it’s not got anything to do with imperialist classic Lawrence of Arabia (1962). In fact, as far as I can tell this straight to DVD release Princess of Persia was conveniently launched at the same time as the $150 million Disney epic of an alarmingly similar title despite having nothing to do with the videogame franchise....
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Rubbish Classics Part 3: Retro TV Special
19th March 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Before Freeview came along there were just four channels, kids.* Four channels which turned themselves off overnight when everyone was having a little sleep, or showed educational programs like Through the Dragons Eye, which have gone on to become legitimate topics of conversation amongst people of my generation and, dare I say it, chat up subjects. But I’m not talking about those kinds of shows today (Badger Girl, Gordie Racer...
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Review: Christmas Comedy DVDs
12th November 2009 | 4 comments | 2 people like this
Having seen Andy Parsons (off of Mock the Week) live a couple of months ago as part of his Britain’s Got Idiots tour, the release of the DVD before Christmas seemed inevitable. For an in-depth review check this out. I re-watched the performance in its edited DVD form, and the process of cutting it down for the small screen has fine-tuned and tightened some of the material. This makes it...
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