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.Persuasion

starring: Anthony Head, Alice Krige, Marion Bailey, Peter Wight, Rupert Penry-Jones
directed by: Adrian Shergold

January 15, 2008
I was very excited about this video when it came out and was extremely disappointed, even though the hero was a very handsome one. Too short, difficult to follow, bizarre filming and bland costumes. If you are a true Austen fan, watch the older version, you will love every minute!
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.Children of Dune [2 Discs]

starring: Steven Berkoff, Alice Krige, Ian McNeice, P.H. Moriarty, Susan Sarandon
directed by: Greg Yaitanes

May 20, 2003
When I rented and watched the first Dune miniseries, I was shocked at how poor a job had been done. True, the story was kept pretty much intact, but the costumes were horrible, the acting wasn't credible, and the sets were even less credible. Most of the time, you could easily tell that the backdrop was a wall painted to look like dunes and mountains. This time, however, the makers got it right. First, everybody who returns for this second mini-series must have gotten acting lesson in between the two. I was shocked at how good some of the performances were (Paul and Irulan for example). Second, some of the special effects are truly impressive. Throughout most of the miniseries, I could believe that this was a very respectable theatrical release ... Read More:
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.Little Vampire (Widescreen/Full Screen)

starring: Jonathan Lipnicki, Richard E. Grant, Jim Carter, Alice Krige, Pamela Gidley
directed by: Ulrich Edel

May 04, 2004
I took my little nine year old brother to see this dud. What a terrible movie.

I was expecting a light hearted children's film and instead what I got was a mean-spirited adventure in Christian bashing with scenes that have no place whatsoever in a film aimed at a young audience.

The producer's bigotry against Christians is evident right from the start in its depiction of the so-called "vampire hunter".

He is easily the most disturbing character in the film. For starters his oversized crucifix looks like it was produced at a Las Vegas neon sign factory and his vehicle is a nightmarish cross between a mac truck and a steel mill. If this was meant to be funny, believe me, it wasn't.

The worst scene that I saw is when ... Read More:
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.Dinotopia (Full Screen)

starring: Jim Carter, Lee Evans, Alice Krige, Zienia Merton, David Thewlis
directed by: Marco Brambilla, David Winning

August 13, 2002
J'aimerais me procurer les DVD DINOTOPIA (Full Screen) et DINOTOPIA LA SÉRIE, en Français.
Si vous préférez avec le choix de langue, comme nous avons dans nos centre de Vidéo au Québec à Montréal au Canada.
J'adore cette série et j'aimerais bien l'acheter pour en faire profiter mes enfants et mes petits-enfants.

Merci et au plaisir de vous lire.

Nicole Bélanger
Télephone 450-635-1353
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.Attila

starring: Jolyon Baker, Steven Berkoff, Powers Boothe, Tim Curry, Jonathan Hyde
directed by: Dick Lowry

November 14, 2002
This movie is SO GOOD and is amust see for everyone, a total must see. Just GREAT!
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.The Line of Beauty

starring: Caroline Blakiston, Kenneth Cranham, Carmen Du Sautoy, Barbara Flynn, Alice Krige
directed by: Saul Dibb

December 12, 2006
This movie is SO GOOD and is amust see for everyone, a total must see. Just GREAT!
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.Reign of Fire (Widescreen)

starring: Christian Bale, Alice Krige, David Kennedy, Izabella Scorupco, Matthew McConaughey
directed by: Rob Bowman

January 25, 2005
I watched this movie thinking it would be about dragons destroying cities, eating people and fighting armies. Sure not the greatest plot but fun and has lots of dragon action. But that was not what I got.

Bad things: The plot was awful. Just when you think it was going to get good [huge dragon comes out of the ground] it skips to like 20 years later. When you think you'll see dragons flying around cities and destroying them and instead you get people sitting around in ruins in a chard landscape you'd be disappointed to. And also from that part on you just get like 3 parts with dragons in them. Boring.

Good things: The dragons were cool! They looked very well done and were some of the best movie dragons I've seen. I think that the dragons didn't look ... Read More:
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.A Tale of Two Cities

starring: Peter Cushing, Nigel Hawthorne, Alice Krige, Kenneth More, Flora Robson
directed by: Jim Goddard

November 13, 2007
. . .it was a good watch anyway. Chris Sarandon was outstanding in the roles he played of look-alikes Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. He captured Carton's sardonic humor well, and evoked his melancholic fatalism and innate dignity with much pathos. A quite elderly Kenneth More put on a great performance as the officious but kindly banker, whose character provided much humorous dialogue. The character of Miss Pross, the sharp-eyed chaperone, was absolutely wonderful.

I never expect a movie to follow a novel very closely -- books and films are two completely different art forms and cannot be translated one to the other with good effect. As the movie begins we see the words "Based on the novel by Charles Dickens." With those words we are given fair warning that ... Read More:
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.Chariots of Fire (Full Screen)

starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm
directed by: Hugh Hudson

August 22, 1997
I was expecting a lot out of this movie based on reviews, I bought a bunch of movies for those long winter days on the trainer (indoor cycling). I thought I was going to enjoy a good sports movie to keep me motivated while spinning on my indoor trainer. After roughly 20 minutes I felt like stoping it and changing the movie but I figured I paid for the movie might as well watch it.
I watched a few movies that were absolutely worth watching such as Steve Pre fontaine "Without Limits".
Some movies really get to you, they reach out to you and simply inspires you so much or gives you energy and just makes you feel like you want to race or beat the hell out of someone (in a boxing ring) such as Rocky movies.. This one certainly didn't have that effect.
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.King David

starring: Jean-Marc Barr, Gina Bellman, Niall Buggy, John Castle, David de Keyser
directed by: Bruce Beresford

November 18, 2003
When this film was released in 1985, the critics were not kind, but I love this film, and think it's a good telling of the story of David, based on I and II Samuel, I Chronicles, and the Psalms. Though much of it has been compressed (David's relationship with Bathsheba is limited mostly to the consequences of it for instance) and some creative license used for plot continuity, it has a tremendous amount of Biblical accuracy.
Taking place from 1000 to 961 B.C., the costuming, sets, and artifacts are fabulous; filmed in Pinewood Studios, U.K., and on location in Italy, the cinematography by Donald McAlpine is wonderful. The score is also lovely, by Carl Davis.

The brief nudity in the wedding chamber sequence has in my tape, been darkened so as to be imperceptible; either this is a flaw ... Read More:
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