Oz (DVD) Review By: Britt Gillette Nominated for 2 Emmys, including Best Casting for a Series, Oz is widely regarded as one of the best prison dramas ever created. The brainchild of creator Tom Fontana (former writer for such hit TV shows as Homicide: Life On The Streets and St. Elsewhere), Oz was one of a number of a highly successful HBO original series to premiere in the 1990s, keeping good company among such shows as Sex And The City and The Sopranos. Premiering in mid-summer 1997, Oz quickly built a large... Tags: oz dvd review
Six Feet Under (DVD) Review By: Britt Gillette Nominated for 39 Emmys and 8 Golden Globes, including 3 (and one win) for Best TV Series - Drama, Six Feet Under is widely considered one of the best dramas currently on television. Creator Alan Ball, Oscar-winning screenwriter for American Beauty, introduces a series known for its darkly comical portrayal of a typical dysfunctional American family attempting to live their lives while running a business that thrives on death. Boasting a catchy main title theme song composed b... Tags: six feet under dvd review
Million Dollar Baby (DVD) Review By: Britt Gillette Nominated for 5 Golden Globes and 7 Academy Awards, including Best Motion Picture of the Year, Million Dollar Baby opened to widespread critical acclaim and excellent audience reviews. Director Clint Eastwood, whose career spans multiple decades in Hollywood, creates perhaps his greatest film to date, and co-stars Morgan Freeman (Shawshank Redemption) and Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) light up the screen with their deft character portrayals and unique charisma. Combining all ... Tags: million dollar baby dvd review
The Shawshank Redemption (DVD) Review By: Britt Gillette Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Shawshank Redemption amazingly failed to win a single Oscar. It’s amazing because it’s probably one of the top ten best films ever produced. Based on Stephen King’s short story ‘Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,’ the film transcends the typical intellectually and spiritually bankrupt Hollywood entertainment of the modern era with an onscreen artistry that is the closest we’ll probably ever see to poetry ... Tags: shawshank redemption dvd review
Key To Success: 10 Success Tips For Maximum Achievement By: Sharif Khan First off, I would echo the voice of 18th century French philosopher Voltaire, made popular and relevant in today’s leadership lexicon by "Good to Great" author Jim Collins, who said, "Good is the Enemy of Great."
1. "Good is the Enemy of Great." Get rid of the good to make room for the great in your life. Instead of keeping the main thing the main thing, we major in too many minor things. In other words, many people do a few things that are good, a lot of things that are ... Tags: key, success, critical, factor, inspiration, motivation, achievement, author, book, freela
The 10 Most Popular Movies Of All Time – A Cheat Sheet (Part 2) By: James Shenton Are you a movie dunce? Do you not know your Corleone from your Kurosawa? Would you recognise a lightsaber if it hit you in the face? Well, don’t panic. To help you catch up on your movie knowledge here’s the second instalment in your 2-part crash course in the top 10 movies of all time, as voted by the readers of the Internet Movie Database. Careful, though… here be spoilers.
Box Office Flops - More Than Meets The Eye? By: James Shenton There's something oddly satisfying about seeing a big-budget movie flop. Whenever we hear about these ambitious, special effects-laden extravaganzas going down in flames we get an odd feeling of schadenfreude.
But why is this? Does it stem from the fact that we feel manipulated, almost exploited, by the movie industry? Perhaps. After all, movie studios make a lot of coin from tweaking our emotions, be it through adrenaline-filled action films or mawkishly tear-jerkin... Tags: box office flops, movie flops, hollywood, Citizen Kane, Fight Club, Shawshank Redemption, Forres
Indiana Jones Returns - Too Little, Too Late? By: James Shenton For those who came of age in the 1980s during a time of sleek consumerism and homogenous globalization, Indiana Jones was something of an idol. Harking back to a time when the jungles of South America and the Pyramids of Egypt were truly a world away, the Indiana Jones trilogy excited in us a feeling of adventure that has been rarely seen before or since.
Top 10 Dating Tips for Divorced guys By: Cameron Teone 10 Important Dating Tips for Divorced Men who find themselves back in the singles scene once again. This is Part 1 which covers the first 5 basic steps to help divorced men to start effectively dating single women again. Tags: Dating Tips, Attract Women
10 important dating keys for divorced men- part 2 By: Cameron Teone 10 Important Dating Tips for Divorced Men who find themselves back in the singles scene once again. This is Part 2 which covers last 5 steps to help divorced men to start effectively dating single women again. Tags: Dating Tips, How to meet Women,
Stand by Me, a Stephen King movie By: Darren Lambert Stand by Me is a 1986 movie, adapted from Stephen King's story The Body. The Body appeared as a novella in King's collection Different Seasons. Different Seasons also contains the stories The Shawshank Redemption, and the Apt Pupil, both of which were made into movies. Tags: stand by me, stephen king, movie, different seasons
The Green Mile, a Stephen King movie By: Darren Lambert The Green Mile is a movie about a series of events on Louisiana death row in the 1930s. The original story was written by Stephen King. The movie was directed by Frank Darabont, who wrote the screenplay. Tom Hanks stars as the main character Paul Edgecomb, Michael Clarke Duncan co-stars as John Coffey. Tags: green, mile, prison, movie, stephen, king
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