Advantages: Beautiful, symphonic, melodious Disadvantages: There are none in my view
"The Angel and the DarkRiver" is My Dying Bride's 1995 album, an almost classical-sounding piece of work featuring epic song structures and probably the best use of violins I've ever heard in any rock album.
This album very much continued the band's departure from their death-metal roots, a journey which had really begun with 1993's "Turn Loose the Swans" (see my review of that album for more details) and which here is transformed into six long, epic tales of woe brought alive by Aaron's non-more-depressed vocals and some beautiful violin work. This almost isn't metal at all, and although it's possible- just about- to categorise it, perhaps as "symphonic doom metal" or "goth metal" or whatever subgenre you feel might be most appropriate, it really does sound like nothing else.
This is an album that feels almost classical in ...
Advantages: Great descriptions of the times, Australia Disadvantages: None
starts in London where Will is from and diaries his early life and then that of a worker man on the River Thames. It must have been an extremely hard time and one that we cannot really comprehend. The writer goes into great detail about how life was and it sounds so tough and dark but typical of the early 19th century. You get to see how the class system works and operates in that time and how family all work together to support each other, even at a very young age.
I think the author really makes you like Will and not necessarily feel sorry for him as his life has been hard, but just wish him to succeed in all his does. Yes, he has been on the wrong side of the law but those were the circumstances he found himself in and he works harder than any other character I have read about so for sheer grit and determination you have to be rooting ...
Advantages: Marilyn Monroe looking beautiful and singing well, good cast, beautiful views Disadvantages: Some dull bits, it's a Western!
In the year following the filming of Niagara, Marilyn Monroe only made two films - the star-studded There's No Business Like Showbusiness and River of No Return. The latter is a 1954 Western filmed in Canada and co-starring Robert Mitchum.
Marilyn plays a saloon singer called Kay Weston, while Rory Calhoun is her partner Harry. They seem happy together, but it soon becomes obvious that they have different priorities in life. Harry is obsessed with making money. He is a gambler who is selfish, greedy and not very likeable.
Kay, however, is sweet, maternal, caring and warm-hearted. She isn't a passive woman though; she is feisty and determined and not afraid to have a go at anything.
Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum) is a cowboy who ends up at the saloon where Kay works. He has just been reunited with his son Mark (played well by ...
