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The Mistress of Spices - Definitely Not A Spicy Mistress!

Advantages: Lovely cinematography
Disadvantages: Lack of chemistry between the leads

Tilo runs a spice store in San Francisco called Spice Bazaar. She is a Mistress of Spices and must live according to the rules she was taught by her mentor ? she mustn?t physically touch another human being, she mustn?t leave her store and she mustn?t use the spices for her own benefit. She has regular customers who come to her for spices to fix things that are not well in their lives. All is going well with the spice shop and Tilo?s life until Doug comes into her life; a handsome architect with his own issues that need resolving. The problem is, though, that they have a mutual attraction which is dangerous for Tilo and everyone who trusts in her ?magic?. Will Tilo stay faithful to her spices? Will she venture out into the big bad world and risk a romance with Doug? Will the spices take their revenge? FACTS & OPINION I ...

anonymili 06.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Mistress Of Spices (DVD)

Sympathetic tale of a mistress

Advantages: Interesting story of a little-known historical character
Disadvantages: None - a very good hiostorical biography

Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, is probably one of the least remembered of royal mistresses. Given that her royal lover was one of the least-remembered of British sovereigns, was not wicked or horrible enough to be that infamous and therefore that interesting, and was one of the much-maligned Hanoverians to boot, this is hardly surprising. Born in 1688, she had an unpromising start in life. The daughter of a Norfolk landowner, she lost her father at an early age when he was killed in a duel. At the age of 18 she married Charles, son of the Earl of Suffolk, a drunkard and womaniser who made her life sheer hell. In an age when even legal separation was frowned upon and divorce almost unthinkable, she managed to separate from him, fortunately at minimal cost to her reputation. While husband and wife had lived in Hanover they ...

JOHNV 15.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of King's Mistress, Queen's Servant - Tracy Borman

The Virgin Suicides

Advantages: Very good cast, great acting
Disadvantages: Deals with a subject matter not all will be comfortable with perhaps?

Directed by Sofia Coppola and based upon the novel written by Jeffery Eugenides, this film tells the story of the Lisbon sisters living in a 1970's suburban area in the United States. This movie is narrated by the neighbourhood boys who attempt to piece together the events of the Lisbon sisters lives, in order to understand an act which many would find difficult to comprehend; suicide. The film opens with the attempted suicide of the youngest sister, Cecilia, which provokes much neighbourhood gossip and shocks the Lisbon family. Unfortunately Cecilia goes on to make a second successful attempt and as a result the remaining four sisters are put on lock down within their home. From then on the film depicts the next few months of thier lives, including their eventual communication with the neighbourhood boys, who they involve in their ...

rachieb123 02.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Virgin Suicides (DVD)