Future/A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues - Seeds (The)

Advantages: funny, at times worrying realistic, great performances from the cast
Disadvantages: the odd "miss", only one series ever made

...'s Kevin Bishop, who not only has his own self-named show, he is probably most familiar as playing multiple famous characters in the awesomely funny "Star Stories". Former CBBC presenter Josie D'Arby shows a very funny side, as does Rob Rouse, the ORIGINAL presenter of "The Friday Night Project". All of them, whether people you recognise or not, put in fab performances and go all out to try and make you laugh. Like most sketch shows, there is a mixture of one-off sketches, as well as ones which run throughout the series. These include the man who is too scared to ask what his other half wants at any point because her reply is inevitably "a f*cking BABY", a man who retreats to storage space on a regular basis to escape his girlfriend/wife, and (my personal favourite) a man who feels so trapped in his relationship that he begs strangers to... Read review

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Advantages: Good plot twists. Well written. Classic Who-Dunnit.
Disadvantages: Slight formulaic feel, too similar to other Christie books in parts.

...Agatha Christie, widely accepted as the Queen of Crime, was a prolific writer. Only outsold by Shakespeare and the Bible, she has sold over a billion books in English and a further billion in other languages. Her most famous creations are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, representations of whom can be seen regularly on our television screens. This book features Poirot, the dapper little Belgian detective with his superior powers of deduction and moustache-twirling tendencies. The plot of The Mystery of the Blue Train did feel slightly formulaic to my mind. A rich American beauty is married to an impoverished English cad, a man with expensive taste, trying to sustain his champagne lifestyle on his ?shandy? income, including financing a high-maintenance and demanding mistress. The American, after persuasion... Read review

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Advantages: The "best" of nick cave and the bad seeds, Cave's vocals, great songs, wonderful lyrics
Disadvantages: Some "bad" songs

...Nick Cave and the Bad seeds put their best songs together on an album and this is what we end up with. A sixteen track CD, wich has songs dating right through their career together (almost). Cave got with the Bad seeds in 1984 and this album goes as far back as that an all the way upto 1997 (The boatmans call). The album takes songs from each of the albums in this time peroid (though as the inlay booklet confess, not in chronological order). Cave and the bad seeds, have been described as being "Post-punk", "alt-rock" and "rock" all of these and more could be used to explain the bands sounds. Caves deep vocals as well as the musical arrangements which spand from simple to incredibly difficult, mixed with the dark and deep lyrics, allow this album to be a show case of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. So the songs list from their rather... Read review

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