Groans To The Guilty - Foscor

Too young to die or guilty enough to hang?

Advantages: Very well acted and presented
Disadvantages: Nothing really

Too Young To Die? is a powerful film, based on a true story, and starring Juliette Lewis as minor Amanda Sue Bradley, who is on trial for murder at the age of 15. I have put off watching this for quite a while now, but today I put it on. Not the most common thing to be watching mid morning, but I felt in the mood, and was rewarded wth a well acted, well produced hour and a half that kept me riveted to the screen. Amanda has led a horrible teen-life. Raped and abused by her stepfather from the age of 13, she is shunned by her mother and forced to get help where she can. As a result, she falls in with hustler Billy (Brad Pitt) who introduces her to a sleazy strip club. When she is saved by military sergeant Mike, things are looking up, but as things spiral, pressures mount on Mike due to her age, and when Billy comes back into ...

pmcds 24.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Too Young To Die (DVD)

I Find Blue Not Guilty

Advantages: Some new and different sounds from the band
Disadvantages: Disappointing opening and closing tracks

The morning of Saturday 8th November was an exciting one. One week after being informed by CDWOW that the new Blue CD, Guilty, was winging its way to me, the thud through the letterbox told me it was here. I immediately got Paul to work, taping it for my car as I was travelling to and from Manchester and I have no CD player in my car. I was hoping that the trip would give me ample opportunity to listen to the album a few times ? what I wasn?t banking on was Jacob chattering on for 2 hours solid and expecting replies to his every question and statement. Unfortunately, not much listening took place. But now it is all quiet so I?ve grabbed my CD player and I?m going to have a proper listen to the album, with hopefully no interruptions. Of course, it?s all in the name of Ciao research ? oh yes, and the fact that I?m going to see them live ...

AnitaM 12.11.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Guilty - Blue

Never Plead Guilty, but do read this novel

Advantages: Good believable plot
Disadvantages: Toomuch swearing

or a marriage, or so Willie said in his most esoteric work ?The Razor?s Edge? (which didn?t). Read ?Pleading Guilty? and you will see the nice twists as they develop. It is a book for today with the nice, under-done boot kicking softly at the legal establishment, born more out of a frustration with the system which we all feel from time to time. This snapshot of legal life has the statutory four letter words -a bit too many, but probably at the publishers? insistence if modern success in getting published is anything to go by. Some were rather unnecessary as most of these words are normally ?quotes in court? and not that often heard in the advocates? room (as we are a bit busy). We came away at the end, as we sometimes do at the end of a case, feeling for the loneliness of the advocate - many of us been there with Wallace and the dead client ...

PhillipTaylor 21.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Pleading Guilty - Paul Genney