Advantages: A tense, suspense filled drama Disadvantages: None
As far as space films go, I am not a big fan so it was with some trepidation that I took this one in. After a few minutes, it is clear that this is going to stand head and shoulders above the rest which is due, in large part, to the immense performance of Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks, but also to a tremendous true story of bravery, skill and hope.
A year after the epic moon landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 13 was scheduled for a moon landing of its own. The original crew of Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Ken Mattingley (Gary Sinise) are just days away from the launch when Mattingley is pulled from the team due to the belief that he may have been exposed to infection.
Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) steps inand after a routine launch, disaster strikes, leading to the immortal line "Houston, we ...
Unknown Pleasures was the debut album of a late 70's post punk group otherwise known as the genius that is Joy Division!! They were previously called "warsaw" and made an album of the same name but renamed themselves amd got a new manager and they came out with this album in 1979 through Factory Records, which was owned by Tony Wilson who believed so much in the band that he invested his entire lives savings on making this album.
Band Members: Bernard Sumner guitarist, Peter hook guitarist, Stephen Morris drummer and Ian Curtis as vocalist. The album was produced by martin hannet at strawberry studios at stockport.. as alot of people haven't the foggiest who Joy division are I'll give a mini history:
formed intially with old school friends bernard sumner and peter hook and terry.. later terry managed the band and another drummer was ...
Advantages: Unique brand of humorous writing Disadvantages: Not the best Jeeves and Wooster
writing and indeed Wodehouse?s style is unique and inimitable. Stephen Fry has said: ?You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.? Still, some analysis is required if this review is not to come to a shuddering halt.
Joy in the Morning (which I hadn?t read before) is a complete middle-of-the-road Jeeves and Wooster offering, neither pippin nor purler, as Bertie might say. It has a typical plot and all the usual elements of the Wodehouse world, so it?s no surprise that it was first published in 1947, right in the middle of Wodehouse?s output. One of the challenges issued by Wodehouse-lovers to Wodehouse-sceptics is to summarise the fiendishly complex plots, and I had a go at this one but abandoned it. It would take too long and would spoil it for you; that, and, to be honest, it?s way too difficult ...
