Martha's Harbour - All About Eve

Advantages: Superb performances, compelling story
Disadvantages: It's black and white, and some won't take the opportunity to watch this fantastic film

...doesn't have that large a role in All About Eve, yet whenever he appears, there is a suggestion that something momentous is going to happen - few actors can portray all that with just a few seemingly superficial comments. He overshadows his male colleagues - Gary Merill (Margo's lover) and Hugh Marlowe (the playwright), who are ultimately fairly forgettable (although with any other cast, they would be right up there with the best of them). The story, written and directed by Joseph L Mankievicz, is fantastically told. It begins almost at the end, at an award ceremony where Eve is about to be given an award. It then skips back in time to when Eve and Margo first meet. The story is largely told through dialogue, but this is interspersed with some narration by different characters, which helps to make their point of view clear. It is these... Read review

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Advantages: Gentle, engaging read
Disadvantages: Nothing major - writing style may not appeal to all.

...spent the rest of her childhood. Evie?s childhood recollections of her first year in Wales are interspaced with the adult Evie who is expecting her first child. Part of the charm is hearing about the mysterious red headed man from where she inherited her own red hair and her childhood love for her grandparents? farm hand Daniel and how it translates into the adult Evie. That summer is not all about innocence. Evie is judged by people based on the trouble her father allegedly caused, a man whose name she doesn?t even know. Evie has a box of trinkets her mother left behind, and Evie tries to trace the significance of the supposedly innocuous objects to her mother?s life. On top of that, a local girl goes missing and Evie secretly becomes friends with someone everyone else believes she shouldn?t? The story is beautifully written and is... Read review

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Advantages: A great voice and awesome guitars
Disadvantages: Its incredibly dark (in a good way!)

...Put simply this is a brilliant album. It's not just my fellow Coventrian Julianne Regan's awesome voice or Tim Bricheno's guitar wizardry. You got great lyrics written on songs for all kinds of dark moods. If you can't enjoy the counterpoints and melodies presented on this then you have no soul. Well, that's my opinion at least. All About Eve get pinned as Gothic but that's most likely due to their very early look and the fact that Miss Regan was dating Simon Hinkler better known as the guitarist of Goth group The Mission which eventually broke up leaving her in a rather fragile state. It might not seem like it now but Julianne was greatly depressed during the making of this album after her break up with Hinkler & brief relationship with fellow band member Tim Bricheno which broke up (he actually left the band immediately after... Read review

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