My World [Digipak] - Lee Fields & The Expressions

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Advantages: It tries to bring a little known hero to light.
Disadvantages: It's hackneyed in all respects.

-mates when he gets into college, as well as facing open hostility from Southern colleges at games and being treated differently to his Caucasian colleagues when on tour. But of course he beats the odds to become a star on the field, as well as winning the hand of winsome co-ed Sarah and facing private tragedy. Despite its credentials as a true story, it feels hackneyed. This is in part due to the characterisation that posits Davis as an almost saintly figure who just wants to go out and play sports for the honour of his school and family. He shows no interest in the civil rights movement that wants to co-opt him or the fame and fortune the sport could offer him. Ben Schwartzwalder comes across as a gruff counterpoint to the superstar in the making whose own deeply ingrained beliefs about how the world works are challenged by a man whose talent ...

afy9mab 01.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Express (DVD)

Welcome to my world.

Advantages: See text.
Disadvantages: See text.

Welcome to the central Prime Minister's office at the state headquarters of the government of Hujamalia! I would just like to spend the next few minutes bigging up our country, or rather saying what is wrong with everywhere else ? as I am sure everywhere else does about everywhere else anyway! As you may have already started to get a bit of an inkling, nothing here makes very much sense and if it did then we wouldn't be normal. I won't give you the general statistics as a whole to start off with, as these will be somewhere in my workings below. Taxes Everyone of a working age (and this is from the age of 30 upwards) is to pay 30% of their income to the state treasury, and this money is then used to be spent on the upkeep of the city including public transport (see below). Education We have no schools, but everyone ...

dynamicnurse 23.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of My Ciao Government

Field of yawns

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Appalling story and acting

Ray Kinsella is a farmer in Iowa, married to Annie and they have a child, Karin. One day, Ray is in the fields when he hears a voice: "Build it, and he will come." Initially, he thinks he must be dreaming, but the voice comes back to him, along with a vision of a baseball pitch set into part of his land. He becomes convinced that something great will happen and so ploughs one of his fields and turns it into a baseball pitch. Having spent all their savings on the pitch, the Kinsellas are now in deep financial trouble, but when a team of famous baseball players from years ago turn up to play on the pitch, Ray thinks it is all worth it. Then he starts to hear voices again, giving him further instructions. What is the point of the instructions? And will Ray be able to keep the family out of debt? I had never heard of this film before I ...

sunmeilan 21.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Field Of Dreams (DVD)