Now And Then - Mary Hopkin

Advantages: Feel-good film, interesting story
Disadvantages: Not special, not deep or serious

...Germans can be weird at times, you know? Now and Then, which was on over here a few weeks back, incidentally the same weekend it was on UK terrestrial TV, is called Damals und Heute – i.e. Then and Now. It’s like when we say ”head over heels”, and they say “throat over head”. Strange but true. I saw Now and Then in the UK when it was first released. Then I bought the video, and the soundtrack. Then the book – although it was the German version from a bookshop in Vienna because extensive searching on my part revealed that there only seemed to be 3 copies of the English version ever published, and all of those in America. Needless to say, I liked the film. ** Story ** Now and Then is a film a lot of you won’t have heard of, I suspect. Aimed at around the 10-20 year old age group, (or... Read review

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Advantages: A Celebrity Workout DVD that really works!
Disadvantages: The instructor, you need willpower

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why I brought the DVD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most people have heard of Natalie Cassidy who until fairly recently had a major role in British soap Eastenders, playing dowdy Sonia Jackson. It's well known that she didn't have the best of bodies and since leaving Eastenders has appeared in a number of celebrity magazines showing off her fabulous new figure. Celebrity Workout DVD's have never appealed to me, they have always been airbrushed or don't eat to look like that and have never made me want to buy one, but Natalie Cassidy's weight loss was amazing, she has done so well and seeing pictures of her in magazines showed how well she was looking without being over the top, I thought this was one DVD that might actually be worth purchasing, if the workout could do what it did for her then it would do wonders for me... Read review

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Advantages: Great Cast, Great Characters and Great Songs
Disadvantages: None

...(Peak Practice, Dalziel and Pascoe) - Crazy Pete Hank Azaria (The voice of Moe and other characters in The Simpsons) - Bud Kent Bonnie Hunt (Cheaper By The Dozen 1 and 2) - Chrissy's Mum Brendan Frazier (The Mummy1, 2 and 3) - War Veteran Rumer Willis (Demi Moore and Bruce Willis' daughter) - Samantha's younger sister ╣The Film╠ Now and Then tells the story of 4 friends who, during the summer of 1970, made a pact to promise to return home and be there for one another whenever they needed each other. That was when the girls' were 12, and since then, the friends have been leading their own lives, away from their hometown, but one of them is pregnant, and wants her friends to be with her for the special moment, meaning the friends' pact to be there for one another, made over 20 years ago, is finally about to happen. As... Read review

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