Outside Looking In - Life

Advantages: Interesting insight into life in Cuba
Disadvantages: More depth required and an extended last few chapters, as it appeared rushed.

...for drugs to help cure his young patients and the local people including himself poverty. The very controlling State kept telling the World about its great Hospitals and Education system but Chris is finding change and improvement very slow and frustrating, as all he wanted to do is make people better but with such limited resources. Chris believes in the revolution in which his Grandfather participated in will eventually benefit all the Cuban people. However, he meets a pretty young nurse Eve Santiago and he falls in love with her. Despite their love she wants to escape to a better life she has heard about in America, but the authorities punish anyone caught trying to leave the island but she wants to take this gamble for a new life with Chris. This is the big difference between them and as the relationship deepens they both realise that... Read review

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Advantages: DVD makes a great coaster.
Disadvantages: An hour and a half of my life that I wont get back

... The big red button phenomenon Throughout your life, I am sure that you have had a moment when you know you should not do something, but you really want to. Like in the film's, when there is a big red button with 'don't push' written beside it. Try as you might, you cannot resist the urge to press it. Well, in my life this phenomenon has led me to grow my collection of films to include several movies from the 'video nasty' genre. Generally these films are terrible, and there should be no reason for you to want to watch them. However, there is something niggling me, right at the back of my otherwise empty head. Why was it banned? What is the reason why this film was initially not put up for public release? Occasionally a real cracker comes up, like the scarily gory 'Cannibal Holocaust', or possibly the most disturbing film in... Read review

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Advantages: So interesting, fun to watch, educational
Disadvantages: I want more episodes!!

...I really love 'The Life Collection' from David Attenborough. The complete series of 'Life in the Freezer' was the third dvd of the collection that I bought. The series itself has six episodes which are all on one disc. They were originally transmitted in 1993. The six episodes are: Episode 1: The Bountiful Sea - All about the Southern Antarctic Ocean and the species in it Episode 2: The Ice Retreats - About when Spring comes and the wildlife coming back to land to breed. Episode 3: The Race To Breed - How seals and penguins have to breed quickly before winter comes round again. Episode 4: The Door Closes - The disappearance of food as winter returns and how the wildlife have to migrate before this happens. Episode 5: The Big Freeze - How some animals stay and live in the extreme conditions and how life continues, against all... Read review

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