Self Preservation Society - Clique (The)

Advantages: Excellent action, great story, classic film
Disadvantages: None

...the bullion in broad daylight in the busy streets of Turin. The trouble is "The Mafia" are also planning a similar job, so they have to plan how to do it under the Mafia's noses. They successfully steal the Bullion, by messing the traffic lights up in the busy streets, hence causing mayhem, then the most memorable part of the film starts, where they load the bullion into the back of "3 mini coopers", which are painted in the colours of the Union Jack (Red White and Blue), this results in a fantastic chase through the city, and the outskirts, they even end up in the drainage system during the getaway.Whilst all this is happening the song "This is a self preservation society" is playing which adds to the drama, and you also see the prison where Mr Bridger is singing "England, England, England" and it really makes you feel patriotic in a funny... Read review

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Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: What happened next?

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Advantages: Cleverly written and beautifully crafted songs
Disadvantages: Not everyone's cup of tea, but then, what is?

...I saw a TV commercial just before Christmas and identified the accompanying music immediately as being by The Kinks, but I'd never heard the song before. Somewhat perplexed, as a fan of the band, I searched the net and found it was a song called 'Picture Book' taken from the 1968 album 'The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society'. So why didn't I recollect it? Well, it's the forgotten album, it got trampled underfoot in the rush to buy other albums from the autumn of that year, such as the Beatles' White Album, The Stones' 'Beggars Banquet', and Jimi Hendrix' 'Electric Ladyland'. The music was changing at the time, the flowers that grew so incredibly high were being crushed by the Street Fighting Man, Revolution was in the air....and here were the Kinks singing songs about, "draught beer, cricket and strawberry jam... Read review

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