Advantages: a romantic comedy Disadvantages: a chick film, no extras or special features
Music from another room was a dvd which I discovered in my local library and which I decided to watch on a Saturday night when my other half had gone down to the pub and I was in on my own with the wine and chocolates.
The Plot
Music from another room is a romantic comedy, the film begins with Danny visiting his father's friends for thanksgiving and the next door neighbour (an old family friend) Grace Swann goes into labour and as a five year old boy he helps deliver her baby girl, who Grace names Anna, from that moment Danny believes that he is destined to marry the beautiful baby girl that he helped deliver.
All this is forgotten as Danny moves away to London and twenty-five years later he returns to his hometown after his fathers death. He finds Anna Swann, as beautiful as he imagined her to be and irrestible ...
Advantages: That old magic's still there... Disadvantages: ...but not often enough
The appearance of a sequel (of sorts) to Watership Down, almost a quarter of a century after the original book's appearance, should have been a cause for wild celebration amongst the many fans of Hazel, Fiver, Hyzenthlay and the rest of Richard Adams' lapine creations. As indeed it was - until we came to read it. Rather unfairly perhaps, given that it is in no way a disastrous effort, many readers will come away fromTalesfrom Watership Down feeling disappointed and let down.
Talesfrom Watership Down (TFWD) is a much thinner volume than Watership Down itself, running to under 250 pages as opposed to the 470-plus of the original. No matter, one thinks, as surely that's still enough space for an interesting novel. Would that this were so; in fact, TFWD is split into three parts, only one of which can justly be regarded as sequelious ...
Advantages: new studio ghibli movie nice music and animation Disadvantages: a bit short and the plot is a little jumpy, new and different
The most recent studio ghibli movie released in the west, however this title is different from previous works as it was directed by hayao Miyazakis son goro miyazaki ( Hayao Miyazaki created spirited away and princess mononoke for studio ghibli to name some of the better known titles released in the UK).
This dvd comes with both an English subtitle and dubbed track. The English dubbing is quite true to the original script but I prefer the subtitles.
The plot is based on Ursala K LeGuin's Earthsea books in particular the third volume entitled the farthest shore.
The movie begins with a group of men out at sea in a vicious storm witnessing a gargantuan battle between two titanic dragons, one of which is killed in the process, when this information gets back to the king of the land he is greatly disturbed.
This was an extremely ...