They Don't Teach This Shit In School - Damien Dempsey

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: The story and acting
Disadvantages: Quite depressing, the use of flash-forwards

... THEY SHOOT HORSES DON?T THEY? (1969) DVD (2008) I think that there must have been something in the water in 1969 as there was a whole bevy of great films released that year, here are a handful of those films. Anne of the Thousand Days Easy Rider Hello Dolly! Midnight Cowboy The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie True Grit The Wild Bunch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid They Shoot Horses, Don't They? This review is about the latter of these films, ?They Shoot Horses Don?t They?? directed by Sydney Pollack., based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Horace McCoy SETTING The film tells the story of the 1930's dance marathons that were held to give middle class people a source of entertainment and poorer people a chance to earn some money. ($1,500 in this film). Dance Marathons (which... Read review

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Advantages: interesting, enjoyable, rewarding, fun
Disadvantages: huge workload, irritating children

...brilliantly, whereas in secondary schools this tends to just be ignored. The main behavioural issues I came across in primary teaching were low level disruption such as giggling and talking out of turn. This can be irritating although isn't too hard to manage. Other behaviours include the arguing and bickering, which also can get very irritating. The main problem regarding behaviour is if you have a few children who have particular behavioural difficulties as it can be very draining dealing with it day in day out. However, that's not to say that primary schools don't present extreme behaviour. I was teaching my year 6 class when a deranged year 4 pupil came running into my classroom with a hacksaw that he had somehow got hold of. He ran over to one of my class threatening them with the saw (I think the whole thing was because of a football... Read review

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