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Paradise, Hawaiian Style


STARS: Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth, Marianna Hill, Irene Tsu.
STORY
Fans of Elvis, Hawaiian prints, smoking tropical drinks, grass skirts, bikinis and helicopters rejoice! This is the film for you. Every song in this is Polynesian-inspired. There’s some great island scenery. There’s some groovy bikinis - with women in them. There’s also a […]

CHEATS - Why Study? (Rental Version)


DIRECTED BY Andrew Gurland
I though this was an appropriate movie for my first review as I am a teacher (please don’t hold that against me) and this is a movie about cheating, the bane of our existence. I must admit I had never heard of this movie and probably figured that it went straight to […]

Girls, Girls, Girls!


STARS: Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Laurel Goodwin, Jeremy Slate.
STORY
This time we find Elvis as a financially challenged charter fishing boat captain, Ross Carpenter. He seems a little jaded by all the apparently unwanted female attention he gets from bored rich wives whose husbands no longer satisfy. His pride won’t allow him to use these supremely […]

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own


Already HAVING bought myself a copy of the original Barry McKenzie film The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie, you can imagine how happy I was to score this DVD for review. My Bazza collection is now complete! I really love this series, as I cant take Humphries ocker creation as seriously as other reviewers might. Certainly […]

Easy Come, Easy Go


STARS: Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall, Pat Priest, Pat Harrington, Skip Ward.
STORY
This time around, we meet Ted Jackson (Elvis), a U.S. Navy mine sweeper who stumbles across a possible sunken treasure off the coast of California in the line of duty and decides to try his luck at retrieving it with the help of a couple […]

Viva Las Vegas


STARS: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest.
STORY
Once I got over saccharine character names like Lucky Jackson (Elvis), Rusty Martin (Ann-Margret), and the wankiness of Lucky being a race car driver in the Las Vegas Grand Prix, I settled down for a light musical experience with a happy ending, and that is what I got. […]

FLCL - (Anime)


Directed by Kazuya TsurumakiThis was a very interesting anime - I can’t say I really know what’s going on yet (after watching the two episodes included on the DVD) but I did find it enjoyable to watch. The episodes are very fast paced and you would think that the creator had a terrible case of […]

The Sixth Sense - Collector’s Edition (2 Disc set)


Written and directed by M Night ShyamalanThe Stars: Bruce Willis, Toni Collette and Haley Joel OsmentSynopsis: Bruce Willis plays Dr Malcolm Crowe, a distinguished child psychologist who comes to the aid of Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), a child with some dark secrets that he tries to keep from his mother, played by our […]

Blue Crush


STARS: Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake, Matthew Davis, Mika Boorem.
STORY
I’m happy to report that there is a story here - nice and simple. Rich jock boy meets poor surfer girl, girl gives boy surf lessons, girl and boy fall in love, friends of girl are angry with girl for allowing boy to distract her […]

As Time Goes By - Series 1 and 2


Directed by Sydney LotterbyWritten by Colin Bostock-Smith (original idea) and Bob LarbeyThis is a fantastic English series starring (Dame) Judi Dench, as Jean Pargetter and Geoffrey Palmer as Lional Hardcastle. The series also stars Moira Brooker, who plays Jean’s daughter Judy, and Philip Bretheron, Lional’s publisher Alaister Deacon. Jean and Lional were wartime sweethearts and […]