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 | The Full Monty |
 | "Truly enjoyable and engaging film" | 2009-09-13 |
I especially loved this film as it was so engaging, human, not salacious at all. Robert Carlyle was especially fantastic. It was a group of guys who had been laid off work, in desperate need of both a job and funds due to child support which was leading to loss of custody; foreclosure due to a wife unaware of the loss of husband's job and subsequent wild spending; a man's waning loss of self identity due to loss of job and inability to cope with it and his resultant deteriorating love life, etc. All the men are good guys. One tried suicide and was thwarted by several others. None of them would have considered the strip act but for their situations. So their attempts at learning to dance, pick out the right music, and have the nerve to step out on stage were hilarious. Also funny was the young son of Robert Carlyle's character reaction to seeing his dad practice in "You Sexy Thing". It was really a good film. I was really surprised when I watched the film how funny and even sweet it was. I loved the relationships.
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 | The Full Monty |
| "Truly enjoyable and engaging film" | 2009-09-13 |
I especially loved this film as it was so engaging, human, not salacious at all. Robert Carlyle was especially fantastic. It was a group of guys who had been laid off work, in desperate need of both a job and funds due to child support which was leading to loss of custody; foreclosure due to a wife unaware of the loss of husband's job and subsequent wild spending; a man's waning loss of self identity due to loss of job and inability to cope with it and his resultant deteriorating love life, etc. All the men are good guys. One tried suicide and was thwarted by several others. None of them would have considered the strip act but for their situations. So their attempts at learning to dance, pick out the right music, and have the nerve to step out on stage were hilarious. Also funny was the young son of Robert Carlyle's character reaction to seeing his dad practice in "You Sexy Thing". It was really a good film. I was really surprised when I watched the film how funny and even sweet it was. I loved the relationships.
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 | The Full Monty |
| "Truly enjoyable and engaging film" | 2009-09-13 |
I especially loved this film as it was so engaging, human, not salacious at all. Robert Carlyle was especially fantastic. It was a group of guys who had been laid off work, in desperate need of both a job and funds due to child support which was leading to loss of custody; foreclosure due to a wife unaware of the loss of husband's job and subsequent wild spending; a man's waning loss of self identity due to loss of job and inability to cope with it and his resultant deteriorating love life, etc. All the men are good guys. One tried suicide and was thwarted by several others. None of them would have considered the strip act but for their situations. So their attempts at learning to dance, pick out the right music, and have the nerve to step out on stage were hilarious. Also funny was the young son of Robert Carlyle's character reaction to seeing his dad practice in "You Sexy Thing". It was really a good film. I was really surprised when I watched the film how funny and even sweet it was. I loved the relationships.
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 | A Highland Christmas |
| "Charming, typical Hamish McBeth behavior" | 2009-09-13 |
This was a warm, friendly, typically Hamish McBeth story. He is the true article. You can't help but love him. Not a mean bone in his body. He gives so much to the occupants of his village, down to the children in need. He is the spirit of Christmas amongst those who don't even believe in celebrating Christmas. He brings decorations, a tree, presents, and the spirit of Christmas to them all.
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 | A Highland Christmas |
| "Charming, typical Hamish McBeth behavior" | 2009-09-13 |
This was a warm, friendly, typically Hamish McBeth story. He is the true article. You can't help but love him. Not a mean bone in his body. He gives so much to the occupants of his village, down to the children in need. He is the spirit of Christmas amongst those who don't even believe in celebrating Christmas. He brings decorations, a tree, presents, and the spirit of Christmas to them all.
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 | The Full Monty |
| "Truly enjoyable and engaging film" | 2009-09-13 |
I especially loved this film as it was so engaging, human, not salacious at all. Robert Carlyle was especially fantastic. It was a group of guys who had been laid off work, in desperate need of both a job and funds due to child support which was leading to loss of custody; foreclosure due to a wife unaware of the loss of husband's job and subsequent wild spending; a man's waning loss of self identity due to loss of job and inability to cope with it and his resultant deteriorating love life, etc. All the men are good guys. One tried suicide and was thwarted by several others. None of them would have considered the strip act but for their situations. So their attempts at learning to dance, pick out the right music, and have the nerve to step out on stage were hilarious. Also funny was the young son of Robert Carlyle's character reaction to seeing his dad practice in "You Sexy Thing". It was really a good film. I was really surprised when I watched the film how funny and even sweet it was. I loved the relationships.
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 | Death of an Addict (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries (Paperback)) |
 | "drug addict" | 2009-09-13 |
Actually I did not enjoy this book as much as the rest of the Hamis MacBeth I have read. It seemed out of his baliwick to go undercover as a drug dealer, adopt foul language, get tricked into going with a prostitute, no matter how young and seemingly innocent she was, and hang with the really rotten underground type. None of those things are the Hamish MacBeth I have become accustomed to. But then I have never enjoyed books or movies involving drug use.
I like the kindly but firm, look the other way when it isn't harmful, PC MacBeth, who loves the people under his watch, and does everything he can to help them all. I wish he was real.
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 | Monarch of the Glen - Series Two |
| "Pleasantly surprised - from the U.S. - and Awkward Reviewer" | 2007-01-04 |
I saw a BBC catalog with different series and movies offered. I was intrigued by many, but of course totally unfamiliar with the product. I tried Monarch of the Glen and was truly pleasantly surprised. I love Scotland, having visited 4 years ago. The characters in this series are all exceptional in my mind. I love the scenery and the story line. There is so much humor and love in the series. The father and mother (Hector and Mollie) are terrific actors and portray such warm, loving, quirky characters. Archie, the son and new Laird of Glen Bogle is intelligent, good-hearted, often confused by his women friends, and clearly frustrated in his attempts to get Glen Bogle back on its feet. The supporting cast of Golly (groundskeeper), Duncan (who does all odd jobs around the castle), Lexie (the cook, housekeeper, clearly in love with Archie), and Katrina, old school friend and now occasional girl friend, Justine, Archie's fiance and restaurant co-owner from London, Laird Kilwillie his parents' neighbor, friend, and sometimes foe - they are all characters you fall in love with. Archie has his hands full and overflowing both trying to get the estate out of its debts and finding ways to make it self-sustaining, and keeping a firm hand on his father's quirky costly schemes, and his gentle mother's follies. I love the stories, and have only seens series 1 and 2. However I was given series 3 for Christmas and can't wait to get back into it. I highly recommend this, and am so glad I gave it a blind stab. I have tried a number of British offerings and am always so glad afterwards. I personally find the films much more realistic and a joy to watch because the actors are so much more real than they are here. Here it seems everyone cast has to be slim, extremely attractive to the extreme - only beautiful allowed, not your normal average everyday human. I also recommend "Oliver's Travels" a mystery series with Alan Bates and Sinead Cusack; The Barchester Chronicles, love Alan Rickman; A House in Umbria, a mystery with beautiful scenery and Maggie Smith, Chris Cooper and Timothy Spall; and Patricia Routledge in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. I also highly recommend the Horatio Hornblower series and Cracker with Robbie Coltrane and an excellent cast. Happy viewing. Jill Baxter
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