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El Orfanato, a review by Silence_of_Lambs

Summary:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she wants to open a boarding school for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.

My Thoughts:
del Toro shows again that you don't need the budget of a medium sized country to produce a decent film.
This film virtuously handles all the elements needed for a scary, spooky ghost story and still isn't one, or is it?
The director leaves it to the audience to decide whether this is a ghost story, or a story about a mother losing her mind over the loss of her child, both is plausible and the conclusion you reach may change by a slight change of perspective.
It's great how the script fools us with our expectations and shows that ugly is not necessarily an equivalent for bad, not even in a ghost story.

One of the very rare movies you can watch over and over again and will always find new details, hints, ideas.

My rating (out of possible 5)
(Do not read if you haven't watched the movie yet!!)


(From Michael's random reviews on October 25th, 2010)

Room in Rome, a review by Tom

Room in Rome (2010/Spain) IMDb | Wikipedia Optimum Home Entertainment, Optimum Releasing (United Kingdom) Director: Julio Medem Writing: Julio Medem (Writer) Length: 107 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35 Audio: English: PCM 2.0 Stereo, English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Subtitles: English

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Stars:
Elena Anaya as Alba
Natasha Yarovenko as Natacha
Enrico Lo Verso as Max
Najwa Nimri as Edurne
Ander Malles as Boy

Plot:
A hotel room in the centre of Rome sets the interior scene where two young women, who have just met, go on a physical journey which will touch their souls.

Before they leave to go back to their respective lands, Spanish Alba (Elena Anaya, ) and Russian Natasha (Natasha Yarovenko) embark with their bodies and souls on an unforgettable one night stand.

ROOM IN ROMEJulio Medem ().

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Scene Access
• Trailers

Nice enough movie with beautiful girls. Nicely shot. But overall it's nothing more than two girls bullshitting each other (telling false and true stories about their lives) with some softcore sex scenes thrown in.

Rating:

(From Lesbian Movie Marathon on February 12th, 2011)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

JAMIE AT HOME - THE COMPLETE SERIES 1 - TOMATOES!



Over the last few years Jamie has been spending most of his spare time at home, growing things in his garden and becoming totally inspired to cook with all his own produce. Good food starts with good ingredients and what could be more exciting than cooking something you`ve grown yourself?
This brand new DVD includes all 12 episodes from the series. From potatoes and tomatoes to pumpkin and game, in each episode Jamie make sone ingredient the hero of the show. And if you fancy getting your hands dirty in the garden, there`s some basic planting information and tips that he learnt along the way too.
Full of sunshine, some (occasionally heavy!) showers, and lots of laughter, Jamie At Home sees Jamie where he loves to be, surrounded by good food and full of inspiration for cooking up a whole load of simple, delicious, seasonal and no-nonsense recipes.

Although I am not a great fan of Jamie Oliver personally, I do appreciate his style of no fuss cooking, outdoor barbequing, and the use of fresh local ingredients. Why are cooking programmes like this so popular?, I have no idea but will admit to being an avid follower. This original episode (and at least the next 3 which I also watched) are great viewing leading into summer and I will try several of the recipes and especially the barbequed salmon 
Good viewing if you like that sort of thing.


(From My PILOT Marathon on May 28th, 2008)