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This film is great, really top-notch stuff.

Some people, walking into this film may think that its just a story about gay rights and that these ideologies will be forced down your throats, but its anything but.

This is not a film about human rights, it is a film about loss. I felt very moved at times by what the characters were facing.

A Single Man, is set in 1960's Los Angeles, in which a man who has recently lost his boyfriend decides to 'change it all' during the course of one day. Throughout this day we see his sadness, his happiness and the honesty of his poetic mind.

Colin Firth delivers a great performance, dancing between total bluntness and depression, yet still managing to produce a few laughs.

The chemistry between Matthew Goode and Colin Firth is really well done, the audience really begins to care about the two as a couple, yet they know that its only a flashback.

Juliane Moore is also good in her role, same goes to Nicholas Hault,

Tom Ford's direction is really well done, making the audience feel as though Colin Firth's character would.

The cinematography is noticeable, in that their are many symbolic elements seen throughout. However this can get a bit annoying, almost as if it were being shoved in the audiences face that 'this is good' or 'this is deeply meaningful'.

But all in all, I did enjoy this film, and it slightly bothers me that this is Tom Ford's only film, as he has great potential.

A Single Man= 7.6/10

This film is... a lot of things.

I can spend paragraphs using positive adjectives to describe my affection for this film, but alas, my reviewing skills are lame and without proper practice.

Ang Lee had a story on his hands and he knew how to tell it. The film is so beautiful and so engrossing for the audience that I really cared and related to the characters.

Everything from the score, to the costuming beautifully demonstrates and sets the scene of a feudal China. The characters are so larger than life, which is so great because I really felt that this element brought out the best of the story, it was so epic!!!

The fight scenes, whilst almost comical (the gliding aspect that is) were effective and really tense, this film also boasts one of the coolest chase scenes I have ever seen.

The dialogue is so well spoken by the characters and their poetic elegance far surpasses my expectations of this masterpiece.

A truly awesome film! If you only see a couple foreign or Chinese films in your lifetime, make Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon one of them!

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon= 9.8

I recently purchased all five seasons of the wire and watched all the episodes over a month and a half period. Money and time well spent.

The Wire is about the drug scene and Baltimore. Its as simple as that. Throughout the five seasons we get to see all walks of life in the detailing as to why the drug problem is so consistent. We see both the 'bad' guys who run the drug enterprise and the 'good' guys who try to stop them. We see stick up-men, lawyers, Mayors, police of all sorts, addicts, kids caught in the thick of it all of the character types that could get affected in real life are shown in this show.

There are many well developed characters in the show, that's the thing that I thought the show did really well, the creators never discarded anything from previous seasons, they would sometimes bring back characters the viewer had all but forgot about.

You really can't imagine how hard it was for the writers to write these characters stories in a way that seems relevant to the plot, it would be so convoluted and confusing, but as a credit to David Simon the show is really easy to watch.

The Wire is a fantastic show, some realistic dialogue, masterful character performances (Andre Royo, Wendell Pierce) just to mention a few and the social commentary that invokes lots of thought and opinion, which is what I think Simon would have liked to see.

No episode is boring, no episode is irrelevant, just a good top-notch crime drama of which its originality we may never see the likes of again. Certainly one of my favourite shows of all time.

The Wire= 10/10