Halliwell's Film, Video & DVD Guide

by John Walker and Leslie Halliwell

Ranging across a hundred years of cinema, and featuring more than 23,000 films,Halliwell's Film, Video & DVD Guideis the undisputed bible for movie enthusiasts and trivia buffs everywhere. For more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007234708
• ISBN13: 9780007234707
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)
• Length: 1368 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 8.3" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

ENJOYING THE GOOD LIFE!

Take a seat in front of the ol' flatscreen, grab editions of Halliwell's Film & Video Guide, Halliwell's "Who's Who" and then switch on the Turner Classic Movie channel. Vola! Life doesn't get any better than that!

2007 (halliwell's film and video guide

everything you need to know about film,from actors to directors and studios that made them.

Still the most intellegent and thoughtful guide

If you think Steven Segal or Demi Moore can act, The Phantom Menace and Titanic are great movies and James Cammron and Steven Spielberg are the best directors in history, Look elswhere for film guides written by people who don't know a good movie from their backside. Halliwells reviews are still the most thoughtful in the industry, not likely to over praise the latest hollywood "classic' and make you think about some of your favorites in a new way.. Even when I disagree with his rating, I find his reviews thoughtful and still enlightening. Even though the quality and style have slipped since his death, the all overwork is excellent. To those who only think that Halliwell liked Citizen Kane or Casablance, Look a little further and you will find a treasure trove of wonderful films that you may never heard of. And if you don't want to do that, just curl up with the latest Adam Sandler movie and ask someone to help you with the big words.

all in all an excellent book

Gensu2000 seems to think Halliwell's is "as stuffy as a film book can be" and comments on their horrifying undergrading of such groundbreaking cinematic productions as "Evil Dead" and "Braindead". Why surely these great films should be given four stars and placed on marble pedestals! Face it, most horror films are the paramount of lowbrow entertainment. And seemingly lowbrow people like Gensu2000 will enjoy them, as they are intended for that audience. And it's good that they have made a film review book for that type of person, such as the VideoHound book, but Gensu does not have to go around expressing his idiotic opinion. Laymen term the intelligentsia as "stuffy" because they have no understanding of what it is like to be intelligent. Keep quiet, Gensu, and go on watching your primitive ape movies, and reading their glowing reviews in your primitive ape film guide.

A complete and entertaining directory.

I think there are two movies wrong evaluated; one of them is Pocket Money,wich has got no star at all, and,the second one is Good Morning Babylon wich earned a star.Here are my reasons: Pocket Money is a poetical film, in wich the characters are chosed very carefuly;fine and raphinate point of view of the director makes an easy-going atmosphere;it is not the subject that matters but the particular situations wich spread a special parfum; it's about good taste only, I think;compare Lee Marvin's character with Kid Sheleen and you'll see no difference; compare the typical western atmosphere but somehow not that typical, with the poor methaphorical scene from the forest in Good Morning Babylon; compare Paul Newman's character,so vital and real, with the two brothers or with their vulgar wifes who show their breasts "to shock the children"-as Eleanor Of Aquitainie would say-(Lion in Winter).So my evaluation would be at least two stars for Pocket Money;of course if it counts.