About Sally Quilford
Sally Quilford is a life-long fan of films, raised on an eclectic mix of Hollywood musicals, patriotic British and American war films and Sci-fi and horror classics such as War of the Worlds and The Children of the Damned. She is a big fan of TV series like Star Trek TNG (believing the original Star Trek to be too ‘boys own’), Buffy and Angel and films like The Matrix and Lord of the Rings.
Born in Pontypool, South Wales, Sally moved to Derbyshire in the late seventies. She is an Open University student, in the final year of an honours degree in Humanities, and is also taking a creative writing course with the OU. She has been writing for several years, including a lot fanfiction based on her favourites, and has just begun to achieve publishing success with her own stories and articles. Her website, with more information, and links to much of her published work online, is at http://sallyquilford.tripod.com
Latest Reviews By: Sally Quilford
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
How I missed this series when it was shown first time round in 1999, I’ll never know. But that’s me all over. It took me over thirty years to watch It’s a Wonderful Life and realise it’s the best film of all time. Ultraviolet is probably the best British sci-fi series of all time. This DVD contains all six episodes, Habeus Corpus, In Nomine Patris, Sub Judice....
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
Viewers hoping that the final DVD in the Matrix trilogy will clear up the confusion of the second DVD, Matrix Reloaded, will probably be disappointed. After ten minutes of watching Matrix Revolutions I decided to stop thinking too much and just accept that despite all the confusing allusions to various religions and philosophies – the train-driver is clearly meant to be Charon....
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
Remember when Paul Hogan, as Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee, was funny? I know, it’s been a long time, and I’m still in therapy after watching the third, and decidedly dire, Crocodile Dundee movie. The makers of this special DVD package have sensibly left out that third offering, and concentrated on bringing us ‘Crocodile’ at his best, in movies I & II.
In the first Crocodile Dundee movie, feisty....
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
If Harvey Keitel had played Peter, and Steve Buscemi played Judas, this film could easily have been The Gospel According to Quentin Tarantino. It might also have been a much better film. As it is, the film dwells on extreme violence with none of Tarantino’s wit or insight. Director Mel Gibson lays the violence on with a trowel, and shocking as it is, it doesn’t really give one anymore insight....
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
Unfortunately I didn’t have the full set of disks to review this last season of the X-files, but I still thoroughly enjoyed those I did get to see. Luckily the story arc of the X-files moves slowly enough for me not to have missed anything important, apart from the burgeoning romance of two of the agents (Doggett and Reyes).
I wasn’t sure at first about the new characters (I haven’t seen....
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
Set in an unamed South American Country, Chechuan Indian Det. Lt. Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardom) must bring to book the revolutionary leader, Ezequiel (Abel Folk), who has a habit of leaving dead dogs stuffed with dynamite all over the capital. No one is safe from Ezequiel's cause, whether they be corrupt politicians or innocent children used as suicide bombers. Rejas'...
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
Watching M*A*S*H is always a bittersweet experience. With characters like Hawkeye, Radar, BJ Hunnicut, Klinger and Colonel Potter you can fool yourselves that all Americans are noble and selfless (with a great sense of humour to boot!), and would never torture the enemy soldiers in their charge.
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
Kenneth Branagh works his usual magic on Shakespeare in this sunny adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. The plot could be written on a postage stamp, but that doesn’t spoil the fun. Don Pedro (Denzel Washington) stops by at the home of Leonato (Richard Briers) on his way home from a war.
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
Welcome to Chick Flick Corner!The Dashwood Sisters, Elinor (Emma Thompson) and Marianne (Kate Winslet) are forced to choose between love and money when their father Henry Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson) dies, leaving them, their mother (Gemma Jones) and you
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
It’s impossible to get bored with The Simpsons, no matter how many times Sky One repeats episodes. There is always something new to laugh at on each showing This DVD proves that. My daughter and I chuckled all the way through, and more than once said
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
"Send them to hell", said John Wayne, as Colonel Benjamin Vanderboort, and so begins the day that brought an end to WW2.
And what better day to watch this star-studded film about the D-Day Landings than on the 60th Anniversary of that day? It is far more interesting than the dull news offerings 'recreating' that day, though I agree they have their place, lest we
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
Can you hear the sound of barrels being scraped? That’s how I felt watching this collection of four Simpsons episodes, and I’m a huge Simpsons fan so it’s sad for me to say it. Perhaps I’m being a little unfair as I did watch these right on the heels of M*A*S*H which takes some beating for sheer quality of writing and acting ability. But no. I can’t make any excuses. The Simpsons have had their sh
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
This Simpsons collection has a sporting theme, but as with all Simpsons episodes there's a lot more going on, and even if you're not a big sports fan, you'll love this. Each episode starts with a seemingly disjointed sketch that leads to hijinks all
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11/04/2005 00:00:00
It’s been a long time since I watched The X-files, so it was with some trepidation that I sat down to watch 23 hours of Season 7. My worries were groundless. I quickly became engrossed in the strange goings on investigated by Mulder and Scully of the FBI. The acting is so good that it's easy to get caught up in each episode. The chemistry between Duchovny and Anderson is still there, despite rumou
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01/09/2004 00:00:00
Do you have trouble following orders?
Do you break the rules regularly?
Would you save one person, even if it meant millions being murdered?
Would you murder one person if it meant saving millions?
Do you trust people more than once,