Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Paul Evans I still cannot believe how lucky we are that ITV decided to bring our favourite Birds back, I was utterly devastated back in 1998 when it came to an end, an unpopular viewpoint I know but it felt like it had run its course. I was lucky enough to see the stage show, and the time was spot on for the return.The trio of leads are all equally as wonderful as one another, I utterly love all three equally.It's quite difficult to review the whole sitcom as a whole, as it does very much feel like to different shows, classic and new (That's how I'll class them.)I grew up with classic Birds, I can remember as a nine year old the first episode going out, and being in love with it ever since. For me it very much got going from Series 3 onwards, there were some outstanding episodes, and some utterly magical Christmas specials, including the brilliant It Happened in Hollywood. Favourite episode has to be Okey Cokey Karaoke, featuring the infamous Like a Virgin.As for new Birds I continue to be impressed, Series three has been brilliant, Dorien's funeral Carriage romp with (A sensationally handsome) Martin Kemp, and her fight with the Foxy Cohen drag act were very very funny.Brilliant series, just thanks for the laughs girls. 9/10

buddyboy28 I loved this show as a kid and now thanks to the fans and their petitions to have the DVD's released, I've had a chance to see it again in all it's glory and I still love it. Brilliant stuff. Modern sitcoms just can't compare. Pauline Quirke,Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph were perfect as the three leads and the dialogue was top notch. The humour has not dated one bit, it still seems fresh, probably offensive to the over sensitive politically correct. Some of the episodes are filled with non-stop funny lines, so much so I have to rewind it back sometimes to catch a line I've missed because I have been laughing so hard. The biggest compliment to the writers and the performers is how it stayed grounded in reality in many series. And this was right from the very first episode. It was never afraid to have long gaps without laughter or to become quite sad at times. There's so many classic episodes and situations, that it's impossible to list them all. It was getting millions of viewers in the years it was on TV but it's kind of a forgotten show now which is sad, especially when the vastly overrated Only Fools and Horses gets continuous praise. This show is a gem that should be re-discovered. You'll fall in love with the characters, laugh with them and feel for them. Cheers to the writers and creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran for this gem. 10/10.

wozzasfc The concept of Birds of a Feather is excellent. Two working class London sisters making it big after their now imprisoned husbands robbed a bank and the laundered money moved them to an upper class area. On arrival they discover their neighbour is a snobby, man-eating middle class woman who looks down on her new neighbours.Every episode, especially in the early days, is packed full of comedy with Pauline Quirke as the larger than life and lovable Sharon - trapped in a marriage to her Greek waste-of-space husband, but ever looking for something else. Tracey, her sister is ever dedicated to her husband Daryl and son Garth, and struggles through life without her husband by her side. Then there is the formidable neighbour Dorien who will sleep with anything that moves - so long as it isn't her husband Marcus.The comedy is very fast and occasionally a little far-fetched, but this is good all-round family entertainment which is standing the test of time well. The acting was top-notch from start to finish, and the many social bust-ups and slanging wars between Sharon and Dorien are priceless comedy. I, like many others, feel the series started to wither as ideas ran dry towards the final few series', but the early episodes are definitely worth watching time and again. 8/10 early episodes. 4/10 for the final two series.

Davcat This program was quite funny when it first came out, and remained so for the first couple of seasons. Two working class London girls, largely uneducated, placed in a firmly middle class geographic area, via the laundered stolen money from their bank robber (oh - ho-ho!!) husbands - now in jail. Add to this a snobby, middle aged female neighbour, who is bordering on nymphomania, and the formula is born. The ideas ran out long ago, but the program still goes on...mostly through interminable re-runs. Let's bury this sit-com right noy! - it is outdated, class war rubbish. Amen.