love film

Lovefilm.comis an internet dvd rental agency. I have been using it for two months now and I can only great things about it. I have seen huge numbers of films that without it I would never had the time nor money to get around to watching. If i had a TV (I have a TV but am not connected to cable/satalite/terrestrial because mostly it is a huge waste of both time and money) I'd be watching lots of crap tv and maybe catching the occasional good film... but what I have now is perfect. In the last couple of weeks I have watched a lot of chinese films: "the road home" starring the fantastically beautiful zhang ziyi, "shower", "enter the dragon" (okay, bruce lee is chinese but it was an american film), and the sino-american "saving face".

To those who haven't used lovefilm I shall explain how it works.

• Select Films you want to watch from online database of 40,000+ titles


• Titles are sent to you (i get 2 at a time for 12.99 per month);


• Watch film and then rate it (out of 7) to aid their system of recommendations (if you are looking for other great films then it recommends based on what you like/dislike;


• Return by prepaid 1st class envelope;

the turn-around is very good. If one posts first post on Monday morning then you get new dvds in the post on Wednesday. Although they try to give you your top 10 preferences first its not always possible for them to send these titles to you. Especially if you like obscure foreign films, like me. They have introduced a "fasttrack" scheme where a certain number of dvds (usually the latest blockbuster releases) are available for immediate selection. One has a number of fasttracks per month and you are guaranteed these films no-matter-what. The downside is that you will have to wait some while for the obscure films (dig! and howl's moving castle still sit atop the list after a month's occupation), but this opens up the element of suprise - one is eager to see what film is in the post next!!!