The Real Peaky Blinders: Billy Kimber, the Birmingham Gang and the Racecourse Wars of the 1920s
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Stylish and dark, the BBC series the 'Peaky Blinders' is set in the backstreets of Birmingham after...
Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid
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Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old Margaret's life in service was about...
Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper
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In the glorious, boozy party after the First World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world...
Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) rated Scythe in Tabletop Games
Mar 7, 2018 (Updated Mar 7, 2018)
Scythe is a new board game from Stonemaier Games. If the art up top (which is on the front of the game’s box) looks familiar, that’s because the entire game is based on a universe imagined by artist Jakub Rozalski, which we featured on Fine Art a few years back and which is now also getting a video game.
Reviewer: Luke Plunkett
Read the full review here: https://kotaku.com/scythe-the-kotaku-review-1783430575
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition
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This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary...
Inherit the Wind (1960)
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In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the...
Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015: Developments and Dialogues
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Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history...
The Aviator (2004)
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Howard Hughes was a wily industrialist, glamorous movie producer and unstoppable American innovator...
David McK (3422 KP) rated Some Like It Hot (1959) in Movies
Jan 8, 2021
Full of sizzling one liners/repartee such as:
"Water Polo? Isn't that awfully dangerous? "
"I'll say. I had two horses drown under me..."
(I think it was 2)
and who can forger the final line of the film ("nobody's perfect")!
Mumbo Jumbo
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A plague is spreading across 1920s America, racing from New Orleans to New York. It's an epidemic of...