The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company
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In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a...
Arvo Part's White Light: Media, Culture, Politics
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One of the most frequently performed contemporary composers, Arvo Part has become a phenomenon whose...
David McK (3547 KP) rated Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) in Movies
Oct 7, 2019
For reason that are never fully explained, after the failure of the first Terminator to kill Sarah Connor in the 1980s, a second Terminator is sent back in time, this time to the early 1990s, in an effort to track down and kill John Connor (played, here, by a then unknown Edward Furlong).
As before, the Resistance are able to send back a lone protector through time ...
And, I have to say, now nearly 30 years after they were first seen, the 'liquid metal' T-1000 effects still hold up pretty well!
The Talk of Pram Town
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It’s 1981. Eleven-year-old Sadie adores her beautiful and vibrant mother, Connie, whose dreams of...
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Once Upon a Time
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From the end of World War II through the 1980s, Aarons photographed the rich and famous, the...
How Saints Die
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Ten years old and irrepressibly curious, Ellie lives with her fisherman father, Peter, on the wild...
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a British horror parody television series created for Channel 4 by...
David McK (3547 KP) rated Atlas (2024) in Movies
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Or her music career.
Not of what is, essentially, a version of the 1980s FASA miniatures game "Battletech" or the "MechWarrior" series if computer game spins offs.
Which is more-or-less what this feels like, with J-Lo's character in the future - who distrusts all technology - trapped inside the cockpit of a mobile armoured fighting robot (Gundam, perhaps, as another touchstone, or even Armoured Core) and needing to interact with the AI of said suit whilst on a mission to another planet to hunt down rogue AI - that she has a personal connection with - that attempted to commit genocide against the human race.
Actually better than I thought it would be, but unlikely to win any awards!
The Thirty Years War: My Life Reporting on Education
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Richard Garner has spent 36 years reporting on education, working for the Times Educational...
Confessions of an Emotional Shipwreck
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Confessions of an Emotional Shipwreck provides us with an incredibly personal and touching account...