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2point4 Children - Season 7

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2point4 Children is a BBC television sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall. It...

2point4 Children - Season 8

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2point4 Children is a BBC television sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall. It...

My Family Season 1

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Ben, a dentist and Susan, the worst cook in the world, are certainly loving, caring parents, they...

Funny dysfunctional family

Sketch a day

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Daily sketching challenges - learn with tips and tutorials Get daily inspiration and get your...

The Watcher (2000)

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David Allen Griffin is a cool killer- time and time again, he chooses a female victim, studies her...

David McK (3562 KP) rated The Sixth Sense (1999) in Movies

Feb 12, 2023

"I see dead people ..."

So, this film is now nearly 25 years old.

I'd never seen it.

That was mainly because I'd had the twist spoilt for me when it first came out: I was at university, doing a course on film and fiction circa 2000, and the lecturer came out with "and so, as we all now know ..." (I didn't) ".. the twist in the film is that ..."

So, yeah, I saw little point in watching it after that.

I *had* seen a few of M Night Shyamalan other films that were released later ("Signs", "Unbreakable" or "The Happening", for instance), but never really thought they were anything above average.

None the less, I decided - when I came across this on Disney+ - that it was time to go right back to 1999, right back to before Shyamalan became known for his twists, just to see if the movie held up.

It did.

Mostly.

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Samueljhague (1250 KP) rated The Castles of Burgundy in Tabletop Games

Mar 23, 2022

The Castles of Burgundy

2011 | Dice Game, Medieval, Territory Building

8.0

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Puzzle of a game Building area Multi-player Solitaire Dice maipulation Iconography makes sense (0 more)

Components are decent, not compelling Higher learning curve. (0 more)

Building a better board game.

The Castles of Burgundy looks like a typical Euro- board game from the early 2000's it looks boring. It also looks more complicated than it ends up being. The amount of brain power use in this game has a good balance between cerebral and mindless. At the end of the game you have something in front of you that you have built and it feels good in that respect even if you haven't won the game. It can be played casually, and with your full attention. My wife and I enjoy playing this as two players. We have played this many times more as a two player game than any other game in our collection. This game gets top marks, and is as close to a perfect game as I have experienced.

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David McK (3562 KP) rated Goblins (The X-Files, #1) in Books

Oct 13, 2024

The X-Files was huge during the 90's.

Especially during the mid-90s, which is when this novel was released (1995) so even before, I believe, the X-Files movie (1997?) or the more recent 2000 attempt to reboot the franchise.

back here, we're still in the hey-day of the more famous Mulder and Scully than their later replacements, with this novel seeing the two agents off to investigate the murder of an ex-sergeant and (later) a corporal, with the perpetrator vanishing into thin air both times.

I remember I read this when it was first published but, truth be told, I'd forgotten pretty much everything about it until I cam across it again recently in 2024.

The fact that I had tells you pretty much everything you need to know: largely forgettable, I'm not so sure about the characterisations of Mulder or Scully, and that the plot itself could - maybe - do with a little bit more work.