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Barry Newman (204 KP) rated A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) in Movies

Feb 1, 2020

The original and by far the best of the Nightmare series. Wes Craven’s film is like most 80’s movies looking a little dated in 2019 particularly in its special effects but to me still holds up very well as an original and unsettling horror thriller that puts a unique supernatural spin on the well established slasher formula. The film’s ace is in it’s boogeyman Freddy Krueger, coming after the silent killers of ‘Halloween’ and ‘Friday the 13th’ Robert Englund’s iconic Freddy actually had a personality and the sequels realising his popularity put him front and centre with much more screen time and subsequently making him considerably less scary . Craven conjures up some memorable kill scenes here and the concept of being vulnerable somewhere seemingly as safe as in your dreams makes for a great horror movie.

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Watchmen

7.7 (22 Ratings) Rate It

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Watchmen is an American superhero drama television series, based on the DC Comics limited series of...

Shazam! (2019)

7.4 (104 Ratings) Rate It

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Billy Batson, a troubled 14-year-old orphan, is set up to move into a new foster home - his seventh...

David McK (3562 KP) rated Geostorm (2017) in Movies

Dec 23, 2020

Geostorm (2017)

2017 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

6.4

(29 Ratings)

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Do you remember the Film 'Armageddon'

'The Day After Tomorrow'?

Or even '2012'?

This is more of the same, this time with Gerard Butler taking the lead in a not-so-distant future of 2022 after a network of satellites is sent up into space in 2019 (I must have missed that - I'm reviewing in 2020) to control the weather.

Of course, things then start t go wrong with said satellites (mainly due to sabotage), leading ex-chief engineer Jake Lawson to be recruited by his politician brother (who had previously fired him) to go back up into space to see if he can put things right, in a race against time.

So, Gerard Butler vs The Weather. It's no contest.

(it's also almost completely a cheesy B movie, which can be unintentionally funny if you let it!)

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ClareR (5879 KP) rated Girl, Woman, Other in Books

Aug 23, 2020

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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There is a reason why this book won the Man Booker Prize 2019 (jointly with Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments). It’s perfection, in my opinion.

This is written in 12 chapters, each featuring a named character. They’re Black (one unknowingly so), British (although one no longer lives in the UK and thinks of herself as American) and Female (and one no longer identifies as female). They’re all different ages and from different backgrounds, but some are linked, and these characters are linked in grouped chapters.

I loved the writing style - a kind of prose poetry - with a lack of capital letters and punctuation. After a couple of pages of acclimatisation, it became a really fluid read - like a thought process.

I really enjoyed reading about their different lifestyles, different origins and where their lives took them.

A really satisfying, thought provoking read.