All Teachers Wise and Wonderful
Book
A year on from the end of ALL TEACHERS GREAT AND SMALL, Barbara and Andy Seed are settled into their...
Rise From The Ashes
Book
When everyone tells you that you’re meant for bigger things, at what point do you start believing...
Parks and Recreation - Season 1
TV Season
From Emmy Award-winning executive producers/writers Greg Daniels (The Office, King of the Hill) and...
American Reunion (2012)
Movie Watch
In the summer of 1999, four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their virginity. In the...
ClareR (5667 KP) rated Machines Like Me in Books
May 25, 2019
I thought the alternate 1980s Britain was quite interesting - how we would potentially have reacted to a defeat during the Falklands war and the repercussions. And what would Alan Turing have been like if he hadn’t committed suicide?
The thing is, I didn’t particularly like either Charlie or Miranda (the lead human protagonists). Neither were likeable and treated Adam with contempt and suspicion, which grated on me. I usually like a book where I don’t like the main character, but there was something about Charlie that made me put the book down on several occasions, swearing to myself that I wouldn’t pick it up,again. Bit I did, and I think Adam, and Miranda’s backstory is to blame.
And as for Miranda. Well. I wasn’t convinced about her suddenly needing to foster/ adopt Mark, a small boy who is abandoned on their doorstep. It was just so unlikely.
I don’t know. I’ve read other Ian McEwan books that I’ve loved, but this one really didn’t do it for me on the whole. You can’t love them all, I suppose.
Sunburn: A Novel
Book
"Lippman is a natural storyteller at the height of her powers." - Lee Child, #1 New York Times...
The Walking Dead
TV Show Watch
Wounded in the line of duty, small-town Georgia sheriff Rick Grimes wakes from a coma to find the...
Zombie Apocalypse
Erika (17788 KP) rated The Dead Don't Die (2019) in Movies
Jun 15, 2019
Bill Murray (who was previously in Zombieland), and Adam Driver are the main characters, as cops in a small town (maybe in NY?), and their chemistry is deadpan and hilarious. Driver mentions multiple times throughout the film that 'This is going to end badly', finally Murray's character asks him why he keeps saying that. Driver's character responds that he read the entire script. Murray proceeds to call Jim Jarmusch an a-hole, since he didn't get the whole script. I about died of laughter over that.
Tilda Swinton's character is completely whack-a-doo, and cuts off zombies' heads with ease with a samurai sword. Because, as everyone knows, kill the head.
The entire movie is absurdist, and the humor might not be for everyone. It's gotten really bad reviews from a lot of critics, so I may be in the minority. Chloë Sevigny's character was the only one that completely annoyed me.
It's ultimately an homage to zombie films and, of course, an allegory of modern times, with people being absorbed in their mobile phones, unaware of the real world around them.
'Allo 'Allo
TV Show
'Allo 'Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to...
Always (Single Dads #4)
Book
Lives change in an instant, but with family found and forever love, there is always hope. ...
Contemporary MM Romance