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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

5.7 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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The remarkable life of South African revolutionary, president and world icon Nelson Mandela (Idris...

Patton (1970)

8.5 (8 Ratings) Rate It

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This critically acclaimed, 1970 Best Picture Academy Award® Winner is a riveting portrait of one of...

Tessa Kiros: The Recipe Collection

Tessa Kiros

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Tessa Kiros: The Recipe Collection is a carefully curated selection of recipes from the author's...

Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) in Movies

Apr 24, 2021

Lions Among Us

The Ghost and the Darkness- is a good film. Both Micheal Douglas and Val Klimer are good in it.

The plot: Sir Robert Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson) is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer) to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman (Henry Cele), seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas), who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

Its a good film.

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Ayo Akingbade recommended A Dry White Season (1989) in Movies (curated)

A Dry White Season (1989)

1989 | Drama, Mystery

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"This film made me cry real tears! It’s about the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the injustice experienced by many Black people due to corrupt police and the flawed South African governmental system. I think it’s worth listening to Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela whilst looking at the momentous history of apartheid, and the fact many writers and musicians had to go to into exile in fear of prosecution. Also, in Come Back, Africa (1959) by Lionel Rogosin, Makeba makes a cameo and sings two songs in a bar. One I cherish a lot is a lullaby called “Lakutshon, Ilanga”."

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Dean (6927 KP) rated Bulletproof - Season 3 in TV

Jul 23, 2021

Bulletproof - Season 3

2021 | Action, Crime

6.0

(1 Ratings)

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More of the same action (0 more)

Only 3 episodes (1 more)

Very few of the main cast

Just OK

Well this 3rd series is advertised as more of a special. Only 3 episodes set in South Africa as the boys look to take a break. Although trouble is never far away as they get mixed up in a kidnapping case.
If you like the series you should enjoy this as it's mainly more of the same formula. At only 3 episodes it is short and most of the cast don't really feature much. Seems unlikely there will be a 4th series though.

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Helen McCrory recommended How To Be Free in Books (curated)

How To Be Free

Tom Hodgkinson | 2007 | Essays, Humor & Comedy, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences

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"I tend not to read anyone unless they’ve been buried, but this is a book that reminds us of the most important value: ‘You are not a consumer, you are a creative person.’ As someone who was bought up in Africa with no advertising at all, I find it striking how relaxed my attitude is compared to lots of people brought up in the western world. How to be Free is a joyful call to arms to care less about materialism: ‘Learn how to whistle, throw your watch away, forget career, spend a summer reading books.'"

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