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"Reading a book is like making a friendship, and Nora Ephron is the funniest, cleverest, wisest (and cleverness and wisdom are not the same things at all, and rarely coexist) friend you could have. I really didn’t know whether to proffer “Heartburn” here or this volume, and in the end I went for this anthology, as it’s impossible to read it (and it does have excerpts from “Heartburn,”) without having to go on to read everything else Ephron wrote."

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Kevin Phillipson (10021 KP) rated The Mortuary Collection (2019) in Movies

Aug 10, 2021

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Catitlin custer

Watched on shudder rather entertaining anthology with enough twists and turns especially the forth tale which had a twist even I didn't see coming. Anyway clancy brown gives a creepy performance as the mortician and boy does he look creepy also stand out is catitlin custer as his guest who's come for job but has a tale of her own to tell. Overall rather good horror movie definitely one to watch again

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Rian Johnson recommended Brazil (1985) in Movies (curated)

Brazil (1985)

1985 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

8.7

(9 Ratings)

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"For our little group of starving filmmaker friends muddling through our twenties, this particular box set was sort of a holy grail. I’m barely exaggerating when I say that it was mythic-like Harry Smith’s Anthology in the West Village folk scene in the sixties. If somebody had the Criterion Brazil at their apartment, it would draw a crowd. A beautiful transfer, exhaustive supplements, and the “Love Conquers All” cut is a holy terror of a revelation."

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Anthology by The Temptations Motown in Music

May 11, 2020

Rolling Stone's 400th greatest album of all time

Great best of the Temptations. A number of true soul classics (full disclosure: I don't know who sang what between the Temptations, Four Tops and Drifters) including My Girl, I'm Gonna Make You Love Me and the superb Get Ready. As with the Supremes anthology, however, there is a little too much filler to justify the double album. A great listen with some disco tracks at the end.

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American Horror Story - Season 8

7.6 (11 Ratings) Rate It

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American Horror Story: Apocalypse is the eighth season of the FX horror anthology television series...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Hammer House of Horror in TV

Mar 15, 2018 (Updated Mar 15, 2018)

Last-gasp attempt by the famous film studio to stay solvent is a fairly decent stab at a horror anthology show, featuring some of Hammer's regular personnel (though not Christopher Lee, as he was in the States at the time).

The fact the show was made for a commercial British network inevitably means the horror content is somewhat constrained, and the low budget means the episodes have a contemporary setting quite unlike the archetypal Hammer films (then again, Amicus House of Horror wouldn't have been as catchy a title). This being an anthology show, the quality and tone of the episodes is inevitably all over the place: some of them are rather subtle and inventive, others are predictable nonsense. Some good performances, though, including many from the before-they-were-famous file - a 27-year-old Pierce Brosnan gets one of his first speaking roles as 'Last Victim' in the Carpathian Eagle episode. As a whole, the series is probably more of a curiosity for Hammer completists than anything else.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) in Movies

Feb 24, 2018

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

1965 | Classics, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.8

(4 Ratings)

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Genre-defining British anthology horror film. Five men have their fortunes told on a train; guess what, it doesn't look good for any of them. For instance: Christopher Lee is pursued by a severed hand, Roy Castle unwisely plagiarises voodoo music, Fluff Freeman has to contend with a malevolent vine. Frame story has (in theory) a twist ending; but it's the same one they use in nearly all of these films.

The quality of these anthology horror films is always a bit variable, because the different stories themselves inevitably are; this is a pretty good one because even when the stories are ridiculous and arguably incoherent, they are still told with a sense of humour and don't hang around too long. Extraordinary cast, obviously; the rubber hand chasing Christopher Lee would go on to appear in more films than Fluff Freeman, probably because it was a better actor. When this film is good, it's very good; even when it's not so good, it's still a lot of fun. Much imitated, not least by Amicus themselves, but seldom equalled.