1960s Childhood: Moon Landings, The Kinks, and the 1966 World Cup
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The 1960s was a period of change - the beginning of the world as we know it. It was the time of...
The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse by Bonzo Dog Doo/Dah Band
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2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of this 1968 sophomore album from the talented yet...
Curse the Dawn (Cassandra Palmer, #4)
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Curse the Dawn (Cassandra Palmer, #4) Cassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but...
Andy K (10821 KP) rated The Post (2017) in Movies
Jan 20, 2018
The story took a little while to grab hold of me and to understand fully the implications as to what was happening (maybe I am a little slow), but once it gets going it doesn't stop. All the actors are on the top of their game and pull off hearty performances.
It is difficult for a historical film like this to grab hold of you since a lot of people already know the climax, but great films like Apollo 13, Titanic and this one manage to pull it off.
Glad it had a wide release before the Oscars this year.
The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) rated Santorini in Tabletop Games
Mar 19, 2018
The Darkest Dark
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Six year old Chris is an astronaut. A very busy astronaut. Saving the planet from aliens is much...
The Just City
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'Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be...
Rewind: A Half-Century of Classics, Cult Hits, and Other Must-See Movies
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Some movies are iconic. Others are merely entertaining. In Rewind: A Half-Century of Classics, Cult...
Lee (2222 KP) rated Creed II (2018) in Movies
Dec 1, 2018
With Creed 2, we get even more ties to the Rocky movies. In a bleak looking Ukraine, Ivan Drago lives with son Viktor. In Rocky IV, Ivan was the man responsible for killing Apollo Creed in a boxing match, before suffering defeat at the hands of Rocky in his hometown of Russia in the epic finale. In terms of cinematic experiences, Rocky IV was the absolute peak of the franchise. So intense, drawing unified cheers and applause from the audience I was watching it with, something you don't very often get in the cinema.
That defeat in mother Russia brought shame on Ivan and he and Viktor now live a simple life, with Viktor being trained daily by Ivan and participating in small local boxing matches, pummeling his opponents and drawing the attention of an American boxing promoter. When Adonis Creed wins the heavyweight title over in America, you can almost see the dollar signs flashing in the promoters eyes, and bringing these two together to settle old scores forms the basis of the rest of the movie.
Those familiar plot beats I described earlier, they're all here again, but that's not to say that they're any less enjoyable than when we've seen them before. At times they're even more exciting, with the added intensity coming from knowing that this is a fight that's been over 30 years in the making.
Despite the traditional halfway lull, with our hero experiencing a period of doubt and self reflection, this is once again another intense and uplifting movie. Brilliant.
The Secret Influence of the Moon: Alien Origins and Occult Powers
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Despite being the most prominent celestial body after the Sun, the Moon has many qualities that...