City of Sin: London and Its Vices
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If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England's...
Jordan Binkerd (567 KP) rated Sabotage (2014) in Movies
Sep 17, 2019
This film was.... okay is probably the best word. It's kinda forgettable despite a stellar cast, several of whom I typically try to see regardless of what they're doing, all turning in excellent performances. Arnold in particular gets to actually act instead of just blowing everyone away, which is a nice change. Which isn't to say there isn't action - there is, and a lot of it, gritty and gory not in the exaggerated Tarentino style but more brutally realistic. There's torture too, which is legitimately uncomfortable to watch even with the extra remove of watching a character watch the video of it. It's just that the story is a bit predictable (though the darker take on Breacher and the ending seen in the deleted scenes would have been more interesting and less predictable, I wouldn't have liked it), and despite excellent performances from stellar actors the characters are all completely unlikeable, which is a bit of a problem when they're dropping like flies and you don't really care. Bottom line: I'm not sorry I borrowed it from the library, but I don't think I'll be watching it again.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Terminator (1984) in Movies
Feb 18, 2018 (Updated Feb 18, 2018)
Future warriors from post-apocalyptic future arrive in 1984 Los Angeles; one is intent on killing hapless young waitress, the other seeks to protect her. Time travel plot is cleverly retooled as the basis of gritty action thriller; performances are much better than you might expect, too - you can't imagine anyone being more perfectly suited to their role than Arnold Schwarzenegger is here (and I don't say that very often). Every other film and TV series in this particular franchise ultimately does nothing but diffuse the impact of this brilliant movie.
David McK (3425 KP) rated Warlord's Gold (Civil War Chronicles, #5) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Of course, agents of Parliament are also after the same treasure.
Meanwhile, Stryker's friend Capt Lancelot Forester is also sent deep into Parliamenterian held country in order to shore up the will of an outpost that is still holding out for the king ...
Surviving shipwreck, imprisonment and torture, the two distinct plot strands (Stryker and the treasure/Forester' mission) eventually mesh at the defense of Basing House, in another enjoyable entry in the series.
Sabotage (2014)
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Balancing dangerously between the law and destructive opportunism, the veteran DEA task force...
In the Line of Duty (Detective Madison Knight Series Book 7)
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The loss of a hero cuts deep… The headlines hit home for the Stiles PD when one of their own...
mystery crime fiction series Detective Madison Knight Carolyn Arnold
David McK (3425 KP) rated Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) in Books
Jan 28, 2019 (Updated Sep 17, 2019)
More so than either of the previous two books, this novel has a plot all of its own, with that plot containing elements of the TV show on which it is based. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the final portion of the book, which takes the episode 'Gunmen of the Apocalypse' as it's basis. The novel also has a role to play for 'Ace' Rimmer, tracing how his life differed from Arnold Rimmer's back to a single event in his childhood.
Written by only one of the two authors responsible for the previous books, this is also not quite as funny as either of those books.
Behind the Scenes with Hollywood Producers: Interviews with 14 Top Film Creators
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We know what actors do. We know what writers do. But what does a movie producer do, other than...
Dad's Army: Complete Radio Series Two
David Croft, Jimmy Perry, Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier
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Twenty episodes from the second BBC Radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive...
David McK (3425 KP) rated Diggers (Bromeliad Trilogy, #2) in Books
Dec 23, 2020
Said quarry, however, is about to be put back into use, with this novel mainly following the exploits of Grimma, Dorcas and a few others when Masklin and a couple of the older Nomes go off on a mission to see if they can find a 'real' home for the Nomes; not somewhere that they have to hide from the Humans (who don't believe in them) as they have done all their life.
This is the one with the monster Jekub, and is slightly more mature than the previous offering in the trilogy (that would be 'Truckers')