
The Thirteenth Coffin
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A heart-stopping delve into the twisted mind of a serial killer from the creator of the hit BBC...

Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death
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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003 WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Named as one of...

Murderous Mayhem at Honeychurch Hall
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History has a habit of repeating itself...When the only copy of Iris Stanford's new manuscript fails...

Of Ink, Wit and Intrigue: Lord Rochester, in Chains of Quicksilver
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Of Ink, Wit and Intrigue is a quirky historical fiction, weaving known facts in the life of one of...

Effigy: Vol 1 : Idle Worship
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* After a sex-tape scandal, former Hollywood child star turned Z-lister Chondra Jackson returns to...

Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seven BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramas: Collection 2
Full Cast, Bert Coules, Andrew Sachs and Clive Merrison
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Clive Merrison and Andrew Sachs star in seven original BBC Radio 4 full-cast adventures for Holmes...

Black Science: How to Fall Forever: Volume 1
Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera and Dean White
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"A must-read for Remender's fans or anyone thrilled by bizarre and compelling sci-fi." Starred...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Mars Attacks! (1996) in Movies
Jun 14, 2020
One of those bizarre mutants that should never really have got past the script stage, let alone received a $70m budget: the release schedule inevitably resulted in it being hailed as a spoof of Independence Day (hard to spoof something that wasn't meant to be taken seriously in the first place), but this is much more a send-up of classic 50s sci-fi B-movies (various spot-on parodies), as well as being a startlingly subversive black comedy. You can also sense Burton trying to do his version of Dr Strangelove, with Nicholson in a multiple role, but it doesn't have anything like the same sharpness or impact. A bit patchy overall - some laugh-out-loud moments and game performances, but also a lot of dead wood and characters and jokes that just don't work. On the whole, though, the fact that films like this still get made suggests hope is not yet lost for the world.

Breverton's Complete Herbal: A Book of Remarkable Plants and Their Uses
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Nicholas Culpeper's The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of...
