Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing: 2018
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The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect...
Feeling is the Thing That Happens in 1000th of a Second': A Season of Cricket Photographer Patrick Eagar
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In 1975 Patrick Eagar took some photographs which were unlike any cricket photographs anyone had...
All Because of Henry
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All Because of Henry picks up the lead from the international bestseller, A Friend Like Henry, which...
Mary in America
Gwynedd Rae and Clara Vulliamy
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Mary Plain is off on another adventure with her friend, Owl Man - this time to America! Join her as...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Frankenweenie (2012) in Movies
Oct 31, 2020
The plot: Young Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) is a science nerd and outsider at school, but he does have one good friend: his dog, Sparky. But then, tragedy strikes, and Sparky shuffles off this mortal coil. Victor is heartbroken, but his science teacher (Martin Landau) gives him an idea of how to jolt old Sparky back to life. The experiment is successful, and all goes well, until Victor's fellow students steal his secret and use it to resurrect other dead animals -- with monstrous consequences.
It is a feature-length remake of Burton's 1984 short film of the same name and is also both a parody of and homage to the 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's book of the same name.
This is the final horror film released under the Disney banner until Ready Or Not on August 21, 2019 from Fox Searchlight Pictures, which was bought by Disney in 2019.
The voice cast includes four actors who worked with Burton on previous films: Winona Ryder (Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands); Martin Short (Mars Attacks!); Catherine O'Hara (Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas); and Martin Landau (Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow), along with some new voice actors, such as Charlie Tahan and Atticus Shaffer.
Its a dark humor twisted film.
National Geographic: The United States of America
Reuel Golden, David Walker, Jeff Klein and Joe Yogerst
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Travel through time and across the country with this state-by-state tour of the United States over...
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The Art of Death in Byzantium: Funerary Art and Architecture, 1204-1453
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Imaging the Soul in Byzantine Art and Architecture 1204-1453 explores the rich and fascinating...
Micky Barnard (542 KP) rated Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood in Books
Oct 6, 2018
So many issues and topics were covered in this book but most of all, I’ve been educated. I grew up with apartheid being reported daily on the news, I remember the celebration at it’s demise but being a close spectator to life in Soweto and other places, beginning to understand Trevor’s position as not black and not white was truly eye-opening. All this could be such a heavy topic, but actually Trevor brings his naughtiness as a child, the funny side of things and the very tragic too.
Both my kids listened to chapters of this with me in the car and thoroughly enjoyed it. My eldest commented on it being relevant both to her politics and sociology classes, my youngest just loved the ride, especially the tale of Fufi the dog. Some of the book wouldn’t have been suitable for my youngest, but I will be buying it for him when he’s older.
Even if you’re not a biographical or non-fiction reader, give this a go. I think you’ll find yourself unable to look away.
Another Day in the Death of America
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Saturday, November 23rd, 2013. It was just another day in America; an unremarkable Saturday on which...
American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light
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In American Smoke, Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. On the trail...