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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
1984 | Comedy

"Spinal Tap — I think you could make an easy argument that that’s the funniest movie ever. It’s just top to bottom quotable and brilliant, and I guess improvised? I’m curious to know how much of it was improvised. But it’s a tremendous movie."

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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
1966 | Classics, Drama, War
7.4 (8 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"The way that Gillo Pontecorvo makes his political points without resorting to propaganda—while always being truthful to the characters—is utterly brilliant. It’s a true-life thriller that doesn’t resort to a single cliché. The music is also unequaled in film."

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The Book of Lost Friends
The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
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"Set in the post-Civil War era, I was hooked from the first page on this tale of loss, and ultimately hope. The character development was incredible, and the story was inspiring. It’s a brilliant follow-up to Before We Were Yours."

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Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006
Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006
Carl Phillips | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+, Romance
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"Wildness and control are recurring themes in Phillips’s brilliant poems, and they play out too in his winding, meticulous, everywhere self-interrogating syntax. He is our metaphysical poet, using the desiring, sexual body to ask poetry’s eternal questions in distinctively contemporary ways"

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Garth Greenwell recommended Desire in Books (curated)

 
Desire
Desire
Frank Bidart | 1997 | Fiction & Poetry
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"In my personal canon, Frank Bidart is the gold standard, the most important living American writer. His discomfiting poems delve into extremes of emotion that would defeat almost any other writer. Fearless, brilliant, they remind me what the stakes of art should be."

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
1951 | Drama
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Movie Favorite

"First of all, it’s just a brilliant play, and then seeing the film and seeing those incredible performances and direction — it’s just one of those films. I first saw it when I was 15 or 16, and I decided to be an actress."

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Chungking Express (1994)
Chungking Express (1994)
1994 | Drama, Romance
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I could watch the work of Wong Kar-wai (and the brilliant cinematographer Christopher Doyle) all day long. I don’t have to understand what’s going on . . . I don’t care. Beautiful people, photographed beautifully. His films are the best, most romantic out there."

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The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
2018 | Horror
Shay Mitchell (1 more)
Gore
Very predictable horror movie exorcist set in a morgue its okay not Brilliant probably needed some more gore and some more jump scares coulda done with less wooden acting as well but overall not bad movie if u like horror
  
A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
Terry Pratchett | 2005 | Fiction & Poetry
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9.3 (3 Ratings)
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A different type of Disc world (0 more)
Too "deep" for younger readers (0 more)
What's to say its a Disc world book it's brilliant.... Some of the more seasoned Pratchett readers may find the Tiffany series a bit watered down but so much to love here
  
The Rookie
The Rookie
2018 | Comedy, Crime, Drama
8
9.0 (8 Ratings)
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Nathan fillion
The new Castle
brilliant new police procedural with a light hearted edge, but yet sometimes surprising real feeling. The show does a good job of making you care about the rookies and what happens to them.