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Sam (228 KP) rated Anna (2019) in Movies

Oct 16, 2019 (Updated Oct 16, 2019)  
Anna (2019)
Anna (2019)
2019 | Action, Thriller
Strong Female Characters (2 more)
Gorgeous Fight Scenes
Overall Clever Script
Flips from Past to Present A LOT (0 more)
Smart, Sexy, Action Packed
Although I am a huge fan of hot sexy badass chicks I found the flashback sequences top distracting to truly enjoy the film. I understand the purpose of it, demonstrating a truly brilliant effect of multiple scenes laying over each other meant to deceive, holding true the spy game, they were also distracting as one had to piece together what was happening quickly and by then the scene was over. However the acting was truly brilliant and the scenes were beautiful to behold.
  
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James Gray recommended Unforgiven (1992) in Movies (curated)

 
Unforgiven (1992)
Unforgiven (1992)
1992 | Western

"One more. Let’s go with Clint Eastwood’s movie Unforgiven. I think that’s a brilliant movie. The acting in it is totally brilliant. I’ve always been a big Gene Hackman fan, but who isn’t? I love Eastwood and Morgan Freeman in it. Richard Harris is hilarious. I think the movie has an unbelievable sense of myth, and a great sense of undoing that myth. I’ve never been in a movie theater where I had that experience where the end of the movie, you have the hero say, “Yeah, I’ve killed women and children. I’m gonna kill you.”"

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Alex Wolff recommended Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens in Music (curated)

 
Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
2015 | Country
9.5 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"His new album is called Carrie & Lowell, and I love it. I love all his albums, but that one is on another level because from start to finish it’s brilliant songwriting and some of the best production I’ve ever heard. The song 'Death With Dignity' has got that acoustic guitar in and out, left and right side, it’s just brilliant. It sounds so lame but every time I hear that song, it just beats the shit out of me. It just bruises my whole body. It’s one of those ones that’s even hard to talk about because it’s so good."

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Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated Crazy Rich Asians (2018) in Movies

Nov 1, 2021 (Updated Nov 3, 2021)  
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
2018 | Comedy
Those of you that have read my reviews, will know of my love of Sci-Fi and horror movies, but every once in a while something comes along that brings a big grin to my face as soon as the movie starts and Crazy Rich Asians is one of those film, very much like La La Land did when I saw it in the cinema.

The movie has some brilliant characters that bring the film alive, such as the very memorable and funny Peik Lin Goh (Awkwafina) who as some brilliant lines that some of the laughs to the film.
  
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Baxter Dury recommended Blond by Frank Ocean in Music (curated)

 
Blond by Frank Ocean
Blond by Frank Ocean
2016 | Alternative, Pop, Soul

"My son listens to Frank Ocean, so I started listening to this through him. I started with listening to Channel Orange and I thought that was fucking amazing. At first I was displaced by the thin-sounding R&B American-ness of it, but when you get into it you realise it’s brilliant. What I like about it is the nature of what Frank Ocean’s singing about, his little introspective vanity subjects. He doesn’t go outwards, like ‘the big wave’s gonna crush us, save the animals’, he just talks about vain things. It’s good. It’s brilliant actually. He’s just a really weird guy singing about weird subjects. There’s that tune ‘Super Rich Kids’, which is just fucking brilliant. ‘Too many bottles of this wine we can’t pronounce’, there’s little moments of discomfort like that, turned into a chorus. I much prefer that to someone’s big treatise about, I don’t know, Assad. Or the coronavirus."

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou | 2018 | History & Politics
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This excellent non-fiction book is about Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos. This company was touting that it could run 100s of tests on just a drop of blood. If you know ANYTHING about laboratory tests, or watched CSI and was exposed to GC/MS, you would know it is completely impossible to do tests off of a finger puncture.
Holmes is described as brilliant, and was the darling of Silicon Valley. Yes, she was brilliant, a brilliant dirtbag. Everyone was fooled by her initially (some still are), to include the author of this book, John Carreyrou, who initially wrote a glowing article about her.
However, it was all fake, as proven by various whistleblowers. This was such a good read, and pairs really well with the HBO documentary movie, The Inventor. I highly recommend this book if you like books written by journalists, the downfall of dirtbags, and stories about fraud.
  
Stranger Things  - Season 1
Stranger Things - Season 1
2016 | Horror, Sci-Fi
Brilliant acting performances all round (5 more)
The 80's setting works perfectly. Think E.T.
Winona Ryder's performance as the fraught mother
Eery atmosphere
Well directed
Eleven brings new means to the phrase 'girl power'!
Very minor plot holes (0 more)
Refreshing, gripping and it's the 80's!
  
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
2017 | Drama, Mystery
The cast (1 more)
Like orginal film
Nothing new or exceptional about it. (0 more)
An all star cast
The cast in this film is insane is the acting brilliant of course. However if your expecting a change or twist on orginal the script is pretty much the same.
  
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997)
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997)
1997 | Drama, Family, Musical
9
6.7 (9 Ratings)
Movie Rating
The fun set designs, brilliant costumes ,diverse casting and the unforgettable music. (0 more)
The film of my childhood!
Seriously there is not a better version of Cinderella. I watched this one before I ever saw Disney's animated version and Brandy will always be my Cinderella.
  
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
2015 | Action, Horror, Western
Kurt Russell and his Back up Deputy (3 more)
Matthew Fox
Great script
Something actually original
Not much (0 more)
Western Horror
A bloody and original western/horror/adventure film with a brilliant cast. This gets your attention from the off and keeps you glued to the end.