Hunt Buddy BC
Reference and Sports
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Hunt Buddy BC is a better way to read the Hunting Regulations Synopsis for British Columbia, Canada....
Lakes, Loughs and Lochs
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Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book gives a comprehensive account of the...
Taskmaster
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Taskmaster is a British comedy panel game show originally created by British comedian Alex Horne...
The World of Tomorrow
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Three brothers caught up in a whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal that culminates in an...
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Realtime Trains
Travel and Utilities
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Realtime Trains provides live travel information for the British mainline passenger railway network,...
Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
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In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling...
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Spotlight (2015) in Movies
Aug 9, 2017
Spotlight is such an important part of media history because they uncovered one of the darkest secrets of one community, which mirrors all communities. The film is awe-inspiring, so much so that I wanted to go back into a newsroom and be a TV journalist again at the forefront of major news. This is literally the best film for journalists to watch and for audiences to understand what it's like to work in a newsroom. More importantly, it shows how vital the media can be when actually doing proper investigations.
It is extremely dark given the subject nature - but having been in a similar situation breaking the story of Jimmy Savile in the UK for British media, the film completely reflects my own personal experiences.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Eagle Has Landed (1976) in Movies
May 22, 2018 (Updated May 22, 2018)
Good performances, mostly, and some well-staged action in the closing sections of the film; what's curious about it is the way that the Germans are mostly presented sympathetically, at least as much as the British and American characters. It's a war movie without bad guys, but without much sense of moral or emotional investment either - as a result it's enjoyable as a piece of action cinema, but rather shallow. (It doesn't feel like the moral ambiguity is a deliberate creative choice: Caine thought the director was more interested in going fishing than in overseeing the final edit.) Fun in a disposable sort of way; you could be forgiven for expecting more, given the talent involved.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Ghost Stories (2018) in Movies
Mar 18, 2019
Possibly a bit mannered and old fashioned for today's younger generation (mutter, grumble, etc), but a film made with enormous care and attention to detail, with terrific performances from the cast (okay, it's a bit white-male-centric; get your blazing torches out if you really must). The kind of film where, once you've seen the ending, you reflect on the rest of it and recognise all the subtle ways in which the film was tipping you off all along. And, as mentioned, a properly frightening experience when watched in a darkened cinema, but in a good way.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Devil Girl from Mars (1955) in Movies
Mar 30, 2019 (Updated Mar 30, 2019)
Absolutely a horrendous collision between a homespun UK programme filler and a spangly American flying saucer B-movie, but the weirdest thing about this very odd film is that there are individual bits of it that are actually pretty good: just not the acting, script, or sci-fi props. Shameless in its economy and genuinely very funny (just not intentionally), the result is sort of like an episode of The Twilight Zone performed as amateur theatre. Awful, but a fun kind of awful.