The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Do
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In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from...
The Road to Delano
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It’s 1968, and a strike by field workers in the grape fields has ripped an otherwise quiet central...
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Secrets and Scents
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Best friends Kelli & Jo quit their day jobs in Silicon Valley to open a book and candle shop in...
Lost and Clowned
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Pi Steely’s life is a circus. Literally. As business manager for a mostly animal-free traveling...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Battle: Los Angeles (2011) in Movies
Feb 22, 2018
Very much just a collection of other bits you've seen done better elsewhere, inasmuch they can be done better at all considering they're really not very impressive per se. Watching as a non-American, one is inevitably slightly put off by the uncritical wooh-yeah-hurray attitude towards members of the US armed forces, who are almost universally presented as flawless paragons of virtue, not to mention the post-9/11 subtext that sometimes it is morally justified to do Bad Stuff (torturing prisoners to death, that sort of thing) in the defence of America. Also quite boring.
Andy K (10826 KP) rated Beverly Hills Cop (1984) in Movies
Jun 5, 2018
After a Detroit police's officer's friend is murdered, he relocates himself to Beverly Hills, California to investigate only to discover law enforcement operates under quite different principles out there.
Alhough Eddie Murphy had made both "48 Hours" & "Trading Places" before this film was released in 1984, this one was definitely his breakout hit.
His crass, foul demeanor juxtaposed against the prim and proper by-the-book procedureness of the CA cops lent itself to many hilarious and memorable moments. His partners Judge Reinhold and John Ashton worked extremely well with Murphy who had really come into his own as a leading man comic actor for this role.
Still one of my all-time favorite comedies.
The Centre Cannot Hold: A Memoir of My Schizophrenia
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Elyn Saks is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at University of Southern California Law School. She's...
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
Robin D. G. Kelley, Langston Hughes, Evelyn Louise Crawford and Mary Louise Patterson
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Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of...
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs
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Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and...
My Dearest Father
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'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.' A...