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Anna, Countess of the Covenant

Mary McGrigor

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Lady Anna Mackenzie, daughter of Lord Seaforth, was born in 1621. Famed for her beauty, she married...

Sovereign

C.J. Sansom

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Following on from Dissolution and Dark Fire, Sovereign is the third title in C. J. Sansom's...

Swordland

Edward Ruadh Butler

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A tale of war, death, lust, and scheming, set in the starkly beautiful landscapes of medieval...

The Wrong Child

Barry Gornell

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Of all the children to survive, why did it have to be him? A rural village school building...

Broken Homes: The Fourth PC Grant Mystery

Ben Aaronovitch

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Ben Aaronovitch has stormed the bestseller list with his superb London crime series. A unique blend...

Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Dracula (1958) in Movies

Nov 5, 2020 (Updated Nov 5, 2020)

Dracula (1958)

1958 | Horror

7.8

(6 Ratings)

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The Vampire Rises Once More

Dracula- is a great movie. Hammer films is a excellent studio, cause their brought back the universal monsters and put their own spin on it. And with Dracula their put their own spin on Dracula. And did it work, yes.

First Christopher Lee played as the creature in The Curse of Frankenstien, now he plays as Dracula. When you think of Dracula you think of Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee. Christopher Lee played Dracula more times then Bela Lugosi. But both actors are iconic, legends and icons.

The plot: On a search for his missing friend Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen), vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) is led to Count Dracula's (Christopher Lee) castle. Upon arriving, Van Helsing finds an undead Harker in Dracula's crypt and discovers that the count's next target is Harker's ailing fiancée, Lucy Holmwood (Carol Marsh). With the help of her brother, Arthur (Michael Gough), Van Helsing struggles to protect Lucy and put an end to Count Dracula's parasitic reign of terror.

In the United States, the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the U.S. original by Universal Pictures, 1931's Dracula.

Its a excllent film.

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LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Beauty and the Beast (1991) in Movies

Nov 22, 2020

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

1991 | Animation, Family, Musical

8.8

(107 Ratings)

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Beauty and the Beast is an example of animated Disney at the top of their game, and stands proudly amongst the string of high quality outputs from Disney during the tail end of the 80s and through the 90s.

The aesthetic is quintessential Disney fairytale material, alternating between the bright and colourful un-named village that Belle lives in, to the dark and gothic castle where The Beast resides. The animation is wonderful, especially when it comes to characters. Characters such as Cogsworth, Lumiere, and Mrs. Potts are bought to life in such a vibrant manner, it's another argument for why the live action adaptions will never quite capture the same magic, and the likes of Belle, The Beast, and Gaston are memorable and visually iconic Disney inhabitants.

The story is straight down the middle for this kind of thing, but it's crowd pleasing, heart warming, with a perfect helping of melancholy, a formula that has always been Disney's bread and butter along with catchy songs. I struggle to get on board with musicals for the most part but some of the music demonstrated here is superbly written and occasionally beautiful.

Beauty & The Beast is classic Disney through and through. It's truly timeless and will be enjoyed for generations to come.