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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2554 KP) rated The Thin Man in Books

Mar 9, 2018

The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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After seeing all the movies, I finally read the book. Nick and Nora Charles are trying to enjoy a Christmas in New York City, but a case involving one of Nick's former clients keeps interrupting the holiday. I found this book lacked some of the spark of the movie version, but it was still enjoyable.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-thin-man-by-dashiell-hammett.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2554 KP) rated Alice I Have Been in Books

Mar 9, 2018

This fictional biography follows the life of Alice Liddell. Her childhood friendship with the adult Charles Dodgson gives him the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland. The writing was very descriptive, but I was very creeped out by the way their relationship was portrayed. It doesn't say anything unseemly happened, but it still really bothered me.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-alice-i-have-been-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Andy K (10823 KP) rated The Stone Killer (1973) in Movies

Aug 11, 2018

The Stone Killer (1973)

1973 | Action, Drama, Mystery

6.3

(3 Ratings)

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One of Bronson's better cop flicks

Every time I see Charles Bronson playing a policeman, I always think maybe this was a role Clint Eastwood turned down as their styles and film choices in the 1970s were very similar.

This was a good one, though, as it was action packed and had some great car chase scenes. Everything you look for in a mob, action cop film is here and will not disappoint.

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Bill Hader recommended The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) in Movies (curated)

The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)

1953 | Drama, Romance

(0 Ratings)

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"Thanks to Criterion, I could finally see the Max Ophuls movies I’d been reading about for years. The story of Madame de . . . on paper doesn’t really interest me, but in the hands of Ophuls, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and the great Vittorio De Sica (who’s not only a fantastic director and one of the fathers of neorealism, he’s also damn suave), it’s a movie that truly amazed me. I could watch those dancing scenes for hours."

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Wings (1927)

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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With World War I afoot, David Armstrong (Richard Arlen) and Jack Powell (Charles "Buddy" Rogers)...

Zoe Kazan recommended The Apartment (1960) in Movies (curated)

The Apartment (1960)

1960 | Classics, Comedy, Drama

9.5

(2 Ratings)

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"I’m going to put The Apartment on there. Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon. You know, Billy Wilder is just one of my favorite filmmakers ever. That movie is one that has grown with me. That’s another movie that I definitely saw as a child and have felt differently about as I’ve gotten older. Its really about two lonely people and it’s so sweet and so funny, and the score — I think it’s the Charles Williams orchestra that does the score on that. I’m not going to get that right, but the score is just so, so beautiful. I feel like I can just hear the refrain of that and cry. I think it’s really a perfect movie."

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