Sons of Anarchy - Season 3
TV Season
The third season of the American television drama series Sons of Anarchy created by Kurt Sutter...
Oh No, George!
Book
It's hard work being good all the time - and it's especially hard for a dog like George! A board...
Good Night, Everyone
Book
From the multi-award winning picture book maker of A Bit Lost, Oh No, George! and Shh! We Have a...
The Central Fells: Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells Book 3 (Lake District & Cumbria)
Alfred Wainwright and Chris Jesty
Book
The Central Fells of the Lake District include treasures such as the ever-popular Langdale Pikes,...
Putrifiers II by Thee Oh Sees
Album
If one prefers a slightly more subtle musical awakening, there's always Putrifiers II, the latest in...
People, Places and Business Cultures: Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali
Andrew Popp, Peter Scott and Paolo Di Martino
Book
This collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and...
The Critical Surf Studies Reader
Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman
Book
The evolution of surfing-from the first forms of wave riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Fast & Furious 9 (2021) in Movies
Jul 9, 2021 (Updated Jul 9, 2021)
Anyway: Dom and Letty are raising their child off the grid in some rustic idyll or other, when their friends appear asking for help with a problem; not having seen Avengers: Endgame and how things turned out for all involved on that occasion, they agree to pitch in for another exercise in hunt-the-coupons plotting, with overblown stunt sequences linked by a (at this point) mind-bogglingly byzantine backstory.
The sizeable gap left by Dwayne Johnson is filled by cameos and return appearances by virtually everyone who's ever appeared in an F&F ensemble (no idea what young Eastwood did to get left out); virtually everyone comes back, even a couple of the dead ones. Of course, this just makes the film's gymnastics in dealing with the absence of Paul Walker all the more obvious (and a bit uncomfortable by this point).
Decent stunts and action, but all a bit slick and ridiculous even by F&F standards, and showing real signs of sliding into lazy self-parody; this series was effortlessly breezy entertainment for a long time, but it's definitely starting to look like it's running out of steam.
JT (287 KP) rated Takers (2010) in Movies
Mar 10, 2020
Of course they all follow a very similar pattern. Group steals money, plan one last job which will inevitable go wrong where someone will get double crossed and not everyone walks off into the sunset with the money.Its a no brainer really and only an idiot could really mess up that style of plot.
Takers is no different from any other before it, the cast here seem to be a bit mismatched in places. There are real life rappers Chris Brown and T.I. aka Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., eye candy favourites Matt Dillon and Paul Walker with Brit Idris Elba making it the most unconventional mix of cops and robbers ever.
The film’s highlights are the well choreographed set pieces including a decent hotel gun fight, a hiest that goes wrong leading to more gun play, and an impressive chase through the city. Even the opening does well to set the story and character back grounds.
Where the film let’s itself down, through no fault of its own, is the way in which we are always one step ahead of the plot. This is just down to all the hiest films we have seen before and we’re pretty much going to make our own assumptions as to what is going to happen and who is going to get away with what at the climax.
There are a couple of wasted back stories which do little to the film such as Matt Dillon’s corrupt partner or Idris Elba’s crackhead sister. Zoe Saldana is a virtual unknown in this and pops up from time to time doing nothing but enlighten the screen with her clear beauty.
It’s never going to compete against the big boys such as Heat, Point Break or The Town, but it does well enough to hold the attention for 90 minutes or so.
Learn To Play Guitar Solos
Music and Education
App
Learn how to play guitar solos with this selection of 176 easy to follow tutorial lessons. ...