Fawlty Towers
John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs
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John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs star in two BBC TV episodes, "Mrs...
Life and Beth
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This title features 3 Males, 3 Females and 2 voices (1 Male, 1Female). A living room. It's...
The Gorgon's Gaze
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Magical Mallins Wood is under threat from developers. Unknown to everyone but the members of the top...
Sassy Brit (97 KP) rated One Little Lie in Books
Jun 5, 2019
Onwards and upwards… You know you want to…
Psychologist Connie’s patient, Alice Mann has a son who is a murderer. Alice’s son killed Deborah’s son and is desperate for her forgiveness. Connie wants Alice to leave it all alone and to not get involved with Deborah, however, in an effort to redeem herself, Alice starts up a support group for the parents of murderers, but there’s one little lie she’s told which is about to snowball out of control.
Confused? You should(n’t) be. But stick with me…
Tension grows between Alice and Deborah and a young girl goes missing. Soon the police are suspecting not only foul play, but that maybe the wrong person was locked up for Deborah’s son’s murder and still out there. (Slaps head, I mean, how thick are these policemen?)
After a slow start (there are several characters and it does jump around a bit) I found the twists and turns of this story really had me on edge. At times I felt I was walking on eggshells around Alice and Deb, just waiting for it all to explode. In my minds eye I can see this as a really good film or BBC drama! Visually I don’t think it would be so complicated. But then, maybe that’s not what I should be taking away from all this.
Incidentally, this carries on from Bad Sister, featuring the same psychologist Connie, and DI Lindsay Wade, but can easily be read as a standalone story. Actually I really liked this aspect, I wasn’t expecting that when I picked up the book.
Once I got into this, I discovered it is actually cleverly written so when you reach the end of each chapter, you’ll not want to stop!
Debating the 'Post' Condition in India: Critical Vernaculars, Unauthorised Modernities, Postcolonial Contentions
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How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a...
So They Call You Pisher?: A Memoir
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In this humorous and moving memoir, Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life....
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Twenty years ago, they were the best of friends. When Connie invites her university gang on the...
David McK (3695 KP) rated Gladiator (2000) in Movies
Nov 20, 2024
The slave who became an Gladiator.
The Gladiator who defied an Emperor.
A gripping tale, is it not ..."
So says Joaquin Phoenix's Emperor Commodus towards the end of this movie, talking to his erstwhile friend Maximus (Russel Crowe), after seizing power in the early parts of the film and believing the General to be dead in Germania (as per his command) and after also killing Maximus's wife and son.
The plot, then, basically, is a straight A to B revenge.
This, I believe, is also the film that launched Russel Crowe and Phoenix both to stardom - I struggle, personally, to think of any other since where either have been as electric as they are in this movie.
It may also help that they have a stacked supporting cast, including the likes of Oliver Reed (in his last onscreen role), Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi and Djimon Hounsou and some spectacular action scenes of the Roman games ...