Seven Seconds - Season 1
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When 15-year-old black cyclist Brenton Butler dies in a hit-and-run accident -- with a white police...
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Within Arm's Length
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Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events...
Skyjacked (1972)
5.5
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Hank O'Hara is as good a pilot as they come. He knows how to handle an airliner in turbulent skies....
The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class
Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter and Janine Giordano Drake
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The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus...
Pushing Daisies - Season 1
9.4
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The story follows Ned, a man who can bring the dead back to life for a minute. If the person/thing...
Versusyours (757 KP) rated Trading Places (1983) in Movies
Dec 14, 2019
In another world it would have been that duo of Wilder and Pryor who were considered to play the lead roles with the working title of Black and White. I think it may have had a different edge if that was the case.
There was a law made called the Eddie Murphy Rule in America that banned insider trading so this film had a lasting effect but I think there are more better uses of the term Eddie Murphy Rule for some of his shenanigans he has been involved in since this film.
Overall this film takes pride of place at Xmas time but I have often enjoyed it outside of this period, one of the 80s funniest and eccentric films and it just gets me on that basic level that makes me love it dearly like only a gorrila based love triangle can
Astrophysics in a Nutshell
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Winner of the American Astronomical Society's Chambliss Award, Astrophysics in a Nutshell has become...
Professional Services Marketing Handbook: How to Build Relationships, Grow Your Firm and Become a Client Champion
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The market for professional services and consulting firms is changing, driven by evolving and more...
David McK (3233 KP) rated The Tomorrow War (2021) in Movies
Aug 27, 2021
And the the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
Which - aside from the obvious! - is a pity where this was concerned: I do feel that it would have had more of an impact, more of a presence, on the big screen than on the small.
The plot is a take on the usual timey-wimey (to steal a phrase from the BBCs Doctor Who) type of stuff, where visitors from the future (IIRC, about 30 years or so) arrive in the present to recruit their ancestors to fight in an ongoing war against alien 'White Spikes' invaders: a war which humanity is currently losing.
The film then follows Chris Pratt's ex-military (natch) character Dan Forester, who ends up being one of those drafted to fight in the future: I say drafted, as the tour of duty is only meant to be about 7 days long, but most don't make it back or come back horribly (and psychologically) scarred, so - not surprising - most people try to avoid having to go!
Yes, if you think about it too much your head will probably hurt from all the paradoxes involved ...
Yes, it's enjoyable
Southern Illinois Salukis Football
Dan Verdun and Jerry Kill
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Southern Illinois Salukis Football, the first book to focus solely on the program and its history at...