
The Audacity of Hype: Bewilderment, Sleaze and Other Tales of the 21st Century
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In THE AUDACITY OF HYPE, Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and...

Big Phil Campion's Real World SAS Survival Guide: Any Threat. Any Situation. Sorted.
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Any Threat. Any Situation. Sorted. The 21st century is a place fraught with danger. Nobody is better...

Thief's Magic
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International No.1 bestselling author Trudi Canavan returns with her most powerful and thrilling...

Chilcot
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'The House of Commons is powerless. When you add secrecy and deceit, the system becomes positively...

The Perfect Storm (2000)
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It's Halloween, 1991. Near Gloucester, Massachusetts, the six members of the Andrea Gail, a...

Earthquake (1974)
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Charlton Heston leads an all-star cast in an epic film about ordinary citizens who must come...

Why Women Need Quotas
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We have an abysmal record on gender parity. Rwanda and Laos have more women in Parliament than...

LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Skyfire (2019) in Movies
Feb 9, 2021
Everything in this movie is completely over dramatic, from the characters in general, to the hugely cliché ridden action script. The CGI flits rapidly between being half decent to dodgy as fuck. Jason Isaacs adopts an uncomfortably out of place South African accent, and the action scenes are so so. And in all honesty, I low key enjoyed it. It might dumb natural disaster fodder from Simon "Con Air" West, but I would happily take this over the 2012's of this world in a heartbeat. Skyfire is average at worst, and wonderfully silly at best.

Antoine Fuqua recommended Apocalypse Now (1979) in Movies (curated)

David McK (3557 KP) rated San Andreas (2015) in Movies
Jun 14, 2020 (Updated Jun 16, 2020)
You'd be wrong, however, with surprisingly little made of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's physicality, as a Los Angeles Fire Department search-and-rescue helicopter pilot who goes off-book on a mission to rescue his family following a magnitude 9 (the largest recorded) earthquake along the San Andreas fault.
Very much a by-the-books movie (and it knows it!), with young love flourishing amongst the ruins and devastation, and with the circumstances leading to a reconciliation of the leading mans nuclear family (who started the movie filing for divorce), whilst his wife's new-boyfriend ends up, ummm, 'disposed off' in the third act after he shows his true colours.