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Steak (2007)

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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George is the scapegoat of his classmates. One day he cracks and shoots them. His best and only...

Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) in Movies

Mar 3, 2020

Skipping forward 28 years, John Hughes’ jewel in the crown owes a lot to Billy Wilder. It also borrows from every genre in the book. Reflecting its charming protagonist, this film is smart – so much smarter than it first appears. It allows you to be part of it from the very start, directing dialogue right at you out of the screen, and hopes you get every wink, nod and irreverent moment. We’ve all been teenagers, we all sing in the shower, we all lied to our parents, we all wished we could join a parade as guest of honour and drive a Ferrari into a ditch! Cool but geeky. Great music, great laughs, great dialogue, and the character Matthew Broderick will always be. An influence on every teen movie worth its salt ever since!

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Echolocation by Gone Is Gone

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Gone Is Gone may be a new name in the rock world, but its members are anything but unfamiliar. This...

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Emergency Department Critical Care

Donald M. Yealy and Clifton Callaway

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Critical care happens where it is needed, not just in the ICU. Patients with acute critical illness...

IB Visual Arts Course Book: Oxford IB Diploma Programme

Jayson Paterson, Simon Poppy and Andrew Vaughan

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Strengthen potential in IB Visual Arts. Matched to the updated IB Visual Arts Guide for first...

James Dean Bradfield recommended track To Have and to Have Not by Billy Bragg in Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy by Billy Bragg in Music (curated)

Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy by Billy Bragg

1983 | Folk, Punk, Singer-Songwriter

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To Have and to Have Not by Billy Bragg

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"This reminds me of that lonely summer in between comprehensive and college, where you see people everywhere with girlfriends, and learning how to drive, and you don’t feel as if you’re going anywhere yourself. “Up in the morning and out to school…” It sounds a bit adolescent, but sometimes the songs that really affect you are the ones that mainline into your soul as a teenager. It gave me some hope. This song made me feel like I could take on the world to a certain degree. We’d written our first song in 1985 and hearing this made me realise: “Wow, you can write a song with quite basic ingredients.” And regardless of any tinpot history that we may have with Mr Bragg, I’ll always be grateful to him for this song."

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