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    Distilled is a highly thematic strategy card game about crafting spirits in a distillery, with...

Out Law (Dresden Files 18.75)
Out Law (Dresden Files 18.75)
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I didn't realise until I was reading this that it was set *after* book #18 in the series (Twelve Months), which I have yet to read as I am waiting for the paperback version.

Which might explain why I was initially a bit confused about certain elements in Harry's world (He has another apprentice now? And a castle?), which - I presume - happen in that entry.

Having said that, once I got past the initial confusion I found myself thoroughly enjoying my return to Harry's Chicago; thoroughly enjoying the more 'low stakes' (well, as low as it gets for Harry, maybe) of the story that I feel was lost in the last couple of full-length novels I read.

Sure, world-ending apocalypses have their place and all, but when they are stopped time and time again ...
  
Point Break (1991)
Point Break (1991)
1991 | Action, Mystery
Thor's Quinjet password!
A sereis of high stakes robberies.

Young FBI agent going undercover, and falling in with an extreme sports crowd who later prove to be those responsible for the robberies.

Unsure of where his loyalties lie.

Charismatic leader of the extreme sports group.

Increasingly ridiculous stunts.

Wait, am I describing 'Point Break' or 'The Fast and the Furious' franchise??

Yes, it is clear that that later franchise (Fasrt and Furious) takes many elements from this earlier movie (albeit switching surfing for cars), which stars a - very young!, pre The Matrix or even Speed - Keanu Reeves (Johnny Utah) alongside an impressively mulleted Patrick Swayze (Bodhi) and Gary Busey as Utah's older FBI partner.

Lets face it, though, we're really here for the stunts (or, at least, the male audience is!): in particular the surfing and skydiving (without a parachute) scenes.