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"I was a teenager when I got into Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody was everywhere after it was on Wayne’s World. There’s so much joy in their music, a real not-giving-a shit-ness. It’s great to see them in this documentary being these normal, geeky people. You see all the mundanity that goes on behind the scenes of Freddie’s showmanship on stage, plus there’s the unexpectedness of hearing his gentle English accent. Then you hear him live, and see the sweat in his moustache, and it’s spine-tingling."

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Educating Rita (1983)

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Comedy-drama based on the stage play by Willy Russell. A hairdresser, aspiring vaguely to a better...

Rian Johnson recommended The Bad Sleep Well (1960) in Movies (curated)

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

1960 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

(0 Ratings)

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"Although any one of the recent godsend rush of Kurosawa releases could go in this slot. For years now this gem (and much of his filmography) has only been available for us poor Region 1 sods on crappy import discs, and though the broken English subtitles via a bad Chinese translation had a sometimes poetic dadaistic flair, it’s a relief to finally have a beautiful, intelligible disc of it. The film itself stands easily up to Stray Dog and High and Low as one of Kurosawa’s best contemporary crime dramas."

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Nightlife: New York (The Nightlife #1) in Books

Jan 12, 2021

The Nightlife: New York (The Nightlife #1)

Travis Luedke | 2012 | Contemporary, Erotica, Paranormal, Romance

6.2

(5 Ratings)

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I liked some things in this, and others not so much.

Michelle's way of talking was very realistic, a French woman speaking English isn't likely to have the perfect grasp and she didn't; it was very authentic and I liked it.
I also liked the authors way of describing the thoughts of people around them that they could hear and how they were thinking about realistic things.

Things I wasn't so fond of: the storyline. Bent cops wanting to get their own back on a woman who humiliated them. Just seems a little overkill.