
A Welcome Murder
Book
After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny...

The Vanishing Point
Book
Stephanie Harker is travelling through security at O'Hare airport with five-year-old Jimmy. But in a...

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon
Book
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's...

Smokin' Aces (2007)
Movie
Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel, a sleazy magician who...
Assassin's

Adam Pally recommended Out of Sight (1998) in Movies (curated)

Christen (28 KP) rated Before He Kills in Books
Dec 13, 2020

The Curator
Book
Tt's Christmas and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria. A strange...

Burn
Book
On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of...

At Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion
Book
Hailed as "a chilling portrait" by The Boston Globe and "a crafty thriller" by Newsweek, this...

David McK (3562 KP) rated The Rock (1996) in Movies
Jul 12, 2023
We're talking the likes of National Treasure, Con-Air, Face/Off. And this, his first entry in that mold from 1996.
Also starring Sean Connery in a Bind-in-all-but-name role, this sees Cage playing the part of an FBI chemical expert who has to accompany Connery and US Marines on a mission to infiltrate Alcatraz (Connery's role being as the only man to ever escape from said prison) after a group of disillusioned Marines - led by Ed Harris - seize control of the island and have chemical weapons pointing at San Francisco.
I think this may be the first Michael Bay film I ever saw; looking back on it now I can see that, even back then, it has all the hallmarks of one of his films!