Cornerstone: The Birth of the City in Mesopotamia
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Taking us back to the earliest days of cities-and the earliest days of human civilization-in...
Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Cruella (2021) in Movies
May 29, 2021 (Updated May 30, 2021)
On to the movie no spoilers here probably my favourite movie at cineworld this year so far. emna stone as cruella is brilliant In the role been a fan since she was in superbad now let's get to emma Thompson who also brilliant and loves haming it up as baroness totally evil and she knows it. Not forgetting both Joel fry and Paul Walter hauser as jasper and horace who also brillant. overall good movie worth the watch stay to the end credits for extra scene which I won't give away but will u get it
The Curator
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Tt's Christmas and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria. A strange...
The Art of Star Wars Rebels
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An incredible hardcover amassing art and creator commentary chronicling four seasons of adventure in...
The Puppet Show (Washington Poe, #1)
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A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves...
The Girls of August
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For fifteen years, four "girls of August" would gather together to spend a week at the beach, until...
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Vol. 4: The Catastrophe Con
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Doctor Aphra is behind bars. Again. But this time she's in Imperial custody, strapped to an...
Good Girls Die First
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Welcome to the most gripping thriller of the year: hugely entertaining, high-octane and...
David McK (3540 KP) rated The hunger games ballard of songbirds and snakes (2023) in Movies
Jul 3, 2024
I'd seen the quartet of movies based on those books.
I haven't read the prequel, on which this is based.
So I had little knowledge of what to expect, going in, other than that it centred on a young Cornelius Snow before he becomes the tyrannical president of the original films.
This film is very clearly split into 3 acts (each proceeded by a card naming such): The Mentor, The Prize and The Peacekeeper - with the first two of those three acts the better.
Final act drags on a bit.
The middle section is the bit set during the 10th annual Hunger Games, which - here - are far more 'basic', far more 'real' than that of the Jennifer Lawrence films, with Rachel Zeigler's Lucy Gray also more a performer forced to become a warrior than Lawrence's Everdeen (the exact opposite).
