Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated Battlefield 1 in Video Games
Jul 27, 2017
Battlefield 1 is set during the first world war, which isn't a setting that we have seen much before in video games. The campaign is broke up into several different soldier's stories and each of them is engaging and entertaining in their own right. The weapons and mechanics are fun to experiment with as well, even if some liberties are taken with the level of weaponry available at the time. If you like FPS games and are looking for an alternative to futuristic sci fi shooters, then this is one for you.
Ali and Nino: A Love Story
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Ali Khan and Nino Kipiani live in the cosmopolitan, oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan which, at the...
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
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'We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains,...
Twilight Zone---The Movie (1983)
6.1
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This tribute to the beloved supernatural TV show has four episodes. In the first, racist Bill Connor...
Goodbye to All That
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'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been...
David McK (3425 KP) rated Biggles Learns to Fly in Books
Dec 23, 2020
Then I did a bit of research, and discovered that it depends upon how (and what) you are counting as a Biggles story/book - see http://www.biggles.info/
Perhaps, then, it would be better to say that this is the earliest set of any I have read.
Published in 1935, this is (apparently) a collection of 12 separate short stories, all of which are loosely linked together and follows some of Biggles earlier exploits.
I realise I'm not the target audience for these (I'm now too old). I don't care: sometimes it's nice just to re-live your childhood!
Silence Fallen (Mercy Thompson, #10)
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Coyote shapeshifter Mercy Thompson is attacked and abducted in her home territory. Fighting off a...
David McK (3425 KP) rated The King's Man (2021) in Movies
Feb 12, 2022
Which proves to be a good move, injecting a spot of interest into the movie - I, for one, struggled with the second entry - and allowing a mishmash of history and fact to play out on screen.
This also has a shocking moment about roughly 2/3rds of the way through, during the period of the movie in the trenches that almost feels like it belongs to a different film altogether.
It also has an absolutely bonkers fight scene involving Rasputin: it's a pity, I feel, that he does not have a larger role than he does!
Alvar Aalto: Architect
Richard Rogers and John Stewart
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Alvar Aalto remains Finland's greatest architect, retains his place among the Modern Masters of...
Game of War - Fire Age
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5.7
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Join the ULTIMATE battle for domination of the Kingdom in Game of War – Fire Age! PLAY FOR FREE in...