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Dean (6925 KP) rated Thor: Ragnarok (2017) in Movies

Oct 24, 2017 (Updated Oct 24, 2017)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

2017 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

8.6

(428 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Great characters (3 more)

Brilliant action scenes

Amazing Sfx

Very funny!

Hammer time!

This film was an absolute blast! Packed with action, lots of characters crammed in and very funny throughout. It's such a stark contrast compared to the last Thor film. It has a great blend of elements from the Avengers films and similar in style to the Guardians of the galaxy films. Don't miss it!

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Phantoms in Books

Jul 25, 2017

Phantoms

Dean Koontz | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

7.5

(11 Ratings)

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Flimsy story, almost comedic

While this story was extremely engaging for its genre and content, it started off with the mystery of a psychological thriller and ended up becoming like a 1970's hammer horror. It couldn't hold itself in the end and the description of the "thing" reminded me of a Sam Raimi style boring gorefest. A bit of a disappointment after 14 hours of listening.

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Penn & Teller: Fool Us - Season 2

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Megan Abbott recommended Kiss Me Deadly (1955) in Movies (curated)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

1955 | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

7.0

(1 Ratings)

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"The smartest and meanest in the noir cycle, with Ralph Meeker at his sexiest and nastiest as Mike Hammer and a constellation of complicated females, from Maxine Cooper as the hot-to-the-touch Velda to Cloris Leachman and Gaby Rodgers as two dangerously lost women. Praising it for its “thoroughgoing seediness,” Paul Schrader calls it film noir’s masterpiece, and it’s easy to see why."

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Twins of Evil (1971)

7.4 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Hands of the Ripper (1971) in Movies

May 27, 2018 (Updated May 27, 2018)

Bring the Daughter; Have some Slaughter

Pretty decent Hammer horror melodrama set in a sort of grab-bag version of late Victorian London. Anna (Rees) grows up an orphan, little suspecting the identity of her father, or the fact that she seems to have inherited his compulsion to kill. An ambitious psychiatrist (Porter) takes her under his wing, believing he can help her with her little problem. (As ever, hubris comes before a gory comeuppance.) Meanwhile, Hammer whips up gallons of fake blood.

Not-bad production values and decent performances go a long way to make up for some fairly preposterous plotting; you get the classic Hammer sense of a traditional costume drama coupling energetically with a disreputable exploitation movie, with a good time had by all. On the one hand this is another tale of an improbably arrogant man whose specific area of brilliance doesn't stop him making a whole series of insanely bad decisions; on the other it is about the power of men to seriously screw up the lives of women in patriarchal societies (so perhaps still somewhat relevant). Film does an interesting little dance, too: are Anna's problems purely psychological or is she genuinely possessed by the spirit of the Ripper? Well put together, some interesting ideas, doesn't outstay its welcome - definitely worth a look if old British horror movies are your thing.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Abominable Snowman (1957) in Movies

Mar 23, 2018 (Updated Mar 23, 2018)

The Abominable Snowman (1957)

1957 | Adventure, Sci-Fi

5.5

(6 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Solid Hammer genre movie. Really an odd piece of atomic-era pessimism, as you'd expect from famously glum screenwriter Nigel Kneale; expedition to track down the Yeti goes rather awry, and the question becomes that of who the real monster is.

A bit dated now, especially in terms of the production values - there are some exterior shots filmed in the Pyrenees, but all the dialogue scenes were done on a sound stage. Despite being the main character, Peter Cushing (in only his second film for Hammer) is second-billed to the American Tucker in the hope of flogging the movie to the States (pretty much standard practice at the time). Decent script ticks all the plot boxes; curiously ambiguous ending doesn't hurt either, but the Yeti suits are not much cop, it must be said. Probably worth watching if you like unusually brainy B-movies.