Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir
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Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just...
Some Sunny Day
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It was July 1944 when Madge stepped onto a troopship that was to carry her thousands of miles away...
Captain Marvel: Carol Danvers - The Ms. Marvel Years Vol. 2
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The adventures of Carol Danvers continue! Ms. Marvel drafts two new recruits from the Avengers...
JT (287 KP) rated The Intruder (2019) in Movies
Mar 10, 2020
Annie (Meagan Good) and Scott ( Michael Ealy) think that they have found their dream home, away from the concrete jungle of the city with an idyllic setting in which to start a family. Step in Charlie (Dennis Quaid), a kind hearted widower who is selling in order to start a new life with his daughter in Florida – or so it would seem, as we know, looks can be deceiving.
Dennis Quaid nails the disturbed seller turned psycho
The film has been battered with reviews saying that it forgoes plot in favour of setting up a good jump scare, but do you know what? I don’t mind that.
I’ve always been a sucker for this type of genre and this one is no different. There are the obvious plot holes, some laughable, like how come it takes Annie so long to realise that Charlie has psychotic tendencies, despite Scott practically spelling it out for her? Or the fact that everyone seems to be drawn to a particular linen closet. It moves along enough to keep you entertained with Quaid giving a good account of himself and clearly having fun.
Director (Deon Taylor) seems inspired by classic home invasion thrillers but offers nothing new that we won’t have already seen before – you can just throw this one onto the pile with all the rest.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The World's End (2013) in Movies
May 22, 2018
The director claims this is SF in the British tradition of John Wyndham; to me it looks much more like an update (not quite a spoof) of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, set somewhere in the Home Counties. Terrific cast, some very good jokes; also some rather impressive action sequences. Not quite in the same vein as Shaun of the Dead, as this movie has some quite dark emotional threads running through it, with themes of regret and guilt and coming to terms with getting older.
I have to say that while I loved this film, I am of the same generation as the main characters and can fully sympathise with their various situations; younger people of my acquaintance couldn't quite see the point of the film. Almost certainly an age thing - whether your response to the track listing of the soundtrack is 'Wow, non-stop classics!' or 'Eww, dad rock' (or even 'Never heard of any of this') will probably be a good indicator as to whether you'll like the actual movie or not.
A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War
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This title was shortlisted for inspirational book of the year at the 2014 Garden Media Guild Awards....
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During the Second World War, Norfolk was truly on the 'front line'. Being so close to the Continent,...
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It was not until after the Norman Conquest that British castles, as we think of them today, came...