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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Dirty Heads in Books

Jan 5, 2024  
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Dirty Heads
Aaron Dries | 2024
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
3 of 220
Kindle
Dirty Heads
By Aaron Dries
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The story of a boy who dreamed of becoming a man… But dreamed up a monster instead

You’re on the run. Marked. Don’t think about the kid you used to be when you’re homeless and dumpster-diving in the rain. Just eat whatever you find to keep your engine full. Because the shadow with too many teeth wants you tired.

You’re easier to catch when you’re tired.

It has hunted you since the summer of 1994, back when we confessed who we were through mixtapes. When every movie at the video store had dirty heads. You were thirteen and thought you knew who you were. Only the shadow with too many teeth knew you better. It still does. And it won’t stop. Not until you come home.

Back to where it all began.

I’ve never read anything like it. It was just one of those books where you are shook to the core but can’t stop reading. So so good. This was so brilliantly written.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Hummingbird (aka Redemption, Crazy Joe) (2013) in Movies

May 16, 2019  
Hummingbird (aka Redemption, Crazy Joe) (2013)
Hummingbird (aka Redemption, Crazy Joe) (2013)
2013 | Action, Drama
8
7.0 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Well, if anyone was going to play an ex-special forces homeless man who interferes romantically with a nun and turns up to a knife fight carrying a spoon, it was going to be Jason Statham. The plot of this one honestly feels a bit like a mix-tape of the best bits from the great man's back catalogue (Chinese gangsters, people trafficking, mob enforcement, improbable threats) but it's put together with skill and conviction.

It does have that slightly crazy quality you often get in J-Stat films, but for me this is the source of much of their charm, and this one also manages to address some slightly deeper topics than usual and even ends up with a bit of gravitas and emotional depth. It almost feels like a drama as much as an action film, and you genuinely do care for the characters by the end of it. Definitely one of the better Statham vehicles, although one has to wonder about the film's fairly blatant attempts to position him as a gay icon - is J-Stat on board with this? Has anyone even thought to tell him? Good fun either way.