Chasing Daffodils
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Jade Everly is a twenty-four-year-old native New Yorker, pursuing an acting career while working as...
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Glow (Pleasure Seekers #3)
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Scott Fitzgerald is looking for love. Both his flatmates have met their forever someones—when will...
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David McK (3816 KP) rated Atlas (2024) in Movies
Dec 28, 2024 (Updated Dec 28, 2024)
Or her music career.
Not of what is, essentially, a version of the 1980s FASA miniatures game "Battletech" or the "MechWarrior" series if computer game spins offs.
Which is more-or-less what this feels like, with J-Lo's character in the future - who distrusts all technology - trapped inside the cockpit of a mobile armoured fighting robot (Gundam, perhaps, as another touchstone, or even Armoured Core) and needing to interact with the AI of said suit whilst on a mission to another planet to hunt down rogue AI - that she has a personal connection with - that attempted to commit genocide against the human race.
Actually better than I thought it would be, but unlikely to win any awards!
Make The Hurt (Pretty Deadly Things #4)
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She was supposed to be a rescue. Not a temptation. Ozzy Oliver is sent in to pull Salem Bloom...
Ragwort
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The bewitching sequel to Gorse, the first book in the Eythin Legacy, Ragwort filled with magic,...
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David McK (3816 KP) rated Predator: Badlands (2025) in Movies
Nov 23, 2025
It's also clearly set in the same universe as the AvP movies, although there is no Xenomorph here, with the presence of Weyland-Yutani corporation, who are on the same deadly planet as the Predator himself, who is on his first hunt out to prove himself.
The presence of Weyland-Yutani and the synths gives licence for soem what-would-otherwise-be-incredibly-gory action scenes in the latter half (white, milky, blood) - I did get strong vibes of both 'Avatar' (deadly alien planet) and 'Guardians of the Galaxy' (found family) throughout.
The Night Watch (DS Max Craigie #3)
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He’ll watch you. A lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the...
David McK (3816 KP) rated A Quiet Place (2018) in Movies
Aug 23, 2020 (Updated Jan 10, 2023)
They lied.
Slow, plodding, and lacking any sense of peril or tension, this is set in a post-apocalyptic world where seemingly invulnerable blind monsters (which we're never told where they come from) hunt by sound, and sound alone - which explains why there's not even any bird song. This then follows a tight-knit family trying to survive in this new reality, complete with a deaf kid and a mother about to give birth.
Yes, all the cliches are here: creaking floorboards, jagged nails sticking up from the wood, a kid who blames herself for the loss of her younger sibling early on in the film ...
About the only good thing I can say is that this is short, with a running time of just over 1.5 hours.
David McK (3816 KP) rated Blade II (2002) in Movies
Sep 25, 2023
Before Comic book movies became the big thing they are nowadays.
Wesley Snipes returns, here, as the titular half-human/half-vampire ("all of their strengths. None of their weaknesses. Except the thirst") waging his ongoing war on the vampire nation, but now finding himself having to 'team up' with some from that nation - who had been training to hunt him - in order to fight a new breed of vampire, the Reapers (whose mouth looks like something out of Predator), who feed on both Vampires and Humans alike and who are led by that-bloke-from-Bros.
This is both more comic-booky (to coin a phrase) than the original, whilst also a bit more of a horror film - those Reapers are nasty!
Eye for an Eye
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‘Emily’ is a devoted single mother. ‘Jack’ starts a new job in a new town. ‘Russell’...