Reap the Wind
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You’d think that being Chief Seer for the supernatural world would come with a few perks. But as...
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Star Wars, Vol. 12: Rebels and Rogues
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Darth Vader is on the hunt for Luke Skywalker! Thousands of remote probes are sent into the far...
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years, Vol. 4
Walter Simonson and David Michelinie
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The search for Solo! The loveable rogue, frozen in carbonite, has been taken to Jabba the Hutt - and...
David McK (3816 KP) rated National Treasure (2004) in Movies
Sep 10, 2021
As such, heavily aimed at the American audience rather than more international fare, coming across (to my UK eyes, at least) as very much an American attempt to set up a new Indiana Jones series. Oh, and the whole plot point of something being on the back of the Declaration? Remind you much of The Da Vinci code, and something on the back of the Mona Lisa ...?
Having said that, it's polished enough to not be the worst way of spending about 2 hours or so in front of the box.
Scarlet at Crystal River (Haunted Shores Mysteries #3)
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All Darrell Henshaw wanted was to enjoy his honeymoon with his beautiful wife, Erin, in the charming...
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Hidden in Smoke
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When the crimes of a serial arsonist lead to murder, Sharpe and Walker need detective Eve Ronin to...
David McK (3816 KP) rated Mission impossible dead reckoning part one (2023) in Movies
Aug 19, 2023 (Updated Jun 1, 2025)
Long winded title.
It's also the 7th entry (of a definite 8, possibly more) in what-has-become Tom Cruise's signature franchise, which has now been running for nearly 30 years (27 years as of 2023, to be precise).
And I was initially shocked by how old Cruise looked during the opening scenes of this - no longer the fresh baby-faced figure of the early entries!
Anyway, this particular entry goes more into the realms of science-fiction than any of the previous instalments have, with Ethan Hunt and co searching for a way to stop the rogue AI known only as The Entity.
Personally, I found this to get a bit muddled in the middle - with one surprising death that I wasn't expecting (and that left a bit of a sour taste) - although it all leads to a barn-buster of a final act.
Personally, I still feel that Rogue Nation is the one to beat.
The Queen of Poisons
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The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies...
David McK (3816 KP) rated Project Hail Mary in Books
Apr 13, 2025
Watched the movie no long afterwards.
Enjoyed both, but not enough to make me hunt out any others by the same author, so never (yet) read "Artemis" by the same author.
Then saw this on sale on Kindle, for something like 99pence, so thought I might as well give it a chance, after checking it was not part of a series i.e. could be read as a standalone (which it can).
Like The Martian, I found this enjoyable enough, maybe a bit slow during the middle section, but I'm also left with a burning question at the very end - just what happened back home on Earth? The novel completely bypasses that, perhaps as it's pretty much all told in first-person perspective from the astronaut/science teacher Ryland Grace, the last survivor on board the spaceship Hail Mary on a last-ditch effort to save Earth.