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Steve Buscemi recommended The Honeymoon Killers (1970) in Movies (curated)

The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

1970 | Classics, Drama, Mystery

9.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"I guess I’m a sucker for black and white. This 1970 independent classic is from writer/director Leonard Kastle, who took over after Martin Scorsese was let go. Shirley Stoler is funny and heartbreaking as the homicidal, jealous companion of scam artist Tony Lo Bianco. Based on a true story, it held particular interest for me because the killers at one point decide to retire to suburban Valley Stream, Long Island, the town where I primarily grew up and directed my first film, Trees Lounge. I once worked with Tony on an episode of the TV series Homicide and excitedly told him he had one of my favorite lines in one of my favorite movies. After sizing me up for a few seconds, he replied, “Well, that would have to be the Honeymoon Killers, and the line of course is, ‘Valley Stream. Valley Stream. What a joke!’”"

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David McK (3557 KP) rated Love and Monsters (2021) in Movies

Apr 25, 2021

Love and Monsters (2021)

2021 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

7.8

(20 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Well, that was a bit of a strange movie.

A mixture of comedy and adventure, this is set after the 'monsterpocalypse' when the chemicals used to send rockets up to explode an asteroid heading to earth instead resulted in the mutation of cold-blooded animals.

So, giant man-eating frogs.

Giant man-eating ants/earthworms.

Giant spiders.

etc etc.

Think that bit on Perter Jackson's 'King Kong' where they are on the island, and all the giant creepy-crawlies ...

(Although, this, I have to say, is more PG-rated than that particular scene).

With the survivors in separate enclaves around the country, 20-something year old Joel decides to leave his underground bunker and travel across the surface to his girlfriends community just 80 miles away.

The result is an easy enough watch, that never really caught my attention all that much, despite the best efforts of the dog 'Boy'!

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Chrissy Bush (42 KP) rated Animal Crossing: New Horizons in Video Games

Dec 28, 2020

Lots to do and collect (0 more)

Some events don't last long enough (0 more)

Great time killer for the creative

Animal crossing new horizons is a great on going game with lots to create, do, and experience. With no limit to what you can do and create for your island it is easy to spend 100s of hours playing and not collect everything. Though it can feels like chores at some point ita pretty fun to play with others.

Sadly there aren't minigames to play with other players but you can create your own. This allows those who are creative to have more fun. There are tons of diys and items to collect which you can do by playing with others or joining online communities to do so. I however find it is more fun to play alone at times as communicating can be rough in game.

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Ross (3284 KP) rated The Boys Volume 5: Herogasm in Books

Sep 24, 2019

The Boys Volume 5: Herogasm

Garth Ennis | 2009 | Comics & Graphic Novels

7.0

(2 Ratings)

Book Rating

A dip in quality

The 5th volume of The Boys sees the world's superheroes take time out, while pretending to be fighting an intergalactic war (similar to the secret invasion), and head off to a remote island for days of extreme sex, drugs and an awards ceremony. Herogasm being the name for this mini-festival of debauchery.
There are some smirks here, mainly aimed at the Fantastic 4, and what they might get up to in private, but the joke is a little laboured over the 6 issues.
I think a key learn for me is that if Darick Robertson didn't ink it, you can probably skip it (he seems to avoid the issues that are heavier on the sex). While there is a little about the corporate corruption and the 9/11 conspiracy, and a naughty attack by Black Noir, this story is somewhat throwaway.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Great Ex-Scape in Books

Sep 3, 2019

The Great Ex-Scape

Jo Watson | 2019 | Romance

9.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

So this is my third book by the author and joint favourite with Love to Hate You and my second read in the Destination Love series. I liked this one more than After the Rain because they got up to so much stuff and the romance was pretty cute. Slow going but inevitable because they were so great for each other. I absolutely loved the journey around Reunion Island--it sounds like an amazing place and I could easily imagine the characters getting up to the mischief they did on such a lovely setting.

I also loved the bits of humour that were thrown in here and there and I did have to bite back laughter a few times at the craziness of what was going on.

I will definitely be keeping my eyes open for more of this authors books in the future.