Dragon (Dirk Pitt #10)
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Japan, 1945: Two US bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through. The Pacific, 1993:...
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Excalibur Epic Collection: Girl's School from Heck
Scott Lobdell and Chris Claremont
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Weird War III and even stranger things! The British-based ex-X-Men face fearful far-out adventures,...
The Girls of August
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For fifteen years, four "girls of August" would gather together to spend a week at the beach, until...
The Eye of Heaven (A Fargo Adventure #6)
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affin Island, North-Western Canada: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on an...
New Amsterdam
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Dr. Max Goodwin is brilliant, charming -- and the new medical director at America's oldest public...
Hearts of Stone
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1938. A perfect summer on the Greek island of Lefkas for three young people untroubled by the...
Eye of the Dolphin (2006)
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Alyssa is a troubled 14-year old, suspended from school a year after her mother has drowned. Her...
David McK (3632 KP) rated The Rock (1996) in Movies
Jul 12, 2023
We're talking the likes of National Treasure, Con-Air, Face/Off. And this, his first entry in that mold from 1996.
Also starring Sean Connery in a Bind-in-all-but-name role, this sees Cage playing the part of an FBI chemical expert who has to accompany Connery and US Marines on a mission to infiltrate Alcatraz (Connery's role being as the only man to ever escape from said prison) after a group of disillusioned Marines - led by Ed Harris - seize control of the island and have chemical weapons pointing at San Francisco.
I think this may be the first Michael Bay film I ever saw; looking back on it now I can see that, even back then, it has all the hallmarks of one of his films!
David McK (3632 KP) rated The Suicide Squad (2021) in Movies
May 27, 2023
Like Aliens and not Alien.
A sort-of sequel to the earlier movie (here, Suicide Squad), with some of the same characters - most noticeably, Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn - although it is by no means necessary to have watched that earlier movie.
This is also a fair bit bloodier/messier than I remember said earlier movie being, and has absolutely no mention of either Batman or the Joker (unless you count Quinn's aversion to personalised number plates? See The Jokers car ...) to distract from the plot here, which sees the group of super-villains (all with a tracker and bomb implanted in their head) all sent on a mission to the island of Corto Maltese to destroy a Nazi-era prison and laboratory.
Of the 2 movies, I think this is the better.
It's definitely a James Gunn film through and through!