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This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Kacen Callender

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Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018 A fresh, charming rom-com...

Quinn Blackburn (3 KP) rated True Colors (1991) in Movies

May 4, 2018

True Colors (1991)

1991 | Drama

8.0

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This fascinating 1991 drama follows the friendship of Peter Burton (John Cusack) and Tim Gerrity (James Spader) from it's inception in law school to its grim finale on election night. Gerrity is that rare bird, a man from a wealthy family who simply wants to leave the world a better place than he found it. Peter comes from much more humble origins and is driven to succeed at any cost. Their unlikely friendship rises and falls around their career choices. We the viewers are left wondering if anyone as driven as Peter could ever be satisfied with the simple wholesome pleasures in life, like truth or friendship. Well paced, still highly relevant, and a well told tale.

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Outlaw Tales of Kansas: True Stories of the Sunflower State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats

Sarah Smarsh and Robert Barr Smith

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From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, and...

The Birds of America

John James Audubon

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John James Audubon's Birds of America has been reproduced often, beginning with the double elephant...

Five-Carat Soul

James McBride

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Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The...

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Steve Gunn recommended Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in Movies (curated)

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

1971 | Classics, Drama

7.5

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"First of all, how can you go wrong with a cast that includes Dennis Wilson, James Taylor, Harry Dean Stanton, Warren Oates, and of course Laurie Bird? I often imagine how great it would be to go back in time and see this film in some half-empty cinema when it opened. I discovered this film while working at the video store, when there was renewed interest in it in the late nineties. I even went so far as to reach into my video-store earnings and buy the deluxe edition, which came in a tin can with a comprehensive book. Well worth it for the unseen photos. The beginning scene, with its utter lack of dialogue, has to be one of my favorite pieces of cinema. Much of the acting feels improvised, which adds to the lost, directionless quality."

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