London: An Illustrated Literary Companion
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'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can...
Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama: 2016
R. Barton Palmer and Marc C. Conner
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This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish...
Love on the Edge (Mindful Writers Retreat Series #3)
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Experience love’s emotional gamut from the authors of Mindful Writers Retreat, sure to bring joy...
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The Damselfly
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An unsolved murder. A community turned against each other. A killer close to home...Katie Taylor is...
Darren (1599 KP) rated Diamonds Are Forever (1971) in Movies
Nov 7, 2019
Performances – Sean Connery is back and back to his best in this outing as the iconic spy, it is great to have him back even if it is only for one last time. Jill St John is good as the Bond girl for the movie though offers nothing new for the series. Charles Gray keeps the role of Blofeld nicely giving us just what we need from the villain role.
Story – The story here shows James finally getting his hands on Blofeld before needing to head off on a new mission, one that gives him everything he wants, beautiful women, casinos and a villain he wants to stay ahead off. This story plays out just like one of the more famous ones in reverse which becomes very interesting to watch, it has everything you need for the latest adventure for Bond, a villain that is prepared for the intelligence of Bond and the world needing saving once again. This does feel like it has given the life back to the franchise which needed to be bought back from the weaker outings, the story is simple enough and continues to keep us watching along with Bond.
Action/Adventure – The action is good even if the fights are simple enough to show how Bond can beat most in combat. The adventure just takes Bond to new and old locations for his mission.
Settings – From Amsterdam to America, we get a much more knowledge set of locations with the bases being in locations which would make sense for a super villain to be hiding in.
Scene of the Movie – The base attack.
That Moment That Annoyed Me – They seem to be too friendly Bond and Blofeld.
Final Thoughts – For the Bond franchise this is a new feel to them, one that is more interesting and strong then the last few instalments.
Overall: Returning to what we want to see.
Dungeon!
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In many ways Dungeon! is similar to Dungeons & Dragons, although much simplified and transformed...
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Last Voyages: The Lives and Tragic Loss of Remarkable Sailors Who Never Returned
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Looking back at the lives and sailing careers of some of our lifetime's finest yachtsmen, this...
Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory
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Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in...
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll and Donald J. Gray
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This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition again reprints the 1897 editions of Alice's...
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Atomic Blonde (2017) in Movies
Jun 26, 2019 (Updated Sep 25, 2019)
The day after Gasciogne's death, Lorraine is dispatched to Berlin to recover the List and assassinate Satchel, a double agent who has sold intelligence to the Soviets for years and who betrayed Gasciogne. When she arrives in Berlin, she is immediately ambushed by KGB agents working for arms dealer and KGB associate Aleksander Bremovych. Lorraine then meets with her main contact, agent David Percival. After failing to find any immediate leads, Lorraine searches Gasciogne's apartment and discovers a picture of him and Percival, and is then ambushed by the Volkspolizei. She realizes only Percival knew she was going to the apartment, and begins to suspect him of being Satchel...
If I'm honest, I read the full plot description and went "oooooh, was that what was going on!?" Not in a "that was confusing sort of way, but I had just gone for some good old fashioned violence.