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Dean (6927 KP) rated Scream - Season 2 in TV

Nov 9, 2019

Scream - Season 2

2016 | Horror

7.2

(5 Ratings)

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Bigger, better, badder (1 more)

Halloween special extended episode

Superior sequel series

Finally got round to watching both series at long last. This is set just a few months after the events of the first series. Is there a copycat killer in town, is there an accomplice on the loose or is Brandon James on the prowl?
Much like the sequel discussion in Scream 2 and raised again in the series this is better than series 1 for me. The same cast, now known as the Lakewood 6 are trying to get on with their lives when someone decides to pick up the knife and start a new killing spree. I found the pace a lot better this time round across the series without any slow episodes despite being 3 episodes longer. There are plenty of red herrings again and twists along the way. Finished with an extended Halloween special episode this is a great series for fans of the film and Slasher films in general. Still on Netflix now.

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You Fascinate Me So: The Life and Times of Cy Coleman

Andy Propst

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He penned songs such as Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet to Come (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra...

Part-Time Genius

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Will and Mango have lots of questions. Will we ever be able to live without sleep? How do rats keep...

Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen

Jill Armitage

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In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII's children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the...

Sebastian Dreaming

Georg Trakl and James Reidel

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The second book in Seagull's ambitious series of Georg Trakl's works, Sebastian Dreaming was the...

Pendulum

Adam Hamdy

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James Patterson has hailed Adam Hamdy's PENDULUM as 'one of the best thrillers of the year' saying...

David Byrne recommended track Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) by Parliament in Get Funked Up!: The Ultimate Collection by Parliament in Music (curated)

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Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) by Parliament

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"In Talking Heads, the record collection was filled with Hamilton Bohannon, James Brown, Roxy Music, Funkadelic, and P-Funk, that whole world. George Clinton and his whole crazy P-Funk philosophy was great; they were doing these kind of spectacles. As we kept making records, they evolved into more rhythmic affairs, kind of weird, white-person funk. We decided that in order to represent this music live onstage, we needed to recruit some real funkers into the band. The size of the band pretty much doubled. It was a big, nervy thing to do, and it was a mess at first. But man, was it fun. In this period, I decided to formalize the tour into a show that became Stop Making Sense. And that was about as far as we could go with that idea. It liberated me musically, but also as a person. The music was a lot more ecstatic, almost trance-y; you could get lost in it, way more than you could when it’s just a four piece."

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Charlotte (184 KP) rated Hellfire (Beyond Human #1) in Books

Jun 26, 2021

Hellfire (Beyond Human #1)

Michelle Schad | 2021 | LGBTQ+, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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At times intense, dark and painful.

My heart goes out to Hadi, our main character. He's a good guy with a special gift that could (and does!) cause him a lot of problems. He's already been through an awful experience and as the story unfolds things brighten up for him only to take a turn for the worse. He tries to help others and is generally really nice.
James 'Falcon' is pretty decent too. He's a doer, cares deeply for his people (family/friends/Gen - his dog) and doesn't let things hold him back. A proper top bloke.
Of the other characters......I'd say that 'Duck' (gotta love code names) is an ass-hat, definitely a bloke that deserves a good crack in the chin, minimum!!

Hellfire isn't for the faint hearted or sensitive folk....It's for an adult audience, with themes of death, drug use and pain. My heart started cracking throughout and the ending made sure I couldn't put it back together.

I'm so happy it's the start of a series!!

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Nosferatu (Eine Symphonie Des Grauens) (1922) in Movies

Jan 28, 2021

Hugely influential unauthorised adaptation of Dracula. Young estate agent's helper Hutter trots off to Transylvania to oversee the sale of a house to the reclusive (and rather repulsive) Count Orlok; Orlok takes a fancy to Hutter's wife; bad things ensue.

Basically just handles the first half of the book, and bolts a different ending on, but you can still see why the Stoker estate sued. Nevertheless, the presentation of Dracula/Orlok as a near-feral atavism is striking (and also much closer to the book than most films get); the film was designed by practising occultists which may explain the carefully composed visual sense of it (also the use of genuine magical script in some of the scenes). Very creepy and effective, though you have to take the age of the thing into account, not to mention the performance styles. Which soundtrack you listen to may also make a big difference (I recommend James Bernard's Hammer-style offering from the late 1990s). One of the great foundational horror films.