Clean Cut (Anna Travis #3)
Book
Dedicated, intuitive and utterly obsessive, DCI James Langton is ruthless in his pursuit of a gang...
Anna Travis DCI Langdon crime Police Thriller Mystery
The Getaway God
Book
End times are here again. A half-human, half-angel with a bad rep and a worse attitude—we are...
sandman slim
Night of Nonsense (The Magic Magnifying Glass #3)
Book
Join me (Finley James Carter) in this fast-paced and unpredictable adventure where I ask: - Will the...
Adventures Children Christian Middle Grade Nature Animals
Flesh and Blood (1985)
Movie
In 1501, in Western Europe, in a period when the black plague is jeopardizing the population, an...
David McK (3201 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!
Diego V (43 KP) rated The Shawshank Redemption (1994) in Movies
Mar 24, 2019
Shayde (75 KP) rated Monopoly in Tabletop Games
Jun 18, 2018 (Updated Jun 19, 2018)
However, if you have some time to kill and some sturdy, strong friendships you want to test, I highly recommend playing Monopoly.
David McK (3201 KP) rated Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
You used to say live and let live
(you know you did you know you die you know you did)
But in this ever changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry ...
Live and let die ..."
(cue guitar riff)
With that out of the way - Paul McCartney and Wings, later covered by Guns 'N Roses - Live and Let Die is the second James Bond book by Ian Fleming, but the eighth film in the series, and the first to star Roger Moore in the lead role.
And reading it with contemporary eyes, boy has it aged. Quite different than the movie - although the key elements (vodoo, Baron Samedi, Solitaire, American southwest setting) are intact, it can also be quite uncomfortable reading this with modern sensibilities, particularly in how Flemings (and Bond) treats the female characters, and in how the Harlem culture and denizens are portrayed.
Allowances must be made, I suppose, for the time period in which it was written ...
You Fascinate Me So: The Life and Times of Cy Coleman
Book
He penned songs such as Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet to Come (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra...
A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine
Book
First published in 1824, this comprehensive study charts the history of the steam engine, from its...