The Following - Season 1
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A brilliant and charismatic, yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial...
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The Following
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A brilliant and charismatic, yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial...
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Bayou Born
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Her beginning may be our end ...Deep in the humid swamps of the Mississippi bayou, a mysterious,...
Black Lightning - Season 1
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CW and Greg Berlanti expand the footprint of their DC Comics universe with this exploration of the...
Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada: Taking the Next Steps
Lars K. Hallstrom, Mary Beckie, Glen T. Hvenegaard and Karsten Mundel
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Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in...
David McK (3364 KP) rated The Rocketeer (1991) in Movies
Sep 21, 2020
The reason I mention that?
Because it very well could have acted as inspiration for this 1991 film.
(edit: I've just discovered it's actually based on a lesser known graphic novel of the same name! Presumably so is Rocket Ranger ...)
Released in the wake of Batman, and a good couple of decades before the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), this stars a post-Bond Timothy Dalton on villain duty, with Bill Campbell taking on the role of Cliff Secord (who becomes The Rocketeer) and Jennifer Connolly as his love interest.
Set in 1938, this - apparently, like the comics - takes inspiration from the pulp serials of old, with director Joe Johnston bringing the same verisimilitude to the setting as he would his (much) later "Captain America: The First Avenger". Unfortunately, the film is a bit too po-faced for its own good - missing the wryness of, say, an Indiana Jones - an suffered somewhat from an unfortunate release window, sandwiched right between "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day".
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
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This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised,...
Girls - Season 3
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In Season 3, Hannah is now in a committed relationship with Adam (Adam Driver), and the two are...
Ross (3284 KP) rated Isn't It Romantic (2019) in Movies
Mar 4, 2019
Some laugh-out-loud moments from here on, as her annoyance at the ridiculous cheesy world she's found herself in. Something similar to Disney Channel's Teen Beach Movie (which I don't mind admitting I love!), but with more adult themes.
But in the end the film lets itself down by falling into the trap of the typical rom-com plot. It nearly saves itself and serves as a good, feminist message but then lets itself down in the dying minutes by reverting to type.
A good funny rom-com but not necessarily the anti-rom-com it bills itself as. Watched with my wife and 11-year-old daughter, it is mostly fine for that age.