What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
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Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his...
Mermaids (1990)
6.8
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Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) is tired of her wacky mom (Cher) moving their family...
The Family Man (2000)
7.2
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Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery...
David McK (3623 KP) rated Van Helsing (2004) in Movies
Aug 28, 2019 (Updated Oct 7, 2019)
Also starring Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious (and, yes, again wearing tight fitting trousers a la Underworld) and with Richard Roxburgh doing all but chewing the scenery as Count Dracula, this see's Van Helsing travel to Transylvania in an effort to uncover the mystery of his past and aid Anna in stopping her family's curse in a film that also sees many of Universals 'classic' monsters (Wolfman, Dracula's brides, Frankenstein's Monster, Jekyll and Hyde) involved.
Beach Rats (2017)
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On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare...
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State of Grace
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Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages...
Hawkeye, Volume 6: Hawkeyes
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Hawkeye and Hawkeye take aim at another season — but this time there's a twist! Arrows fly in...
Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon
7.5
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The breakout star of this summer's blockbuster Avengers film, Clint Barton - aka the self-made hero...
Hawkeye Omnibus
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It's Marvel's most critically acclaimed comic in recent memory! Clint Barton, breakout star of a...
ClareR (5996 KP) rated Marple: Twelve New Stories in Books
Jul 10, 2023
My favourite stories in the anthology were written by: Val McDermid, Natalie Haynes, Ruth Ware, Ely Griffiths and Kate Moss.
The authors mentioned above gave the most convincing re-imaginings, whilst some of the others made her sound more modern, or Americanisms had slipped in - which is definitely very un-Marple-ish!
All in all, it’s a very enjoyable anthology, and I did like all of the stories.
Thanks to The Pigeonhole and to all the authors that contributed (the US cover actually shows who all of the authors are).