Sign up
Search
Advanced search settings

Search only in certain items:

Search results
All (5000)
Content
People
Apps
Books
Orbs
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Shows
Tabletop Games
Tech
TV
Video Games
YouTube Channels
Videos
40x40

David McK (3576 KP) rated Dante's Peak (1997) in Movies

Jul 9, 2020  
Dante's Peak (1997)
Dante's Peak (1997)
1997 | Action
6
6.6 (8 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
There was a period during the mid to late 1990s where disaster movies seemed to come in pairs.

In reverse release date order: Armageddon and Deep Impact. Or Volcano and Dante's Peak (this one), aka the one in which James Bond helps the future mother of the saviour of mankind (sorry, sorry: Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton) rescue her kids from an exploding volcano after they go up said mountain for plot reasons.

A pretty standard by-the-numbers disaster movie, then, with the expected pyrotechnics, clunky dialogue and, yep, even the town meeting where the inhabitants refuse to listen..
  
40x40

John Lasseter recommended Dumbo (1941) in Movies (curated)

 
Dumbo (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
1941 | Animation, Classics, Family
8.0 (62 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"Dumbo is my favorite movie of all time. A remarkable motion picture. Just over 60 minutes, it’s so tight in terms of storytelling. It’s like [snaps fingers]. When you have kids and you watch Dumbo, it really nails you because there’s that “Baby Mine” sequence. I like [Dumbo] because it’s the most cartoony of Disney features. I like it because the main character doesn’t talk. Such a wonderful film. It is very funny. Great music. It also really moves you. It has a really huge heart. Walt Disney always said that for every laugh, there should be a tear. I live by that."

Source
  
40x40

Dean (6927 KP) rated The Glass House (2001) in Movies

Jan 3, 2021  
The Glass House (2001)
The Glass House (2001)
2001 | Drama, Mystery
5
6.0 (2 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Nice location (0 more)
Falls flat (0 more)
A thriller I never got around to seeing back at the time. It starts well enough with 2 young kids going to live with their guardians after their parents are in an accident. Although are their guardians as nice as they think they are? It starts to unravel quite well with new bits of information being discovered, quite an intricate web of deceit. Just as it all builds up towards the finale it has an ending that feels rather rushed and not fitting the rest of the film. Could have been better. Currently on Amazon prime.
  
40x40

John Lydon recommended Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band in Music (curated)

 
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
1969 | Blues, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock
7.5 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"There’s just so much on this: It’s a double album and by the time you finish it—if you can finish it—you can’t remember what you heard at the beginning. I liked that,” he said of Beefheart. “It was anti-music in the most interesting and insane way, like kids learning to play violin—which I was going through at the time. So all the bum notes I was being told off for by the teachers were finally being released by well-known artists. “That was my confirmation. From then on, there was room for everything"

Source
  
40x40

Aiden Gillen recommended L'Atalante (1934) in Movies (curated)

 
L'Atalante (1934)
L'Atalante (1934)
1934 | Romance
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I recently picked up Jean Vigo's dreamy 1934 story of a honeymoon couple heading to Paris on a barge. It's still startling and would have been way out on its own in 1934. Also included on the Artificial Eye DVD is his earlier short Zéro de conduite which was banned for years in France. An anarchic tale of kids taking over a boarding school. You can see how much Truffaut picked up from here and it was a direct influence on the 60s Lindsay Anderson film If. Vigo died young and L'Atalante was his only complete feature."

Source
  
40x40

Bill Gates recommended Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plague in Books (curated)

 
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plague
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plague
Paul Farmer | 2020
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Paul Farmer is one of the most impressive people I’ve had the honor of getting to know. He’s an amazing advocate for the health of the world’s poorest people, and he co-founded a system of health clinics in Haiti that reaches more than a million people in some of that country’s hardest-to-reach places. Melinda and I took our kids to Haiti this year so they could meet Paul and see the work he leads. In this book he really opens your eyes to the vast differences between the health of the rich and the health of the poor."

Source