Remembering Places: The Autobiography of Joseph Rykwert
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Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of...
Low Life: The Spectator Columns
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Taking over from the late Jeffrey Bernard, Jeremy Clarke has been the 'Low Life' columnist for the...
The Blind Roadmaker
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If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's...
Never Greener
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The past has a habit of tracking us down. And tripping us up. When Kate was twenty-two, she had...
One Piece: Vol. 81
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As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he...
Maleficent (2014)
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As a beautiful young woman of pure heart, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) has an idyllic life in a...
Mama (2013)
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On the day that their parents die, sisters Lilly and Victoria vanish in the woods, prompting a...
David McK (3540 KP) rated School of Rock (2003) in Movies
May 21, 2021
Initially reluctant to do any work at all or to engage with his class, that changes when he hears them during a music class and then decides to form a band so that he can enter the local 'battle of the bands', with himself as the lead singer (which later changes). Cue life lessons in confidence, sticking up for yourself, etc etc...
Inside Alcatraz: My Time on the Rock
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Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder...
David McK (3540 KP) rated Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) in Movies
Jan 6, 2025
So much so, that he got his own spin-off in 2011 'Puss in Boots' which, from memory, I felt lacked the spark of his earlier entries.
So much so, that it was just over a decade later that he got his second solo movie, in this.
Which, artistically (and, I felt, to it's detriment) takes its cue from the 'Into the Spider-verse' movies and so, like those, comes across as an over-caffeinated sugar-rush of a headache, which (IMO) overshadows the whole message about found family and living your life to its fullest.
YMMV, of course.