Premier League - Official App
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8.8
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Official and free to download, the Premier League's app (PL) is the definitive companion to the...
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Never Saw You Coming in Books
Jan 17, 2020
Then there's Jim, he's working a dead end job and can't seem to catch a break. Until he wins a car via a radio station giveaway and it changes his life.
The first half of this book was probably only 2 stars for me. It was rather slow and a bit of an info dump of flashbacks and now as we got to know our characters and figure out where their heads were at. I kept putting it down and doing other things because it just wasn't grabbing my attention that much.
The second half got a little more exciting as Jim and Zara travelled the country together, getting to know each other as they spent hours in vehicles. I was willing them on, both to get where they were going and at one point - to possibly get together. It was still a little slow going, though.
I did like Jim's cast of friends. They were resourceful and quite a good laugh.
I like how this is set in the UK. Most of the books I usually read tend to be set in the USA so this was a nice change. The way it was written was exactly how some of us talk here. It was a nice change.
I do like a good bit of chick-lit but I prefer them more along the lines of Paige Toon and Jo Watson where the characters are more obviously into each other and the romance blossoms quickly but this is still a good read if you really like the genre.
PromoDescuentos: ofertas
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Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine
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Most people know Roald Dahl as a famous write of children's books and adult short stories, but few...
Box to Box: From the Premier League to British Boxing Champion
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The football world is filled with stories of talented young footballers who have thrown it all away...
The Ballad of Britain: How Music Captured the Soul of a Nation
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In 1903, the Victorian composer Cecil Sharp began a decade-long journey to collect folk songs that,...
Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year
9.0
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A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose...
Live Football HD
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Download the LIVE HD FOOTBALL APP now, which is completely optimised for your iPad! LIVE HD...
Sarah (7800 KP) rated Hellboy (2019) in Movies
Dec 31, 2019
I’ll start with the good bits, which won’t take long as David Harbour and Ian McShane are pretty much the only decent things about this film. Ian McShane seems to be playing his usual charismatic, crazy old man character (very reminiscent of Mr Wednesday) and I’m not complaining, as this is exactly what I love about him and he’s a rather good less nice version of Professor Broom. And David Harbour is a good Hellboy and gets the very few laughs there is in this, although I think he’s very let down and not able to shine properly because of the dodgy script and just general terribleness of this film. There’s also a decent rock soundtrack accompanying the fight scenes and a fairly fun amount of gore.
And now the bad. There’s far too much cgi in this and it isn’t always good, and they should’ve toned this down a lot. The plot and progression of the entire story is just bizarre, it was just downright ridiculous. They seem to have decided to try and fit in a strange assortment of folk tales and historic legends, like the Pendle Hill witches and King Arthur, and this is alongside the already crazy (but just about believable) origin of Hellboy himself and the Nazis. Even the bad guys in this are cheesy and not particularly threatening - Milla Jovovich with a horrendous English accent and a pig creature with a Scouse accent?! I know Stephen Graham is from Liverpool but that accent on that particular character was possible the most bizarre and frustrating thing I’ve ever seen. And also despite the main lead up being slightly different, the end result to Hellboy personally is exactly the same as the original. Why not try and come up with something completely different to avoid yet more negative comparisons to the original?
This is one film that should never have seen the light of day.
Walshy: Paul Walsh: My Autobiography
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SOME footballers become one-club heroes having spent their entire careers playing in front of the...