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David McK (3372 KP) rated National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) in Movies

Oct 10, 2021  
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
2007 | Action
7
6.9 (12 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Second and (currently) last of the Nic Cage starring National Treasure movies, with this particular one a bit more globe-trotting (US, Paris, London) than its predecessor and which sees the Gates family out to clear the name of one of their ancestors, who has just been implicated in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.

Cue more running about, following clues that (eventually) lead to another hidden treasure...

And no, I don't mean Dame Helen Mirren as Ben Gates mum.
  
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ClareR (5686 KP) rated Black and Blue in Books

Jan 24, 2022  
Black and Blue
Black and Blue
Stuart Prebble, Parm Sandhu | 2022 | Biography, Crime, Law
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This was a fantastic memoir about Parm Sandhu - the most senior woman of colour in the London Metropolitan Police at the time she retired. She’s clearly a woman with drive, determination and ambition. The discrimination that she had to deal with within the Met Police is both unbelievable and wholly believable (sorry, Met Police 🤷🏼‍♀️).
It was a book that flowed really well, and a quick read, even if it wasn’t an easy one in parts.
  
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David McK (3372 KP) rated Sharpe's Revenge (1997) in Movies

Dec 11, 2022  
Sharpe's Revenge (1997)
Sharpe's Revenge (1997)
1997 | Action, Documentary, Drama
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
1196 made-for-TV movie based on one of the last of the original run of Sharpe novels, set in 1814 during the peace of Amiens and in which Sharpe is framed for the theft of Napoleons treasure by his old enemy Ducos.

Meanwhile, his wife Jane travels back to London and embarks on an affair, after withdrawing all his money from the bank using the Power of Attorney he had given her prior to the Battle of Toulouse.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Quatermass and the Pit (1967) in Movies

Feb 13, 2018  
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
1967 | Horror, Sci-Fi
9
7.7 (7 Ratings)
Movie Rating
The best of the Quatermass films keeps all the unsettling ideas of Nigel Kneale's original TV scripts and adds Hammer's talent for coming up with smart casting and polished production values. Weird projectile turns up buried under London; the authorities initially assume it's an unexploded bomb from the Second World War, but the presence of fossil ape skeletons in and around the object indicates otherwise, as does a history of hauntings in the area going back hundreds of years. Professor Quatermass begins to suspect that this is a relic of a highly unusual alien invasion that happened before man had even evolved...

Pretty much a perfect fusion of horror and science fiction, giving a convincing extraterrestrial rationale for various paranormal and demonic phenomena; thoughtful and disturbing rather than actually scary. Andrew Keir rocks the joint as Professor Q but is well-supported by everyone else. The sequence in which London is transformed in the final reel is also very well done. Sets the standard for intelligent British SF movies; rather influential in its own way, too.
  
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Emily (1430 KP) rated A Madness of Angels in Books

Feb 14, 2020  
A Madness of Angels
A Madness of Angels
Kate Griffin | 2009 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Refreshing to see the use of electricity and technology in modern day magic, instead of the usual trope of magic interfering negatively with tech. (0 more)
Enter the world of the Urban Sorcerer. Gone are the days when magic was solely the realm of those connected with nature, new technologies have meant new magic. For where there is life, there is magic, and that magic has been born out of the everyday lives of those living there. From the summoning of mythical bin lorries to combat a giant litterbug, to the use of the symbols and regulations of the London Underground as a warding spell, this breathes a whole new, modern life into the world of magic.

There is a shadowy evil stalking London. Almost all the sorcerers there have been killed. Matthew Swift had been one of them, but now he's back, this time with with the angels of the telephone wires on his side. (Or so he hopes, the situation is... complicated.) And he's not about to go down again without a fight.