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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2204 KP) rated The Baker Street Letters (Baker Street Letters #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
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The Baker Street Letters (Baker Street Letters #1)
Michael Robertson | 2009
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Reggie Heath has rented the offices that would be Sherlock Holmes address if he'd been, you know, real. Part of his lease involves answering the letters, a job he's assigned to younger brother Nigel. But one letter sends Nigel on a trip to Los Angeles with Reggie close behind. What has Nigel stumbled into?

I'm not a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, but I was intrigued by this book. Turned out to be a fun twisty read with good characters. It took a little bit to feel like I was part of the story, but once I got going, I couldn't put it down.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-baker-street-letters.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Them! (1954) in Movies

Feb 19, 2018 (Updated Feb 19, 2018)  
Them! (1954)
Them! (1954)
1954 | Classics, Horror, Sci-Fi
8
7.1 (9 Ratings)
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Granddaddy of atomic bug movies works incredibly hard to stay credible as a drama; mostly succeeds. Government agents discover giant mutant ants on the rampage; can they contain the threat and keep the secret until the ants can be destroyed? Not quite documentary-style realism, but close enough; hard edged, takes itself impressively seriously.

Notable for featuring some relatively famous faces early in their careers - also for its use of full-scale ant puppets rather than animation or trick photography. Atom-fear angle is underplayed for the most part; this still stands up well as an SF thriller. The climax, with machine guns and flamethrowers battling snapping mandibles and exoskeletal monsters in the sewers under Los Angeles, was surely an influence on Aliens.
  
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Adam Carolla recommended track Blue by The Jayhawks in Tomorrow the Green Grass by The Jayhawks in Music (curated)

 
Tomorrow the Green Grass by The Jayhawks
Tomorrow the Green Grass by The Jayhawks
1995 | Rock
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Blue by The Jayhawks

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"Second choice is a band out of, I believe, the Minneapolis area that I saw out here in Los Angeles recently. I love these guys. They’re called The Jayhawks and they have a song called “Blue”. And that was actually featured in the other movie I did, which is called The Hammer, a million years ago. I just love that song. It’s just such a tender, beautiful song, and it inspired me in a certain point of my life, just to really sit back and try to assess my life. It’s one of those songs: put it on, light a candle, dim the lights, and just sit there and give life a good going over in your skull, while you listen to Jayhawk’s “Blue”."

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Andrew Ahn recommended In the Mood for Love (2000) in Movies (curated)

 
In the Mood for Love (2000)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
2000 | Drama, Romance
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"There is something so beautifully slippery about this film. The narrative skips, slides, and loops; you're forced to hold on to the characters as you’re propelled through the film. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung circle around each other, so vulnerable and captivating. You yearn to get closer to them, to stay longer with them, but the film slips through your fingers the way their love slips through theirs. All that’s left is for Leung to whisper his love into ears of ancient stone, hoping it stays on this earth. I watched a print of the film a few years ago in Los Angeles. When the credits began to roll, something within me broke, and I cried and cried and cried."

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