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Haikyu!!

Haruichi Furudate

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Ever since he saw the legendary player known as "the Little Giant" compete at the national...

Hekla's Children

James Brogden

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A decade ago, teacher Nathan Brookes saw four of his students walk up a hill and vanish. Only one...

Boyhood Island: My Struggle

Karl Ove Knausgaard and Don Bartlett

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"Rare and Ruthless...Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times". (Guardian)....

Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) in Movies

Jul 1, 2020

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

2019 | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

7.9

(108 Ratings)

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Video game based movies have been mostly problematic since their inception. Finding the perfect mix of pleasing fans of the source material while also pleasing the core movie audience is not something to be taken lightly. Pokemon Detective Pikachu came about as close as any comers in recent memory.

There are definitely some things present that will be more noticeable if you are familiar with the Pokemon series, but not knowing that information will not hinder your ability to enjoy the movie at all.

My kids are huge fans of this movie and I have watched it a couple of times without them present. Give it a go, you might be surprised.

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Finding Nemo (2003)

8.5 (88 Ratings) Rate It

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Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who...

Lois Lowry recommended Howards End in Books (curated)

Howards End

E.M. Forster | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry

6.3

(4 Ratings)

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"Once, visiting friends in San Francisco, a bookcase came loose from the wall and fell on me. Three people came running in from another room when they heard the crash and saw me sprawled on the floor beneath a mountain of books. Did they say, “Are you all right?” No. In unison, they all said, “Howards End!” That memory, and a recent PBS re-doing (even better than the excellent Merchant Ivory film) of Forster’s novel, have renewed my passion for this book. Its searing depiction of class differences, the wit of its dialogue, and the description of that vine-covered house—no wonder they fought over it!—go together to make this one of my favorites."

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Connor Jessup recommended Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) in Movies (curated)

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)

2000 | Documentary, Drama, Fantasy

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"For most other filmmakers, making a movie as good as Mysterious Object at Noon would be a crowning achievement. Because it’s Apichatpong, the film is usually considered relatively minor, a promising start. That’s nuts. A portrait of the collective imagination of Thailand, the movie doesn’t just anticipate many of his long-term themes––memory, the boundaries between real and unreal, dislocation––it explores them deeply, intricately, and with a radical appetite for play and invention. Neither documentary nor fiction, and existing somewhere between the total control of his later features and the experimental spryness of his short films and gallery work, it’s a unique masterpiece by the best filmmaker in contemporary cinema."

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