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Maximum Ride: Manga: Volume 10

James Patterson

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Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic...

A Soldier in Every Son - The Rise of the Aztecs

Gary Owen and Luis Mario Moncada

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"Late 14th century in the Valley of Mexico and a small, unknown tribe called the Aztecs propel...

Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Safe House (2012) in Movies

Jun 22, 2020

Safe House (2012)

2012 | Action, Mystery

5.9

(14 Ratings)

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No Church In The Wild

Safe House- is a decent action thriller with a great supporting cast. Denzel charcter's always have cool names.

The plot: For the past year, rookie CIA agent Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) has been eager to prove himself while cooling his heels at an inactive South African post. He gets the chance when Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), a turncoat operative, is brought to Weston's safe house for debriefing. But soon after Frost's arrival, mercenaries attack, and Weston and Frost barely escape with their lives. The two men must join forces and try to stay alive long enough to figure out who wants them dead.

Like i said before its a decent to good action thriller with a great supporting cast.

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David McK (3425 KP) rated Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven, #1) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

This is pretty much what I would term your standard high-fantasy fiction: high fantasy as opposed to, say, urban fantasy, as it involves Dragons (albeit only at the very beginning, and then more-or-less forgotten about), Elves and Magic amongst other genre staples.

The Raven of the sub-title ('Chronicles of the Raven', remember!) are a group of mercenaries who, at the beginning of the novel, have lived and fought together for years. At the end of one contract, they are hired by a former enemy, before events start overtaking them and they find themselves as amongst the last hope for their land, which is descending into war ...

I found this to be an OK read: not the best of such-like books I've ever read; nor the worst.

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Peter G. (247 KP) rated Open Range (2003) in Movies

Oct 30, 2019

Open Range (2003)

2003 | Action, Drama, Western

8.2

(5 Ratings)

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The list of westerns I have seen over the years can be counted on 2 hands.
out of that small amount this and Unforgiven are favourites, Costner and Duvall are well paired and this story although reasonably simply has great depth and heart.
It's an old fashioned western about free grazing and unlawful mercenaries and contains beautiful vistas and prolonged bone crunching shootouts, however although the film starts slowly the build-up pays off handsomely.
Costner's character gives off an air of being very dangerous when pushed and on the flipside shows his awkwardness when it comes to matters of the heart.
Annette Benning rounds off the movie as the believable Love interest in what I believe is a very well rounded small cast of actors in this very re-watchable western.