Where Gods Fear to Go
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The David Gemmell Award-shortlisted author of Age of Iron returns with the final book in his West of...
Decaying Days
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They came in trickles, stumbling dead and ravenous living These outbreaks threatened to reshape...
Zombies Apocalypse
Relic Master Part One (Relic Master #1-2)
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Dark, dangerous, and deadly- Welcome to Anara. It is a devastated world where nothing is what it...
The Last Smile in Sunder City -(The Fetch Phillips Archives #1)
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A former soldier turned PI tries to help the fantasy creatures whose lives he ruined in a world...
Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition)
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Discover the truth about the great conflicts of the D&D multiverse in this supplement for the...
The Anubis Gates
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Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a...
David McK (3663 KP) rated Monster Hunter (2020) in Movies
Apr 10, 2023
This being, at the time of writing, their latest.
Based on the video game series by Capcom (yes, the same people who did the Resident Evil games) which - I have to admit - I've never actually played, it's very easy to spot the influences of said game on the film, which (in the film) sees Jovovich's US Ranger Lt Artemis and her men transported to an alien environment infested by, you guessed it!, various icky monsters. It's also extremely easy to spot the influences of other, far far better, 'creature features': think Starship Troopers, Tremors or even Aliens to name but three!
Perhaps, as a non-player of the game, I'm just not the target audience ...?
The Black Lung Captain (A tale of the Ketty Jay)
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Deep in the heart of the Kurg rainforest lies a long-forgotten wreck. On board, behind a magically...
David McK (3663 KP) rated A Quiet Place (2018) in Movies
Aug 23, 2020 (Updated Jan 10, 2023)
They lied.
Slow, plodding, and lacking any sense of peril or tension, this is set in a post-apocalyptic world where seemingly invulnerable blind monsters (which we're never told where they come from) hunt by sound, and sound alone - which explains why there's not even any bird song. This then follows a tight-knit family trying to survive in this new reality, complete with a deaf kid and a mother about to give birth.
Yes, all the cliches are here: creaking floorboards, jagged nails sticking up from the wood, a kid who blames herself for the loss of her younger sibling early on in the film ...
About the only good thing I can say is that this is short, with a running time of just over 1.5 hours.
A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3)
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SPRING 1940. GERMANY IS AT WAR. HITLER IS PREPARING TO UNLEASH THE BLITZKRIEG. IN BERLIN, WHERE EVIL...