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Malin Akerman recommended Pan's Labyrinth (2006) in Movies (curated)

"I loved Pan’s Labyrinth. It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love Lord of the Rings as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else. Pan’s Labyrinth was kind of this dark, sick, beautiful… it was like watching a moving painting, like a Salvador Dali painting or something like that. It was just really magical and it sort of provoked so many different feelings at one time. It’s kind of sick, you know, the guy with no eyes is coming at her and it felt like when you have a crazy dream — you’re watching someone’s crazy dream. It just affected me."

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Matt Dentler recommended Shadows (1959) in Movies (curated)

Shadows (1959)

1959 | Drama, Romance

(0 Ratings)

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"In fact, the whole John Cassavetes: Five Films set. This is the starter kit for anyone who wonders about the roots of the American independent film movement. Seeing Cassavetes’s debut, the politically charged love story Shadows, is like watching the birth of a giant. Meanwhile, Faces and A Woman Under the Influence are searing portraits of the blinding pain true love can bring when a marriage ends up tearing a family apart. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night, on the other hand, are noirish sagas of death and business. Plus, Charles Kiselyak’s moving documentary A Constant Forge offers up the proper historical and cultural perspective on one of American cinema’s true visionaries."

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Zac Clark recommended The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) in Movies (curated)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

1972 | Drama, Romance

(0 Ratings)

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"“I hope to build a house with my films,” Fassbinder famously said. “Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.” For me, the front door to that house is The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. I first watched it when I was home from college one December, and my young and impressionable mind was instantly changed. The use of long takes, the meticulous, ever-moving camera direction, the outlandish costumes, the emotional cruelty, the wigs . . . Fassbinder finds beauty in despair, and despair in beauty, but ultimately knows that the real truth lies in the costume changes."

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David McK (3843 KP) rated the PlayStation 4 version of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey in Video Games

Sep 12, 2020

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

2018 | Action/Adventure, Role-Playing

8.9

(31 Ratings)

Video Game Rating

No longer Assassins Creed :-(

They really need to stop calling these games Assassins Creed.

Set in ancient Greece and, like AC: Origins before it, Ubisoft is moving further and further away from what made these games so unique and enjoyable to begin with: instead of the sneak 'em up of the original, we're now thrown into a world (and game) that strongly favours hack and slash gameplay, with numerous fetch side missions required to enable you to reach the next gated story point.

It' s not all bad, however: Kassandra (the inly logical choice!) is an appealing protagonist, and the Legacy if the First Blade DLC does at least make some attempt to tie it into the AC mythos.

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Joe Goodhart (27 KP) rated Justice League International, Vol. 2 in Books

Nov 30, 2020

Justice League International, Vol. 2

Keith Giffen | 1988 | Comics & Graphic Novels, Crime, Humor & Comedy, Law

6.0

(2 Ratings)

Book Rating

With the exception of the opening issue of this volume (Issue 7, "Moving Day"), the rest of this volume is a snoozer!

The remainder of the book was given to crossovers for two different, unrelated events ("Millennium" and then a x-over with SUICIDE SQUAD), as well as a Annual that should have been included in Volume 1, as that's where it took place!

Other than the first appearance of G'Nort, who happens to be one of my favorite DC characters, there is really no need to want to check this Volume out. Seriously, even you are a completist, there is really nothing here that you could not live without. Promise!

Now, onto Volume Three..!

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Witchy, Witchy (Spellbound Trilogy, #1) in Books

Jan 11, 2021

Witchy, Witchy (Spellbound Trilogy, #1)

Penelope King | 2012 | Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult (YA)

8.0

(3 Ratings)

Book Rating

I got this as a freebie back in 2012, I think, and only really got around to reading it as part of "We Heart YA groups" A-Z Challenge.

I ended up DNF'ing at 20%.

It wasn't bad or anything, just not enough happened in that first fifth of the story to grab my attention and to make me want to continue reading.

If something other than her starting a new school and learning she's a witch (though she should have figured that out by herself already), oh and meeting a cute boy and his dog, then I might have wanted to continue but like I said, the plot was moving far too slowly for me.