Thanos Rising
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Collects Thanos Rising #1-5. The vile face of Thanos left audiences in shock after last summer's...
Betrayal at House on the Hill
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Players all begin as allies exploring a haunted house filled with dangers, traps, items, and omens....
Betrayal Widow's Walk. Horror adventure exploration co-op
Trivial Pursuit: Classic Edition
8.2
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Gather your friends to play the trivia game that started it all! The classic edition of this Trivial...
Night of Nonsense (The Magic Magnifying Glass #3)
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Join me (Finley James Carter) in this fast-paced and unpredictable adventure where I ask: - Will the...
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A Plague of Traitors (Leine Basso #11)
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A former assassin leads a heroic band of foreign fighters to thwart an enemy like no other. ...
David McK (3731 KP) rated Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) in Movies
Oct 24, 2021
I get that it's one of John Hughes 1980s movies.
I get that it was Matthew Broderick's break-out role, and that the 4th-wall breaking nature of the movie helped lay the groundwork for 'Deadpool' all those years later.
I DON'T get the appeal of the movie: for me, this was forgettable, with the lead character an annoying jerk (who, admittedly, does have one good line about how life is pretty short) only out for himself, and who pulls his girlfriend and his best friend Cameron along for no reason other than to show off to - he doesn't even have the gumption to check how Cameron is at the tail end of the movie.
I've heard about people saying how it is, essentially, a wish-fulfilment movie. My only wish is that I hadn't wasted my time watching it.
David McK (3731 KP) rated The Legend of Tarzan (2016) in Movies
Oct 16, 2022
Instead of the 'usual' Tarzan origin tale, or even of his time in the jungle, this actually is set when he has returned to England and taken up the mantle of Lord Greystoke.
That is, before circumstances lead him to travelling back to the Congo, in the company of Jane (With plenty of flashbacks showing how they first met) and of the American George Williams (played by Samuel L. Jackson), who has his own motives for wanting to visit the Congo.
Yes, I'm well aware of the questionably problematic nature of the Tarzan tale.
it was written over a hundred years ago (exactly 120 as of me writing this, to be precise), however.
The movie does - to its credit - at least try to address some of those concerns.
Weyward
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KATE, 2019 Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage,...
Historical fiction Witches Magical Realism Trigger Warning: domestic violence