I Was a Boy in Belsen
Tomi Reichental and Nicola Pierce
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'In the last couple of years I realised that, as one of the last witnesses, I must speak out.' Tomi...
War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
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In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the...
Superhero Comics
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A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers...
The Thirty-One Kings: Richard Hannay Returns
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June 1940.As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is...
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Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all...
The Hindenburg (1975)
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George C. Scott leads an all-star cast in this imaginative suspense thriller that attempts to shed...
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45
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Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Bell-Bottom George (1943) in Movies
May 17, 2020
These days I suspect most people only watch George Formby films for the one-liners and the musical numbers - but the script here is thin, and Formby doesn't play the uke in half the songs (which mostly aren't that good either). All the usual elements turn up - chases, slapstick, unlikely romance, etc - but the movie feels padded even at only 97 minutes long and it's just not consistently funny enough. Still, the second world war saw some terrible disasters, and this is far from the worst of them.
A Country Road, A Tree
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From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a remarkable imagining of Samuel Beckett’s wartime...
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Mystery Man
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A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the comic crime caper. He's the Man...