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The Avengers (2012)
The Avengers (2012)
2012 | Action, Sci-Fi
Avengers Assembled is a film filled with amazing performances, great special effects and fantastic direction from long-time comic-book fan, Joss Whedon. He manages to craft a great film and considering the size of the cast, that’s no easy feat.

It lets itself down throughout the finale in which the audience is subjected to a Transformers-style alien invasion across New York City that could have been lifted straight out of any Michael Bay-directed flick. A great end to Phase One of the MCU, but not the classic everyone remembers it being.

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Cover of Snow
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9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Nora awakes one cold January morning to discover the unthinkable - her husband has committed suicide. As she tries to figure out why, she begins to uncover things about his past she never knew. Will she figure out why? What else will she uncover?

Definitely a darker book than I normally read, but I am glad I did. The characters were real, the plot was tight, and the writing was so good I felt the cold of an upper New York State winter. Hard to believe this is a debut novel.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2014/05/book-review-cover-of-snow-by-jenny.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
Altitude Rush
Altitude Rush
Matthew Reilly | 2001 | Thriller
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is a short story available for free download from Matthew Reilly's website. It follows the usual Reilly formula of breathless, suspension of disbelief action, compressed into short form. Engineering a situation where our heroes must get across New York against the clock and without going below a certain altitude, Reilly uses every trick he can think of to get the reader's adrenaline pumping as they leap from rooftop to rooftop. And he knows a lot of tricks.

This is certainly not going to win any serious literary awards but that's not what this is for. For pure escapist fun to while away the time this fits the bill perfectly.
  
The Rescuers (1977)
The Rescuers (1977)
1977 | Action, Animation, Family
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7.9 (28 Ratings)
Movie Rating
The Rescuers to the Rescue.
The Plot: Bernard (Bob Newhart) and Miss Bianca (Eva Gabor), two New York City mice, are members of the Rescue Aid Society, an international team that operates beneath the United Nations and comes to the aid of those in need. After receiving word that Penny (Michelle Stacy), a young orphan, has been abducted by Madame Medusa (Geraldine Page), an evil woman seeking a precious diamond, the two set out to bring her back home, with help from other animal friends.

It has adventure, drama, comedy, love, a percious diamond, a evil villian and more.

A classic movie from disney.
  
Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Stay Fly
Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Stay Fly
Kelly Sue DeConnick | 2015 | Comics & Graphic Novels
7
7.8 (5 Ratings)
Book Rating
Decent but not for me
I get that I am not the target market for this incarnation of Captain Marvel. This collection is split roughly in three. The story surrounding Chewie, with Rocket, was good, funny and well written. The second story, trying to save a rock star from an arranged marriage, was tedious drivel (similar to volume 1's Phantom Menace trade negotiations rubbish), and the third was slightly more what I would have expected from Marvel, a villain's attempt to take over New York.
A good collection for a character that some might really love, but definitely not my cup of tea.
  
    Lovelock

    Lovelock

    James McNeish

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    Jack Lovelock has been called the first modern athlete. He became famous internationally when he...