Low: Book 1
Dave McCaig, Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini
Book
Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans....
Orlando
Book
Orlando is a young Elizabethan nobleman whose wealth and status afford him an extravagant lifestyle....
Digital Monsoon
Book
"None of this is the city. All of it is you," writes Siddhartha Bose in his new book of experimental...
Divorce Turkish Style
Esmahan Aykol and Ruth Whitehouse
Book
Kati owns Istanbul's only mystery book store and, as usual, gets involved in a case that is none of...
We Are Marshall (2006)
Movie Watch
Football is a game that knocks you down, then expects you to get back up. Life hit the West Virginia...
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated The First Purge (2018) in Movies
Sep 25, 2019
It showed something more than just a horror action flick. There were moments of community and loyalty, and it showed that even a bad guy can see the difference between right and wrong. Probably not in the best way to use as a teachable moment... but still.
Of course there's a lot of violence, but none that made me particularly queasy. I've picked up some more tips for the apocalypse, getting a solid grounding in self-defence from films recently. (Joking! Of course I wouldn't use anything I'd seen... but don't test me just to be one the safe side.)
David McK (3280 KP) rated Sword of Destiny in Books
Sep 1, 2019
As most gamers will know by now (Witcher III, anyone?), Geralt is a Witcher, who makes his living by hunting Monsters but who also follows his own moral code. While I've never (yet) played that game, I also know that Netflix have a very-soon-to-be-released series based on the character and his world, starring none other than the current incarnation of Superman (Henry Cavill).
As a result, I decided it might be worth-while reading the source material itself first, starting with The Last Wish and now moving onto this. Both those books are pretty much character studies, introducing some key characters in Geralt's life who I'm sure will play larger roles in the full-length novels.
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Final Destination 3 (2006) in Movies
Aug 28, 2019 (Updated Oct 25, 2019)
The opening premonition feels pretty hollow when compared to the impressive and mostly practical set piece of the second movie. Here we get a lot of cheap CGI instead.
As the film waddles along, none of the characters are even slightly likable (except Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who is always a plus)
The plot by now has no surprises to offer so the only appeal here is purely aimed at horror fans and gore hounds, with some (to it's credit) pretty inventive kills thrown in.
I could only reccomend FD3 if you have some time to kill and want to watch some mindless horror nonsense 👍