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Father Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan?' Regan MacNeil: 'In here. With us.' The terror begins...

The Gendarme
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An extraordinarily haunting novel of identity and remembrance, love and forgiveness. Emet Conn is an...

The Litigators
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Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer. Wally Figg: expert hustler and ambulance-chaser....

The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Daoism
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This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of...

The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Islam
Jack Miles and Jane Dammen McAuliffe
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This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of...

The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Judaism
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This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of...

The Not-Dead and the Saved and Other Stories
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None of us are perfect, in the way we love, age, or view the world. The Not-Dead and the Saved...

Jeff Steinberg: Champion of Earth
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Party Girls Die in Pearls
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Brideshead, bon-bons, cucumber sandwiches - and now a murder Pimm's, punting and ball gowns are de...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) in Movies
Jul 2, 2020
One of those examples of a virtually perfect movie: an incredibly economical script with immaculate storytelling is brought to the screen with immensely charismatic performances by the three leads (you watch it now and it's genuinely baffling that none of them had more substantial movie careers). Also a fascinating mixture of old-style and new Hollywood - scenes pastiching the style of Howard Hawks movies sit alongside genuinely provocative moments like the ice cream scene. Overall, though, just a tremendously enjoyable action film, and exhibit A for the case that John Carpenter did his career backwards.