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Parallel Lives
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When psychotherapist Marjorie Nielson unexpectedly dies, she leaves behind not only the intimate...
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Down Station
Book
A small group of commuters and tube workers witness a fiery apocalypse overtaking London. They make...
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Duff McKagan recommended Damned Damned Damned by The Damned in Music (curated)
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Duff McKagan recommended It's Only Rock 'N' Roll by The Rolling Stones in Music (curated)
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Happy Felsch: Banished Black Sox Center Fielder
Book
Oscar "Happy" Felsch was a rising star weaned on sandlot fields of Milwaukee who threw away his...
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The Pedant in the Kitchen
Book
The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his...
The Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream
Book
This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world not individual...
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A.O. Scott recommended Grandma (2015) in Movies (curated)
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Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated The New Legends of Monkey in TV
Jun 13, 2021
Most people will remember the original Monkey as seeming a bit low budget and silly so when you first see the 'The New Legends of Monkey' you may be forgiven for thinking that it's going to be different, Monkey is good looking (& doesn't have his cloud), the fights and action scenes are well choreographed and there is some tension. It is different, it's been updated but, as you watch you realise that the humour is still there, Monkey is now a himbo, vain and self centred but in a likeable way, none of the gods know what it's like to be human but all still have their own problems with make them likable. Tripitaka is the straight monk to all the gods foolishness as she tries to keep them on mission.
The series is silly without being stupid and does allow for character growth as having some emotional scenes and, overall dose a good job of re booting the original.
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LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Thir13en Ghosts (2001) in Movies
Jun 30, 2021
I enjoy the setting. The "modern day" haunted house is an inspired design, and the fact that the set was practically built to film on is quite something. I also enjoy the titular ghosts. Each one has a unique look, and the make up work is superb. I also love that the legendary F. Murray Abraham is in this, as well as Matthew Lillard, doing what Matthew Lillard does best, hamming things up to the max.
Other than that, it's all a bit flaccid. There's a whole lot of characters-walking-around-and-getting-lost going on, and it's honestly a drag. It doesn't help that precisely none of these characters are easy to care about. There are multiple instances of laughably huge exposition dumps, in a narrative that's needlessly overstuffed with unnecessary plot elements.
Personally, it just about coasts by due to the nostalgia of being 13 years old and just getting into horror when it originally released, and I always have a good enough time with it. Also a dude gets vertically bisected which is pretty rad.