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The Indian

Jon Gnarr and Lytton Smith

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"A beautiful but disturbing portrait of a misfit painfully aware that he's not like anyone else."...

The Long View

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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With an introduction by Hilary Mantel. One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice...

His Dark Materials: Including All Three Novels: Northern Light, the Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass

Philip Pullman and Lucy Hughes-Hallett

9.1 (10 Ratings) Rate It

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"Northern Lights" introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science,...

Grand Designs

Linda Mitchelmore

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You can change the house but can you change the man? Carrie Fraser is an interior decorator and...

Why Mummy Drinks

Gill Sims

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Why Mummy Drinks is the brilliant novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter and...

Forget Me Not

Tom Holloway

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In Australia, Gerry hopes to meet his mother for the first time. Despite being almost sixty, he has...

Birthrate Politics in Zion: Judaism, Nationalism, and Modernity Under the British Mandate

Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman

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Despite both national and traditional imperatives to have many children, the birthrate of the Jewish...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The Golden Compass (2007) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

The Golden Compass (2007)

2007 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

5.5

(15 Ratings)

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Just nukes the ever-loving fuck out of the book. To turn a pretty bloody and challenging series into this hyperincompetent snooze of shit storytelling, genre rehashing, and violently diluted themes (or what's left of them, if anything) should have been criminalized on arrival. Find me anyone who can tell me what the plot of this is or why anything in it happens, this is 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦 of crummy children's fantasy flicks (which were the 2000s answer to the dull, samey YA craze of the 2010s). Oh and those Academy Award winning effects? They're fucking ghoulish. The production is nice but how anyone could think this mess of badly-aged animation and awful greenscreen work looks good is far beyond me. The armored polar bears were pretty dope though, and this wakes up a bit in the weird 15 minutes where a group of crazy institution fanatics start experimenting on children out in like the middle of the arctic for no real reason lmao. But otherwise absolutely not, no thank you.