Audrey the 60s
David Wills and Stephen Schmidt
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Audrey Hepburn charmed cinema audiences in the 1950s as a new type of screen presence - gamine,...
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Foodfight! (2012) in Movies
Sep 21, 2020
Anti-cinema. Furry propaganda that bastardizes random corporate logos into hideous background characters for a crude mixture of ripoff film noir, shit-looking ๐๐ฐ๐บ ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ and... the Nazi Party? Sort of genius. But also the most compact measurable example of going through the Kรผbler-Ross five stages of grief. The best thing you can do with butt-ugly, endlessly questionable, ultra-filtered garbaggio like this is not to futilely attempt to reject its offerings into the minds of twisted, twisted individuals - but to fully embrace and accept it as a tonic, to make you feel better about yourself. One big hilariously bad sexual thrust of a children's film that isn't - in any capacity - suitable for children; at one point there's an extended 'steamy' dance routine where Dex Dogtective and Lady X strongly attempt to both fuck *and* kill each other at the same time. Horrible, half-finished food puns like "Let's strawberry jam outta here" and "Frankly my dear, I don't give a Spam" spin back into some kind of stupid subversion. Cold, lifeless, perturbing eyes staring back at you with an ominous silence that makes one want to crawl out of their own skin (pretty sure this triggered my fight-or-flight response multiple times over). Also the last 30 minutes is a sustained barrage of disgustingly rendered CGI puss. A closer experience to ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ช๐ฆ than it thinks.
Untamed
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Part inspiration, part memoir, Untamed explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving...
The Ninth Child
10.0
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A spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the Sunday Times...
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Point of No Return
5.7
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Marine Major Honey Thornton is nobodyโs fool, so when sheโs brought in for an off-the-books...
The Sealwoman's Gift
8.0
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***SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN, THE WAVERTON GOOD READ AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE BEST FIRST...
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Don't Lie To Me (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 1)
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When twelve-year-old Sophie Williams went on a Girl Scout summer camp, she never returned home. ...
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ClareR (6182 KP) rated Time After Time in Books
Dec 9, 2022
Tabby works in a second hand shop and one day tries on a ring that she has taken a shine to - and is instantly transported back to the 1980โs. Her life becomes more interesting as she makes a new friend and sees her beloved 1980โs in the flesh.
In 2022, Tabby feels stifled. Her long term boyfriend, David, has a very fixed, old fashioned idea of what โhis womanโ should be doing with her time (cooking for him and having children seem to feature highly). And back at her family home, Tabbyโs father drops a bombshell that leaves her mother reeling.
The characters are lovely (except the chauvinist David, of course!), Tabby could be a bit โditsyโ at times, but that tended to add to her charm.
I do feel that more could have been done with the time travel aspect, but I think thatโs more the science fiction fan in me (and the book would probably have needed to be a lot longer) - no one else reading on the Pigeonhole seemed to have the same opinion! In fact I do realise that the limited sci-Fi element may well make it more appealing to a lot of readers.
I really did enjoy this - a perfect summer read - or a winter read to remind you of the better weather!
One Last Chance
8.0
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Dayton is in a place in his life when he's just about to give up on finding a suitable partner to...