A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens and Robert Ingpen
8.6
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This classic seasonal tale of self-discovery has become one of Charles Dickens's most famous and...
A Ciambra (2017)
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In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14,...
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Something Dark
10.0
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Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay, who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian...
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The Secret Pilgrim
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The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and...
The Cheater's Game
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The arrival of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in London brings trouble. When the sharpshooter who...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Invaders in TV
Mar 15, 2018 (Updated Mar 15, 2018)
Larry Cohen's original concept - a paranoid thriller with few overt SF elements - was rapidly abandoned, and Cohen himself had little involvement. The programme is really a victim of the time it was made: episodic storytelling means that the aliens come up with bizarrely different schemes on a weekly basis (weather control, infiltrating industry, man-eating butterflies), and there are nagging problems with the format - it is required that the aliens never just kill Vincent, and that he never manages to get evidence of their activity, either. Some would say that Roy Thinnes' intensely dour performance is not exactly what a show like this needs.
Still, there are some good individual episodes, and the iconography of the show does hang around in your head (it's clearly one of the shows that was a major influence on The X Files). It's a shame this kind of story has since been done to death as you could easily imagine a contemporary Invaders remake being really good (even though the 90s mini-series really wasn't).
Make Them Cry (Pretty Deadly Things #2)
8.0
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They called her curvy. They called her worthless. They never expected her to fight back. ...
Lindsay (1779 KP) rated A Reason For Living in Books
Mar 7, 2020
If the author is trying to show it through three different views of people then I may get it a bit more. Though to me reading it seems like it was one story and centered on one person's emotions. What does this person want? Howard seems stuck. Everyone seems to want him, He seems stuck in the past. Does he know how to cope with what he loses? It seems that no one helps him understand this or what his plan for life. Except maybe towards the end of the book.
This book is set on sexuality throughout the book. I would not allow anyone under the age of eighteen to read this book. It has a lot of sexuality and talks about raping though out the book. This I did pick up on when reading the book. It always shows the time in Jamaica's history in this book and throughout.
MelanieTheresa (997 KP) rated Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) in Movies
May 8, 2019
Zac Efron was excellent, as was the rest of the cast (Jim Parsons can do no wrong), but the movie does drag just a bit, and I feel like some of Efron's talent is wasted here. They definitely could have done more with him. That said, he was the perfect mix of creepy and charming, and when they show the actual Bundy footage during the end credits, you realize how close Efron's performance comes to the actual man.
Overall I thought it was good, but could maybe have been better.
Oh, and also? I'll never be mad at Zac Efron's....backside. ?
The Promise of an Angel
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Interrupting the ordered routine of the Mecosta County Amish settlement, an angelic visitor awakens...