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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" - a fiendishly clever mash-up of Jane Austen's beloved classic...

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

7.6 (10 Ratings) Rate It

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'There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' This is the extraordinary new novel from the...

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

David Robinson

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With its jagged, stylised sets, menacing shadows and themes of murder, madness and delirium, Das...

Pitch Black (2000)

7.6 (27 Ratings) Rate It

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When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Flatliners (2017) in Movies

Sep 19, 2020

Flatliners (2017)

2017 | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

5.4

(36 Ratings)

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Now I'm not saying this is all bullshit, but it's only a *generous* 5-10% non-bullshit. I'm not the first to say this nor will I be the last, but what was the point? Just as super-serious as the original with none of the fun camp, shorter but somehow feels centuries longer, and worst of all it looks roughly ten trillion times worse - dumping the artsy old-architectural/macabre feel for yet another lifeless medical aesthetic (only looking marginally better than some royalty-free tripe like 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘺). I think one of the horror things here actually succeeds more than the original and there's one or two different plot switches from that one too, but it loses all other points for turning such riotous and ethereal shlock into yet another substandard mainstream 'horror' snore. The literal only mildly intriguing thing this did was ditched to a deleted scene. What a drag, can't believe this even got the right to exist. This feels like one of the fake movies that people inside the real movie

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Erika (17788 KP) rated The Mandalorian - Season 2 in TV

Dec 19, 2020

Better than the first season (1 more)

Less filler episodes

This season was considerably better than the first. I decided to do a spoiler - free review. There were introductions of a lot of Clone Wars/Rebels characters, all of which I really liked. There was also the return of an original trilogy character that was teased in the first season. They've also included some EU content, which is now canon, and referred to Operation Cinder.
We've also finally gotten the Child's name, so that ridiculousness of 'Baby Yoda' can go away now, please.

I had issues with how they presented a very well-known, central character, introduced into the series. I think that they should have used the voice of the original character and cast someone who is younger and looks extremely similar to the elder actor. I hope that if they continue showing this central character, that they consider casting the actor (cough cough, he's already got a Disney contract) to play the correctly-aged character, rather than a slightly-shoddy digital version over some rando actor.

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Sarah (7798 KP) rated Peaky Blinders - Season 2 in TV

Sep 7, 2019

A blinding second series

It’s not often that second series can quite meet up to the first, but Peaky Blinders manages to pull it off. It’s as violent, dark and gritty as the first series with a plot that actually surpasses the original. There are some wonderful performances yet again from Cillian Murphy and Helen McCrory especially, plus some great newcomers in Finn Cole and Tom Hardy. I found Hardy’s role to be potentially a little OTT, but he was hilarious in comparison with the serious Peaky Blinders and I wish he’d been on screen in this series more. The entire series was just hugely enjoyable from start to finish, and I liked how the series jumped on 2 years from the original as it really helped to move it on the story.

My only criticisms would be the cliff hanger from the end of series 1 is briefed over a little too quickly, and that Noah Taylor’s “bad guy” isn’t as threatening as he first appears and is a little lacklustre, it’s just fortunate he isn’t needed much to bolster the plot.