What Makes Great Art
Lucinda Hawksley and Andy Pankhurst
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What are the qualities that make an artwork great? A recognized painter Andy Pankhurst and art...
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123 Color HD: Talking Coloring Book (Words Spoken In English, Spanish, French and German)
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Richard Patterson - Matters of Life and Death
Paul Moorhouse, Matt Price, Jane Neal and James Cahill
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Matters of Life and Death is a limited-edition publication documenting the remarkable new and recent...
JT (287 KP) rated Headhunters (2012) in Movies
Mar 10, 2020
At his wife Diana’s art gallery he is introduced to Clas (Coster-Waldau) who he lines up for a potential job with a big client. When Roger discovers that Clas is in possession of a rare painting he takes the opportunity to steal it, not realizing however that his actions will be traced back to him.
It’s clear that Roger’s flamboyant lifestyle and trophy wife is compensation for his own inferiority complex, as he explains in the opening monologue of the film. Filled with paranoia he soon believes that Clas is out to kill him, either for stealing the painting or to get rid of him so Clas can have Diana for his own.
It’s a simple game of cat and mouse between Roger and Clas that escalates into epic proportions as Roger goes on the run. Clas is extremely cool and calculated in his approach and toys with Roger, it’s a film that will keep you on the edge of your seat, tension that foreign film is seemingly well known for.
It’s adapted from the Jo Nesbø novel of the same name, and to be honest once Roger goes on the run it turns from thriller to black comedy and back again in an instant. Some scenes have shock value, others will turn your head away from the screen no sooner look at it but it’s all good fun.
Roger is put through the wringer as he’s slowly hunted down, avoiding capture by hiding in human faeces, trying to escape on the slowest form of transport imaginable and driven off the end of a cliff. At the end of all this the sympathy for Roger is overwhelming.
It’s a comically engaging film with twists and turns, gruesome in parts which you won’t expect.
The Man in the Black Suit
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Acacia Santos excels at her job as concierge at the prestigious Hotel Victoire in Paris. When her...
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Super Camera 2: ALL-IN-1
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Kids Doodle - Movie Kids Color & Draw - Pro Version
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The most popular kids painting game for phone and pad! Already more than 10,000,000 downloads all...
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)
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An ambitious art critic steals a rare painting and becomes consumed by his own greed as the...
Merissa (11938 KP) rated Phantom Pleasures (Phantom #1) in Books
Aug 23, 2017
It was nice to read a paranormal story that had nary a vampire or shifter in sight but instead followed the story of a phantom and how he came to be stuck inside a painting by gypsy magic.
The supporting characters of Cat and Ben steal the show in places, but the winner for me all round is Paschal. He is just wonderful! The part when Alexa and Damon meet for the first time has been covered in other reviews so I won't say too much, but I will agree that things happen very quickly, with no moment of disbelief or questions.
Recommended if you want paranormal with a twist.
* Verified Purchase ~ March 2013 *
Merissa
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Lindsay (1717 KP) rated David Travels to the Past in Books
Feb 15, 2018
When I received the book in the mail. It was much better read in the print book that I got. I could understand who was talking and who was doing the speaking. I enjoy the story much that way. The author does a good job with images and storytelling. I would say that the book comes decent.
The pictures are colorful and are done wonderfully. You can tell the story though the pictures. My favorite was the Cave painting story. I enjoyed see some life of Cavemen. It as just refreshing, As they were called prehistoric times.