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The Mistress

Danielle Steel

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Natasha Leonova's beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian...

The Muse

Jessie Burton

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A picture hides a thousand words ...On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps...

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Jon McGregor

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'This novel owes as much to poetry as it does to prose. Its opening, an invocation of the life of...

Each Slow Dusk

Rory Mullarkey

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The Private misses the farm. The Captain dreams of painting. The Corporal relishes the fight. And a...

Bright, Precious Days

Jay McInerney

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Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Theirs is...

Lowri Catryn (229 KP) rated After Life - Season 2 in TV

Jul 3, 2020

After Life - Season 2

2020 | Comedy, Drama

8.6

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Exploring the aspects of mental health (3 more)

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Honesty

Truthful, honest and brutal

Afterlife Season 2 continued to follow the story of Tony, a brutal but honest character who is trying to become a better friends to those around him, whilst still struggling with the immense grief of losing his wife. Although maintaining his brutal honesty and hard shell, you see this character develop more and more into a more kindhearted, supportive and better person whilst still battling with the loss of his wife. We also see how he mentors a new aspiring journalist, and tries to brighten up what essentially isn't the greatest job/career choice for her. We see how each one of his friends are battling their own problems and how he manages to finally face his own, in order to help others. With the loss of his wife, the potential loss of his job and dealing with the loss of his father twice (due to dementia and then passing away) - we see the reality of loss and stigma around mental health, rather than falsely painting the issues in the programme to be positive, we view the harsh reality of everyday life. It is refreshing to see the reality and harshness of issues such loss, grief, addiction, loss etc.

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The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction

Kent Lester and Dave MrGurty

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Save 30% on home construction! Whether you want to take on all the responsibility of contracting...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated In the Heart of the Sea (2015) in Movies

Apr 9, 2021 (Updated Jul 4, 2021)

If this story was handled with a bit more bite, a little less austere loyalty to formula than Ron Howard's PG-13 cleanliness then honestly this could have been the solid adventure movie it so clearly wants to be. It's already got the right look for it - with these pretty much perfect sea-faring nautical visuals: rich blues, greens, and yellows smoothly coat dutch angles of people looking wide-eyed into the sky with the wind flowing through their hair and whatnot... it's beautiful until it directly clashes with this indefensible CGI. The whales look like shit and the horrendous green screen work makes everyone constantly look like that last scene from 𝘎𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪 𝘔𝘢𝘯. The framing device with Whishaw and Gleeson - both of whom are award-worthy in this (particularly Gleeson, giving some of the best work of his career painting a deeply effective complex portrait of this clearly haunted man) - is more exciting and emotive than the actual story, which shambles at such a laborious pace that one can even stop laughing at Hemsworth's piss-poor accent. Just feels manufactured, cuts a bit too much to simulate fun rather than actually having it. Has its moments but you're better off just re-reading "Moby Dick".