Death on the Installment Plan
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Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Céline's earlier novel,...
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Quickly improve and test your English Grammar. An exciting and new challenging English Multiple...
Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries
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A railroad game designed by Harry Wu. The industrial boom in the 19th century America continues,...
David McK (3854 KP) rated Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) in Movies
Jun 9, 2024 (Updated Jun 9, 2024)
That was to get the punters in.
I kinda don't.
He isn't in it, in either incarnation (Mel Gibson, or Tom Hardy)
Instead, we have a prequel to the breakout character from Fury Road - that of Imperator Furiosa - but here re-cast to be played by Anya Taylor-Joy instead of by Charlize Theron.
This also takes place over a longer period of time - something like 15 years - than Fury Road does, and so sacrifices the break-neck speed of that previous film for something a bit more sedate.
We also, here, have Chris Hemsworth absolutely chewing up the scenery (and loving every second of it!) as the villain Dementus!
A Most Unsettled Man: the Triumphs and Travails of George Matcham
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George Matcham, dubbed the most unsettled man alive, was born in East India Company controlled...
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David McK (3854 KP) rated Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) in Movies
Feb 22, 2025 (Updated Nov 9, 2025)
While it is a close call, for me, the original *just* pips it to the post.
This is the movie that re-defined science fiction, with a young Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher all being launched to superstardom on its back (Ford in particular), and that is - as has oft been said - in many ways a modern fairy-tale, taking its form and structure from such.
It's also the movie that introduces the iconic Darth Vader, X-Wings and TIE fighters, with the final assault on the first Death Star one of the best action scenes in any movie I have ever seen, period.
David McK (3854 KP) rated The King's Man (2021) in Movies
Feb 12, 2022
Which proves to be a good move, injecting a spot of interest into the movie - I, for one, struggled with the second entry - and allowing a mishmash of history and fact to play out on screen.
This also has a shocking moment about roughly 2/3rds of the way through, during the period of the movie in the trenches that almost feels like it belongs to a different film altogether.
It also has an absolutely bonkers fight scene involving Rasputin: it's a pity, I feel, that he does not have a larger role than he does!
