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William Shakespeare's Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge

Ian Doescher

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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To thine own Sith be true. Lend us your ears and comlinks for a Shakespearean retelling of Star Wars...

Crossing Souls

7.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Guide five gifted kids through a retro-styled action romp and overcome puzzles, bosses and a host of...

Sarah Wayne Callies recommended The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (1994) in Movies (curated)

"[It] would have to be up there for sheer enthusiasm. I love it for a million reasons. It’s just such a celebration. But I think I also — god not to sound like too much of a shrink — I grew up in a family with lots of divorces and things. Growing up, the first couple I knew that were really, truly like Disney movie in love and devoted to each other was a gay couple. And then one of them died — of AIDS — and I remember I was so young; I was in junior high when it happened. It was still at a time when gay culture was so judged and so reviled in so many places. The movie was such a celebration of song and dance, but also of a gay lifestyle, and it was a beautiful thing to see at that point in my life. For there to be something out there in pop culture that was celebrating and not apologizing [for] all of that — I just thought it was brilliant."

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Georgia Hubley recommended Billy Liar (1963) in Movies (curated)

Billy Liar (1963)

1963 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

(0 Ratings)

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"Being swept up in British pop culture and its swinging sixties scene is something that I am not close to alone in and yet may be hard-pressed to explain. Well, the British are so beautiful, and you can’t understand a word they’re saying. Screaming girls and Beatle haircuts may provide some distraction, but A Hard Day’s Night captures the mood of a traumatized postwar culture just as effectively as other, starker films of the “new” British cinema. In Billy Liar, Tom Courtenay’s Billy could be a famous Beatle in the making except that comedy writing is his calling, and the more eccentric and imaginative he allows himself to become creatively, the clearer it is how stifled he is by his family, his lack of self, and his generally dismal surroundings. The bleakness and futurelessness are so embedded in this character’s outlook and ultimate outcome that even the sway of Julie Christie’s modern vivaciousness and beautiful smile can’t compete with his inability to rise out of his own sorry lot in life. Just a little bit heartbreaking."

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Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated The Cracked Podcast in Podcasts

Jan 11, 2018

A Crack In The Internet

For those of you that don't already know; back in December, Cracked fired almost all of it's writers. Therefore the Cracked podcast is no more. Nor is After Hours or OPCD, which were all shows that I loved. The Podcast was great back when Jack O'Brien used to host it before he left. Soren, Michael, Daniel and Sarge where my favourite guests and every week brought an interesting pop culture based topic to the table and we got to listen to it be expertly dissected by these awesome personalities. Really, really sad what happened to this podcast, but there is a fantastic backlog there for someone to discover.

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Adam Hawker (2 KP) rated Deadpool 2 (2018) in Movies

May 25, 2018

Deadpool 2 (2018)

2018 | Action, Comedy

8.5

(283 Ratings)

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Ryan Reynolds is even more assured in the role he was born to play. (3 more)

The jokes are relentless and full of the pop culture references and meta four wall breaks you'd expect from Deadpool.

Josh Brolin is great as Cable. Stoic and monosyllabic without being boring.

Zazie Beetz is brilliant as Domino. The portrayal of her Luck superpower is great and her back and forth with Deadpool matches the comics pretty well.

Vanessa is under served a little. As she was in the first film. (1 more)

You could argue some of the structure is too similar to the first film. Cab rides to battles etc.

Solid sequel full of meta laughs and some surprising emotional depth