Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)
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I could smell her fear, and it satisfied something deep inside me that had been writhing under her...
Painting the Ice Bear
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Fascinated from the outset by all things wild, Mark Adlington has travelled the globe, seeking out,...
For Better and Worse
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Till death do us part When they fell in love back in law school, Natalie and Will Clarke joked...
Venus Trap (Hidden Portals Trilogy #1)
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Artemis is a ruthless predator. Raphael is a determined vampire. If she kills him before he...
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David McK (3649 KP) rated Blade II (2002) in Movies
Sep 25, 2023
Before Comic book movies became the big thing they are nowadays.
Wesley Snipes returns, here, as the titular half-human/half-vampire ("all of their strengths. None of their weaknesses. Except the thirst") waging his ongoing war on the vampire nation, but now finding himself having to 'team up' with some from that nation - who had been training to hunt him - in order to fight a new breed of vampire, the Reapers (whose mouth looks like something out of Predator), who feed on both Vampires and Humans alike and who are led by that-bloke-from-Bros.
This is both more comic-booky (to coin a phrase) than the original, whilst also a bit more of a horror film - those Reapers are nasty!
Awix (3310 KP) rated Nomads (1986) in Movies
Aug 11, 2019
Starts off showing signs of promise but becomes thoroughly unravelled well before the end; the presence of a frame story about a doctor (Down) investigating the French guy's death clutters rather than deepens the story. Stylish in a very mid-80s way: lots of drum machines, synth music, and indiscriminate use of slow motion. Brosnan's allo-ah-ahm-Fronsh performance is, well, interesting; he does the accent about as well as he sings. It just about stays watchable but isn't quite bad enough to be fun. Apparently Arnie saw it and was impressed enough to hire McTiernan to do Predator, which probably justifies its existence.
Dinosaur Park - Jurassic Simulator Games For Kids
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Like Dinosaurs？ Let's go to the Excavation site, let's dig Dinosaur Fossils, exploration and more!...
Death Be Told (Terra Vane #5)
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Previously published under the author name of Katie Epstein... My name is Terra, and I’m a...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Predator (1987) in Movies
Feb 13, 2018
The cast is charismatic, the action is exceedingly well-staged, and there's a very good monster (Jean Claude van Damme was originally supposed to play the Pred but was sacked for complaining about the suit and not being beefy enough). There's also a surprisingly understated subtext about the Vietnam War, for which fighting an invisible monster in the jungle is a not-unreasonable metaphor. Not far off the quality of the other big-name 80s SF movies; inability to produce an equally memorable follow-up suggests the Predator is a one-trick pony, however.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) in Movies
Jul 6, 2019 (Updated Jul 6, 2019)
It's the tone of the thing which is striking: Klaus Kinski's Dracula is not a ferocious sexual predator but a pathetic, rat-like parasite, spreading plague both literally and metaphorically. He is cursed as much as a curse, trapped in a miserable state of immortality. Kinski's performance is genuinely eerie, and the atmosphere of the rest of the film matches it. It is a bit on the slow side, and the relentlessly morbid atmosphere will likewise not be for everyone, but this is one of the better big-screen adaptations of Dracula.