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Healthy Eater - Educational Game for Children

Education and Games

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Wondering how to get your little one to eat? Here is a fun game to outsmart a picky eater! Learning...

The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis

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From the author of THE HUSTLER, THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT is a modern classic about a troubled chess...

We That are Left

Clare Clark

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Book

It is 1910 and to ten-year-old Oskar Grunewald, the Melville family is impossibly, incomprehensibly...

Dean (6925 KP) rated The Queen's Gambit in TV

Jan 20, 2021

Anya Taylor-Joy (2 more)

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Very stylish

Little predictable (0 more)

Check.... Mate

Thought I'd check this out, pun intended. Heard very good things about this, everyone seems to be watching this. I was a bit dubious how a short series about a Chess prodigy would make interesting viewing. I happen to like Chess as well.
The story follows Beth a young girl sent to an orphanage and discovers a natural ability for Chess and an addiction.
The show is very stylish, with the 60's fashion, Cars and Music. Anya Taylor-Joy has a look that just grabs your attention with her striking red hair. It's interesting, especially if you do play yourself, although it does progress as you would expect.
You'll breeze through it in no time.

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LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Choose Or Die (2022) in Movies

May 24, 2022

Choose Or Die (2022)

2022 | Horror

5.0

(3 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Choose or Die has a decent premise, and some good ideas, but it suffers from a sloppy execution that results in a forgettable horror that fails to excite. After an intriguing opening scene and a first act that sets up proceedings well enough, the narrative falls off the rails a bit. It kind of explains why all this bad shit is happening but simultaneously peaces out with a conclusion that doesn't make sense or even matters to be honest. It's like the movie gets bored of itself around the halfway point. The only real saving grace is the disorientating as fuck soundtrack from Liam Howlett (The Prodigy), but otherwise, Choose or Die kind of gives it a go, but is ultimately a flaccid disappointment.