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Art & Soul, Reloaded: A Year-Long Apprenticeship for Summoning the Muses and Reclaiming Your Bold, Audacious Creative Side

Pam Grout

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With her trademark humour, enthusiasm and no-nonsense guidance, #1 New York Times bestselling author...

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

Peter Frase

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Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Point Break (1991) in Movies

Jan 3, 2021

Point Break (1991)

1991 | Action, Mystery

7.5

(22 Ratings)

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Cult thriller from Kathryn Bigelow: the film that persuaded the world that Keanu Reeves could be an action hero and Patrick Swayze could act. Clean-cut FBI agent Johnny Utah (like that's a real name) goes undercover in the world of surfing to catch a group of elite bank robbers, but finds his resolution tested by his growing attraction to one of them (and his ex-girlfriend).

A solid thriller is elevated to the level of something special by Bigelow's superb direction (banging action and extreme-sports sequences), plus genuine depth of character. Keanu still looks sort of bovine in places, though showing genuine signs of improvement, while Swayze is something of a revelation as an ambiguous spiritual guru/gang leader. Lori Petty is also good, but mostly decorative and underused. All the more impressive when you realise it has basically the same plot as The Fast and the Furious but still feels like a proper movie for grown-ups.

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Jake Lacy recommended Mary Poppins (1964) in Movies (curated)

Mary Poppins (1964)

1964 | Classics, Comedy, Family

8.5

(63 Ratings)

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"I, as a child, loved Mary Poppins. Something about these misunderstood kids who couldn’t catch a break, and this fantastic woman coming into their life and showing them this other world, and yet also being so coy: “I don’t know what you’re talking about. What world do you mean?” I just really liked escapism as a child, I guess. The time element of Britain in another era, and then this fantastical element of going into pictures and cartoons and flying and laughing. It’s like it was so exciting to me, even though it came out 30 years before I was born. Something like that. It was a real go-to as a kid. In the last two and a half decades, it still works. It doesn’t drag. It’s still like the magic is still there. Whereas maybe other films from that era may or may not have aged quite as gracefully as Mary Poppins has."

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