Everything Changes (Two Tribes #2)
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Fear can open doors we never dreamt possible. Shaun Moseley is in a trap and it's all his...
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David McK (3786 KP) rated Gladiator (2000) in Movies
Nov 20, 2024
The slave who became an Gladiator.
The Gladiator who defied an Emperor.
A gripping tale, is it not ..."
So says Joaquin Phoenix's Emperor Commodus towards the end of this movie, talking to his erstwhile friend Maximus (Russel Crowe), after seizing power in the early parts of the film and believing the General to be dead in Germania (as per his command) and after also killing Maximus's wife and son.
The plot, then, basically, is a straight A to B revenge.
This, I believe, is also the film that launched Russel Crowe and Phoenix both to stardom - I struggle, personally, to think of any other since where either have been as electric as they are in this movie.
It may also help that they have a stacked supporting cast, including the likes of Oliver Reed (in his last onscreen role), Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi and Djimon Hounsou and some spectacular action scenes of the Roman games ...
Machine of War
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1947. Thomas Armstrong, a young Marine, returns home from the war in the Pacific. He hopes to forget...
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David McK (3786 KP) rated Aquaman and the lost kingdom (2023) in Movies
Sep 1, 2024
If I had to choose one word to describe this movie, that would be it.
And I mean colourful literally: lots of gold, green and blue splashed across the screen.
Anyway, this is a direct sequel to 2018s 'Aquaman', picking up roughly 4 years after the events of that film and with Arthur Curry now married, ruling Atlantis and with a kid of his own.
However, David Cain's Black Mantis has not forgiven nor forgotten about Aquaman, and has recently come into possession of long-forgotten Atlantean magick/tech (hence 'the lost kingdom' of the title) and is still out for revenge on Arthur Curry and his family, leading Arthur to have to break his own brother Orm (the Oceanmaster of the previous film) out of custody and seek a way to counter the threat ...
If this is the last of the current DCEU, I have to say, it's a bit 'wet' (pun intended) of a closure.
The Perfume of War (The Seventh of December #4)
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“Please donate generously to Mrs. Roosevelt’s charity. Every penny raised from this series of...
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Murder Out of Character
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Marvey, a small-town librarian, finds a mysterious list of names... and what happens next can’t...
Hidden in Smoke
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When the crimes of a serial arsonist lead to murder, Sharpe and Walker need detective Eve Ronin to...
Shake-speared in the Park (Bay Browning Mysteries #2)
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When Bay Browning helps direct the Flourish College summer theater production, "Shakespeare's...
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ClareR (6192 KP) rated The Sunshine Man in Books
Nov 23, 2025
In 1989, Bridie prepares to find and shoot the man, Jimmy Maguire, that murdered her sister upon his release from prison. She follows him as he’s picked up from the prison gates by his daughter, and as she drives him to old haunts and to visit his family.
In 1971, Jimmy and Providence are good friends. Jimmy and his family are outcasts, undesirables, always in trouble with the police. Providence can see beyond this with Jimmy.
This is such a sad story of family in all its guises (good and bad), revenge and redemption.
The Sunshine Man is a slow burn, but I found it worthwhile. I really got to know the characters, whether I really wanted to or not. Some were distinctly unpleasant people, but the motivations for their actions, whilst not excusable, were explained. I certainly won’t be forgetting this book in a hurry.
Paoletta: An Eye for an Eye
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Exiled to a Caribbean island, Paoletta Cadoville and her family cling to the hope of one day...
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