Touchgrind BMX
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- Chosen by Apple as one of the three best iPhone games of 2011 - Awarded Best Sports Game at the...
Head Coach Basketball
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The best Basketball Coaching app experience on the AppStore. Specially designed for iPad features. ...
Zombie Tsunami
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The zombies are revolting ! Attack the city with a horde of zombies, change pedestrians into zombies...
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem
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This revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet is a fearless portrayal of...
David McK (3425 KP) rated Les Misérables (2012) in Movies
Jan 19, 2022
One of those musicals/films that, while I had head of it and did not the broad strokes of, I had never actually seen prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Set in post-(Napoleonic)war France, this spans about roughly 20 years or so (i think 17, to be precise) starting in 1815 when ex-con Jean Valjean (Jackman) is released from servitude, breaks parole and reinvents himself but is then endlessly hunted by his former jailor Javert (Crowe), taking it upon himself to raise the daughter of seamstress Fantine (an Oscar-winning Hathaway) - as he believes himself responsible for her demise (which he does play a large part in, as he fired her from her job) Cosette, with the final potion of the film set in the 1830s with Colette now all grown up and falling in love with revolutionary Marius (Redmayne) across the barricades.
So, yes, there's some big names in the cast, including also Helena Bonh-Carter and Dacha Baron-Cohen providing the comic relief (and, somehow, I wasn't in the least bit surprised to see her there).
I'm still waiting for that bloke Les to turn up, though.
Live, Local, and Dead
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In a fit of anger, radio DJ Jaye Jordan blows a snowman’s head off with a Revolutionary War-style...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2204 KP) rated The Paris Mistress in Books
May 16, 2024 (Updated May 16, 2024)
While I love the time period, I usually prefer to focus on what was happening in the colonies at the time. I am glad this book was set in France, however, since it allowed me to see how our war as impacting them. I really appreciated that insight. The plot is good. I was beginning to suspect where things were going, but there were so many secrets that I really wasn’t sure. Daniel and Rebecca are still a great team, and I enjoyed seeing them in action again. The characters, whether real or fictional, were just as good. If you enjoy this period of history, you need to read these books.
Modal Buddy - Guitar Jam Tool, Scales & Modes Theory Trainer
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Modal Buddy for guitar is a fun and unique practice tool that teaches you modal theory in one day. ...
Age of Wushu Dynasty
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The beacon of war been out for a while, a series of new changes are coming to Jianghu now, the...