Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series
Tony Robinson, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Rowan Atkinson
Book
The complete soundtracks of all four Blackadder TV series plus over 3 hours of specials and extras,...
War Horse (2011)
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Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and his beloved horse, Joey, live on a farm in the British countryside. At...
Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated About Time (2013) in Movies
Mar 3, 2020
Awix (3310 KP) rated Hampstead (2017) in Movies
May 8, 2019
A calculated new take on the classic Richard Curtis formula, although it is even more obvious and predictable than most examples of the form, and has virtually no good jokes to make you not care about this. The soft-focus depiction of homelessness and the social divisions in London is simply objectionable. Gleeson and Keaton are too good not to find their moments even in a film like this, but they are glitter on a dungheap. Hollow and mechanical, unsurprising, unfunny, unemotional and manipulative.
Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated The Vikings (1958) in Movies
Mar 3, 2020 (Updated Mar 5, 2020)
Risky Business (1983)
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Meet Joel Goodsen (Tom Cruise), an industrious college-bound seventeen-year-old, a responsible and...
Shaken but Not Stirred: Amusing Antidotes to a Life with Parkinson's
Alexander Reed and Dirma Van Toorn
Book
How can a woman discover she has Parkinson's whilst opening a condom in front of 15 teenagers? Why...
Robin Hood (Disney) (1973)
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An imaginative Disney version of the Robin Hood legend. Fun and romance abound as the swashbuckling...
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Last Christmas (2019) in Movies
Dec 3, 2019
This is the main problem the film has to contend with; others include the misplaced belief that quirkiness is an acceptable substitute for actual wit, and a generally pervasive sense of insincerity (it's hard to shake the notion that some key cast members were only employed to help flog this thing in Asian markets). This is before we get to the astonishing non-twist central to the story, or the glib platitudes casually dropped into the script. I imagine people will say its heart is in the right place (somewhat ironically); this is only true if you think the correct place for the heart is between the ears. I laughed once, and this was understandable, for it was at Peter Serafinowicz: unfortunately he is only in one scene.
Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music
Book
NOWHERE TO RUN The Story of Soul Music ‘Do you like soul music? That sweet soul music? Well...