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The Giver (2014)
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THE GIVER centres on Jonas, a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colourless, world of...
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Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (2003)
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The "Angels", three investigative agents (Barrymore, Diaz and Liu) who work for the Charles Townsend...
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Black Sails
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A prequel to the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel "Treasure Island," "Black Sails" is a pirate...
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
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Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by...
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Erika (17788 KP) rated Alita: Battle Angel (2019) in Movies
Feb 18, 2019 (Updated Feb 18, 2019)
I know James Cameron was supposed to be the main draw, but I think he's pompous, and Avatar is not a good movie (IMO/it's lame and a snore). I was there mainly for Robert Rodriguez, he's a BFD here.
Essentially, it's Ghost in the Shell with a different story around it. I loved the fight/actions scenes, I was riveted by those. But, everything around it was kind of lame with bad dialogue and an unnecessary love story.
I also hated that it left on a cliffhanger. The movie drastically under-performed, leading to the worst Presidents' Day box office in the US since 2004. Likelihood of a sequel? Slim to none.
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British Prime Ministers
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There is a distinct lack of readily available information about the British prime ministers,...
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The Umbrella Academy
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On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who...
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) in Movies
Feb 13, 2018
Peaceful alien yokels known as the Akira (told you so) are menaced by galactic despot on a tight timetable; farm boy is dispatched to recruit space mercenaries to help fend him off when he comes back. Ropy model-work courtesy of a young James Cameron is the film's biggest weakness (the best special effect is probably Sybil Danning's costume); rousing score from a young James Horner is a major plus. Robert Vaughn's performance here is just as good as the one in The Magnificent One - makes sense, as it's essentially the same one. Film has a lovely adventurous tone about it, isn't afraid to treat the audience with intelligence; much better than many other more prestigious sci-fi films of this period.
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Special Advisers: Who they are, what they do and why they matter
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Viewers of The Thick of It will know of special advisers as spin doctors and political careerists....
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The Umbrella Academy - Season 2
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Five warned his family (so, so many times) that using his powers to escape from Vanya’s 2019...