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Degree of Guilt

Richard North Patterson

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Christopher Paget is a trial lawyer with a famous past: as a young investigator in Washington he...

Jenni Olson recommended Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) in Movies (curated)

"As of this writing, it’s been nearly a year since we lost the talent and spirit of Chantal Akerman. Her 1975 breakthrough feature wowed the international film world after premiering at Cannes to a combination of raves and an audience exodus. Truly a film to return to again and again, Jeanne Dielman expands the possibilities of cinema as an art form. Its durational, physiological impact on the viewer is an absolute revelation. I first saw it on a crappy 16 mm print in college in the late 1980s and didn’t get to see it again on the big screen until the late ’90s—on 35 mm at the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival. Now I like to watch it in segments on Hulu (sort of the opposite of binge-watching) just for the shift in consciousness it induces in me after each twenty-minute chunk. Transcendent."

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21st Birthday

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER When a distraught mother pleads with San Francisco Chronicle reporter...

An Unsuitable Match

Joanna Trollope

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Rose Woodrowe is getting married to Tyler Masson—a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels...

The 17th Suspect

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a...

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Modern workspace, all to yourself - for hours, days or months. With hundreds of locations in cities...

David McK (3369 KP) rated The Rock (1996) in Movies

Jul 12, 2023

The Rock (1996)

1996 | Action

8.1

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There was a period during the late 90s, early 90s, where Nice Cage was in full action hero mode.

We're talking the likes of National Treasure, Con-Air, Face/Off. And this, his first entry in that mold from 1996.

Also starring Sean Connery in a Bind-in-all-but-name role, this sees Cage playing the part of an FBI chemical expert who has to accompany Connery and US Marines on a mission to infiltrate Alcatraz (Connery's role being as the only man to ever escape from said prison) after a group of disillusioned Marines - led by Ed Harris - seize control of the island and have chemical weapons pointing at San Francisco.

I think this may be the first Michael Bay film I ever saw; looking back on it now I can see that, even back then, it has all the hallmarks of one of his films!