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"The Kid saved my sanity while I waited for my kid. I’m 32, I’ve had a home visit, I’ve filled out the paperwork, and now I’m waiting and waiting to be picked by a birth mother to adopt her baby. Through it all, I keep on my person a tattered copy of this Dan Savage book. How the story of a white gay couple adopting a baby boy feels like exactly the same journey as a single black woman adopting a baby girl is its magic."

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Nobody (2021)

7.8 (20 Ratings) Rate It

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Hutch Mansell appears to be a quiet, anonymous everyman, until his house is burgled and he lets the...

Girl on the Edge

C.D. Reiss

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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He's her husband, but he's not the man she married Caden and Greysen come home from deployment to...

Sarah (7798 KP) rated Dead Man's Shoes (2006) in Movies

Feb 3, 2019

Dead Man's Shoes (2006)

2006 | Drama, Mystery

9.0

(8 Ratings)

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Brilliantly savage

Finally managed to get a hold of this after borrowing it on DVD from my brother, I’ve been wanting to watch it again for a long time and it’s still a fantastic hard hitting film.

This is a darkly savage and fairly brutal story of revenge that makes for a powerful watch. The plot is straight forward and simple, but it just goes to show that you don’t need a massive budget or fancy Hollywood effects to make an outstanding film. From the effective story telling (colour current day scenes vs black and white flashbacks), to a clever script, bleak, creepy and almost gruesome scenes and some great performances. Paddy Considine is a fantastic actor, and probably deserves a lot more accolades, and Toby Kebbell has an outstanding yet fairly small and moving breakthrough performance as Anthony. The final twist at the end too is one of the few film endings that has always stuck with me. And I will admit to having a bit of a soft spot for films that are set in or around my local area, and Derbyshire isn’t too far away....

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Andy K (10821 KP) created a post in Movies are the shiz!

Mar 29, 2018

So I recently discovered Bone Tomahawk. I don't want to oversell, but really great movie. I have to warn you, though, extremely brutal scenes make it not for those with a weak stomach.

It's a western starring Kurt Russell who plays a small town sheriff who embarks on an extremely dangerous rescue mission after a few townspeople are kidnapped by brutal, savage neanderthal Indians.

The journey is wrought with peril of every kind until his posse meets up with the savages, then all hell breaks loose.

Highly recommended.