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David McK (3562 KP) rated Logan (2017) in Movies

Jan 24, 2019 (Updated Jan 21, 2022)  
Logan (2017)
Logan (2017)
2017 | Action, Adventure
Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart's last(?) (or so they say) outing as Wolverine and Professor Xavier respectively, this is a violent and bloody R-rated stand-alone that owes more to classic Westerns (in particular Shane) than to any of the other X-men movies to date.


Very loosely based in the Old Man Logan graphic novels, in that it follows an aging Wolverine in a future society following an undisclosed disaster, with that about all it takes from those stories.
  
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Alison Pink (7 KP) rated Finding Jake in Books

Jan 15, 2018  
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Finding Jake
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8.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Oh my goodness. This book is just wow. It is so authentic and so heartbreaking. It speaks to the desire of our society to make snap judgements based on the media. It is about a school shooting, yes, but it is about so much more...family, heartbreak, love, loss, heroism. This was a great read despite the fact that I ugly cried for the last 5 chapters or so. This is one of those books that is going to stay with me for a loonngggg time.
  
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
2017 | Documentary
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Lyrical look at America's racialised society
James Baldwin was truly an inspirational artist and author in American history. He puts forward very bluntly the issues that the country faces in terms of it's attitude towards black bodies as the body is political. It's rather depressing that after 50 years the US still has not addressed these issues. It's a haunting and poetic documentary. His line about how black people are 'castrated' throughout the country just in different ways is deeply honest and deeply disturbing.