
A Slanting of the Sun: Stories
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An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten;...

Ripples on a Stream
Book
Life's journey has never been a straight line for me but a spiral, sometimes upwards, sometimes...

Hancock's Half Hour: Ten Episodes of the Classic BBC Radio Comedy Series: Series 3
Full Cast, Alan Simpson, Sid James and Ray Galton
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Tony Hancock stars with Sid James and Kenneth Williams in the legendary BBC Radio comedy series....

Whispers Through a Megaphone
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Sometimes the world can seem too much for just one person Miriam hasn't left her house in three...

Andy Gill recommended Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine by James Brown in Music (curated)

The School of Sophisticated Drinking: An Intoxicating History of Seven Spirits
Kerstin Ehmer, Beate Hindermann and Kevin Brauch
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Wherever and whenever people have been found talking, they have been found drinking: an age-old...

A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation
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October 2017 will mark 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Song to Song (2017) in Movies
Sep 20, 2020

LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Parasite (2019) in Movies
Aug 24, 2020
Bong Joon Ho's tragicomedy is sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious, and bursting with tension when it needs to be.
The cast are excellent, especially Woo-sik Choi and So-dam Park.
The plot beats about class discrimination are the heart of Parasite, and provides the bulk of the film's entertainment, whilst still being hard hitting and grounded in unfortunate reality.
This is aided by some truly inspired cinematography, full of nice touches. An example that springs to mind is the wealthy Park family residence, sitting up high. The Kim family resides practically underground. In one scene, the Kim family descend through the city level by level during a violent storm to get back home, a motif for how the poor constantly live in the shadows of those better off. It's a shot that has stuck with me since viewing.
The screenplay is full of wit and strong character development leading to a genuinely thrilling climax that had me on the edge of my seat.
Parasite is absolutely worth your time, easily one of my top films of 2019.

When We Were Vikings
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Sometimes life isn’t as simple as heroes and villains. For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking...
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