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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle

Sophie Duncan

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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of...

Perfect on Paper

Sophie Gonzales

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A bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her school friends is hired by the hot new kid to...

MasterSolace (19 KP) rated X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) in Movies

Jun 9, 2019

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

2019 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

5.5

(81 Ratings)

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The Actual Phoenix Force (5 more)

Didn't guess Chastain's part

Action was good

Had a piece of DEEP Lore

GENOSHA

Ambiguous Ending

Some Retreading (3 more)

Simon Kinberg can't direct

Wonky Camera Angles

Did I say retreading?

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Dark Phoenix. A another attempt at getting it right... and... it was close. No, it was NOT perfect. Not even close. But I got enjoyment out of it.

I did NOT guess Jessica Chastain's character. I was guessing Deathbird or a physical manifestation of the Phoenix Force for Jean to talk to. But I never would've guessed Vuk, of the D'Bari. Not only left field, but ACTUALLY connected to the lore. Go look up the D'Bari, you will see what I mean.

Performances weren't bad. Sansa... I mean Sophie Turner is what I always picture Jean Grey to be, and she did well. Still impressed by McAvoy and Fassbender pulling off the younger versions.

Simon Kinberg... first time directing, right? Am I wrong? I knew he wrote... hell, he did Last Stand. But first time directing? Right? You CAN tell.

There is a slight retread of X-Men: Last Stand. But most of that is in the first act...... but I think it may be a good thing as well. It's almost like it gave Simon Kinberg a second chance to get it right. And it IS a HUGE improvement over Last Stand.

Dark Phoenix is the Last FOX X-Men movie... and sadly, it shows. Like their hearts weren't 100% in it. And they went ahead and filmed an ambiguous ending anyway. I say... BRAVO. Makes us wonder... What If?

But... now we can focus on what is next? Disney... it's your turn. Don't screq it up.

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Christina Haynes (148 KP) rated Out of the Blue in Books

May 30, 2018

Out of the Blue

Sophie Cameron | 2018 | Young Adult (YA)

4.0

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I couldn't get in to this book :(

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Out of the blue is a book about a girl called Jaya and how she one day finds an Angel that has fallen from the sky.

No one knows why or how these Angels are falling. No one even knows where they are coming from. Jaya’s mum died a year ago and it hit her, her dad and sister hard. Not long after the Angels started to fall. Her father quits his job and takes her and her sister Rani to Edingburg where he believes he can find an Angel and knows exactly where it will fall.

I couldn’t get into this book, I felt that it took such a long time to get into the story and ten chapters into it, it still didn’t grasp my attention. This is the first time I have not been able to get into a book since I started my blog and Youtube channel. I really did try but I just couldn’t.

It’s not fair for me to give this book a 1 cup of tea because I couldn’t get into it. But I want to give an honest review and tell you the truth.

I will have to give it a 1.5 cup of tea because of the fact I couldn’t get into it and I found that the book didn’t really tell you why these Angels are falling. I did read the last few pages to see if I could get into it more, however, that didn’t work. I also had a look at some other reviews for people to say the same. So I am very sorry Sophie Cameron but I couldn’t get into this book.

Love,

Christina

1.5 ☕ – POOR/OK