Tomboy
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Some kids’ heads are in the clouds. Harriet Little’s head is in outer space. In 1950s...
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Our Lady of the Prairie
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In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad—long-married theater...
Orpheus Rising
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Michael Ryan was the author of a runaway bestseller, Space Coast, but its publication coincided with...
The Crown Of Draga (Draga Court #2)
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The Draga Galaxy is on the brink of war and Adelina will do everything she can to help, including...
4 stars space opera fantasy/sci-fi romance
Hellboy Weird Tales: Vol 1
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In a fantastic collection of short stories spanning time, space and dimensions, and starring a...
David McK (3372 KP) rated Knives Out (2019) in Movies
Dec 27, 2022
I'm one of those who that movie pretty much soured me on seeing any others by the same director.
However, this recently popped up on Netflix and so I decided that, as enough time had passed, I would give it a shot.
What I saw was pretty much a standard whodunnit, not as funny or as clever as the reviews made it out to be, and with some twists and turns I saw coming but others which I didn't.
I will agree, however, that Ana de Armas is the standout in the entire film. (And the least said about Craig's atrocious accent the better)
System Shock 2
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System Shock 2 paved the way for the genre-blending first-person games that are commonplace today,...
David McK (3372 KP) rated Moonfall (2022) in Movies
Aug 16, 2022
Arthur C Clarke, 'Rendezvous with Rama'
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Any number of Roland Emmerich's own disaster movies.
It might seem odd talking about all those, bit throw them in a blender and the result might be something like this!
I was expecting a traditional end of the world disaster movie - like 2012, say, or Deep Impact, or something along that vein - which the movie does start as, with the moon mysteriously knocked out of it orbit and hence causing all kinds of chaos on good old planet Earth. Roughly about 2/3rds of the way in, though, it completely changes tack, becoming more of a sci-fi spectacle than anything, and closer - perhaps - to one of Emmerich's own most successful films of the mid 90s ...