
Boy Toy Chronicles (Boy Toy Chronicles, #1)
Book
Warning: This book contains mildly inappropriate everything. So…I came up with a plan. I sat the...

David McK (3600 KP) rated The hunger games ballard of songbirds and snakes (2023) in Movies
Jul 3, 2024
I'd seen the quartet of movies based on those books.
I haven't read the prequel, on which this is based.
So I had little knowledge of what to expect, going in, other than that it centred on a young Cornelius Snow before he becomes the tyrannical president of the original films.
This film is very clearly split into 3 acts (each proceeded by a card naming such): The Mentor, The Prize and The Peacekeeper - with the first two of those three acts the better.
Final act drags on a bit.
The middle section is the bit set during the 10th annual Hunger Games, which - here - are far more 'basic', far more 'real' than that of the Jennifer Lawrence films, with Rachel Zeigler's Lucy Gray also more a performer forced to become a warrior than Lawrence's Everdeen (the exact opposite).

Critical Missions: SWAT Lite
Games
App
Now with free multiplayer! FPS fans, the moment you have been waiting for has finally arrived!...

RLM-Fin-PL
Finance and Business
App
The RLM-Fin-PL is a full simulation of the well known HP-12C Platinum financial and business...

Money - Budget & Finance
Finance and Productivity
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Get your finances on track with the gorgeous new Money! Your day-to-day finance management will no...

Athletics: Summer Sports (Full Version)
Games
App
Practice athletic sports in a realistic 3D environment through 30 events and 5 competitions ! ...

Merissa (13178 KP) rated Thick & Thin (THIRDS #8) in Books
Jun 27, 2017
I needed this book, a touch of normality after the previous book! I still found my emotions in play though as the rest of the team learned about what had gone on that they had no idea about. However, I am now excited to see where it will lead. Very well written, as per the whole series, with no editing or grammatical errors to disrupt my reading flow. Definitely recommended by me.
* Verified Purchase ~ April 2017 *
Merissa
Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!

Awix (3310 KP) rated Devil Girl from Mars (1955) in Movies
Mar 30, 2019 (Updated Mar 30, 2019)
Absolutely a horrendous collision between a homespun UK programme filler and a spangly American flying saucer B-movie, but the weirdest thing about this very odd film is that there are individual bits of it that are actually pretty good: just not the acting, script, or sci-fi props. Shameless in its economy and genuinely very funny (just not intentionally), the result is sort of like an episode of The Twilight Zone performed as amateur theatre. Awful, but a fun kind of awful.

Awix (3310 KP) rated Godzilla Vs Hedorah (1971) in Movies
May 17, 2019
Godzilla Vs Hedorah makes itself distinctive amongst the Godzilla films of the early 70s by virtue of its sheer, insidious weirdness, most of it due to Banno's direction: there are sudden switches to black-and-white, split screen sequences, educational segments, and allegorical cartoons. Doesn't stop it being mostly awful, but in a strangely hypnotic way, and it least it's obviously about a serious issue for a change. Possibly most infamous for the sequence where Godzilla uses his atomic breath as rocket thrust to fly with, but much other weirdness is also present. Bad, but very watchably bad.

ArecRain (8 KP) rated DV8: Gods and Monsters in Books
Jan 18, 2018
The story line is one of the best I have read in a long time. These eight people with powers are dropped onto a primitive planet where they are seen as gods. The story is told through Copy Cat, or Gem, who has the power to control people but also has split personalities. The story begins with her sitting in an interrogation cell. As she explains what happened to them after they were dropped on the planet, the art flashback to show what happened in the past.
Such an intriguing story that had me entranced from page one. I couldn't put it down. A must read for the comic fan looking for a different type of story.