The Good Dinosaur (2015)
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Luckily for young Arlo, his parents (Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand) and his two siblings, the...
Café Society (2016)
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Looking for an exciting career, young Bobby Dorfman leaves New York for the glitz and glamour of...
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
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The Freelings have escaped their haunted house, which is now being studied by paranormal...
No Rain Today
Book
Returning to England as a young widow, Annie Blake must forge a new life for herself. But how can...
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
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When Amazon princess Diana of Themyscira chooses to save fighter pilot Steve Trevor, it is a choice...
Nick McCabe recommended If I Could Only Remember My Name by David Crosby in Music (curated)
Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Cold Granite (Logan McRae #1) in Books
Dec 19, 2019
Listening to the audio of this book narrated by Steve Worsley felt a lot like curling up in front of the TV to watch a post-watershed BBC police procedural series set in Scotland. If you like a good dark down to earth police procedural then this may well be up your alley.
Logan McRae is just returning to work following sustaining horrific injuries in the line of duty and is thrown straight back into the thick of it when the mutilated body of a young boy is discovered. Numerous threads, involving various cases and a smattering of personal life then intertwine to give a very solid down to earth police procedural. OK, I could of done with Logan being a bit less obsessed with every bit of leg he saw but for the time and place set probably fairly accurate…
First in a long-running series and as there's not much on the TV at the minute I'm on board for more of these
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture
Book
Disco is the music that America tried to forget. By the end of the 1970s "Saturday Night Fever"...
Acanthea Grimscythe (300 KP) rated Eden Lake (2008) in Movies
May 12, 2018
What can possibly go wrong when you piss off a bunch of angsty teenagers in the middle of nowhere? As Jenny and Steve, the aforementioned vacationing young couple, learn, a lot. After Steve accidentally kills the gang leader’s dog, all hell breaks loose.
It’s the scenes of death and torture that really give this film its rating. When my boyfriend warned me about how twisted some of the scenes were, “WTF” wasn’t how I expected to react. The age-old, unspoken rule about killing children definitely doesn’t apply here. It’s gritty and jaw-dropping, and perfect for fans of campy horror films.
It should be noted that this film comes without a happy ending–for anyone. That fact alone played a major role in my rating. I’m sick of seeing films where characters get out of an unlikely situation and go on with their lives; Eden Lake, on the hand, doesn’t follow that cliché. It does, however, rely a bit too heavily on coincidence and for that, I give it a rating of 4 out of 5.
Leaves of Glass
Book
On the surface, Steven has everything. A beautiful wife, a successful business, a brand new home....