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Snowbound

Cari Hunter

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“The policewoman got shot and she’s bleeding everywhere. Get someone here in one hour or I’m...

Cari Hunter Thriller Crime Lesfic

Wish You Were Here

Jodi Picoult

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Diana O'Toole's life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she's up for promotion to her dream...

Conspiracy of Silence: Scot Young's Fatal Fall in London Exposed an International Network of Strange Deaths.

Gordon Bowers

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On 8 December 2014, the shattered body of bankrupt property tycoon Scot Young was found impaled on...

Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds

Darren Oldridge

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Strange Histories is an exploration of some of the most extraordinary beliefs that existed in the...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Fisherman's Friends (2019) in Movies

Mar 20, 2019 (Updated Mar 20, 2019)

Fisherman's Friends (2019)

2019 | Comedy, Drama, Musical

7.7

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Punishingly trite, manipulative and formulaic (not very) based-on-a-true-story rom-com melodrama. Jaded urban over-achiever finds himself stranded in remote rural community, learns to appreciate the value of The Important Things in Life; meanwhile a crew of hairy fishermen sing songs with lyrics like 'Nacker-nacker-toory-ay'. Cornwall and its inhabitants are arguably patronised a lot.

Utterly predictable and not very funny (well, we did laugh a lot during the bit with the funeral, but we're not very proud of that), the script overdoses on feelgood platitudes while not bothering all that much about things like characterisation or internal logic. The music is not that bad (if you like that sort of thing), but sheesh, you can go and buy a CD for that. In the end this is a sort of lobotomised version of Local Hero with added folk music.