Born Under a Bad Sign
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Tony Palmer is a noted British film director and writer, and over the years has written for The...
Queer Eye - Season 1
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More than a decade after the original series went off the air, Netflix reboots the "Queer Eye"...
Queer Eye - Season 2
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More than a decade after the original series went off the air, Netflix reboots the "Queer Eye"...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Last Wish in Books
Sep 25, 2021
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The Last Wish ( The Witcher book 1)
By Andrzej Sapkowski
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Geralt de Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin.
And a cold-blooded killer.
His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world.
But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good
. . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.
I’m so glad I decided to start these books! This is a selection of short stories to open up the wither world and Geralt. I loved them all and it made so much more sense matching these shorts to the Tv series. Looking forward to getting stuck into the next book. It also helps I now have Henry Cavil stuck in my head for Geralt!
David McK (3770 KP) rated Rocky Balboa (2006) in Movies
Mar 30, 2022
Started the third, but ended up switching it off.
Heard the series gets increasingly ridiculous the longer it went on.
I also watched the offshoot Creed relatively recently: found it a bit slow; not really holding my interest.
Nevertheless, I thought I would give Stallone's last movie where Rocky is the leading man when it was on TV, just to see if it would recapture the 'je ne sais qua' (I've probably spelt that completely wrong) of the original.
And it is heavily influenced by that movie, following a lot of the same beats and locations: Rocky getting a chance to reconnect with those in his life, climbing back into the ring to face the undisputed heavyweight champion boxer of the world, and going the distance after an earlier stirring training montage ...
Steven Sklansky (231 KP) rated Mr Mercedes in Books
Nov 22, 2017
This book really went to a place most crime novels don't go to and that is a story about a retired detective on the verge of suicide. I feel like most retire cops go into something else and not just sit around all day. But he is pulled out by a case that got away, which is a good motivator. The one and done type of killer is very rare as well. Usually these types of psychos always go out for more. I don't know if it was lack of drive which most killers don't have or patience which he seemed to have a lot of. It was definitely different.
I can't wait to read the next 2 books in the series and watch the TV show to see how it compares. Until next time, enjoy the read.
State Propaganda in China's Entertainment Industry
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Most current research on the evolution of China's propaganda discourse only touches upon recent...
