Jaime by Brittany Howard
Album
Debut solo studio album by the lead guitarist/vocalist of chart-topping, GRAMMY-winning band,...
Creative Craft Ideas - Arts & Crafts Designs Ideas
Catalogs and Entertainment
App
Here in 'Craft Ideas' you will get Large Collection of Arts & Crafts Ideas For Kids,Teenagers & Also...
Cloak & Dagger - Season 1
6.0
Rate It
TV Season Watch
The collapse of an oil rig in New Orleans owned by the company Roxxon causes two teenagers to become...
When the Devil Holds the Candle (Inspector Konrad Sejer #4)
Book
When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an infant’s death. Unaware of the...
Nun But the Brave
10.0
Rate It
Book
Giulia Driscoll’s sister-in-law barges into Driscoll Investigations and promptly passes out from...
Sam (74 KP) rated The Hate u Give in Books
Mar 27, 2019
Only I didn’t enjoy it to the point where I got halfway through and couldn’t finish it. I wasn’t even sure whether to post the review because I know that lots of people will disagree with me over this.
I was so excited for a book to be out that’s about police brutality in America towards black teenagers, and was surprised, to begin with, that something as serious as this was in a YA book, but also happy that it was being told to teenagers. It sounded like my ideal book.
But I just couldn’t get along with it at all. The whole idea with the book is to show what casual racism is doing to America, but at the same time on every few pages, there’s another part talking about how horrible and funny and evil white people are. If a book wants to make a stand against racism, make a stand against it from both sides, not just one. You cannot end racism by calling the other race.
I just found it really one-sided in its battle against racism. I am definitely not saying that the police shooting was right, let me just say that, and Starr has every right to hate the police for shooting her best friend. However, this does not mean that every few pages there needs to be a comment about how awful white people are.
A much healthier focus for the book would have been equality, not switching the racism to the other side in a ‘how-do-you-like-it-now’ move.
Steve Fearon (84 KP) rated Halloween (1978) in Movies
Sep 5, 2018 (Updated Sep 5, 2018)
You feel it somewhere deep inside, that feeling that something special is going to happen.
Halloween is THE Slasher, with a silent antagonist, an over-the-top performance from Donald Pleasance, the introduction of Jamie Lee Curtis, and the establishment of John Carpenter as one of the foremost purveyors of horror.
Patiently paced, with little time given to explanation of exposition, we are taken on the slow build up of tension as we go from the legendary intro sequence, to a breakout at the asylum, through to the stalking of teenagers by the man in the William Shatner mask.
Lots of shots of Myers just watching, waiting, judging, which could be interpreted as boring on paper, but it is just the right side of unnerving, and it is this constant threat which means the viewer is constantly scanning the edges of the screen, looking for our antagonist.
It contrasts beautifully with the naivety and innocence of his victims, who are just trying to enjoy Halloween as most teenagers are wont to do.
Yes this film is relatively tame compared to the films that have come after, but few can touch the pure sinister feel and atmosphere that Carpenter creates, and it is a simply iconic entry in cinema history.
Watch it for what it is, a genre changing horror film, that changed all that followed it.
No Myers, No Friday 13th, No Scream, No Nightmare On Elm Street.
Its that important.
She Lies in Wait (DCI Jonah Sheens, #1)
9.0
Rate It
Book
Six friends. One killer. Who do you trust? A teen girl is missing after a night of partying; thirty...
Andy K (10821 KP) rated The Cabin in the Woods (2012) in Movies
Jan 6, 2018
It kind of a tale of two halves as the standard teenagers stranded in the woods tale starts to unravel with splashes of other scenes which seem unrelated when you first watch them. Then it slowly comes together.
The elevator ride midway through the film embarks the remaining characters on a descent to another world where all sorts of other unique creatures, ghouls and goblins reside.
The climax of the film has to be seen to be believed, but will not be forgotten once you see it. There is no formula here and is truly one-of-a=kind.
