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Ten Little Princesses
Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty
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A traditional counting rhyme with a sprinkling of fairy tale magic. Now in a chunky board book...
colin... (64 KP) rated The Rental (2020) in Movies
Sep 30, 2020
White People Unnecessarily Gaslighting Each Other With A Plot That Is Predictable From The First Ten Minutes With A Score That Is Bland And Repeats The Same Two Notes Over And Over Again And Nothing Even Remotely Impressive Happens On A Technical Level Or A Plot Level: The Movie
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Andrew Koltuniuk (762 KP) rated Ladyhawke (1985) in Movies
Oct 27, 2024
While I have seen this film before, it was over ten years ago and I think that I can confidently say it was like watching it again for the first time. I love this film, it has such sharp dialogue and such interesting characters. I forgot how slow of a burn this film is, but it hits in the end.
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Life hasn't worked out the way Ray planned. Ten years ago he had a wife, a job, a child. Now he has...
Lenard (726 KP) rated X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) in Movies
Jul 4, 2019
The producers behind the X-Men series once again rush to tell one of their best storylines from the comic series. Unfortunately, The Dark Phoenix Saga does not lend itself to a one-off movie. Once again, the people with the money are too afraid to gamble on breaking the story into two or three movies. Imagine It, The Lord of the Rings, or Infinity Gauntlet as just film. You can't because all of them were split up into two or three films and they all made huge profits. Dark Phoenix needed the same care and guidance. Jean Grey was not introduced in this timeline until Apocalypse. We the audience did not have time to get to know her and her backstory so we have no sympathy for her when she is taken over by an alien force or any understanding why she is able to battle within herself. There is no real tension in the relationship between Scott and Jean since they have only been together in our minds for 1 movie even if the movie was set ten years ago. We have not experienced those ten years along side them. Every detail is cobbled together in an effort to jam this story which lasted ten issues in the graphic serial.
As an avid reader of novels I've found myself persistently let down with YA novels and I thought the same of Divergent before I had even read it. I got a sample and downloaded the book and finished it in under ten hours. Couldn't put it down. Very good YA novel and an interesting twist on a dystopia. Don't think I will be judging a book by its cover any time soon again