Andre Kertesz: Paris, Autumn 1963
Andre Kertesz and Matthieu Rivallin
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Andre Kertesz, a master photographer of the twentieth century, was a pioneer in photographic...
David McK (3610 KP) rated The Mask of Zorro (1998) in Movies
Aug 15, 2020
It's also slightly surprising that this got a PG rating, with a strong vein of revenge running throughout it (the elder Zorro's quest to avenge the death of his wife, and to get his revenge on the man who stole his daughter and raised her as his own) alongside his younger protege's quest for revenge on the soldier who killed his brother.
Taking in horse chases, stunts, lots of swordplay, romance and even El Dorado, this is a genuinely enjoyable throwback to the less serious, less po faced movies of old than seems to be the current trend. (It's also better than the sequel)
The Making of the British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present
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Nicholas Crane's new book brilliantly describes the evolution of Britain's countryside and cities....
Gotcha! (1985)
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Anthony Edwards (TV's ER) and Linda Fiorentino (Men in Black) star in this comic thriller. Jonathan...
Ross (3284 KP) rated Just Mercy (2019) in Movies
Jun 15, 2020
Jordan plays young lawyer Bryan Stevenson who moves to Alabama to fight for justice for death row convicts. Among many cases he meets Jonny D (Foxx), who initially refuses to fight any more despite the paper-thin conviction he received. Persuaded, the pair start their fight against the system, met time and time again with prejudice, injustice and an unfair system that is unwilling to review past cases.
The irony of this unfolding in the town that is so proud to have been where Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, the story of a black man facing an unfair trial accused of crime against a young white female, was not lost on me. This wasn't made much of in the film, I would guess out of respect for the family of the actual murder victim here, and not wanting to suggest a parallel with the false crime in the book.
The film does well to portray the racial injustice, unbalanced legal system and prejudice experienced by the authorities and smalltown America, but not overdo it. This leaves the viewer to mull it on their own, which is especially important to do in the current climate.
An excellent film that gets the balance right between story, faithfulness to the facts and sewing thoughts and parallels with modern day life.
Stars: A Very Short Introduction
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Every atom of our bodies has been part of a star. Our very own star, the Sun, is crucial to the...
Dissolution
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Dissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C. J. Sansom,...
Death on the Grand Canal
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Having discovered a knack for investigation, Stefanie joins Thomas Burkhardt in Milan, Italy, on the...
Into the Forge
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Epic tales abound in Dennis L. McKiernan's wondrous world of Mithgar, but none are as renowned as...
Awix (3310 KP) rated High Life (2019) in Movies
May 13, 2019 (Updated May 13, 2019)
High Life presumably is an attempt at a grand statement on the human condition, but ends up looking more like what would happen if the Big Brother house was sent into orbit - this is a film with a bleak, squalid, misanthropic outlook, not helped by its total lack of humour and increasingly odd and confounding plotting as it continues. It betrays a certain familiarity with the history of the genre, has reasonable production designs, and Pattinson's performance is not bad. But it's a strange, repugnant, impenetrable film with little actual entertainment value.