Beyond the Castle: A Guide to Discovering Your Happily Ever After
Jody Jean Dreyer and Stacy L. Windahl
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When the credits roll and you've left the park, when your Disney day is over, how do you take the...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Scanners (1981) in Movies
Sep 7, 2020
The plot: Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. There are many who exercise the benefits of their special gifts in a safe and judicious manner. However, there is a group of renegade scanners who plan to create a race that will rule the world.
In the film, "scanners" are people with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.
Writer and director David Cronenberg has called Scanners one of his most difficult films to make, citing an incomplete script when the shooting schedule commenced, as well as a lack of constructed sets.
The iconic head explosion scene was the product of trial and error, eventually settling on a plaster skull and a gelatin exterior packed with "latex scraps, some wax, and just bits and bobs and a lot of stringy stuff that we figured would fly through the air a little better" as well as "leftover burgers." When other explosive techniques failed to give the desired effect, special effects supervisor Gary Zeller told the crew to roll cameras and get inside the trucks with doors and windows closed; he then lay down behind the dummy and shot it in the back of the head with a shotgun.
Michael Ironside is a excellent job as the villian.
Its a excellent sci-fi body horror film.
Hot Fey Moon (Wildeward Academy #4)
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An enchantress holds my father and my birthright in thrall. If I can’t find my mother and bring...
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Not That I Could Tell
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An innocent night of fun takes a shocking turn in Not That I Could Tell, the next page-turner from...
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The Sin Eater
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Can you uncover the truth when you’re forbidden from speaking it? A Sin Eater’s duty is a...
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Girls With Balls: The Secret History of Women's Football
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Boxing Day 1920, and 53,000 men, women and children pack inside Goodison Park. The extraordinary...
Build With Grandpa
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Demolish an old building with a wrecking ball, clear the lot with a bulldozer - then design, build,...
ArecRain (8 KP) rated Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries in Books
Jan 18, 2018
First I should mention that I love space. Despite this and the fact that I am actually a fairly intelligent human being, I have found that most books written about space, and physic in general, are written at such a high reading proficiency and are jargon heavy to the point that it is more chore to read than anything.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson brings his trademark humor to this novel as well as making it genuinely enjoyable to read. For being a non-fiction book, it certainly did not read like one. Regardless of whether you are a newbie when it comes to space or a seasoned fan, Death by Black Hole is consciously written with an easy almost conservational style that draws the reader in. I personally feel that it opens a lot of doors to those who want to learn but may have difficulty with the language.
I recommend Death by Black Hole to everyone. Literally everyone.
One Grump or Two: The Grumpy Guide to Modern Life, from Call Centres to Getting a Decent Cup of Tea
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All you want is a decent cup of tea. But oh no, modern Britain doesn't want to give you that. It...
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Home Design - Create realistic floor plans and 3D models in minutes for your next room or home...