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Morning Glories, Vol. 3: P.E.

Nick Spencer

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Book

One of the most prestigious prep schools in the country...But behind its hallowed doors something...

Orphan Black - Season 1

9.0 (6 Ratings) Rate It

TV Season Watch

Sarah Manning witnesses the death of a woman who looks exactly like her. She decides to escape her...

The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Story of Arthur Truluv in Books

Oct 5, 2020

When an aging widower visiting the grave of his wife, meets a troubled teenager trying to escape school, they both seem to recognize something similar to themselves inside each other. That’s how the unusual relationship begins between Maddy and Arthur, which soon expands to include Arthur’s somewhat eccentric and also aging neighbor, Lucille. You can read more about this heartwarming book in my review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2017/11/18/hybrid-of-a-family/

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Alien 3 (1992)

6.6 (65 Ratings) Rate It

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Following the events of "Aliens", an escape pod carrying Ellen Ripley and an Alien organism crashes...

Alien Xenomorph

Ninja Subway City

Games

3.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

App

Subway Ninja City is a great arcade game created by Alphaway Studio. It is a fantasy endless running...

Lee (2222 KP) rated The Red Turtle (2016) in Movies

Mar 19, 2018

The Red Turtle (2016)

2016 | Animation, Fantasy

7.8

(12 Ratings)

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Mesmerisingly Beautiful

I'd not heard a great deal about this Studio Ghibli movie, other than some fairly positive buzz online, so when it hit Amazon Prime at Christmas last year, I quickly added it to my watch list. It's taken all this time, until a cold and wintry Sunday afternoon in March, for me to finally sit down and watch it.

A man is washed up on a deserted island and after exploring his surroundings, sets about trying to escape. He builds a number of rafts from the trees but each time his escape is thwarted by an unknown force breaking his raft apart from beneath. On the third time this happens, the man discovers the cause of the destruction to be a large red turtle and when he later sees the turtle shuffling up the beach, he seeks revenge, overturning it and leaving it to suffer in the heat of the sun as it fails to correct itself.

Eventually the man feels remorse, but it appears to be too late...

Not a single word is spoken throughout the whole movie (other than the occasional 'Hey!'). It's a simple, beautiful tale that drew me in and left me feeling totally mesmerised and emotional with it's profound ideas and messages. Simply wonderful.