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Patrick deWitt

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele....

Alice (117 KP) rated How It All Blew Up in Books

Mar 3, 2021

How It All Blew Up

Arvin Ahmadi | 2020 | Young Adult (YA)

5.5

(2 Ratings)

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Thank you to Netgalley and Hot Key books for the opportunity to read and review this book ahead of its release!

This book was a delight and so compulsively readable! It was so fun to escape to Rome with Amir but also to delve into some deeper topics as well. One of my friends lives in Italy and this is just exactly how I picture her life. Amir was such a fun narrator and even though he was a bit of an asshole sometimes you really were rooting for him! We can so often romanticise situations, people and places and this story showed that even the things that we romanticise and deem perfect are messy when we look a little closer.

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Annaleese Jochems

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Cynthia can understand how Anahera feels just by looking at her body. Cynthia is twenty-one,...

Sarah (7798 KP) rated Sucker Punch (2011) in Movies

Sep 20, 2018

Sucker Punch (2011)

2011 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

6.2

(59 Ratings)

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All style, no substance

Apologies in advance to all of the male Smashbombers, but this film basically feels like a teenage boy’s fantasy. I saw it when it first came out at the cinema and wasn’t impressed in the slightest, but I thought I’d give it another go in case I was wrong. Unfortunately I wasn’t.

Girls wearing barely anything, mental asylums, brothels, monsters, war zones, robots, dragons, zombies.... did nobody stop to think that this was maybe a bit too much? Zack Snyder has compared this to Alice in Wonderland, but it is far from it. The plot could’ve worked better if it had just stuck to a girl resorting to a inner fantasy world to escape reality in a mental asylum, but instead it just gets far too ridiculous and silly. Visually it looks very good, although I don’t think the CGI looks quite as good on the small screen as you’d hope, and the soundtrack is great, it’s just a shame the rest of the film is so dull and laughably bad. You’ve got some great actors in here (even a brief cameo from Jon Hamm) but they really are wasted in this.