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Te Reo Māori

Education and Reference

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Te Reo Māori is a Māori language dictionary that is easy to use by searching for Māori or English...

Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

Variety of authors

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A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic...

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Mar 26, 2019

Troy (2004)

2004 | Action, Drama, History

7.1

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Hollywood retelling of the tale of Troy is just a bit better than you might expect in pretty much every department. Trojan prince Paris steals Greek queen Helen, leading to... does no-one read the Iliad any more? There's a lot of bother, let's put it that way.

Whole thing is handled in broad strokes and there are quite a few divergences from the traditional legend (the Trojan war lasts about a fortnight, not ten years, and you can forget any notion of Brad Pitt's Achilles being into, er, Greek-style romance, if you know what I mean), but overall this is fun, rousing stuff. Looking back on it now the various bits of political subtext not-so-subtly inserted into the film seem amusingly quaint more than anything else. A well-staged, classy blockbuster.