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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) created a video about vanilla bean vegan restaurants in Apps
Jan 31, 2018

Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) created a video about Up and Vanished in TV
Nov 19, 2017

Suswatibasu (1702 KP) created a video about Before We Vanish (Sanpo suru shinryakusha) (2017) in Movies
Feb 5, 2018

Suswatibasu (1702 KP) rated The Picture of Dorian Gray in Books
Nov 9, 2017 (Updated Nov 9, 2017)
Gruesome, grisly, Gothic horror
There is no true horror than the horror humans create themselves. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a classic tale of hubris and vanity, and the sins that associate themselves with such. Oscar Wilde's macabre style is fascinating for its time, and the idea that the painting is a representation of his Gray's own soul is intelligent.

Tracy Letts recommended La Notte (1961) in Movies (curated)

Lena Dunham recommended Too Much and Not the Mood in Books (curated)

Andrew Furlong (14 KP) rated Star Trek V - The Final Frontier (1989) in Movies
Sep 27, 2017
It has a few good character moments (2 more)
Jerry Goldsmith returns for another excellent score
It's never boring
Shatner takes the director's chair and his ego often gets the best of him. (2 more)
Storyline is confused and often overindulgent
Comedy often falls flat
It's... something
While I would say it's more interesting than it's reputation it's not a good movie. It very much feels like a vanity project by Shatner and the story suffers for it.

Lena Dunham recommended Såsom i en Spegel (Through A Glass Darkly) (1961) in Movies (curated)

tapestry100 (306 KP) rated Angel Catbird, Volume 1 in Books
Aug 2, 2017
This is an unfortunate disappointment for me. I haven't read much of Atwood, but I'm familiar with her and her significance as an author so I was more than intrigued by the idea of a graphic novel written by her. Well, imagine my disappointment in what she gave us: from her rather self-serving foreword, where in the first paragraph she reminds us that she is “an award-winning nice literary old lady” and then goes on to great lengths about her lifelong interest in comics, to the flat story that is nothing but one overused superhero trope and bad pun after another, to the lackluster art (sorry, but Johnnie Christmas' art just didn't save this enough for me), to the interjected facts about the number of cat and bird deaths in Canada, the US, and the UK that occur each year, I was shocked that this got published. I would assume that had anyone other that Margaret Atwood presented this project, it would have been shot down. This is nothing to me but a vanity project and one that I just can't see myself continuing. The only reason I can't give it 1 star is because it is Margaret Atwood, after all, and it seems sacrilegious to do so.