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The Baghdad Railway Club

Andrew Martin

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Baghdad 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to...

The Old Nurse's Story

John Milton and Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands...

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Emma Hooper

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Read our exclusive interview with the author here "Genuinely moving." (Guardian)....

Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph

Beverley Frances Ronalds

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Telecommunication has undergone unprecedented change in recent times. Two hundred years ago, Sir...

Pete Fowler recommended Wizard, A True Star by Todd Rundgren in Music (curated)

Wizard, A True Star by Todd Rundgren

1973 | Rock

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"One of the best blue-eyed soul voices ever. Famously he didn't do drugs in the '60s and made up for it in the '70s. My girlfriend gave me a book about how he recorded each album, it's incredibly detailed. For this record, he got a studio together in New York and got a load of musicians together to make the record. At no point did he play any of the session players any vocals – they heard bits of music but they had no clear picture of what the actual song would be like. He had a total vision and he didn't want to deviate from that with anyone else's opinion. People talk about records that go from jazz to prog to psych to vaudeville in one track and that's Todd. A proper studio head who could write hooks and songs in an almost Brill Building way. My favourite story about Todd is that he lives in Hawaii and one side of his house doesn't have a wall. He said about it, "Lots of things come in. Animals, super-fans, stalkers, the weather."

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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Geostorm (2017) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019

Geostorm (2017)

2017 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

6.4

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I'm not going to go all out description on this, because honestly you should just see it.

The world now has a net of satellites that control the weather on Earth. Something goes wrong and there's a battle against the clock to find the person behind it and to stop the oncoming Geostorm.

I saw this one in 3D as it coincided with getting out of work. Yet another film that makes me think I don't need to see 3D films, and I certainly wouldn't if I was paying full price for them.

I love natural disaster films... what's not to love? Catastrophic volcano/tornado/earthquake/snow storm/tsunami... any combination of those... add some sharks... bingo! Are any of them going to win best movie? No. Do I care? Also, no. They're good fun, they're action filled, they like to take the piss out of themselves a little bit. I will be buying this when the DVD comes out, and I will love it all over again.