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Down These Mean Streets
Down These Mean Streets
Piri Thomas | 1997 | Biography, Gender Studies
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"New York is where I go in my head a lot when I’m writing. I have deep imprints of the city in my backbone: sounds, smells, music, pizza parlors, Chelsea Hotel, TV, fire hydrants oozing, the Lower East Side, people everywhere living their lives inside-out, on top, and through each other… maybe there is something even more in the memories old New York in the ‘70s—unpolished, unclean, lived in. It’s all there in this coming of age story of a young Puerto Rican boy/man. I feel this story all around in my memory bank."

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Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
2020 | Crime, Documentary
Ugh, I'm having a hard time writing a review for this mini-series. I really liked it, enjoyed is not a great descriptor. You know a show is good when it sticks with you. It honestly has invoked a lot of anger within me about the entire situation. I can't even type that d-bag's name.
These situations are horrifying, the Palm Beach area is one I've visited a ton because i have family in that area (not the super bourgeoisie area). It's disgusting how the girls were taken advantage of, and it's making me angry again thinking about it.
  
What Lies Between Us
What Lies Between Us
John Marrs | 2020 | Thriller
8
7.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
Over the past 12 months, John Marrs has shot towards the top of my favorite authors' list, and 'What Lies Between Us' does not fail to deliver.

Featuring the most messed up of family dynamics, the gasp moments keep on coming as we try to decide who is most dysfunctional; daughter Nina or mother Maggie. They both put a big claim to the title.

The writing is so gripping that once you start you just want to keep on going, so despite the disturbing content I didn't want a break.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the copy
  
Tough Love by Molly Moore
Tough Love by Molly Moore
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Rating
With the new single Tough Love from Molly Moore we get attitude and some badass groove. Molly Moore has been paying the bills writing hits for artists like Felix Cartal and DubVision ever since her early days in New York City. Now based in Los Angeles she is moving sonically into a more experimental production style and looking to build on the success of her debut EP Shadow of the Sun.

Moore discusses her plan to push her sound a bit closer to Banks and London Grammar; we think she has already found a place between Annie Lennox and Jamie Lidell.
  
Metro 2033
Metro 2033
Dmitry Glukhovsky | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
10
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Great read (0 more)
Deep meaningful situations
I find Dmitry one of the best authors I've ever read. His type of writing keeps you in the story terribly. He's way to easy to read do you end up lost in pages for hours not even realising it. There's no hard bits to go through, just one amazing idea of post apocalyptic world and human kind trying to deal with its consequences. Next to the great thought of the system of an underground survivers, there are plenty of moments where the author is focusing on human kind and it's weaknesses, twitches and their behaviour.
  
Robin Hood (2018)
Robin Hood (2018)
2018 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Big stars (1 more)
Good fashion outfits
Simple lines (4 more)
Try hard
Stupid
Clash of genres
Clash of historg
Quite tragic, not impressed
Quite tragic and saddening to see a timeless classic being remade in this manner. The writing for the lines was very simple with very cliche one liners that are trying to hard to be cool. The outfits are too modern for the setting. I like the idea to revamp it but either choose to be modern or keep everything in the right time frame. You can't have mines and castles whilst wearing hoodies with drawstrings and overly shiny leather.
  
Top Gun (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
1986 | Action, Drama
"I feel the need. The need... for speed!"

"This is what in call a target rich environment"

"Son, your ego is writing cheques your body can't cash"

1980s action classic (that I was all of 7 when it was released) starring a then up and coming (and young!) Tom Cruise as Maverick, the hotshot pilot who gets a shot at Top Gun: the military training school for the top 1% of naval pilots.

This has a great cast (Michael Ironside, Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis, Tom Cruise himself) alongside some great aerial battles, but does drag in bits.