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The Three Chimneys Marmalade Bible

Bob Dewar and Shirley Spear

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Marmalade is an iconic Scottish food, traditionally made every year in January and February when...

Life is Like a Musical: How Broadway Can Help You Live Your Best Life

Tim Federle

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From the author of the hit cocktail books Tequila Mockingbird and Gone with the Gin comes a guide to...

Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality

Rita Carter

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In MULTIPLICITY, Rita Carter - award-winning science writer and international speaker - offers a new...

Black and British: An Untold Story

David Olusoga

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A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In...

Chris Parnell recommended Chariots of Fire (1981) in Movies (curated)

Chariots of Fire (1981)

1981 | Drama, International, Sport

7.6

(8 Ratings)

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"I guess my first favorite movie would be Chariots of Fire. I know it’s not just me because it won an Academy Award, so I know it’s pretty good. But it struck a chord with me. I think when I was younger I was very religious, and that aspect of the story appealed to me. Although not anymore, I still love it. I have a certain, I guess, fascination with that kind of period in England. Not that I know about it; I’m not a historian or anything. But just like it’s something so romantic about, you know, going to school there and in that atmosphere and that time. I mean, it was an awful time for a lot of people, but for the guys who got to go to Oxford and Cambridge. I don’t know. It’s cool. And then they go to the Olympics, and the characters are just so interesting, and winning. I mean obviously based on real people, and such fantastic acting, you know. Great direction. Art direction, and wardrobe, and all of that."

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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The Golden Compass (2007) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

The Golden Compass (2007)

2007 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

5.7

(15 Ratings)

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Just nukes the ever-loving fuck out of the book. To turn a pretty bloody and challenging series into this hyperincompetent snooze of shit storytelling, genre rehashing, and violently diluted themes (or what's left of them, if anything) should have been criminalized on arrival. Find me anyone who can tell me what the plot of this is or why anything in it happens, this is 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦 of crummy children's fantasy flicks (which were the 2000s answer to the dull, samey YA craze of the 2010s). Oh and those Academy Award winning effects? They're fucking ghoulish. The production is nice but how anyone could think this mess of badly-aged animation and awful greenscreen work looks good is far beyond me. The armored polar bears were pretty dope though, and this wakes up a bit in the weird 15 minutes where a group of crazy institution fanatics start experimenting on children out in like the middle of the arctic for no real reason lmao. But otherwise absolutely not, no thank you.