Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (2444)

Content

Stars and Cars

Jacques Braunstein

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Steve McQueen. A Ford Mustang. And San Francisco. The ten-minute pursuit in Bullitt has remained the...

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid

6.0 (4 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Soon to be a Netflix film directed by Charlie Kaufman. Jake and his girlfriend are on a drive to...

Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters

Emanuel Levy

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this...

Debbiereadsbook (1444 KP) rated Totality (Leading Men #1) in Books

Mar 12, 2025

when we got the full story behind that call. And I cried, I really did.

Independent reviewer for Archaeolibrarain, I was gifted my copy of this book.

Azora meets Lorcan, a film star, at an eclipse. What follows is a bit of a whirlwind romance. Azora knows time is ticking, these things never last. But does she really want it to end?

I enjoyed this. It was an easy read, for the most part, with quite low angst on the relationship side. A minor scuffle with an ex, but nothing too dramatic.

The BDSM thing kinda bloomed really quickly but I liked that. Azora knew that Lorcan was in the scene, but she was worried it would be like her ex. There was no real discussion though, about limits and things.

The only real angst, and it was really heavy, was when we got the full story behind that call. And I cried, I really did. That's all I'm going to say, but brace yourself.

Only Azora gets a say. Hearing from Lorcan would have been nice, but I'm not sure it would have stretched m e to 5 stars.

A thoroughly enjoyable 4 solid stars

*same worded review will appear elsewhere.

Kudos

tonidavis (353 KP) rated 13 Reasons Why - Season 1 in TV

Jul 11, 2017

It not afraid to go there (1 more)

Clay

There are better YA book about suicded i would of prefered be made (1 more)

Triggery for self harmers and those who attempted suicde

There are better adaptions of suicide premise in YA

From the age off 11 i self harmed at 23 that changed into worse depression and suicide attempts. At the time of these events i never really heard of people my age doing that so i think that seeing this series could of helped in some way not feeling alone. I did read the book 10 years ago and as it wasn't visually as graphic as the TV series it made me release other people go through bad stuff and get into suicidal places. My problem with the show isn't the suicide it about the blame she forces onto everyone else. For me when i made the transition from self harming and depression to truly ending it other people didn't come into play, The suicide was merely the only option to my own though no matter what had or happened in the past nobody else should be taken down for it. I know know that it will always affect others in ways you cant know but at the time I never saw it. So for me books about suicide in YA fictional field that handle it better are books like All The Bright Places are better at exploring this premise and i look forward to the film as its been optioned.
As for the Tv version of this show I loved Clay and the boy who played him the acting was superb and I enjoyed the series however for people who still self harm or are suicidal this show is very very triggory.

Kudos

Andy K (10823 KP) rated Ready Player One (2018) in Movies

Sep 30, 2018

Visual magic and Van Halen. What could be better?

I very much dislike when people compare movies to books since most of the time they will say "the book was better". Books and movies are completely different mediums and therefore should be judged individually, not compared to one another.

I remember reading one time John Grisham was interviewed after The Firm was released and said if they had stuck to the book, 45 minutes of the movie would have been the characters making photo copies of important papers.

Books can delve into details better. An author can spend six chapters describing a tree or get into character's heads and know what they are thinking. There can even be 38 main characters.

Movies are completely different and should be judged that way. Some may say filmmakers changed certain elements which worked just fine in print. Truthfully I do not understand why things are changed either; however, just because something is different does not make it worse.

Whew ok.

Ready Player One was old school Spielberg magic, plain and simple. The story was nothing special. The villains were sort of cardboard and one-dimensional, but maybe they were supposed to be like that. I mean, weren't the villains in Real Genius or Biff Tannen just as hokey?

The visual splendor and eye candy I usually rip on were vast this time around and thoroughly kept me engaged the whole way through.

I will hopefully watch again soon so I can pick on some of the Easter eggs I missed the first time around.

This film is for anyone who lived through the 80's as I did and loves movies as I do.