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Sailing Strategy: Wind and Current

Ian Proctor

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Sailing Strategy is considered a racing classic. Long out of print, it has champions who have been...

The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method

Jeffrey K. Olick

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National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and...

Queen Victoria: A Photographic Journey

Chris Frame and Rachelle Cross

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Built by Fincantieri and introduced into service in late 2007, Queen Victoria's reign is still quite...

Do-it-yourself Outdoor Repairs: A Practical Guide to Repairing and Maintaining the Outside Structure of Your Home

David Holloway

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This is a practical guide to repairing and maintaining the outside structure of your home. You can...

Night School

Lee Child

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In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school. It's...

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Real Estate Due Diligence: A Legal Perspective

Mary Ann Hallenborg

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Real Estate Due Diligence is the first textbook on due diligence, the cornerstone of every...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Housebound (2014) in Movies

Sep 21, 2020

Housebound (2014)

2014 | Comedy, Mystery

7.7

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Neither funny nor scary enough to fully accomplish what it wants to, but it's *almost* wild enough to. Hurts to go hard on this one because many of its flaws come from simply how ambitious this is on such a small budget - so it's at least always admirable in spite of them; but I can't look past how rough those first 45 minutes are nor how it largely abandons the loads upon loads of potential this premise has in favor of its eventual rug-pull twist to sort of carry the movie from there (which it at least does pretty okay). Because of this we see supporting characters who crave to be more fleshed-out and intriguing plot elements you wish they ran with more instead of more borrowed platitudes. But as aforementioned, those last 50 or so minutes are a fucking RIOT (if still painfully underdeveloped, at least it's fun to watch - with some unexpectedly potent emotion [again, underwritten though]). Even when it falls flat on its face there's a charming earnestness here that can't be denied. It's decent but far from the revolutionary cinema everyone seems to think it is - though it could have been.