Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader's Castle
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How do a band of rebels distract themselves when sneaking into the creepiest place in the galaxy?...
Star Wars Omnibus: A Long Time Ago.... Vol. 3
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Stories from the classic era of the original Star Wars films! Return to the great adventures of your...
A Night to Remember
Book
'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience...
Dean (6927 KP) rated Watcher (2022) in Movies
Nov 12, 2022
A very nice looking film, great photography. It's a slow burn and feels like a longer film but makes the every day things feel tense when you feel you are being watched. Well worth checking out.
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Poltergeist (1982) in Movies
Oct 13, 2022
It's one of those movies that has stuck with me since childhood and still blows me away now. A timeless slice of cinema that will always rank amongst the best of the genre.
Jeeves and the Tie That Binds (Jeeves, #14)
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A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring the Junior Ganymede, a Market Snodsbury election, and the...
Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Clerks (1994) in Movies
Aug 27, 2022
Connor Sheffield (293 KP) rated The Wolf Man (1941) in Movies
May 25, 2017
Heard that before in other werewolf movies, well this was it's origin. Created purely for the film, this poem even had some people believing it was an original folklore saying. If you have watched a handful of werewolf movies, then you will have noticed a lot of similarities;
- Silver bullets
- Wolfsbane
- Full Moon
- Not being able to retreat their acts from their loved ones
- Pentagrams
- Gypsies
- Gypsy Curses
- A Bite or scratch from the werewolf turns you
Some of these were originally created by the writers working on this film, and have become stereotypes that inspire many other werewolf films, TV Shows, Books, and Games etc.
The portrayal of Lawrence Talbot, by Lon Chaney Jr. is one that makes the classic Universal Monsters so special. Just like Frankenstein's Monster, the audiences of the 40's would have been frightened and horrified by these creatures, enough so that they wouldn't realise that they are in actual fact, suppose to sympathize with them, because when you watch the creatures being chased and hunted,the angry mobs fail to understand that these creatures never wanted this. Frankenstein's Monster never asked to be created, or to have the brain of a criminal mistakenly placed into his head instead of that of a civilized man. Larry Talbot never asked for the Wolf Man's curse, which he encountered whilst trying to save the life of a young female friend of his love interest.
With a great story and, at the time, revolutionary stop motion effects for the wolf man transformation, but of course the most important aspect, the beautifully crafted practical effects, the makeup that brings the creature to life, is incredible. My favourite of the classic Universal Monster Movies and one of my favourite movies of all time.
Elli H Burton (1288 KP) rated Trading Places (1983) in Movies
Nov 4, 2019
The writing is so well done it flows naturally, it doesn't feel forced at any point. The onscreen chemistry is on point, I feel the relationships between the cast mirrored the characters relationships. Apparently the cast weren't familiar with each others work so the relationships are built both on and off screen successfully.
The shots of the cities they are in were a wonderful way to transition from scene to scene giving the audience glimpses into the world they are about to dive into.
The story stands out to me, theres no way I could confuse this movie with anything else which is what I like to see in every movie I see.
Thoroughly recommend everyone have a watch of this, Eddy Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis were completely unknown to me when I first saw it and I have grown to love pretty much everything they are in.
The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings
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Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories...




