Skylark
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It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg,...
Handy Art Reference Tool
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DECLARED A MUST HAVE APP BY IMAGINE-FX DIGITAL ART MAGAZINE "Thanks to this useful app, drawing...
Portrait Sketch Pro - Filter Booth to Add Pencil & Cartoon Effect on Photo
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Portrait Sketch is the best sketch app you can find in App Store. It's very easy to use and lets...
Beatdown: Streets of Justice
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"Plan your combo. Save the city together. — A fun, cooperative, strategic crime-fighting card...
The Feral Detective
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Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles....
The Adults
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A couple, now separated. Their daughter. Their new partners. One epic Christmas vacation. What could...
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LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Werewolves Within (2021) in Movies
Sep 3, 2021
My initial issues with it is how frantically overwhelming the first act is. This movie is effectively Clue but with a horror twist, and as such, the introduction of a hefty cast of characters, or suspects if you will, feels a little rushed. It didn't help that every one of them felt like comic relief and that the editing style is clearly inspired by Shaun of the Dead, meaning it's choppy, and brisk. Thankfully, this doesn't last too long. Once everyone is introduced and things starts to happen, Werewolves Within slips into a genuinely funny whodunit, that's effective in keeping its secrets close to its chest, and at one point had this viewer questioning if werewolves were even part of it, or whether the unfolding events were just a big misunderstanding.
By the final act, everything has just descended into chaos, and it's hugely entertaining. This is all bolstered by it's two great and likable leads, played by Sam Richardson and Milana Vayntrub.
It's well paced and effective, funny, q little bloody, and ultimately, Werewolves Within is a blast, and well worth checking out.
David McK (3562 KP) rated Les Misérables (2012) in Movies
Jan 19, 2022
One of those musicals/films that, while I had head of it and did not the broad strokes of, I had never actually seen prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Set in post-(Napoleonic)war France, this spans about roughly 20 years or so (i think 17, to be precise) starting in 1815 when ex-con Jean Valjean (Jackman) is released from servitude, breaks parole and reinvents himself but is then endlessly hunted by his former jailor Javert (Crowe), taking it upon himself to raise the daughter of seamstress Fantine (an Oscar-winning Hathaway) - as he believes himself responsible for her demise (which he does play a large part in, as he fired her from her job) Cosette, with the final potion of the film set in the 1830s with Colette now all grown up and falling in love with revolutionary Marius (Redmayne) across the barricades.
So, yes, there's some big names in the cast, including also Helena Bonh-Carter and Dacha Baron-Cohen providing the comic relief (and, somehow, I wasn't in the least bit surprised to see her there).
I'm still waiting for that bloke Les to turn up, though.
Love Orange
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An extraordinary debut novel by Natasha Randall, exposing the seam of secrets within an American...
David McK (3562 KP) rated A Darkling Plain (Mortal Engines #4) in Books
Dec 20, 2021
This particular entry opens on the character of Theo Ngoni, who here and throughout plays a much larger role than he previously did in Infernal Devices. Theo Ngoni is not the only character to return from previous novels however: Fishcake (yes, that's the name he is given) also plays a large role and finally gets a decent end to his story, as does Professor Pennyroyal (still providing the comic relief), the Stalkers Fang and Shrike (with the latter also finally getting a decent pay-off in the last chapter), and both Oenone Zero and General Naga also returning.
I also have to say that I found this to be the longest of the four stories in the quadrilogy: I'm not sure whether that is because it actually is (I read it as part of an e-book compilation, which makes it hard to compare relevant lengths), because I'd read it back to back with the previous entry, or simply because I was beginning to get tired with the series as a whole!