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The artful dodger
The artful dodger
2023 | Crime, Drama, History
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
2023 historical-crime-drama-romance, set in 1850s Australia and following (mainly) Jack Dawkins, aka The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist, circa 20 years on from the events of that novel,

Now a surgeon in Australia, Dawkins finds himself pulled back into a life of crime with the arrival of a character from his past (Norbert Fagin), and also finds himself falling in love with the Governors daughter Belle, who herself feels trapped by the expectations of her class.

Well worth a watch!
  
The Mitchells vs The Machines (2021)
The Mitchells vs The Machines (2021)
2021 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy
9
8.9 (15 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Very funny (2 more)
Great voice work
Story has something for everyone
Really enjoyed this!
I did tut a little when my wife put this on for my daughter, but I was honestly surprised... I ended up really enjoying it, and there were loads of parts I ended up laughing gleefully at.
The story has something that'll hit home for everyone, and makes it all the easier to love.
Even if you don't have young kids, this is definitely worth a watch.
  
Skip Trace (2016)
Skip Trace (2016)
2016 | Action, Comedy, Crime
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Johnny Knoxville & Jackie Chan (2 more)
Plot
Humour
Been done before (too often) (0 more)
Ever seen 48 hours?
Detective Bennie Chan teams up with troublesome gambler Connor Watts to track down the notorious criminal Matador and rescue his partner's daughter, Samantha.

Another team up movie about a criminal and a cop working together to rescue someone and save the day....

The best thing about this movie is the extremely bizzare pairing of Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville, best duo movie of its kind since rush hour.
  
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
6
6.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
A girl named Boy, a girl named Snow and a girl named Bird. Three unique names for three unique individuals. It's 1953 and Boy is living in New York, the daughter of a rat catcher. She has never known her mother. Boy "was a girl with a white-blonde pigtail hanging down over one shoulder..." When life with her father got to be too much, she packed her stuff and moved to the farthest place she could get on the bus, Flax Hill, CT.

Quickly, Boy made friends and met a man, Arturo Whitman. Arturo has a daughter named Snow, who the whole town adored. Shortly after Arturo and Boy are married, she becomes pregnant. When she gives birth to her daughter, Bird, the Whitman family secrets soon come to light.

There is an underlying theme in this book with mirrors. The women claim that they do not "see" themselves in them. Is it because they are ghosts? Or is it that their family secrets run so deep that they find it hard to see themselves as they really are?

This book reminded me of books I had to read for school. I enjoyed the storyline as a whole, but reading it, I felt as though there were questions I was supposed to be searching the answers for instead of just enjoying the book. There are so many secrets throughout the entire book with the biggest secret coming at the end. Told in three sections by Boy, Bird, and then Boy again, this is very interesting story about race in the north in the 50's and 60's.
  
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
6
6.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
A girl named Boy, a girl named Snow and a girl named Bird. Three unique names for three unique individuals. It's 1953 and Boy is living in New York, the daughter of a rat catcher. She has never known her mother. Boy "was a girl with a white-blonde pigtail hanging down over one shoulder..." When life with her father got to be too much, she packed her stuff and moved to the farthest place she could get on the bus, Flax Hill, CT.

Quickly, Boy made friends and met a man, Arturo Whitman. Arturo has a daughter named Snow, who the whole town adored. Shortly after Arturo and Boy are married, she becomes pregnant. When she gives birth to her daughter, Bird, the Whitman family secrets soon come to light.

There is an underlying theme in this book with mirrors. The women claim that they do not "see" themselves in them. Is it because they are ghosts? Or is it that their family secrets run so deep that they find it hard to see themselves as they really are?

This book reminded me of books I had to read for school. I enjoyed the storyline as a whole, but reading it, I felt as though there were questions I was supposed to be searching the answers for instead of just enjoying the book. There are so many secrets throughout the entire book with the biggest secret coming at the end. Told in three sections by Boy, Bird, and then Boy again, this is very interesting story about race in the north in the 50's and 60's.
  
The Art of Escaping
The Art of Escaping
8
7.3 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
Oh, how I do NOT miss high school!

I really enjoyed this book - It is so fun, and kept me entertained throughout the whole thing! There were some seriously nail-biting moments with daredevil Mattie, and I can totally see this becoming a movie that I would go see in a second!

Mattie is a high school junior who has some pretty quirky aspirations of becoming an escapologist. She's obsessed with Houdini and the like, but especially Akiko - an elite escapologist gone way before her time. But Mattie is determined to find Akiko's daughter and find out as much as she can. All the while, no-0ne in her life knows her secrets or desires to become this really cool performance artist. Not her parents or her family, or even her best, closest friend.

The story also has some snippets of Akikos past, the life she led, and the birth of her daughter, giving you some insight of the life of this mysterious performer and her equally closed-off daughter. We also meet Will, another one with some secrets, and several other really cool high school kids who are so well-developed, mature but fun. It pains me to think of how tough high school was, and how hard it is for kids just t be themselves.

The art of escapology is front and center, through training and Mattie's stage performances that literally have you holding your breath! But the art of escape is evident is other ways, with a lot of hiding from reality and fear of being found out.

This book is such a delight and hope it gets the attention it deserves.
  
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The Weaver's Daughter
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Weaver’s Daughter is about loyalties and traditions. What will happen when a daughter keeps her loyalties with her father and want to be loyal to her brother as well. Well, things get a bit dicey when Henry Stockton returns.

Kate struggles with wanting to keep her loyalties to her past or they at least bind her to the past. Her father is a weaver and Kate try and prove to her father and the others that she wants to help with wool. Her brother Charles has chosen to work at Stockton Mill.

We are shown what it like for the time period and the history during Weavers vs Mill owners are tested. Weavers are trying to save their job and livelihoods and mill owners are trying to provide and work with the progress of the coming future.

Henry seems drawn to Miss Dearborne. Will Miss Dearborne come around or will she fight for what in the past. She is seemed like torn between loyalties to her father and brother. She will have to make a choice.

There are tensions with Miss Dearborne father and Henry Stockton? Old man Stockton has tensions with Weavers or at least with the Dearbornes. When someone kills Henry grandfather, who did it and why.

Mr. Dearbone seem to think that Old man Stockton's grandson will be the same as his grandfather? Mr. Dearborne tells his daughter to stay away from Stockton Mill and the Stocktons. Kate seems to keep entering Stockton property and is found out. Find out why and you will need to read it and find out the ending.