The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
Book
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book...
Vital Little Plans
Will Self, Jane Jacobs, Nathan Storing and Samuel Zipper
Book
From the INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American...
Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks: Server Security from TLS to TOR
Book
In an age of massive global surveillance, when last year's most advanced cyberwarfare weapons...
Is it Really Too Much to Ask?: The World According to Clarkson Volume 5
Book
Is It Really Too Much To Ask? is the fifth book in Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling The World According...
Alex Kapranos recommended track To the East by Electrelane in No Shouts No Calls by Electrelane in Music (curated)
Sarah (7798 KP) rated The New Mutants (2020) in Movies
Sep 10, 2020
First of all, this film has been released to literally no fanfare or press whatsoever. I havent seen a single trailer or advert at all, it's not a good sign and almost feels like they're trying to brush this one under the carpet. And i can see why.
This film is beyond dull and I lost count of the amount of times I yawned and rolled my eyes watching this. From the shaky cam dodgy opening scene, visually this wasn't great. Some effects were good but some definitely looked shaky around the edges. And then there's the script which is very cheesy and poor, and the plot that isn't much better. Dani is an overall terrible character both in how she's written and acted. The romance in this is so badly done and cliched (and after knowing each other for like a day) that I almost wanted to vomit. There's also the issue with the accents - what on earth waa going on with Maisie Williams and Charlie Heaton?
The only saving grace to this film is Anya Taylor-Joy who is a wonderful actress and also luckily has the best character. Don't get me wrong she still suffers from the overly poor script and plot, but her character at least has some substance and whenever she's on screen the film is all the better for it. The rest of the characters you just couldn't care less about.
I havent quite decided yet if this is the worse film in the X-Men universe, but it's definitely in the running.
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Avatar (2009) in Movies
Sep 20, 2020
The story has been criticized up and down for being about as basic as can be, as well as being somewhat subtractive of the real life parallel this is generally aiming for - and I agree wholeheartedly. But let's be honest here, nobody goes into this for its merits as a piece of storytelling - which it isn't even necessarily bad at on the whole - it just rushes into and through everything too quickly (that goes double for a movie of this length). No, this is front-to-back pure, rich spectacle. Movies since have tried to emulate it but none have even come close to reaching the grandiose scope, immaculate attention to detail, and luxurious world-building. There's so much on the screen all at once you could almost get lost, as if you were right there in this massive, vibrant splashpad of late 2000s blockbuster merriment. And those last thirty minutes of rock-solid PG-13 fantasy violence just take the cake, holy *shit* they rule (remember when these used to end in half-hour long epic battle sequences where you could actually see and even care about what was going on?). Mechs fighting giant fantastical animals, soldiers getting pincushioned left and right with massive arrows, huge flying creatures shot-putting military aircrafts into the sides of cliffs... had a smile the size of Texas across my face the whole time - that's as good as those things get. Plus this is another entry into my Joel-David-Moore-is-underrated collection because he outacts the entire cast of A-listers here. As beautiful as the day it came out, but perhaps in a different way reflexively.
Rainbow Unicorn Princess
Games and Entertainment
App
Welcome to the rainbow wonderland! Rainbow Princess is inviting you to visit her fairy land for a...
Sprout Pregnancy +
Health & Fitness and Medical
App
Congratulations on your pregnancy and welcome to Sprout! It’s an Apple ‘Essential App for...
Seven - 7 Minute Workout
Health & Fitness and Sports
App
App Store’s App of the Year 2016. Join the movement of 20 million and see results with just 7...