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Rian Johnson recommended F for Fake (1973) in Movies (curated)

 
F for Fake (1973)
F for Fake (1973)
1973 | Documentary
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Poetic and oh-so-funky, Orson Welles’s filmic essay on deception has balls of experimental steel. Cobbled together in his later years of European exile, it’s both a cheeky thesis on the nature of fakery and the best example I can imagine of filmmaking as giddy, childlike play. Now if someone would only do a decent DVD of The Trial, we’d be in business. (Nudge, nudge.)"

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Triangle of Deception
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Triangle of Deception is one of those sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat books. It’s book four of a series but it makes a wonderful standalone. I don’t want to say too much for fear of giving anything away! Fast paced, energetic, and exciting, this is one that any crime-thriller lover won’t want to miss.



**Thank you to Haggai and Bostic Communications for supplying my review copy!**
  
Inconceivable (2017)
Inconceivable (2017)
2017 | Mystery, Thriller
Nicky Whelan is cast perfectly and puts in a convincing performance (2 more)
The storyline is somewhat believable - anyone with kids can relate to parts of it
It improves over time after a sluggish start
Why cast Nicholas Cage as an almost completely generic father? (3 more)
Big plot holes
Weak twist
Some very wooden acting from support cast, especially Natalie Eva Marie
An intriguing enough tale of deception let down through poor execution
  
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Andrew Solomon recommended Middlemarch in Books (curated)

 
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry
6.3 (4 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This book has the virtue of being the most perfect novel ever written. It manages to blend the miniature world of an uninteresting town with a profound reckoning with the human heart in all its vagaries. Here we find courage, pettiness, self-deception, love, profundity, triviality, sadness, joy, munificence, greed, theatricality, restraint, wit, pomposity, despair, hope. It’s seductively readable, free of pretension, and written with a rare clear-eyed kindness."

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Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
2014 | Bluff, Deduction, Murder & Mystery, Party Game, Spies / Espionage
Simple game to learn but challenging enough to not get board (0 more)
Great party game for about 5-7
Deception is a great game for an evening in with friends based around the simple task of discovering the murderer using unique roles. After only 1 explanation of the game we where able to sit and play without any confusion and we had to play a number of games before we could bring ourselves to stop