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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Greatest Showman (2017) in Movies

Feb 7, 2018 (Updated Feb 7, 2018)

Cheese with a side order of sugar

I suppose Hugh Jackman has to do something now he's retired from being Wolverine, and as his skill-set basically consists of eviscerating people with his implanted claws and being able to sing and dance a bit, it's not surprising that his first big post-rodent movie is a musical.

Despite being (theoretically) a historical bio-pic, The Greatest Showman is very much of our time in that it has a powerful message about diversity and inclusivity. That there is anything odd about a film about diversity and inclusivity a) being fronted by two straight white dudes and b) concerning a conman who made a huge fortune by running a freak show, does not appear to have occurred to the film-makers.

The plot is ridiculous sugary cheese, but what keep the film (I'm tempted to say annoyingly) watchable are the songs and choreography, which are really, really good and deserve to be in a much better-written movie. Pretty much the definition of an undemanding guilty pleasure, although I have to note that this is one of those movies that everyone seems to hate apart from the mass audience.

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Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Narration as Therapy

Camilla Asplund Ingemark

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How can stories and legends, written and oral, help people suffering from severe traumas or harsh...

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

Alvin Jackson

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The study of Irish history, once riven and constricted, has recently enjoyed a resurgence, with new...

Women Judges in Contemporary China: Gender, Judging and Living

Anqi Shen

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This study provides an up-to-date empirical account of Chinese female judges within the context of...

Mothergamer (1546 KP) rated Horizon Zero Dawn in Video Games

Jul 17, 2017

Horizon Zero Dawn

2017 | Action/Adventure

8.8

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Amazing Story and Gameplay

Combines amazing storytelling with amazing gameplay. I loved everything about this game because they got it right. They created a great world with fantastic characters. Just running around doing side quests showed how beautiful the various areas in the game are. It is so much fun to play and I love that there was so much diversity in the game and that it showed strong, smart women in leading roles.
Full Mother Gamer review here: http://lorrie28-mothergamer.blogspot.com/2017/03/horizon-zero-dawn-amazing-story-with.html

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Jo (37 KP) rated The Upside of Unrequited in Books

Oct 6, 2018

This is one of those books where, although I really enjoyed reading it, I then went and checked a couple of negative reviews and thought 'yeah, I agree with many of your points'.
So, my actual rating is, like, 3.5.
Because, okay, I liked the writing style, I loved Reid, the diversity was fab, and it was full of smooshy fuzz-filled moments, but...
I feel Will's vagueness deserves the deduction of half a point.
Molly's repetitive whines lose this another half.
And, then, the ending did fall rather flat.