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Eleanor (1463 KP) rated The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie, #1) in Books

May 20, 2019  
The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie, #1)
The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie, #1)
Val McDermid | 2004 | Crime, Mystery
8
8.5 (2 Ratings)
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Great characters (1 more)
Beautiful writing
Drags slightly in places (0 more)
I loved the writing in this book, it's the first Val McDermid book I've read and it won't be my last.

The character creation and development in the first part of the book as really engaging. I was fully pulled in Scotland in the late 1970s and into the group of friends as their relationship altered as events affected them.

I did fell it started to drag a bit in the second part but really picked up pace for the end and would recommend for anyone wanting a character driven crime thriller.
  
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David McK (3874 KP) rated Some Like It Hot (1959) in Movies

Jan 8, 2021  
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
1959 | Classics, Comedy, Drama
8
7.9 (18 Ratings)
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Classic Billy Wilder comedy farce, starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis (doing his Carey Grant impersonation), with the latter two playing down on their luck musicians who witness a mafia murder during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and hatch a plan to escape Chicago by joining an all-girl band (enter Monroe) in drag in order to escape.

Full of sizzling one liners/repartee such as:

"Water Polo? Isn't that awfully dangerous? "
"I'll say. I had two horses drown under me..."

(I think it was 2)

and who can forger the final line of the film ("nobody's perfect")!
  
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Cori June (3033 KP) rated The Dead Don't Die (2019) in Movies

Sep 18, 2019  
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
2019 | Comedy, Horror
7
5.4 (33 Ratings)
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Good comedic timing (1 more)
Self aware/breaks fourth wall
Pacing (0 more)
It's a fun self aware zombie movie. It's not scary so if that's what you want this isn't the movie for you. It's set in a sleepy town in New York so the slow pacing is appropriate although it does drag at times and could have been a smidge faster. I enjoy deadpan humor and dry sarcasm which this movie is littered with. It's not a movie that I'm going to watch over and over again. However I'll put it on for background at a party or have fun watching during"bad movie" night.
  
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David McK (3874 KP) rated Top Gun (1986) in Movies

Aug 26, 2020  
Top Gun (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
1986 | Action, Drama
7
7.6 (41 Ratings)
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"I feel the need. The need... for speed!"

"This is what in call a target rich environment"

"Son, your ego is writing cheques your body can't cash"

1980s action classic (that I was all of 7 when it was released) starring a then up and coming (and young!) Tom Cruise as Maverick, the hotshot pilot who gets a shot at Top Gun: the military training school for the top 1% of naval pilots.

This has a great cast (Michael Ironside, Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis, Tom Cruise himself) alongside some great aerial battles, but does drag in bits.