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The Iron Jackal (A Tale of the Ketty Jay)

Chris Wooding

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Things are looking good for Darien Frey, roguish captain of the Ketty Jay and her dysfunctional crew...

A Bit Of A Stretch

Chris Atkins

9.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol?...

Non Fiction Wandsworth Prison Prison Reform UK Prisons

Jess Bicknell (0 KP) rated Deadpool (2016) in Movies

Dec 8, 2017

Deadpool (2016)

2016 | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

8.7

(283 Ratings)

Movie Rating

This film broke history with being one of the first superhero movies marketed to adults only. The marketing campaign was one of the best I had ever seen for a movie, it truly made me want to go to the theaters. I was not disappointed once I did! (0 more)

The merc with a mouth!

Deadpool AKA Wade Wilson is one of the best-written antiheroes there is. He is not only comedic, harsh, crude, and suffers from a case of should I do the right thing, but he is also one of those characters you cannot help to love in a dysfunctional manner. The storyline follows pretty close with his original story from the comics. There are plenty of fight scenes, love scenes, and plenty of scenes of Deadpool being his crass, foul mouth self.

Overall the film is great for anyone looking to find a superhero film that is not like any other out there.

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Alison Pink (7 KP) rated The Visionist in Books

Jan 15, 2018

This was without a doubt a much different book than what I am used to reading. That is not a bad thing at all. This book tells the story of how 3 lives that seemed so separate suddenly crash together in very unexpected ways. The first is Polly a young girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. She is a worker & protector within her small, dysfunctional family. The next is Sister Charity. A young Shaker girl who holds a high esteem within her community until circumstances change & that changes in an instant. The last is Simon Pryor. A man who was forced into a position because he had tried to help out.
One quote stands out to me as a good summary of the story as a whole. Urquhart wrote, "But this, this love lifted from the ashes, abused, abandoned, afraid, misread, discarded, half-dead - like those who enter into it, it is broken. Yet beautiful, so very beautiful."

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Mayhawke (97 KP) rated Who Let the Gods Out? in Books

Feb 13, 2018

Eliot, the troubled boy and his anarchic, dysfunctional foster-Gods...

Eliot is a boy with problems. A mum who is suffereing from crippling depression and mental health problems, a farm that is running to ruin since his grandparents died, and a school where the teachers know nothing about any of it. Facing repossession of his home and the looming threat of Social Services and being separated from his mum Eliot needs help: what he gets is a bunch of retired Greek Gods, minor deities and Zodiac characters who have spent millennia bickering over the small print and red-tape of running the Universe , or kicking their heels in cosy retirement.

After one of the Zodiac council crash-lands in his cowshed Eliot suddenly finds himself pulled into a quest to find power stones and defeat a wicked demon. Can he succeed, and can his squabbling new friends help him save his home & family?

A really engaging read for parents and kids.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Krampus (2015) in Movies

Dec 18, 2019 (Updated Dec 18, 2019)

Krampus (2015)

2015 | Comedy, Horror

7.5

(26 Ratings)

Movie Rating

A Dark Twisted Fantasy Tale

Krampus- is based on the eponymous character from Austro-Bavarian folklore adds more of a dark and twisted tale to it. The one only problem that this movie was PG-13, but remember Gemlins was PG and that came out in 1984 and that movie was dark and twisted. So the PG-13 was good, but could of done more with it.

The Plot: While the holiday season represents the most magical time of year, ancient European folklore warns of Krampus, a horned beast who punishes naughty children at Christmastime. When dysfunctional family squabbling causes young Max (Emjay Anthony) to lose his festive spirit, it unleashes the wrath of the fearsome demon. As Krampus lays siege to the Engel home, mom (Toni Collette), pop (Adam Scott), sister (Stefania LaVie Owen) and brother must band together to save one another from a monstrous fate.

You Better Watch out for Krampus.