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IA: Initiate

John Darryl Winston

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Everyone has secrets... What if you didn't know your own? One young man with latent supernatural...

BobbiesDustyPages (1259 KP) rated Tales From the Hood (1995) in Movies

Aug 28, 2017

Tales From The Hood is a horror anthology made up of four short stories as well as a into and ending sequence.

The stories are:
Welcome to My Mortuary
Rogue Cop Revelation
Boys Do Get Bruised
KKK Comeuppance
Hard-Core Convert

Welcome to My Mortuary (ending)

I grew up watching this movie and even as a kid I always enjoyed it but as the older I got I really grew to understand that it is not just a horror movie in the sense that is deals with zombies, monsters, living dolls, and ghost but that it is a horror movie in the sense that it deals with real life horrors such as police brutality, abuse, racism, and gang violence all of which still hold extreme relevant 22 years after the movie was released.

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Suswatibasu (1702 KP) rated Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel in Books

Sep 12, 2017

A Dummies guide to understanding and quashing the worldwide drugs trade

What a fantastic book. Tom Wainwright manages to describe the global drug cartels as a business economic model which makes total sense. It is not just the violence and torture, it’s the revelations about the level of managerial stress. Running a drugs cartel, it seems, is not only a moral and legal minefield but a human resources, marketing and supply chain nightmare. The gang-centric tattoos that cartel foot-soldiers sport, were instigated to prevent staff jumping to another outfit or, worse, going straight.

Wainwright makes clear that those seeking to stop the drugs trade fail due to their insistence on treating it like a war, when they should treat it like a market manipulation. Such a clever book.

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The King Is Always Above the People: Stories

Daniel Alarcon

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A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members,...

Fiction

Dork_knight74 (881 KP) rated The Domestics (2018) in Movies

Dec 13, 2018

The Domestics (2018)

2018 | Horror

4.7

(3 Ratings)

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So bad

This movie was bad. Post apocalyptic world where a young couple decide they have to go to the hometown of the wife because she hasn't heard from her parents in a while. The apocalyptic event wasn't a war or anything, the 'government' just decided to poison everyone with some kind of massive crop dusting technique. Survivors were anyone immune to the poison. Most people then belong to some violent gang or another and money still means something (what?). Anyway, the acting was shoddy at best and the cinematography was pretty low calibur. The characters were very boring and the story line was just all over the place. There's enough violence to say kids shouldn't watch it but this movie is so bad I'd say the adults should pass on it, too. This one is NOT worth a watch.

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The Hate u Give

Angie Thomas

8.4 (54 Ratings) Rate It

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A powerful and brave YA novel about what prejudice looks like in the 21st century. Sixteen-year-old...

Race police shooting black lives matter prejudice witness murder

Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Den Of Thieves (2018) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019

Den Of Thieves (2018)

2018 | Action, Crime, Drama

7.6

(30 Ratings)

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Nick O'Brien is the hard-drinking leader of the Regulators, an elite unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Ray Merrimen is the recently paroled leader of the Outlaws, a gang of ex-military men who use their expertise and tactical skills to evade the law. O'Brien, Merrimen and their crews soon find themselves on a direct collision course as the criminals hatch an elaborate plan for a seemingly impossible heist -- the city's Federal Reserve Bank.

Some good mindless violence for my Friday afternoon. I did enjoy this one, but it's definitely nothing groundbreakingly new. It collects together classic heist moments with good action pieces. It actually remind me of the Leverage formula.

I don't think that this will be one I buy on DVD, but you certainly wouldn't be wasting your time if you managed to catch it on the TV.