The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
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In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue and board from which a book is...
Woodworking for Young Makers: Fun and Easy Do-it-Yourself Projects
Loyd Blankenship and Lane Boyd
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Learning to be a maker has never been more fun. Full-color cartoons and drawings lead you through...
Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)
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Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day --...
Systems Engineering for Commercial Aircraft: A Domain-Specific Adaptation
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The key principle of systems engineering is that an aircraft should be considered as a whole and not...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993) in Movies
Feb 28, 2021
This wouldn't work quite so well if it wasn't for an equally menacing, touching, and occasionally emotional performance from Melinda Clarke, playing a character who is wrestling with her urge to consume flesh after being bought back to life following a fatal motorbike accident. Watching her humanity slowly vanish whilst her boyfriend (J. Trevor Edmund) tries to protect the woman he loves is genuinely sad. The rest of the cast are fine, but Clarke is the glue that holds everything together, whilst giving us an incredibly memorable horror anti-hero.
The effects work done on the various creatures and the subsequent gore is great. All done practically, and when it comes to the more visceral moments, this movie doesn't fuck about. It also builds up as it goes on. The last 20 minutes are absolutely nuts in almost every way.
ROTLD3 came highly recommended to me as a horror fan, and I would pass on that recommendation wholeheartedly. A hugely bloody film, with a whole bunch of heart.
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Spontaneous (2020) in Movies
Mar 7, 2021
Turns out that Spontaneous is a wonderfully heartfelt (and gory) tale of two college kids who fall in love.
The two leads played by Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer are some of the most likable characters I've seen in ages. Their chemistry is top tier, and their relationship feels real and relatable and is the glue that holds the whole narrative together.
The gory side of things is quite something. It's nicely spaced out so it doesn't steal the spotlight, but Jesus Christ it's anxiety inducing. I was just on edge for the whole runtime wondering when someone else would violently explode. Would it be mid sentence? Would it be one of the characters I liked? "No one has blown up in a while, and I'm so nervous" is a thought that kept popping (pun fully intended) into my head. Somehow, it's a cute enough love story that is just tense as fuck. Hats off to everyone involved!
Watching Spontaneous is a ride. It's uplifting, suitably visceral, wonderfully acted, and feels meaningful.... definitely nearly(...) cried on more than one occasion. It's all backed by a great soundtrack, and has some lovely cinematography and inspired style choices. Absolutely recommend this one, for romance and horror fans alike.
City Girl vs Country Boy (Forever Love #1)
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A tragic accident brought them together. Will devotion be the glue that mends their broken hearts? ...
Sweet Young Adult Contemporary Romance
Restored: A Second Chance Romance (Chance Brothers #2)
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She was left behind eight years ago. Now he wants her back. Can a broken elopement become a...
Adult Contemporary Romance
Connecting Places, Connecting People: A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century
Robert Cervero and Reena Tiwari
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What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create...