Imperfection
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Imperfection is a new crime series featuring D.I. Stewart Gardener and D. S. Sean Reilly, and set in...
Leaf by Niggle
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Published for the very first time in its own volume, Tolkien's remarkable tale about a painter whose...
Lily Poole
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Everything about John is off-kilter. He's sixteen now, out of school and out of work. It's the early...
Moon Tiger
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Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire,...
Consult the Oracle: A Victorian Guide to Folklore and Fortune Telling
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"If you sing before breakfast you will cry before supper...' In their own words, what it meant for...
EU, Europe Unfinished: Mediating Europe and the Balkans in a Time of Crisis
Zlatan Krajina and Nebojsa Blanusa
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What is the meaning of the Balkans in the early 21st century? Former Yugoslav countries seek a...
Triple Dog (2009)
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Six high school girls play a game of dare that careers out of control, altering their lives...
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The Grudge (2004) in Movies
Sep 21, 2020
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Species (1995) in Movies
Sep 18, 2020
It's a bit rubbish really though isn't it? Watching it again now, it's pretty much a bunch of characters talking their way through a manhunt, strung together by regular moments of nudity.
It's suitably corny, boasts some terrible CGI (effects that may have been good back in the 90s, I honestly don't really remember) but in spite of all this, it's still pretty entertaining.
It's cast boasts the likes of Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Marg Helgenberger, Forest Whitaker, Michael Madsen, even a young Michelle Williams...it's pretty stacked. Natasha Henstridge of course plays the creature, and gives the role a sense of empowerment rather than exploitation.
The rubber suit aesthetic of the alien is pretty awesome (in the parts where it's not haunting CGI) and it has a pretty decent music score.
I fully see why a lot of people consider Species to be trashy, but honestly, it's a fun slice of 90s (as fuck) sci-fi horror. Enjoy it for what it is and just pretend the sequels don't exist.
Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated The Haunting of Hill House in TV
Oct 15, 2020
NETFLIX as usual has given us a great horror story just in time for Halloween, haunting of hill house is a diamond in the dark that follows a group of distant siblings who are troubled and haunted by their childhood.
A brilliant offering with some very strong "the shining" vibes that were very welcome.
Dark, intense and deep with common issues.
After the death of one of their own, the siblings are forced to reach out and come face to face with each other....and their estranged father.
With storys of past, present & future dangerously entwined and nightmares clawing their way back in, time, trust & understanding may be their only means of surviving.
Although some parts seemed to drag a little, it more than made up for it with sub plot explaining and some great cliffhangers.
The show is an adaption of the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name from 1959.
It is definitely something I will watch again and something I'd like to see more of.