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Dark MM Science Fiction Romance
Shadows Across the Moon: Outlaws, Freaks, Shamans and the Making of Ibiza Clubland
Helen Donlon and Richie Hawtin
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Once a fabled pirate garrison, the Balearic island of Ibiza has been colonised and continually...
Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation
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Cultural Science introduces a new way of thinking about culture. Adopting an evolutionary and...
Lonely Planet Andalucia
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Lonely Planet Myanmar (Burma)
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A Terrible Country
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When Andrei Kaplan’s older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their...
Lee (2222 KP) rated Mary Queen of Scots (2018) in Movies
Jan 20, 2019
There's not very much that I enjoyed about this movie to be honest. An important and intriguing period in history, involving two extremely interesting and strong women, this should have been so much better. It tries to cover so much ground in its two hour runtime, barely focusing on any particular element for very long. Vast numbers of characters are introduced, none of which are given enough time for you to feel any kind of interest or emotional investment in and at times it drastically shifts between varying tones with confusing editing.
What the movie does manage to portray is that all the men are complete bastards. Scheming, plotting and murdering, all for their own gains. It's sad that, aside from the murdering (I hope), not much has changed in modern politics.
Both female leads, especially Saoirse, are actually very good in this, despite everything, and probably the best scene in the movie is when they meet alone towards the end (something which didn't actually happen in real life!). Sadly though, I was fidgeting in my seat up until that point just waiting for it to end.
Lonely Planet Crete
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Crete is your passport to...
Lonely Planet Discover Kauai
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Discover Kaua'i is your...
Lee (2222 KP) Jan 20, 2019
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