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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2502 KP) rated Cherry Cheesecake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #8) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
Cherry Cheesecake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #8)
Cherry Cheesecake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #8)
Joanne Fluke | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery
8
8.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
While Hannah tries to deal with the double marriage proposals from Mike and Norman, a Hollywood production company comes to town. However, the director is a jerk, and he is murdered by a rigged prop gun. This is another fun book, although it was slow getting started.

You've got to try the title recipe. It's wonderful!

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-cherry-cheesecake-murder-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Dean (6927 KP) rated Black Panther (2018) in Movies

Feb 22, 2018  
Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther (2018)
2018 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
8
8.3 (282 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Landmark film
A landmark film for Hollywood that has a great significance for the industry.
To the film and I did worry it might not quite live up to the hype. Thankfully I can say it is a very good film for many reasons. It has some great action scenes, Sfx, for the suit especially. Also featuring a strong complex villain and with some funny moments. One of the better stand alone character films from the MCU.
  
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Andy Bell recommended First Album by Miss Kittin & The Hacker in Music (curated)

 
First Album by Miss Kittin &amp; The Hacker
First Album by Miss Kittin & The Hacker
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I first heard 'Frank Sinatra' when Erasure where recording the album Erasure in 1994 at the Strongroom in Shoreditch East London, which has now become metrosexual electro Grand Central. I love her completely nonchalant don't give a fuck attitude on Hollywood Star, it kind of reminds me of my pre-Erasure work with Pierre Cope - very minimal. On 'Frank Sinatra' she sounds like a Russian Mafia gangster that would kill you stone dead. They're also brilliant live."

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Cynthia Nixon recommended The Band Wagon (1953) in Movies (curated)

 
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Band Wagon (1953)
1953 | Classics, Comedy, Drama
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I love The Band Wagon. You just can’t go wrong. Singin’ in the Rain is great. The Sound of Music is great. But I think it is the number one MGM movie musical. It just has endlessly inventive numbers. And everyone in it is great and it’s so witty. Then again it’s very New York. A very New York story. Hollywood actor kind of fallen on hard times comes to New York to revive his career."

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Laura Mulvey recommended Written on the Wind (1957) in Movies (curated)

 
Written on the Wind (1957)
Written on the Wind (1957)
1957 | Classics, Comedy, Drama
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"During the 1960s I spent my time going to Hollywood movies, following the spirit of the Cahiers du cinéma. Written on the Wind is an explosion of cinematic style and of melodramatic excess. It stands for my love of Sirk but also for the extraordinary genius of all those 1950s directors whose careers came to an end before their time. And Sirk also leads forward to the great R. W. Fassbinder, especially to Ali: Fear Eats the Soul."

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Michael Korda recommended Sweet Smell of Success (1957) in Movies (curated)

 
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
1957 | Drama, Film-Noir
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Perhaps the noirest of noir films, and for my money one of the three best American films of the postwar period (the others being Some Like It Hot and Sunset Boulevard). Featuring amazing performances from Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, and a knife-edge bitterness rare in any Hollywood film, it is at once a tribute to nighttime New York City and a devastating portrait of the power of a big-time columnist like Walter Winchell."

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Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated The Wrecking Crew (1968) in Movies

Aug 17, 2019  
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
1968 | Action, Classics, Comedy
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Dean Martin (1 more)
Sharon Tate
Always liked the Matt helm spy spoof movies of the sixties with Dean Martin in the lead role the plot maybe abit silly but remember watching them on my portable black and white TV in the eighties but I remember this one more due to the film once upon a time in Hollywood due to Sharon Tate was in the film all I can good harmless fun movie always worth a rewatch when it's on