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'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' A gothic novella about love, torment and...
Research Handbook on Executive Pay
Randall S. Thomas and Jennifer G. Hill
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Research on executive compensation has exploded in recent years, and this volume of specially...
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
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You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the...
Transsiberian (2008)
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Brad Anderson directs this tense, psychological thriller set on the Trans-Siberian railway, as an...
David McK (3562 KP) rated Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) in Movies
Jul 12, 2020
Or, as they're called in this series (and elsewhere? I don't know) Kaiju and Jaegers respectively.
This is a sequel to the best non-Godzilla Godzilla movie (in all but name), this time starring Star Wars own John Boyega as its reluctant hero, as the son of the "we're cancelling the apocalypse" hero from the first move, and who gets drawn back into the whole military training around the Jaegers 10 years after the events of that last movie.
Just in time, then, for him to be in place as the undersea breaches reopen and more of those Kaiju to come through ...
Dumb fun, but seemingly lacking something (although you can actually see what's happening in the battles this time around!) compared to the original, or to the various 'official' Godzilla/King Kong/etc movies.