
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
Peter Ackroyd, Charles Dickens, George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne
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The first of Dickens's historical novels, Barnaby Rudge, written in 1841, is set at the time of the...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The Godfather (1972) in Movies
Sep 21, 2020 (Updated Sep 21, 2020)
"๐๐ฉ -- ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ'๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ขรฏ๐ท๐ฆ, ๐๐ข๐บ?"
Well I guess it's confirmed that this movie predicted Jefferey Epstein.
Have absolutely nothing constructive left to add that hasn't already been rightfully said by everybody else at this point, it's ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ง๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ - yes it's still a masterpiece. Brando gives the second greatest performance cinema has ever seen in this emotionally rich, lived-in, unstoppable portrait of a vaguely incomprehensible mob boss who is both insatiably bound to and undone by tradition - acting of this caliber is topped only by, you guessed it... James Franco in ๐๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด! This isn't really all that secretly deep or anything either - it's just really good at what it does. Does the seemingly unachievable task of making a bunch of mob guys sitting around discussing business so fucking riveting. Pacino sits firmly in one of the quintessential starmaking performances, not a single less than exemplary performance can even be found here. The front half of the last hour is rather sloppy, jumping around uncomfortably between times - but remains nonetheless mesmerizing and spotlessly written. And how about that location cinematography? A sprawling, hypnotic dirge - you could write a novel about how amazing this is, and I'm sure people already have.

The Perfect Whore
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David McK (3505 KP) rated First Sword (Roman Arena, #3) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Unlike the last entry, however, Macro plays more of a role in this story, which is set in and around the running of a lanista (Gladiator 'school') rather than in an Arena. Again, the culmination of the novel is a fight between two Gladiators: this time, though, they are fighting in the grounds of the lanista (one for survival, the other to escape) rather than in the Arena for the amusement of the mob ...

Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal
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