Unruly: The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man
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Ja Rule, actor, singer, songwriter, and one of the most multi-dimensional rap artists of his time,...
BP Blowout: Inside the Gulf Oil Disaster
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The inside story of the worst environmental disaster in American history BP Blowout is the first...
Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society in Books
May 2, 2018
It takes serious topics and although parts of the book do highlight the serious and disturbing topics of the war, it sandwiches them in between massive sections of saccharine sweet fluffy happiness. Its a bit much. Juliet and her friends are fairly endearing characters for the most part (except for the aforementioned fluffiness), and I did enjoy the way the book is written entirely in letters. Its just a shame it doesn't concentrate more on taking the story a little more seriously.
Although I haven't seen the film yet, I'd be surprised if it isn't slightly better than the book. And it's not often I say this!
Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Escape from New York (1981) in Movies
Jun 18, 2019
In 1997, a major war between the U.S and Russia is continuing and the whole of Manhattan has been converted into a giant free roaming maximum security prison. When Air Force One is hijacked and crashes into the island, the president is taken hostage by inmates. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), a former Special Forces soldier turned criminal, is recruited to retrieve the president in exchange for his own freedom.
Dark toned action adventure spawning a cult franchise and heavily inspired the Metal Gear Solid franchise. (I mean its lead character is snake plissken)
co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter.
It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) in Movies
Jan 6, 2020 (Updated Jan 8, 2020)
The Plot: Without remembering how they got there, several strangers awaken in a prison of cubic cells, some of them booby-trapped. There's onetime cop Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint), scientist Holloway (Nicky Guadagni), young math genius Leaven (Nicole de Boer), master of escapes Rennes (Wayne Robson), autistic savant Kazan (Andrew Miller) and architect Worth (David Hewlett), who might have more information on the maze than he lets on. The prisoners must use their combined skills if they are to escape.
Its good horror movie, but you have to watch it multiplte times to fully understand it.
Jackjack (877 KP) rated Prom Night (2008) in Movies
Apr 4, 2020
Classic story of an over obsessed teacher that falls for a student so much he will not let anyone get in his way. A few years after turning this young women's life upside down the teacher escapes prison to try and get the girl, only she is at her prom with all her friends. In this intense slasher are some brilliant actors, on a night that should be the best night of their lives it turns to become there last. In a fight to survive the unexpected, the main character must once again relive her nightmares as she tries to escape from her old phyco teacher.
The Cupboard Under the Stairs: A Boy Trapped in Hell...
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Do Nothing!: The Memoirs of FX
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Growing up in a large family in Bradford, with a domineering father and a bully for a brother, FX...
Mandela, the Graphic Novel
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Freedom fighter, fugitive, celebrated prisoner, president: the hero of a nation. Nelson Mandela was...
My Eyes Went Dark
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"I'm not saying he wasn't put in a dreadful position. But it's an inescapable fact he did it. He...