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Horizon

Helen MacInnes

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British soldier Peter Lennox, a POW in an Italian prison camp, is still fighting his own war. An...

Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold

Margaret Atwood

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017. Selected as a Book of the Year -...

Well, They are Gone, and Here Must I Remain

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...' A selection...

Lockout (2012)

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Emilie Warnock is the daughter of the American president. She goes to an outer-space prison in which...

Robert Rodriguez recommended Escape from New York (1981) in Movies (curated)

Escape from New York (1981)

1981 | Action, Sci-Fi

8.2

(20 Ratings)

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"Escape From New York, because that’s the one that made me want to make movies. It was a fantasy world. It was like, “What? There’s a wall around New York? It’s a prison? You can do that? You can just make stuff like that up?” That’s a lot of freedom; I thought that was very freeing. I was twelve when I saw that, twelve or thirteen. And I saw that [John Carpenter] wrote it, directed it, and did the music, and I was just like, “This guy’s doing everything. You can do that?” It just felt like, it was so renegade. It was independently done, and it made me want to start making movies, and I started making movies from that point on. It was just very inspiring. I knew I had a lot of interest, and that made me… That was movie that just really marked my life."

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Jimmy Fallon recommended Airplane! (1980) in Movies (curated)

Airplane! (1980)

1980 | Comedy

8.6

(28 Ratings)

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"This was spoofing these airport movies that were big in the ’70s. When you watch, there are so many quotable scenes, but one is [where] there’s a little boy who comes up to the cockpit of the airplane, and Peter Graves is the pilot, and he goes, “You ever been in a cockpit before, Joey?” And he goes, “No, sir, I’ve never been on a plane before.” He goes, “You ever seen a grown man naked?” And the kid acts perfectly, acts like he didn’t hear what he said, really, and then the questions get crazier. He’s like, “Joey, you ever been in a Turkish prison?” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the copilot. It is just so well-acted. There are so many jokes – it is jam-packed with jokes. You won’t ever forget Airplane!; [it’s] one of the best comedies I’ve ever seen in my life."

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