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The Thrill of Love

Amanda Whittington

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A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. A divorcee with a young...

The Race

Nina Allan

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A child is kidnapped with consequences that extend across worlds...A writer reaches into the past to...

Dead Calm (1989)

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This edge of your seat thriller follows an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill), whose yacht...

Lightning McQueen recommended Secretariat (2010) in Movies (curated)

Secretariat (2010)

2010 | Drama, Sport

7.7

(3 Ratings)

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"Different racers might tell you what they get out of being part of this sport — the King once told me something like, “I didn’t miss out on a family life because of racing, I had one because of it”! I love that. For “Champion” Chick Hicks it’s always been about a trophy. You ask me, though? It’s not about winning. It’s not even about being up front. It’s about being side by side, nose to nose. The competition. It pushes you. It makes it special. And it can give you that extra little bit of horsepower when the chips are down, you’re in a slump, and you’re itching for a comeback. Secretariat really drives that home, you know? Talk about horsepower in a comeback story!"

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Doom Patrol - Season 1 in TV

Jan 11, 2021

Doom Patrol - Season 1

2019 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

9.0

(3 Ratings)

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Brilliant nonsense

This series covers the formation of the band of misfits gathered together by Timothy Dalton's Niles Caulder, including a range of people with odd abilities after suffering unusual events. With the exception of try-hard Cyborg, they are all wonderfully flawed people just trying to find some purpose to their lives. Alan Tudyk serves as the antagonist for most of the series, as well as a wonderful forth-wall-breaking narrator and the source of most of the laugh-out-loud moments.
While I enjoy Cliff (the robot, former racing car driver), Jane is by far the best character. An extreme schizophrenic, she has over 60 personalities to call on, each with its own special power.
Good, daft fun.

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David McK (3372 KP) rated The Fate of the Furious (2017) in Movies

Aug 26, 2019

Somebody please tell me, at what point did a movie series about illegal street racing become a large, dumb, action blockbuster?

Because that's what this film is.

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy large, dumb, action block-busters!

Known in the UK as simply Fast and Furious 8, this one sees Dim - for reasons - turning against his former crew, leading to multiple car chases, explosions, fights, gunplay, muscle flexing and good cop/bad cop buddy buddy repartee between several of its core cast - the latter most noticeably between The Rock and Jason Statham, who now have their own spin-off movie - finally culminating in a long (20 minutes?) set piece across the frozen ice as they try to stop a stolen nuclear submarine from escaping to sea.