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Josh Radnor recommended The Lives Of Others (2007) in Movies (curated)

The Lives Of Others (2007)

2007 | International, Drama

9.0

(2 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"Do I get pretentious? Because this is foreign. {laughs] I love that German film from a few years ago that won the Oscar, The Lives of Others. Such a great movie. I’ve seen it a bunch, and I own it. I love, love, love that movie, and I found that it was just intensely riveting and scary and beautiful and so well crafted, so well plotted as a movie. And such a sad comment on a time in a certain country, but also a really beautiful comment on people being altered and finding their humanity again. I thought that movie was really special."

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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) in Movies

Sep 21, 2020

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

2009 | Animation, Comedy, Family

7.5

(50 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Still hilarious as hell. Its breakneck energy, spastic animation, and frenetic joke-ifying forever influenced the current playing field for fast-paced children's blockbusters such as The Lego Movie(s) and its subsequent clones - good or ill. The inescapable hype around this back in the day was totally deserved because we'd seldom really seen anything like this at the time, and it's truly sad this is looked upon less fondly today just because it isn't as revolutionary as it once seemed. It still very much is imo, and how can one even try to deny that voice cast and role subversion?

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Chloe (778 KP) rated The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in Books

Dec 9, 2020

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

Josie Silver | 2020 | Contemporary, Romance

9.0

(2 Ratings)

Book Rating

Cliche (4 more)

Romantic

Sad

Emotional

Happy

Perhaps a little too long (0 more)

Cliche but glorious

I didn't quite expect this story, I like how the clever the blurb is now I know the story. The characters and story are believable. Occasionally I found Lydia a bit frustrating and she sees everything with rose tinted sunglasses but her character progression is good. Very very cliche but I loved that. I think the relationship between her and Freddie could have been drawn out in fewer pages and I did find myself not wanting to pick it up through the middle.

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Gareth von Kallenbach (980 KP) rated Home Again (2017) in Movies

Jul 11, 2019

Home Again (2017)

2017 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.8

(23 Ratings)

Movie Rating

A single mother, living with her two daughters in the sunniest part of LA is swept of her feet into polysemic ties between love, anger, confusion and men.

Home Again tells the story of a coming out and embracement of nostalgia through storytelling and friendship. The movie takes the audience on a ride through the typical life of filmmakers and performers inside the entertainment industry and captures the real life context beautifully through intricate directions in realism.

Whereas this movie this movie hits ominous tones of sad context, there is just enough comedic relief to make it a perfect heartwarming date night movie.

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Book Divas (227 KP) rated Surviving the Camp of Death in Books

Jul 12, 2019

Surviving the Camp of Death

Tamsen Horsnell | 2016 | Horror, Young Adult (YA)

9.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

For People of All Ages

One look at the cover and you know this read is not a HEA. I am completely in awe of this fourteen-year-old author and I believe her to be an old soul. Very expressive storyline and The Spider and The Fly came suddenly into my mind particularly, "Will you walk into my parlor" simply because I became ensnared in the author's creative web.

The sad story of Sophie and Abby can be enjoyed by people of all ages and I can only imagine the bright future that's ahead for this writer.

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LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Charlie's Angels (2019) in Movies

May 27, 2020 (Updated Dec 27, 2020)

Charlie's Angels (2019)

2019 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

6.2

(23 Ratings)

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Charlie's Angels is a sometimes entertaining, but mostly boring spy film. It has a talented cast for sure, but a screenplay that leaves a lot to be desired, and a lot of the jokes fall flat.
Female empowerment absolutely has a place in action cinema, a genre that is completely outbalanced in terms of gender roles, but the film as a whole zones in on it so much, that everything around it feels secondary, and as a result, the finished product is a drag.

Also, John Bosley is a villain now for reasons apparently, and I'm sad about it.