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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas and Umberto Eco

8.4 (29 Ratings) Rate It

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On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantes, master mariner, is arrested in Marseille on trumped-up...

Christopher Hobbs recommended Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr.Hulot's Holiday) (1953) in Movies (curated)

"This is art concealing art. On the face of it, the film is a gentle satire of French bourgeois life on holiday. There is no story, just Hulot (Jacques Tati himself) drifting innocently through a holiday resort, leaving a trail of confusion behind him. The gags are wonderful, apparently effortless, the situations natural. In reality, the film is the extraordinary creation of a man obsessed with perfection. Each move, each image was planned in detail by Tati until the gags were immaculate; the tennis ball that bounces off the head of the serious little girl curtsying to her elders, the paint pot that floats out to sea, then back on the opposite side of the beached fishing boat; everything apparently natural, everything the product of intense creativity."

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She Taxi

Travel and Utilities

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SheTaxi es la única aplicación que te garantiza que al pedir un taxi tu chofer sea una mujer. Es...

David McK (3623 KP) rated The Bourne Identity (2002) in Movies

Sep 30, 2020

The Bourne Identity (2002)

2002 | Action, Mystery

7.8

(31 Ratings)

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The first Jason Bourne film, in which Matt Damon plays the titular character who is discovered floating in the sea off France, with no memory of how he came to be there or of his previous life, but with a very particular set of skills (to steal a phrase from another actioner).

As he struggles to regain his identity, he finds himself pursued by shadowy government operatives, who believe that he has gone rogue from his post as an elite government agent.

The film is full of some bruising action and car chases; it's just a pity that it is also full of 'shaky cam' work that led to certain members of my family feeling car sick watching it!
(The sequels even more so!)

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Citadel

Jordan Wylie

5.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Citadel - The True Story of One Man's War Against the Pirates of Somalia. An inspirational true...

Vertical Reefs: Life on Oil and Gas Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

Mary Katherine Wicksten

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On a clear night, the bright lights of oil platforms sparkle in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of...

Duff McKagan recommended It's Only Rock 'N' Roll by The Rolling Stones in Music (curated)

It's Only Rock 'N' Roll by The Rolling Stones

1974 | Pop

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"We have to put a Stones record in there too for good measure. The times I drove down to LA in ‘84 I probably listened to that song 75 times - probably a lot more actually - on my little ghetto blaster in my car. It was kind of the soundtrack to my life that year, again it was another record that got me through a big sea change in my life. There are lots of good Rolling Stones records but that one was given to me at the right time in my life. Playing with them was a big thing of course and we were really built up way beyond what we wanted to be. I was just happy to be opening for The Rolling Stones in any way at all, but someone in the LA Times wrote it up and had a picture of us like we were going to be the next Rolling Stones. It was ‘88 or ’89, we were young guys and how do you handle that? Imagine that pressure, if you’re 24 years old you just want it to go away. And I was thinking, ""I hope none of the guys from the Stones see this article saying we’re going to be the next Rolling Stones…""

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