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This harrowing memoir tells the true story of a beloved family man and respected engineer who...
Garden of Beasts
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Paul Schumann, a German-American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hit man known equally...
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
7.4
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In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the...
David McK (3786 KP) rated Unbreakable (2000) in Movies
Oct 30, 2021
A bit of a strange movie to rate or describe.
I'm not sure whether to class this as a Comic book movie, a thriller, or something else entirely: It's not based on any comic (that I know of), but does have superheroes and villains as its main driving force.
In this, Bruce WIllis plays an everyman security guard who miraculously survives a train crash without a single cut or bruise, while Samuel L Jackson is his exact opposite: a man born with bones so brittle that they break at the slightest provocation.
As a M Night Syamalan movie, you'd be expecting a twist at the end - this, indeed, I feel is part of the problem: if Shyamalan wasn't known for twists, the ending would have had more impact than it did!!
First Born
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THE LAST THING A TWIN EXPECTS IS TO BE ALONE ... Molly lives a quiet, contained life in London....
The Brethren
5.0
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They're behind bars, but that won't stop them committing crimes. And it won't keep them safe,...
conspiracy political prison blackmail extortion
The Institution
8.0
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They’re locked up for your safety. Now, you’re locked in with them. Dr Connie Woolwine has...
David McK (3786 KP) rated Skyscraper (2018) in Movies
Jul 30, 2019 (Updated Jun 16, 2024)
Big, dumb action films for the most part.
And that, in my book, is a good thing.
In this, he plays a former FBI agent who is now a security expert (following his disastrous last mission, which cost him a leg) who must now rescue his family from inside a burning building in Hong Kong - the Skyscraper of the title, and the highest building in the world - while the local police believe he is responsible for starting the fire (he is, of course, being framed for the same).
I only saw this on the small screen: I can only imagine what the various vertiginous stunts would have looked like on the big screen!
EverHaven
10.0
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In an age when billionaires fund the future and artificial intelligence governs progress. Everhaven...
sci-fi thriller
David McK (3786 KP) rated Oblivion (2013) in Movies
May 26, 2026 - 11:27 AM
And this.
Which largely seems to be forgotten.
In this, Cruise plays security repairman Jack Harper, stationed on Earth (after the defeat of an alien invasion) in order to repair drones that look after massive machinery from the remnants of the defeated alien foe.
Or so he initially believes.
Until he rescues a stranger from a downed spacecraft - a woman he has never met yet has recurring dreams of.
So, what we have, really, is a sci-fi mystery where Cruise (of course) sprints, rides motorbikes and tries to make sense of it all!