Stiletto (The Checquy Files, #2)
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In this spirited sequel, The Rook returns to clinch an alliance between deadly rivals and avert...
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
Cassandra Clare, Rachel Caine, Holly Black, Sarah Rees Brennan, Robin Wasserman, Kendare Blake, Michelle Hodkin, Sara Ryan, Kami Garcia, Sarah Cross, Kelly Link, Gwenda Bond, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund and Scott Tracey
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Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, epic urban fantasy set in a richly imagined world of...
The Beast of Nightfall Lodge (The Institute for Singular Antiquities, #2)
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A mysterious explorer hires a team of adventurers to join him in a hunt for a monstrous beast, in...
Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) in Movies
Feb 8, 2022
It's been 32 years since the apocalyptic events of the first movie and the original ghostbusters are all but completely forgotten.
After the death of egon, his estranged daughter and her children move into his home and try to settle in before pieces of the past start to uncover and an old threat is unleashed... So someone makes a call.
Fantastic visual effects, original soundtrack, a huge dose of nostalgia and a beautiful emotional scene that packs a punch that really kick things into gear.
This is a truly worthy sequel not to be missed and features cameos from the original cast.
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021) in Movies
Mar 4, 2022
The first Escape Room is a relatively tight thriller, with multiple entertaining-as-hell set pieces, all wrapped up in a load of half-baked plot weirdness. This sequel doubles down on both of those things. The puzzle rooms themselves are more extravagant and ambitious, and sometimes, there's some tension on display. I just wish they would lean into the horror more and get gory!
However, the small semblance of plot is needlessly convoluted, and executed so poorly, that it doesn't make much sense, and it just doesn't matter. I wasn't annoyed that it was bullshit, because I just didn't care, as my brain cells slowly fizzled away.
Tournament of Champions is dumb and fun. Pretty forgettable, but a good enough time whilst it's happening.
KyleQ (267 KP) rated Halloween Kills (2021) in Movies
Jan 16, 2022 (Updated Apr 2, 2023)
Halloween Kills has very little plot, characters are quickly introduced just to suffer random brutal deaths.
Jamie Lee Curtis is barely in this movie, being confined to a hospital bed.
The choreography for the various kills is bad, in one scene Michael kicks a door to deflect a gun, making a woman shoot herself. Our frightening slasher is fighting like Jason Statham now.
There are zero surprises. Anthony Michael Hall plays Tommy Doyle, the boy from the original movie. But the character has been ruined. He's an angry hick, inciting a riot to kill the wrong man.
Halloween Kills is a brainless sequel, save yourself and skip it.
Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Death on the Nile (2022) in Movies
Feb 24, 2022
Vital Found ( Evelyn Maynard trilogy book 2)
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The electrifying sequel to the International Bestseller Variant Lost.Bradford Hills feels more like...
David McK (3600 KP) rated The Suicide Squad (2021) in Movies
May 27, 2023
Like Aliens and not Alien.
A sort-of sequel to the earlier movie (here, Suicide Squad), with some of the same characters - most noticeably, Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn - although it is by no means necessary to have watched that earlier movie.
This is also a fair bit bloodier/messier than I remember said earlier movie being, and has absolutely no mention of either Batman or the Joker (unless you count Quinn's aversion to personalised number plates? See The Jokers car ...) to distract from the plot here, which sees the group of super-villains (all with a tracker and bomb implanted in their head) all sent on a mission to the island of Corto Maltese to destroy a Nazi-era prison and laboratory.
Of the 2 movies, I think this is the better.
It's definitely a James Gunn film through and through!
David McK (3600 KP) rated Extinction in Books
Aug 11, 2024 (Updated Aug 11, 2024)
(The movie 'Relic', on the other hand, was a bit of a dud).
They're the only 2 novels by Douglas Preston I'd ever read, until I decided to give this one a go based on both the premise (extinct animals being brought back to life) and the blurb.
I knew it wouldn't be a 'Jurassic Park' (which is name-checked) scenario; wasn't quite sure what it would be. What I got was an enjoyable enough read that put me in mind of something from the late Michael Crichton: I also have to say that, whilst I didn't get either the specifics nor who was behind it (or the reason), I did see what was coming from just over roughly the halfway mark!