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The Peoplemad Success Model

Phil Merrick

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Phil Merrick is the founder of Peoplemad Ltd, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership Management, an...

Mockingbird

Kathryn Erskine

9.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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This is a heart-warming story of loss and recovery that won the American National Book Award 2010 -...

Scarecrow

Danny Weston

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Jack and his dad are runaways. Jack's father recently turned whistleblower, revealing the truth...

Kasi Lemmons recommended All About Eve (1950) in Movies (curated)

All About Eve (1950)

1950 | Classics, Comedy, Drama

9.0

(3 Ratings)

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"I get so much pleasure from the interplay between Bette Davis and Anne Baxter in this film. My favorite thing is that long party sequence. I’m struck by the challenge of shooting something like that, of tracking all the people on-screen and letting the drama unfold slowly over an extended period of time. There’s something thrilling about the progression of Davis’s character into drunken sloppiness, as she watches her lover become more and more fascinated with this younger woman. Her emotional unraveling, and the way the camera follows Davis’s performance, shows what can happen when a great director gets to work with a great actor."

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Uwe Boll recommended Apocalypse Now (1979) in Movies (curated)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

1979 | Action, Drama, War

8.7

(37 Ratings)

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"One of my all-time favorites is Apocalypse Now, because it shows the craziness of war, and you have the feeling that the shooting also was a big adventure. And this is what I like. What is lost, if you see war movies today — not like Pearl Harbor, that’s one of the worst movies of all time — but like Mel Gibson‘s Once We Were Warriors or Soldiers or whatever (2002’s We Were Soldiers), all that stuff, you feel it’s all fake. You feel they go in the evenings to their hotel rooms and it’s all good. But in Apocalypse Now, you feel like these guys were f—ed!"

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Runaway Jury (2003)

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After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell...

William H. Macy recommended The Godfather (1972) in Movies (curated)

The Godfather (1972)

1972 | Crime, Drama

9.3

(53 Ratings)

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"Oh, The Godfather. If it gets any better than that… I mean, it’s so beautifully shot. I’m not a fan of violent movies, but that one is such an epic film. The violence is part and parcel of the story they’re telling, so, it’s legitimate. In a weird way, I find there’s no gratuitous violence in it. Even though there’s a lot of shooting in that thing, every time there’s a shootout, I found it upsetting and horrifying as opposed to films which just trade on mowing human beings down. Those I find pornographic and not sad. I think it does damage to our society, personally."

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