I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Short Guide to Modern Politics, the Coalition and the General Election
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Exactly a week after the general election, two men - 'Call me Dave' and 'Call me Nick' - walked side...
60-Second Brain Teasers Pencil-Free Puzzles: Short Head-Scratchers from the Easy to Near Impossible
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Nathan Haselbauer's amazingly clever book of 201 pencil-free brain teasers isn't your typical puzzle...
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Attack Balls - New Bubble Shooter Game (Best Cool & Funny Games For Girls & Kids - Touch Top Fun)
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THIS IS A NEW WAY BALL-SHOOTING-GAME OF YEAR 2017 FEATURED BY APPLE *Over 6,000,000 downloads! See...
Love Is Love: A Comic Book Anthology to Benefit the Survivors of the Orlando Pulse Shooting
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The comic industry comes together in honor of those killed in Orlando. Co-published by two of the...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Dirty Work (1933) in Movies
Feb 19, 2019
Not quite one of the boys' first-rate shorts - obviously there is boundless potential in the notion of Laurel and Hardy as chimney sweeps (Ollie falls down the chimney, off the roof, etc, etc, while Stan destroys the interior decorations of the house), but the mad scientist plotline feels oddly grafted on and the concluding scenes are peculiar rather than funny. First two-thirds makes the film more than worthwhile, though.
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral and How it Changed the American West
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"The genius of this book is that, for all its historical accuracy and sophistication, it still tells...
Jurassic Block Hunter - Dino Zoo Rail Shooter With Skins Uploader for Minecraft
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RAAAAwwRRRrr!!! Are you ready to fight against humans? Get new rights for awesome DINOSAURS, and be...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Love, Death & Robots - Season 1 in TV
Apr 9, 2020
There are 18 films on show here, all with something different to offer.
Firstly there were 3 that failed to really resonate with me - Sucker of Souls, When the Yoghurt Took Over, and Alternate Histories. I found these three either slightly boring, or silly for the sake of being silly. There were 2 that sort of floated in the middle - The Dump, and Blind Spot, not bad by any means (none of the shorts are truly bad) but just were sort of there.
Leaving a grand total of 13 shorts that I thought were really really great.
A handful of these realistic CGI entries - namely, Sonnie's Edge, Three Robots, Beyond the Aquila Rift, Shape Shifters (one of the highlights for me), Helping Hand (reminded me of Gravity, in a great way), Lucky 13, and The Secret War.
These lot are lengthier offerings, and boast some good looking CGI animation, bordering on photo realism at times. The run time gives an opportunity for some decent fleshed out stories.
The Secret War in particular is nothing short of breath taking, and may well be my top pick of the whole season.
Elsewhere, we have more cartoony offerings - Suits, a loud animation that features farmers in mech suits fighting aliens. Zima Blue, a beautifully touching story of how a simple robot transcends existence itself - another highlight of the season. Fish Night, a short desert based drama bursting with colour. The animation of this one reminded me of A Scanner Darkly. Good Hunting, a collision of Ancient Chinese stories and a Bioshock style steampunk future. Hard to watch at times, but stunning also - easily would have been my top pick if The Secret War wasn't included.
Rounding it off we have The Witness, and animation that looks like a moving oil painting and reminded me of Mirror's Edge, and Ice Age, a fun short that's the only live action inclusion with CGI flourishes about a civilisation growing in a couple freezer.
It's an ambitious collection of shorts for sure, but like I said, there's something here for everyone. Even the ones that I liked the least are a 6/10 at worst. If you like sci-fi or animation in any shape or form, then check this series out.
The Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories
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'No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being...