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Julia Cafritz recommended Tanner '88 (1988) in Movies (curated)

 
Tanner '88 (1988)
Tanner '88 (1988)
1988 | Comedy, Drama
(0 Ratings)
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"In this political season, it’s important to remember that politics has always been a dirty business. Robert Altman scores big with two very well-aimed political targets: the unraveling of Richard Nixon in 1984’s Secret Honor and the media circus surrounding a presidential campaign in his 1988 miniseries Tanner ’88. I grew up watching comedian Rich Little doing Richard Nixon impressions that are seared into my brain. Philip Baker Hall is not doing a Richard Nixon impression. He is Richard Nixon. Sans gimmicks. It is a gut-wrenchingly good performance in what is virtually a one-man show. Tanner ’88 stars Michael Murphy as a decent liberal Democrat who—SPOILER ALERT—does not take the Democratic nomination. Sound familiar? Yeah. Depressing. Haskell Wexler’s 1969 film Medium Cool should really just be called Super Fucking Cool but then you’d lose the play on the word “medium” and boy is Wexler playing with medium here—a fictional story, shot cinema verité style, against a backdrop of the very real riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It’s a doozy and especially resonant as we watch the circus leading up to what is sure to be an ugly convention season"

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Kristina (502 KP) rated Bared to You (Crossfire, #1) in Books

Dec 7, 2020  
Bared to You (Crossfire, #1)
Bared to You (Crossfire, #1)
Sylvia Day | 2012 | Erotica
8
8.3 (23 Ratings)
Book Rating
I loved Bared to You. It’s a seductive story about two completely broken people who come together; I love these particular kinds of books because it’s inspiring to watch the characters slowly begin to heal, through each other. Eva is so completely relatable to me, it’s almost scary. Gideon, despite being rich and hot, seems more obtainable because of the simple mistakes we watch him make. This is probably my favorite part about the whole book, that both characters seem real. Unfortunately, I couldn’t help but make several connections to Fifty Shades of Grey. This kind of set me off, because most of the stories that follow this trilogy involve almost the exact same contents, but I soon realized that Sylvia has her own twists. These differences are what spurred me on and convinced me to keep reading. I immediately fell in love with Cary and, once I realized he wouldn’t be an obstacle, I quickly decided I liked Mark (despite the goatee). Eva’s and Gideon’s adventure is full of scorching heat, broken hearts, and a healing of sorts. As soon as I finished Bared to You, I was scrambling around to get the sequel, Reflected in You. I’m excited to see what Sylvia has in store for these two!
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Inception (2010) in Movies

Aug 17, 2020  
Inception (2010)
Inception (2010)
2010 | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
10
8.4 (131 Ratings)
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It's possible that Inception isn't the best film of the 21st century so far, but I'm blowed if I can think of a better candidate. What starts off looking like a slick thriller with SF trimmings - expert psycho-thief takes on one last job, breaking into a businessman's subconscious mind to implant a suggestion - turns into a dizzyingly complex and astonishingly self-assured examination of memory, reality, and the medium itself, with the execution matching the strength and ambition of the concept.

Consider: the film is based around a whole series of concepts and rules created out of whole cloth, which have to be explained to the audience. Most movies would really struggle to do only this. But Christopher Nolan not only succeeds, he uses it simply as the basis for a story rich in other layers of metaphor and emotion, while also playing with the rules of cinematic grammar and genre - the dreamscapes are implicitly likened to film narratives, with the successive levels resembling increasingly outlandish thriller sub-genres (gritty urban action, Mission Impossible, Bond) the further removed from the real world they are. But what is cinema if not a chance for people to share a dream together? Dreams as good as this one are vanishingly rare, alas.
  
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ClareR (5911 KP) rated Enlightenment in Books

Mar 29, 2025  
Enlightenment
Enlightenment
Sarah Perry | 2024 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I sank into Enlightenment, and I really didn’t want to resurface. The way Enlightenment is written could be described as Dickens-esque perhaps, but whatever it is, it’s rich in the type of description that I truly love about reading. I would lose myself for an hour or so (or more!) taking my time over the story of Thomas Hart, Grace Macauley, the Baptist church and a 19th century female astronomer.

My heart ached for these characters, especially for Thomas who felt that he couldn’t live an authentic, true life, because he would be rejected from his church. He’s a lovely man, who fills his time with the search for the astronomer, and his love for Grace Macauley.

Grace is a young girl, learning to live the life she wants to live and not that dictated by her father and her church. Faith plays a big role in this novel: both religious faith and the faith we have in others. Grace and Thomas have a disagreement and have to find their way back to one another. Despite the age difference, they are true friends.

I didn’t think I could find astronomy as interesting as I did, but the writing teamed with a ghostly astronomer and Thomas, certainly helped.

A beautiful book!