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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Devil Inside (The Lachlan Maclean Thriller Series # 2) in Books

Jan 9, 2022  
The Devil Inside (The Lachlan Maclean Thriller Series # 2)
The Devil Inside (The Lachlan Maclean Thriller Series # 2)
Alex Breck | 2021 | Crime, Thriller
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Not having read the first in this series, I really wasn't sure what to expect and I was pleasantly surprised.

This book is full of strong characters that grow on you as the story develops. They are a disparate bunch of people from various walks of life but they work well together. It did take me a while to get to grips with the story; it was quite confusing to begin with but I think that's because I haven't read the first in the series however, I stuck with it and found it quite absorbing the more it developed.

Full of action and tension, this is a good read and I look forward to reading more in the series so thanks to BooksGoSocial and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest, unbiased and unedited review.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Murder by Decree (1979) in Movies

Feb 27, 2018 (Updated Feb 27, 2018)  
Murder by Decree (1979)
Murder by Decree (1979)
1979 | Drama, Horror, Mystery
8
7.3 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Ah, nothing says 'fun' like a movie based on the activities of a brutal real-life misogynistic serial killer. Classy Sherlock Holmes pastiche is as much a vehicle to disseminate one particular Jack the Ripper theory as it is entertainment; fortunately it works very well as the later.

Not really a very good Sherlock Holmes movie - Holmes and Watson are clearly twenty years apart in age, weirdly, and Holmes' fearsome intellect is not much on display; his main method here seems to be to wander about until he stumbles over the solution to a mystery. But a distinguished cast and nice production values make up for the all-over-the-shop script, and the action at the end of the movie is well-staged. Hardly an ideal Holmes, but an entertaining mystery-thriller in a post-Hammer horror sort of style, issues of taste excepted.
  
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    Deception

    Roald Dahl

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    From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories....

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Joe Swanberg recommended The Double Life of Veronique (1991) in Movies (curated)

 
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
1991 | Drama, Fantasy, Music
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"In January 2007, after a particularly difficult shoot (both physically and emotionally), I found myself back in Chicago with some time on my hands. I didn’t want to edit, because I didn’t have the energy to confront the footage. The Gene Siskel Film Center was showing several of Kieślowski’s films, including all of his later work. Every day, I would make my way to the theater in the evening and sit there eating dark chocolate, letting the work pour over me. It was like a religious experience. I came away from that series feeling revitalized. The Double Life of Véronique and Blue were especially breathtaking. Sławomir Idziak’s photography left an indelible impression on me and changed the way I look at light. One year later, I went back to New York to finish that difficult film, and I finally had an outlet for all the good energy Kieślowski had given me."

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Layer Cake (2004) in Movies

Oct 5, 2020  
Layer Cake (2004)
Layer Cake (2004)
2004 | Crime, Drama, Thriller
7
7.4 (22 Ratings)
Movie Rating
British crime thriller. A highly professional and goal-oriented businessman in the drugs trade finds his well-organised life falling into chaos when he gets mixed up with stolen Ecstasy, Serbian war criminals and a missing heiress. Could he be forced to become something he despises - an actual gangster?

Looks a bit like a Guy Ritchie movie - and not without reason, for Matthew Vaughn produced the early Ritchie films - but the tone is (thankfully) more measured and serious. The plot is nothing very distinctive, although the subtext about Craig's character having to adopt the brutal methods of the people he encounters has some interest. Good performances from a strong cast; Michael Gambon is scary as a gang boss, but it's Daniel Craig's movie. This is apparently the performance that swung Bond for him, but the film deserves to be recognised on its own merits.
  
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Paige Lovelace (30 KP) rated The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4 in Books

Dec 14, 2020  
The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
J.R. Ward | 2011
9
8.5 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
I absolutely adore the Black Dagger brotherhood books I have all of them up to the recent one I just got that's a lot of books and I just adore them and I reread them whenever I get the chance to I ha (0 more)
There is nothing bad I can say about these books because if there was I wouldn't be reading them they are amazing books for me (0 more)
Love love love Black Dagger brotherhood
For me the Black Dagger brotherhood books have literally saved my life because I read all of them and during the pandemic and the quarantine and the lockdowns these books have kept me sane a. J r ward has the unique ability to get into her characters heads and that's what makes her book so good she flushes out the characters and weighs a lot of authors don't and I just love her