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The Furnished Room

Laura Del-Rivo

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Joe Beckett drifts from job to job and woman to woman in a seedy world of bedsitters and all-night...

A Shakespearean Botanical

Margaret Willes

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When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting...

Ross (3284 KP) rated Dark Waters (2019) in Movies

Jul 14, 2020

Good, but lengthy

This real-life story of corporation pollution, corruption, arrogance and loophole exploiting is a fairly gripping one, as an embattled corporate lawyer (Ruffalo), used to defending chemical companies, takes on a case to sue DuPont, one of the main employers in West Virginia, for polluting the land and water next to his client's land.
What starts off as a very unpopular case within his own firm, soon develops into outrage and lawyers actually doing the right thing. Tim Robbins' senior partner in the firm is brought round by the evidence unearthed after tireless hours of wading through hundreds of boxes of "discovery" and gets behind the case in the pursuit of justice. In one passionate scene, he shouts down all other partners in the firm in order to make them see what is at stake and what the underlying issue is.
The film does drag a little and could have been sped up to an extent but there were few times where I found myself actually bored or reaching for my phone.

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Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon

Michael Engelhard

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Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of...

Kim Pook (101 KP) rated To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020) in Movies

Sep 10, 2020

The movie picks up where the last movie left off. Lara Jean and Peter are officially dating and life is good,but when Lara Jean receives a letter from John Ambrose - the final love letter recipient - she starts to reply but shoves her reply in a drawer and it's forgotten about. That is until John Ambrose shows up at the same place Lara Jean volunteers at and her old feelings come rushing back, she then needs to decide if Peter is the one for her or if it's John Ambrose she wants.
After the perfect ending of the last movie, I felt a sequel wasn't needed but I wanted to watch it anyway, and I was right, a sequel really wasn't needed. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a terrible movie but I felt like it didn't have the same feel as the first one and a lot of the time I felt annoyed at Lara Jean. However, I did have to remember that she's only 16 years old and it shows what many teens that age are going through.