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Richard Dreyfuss recommended Once Around (1990) in Movies (curated)

 
Once Around (1990)
Once Around (1990)
1990 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

"Once Around is a beautiful movie. And it was funny, and it was moving, and it was great. The story itself, which is a true story, is such a remarkable — simple, but not simple — story about a woman who falls in love with a guy who is kind of socially unacceptable. He’s loud, and her family just thinks he’s chalk on a blackboard. It’s how they come to love him. Holly Hunter is fantastic. It’s actually quite a brilliant movie, and I’ve always been extremely proud of it."

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Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass (2015)
2015 | Drama
The Departed it isn't
When it's a gangster film set in Boston, it's always going to get compared to The Departed. The problem with Black Mass is it's very similar to The Departed, but sadly not in quality.

The acting and cast are great, there is some fantastic casting in this although it's Johnny Depp that I'm not too sure on. He seems to be a little over the top and his physical transformation is very creepy and disconcerting. The true story is very interesting, but it sometimes comes across as dull and I do have questions over how true some of this. The film is lacking in humour too and they would've done better to try and liven it up somehow. Whilst I appreciate it's a true story, I do feel it's a little lacking. Not one I'd go out of my way to watch again.
  
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Kelly (12 KP) rated Killing Eve in TV

Feb 1, 2019  
Killing Eve
Killing Eve
2018 | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Acting (2 more)
Story
Thrilling
Short season (1 more)
Bad person acting.
A-----mazing
Sandra Oh is awesome in this but please note you must give it a fair chance watch 2 or 3 episodes before you judge it.

Big fan of hers since greys anatomy also love crime shows and true crime stores.
  
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Katknight (3 KP) rated It (2017) in Movies

Oct 13, 2018  
It (2017)
It (2017)
2017 | Drama, Horror
8
7.9 (355 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Great scares
Another great adaptation of the great Stephen Kings work. The film was good and was quite true to the book. It's not as good as the original two parter that was made for tv in the 90s and it's only half the story but it's well worth a watch
  
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Daniel Lopatin recommended Dead Ringers (1988) in Movies (curated)

 
Dead Ringers (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
1988 | Drama, Horror, Mystery

"Jeremy Irons plays identical twin gynecologist womanizers. Despite this being a relatively straight story by Cronenberg’s standards, his baroque obsession with body modification is not lost here—the film features a few particularly disconcerting props related to surgery that are true art pieces and worth the price of admission alone."

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Niki Caro recommended The Zookeeper's Wife in Books (curated)

 
The Zookeeper's Wife
The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman | 2013 | History & Politics
8.5 (4 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"The extraordinary true story of an ordinary woman, a zookeeper’s wife, who saved over three hundred Jewish refugees by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto and concealing them in the cages of her zoo, and the basement of the zoo’s villa. Truly inspiring and increasingly relevant in these political times."

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