David McK (3557 KP) rated Terminator: Zero in TV
Sep 22, 2024 (Updated Sep 22, 2024)
Personally, I'm still not sure of the whole anime style of animation here: I , personally, think it would have been better in more traditional (to my Western eyes, anyway) animation, and better released as one piece instead of episodically!
Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
Book
How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and...
Chinese Alchemy: Taoism, the Power of Gold, and the Quest for Immortality
Book
Here in one slender volume are the essentials to a tradition that dates back to 3,000 B.C. Among the...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Maverick (1994) in Movies
Jul 14, 2020 (Updated Jul 14, 2020)
The plot: This film update of the "Maverick" TV series finds the title cardsharp (Mel Gibson) hoping to join a poker contest with an impressive payoff. In order to enter, Maverick must first put up a large cash sum. He scams hopeful contestants Annabelle (Jodie Foster) and Angel (Alfred Molina) in a preliminary card game to win the money he needs, making enemies of both players. While trying to evade Annabelle and Angel, the crafty Maverick realizes a cunning marshal (James Garner) is also on his tail.
Many cameo appearances by Western film actors, country music stars and other actors. Including Danny Glover, Hal Ketchum, Corey Feldman, Read Morgan, Steve Kahan, Art LaFleur, Leo Gordon, Denver Pyle, Robert Fuller, Doug McClure, Henry Darrow, William Smith, Charles Dierkop, William Marshall, Dennis Fimple, Bert Remsen and Margot Kidder.
Danny Glover's cameo appearance references Donner's Lethal Weapon film series starring Glover and Gibson as cop partners. Their meeting in Maverick sees them share a moment of recognition, complete with Lethal Weapon music, and as he leaves, Glover says Roger Murtaugh's catchphrase: "I'm getting too old for this shit."
Country singers also cameo including Carlene Carter, Waylon Jennings, Kathy Mattea, Reba McEntire, Clint Black, Vince Gill and Janis Gill.
Its a funny entertaining western. A must watch.
GWR Ganger: In Charge of the Permanent Way
Book
Great Western Railway Ganger is the story of Dan Brew's life spent as a lineman for the Great...
Ross (3284 KP) rated Red Country in Books
Nov 29, 2017
They duly follow the trail of the kidnappers and end up embroiled in a journey through the "wild west" of this world with groups of travellers seeking their fortune and without exception ending destitute in grubby town Crease.
A number of familiar faces (or hands) return in this book, as well as a number of new characters. I didn't really like the western setting, being totally incongruous with the rest of the books set in the same world, and the mysticism implied near the end was not very well explored (a similar gripe about the first trilogy).
A good read, but really for completists, not to be read as a standalone book.
Andy K (10823 KP) rated The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) in Movies
May 6, 2019
The bad guys eventually present themselves and the good guys are arrested for causing trouble with the local law.
Getting to love Wayne more and more the more films of his I have watched. I can see now how he had such a commanding screen presence which still endures so many years later.
It was great to some some of my other favorites actors including George Kennedy and Dennis Hopper in supporting roles. Also, I didn't think Dean Martin could pull off a western role while staying sober, so he was a pleasant surprise also.
Overall the movie delivers the mostly standard OLD West movie elements including some great shootout scenes which makes it easy to recommend.
Culture and Economy in the New Shanghai
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As China's leading economic metropolis and 'most western city' Shanghai in the last twenty years has...
Endogenous Development: Naive Romanticism or Practical Route to Sustainable African Development
Chiku Malunga and Susan H. Holcombe
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Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development...
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
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This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of...