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Total War Battles: SHOGUN

Games and Entertainment

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BUILD, BATTLE AND AVENGE! Specifically developed for touchscreen platforms, Total War Battles™:...

The Vision: Yesterday and Tomorrow

Geoff Johns and Roy Thomas

7.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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The android Avenger goes solo His memories downloaded and stolen, a partially amnesiac Vision must...

Dean (6925 KP) rated The King's Man (2021) in Movies

Jan 31, 2022

The King's Man (2021)

2021 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

7.0

(11 Ratings)

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Some great action scenes (0 more)

Up and down pacing (1 more)

Different to the first two

A good entry to the series

Finally got around to watching this. I really liked the original and enjoyed the second. This takes a different direction being a prequel but also with less humour.
Based on events leading up to World War 1 as a Lord tries to use his influence and means to prevent conflict.
There are some great action scenes and fights but it doesn't have the humour of the other films. Quite odd at times, serious the next. It's a bit of a mixed bag. Plenty to enjoy but also a few surprises in one way or another.

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David McK (3361 KP) rated His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes in Books

May 5, 2024

So, 2 things:

1) I actually listened to the Stephen Fry presented Audible version of this (in between bouts of actually reading it)
2) I was expecting there to be an over-arching plot, similar to something like 'The Hounds of the Baskervilles'

With regards to #2, there isn't.

This, instead, hews closer to something like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in that it is presented as a series of more-or-less standalone cases, with the final one in the collection 'His Last Bow' and with that one set in the early 1910s, just before the outbreak of World War One, and in which Holmes comes out of retirement to solve one last case.