Andre Gregory recommended Brief Encounter (1945) in Movies (curated)
Tom of Finland (2017)
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Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving...
international drama biography LGBTQ
The Vision: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Book
The android Avenger goes solo His memories downloaded and stolen, a partially amnesiac Vision must...
The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence
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American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing...
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia
Book
Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century's most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly...
Polish Wings 20: Yakovlev Yak-1, Yak-3, Yak-7, Yak-9
Wojciech Zmyslony and Wojciech Sankowski
Book
This new book in the popular Polish Wings series tells the story of the most famous family of Soviet...
Orde Wingate
Book
Orde Wingate rose to fame by creating the Chindits in Burma in 1943. He is an extremely important...
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) in Movies
Sep 25, 2019
This one was a nice harmless kind of movie. Not one I'd feel compelled to see again, but enjoyable.
Before I went off to see this one I was read some comments on it from the Times. The assessment from their point of view was that this one won the award for “absolutely no screen chemistry whatsoever”. This is why I don't read reviews before I go. There was some awkwardness between the main characters, but had I not had that in my mind before going then I wouldn't have noticed. That awkwardness was entirely appropriate for the position that the pair were in.
There's nothing too objectionable about the Guernsey movie, apart from the long and unwieldy title it has inherited from the book. I just can't find anything more to say about it.
The Secrets of My Life: Vintner, Prisoner, Soldier, Spy
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Peter M. F. Sichel, a fourth-generation wine merchant, found the path he was destined to walk...
Biography history
The Prime Minister's Secret Agent (Maggie Hope Mystery, #4)
Book
World War II rages on across Europe, but Maggie Hope has finally found a moment of rest on the...