Categorie: american writers
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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: Mission: Impossible Fallout (2018)
Review: The second Mission: Impossible movie directed by Christopher Mcquarrie and the first one with music by Lorne Balfe. This is a direct sequel to Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation ànd Mission: Impossible III. It is also the longest M:I movie in the series so far with 2,5hrs approx… After the IMF has been reinstated (with…
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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015)
Review: Ethan Hunt (still played by Tom Cruise) needs to stop a rogue organisation called The Syndicate, who is responsible for a lot of mayhem and suffering in the world. Missing airplanes, bombings, gas attacks and so much more… At the same time a committee has disbanded the IMF and Brandt has to do everything…
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Pretty Girls
Review: Twenty years ago Julia disappeared, leaving behind her two younger sisters Claire and Lydia. Lydia found her escape in drugs and abuse while Claire married Paul Scott with whom she has a happy life. But to that life comes an end when, after a night out to celebrate Claire’s release from an electronic ankle…
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The Library Trilogy book one: The Book that wouldn’t burn
https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/the-book-that-wouldnt-burn-the-library-trilogy-book-1-mark-lawrence?variant=40284037709902 Review: This book was read in a buddy read with Paramowgli (Instagram) and is a bit out of my comfort zone, as it is a Fantasy novel. I do like to read one on occasion so it certainly isn’t a punishment but it always needs some ‘getting into’ the story before it takes off…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: Salem’s Lot (1979)
Plot: (from IMDB) The successful writer Benjamin “Ben” Mears returns to his hometown Salem’s Lot, Maine, expecting to write a new novel about the Marsten House. Ben believes that the manor is an evil house that attracts evil men since the place has many tragic stories and Ben saw a ghostly creature inside the house…
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Robert Hunter 5. Eén voor één
https://www.harpercollins.nl/9789402713671/een-voor-een/ Review: Dutch Robert Hunter en Carlos Garcia zijn terug en krijgen misschien wel hun gevaarlijkste en meest meedogenloze tegenstander ooit! Als Hunter een anoniem telefoontje krijgt waarin hem gevraagd wordt om een website te bezoeken, die enkel hij kan zien, waar een man vastgebonden zit. Hunter krijgt de keuze op welke manier de man…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: Carrie (1976)
Review: So I decided to do a Stephen King Movie Marathon in 2024. It’ll probably take me a lot of months and I might not be able to see/find all the movies/miniseries but I’ll do my best… and where better to start than at the beginning: with Carrie! Carrie was King’s first novel, he almost…
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Full Throttle
Review: This is a collection of thirteen stories, two of them completely new for the collection, all the others have been published somewhere else before. A few of these stories will get a separate review (such as Throttle and In the Tall Grass, both co-written with Stephen King). The review for Throttle is already online:…
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Weg des Doods
https://www.boekerij.nl/producten/weg-des-doods-9789402321401 Review: Twee documentairemakers, Jack Prentiss en Felix ‘Teig’ Teigland zijn naar Siberië gekomen om een documentaire te schieten langs de Kolymasnelweg, beter gekend als de ‘Weg des Doods’ omdat daar honderden Goelag gevangen onder begraven liggen. Als ze hun gids oppikken rijden de heren richting Achoest, een dorpje waar de mensen (over)leven in barre…
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Full Throttle: Throttle
Review: This is Hill & King’s own take on a road trip gone bad with a truck and a few bikers! Joe Hill was asked to write a story for a Richard Matheson tribute collection. Immediately he knew what to write, a tribute to Matheson’s Duel (later adapted into a movie, the debut film of…
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