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Stephen King Movie Marathon: Creepshow 1 (1982)
Review: Based upon a graphic novel Stephen King wrote that was illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, who would later return to do illustrations for King’s novel ‘Cycle of the Werewolf’, King would work together to adapt the graphic novel into this anthology movie, directed by George A. Romero. In total there are five stories in this…
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August 2024
August was a weird month… once in a blue moon these appear… I suffered from a reading slump at the start of the month. This resulted in starting five books, never finding the right pace or the right book that clicked… a trip to Helsinki made it a bit harder to read as well…. And…
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Movie Marathon: A single Man (2009)
Review: In December 2020 I finally read the novel by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man. It was a novel about love, death, longing and melancholy… also about getting older! I adored every letter, every phrase… and that ending just wrung my heart out… Even though Tom Ford, yes thé Tom Ford of the glasses and…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: The shining (1980)
Review: As movie adaptations go, especially Stephen King adaptations, this is one has been very much talked about in the past 44 years, since its release in 1980! Stephen King hated it, the late Shelley Duvall (who recently passed away) was bullied by Kubrick while filming and almost left… The movie had its issues… and…
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Movie Marathon: All of us Strangers (2023)
Review: All of us Strangers was a movie that was recommended by everyone online and by that my interest was peaked to have a go at it, even though I’ve seen people on TikTok crying over it. So I knew this was going to be a sad movie. But I didn’t expect it to be…
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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1 (2023)
Review: The latest in the Mission: Impossible series, again with Tom Cruise as the main character Ethan Hunt and some recurring characters such as Ilsa Faust, Luther and Benji and 27 years after the first M:I movie Henry Czerny is back as well, playing his role as Kittridge again. Newcomers are Pom Klementieff as a…
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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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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: M:I Ghost Protocol (2011)
Review: Ghost Protocol is the fourth instalment in the Mission: Impossible series, with Tom Cruise reprising his role as Ethan Hunt. This time Brad Bird is in the director’s seat. Benji (Simon Pegg), who is now an active operative for I.M.F. is part of a two person team to get Ethan Hunt out of a…
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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: Mission: Impossible III (M:I III) (2006)
Review: Life can take turns and twists and when you think you have a goal reached in your life something can come up that kicks the good things from underneath your feet and before you know it, you’re dragged into someone else’s dirty games… this happens to Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) in M:I III. Hunt…
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