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('2013-03-09', '1362787200', 'Books', 'Philosophy ', 'Unknown', 'Philosophy', '0.0', '', '1926'),
|
||
('2013-03-23', '1363996800', 'Books', 'Opinion pieces by South African thought leaders ', 'Max du Preez', 'Essays', '0.0', '', '2011'),
|
||
('2013-03-23', '1363996800', 'Books', 'Six great ideas', 'Mortimer Adler', 'Philosophy', '0.0', '', '1981'),
|
||
('2013-03-23', '1363996800', 'Books', 'Steppenwolf', 'Hermann Hesse', 'Novel', '1.0', '', '1927'),
|
||
('2013-04-24', '1366761600', 'Books', 'The Art of Loving', 'Erich Fromm', 'Philosophy', '0.0', '', '1956'),
|
||
('2013-04-24', '1366761600', 'Books', 'How To Be Alone', 'Jonathan Franzen', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '2002'),
|
||
('2013-04-24', '1366761600', 'Books', 'The Handbook of Style', 'Esquire Magazine', 'Fashion', '1.0', '', '2024'),
|
||
('2013-05-08', '1367971200', 'Books', 'Changing My Mind', 'Zadie Smith', 'Essays', '1.0', '', '2009'),
|
||
('2013-06-01', '1370044800', 'Movies', 'Star Trek - Into Darkness', 'J.J Abrams', 'Science Fiction', '0.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2013-07-13', '1373673600', 'Movies', 'Man of Steel', 'Zac Snyder', 'Superhero', '0.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2013-08-11', '1376179200', 'Books', 'Superman: Secret Origins', 'Geoff Johns and Gary Frank', 'Superhero', '-1.0', '', '2011'),
|
||
('2013-10-05', '1380931200', 'Books', 'Green Lantern: Secret Origins', 'Geoff Johns and Ivan Reiss', 'Superhero', '-1.0', '', '2010'),
|
||
('2013-10-08', '1381190400', 'Movies', 'Batman - The Dark Knight Returns', 'Jay Oliva', 'Superhero', '1.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2013-11-13', '1384300800', 'Movies', 'Thor: The Dark World', 'Alan Taylor', 'Superhero', '-1.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2013-11-13', '1384300800', 'Movies', 'Gravity', 'Alfonso Cuaron', 'Science Fiction', '0.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2013-11-21', '1384992000', 'Books', 'Kiss & tell ', 'Alain de Botton', 'Romance', '0.0', '', '1995'),
|
||
('2013-11-21', '1384992000', 'Books', 'Status anxiety ', 'Alain de Botton', 'Non-fiction', '1.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2013-11-21', '1384992000', 'Books', 'The discomfort zone: a personal history ', 'Jonathan Franzen', 'Biography', '1.0', '', '2006'),
|
||
('2013-11-22', '1385078400', 'Books', 'Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness', 'Touré', 'Non-fiction', '-1.0', '', '2011'),
|
||
('2013-11-27', '1385510400', 'Books', 'Beatrice and Virgil: a novel ', 'Yann Martel', 'Novel', '1.0', '', '2010'),
|
||
('2013-12-03', '1386028800', 'Books', 'South African Law: What You Should Know', 'Francois Smuts', 'Law', '1.0', '', NULL),
|
||
('2013-12-05', '1386201600', 'Books', 'Never let me go', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', 'Novel', '2.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2013-12-12', '1386806400', 'Books', 'The best American short stories 2000 ', 'Edgar Doctorow', 'Shorts', '0.0', '', '2000'),
|
||
('2013-12-14', '1386979200', 'Books', 'What not to say: finding the right words at difficult moments ', 'Mark Vernon', 'Pyschology', '0.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2013-12-14', '1386979200', 'Books', 'The ministry of special cases ', 'Nathan Englander', 'Novel', '2.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2013-12-23', '1387756800', 'Books', 'Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall ', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', 'Shorts', '0.0', '', '2009'),
|
||
('2014-01-01', '1388534400', 'Movies', 'Mud', 'Jeff Nichols', 'Drama', '0.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2014-01-01', '1388534400', 'Movies', 'The Flashpoint Paradox', 'Jay Oliva', 'Superhero', '1.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2014-03-06', '1394064000', 'Books', 'Fear and loathing in Las Vegas', 'Hunter Thompson', 'Novel', '1.0', '', '1971'),
|
||
('2014-03-19', '1395187200', 'Books', 'Norwegian wood ', 'Haruki Murakami', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '1987'),
|
||
('2014-03-19', '1395187200', 'Books', 'The Zahir ', 'Paulo Coelho', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '2006'),
|
||
('2014-03-19', '1395187200', 'Books', 'Life/situations: essays written and spoken ', 'Jean-Paul Sartre', 'Essays', '1.0', '', '1977'),
|
||
('2014-03-21', '1395360000', 'Books', 'A Contract With God', 'Will Eisner', 'Shorts', '0.0', '', '1978'),
|
||
('2014-03-21', '1395360000', 'Books', 'NW', 'Zadie Smith', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2014-03-21', '1395360000', 'Books', 'Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Die-Hard Romantic', 'Christopher Phillips', 'Philosophy', '0.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2014-03-30', '1396137600', 'Movies', 'Rush', 'Ron Howard', 'Sports', '0.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2014-04-04', '1396569600', 'Movies', 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier', 'Anthony and Joe Russo', 'Superhero', '2.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-05-19', '1400457600', 'Movies', 'Non-stop', 'Jaume Collet-Serra', 'Action', '0.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-05-29', '1401321600', 'Movies', 'X-Men - Days of Future Past', 'Bryan Singer', 'Superhero', '1.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-06-05', '1401926400', 'Movies', 'The Grand Budapest Hotel', 'Wes Anderson', 'Drama', '1.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-07-10', '1404950400', 'Movies', 'The Man from Earth', 'Richard Schenkman', 'Science Fiction', '1.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2014-07-30', '1406678400', 'Movies', 'Before Midnight', 'Richard Linklater', 'Romance', '3.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2014-07-30', '1406678400', 'Movies', 'Before Sunset', 'Richard Linklater', 'Romance', '3.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2014-10-09', '1412812800', 'Books', 'MaddAddam ', 'Margaret Atwood', 'Science Fiction', '-2.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-11-19', '1416355200', 'Movies', 'Interstellar', 'Christopher Nolan', 'Science Fiction', '1.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-11-21', '1416528000', 'Books', 'Why We Build', 'Rowan Moore', 'Art', '2.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2014-11-21', '1416528000', 'Books', 'The Sense of Style', 'Steven Pinker', 'Fashion', '2.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-11-29', '1417219200', 'Movies', 'Moonrise Kingdom', 'Wes Anderson', 'Drama', '1.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2014-11-30', '1417305600', 'Movies', 'Skyfall', 'Sam Mendes', 'Action', '-1.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2014-11-30', '1417305600', 'Movies', 'Ruby Sparks', 'Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris', 'Romance', '1.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2014-11-30', '1417305600', 'Movies', 'Serenity', 'Joss Whedon', 'Science Fiction', '1.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2014-11-30', '1417305600', 'Movies', 'The American', 'Anton Corbijn', 'Action', '1.0', '', '2010'),
|
||
('2014-11-30', '1417305600', 'Movies', 'The Hurt Locker', 'Katheryn Bigelow', 'Action', '1.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2014-11-30', '1417305600', 'Movies', 'Tigerland', 'Joel Schumacher', 'Action', '1.0', '', '2000'),
|
||
('2014-12-18', '1418860800', 'Movies', 'Guardians of the Galaxy', 'James Gunn', 'Superhero', '1.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-12-18', '1418860800', 'Movies', 'Predestination', 'Michael and Peter Spierig', 'Science Fiction', '2.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-12-26', '1419552000', 'Movies', 'A Most Wanted Man', 'Anton Corbijn', 'Thriller', '1.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2014-12-29', '1419811200', 'Movies', 'Particle Fever', 'Mark Levinson', 'Documentary', '2.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2015-01-31', '1422662400', 'Movies', 'CitizenFour', 'Laura Poitras', 'Documentary', '2.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2015-03-15', '1426377600', 'Movies', 'Top Five', 'Chris Rock', 'Drama', '1.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2015-04-26', '1430006400', 'Movies', 'Avengers: Age of Ultron', 'Joss Whedon', 'Superhero', '0.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2015-05-31', '1433030400', 'Movies', 'Mad Max: Fury Road', 'George Miller', 'Action', '3.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2015-07-03', '1435881600', 'Movies', 'Cartel Land', 'Matthew Heineman', 'Action', '1.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2015-10-12', '1444608000', 'Movies', 'Sicario', 'Denis Villeneuve', 'Action', '2.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2015-10-13', '1444694400', 'Movies', 'Dredd', 'Pete Travis', 'Superhero', '1.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2015-10-17', '1445040000', 'Movies', 'Dear White People', 'Justin Simien ', 'Comedy', '1.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2015-10-17', '1445040000', 'Movies', 'Beasts of No Nation', 'Cary Joji Fukunaga', 'Action', '2.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2015-10-17', '1445040000', 'Movies', 'Ex Machina', 'Alex Garland', 'Science Fiction', '2.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2015-11-20', '1447977600', 'Movies', 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2', 'Francis Lawrence', 'Action', '1.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2015-11-25', '1448409600', 'Movies', 'Creed', 'Ryan Coogler', 'Sports', '1.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2015-11-26', '1448496000', 'Movies', 'Ill Manors', 'Ben Drew', 'Drama', '2.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2015-12-13', '1449964800', 'Books', 'Style and the Man', 'Alan Flusser', 'Fashion', '1.0', '', '2010'),
|
||
('2015-12-13', '1449964800', 'Books', 'Seven Days in the Art World', 'Sarah Thornton', 'Art', '1.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2015-12-13', '1449964800', 'Books', 'Indulgent', 'Jeff Lack', 'Fashion', '1.0', '', '2010'),
|
||
('2015-12-13', '1449964800', 'Books', 'Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights ', 'Salman Rushdie', 'Novel', '2.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2015-12-25', '1451001600', 'Movies', 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', 'J.J Abrams', 'Science Fiction', '1.0', '', '2016'),
|
||
('2015-12-27', '1451174400', 'Movies', 'Dope', 'Rick Famuyiwa', 'Drama', '1.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2016-01-01', '1451606400', 'Movies', 'Sponge Out of Water', 'Paul Tibbitt', 'Animated', '1.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2016-02-28', '1456617600', 'Books', 'Modern Romance', 'Aziz Ansari', 'Non-fiction', '1.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2016-02-28', '1456617600', 'Books', 'Making Comics', 'Scott McCloud', 'Art', '2.0', '', '2006'),
|
||
('2016-03-01', '1456790400', 'Movies', 'The Hateful Eight', 'Quentin Tarantino', 'Western', '1.0', '', '2015'),
|
||
('2016-04-04', '1459728000', 'Books', '33 Artist in 3 Acts', 'Sarah Thornton', 'Art', '1.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2016-04-30', '1461974400', 'Movies', 'Deadpool', 'Tim Miller', 'Superhero', '1.0', '', '2016'),
|
||
('2016-05-04', '1462320000', 'Movies', 'Captain America: Civil War', 'Anthony and Joe Russo', 'Superhero', '1.0', '', '2016'),
|
||
('2016-07-01', '1467331200', 'Movies', 'Arrival', 'Denis Villeneuve', 'Drama', '2.0', '', '2016'),
|
||
('2016-08-14', '1471132800', 'Movies', 'What We Do In The Shadows', 'Taika Waititi', 'Fantasy', '1.0', '', '2014'),
|
||
('2016-10-29', '1477699200', 'Movies', 'Snowpiercer', 'Bong Joon-ho', 'Action', '0.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2016-11-01', '1477958400', 'Books', 'American Gods', 'Neil Gaiman', 'Fantasy', '1.0', '', '2001'),
|
||
('2016-11-01', '1477958400', 'Books', 'The Course of Love', 'Alain de Botton', 'Romance', '2.0', '', '2016'),
|
||
('2016-12-25', '1482624000', 'Books', 'Deadeye Dick', 'Kurt Vonnegut', 'Novel', '1.0', '', '1982'),
|
||
('2017-01-29', '1485648000', 'Books', 'Time Travel', 'James Gleich', 'Science', '0.0', '', '2003'),
|
||
('2017-01-29', '1485648000', 'Books', 'All That Man Is', 'David Szalay', 'Novel', '1.0', '', '2016'),
|
||
('2017-01-29', '1485648000', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Book 1', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates', 'Superhero', '3.0', '', '2019'),
|
||
('2017-02-04', '1486166400', 'Books', 'The Story of Contemporary Architecture', 'Paolo Favole', 'Architecture', '-3.0', '', '2011'),
|
||
('2017-02-04', '1486166400', 'Books', 'On Histories and Stories', 'Antonia Byatt', 'History', '-2.0', '', '2002'),
|
||
('2017-02-27', '1488153600', 'Books', 'The Ocean At The End of The Lane', 'Neil Gaiman', 'Novel', '-1.0', '', '2013'),
|
||
('2017-02-27', '1488153600', 'Books', 'Known and Strange Things', 'Teju Cole', 'Essays', '-1.0', '', '2016'),
|
||
('2017-02-27', '1488153600', 'Books', 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics', 'Marisha Pessl', 'Novel', '2.0', '', '2006'),
|
||
('2017-02-27', '1488153600', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Book 2', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates', 'Superhero', '2.0', '', '2020'),
|
||
('2017-02-27', '1488153600', 'Books', 'Sandman: The Doll''s House', 'Neil Gaiman', 'Superhero', '2.0', '', '2002'),
|
||
('2017-02-27', '1488153600', 'Books', 'Stories of Your Life and Others', 'Ted Chiang', 'Shorts', '3.0', '', '2002'),
|
||
('2017-03-25', '1490400000', 'Movies', 'Logan', 'James Mangold', 'Superhero', '2.0', '', '2017'),
|
||
('2017-04-01', '1491004800', 'Movies', 'Moonlight', 'Barry Jenkins', 'Drama', '2.0', '', '2016'),
|
||
('2017-04-25', '1493078400', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Book 3', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates', 'Superhero', '2.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2017-05-26', '1495756800', 'Movies', 'Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2', 'James Gunn', 'Superhero', '-1.0', 'An 80s fetish taken a step too far. The first was a splash of something different in the MCU. Now it needs to step up. Did not do so.', '2017'),
|
||
('2017-07-01', '1498867200', 'Books', 'Black Panther: World of Wakanda', 'Roxanne Gay', 'Superhero', '1.0', 'The title is misleading. The Black Panther is a secondary figure in a story about the Dora Milaje. You can tell the writer is new to the medium, but she tells it well.', '2016'),
|
||
('2017-07-22', '1500681600', 'Books', 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men', 'David Foster Wallace', 'Shorts', '1.0', 'Dense. Very dense storytelling. Felt like eating at a wedding. Stuffing yourself so full that your tummy wants to fall off and life its own live. The stories are told in detail, which gives it a richness and realness that suggest the writer eavesdropped on real therapy sessions.', '1999'),
|
||
('2017-07-22', '1500681600', 'Books', 'New Avengers: Everything Dies', 'Jonathan Hickman', 'Superhero', '2.0', 'This is Black Panther the king, the diplomat, the maker of hard and harsh decisions. We see him here occupy that aloof position that makes him a different type in the Marvel universe. The philosopher king in black making dark decisions.', '2013'),
|
||
('2017-07-22', '1500681600', 'Books', 'Bad Feminist', 'Roxanne Gay', 'Shorts', '3.0', 'Not knowing the history of the author I was floored by that story. The one where she is raped. It is sensing the impending ugliness, without being fully aware. Words have a way of enveloping me in emotion and that story did. The depravity of rapemust not be an intellectual thing, but a fel thing - for everyone. I felt it.', '2014'),
|
||
('2017-07-22', '1500681600', 'Books', 'Kingdom Come', 'Mark Waid and Alex Ross', 'Superhero', '3.0', 'The old heroes revived in a future full of them. Brought back to police their children. I can see why this was a seminal work in the 90s. It holds up. The story asks questions that the superhero universe never quite approaches in mainstream stories.', '1996'),
|
||
('2017-10-05', '1507161600', 'Movies', 'Blade Runner 2049', 'Denis Villeneuve', 'Science Fiction', '3.0', 'Better than its predecessor. How many times can you say that? An achievement of style and substance. Goes from the cool blue ravaged future city to the warm orange of forgotten Las Vegas with an economy of pace and an assured manner. Raises the philosophical without neglecting the popcorn crowd.', '2017'),
|
||
('2017-10-14', '1507939200', 'Movies', 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople', 'Taika Waititi', 'Drama', '1.0', 'An innocent story that you feel is almost out of time. It could only work with pastoral New Zealand as a setting. Earnest, funny and rugged without losing its twinkle.', '2016'),
|
||
('2017-12-12', '1513036800', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Book 4', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates', 'Superhero', '2.0', 'The remarkable thing is a graphic novel about lost love and a strained relationship in a superhero setting. Somehow it comes off. Storm and the Panther working through what was and fighting the unknown. Nehisi is getting good at this.', '2016'),
|
||
('2017-12-24', '1514073600', 'Movies', 'Columbus', 'Kogonada', 'Drama', '3.0', 'A meditation on life set against the architecture of man. It''s refreshing to have a film with a man and a woman who are not love interests. John Cho has a way of being so cool that he''s almost not even there, just a mirage of a man. Present, not overbearing, but shimmering.', '2017'),
|
||
('2018-01-12', '1515715200', 'Books', 'The Romantic Movement', 'Alain de Botton', 'Novel', '1.0', 'The third of de Botton''s romantic novels. And possibly the weakest. Dissections and theories about the minitiae of love that I have read before. Not the worst novel, but it is difficult to like the central character or her romantic partner. The only likeable caharacter is at the end - and guess what, he gets the selfish, insecure girl.', '1994'),
|
||
('2018-01-15', '1515974400', 'Books', 'Dinner At The Centre Of The Earth', 'Nathan Englander', 'Novel', '1.0', 'How many false starts have there been? The conflict of our times, our parents times and what looks like the next generations times. How do you tell a compelling story about something most of ous are tired of caring about. I have sometime thought that land showuld be cratered and forgotten, forgetting that there are people in this story. People who hurt and this telling of the stories love and betray across lines and between each other. It''s a love story, a thriller, a spy tale - it is compelling. But as with all stories about that barren slab of land, it has no reslotion.', '2017'),
|
||
('2018-02-03', '1517616000', 'Books', 'The Golden House', 'Salman Rushdie', 'Novel', '1.0', 'A book with a half life of a year. So ''now'' that it could not be understood fully except in these crazy times of reality presidents. The narrator peaking over and getting involved in the affairs of the Golden family, while Rushdie peeks over the narrator telling a story that hints at himself - how he sees himself and his Indian / NY conversion. Perhaps the first real account that helps me to see the world between genders. That world that we who accept the dichotomy do not know and barely understand.', '2017'),
|
||
('2018-02-04', '1517702400', 'Movies', 'Blue Ruin', 'Jeremy Saulnier', 'Drama', '1.0', 'Revenge is the ruin. Not sure why it is blue. Lex Talionis breaking down a man with each of his killings. An eye for the wrong eye. Kiling, kiling, killing. What''s shocking is the realism of it all. We want him to kill and we are as responsible when he does - again and again. Beautifullt shot and Macon Blair is the core of the film''s emotion (barely saying a pragraph''s worth of script).', '2013'),
|
||
('2018-02-07', '1517961600', 'Books', 'Men Without Women', 'Haruki Murakami', 'Shorts', '1.0', 'Lonely and broken men abound in a series of stories about their quiet lives without women. I think the thesis here is that women are an essential part of man (a point driven home by a negative heart shaped space on the cover).', '1927'),
|
||
('2018-02-08', '1518048000', 'Movies', 'Thor: Ragnarok', 'Taika Waititi', 'Superhero', '0.0', 'It’s fun. Even funny. But it occupies that same slot that Gaurdians of the Galaxy owns in the Marvel Universe. With a more regal Black Panther on the horizon, this king seems immature – a child in a man’s role. Also it downplays what is essentially colonialism in the same way we do in the real world. The nine realms surely have to be acknowledged as suppressed kingdoms?', '2017'),
|
||
('2018-02-16', '1518739200', 'Movies', 'Black Panther', 'Ryan Coogler', 'Superhero', '3.0', 'Everything I wanted it to be. No more needs to be said.', '2018'),
|
||
('2018-02-19', '1518998400', 'Books', 'Sapiens', 'Yuval Noah Hariri', 'History', '2.0', 'The breadth of knowledge it takes to trend map all of human history is astounding. Smart observations about the simple things that have separated us from the rest of the animal kingdom. Possibly the best argument for vegetarianism I have read. Manages to be macro without getting lost.', '2011'),
|
||
('2018-02-25', '1519516800', 'Movies', 'Eames - The Architect and the Painter', 'Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey', 'Documentary', '0.0', 'A worthwhile documentary on an enterprising couple. Tries to balance the man and the woman, but you do feel Ms. Eames is more a background player.', '2011'),
|
||
('2018-03-12', '1520812800', 'Books', 'Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs', 'Henry Carroll', 'Photography', '1.0', 'The first of a series of books on the neglected part of photography: having an eye (or two). Feels quite shallow at times, but it is difficult to make depth of something so there yet so hard to access.', '2014'),
|
||
('2018-03-17', '1521244800', 'Books', 'Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs of Places', 'Henry Carroll', 'Photography', '1.0', 'Like the first. Requires reflection. Almost half written and you need to fill in the rest.', '2017'),
|
||
('2018-03-21', '1521590400', 'Books', 'Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs of People', 'Henry Carroll', 'Photography', '2.0', 'I found this to be the best of the series. Perhaps because it deals with a weakness of my won – taking pictures of people. My last trip avoided all snaps of the people I met. Says something.', '2015'),
|
||
('2018-03-24', '1521849600', 'Movies', 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi', 'Rian Johnson', 'Science Fiction', '1.0', 'An unconventional storyline that revives the franchise. This is no black and white play, with a grey Sith lord and a light grey Jedi. The Jesus scene was well done. Makes it all worthwhile again.', '2008'),
|
||
('2018-04-15', '1523750400', 'Television', 'Counterpart Season 1', 'Justin Marks', 'Thriller', '1.0', 'The concept is not new. Fringe was similar – there are parallel worlds, we did something that hurt theirs, now they seek revenge. But the acting is a level above. The characters are round, real human beings. Their relationships are and motivations are grainy like life and JK Simmons is a revelation.', '2017'),
|
||
('2018-04-22', '1524355200', 'Movies', 'Dunkirk', 'Christopher Nolan', 'Action', '1.0', 'Comparable to Saving Private Ryan with fewer words, more atmosphere and a reluctance to acknowledge the part played by not-so white soldiers. The lead’s story is almost too remarkable, could have done with a co-lead to pick up the story along the way. Bought a lump to the throat in the final scenes.', '2017'),
|
||
('2018-04-28', '1524873600', 'Movies', 'Anti Matter', 'Keir Burrows', 'Science Fiction', '2.0', 'It takes commitment to follow the story, but well worth the wait. A scientific examination of the soul told with an unreliable, forgetful lead stumbling about trying to find themselves. The end is expected. I saw it coming, but still it gives you something to enjoy in its execution. Well acted and believable.', '2016'),
|
||
('2018-05-05', '1525478400', 'Movies', 'Batman Ninja', 'Junpei Mizusaki', 'Superhero', '-2.0', 'Juvenile. Could not finish it.', '2018'),
|
||
('2018-05-10', '1525910400', 'Television', 'Atlanta Season 2', 'Donald Glover', 'Dramedy', '3.0', 'There is a temptation, after a lauded season, to keep doing what you were doing. There is none of that here in the Robbin’ Season. Each episode a story worthy of examination. Some of it is not easy, but all of it is worthwhile. Especially the spooky episode with Jackson simulacrum rotting away in his mansion looking for some connection and seething with rage. All the characters are well motivated: Lottie is tired of raising a man child; Paper Boi needs a mature manager and Earn is drifting in the wind. The sage of the show still delivers in all his of his scenes. It’s his show, the rest just don’t know it.', '2018'),
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('2018-07-01', '1530403200', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Love Live The King', 'Nnedi Okafor', 'Superhero', '-2.0', 'Boring stories. Predictable or messy.', '2017'),
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('2018-07-01', '1530403200', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Book 5', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates', 'Superhero', '2.0', 'A strong end to the Klaw arc. Just a bit surprised by the ultimate villian, an unknown (to me). But the conclusion is on point, spiritual in feeling, strong in tactics.', '2016'),
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('2018-08-16', '1534377600', 'Books', 'Homo Deus', 'Yuval Noah Hariri', 'History', '2.0', 'An astounding piece of scholarship and philosophy. Presents a stark future of human obsolescence. A bit scary to note all the forces moving us towards this future without a guiding hand, but a firm purpose. A bit of a heavy read in the initial chapters that are prophesy padding: this might happen or it might not, I’m just saying.', '2017'),
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('2018-08-22', '1534896000', 'Books', 'Confessions Of The Lioness', 'Mia Couto', 'Novel', '1.0', 'African poetry as prose delivered by white guy who lives as an African. A story about the deep wounds suffered by women told in a way that cuts and surprises. The lioness is the hero rescuing women from the rape that comes with war. The men are sad, shallow characters until the end. A lot packed into vey few pages.', '2015'),
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('2018-08-25', '1535155200', 'Books', 'The Lonely City', 'Olivia Laing', 'Essays', '3.0', 'The strength of this writing is in how raw and real it is: whether it is the Author admitting those awkward feelings around loneliness or the stories of her subjects laid bare – in ways they probably could not do themselves. Her study of the depressing first wave of AIDS in America is heartbreaking. A hollow decade of people dying without love or acceptance. She contextualises the outside hate and the inside battle of those who suffered. And then there is Henry Darger’s anonymous life, Warhol’s life in 3D (and not the shallow images most revert to) and a range of unique human experiences centered around loneliness.', '2016'),
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('2018-08-28', '1535414400', 'Books', 'Nabokov’s Favourite Word Is Mauve', 'Ben Blatt', 'Writing', '0.0', 'Interesting information, boring writing. Feels like it has been written by a statistician trying hard to love the words. It’s not helped by a scattershot approach. There is no overall thesis being built, just a series of meandering questions. Feels more like a a couple of stitched together blogs than a book, but the data itself. I am keen to apply some of these statistical analysis to my own writing. To fingerprint my style and see my tendencies.', '2017'),
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('2018-09-09', '1536451200', 'Books', 'The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories', 'Ken Liu', 'Sci-Fi', '3.0', 'Astounding in range and depth. Each story is a universe capable of sustaining its own novel. What we get is a slice of imaginative future (and past) scenarios that could well end up blockbusters (a la Arrival). It would not be too much to say that Ken is the best of his class. As a historian the last (The Man Who Ended History) just floored me in its inventiveness and exploration of hostory as a lived experience.', '2001'),
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('2018-09-10', '1536537600', 'Books', 'Rise of the Black Panther', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates and Evan Narcisse', 'Superhero', '1.0', 'Narcisse is a student of this mythology, so unsurprisingly he has a firm grasp on this origin story. My gripe is a lack of focus. We are thrown into a slalom of villian battles. Maybe focusing on detail and one villian may have made for a more dramatic story.', '2018'),
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('2018-10-15', '1539561600', 'Movies', 'Day of Soldado', 'Stefano Sollima', 'Action', '0.0', 'Sicario was stellar, the followup is good. Some of the action feels fantastical and rah-rah. The central scene for me is with the deaf farmer and Alejandro. It is the emotional core of the story. The rest is battle scenes and grim men commiting violence. Special mention to the lead, a girl who captures the horror we as the audience should feel at this macabre playground of violence and drugs.', '2018'),
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('2018-11-01', '1541030400', 'Movies', 'Sorry To Bother You', 'Boots Riley', 'Satirical', '-2.0', 'I wanted to like it. I did. Starts off quirky, but socially aware and then goes bizarre. I think the implication is that figures like King and Mandela are frauds designed to keep black people compliant despite their resistance stance. Killer ending though.', '2018'),
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('2018-11-28', '1543363200', 'Movies', 'Mr Turner', 'Mike Leigh', 'Biography', '0.0', 'Gruff. Like the man. It meanders, but does not feel like a meandering story. What it lacks is artistic exploration in depth. This is more the story of Turner the man, which is engaging. Warts and grunts all inclusive.', '2015'),
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('2018-11-28', '1543363200', 'Movies', 'Salt of the Earth', 'Wim Wenders and Julien Salgado', 'Biography', '2.0', 'It starts as a documentary about a photography, but ends as one about a conservationist - nay a environmental revivalist. The middle bits are hard going, some of the things Salgado saw and photographed are hard viewing: Rwanda, genocide, famine. Deftly handled and delicately produced.', '1954'),
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('2018-12-10', '1544400000', 'Movies', 'Akira', 'Katsuhiro Otomo', 'Anime', '-1.0', 'The reputation of a classic can sometimes be a product of its time. Akira is one of those. Yes, it has an interesting unconventional story. But having been exposed to its descendants I struggle to put it up there. It feels like it''s the post-War Japanese generations way of reconciling themselves with the nuclear bomb. ', '1988'),
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('2019-01-07', '1546819200', 'Books', 'The Three-Body Problem', 'Cixin Liu', 'Sci-Fi', '1.0', 'Makes no bones about its hardcore science, but at the same time amnages to tell stories about people, their motivations and their development. The conspiracy is well unfolded alongside what seems like a distracting side-story, but is central to the plot. Can''t lie, got a bit lost when he was explaining the two Proton world enveloping supercomputer at the end, but I enjoyed the rigor of it. I di not think I would be interested enough to commit to the trilogy, but now...', '2010'),
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('2019-01-27', '1548547200', 'Television', 'Luther Season 5', 'Neil Cross', 'Crime', '-3.0', 'I watched it to the end out of a sense of Lutheresque loyalty. It has become a parody, where nothing of consequence happens. A warning that quality eventually fades the more you hammer on the same themes. Each death just feels like a cheap trick to extend Luther''s anguish, but it means nothing. Benny dies. Nothing. Random Luter partner dies. Nothing. Like that flop of a Superman movie it has overdone death, such that it has no impact on the viewer. Luther''s personal life becomes the main focus to the detriment of ''you''know'' that whole detective thing he does part time: catching broken white boys who are playing out twisted fantasies. Just not bielevable at all. They should have ended when Ripley died.', '2019'),
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('2019-01-28', '1548633600', 'Books', 'Write to the Point', 'Sam Leith', 'Writing', '1.0', 'Were it an outift it would be an Armani suit: well-tailored, excellent fabric. The most stylish style guide I have read. Written with a mischevous grin and practical application. Felt rushed in the end with a grab bag of advise, but well worth the time. ', '1994'),
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('2019-03-25', '1553472000', 'Books', 'Invisible Planets', 'Ken Liu', 'Sci-Fi', '0.0', 'Uneven stories. Some astounding visions of the future from Chinese science fiction, others perplexing stories about mutant rays. My favourite: Taking Care of Goc by Cixin Liu. This book was a struggle because my life was a struggle in these days.', '2016'),
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('2019-04-13', '1555113600', 'Movies', 'Creed II', 'Steven Caple Jr', 'Sports', '1.0', 'Would it be cliché to say it packs a punch. Maybe, but the movie itself is a cliché. An effective one. The punches are heavy and so are the emotional punches. There is nothing subtle about it, but it works. Even when the size difference between Creed and Drago Jr''s the story manages to follow the Rocky formula to a successful end: a tribute to the actors who can make the dull material work so well. They could have done more in sound design with his wife''s condition and Drago Jr is an empty villain, not enough about his struggle - just a wantaway mother who servers little purpose.', '2018'),
|
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('2019-04-21', '1555804800', 'Movies', 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse', 'Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman', 'Superhero', '3.0', 'Brilliant. If not for Black Panther, it would have been the best comic book adaptation of the year. I have never enjoyed Spiderman - too jokey, too brash, too lightweight in the superhero stakes. A boy from Queens. But the Miles Morales Spiderman is rich, his vulnerability is so well enunciated and his hero''s journey has weight. The music, the animation style, the pace - everything is right.', '2018'),
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('2019-04-30', '1556582400', 'Television', 'Love, Death + Robots Season 1', 'Tim Miller', 'Sci-Fi', '-1.0', 'Uneven snippets of sci-fi shorts that range from sublime (like Zima Blue) to ridiculous.', '2019'),
|
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('2019-05-01', '1556668800', 'Movies', 'Avengers: Endgame', 'Anthony and Joe Russo', 'Superhero', '1.0', 'I came away feeling like I had watched an accomplishment. Not a cinematic one, but n organisational one. After 22 films here concludes the mighty MCU juggernaut. That this was possible is amazing. Helps you overlook the scratchy story, some plot holes and almost too many arcs. I will say they managed to make the big battle scene conclude well on the death of Tony Stark.', '2019'),
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('2019-05-04', '1556928000', 'Movies', 'Glass', 'M. Night Shymalan', 'Superhero', '1.0', 'Shymalan does it different. The power levels are much lower than MCU, but the story is closer to reality. The iritating part of this is that in the last quarter of the last movie of the trilogy he introduces the ''villians''. No time to even know them, just hello and then goodbye.', '2019'),
|
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('2019-05-31', '1559260800', 'Television', 'Game of Thrones Season 8', 'David Beniof and D.B Weiss', 'Fantasy', '-1.0', 'I think the disappointment comes from the anticipation. This series was good, excellent even. The scene where the first King of the North, Rob, executes Carstark is so taut and tight with shivering grimness and is leagues beyond any of the FX-heavy scenes of this inconclusively ugly end.', '2019'),
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('2019-06-01', '1559347200', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Book 6', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates', 'Superhero', '1.0', 'I had doubts. I really thought taking the story ''intergalactic'' was going to weaken it, but what Coates has done is subvert the slavery narrative. Made a king a slave. Shaped the empire like the empires of the past feeding on Black bodies. Taken ''memory'' and used it as an allegory condition of the African disapora. I should not have doubted.', '2019'),
|
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('2019-06-23', '1561248000', 'Movies', 'First Man', 'Damien Chazelle', 'Biography', '2.0', 'A story that fits the man. Taciturn, almost nothing is extra. No exposition, just glances that explain a lot. And that is the way it should be. A more ambitious brand anme director may have been tempted to show their auteur and ruin the story. Really gets into the human costs of the Apollo program.', '2018'),
|
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('2019-07-01', '1561939200', 'Television', 'Fleabag Season 1', 'Phoebe Waller-Bridge', 'Dramedy', '1.0', 'I didn''t like anyone. All privileged unlikeable people, but funny. And human. The dialogue is snappy and smart. It''s difficult to lurch from laughter to drama, but this one did it. Sometimes in the same scene.', '2016'),
|
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('2019-07-03', '1562112000', 'Books', 'The Order of Time', 'Carlo Rovelli', 'Science', '1.0', 'A book of layers: complex logic and explanation, followed by poetic musings on the nature of time and the occasional anecdote. Even the most complex ideas were easy to grasp in the calm hands of Rovelli. Science long left philosophy, but this book shows they were never apart truly. ', '2018'),
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('2019-07-15', '1563148800', 'Television', 'Fleabag Season 2', 'Phoebe Waller-Bridge', 'Dramedy', '1.0', 'To go out on a high like this is commendable. Many would be tempted into four or five seasons. This is top notch, especially the scene at the restaurant. The layers to it and the fallout are well dramatised.', '2019'),
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||
('2019-07-19', '1563494400', 'Books', 'Utopia for Realists', 'Rutger Bregman', 'Economics', '1.0', 'Brugman is abrasive. But the right sort of rough character to speak truth to the powerful. I was convinced: income grants, shared work and open borders. It all makes the simplest sort of sense. The sort of sense that makes momney scared and Davos shake.', '2016'),
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('2019-08-06', '1565049600', 'Books', 'The Overstory', 'Richard Powers', 'Novel', '1.0', 'It felt more than it thought around the issue of our race: the human race in a rush to to destroy everything for convenience and money. A strong environmentalist manifesto well told in nine interweaving stories over a century. Makes me want to hug a tree and see these magnificent creatures. It made me think of that mood that came over me when I went to see the World Tree in Vic Falls. Was I under the influence of that Baobab tree''s magic. To quote: "The best arguments in the world won''t change a person''s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story" and this one definitely is.', '2018'),
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('2019-08-19', '1566172800', 'Movies', 'The Last Jedi', 'Rian Johnson', 'Science Fiction', '1.0', 'The Star Wars series is a mess. I was never a fan of the originals or the prequels. But this one dared to be different and was slammed for it. ', '2017'),
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('2019-09-01', '1567296000', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Book 7', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates', 'Superhero', '1.0', 'The one thing that bothered me about the story''s direction was the science. The how of creating an entire intergalactic empire. But this issue wraps that up nicely and launches into an intrspective restored T''challa.', '2016'),
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('2019-09-24', '1569283200', 'Books', 'Algorithms to live by', 'Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths', 'Science', '3.0', 'Thinking about thought and processes as a computer would shows that human decision making is actually efficient. The way they present emotions as a mechanism for changing the equilibrium for hum games is a cutting insight. I''ll be reading this one to apply some of the strategies in my personal life.', '2016'),
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('2019-12-04', '1575417600', 'Movies', 'Ad Astra', 'James Gray', 'Science Fiction', '0.0', 'I watched this on a plane back from Europe. The story felt thin. Lots of pensive moments, Pitt broods and the plot moves. I can''t see it was good, but it was not a waste of time. The music elevates it beyond the thin plot.', '2019'),
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('2019-12-05', '1575504000', 'Movies', 'Apollo 11', 'Todd Douglas Miller', 'Documentary', '3.0', 'The story of mankind told truthfully with just footage expertly stitched together. I had a lump in my throat at the end at my ducts were ready to go. The truth is the best story you can tell and this is it.', '2019'),
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('2019-12-20', '1576800000', 'Movies', 'Free Solo', 'Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin', 'Documentary', '2.0', 'Has there ever been a riskier undertaking for a documentary. Where the lead can die on camera and poof all that work is gone. It''s not so much the act that defies understanding, but the person. Normal. Within three-sigma of your average climber, but then he climbs El Capitan without ropes. It''s watching a binary mind assess that risk and say ''ok, let''s do it''.', '2018'),
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('2020-01-07', '1578355200', 'Books', 'Kaddish.com', 'Nathan Englander', 'Novel', '0.0', 'Orthodoxy is hard to imagine for an agnostic like me. But this book gives some insight into how belief can totally take over your life. A man goes from modern to Jewish Orthodoxy and finds peace. Maybe, that''s what it is. Peace. Funny and sad in parts.', '2019'),
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('2020-01-14', '1578960000', 'Books', 'Bird by Bird', 'Anne Lamott', 'Writing', '0.0', 'Not much in the way of solid advice for writers, but it does well to frame the writing life. What it means for a writer and how to inhabit the title wothout feeling like a fraud. She''s an exuburent, exciting writer. Makes me feel less self-conscious about some of my own overflowing prose.', '1994'),
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('2020-01-21', '1579564800', 'Books', 'Exhalation', 'Ted Chiang', 'Sci-Fi', '-1.0', 'So, ya. What a letdown. After all these years waiting to read The Lifecycle of Software Objects and then it''s a story about 3D Tamagotchis. Nothing hit right in these stories. Maybe the ones about time, but ya, disappointing.', '2014'),
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('2020-01-28', '1580169600', 'Books', 'Reinventing Comics', 'Scott McCloud', 'Superhero', '1.0', 'The difference with the third of the McCloud trilogy is that it deals with the practicalities of creative business. Not as eye-opening as the first, but a necessary coda to an amazing series. The tech references are dated, but still speaks truth.', '2000'),
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('2020-02-18', '1581984000', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Book 8', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates', 'Superhero', '2.0', 'It''s come full circle and you feel like this story is moving into wish-fulfillment. It''s so rare that you get that in media when it''s not for a white male so let''s see where it goes with the Black Panther against his own empire.', '2019'),
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('2020-02-20', '1582156800', 'Television', 'Mr Robot Season 4', 'Sam Esmail', 'Thriller', '1.0', 'It gets frenzied, but my god what a conclusion. The episode where Eliot finally confronts the truth of his father molesting him is grand television. Everything after just felt less. And the finale left me unfulfilled with Whiterose just not living up to his potential. Yes, Eliot defeats his controlling alter-ego (the Mastermind), but what of Whiterose''s grand machine. A bluff?', '2019'),
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('2020-03-15', '1584230400', 'Books', 'Less', 'Andrew Sean Greer', 'Novel', '1.0', 'An oddball story with a timid out-of-place Arthur Less. To be an outsider in a gay world that doesn''t quite fit him. A writer struggling to love his work (sound familiar?) running across the globe. I really liked the instagram account they created with mementos from Arthur''s travels and experiences. A nice light read.', '2017'),
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('2020-03-20', '1584662400', 'Movies', '1917', 'Sam Mendes', 'Action', '1.0', 'It hits you. An impactful war epic much like Dunkirk. Very much like Dunkirk. I''m a bit tired of the mythologising of WWII, but I''ll allow this one on merit.', '2019'),
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('2020-03-27', '1585267200', 'Movies', 'Knives Out', 'Rian Johnson', 'Mystery', '1.0', 'Murder mysteries seem outdated after years of CSI, but this one is fun and funny and as an allegory for white America losing control of America (to Latinos) it is enjoyable. Twists and turns without losing itself, but ends on a note that many people will not pick up. The very people who watched this are losing their political power in the house.', '2019'),
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('2020-04-01', '1585699200', 'Movies', 'Loving Vincent', 'Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman', 'Documentary', '1.0', 'The animation style makes each frame feel so vibrant and alive. And telling the story of Van Gogh''s final days gives us a view of a life in service of one thing hamstrung by the same mind. The accents were not French, which was offputting - but the rest, well developed. You know the end, but the stuffing of it is the joy.', '2017'),
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('2020-04-05', '1586044800', 'Books', 'All The Light We Cannot See', 'Anthony Doerr', 'Novel', '3.0', 'A struggle to 100 pages and then I put it away. But when I came back the story bloomed in front of me. There''s hostory and then there is lived history and this story so perfectly encapsulates the latter. You feel the times, you are forgiving of a boy caught in the Nazi machine, the blind girl in exile on the coast and the ordinary people who suffered the war in Germany and elsewhere. Touching to the last page in the present.', '2014'),
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('2020-04-12', '1586649600', 'Books', 'Trick Mirror', 'Jia Tolentino', 'Essays', '0.0', 'I''ve read about as much of this I can. Parts of it inspire jealously (she''s so young and talented, my age). Her dissection of the Lulemon world, Houston church and hip-hop and the invertion of Trump feminism is cutting. But, but some of it I found on and on and it lost me eventually.', '2019'),
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('2020-04-18', '1587168000', 'Television', 'Devs Season 1', 'Alex Garland', 'Science Fiction', '0.0', 'Almost had me. The god-like tech CEO creating multiple realities to remake his past. It just lost it at the last moment: why did Lily make a different choice? After all that about a deterministic universe we get no answer on how she did it. And why? The resolution is rescued by the man in the corridor making a decision to keep the timeline on track. Not satisfying.', '2020'),
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('2020-04-30', '1588204800', 'Movies', 'If Beale Street Could Talk', 'Barry Jenkins', 'Romantic', '3.0', 'A beautiful series of lingering gazes and longing shots which are a staple of Jenkins'' style that make this so easy to fall into. It also makes the lows really low. Not your happy go-lucky romance where love conquers, but maybe life-is-tough but love still conquers all. Stephan Adams is a charismatic lead. Every scene occupied by a beautiful strand between the leads.', '2018'),
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('2020-05-01', '1588291200', 'Books', 'A Game of Chess and Other Stories', 'Stefan Zweig', 'Shorts', '0.0', 'I only really enjoyed the titular story. The others are well written, but just didn''t strike me as great. A Game of Chess is about that crazy 24/7 chess feeling that I''ve had in small servings. I really got the mystery players obsession. That point when you dream about positions and pieces.', '2016'),
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('2020-05-03', '1588464000', 'Television', 'Westworld Season 3', 'Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy', 'Science Fiction', '0.0', 'It got technical. I like the idea of introducing a controlled society. Manipulated through data. Owned by a machine. It felt like the season was more about where humanity is headed and the hosts took a backseat. Interesting ideas. Hated the music episode, felt contrived.', '2020'),
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('2020-05-16', '1589587200', 'Movies', 'Ruben Brandt, Art Collector', 'Milorad Krstic', 'Animated', '3.0', 'Mental illness is difficult to film, but this deftly put together animation does that with panache and style. Clearly a labour of love and the work of someone who appreciates the art and the struggles of an unstable mind. When the character stares at his reflection we are with him and his alter-ego on the train to somewhere better.', '2018'),
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('2020-05-20', '1589932800', 'Movies', 'Bad Boys For Life', 'Adil & Bilall', 'Action', '1.0', 'Didn''t expect much, got more than I asked for. Lots of fun amidst explosions and hard cop stares. If you forgive the rustiness of the plot it''s exactly what the genre does the best. Two dudes having fun, shooting guns and having a midlife crises.', '2020'),
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('2020-05-25', '1590364800', 'Movies', 'In The Mood for Love', 'Wong Kar-wai', 'Romantic', '2.0', 'What we might have been to each other. A film of missed timings, suppressed desires, long gazes and realistic endings. The trick is how mundane everything is, nothing is magical - but the story. It could and does happen to many of us, but Kar-wai manages to give it poignancy.', '2000'),
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('2020-06-01', '1590969600', 'Books', 'What it means when a man falls from the sky', 'Lesley Nneka Arimah', 'Shorts', '0.0', 'I dipped into stories and bailed out of others. The perspectives here are forcefully African. Stories from the Nigeria and the diaspora. Where it lost me was in the familiar casting of them all. Similar women in African tales.', '2017'),
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('2020-08-01', '1596240000', 'Movies', 'Bad Trip', 'Kitao Sakurai', 'Comedy', '-3.0', 'Just lazy. Won’t waste anymore words on that.', '2021'),
|
||
('2020-08-07', '1596758400', 'Movies', 'The Old Guard', 'Gina Prince-Bythewood', 'Action', '0.0', 'It''s an interesting premise, but comes across with a heavy saviour complex. And begs the question, immortals would be able to accumulate massive wealth and power. Why not control the fate of humanity that way instead of craven violence.', '2020'),
|
||
('2020-08-10', '1597017600', 'Books', 'Happiness by Design', 'Paul Dolan', 'Psychology', '1.0', 'A straight forward map of what the research shows about happiness. A lot of it is obvious, but it''s the reasoning behind it that sets apart this book. The cntral premise of the purpose-pleasure dynamic allows Dolan to avoid the philosophy of happines, which tends to end up vague.', '2014'),
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('2020-08-14', '1597363200', 'Movies', 'Palm Springs', 'Max Barbakow', 'Romantic', '1.0', 'A millenial refit of Groundhog Day that is just a ray of optimism. Happy go lucky and lucky gets happy seems to be the message. Engaging leads. Contrasting leads that blend well. The rift was a little shallow (so what he had sex with her before?), but an enjoyable time.', '2020'),
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('2020-08-22', '1598054400', 'Movies', 'The Gentlemen', 'Guy Ritchie', 'Action', '0.0', 'Hmm, slick, yes, prejudiced, super yes. We are sold this hierarchy of crime: with innocent white crime (weed dealing) and the minor foibles of white aristocracy at the bottom and the evil Jew the villian. Distasteful when the villian is asked for a literal pound of flesh. Subtle much?', '2019'),
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('2020-10-01', '1601510400', 'Television', 'Raised By Wolves Season 1', 'Aaron Guzikowski', 'Science Fiction', '-3.0', 'What the fuck!? Spend hours building a wrold of characters and then fuck it up in the last episode with dumb decisions. Nope out immediately.', '2020'),
|
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('2020-11-03', '1604361600', 'Books', 'On Earth We''re Briefly Gorgeous', 'Ocean Vuong', 'Novel', '1.0', 'I could tell this was written by a natural poet. As the book went on, memories and thorughst fragmented into stanzas of fleeting emotions and scenes. The packed paragraphed prose of the early pages gave way to peotically written scenes (sometimes difficult to parse). A mother''s son''s tale told as a letter of remembrance. Personal, powerful, poetic. ', '2019'),
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('2025-01-04', '1735945200', 'Movies', 'Deadpool & Wolverine', 'Shawn Lewy', 'Superhero', '-1.0', 'Even a self aware formula is still a formula. Felt like it had no consequence with all the timeline magic. Paper thin characters and cameos all round.', '2024'),
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('2025-01-04', '1735945200', 'Television', 'Ripley Season 1', 'Steven Zailian', 'Thriller', '1.0', 'The shot selection is amazing. Atrani is beautiful (I need to visit!). The failure is with me here: I can''t find it in me to relate to the sociopath. Ripley makes my skin crawl and I could not finish it, which speaks to how well Andrew Scott wears the predator skin.', '2024'),
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('2024-11-02', '1730502000', 'Movies', 'Monkey Man', 'Dev Patel', 'Action', '1.0', 'Infuses the revenge tale with so many layers and heart. The pain feels palpable and the politics all too real. The grist of repressive regimes, the lives crushed - we get to see the hero win, unlike in live.', '2024'),
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('2022-12-20', '1671490800', 'Movies', 'After Yang', 'Kogonada', 'Science Fiction', '1.0', '', '2021'),
|
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('2019-08-17', '1565992800', 'Movies', 'Baby Driver', 'Edgar Wright', 'Crime', '1.0', 'Fun and fluffy crime caper. Lifted by the soundtrack, which is the main character''s gimmick, and a great cast.', '2017'),
|
||
('2023-02-01', '1675206000', 'Movies', 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever', 'Ryan Coogler', 'Superhero', '0.0', 'The last mournful scene rescued something for me. Until then it was too long and convoluted. The final battle scene and Ironheart were not doing it for me.', '2022'),
|
||
('2020-11-30', '1606690800', 'Television', 'Chasing the Sun 2019', 'James Cook, Greg Lomas, and Gareth Whittaker', 'Sports', '3.0', 'Just the first episode made me cry. Beyond sports, even if it is entirely about how the Springboks won the World Cup.', '2019'),
|
||
('2021-11-13', '1636758000', 'Movies', 'Dune', 'Denis Villeneuve', 'Science Fiction', '0.0', '', '1984'),
|
||
('2024-03-03', '1709420400', 'Movies', 'Dune: Part Two', 'Denis Villeneuve', 'Science Fiction', '1.0', 'It''s a ludicrous stoy, excpet when Denis handles it. I don;t get enough of the misleading Messiah tone of the books. Maybe that will come later. Exemplary costume design.', '2024'),
|
||
('2024-09-08', '1725746400', 'Movies', 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga', 'George Miller', 'Action', '1.0', 'It''s a bleak and barren procession of violence and villanious men. Deserved better at the box office.', '2024'),
|
||
('2023-10-10', '1696888800', 'Movies', 'Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1', 'Christopher McQuarrie', 'Action', '-1.0', '', '2023'),
|
||
('2022-12-19', '1671404400', 'Movies', 'No Time To Die', 'Cary Fukunaga', 'Action', '-1.0', '', '2021'),
|
||
('2022-12-19', '1671404400', 'Movies', 'Nope', 'Jordan Peele', 'Thriller', '2.0', 'I normally do not enjoy horror, but this one is different. It''s difficult to maintain that tightrope terror of an unknown menace for the length of a movie, but Peele does it here. The horror is in the lives lived in the shadow of the ''thing'' and not the the thing itself until the last act.', '2022'),
|
||
('2024-03-02', '1709334000', 'Movies', 'Oba', 'Femi Oladigbolu', 'Shorts', '1.0', 'Says a lot in a short 11 minutes. Magical and measured in how much it does with the limited time. The actor''s face does a lot too.', '2023'),
|
||
('2021-04-07', '1617746400', 'Movies', 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire', 'Céline Sciamma', 'Romance', '3.0', 'A beautiful surprise! So assured, so sensual and present. The soft focus, the rich colours, and the glances. A painting is the centrepiece of the story, but the whole thing is art.', '2019'),
|
||
('2024-10-01', '1727733600', 'Movies', 'Rebel Ridge', 'Jeremy Saulnier', 'Action', '1.0', 'Aaron Pierre has the presence for this genre. Not loud, but there in his glare. Ordinary racism and corruption keeps this small scale action all too believable and real.', '2024'),
|
||
('2023-08-17', '1692223200', 'Movies', 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse', 'Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin Thompson', 'Superhero', '3.0', 'They topped the first one. The music. Amazing! The script. Amazing! The voice acting. Amazing! The plot. Amazing! Somehow the material feels new. Miles Morales is my Spiderman.', '2023'),
|
||
('2022-12-20', '1671490800', 'Movies', 'The Batman', 'Matt Reeves', 'Superhero', '-2.0', 'Very 80s, very camp, very big personality, very boring.', '2022'),
|
||
('2023-07-08', '1688767200', 'Movies', 'The Candidate', 'David Karlak', 'Shorts', '1.0', '', '1972'),
|
||
('2024-02-08', '1707346800', 'Movies', 'The Circle', 'Evgenii Bakirov', 'Shorts', '2.0', 'A metadocumentary ostensibly about a VR-created tattoo. It bristles with art styles, pulsating music, and movement.', '2017'),
|
||
('2021-12-25', '1640386800', 'Movies', 'The French Dispatch', 'Wes Anderson', 'Drama', '1.0', 'A magazine of stories. An ode to the well written foreign dispatch. His style, but also his cast make this some of his best work.', '2021'),
|
||
('2022-12-20', '1671490800', 'Movies', 'The Green Knight', 'David Lowery', 'Fantasy', '3.0', 'The texture of this film made me want to reach out and touch the screen. It defies the expected Hollywood storytelling formula: a man accepts a challenge and meets it - despite what that means for him. Patel is a willow of a knight, shaking and quivering until he meets his fate head on (off?).', '2021'),
|
||
('2024-04-08', '1712527200', 'Movies', 'The Holdovers', 'Alexander Payne', 'Drama', '1.0', 'This happened to me: left at a boarding school over the holidays. Captures the wood and character of teachers of that type of institution. Their former lives, what they wanted to be, how they farm the next generation. My viewing of it was interrupted by a relationship.', '2023'),
|
||
('2023-01-10', '1673305200', 'Movies', 'The Menu', 'Mark Mylod', 'Thriller', '2.0', 'It oozes: food, blood, gore. Like a high definition pimple. Fiennes is terrifying as a priest of vengeance and head cook.', '2022'),
|
||
('2022-01-16', '1642287600', 'Movies', 'The Tragedy of MacBeth', 'Joel Coen', 'Drama', '1.0', 'Like the halfway point between film and theatre. Theatrical performances on black-and-white. Makes me want to see more theatre.', '2021'),
|
||
('2024-04-29', '1714341600', 'Movies', 'They Cloned Tyrone', 'Juel Taylor', 'Science Fiction', '1.0', 'The question is: what do you do as the oppressed in an oppressive society. Play respectability politics or play the militant. The answer is apparently cloning.', '2023'),
|
||
('2022-12-19', '1671404400', 'Movies', 'Triangle of Sadness', 'Ruben Östlund', 'Comedy', '1.0', 'A world turned upside down: the character of the Global South holding power and violence in her hand, while the Westerners cower and cry. The vomiting scene is amazingly funny to me.', '2022'),
|
||
('2019-08-03', '1564783200', 'Books', 'The Buried Giant', 'Kazuo Ishiguro', 'Novel', '-2.0', 'It just seemed aimless. Was not excited by the plot. DNF', '1900'),
|
||
('2020-10-05', '1601848800', 'Books', 'The Dark Forest', 'Cixin Liu', 'Science Fiction', '0.0', 'Maybe I''ll pick it up again. It was not the right fit for the time of my life. Seemed to be building up, but I lacked patience.', '2022'),
|
||
('2021-08-31', '1630360800', 'Books', 'Black Panther: The Intergalactic Empire Book 9', 'Ta Nehisi-Coates', 'Superhero', '3.0', 'The whole series is so impactful: the king as a slave to frame the historical opposite. It''s too smart for a comic book, yet still has the pow wow of the medium.', '2016'),
|
||
('2022-09-27', '1664229600', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Long Shadow Volume 1', 'John Ridley and Juan Cabal', 'Superhero', '0.0', '', '2021'),
|
||
('2022-09-27', '1664229600', 'Books', 'Escape into Meaning', 'Evan Puschak', 'Essays', '1.0', 'He has a formula that works best for video essays. The essays are engaging, but some feel forced: the anecdote stretched.', '2022'),
|
||
('2022-12-23', '1671750000', 'Books', 'Black Panther: Range Wars Volume 2', 'John Ridley', 'Superhero', '0.0', '', '2022'),
|
||
('2023-06-30', '1688076000', 'Books', 'Black Panther: All This and The World Too Volume 3', 'John Ridley', 'Superhero', '0.0', 'This series felt like a come down after Intergalactic Empire. The story has the bones, but not the meat. A king exiled could have been better.', '2022'),
|
||
('2023-08-08', '1691445600', 'Books', 'The Hidden Girl and Other Stories', 'Ken Liu', 'Shorts', '1.0', 'From terrific highs this is just above average. Still has a way of raising Science Fiction to the Dramatic. It''s about people, not technology.', '2020'),
|
||
('2024-07-01', '1719784800', 'Books', 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold', 'Toshikazu Kawaguchi', 'Fantasy', '1.0', '', '2019'),
|
||
('2024-07-01', '1719784800', 'Books', 'Black Panther: T''Challa Declassified', 'Maurice Broaddus', 'Superhero', '2.0', 'A documentary tale that needs no stitching. Like found footage and glimpses. Very astutely done.', '2024'),
|
||
('2024-07-01', '1719784800', 'Books', 'Tales of Wakanda', 'Addison, Broaddus, and Chambers', 'Shorts', '1.0', 'Some great shorts here that defy the idea that comics have too little literary to offer. I could imagine a whole franchise of stories (and so can Disney, probably).', '2021'),
|
||
('2024-09-28', '1727474400', 'Books', '101 Things I Learned in Architecture School', 'Matthew Frederick', 'Art', '0.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2024-09-28', '1727474400', 'Books', 'Shark Heart', 'Emily Habeck', 'Novel', '1.0', 'It''s a stretch of a premise: people mutating into animals. But the characters have depth that makes you forget the premise and respond to the person. It''s about letting go, about loving when it''s futile.', '2023'),
|
||
('2024-10-18', '1729202400', 'Books', 'Ultimate Black Panther: Peace and War Volume 1', 'Bryan Hill', 'Superhero', '-1.0', 'Feels like a warm up.', '2024'),
|
||
('2023-10-12', '1697061600', 'Books', 'Less is Lost', 'Andrew Sean Greer', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '2022'),
|
||
('2007-04-06', '1175810400', 'Books', 'The Famished Road', 'Ben Okri', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '1991'),
|
||
('2024-01-27', '1706310000', 'Books', 'This is How You Lose the Time War', 'Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone', 'Novel', '3.0', 'I don''t know how. I''m bothered by the how of it as I marvel at it. The beauty of two minds shaped into one seamless story. I thought I would tire of the back and forth or the inevitable unending end, but no - it''s a beauty of letter writing. From one to another, from Red to Blue, from the writers to me.', '2019'),
|
||
('2006-01-25', '1138143600', 'Books', 'Jonathan Livingstone Seagull', 'Richard Bach', 'Novel', '-1.0', 'A book in the mould of ''The Alchemist'', but far less effective at delivering its deep spiritual message. Whereas in ''The Alchemist'' the story was as interesting as the message, the story of this book seems to be contrived and bland. Good message, but not good enough story.', '1973'),
|
||
('2006-01-25', '1138143600', 'Books', 'The Exploits of Brigardier Gerard', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '1895'),
|
||
('2006-01-25', '1138143600', 'Books', 'Two Short Accounts of Psycho-Analysis', 'Sigmund Freud', 'Pyschology', '0.0', '', '1962'),
|
||
('2006-01-27', '1138316400', 'Books', 'Guevara, Also Known as Che', 'Paco Ignacio Taibo II', 'Biography', '2.0', '', '1996'),
|
||
('2006-01-29', '1138489200', 'Books', 'The Number', 'Jonny Steinberg', 'Crime', '2.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2006-01-30', '1138575600', 'Movies', 'Charlie''s Angels', 'McG', 'Action', '-1.0', '', '2000'),
|
||
('2006-02-03', '1138921200', 'Books', 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'Ernest Hemingway', 'Novel', '-3.0', '', '1940'),
|
||
('2006-02-05', '1139094000', 'Movies', 'What''s Eating Gilbert Grape', 'Lasse Hallstrom', 'Drama', '1.0', '', '1993'),
|
||
('2006-02-05', '1139094000', 'Movies', 'The Bone Collector', 'Phillip Noyce', 'Crime', '0.0', '', '1999'),
|
||
('2006-02-09', '1139439600', 'Books', 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'Thomas Harris', 'Crime', '1.0', '', '1988'),
|
||
('2006-02-11', '1139612400', 'Movies', 'Star Trek: Generations', 'David Carson', 'Science Fiction', '-2.0', '', '1994'),
|
||
('2006-02-15', '1139958000', 'Books', 'Veronika Decides to Die', 'Paulo Coelho', 'Novel', '2.0', '', '2000'),
|
||
('2006-02-18', '1140217200', 'Movies', 'Star Trek: First Contact', 'Jonathan Frakes', 'Science Fiction', '2.0', '', '1996'),
|
||
('2006-02-20', '1140390000', 'Books', 'The Lost World and Other Stories', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', 'Shorts', '-3.0', '', '1995'),
|
||
('2006-02-23', '1140649200', 'Books', 'Big Bang', 'Simon Singh', 'Science', '3.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2006-03-01', '1141167600', 'Books', 'The Devil and Miss Pym', 'Paulo Coelho', 'Novel', '-1.0', '', NULL),
|
||
('2006-03-10', '1141945200', 'Books', 'Prisoner of the Devil', 'Michael Hardwick', 'Crime', '0.0', '', '1982'),
|
||
('2006-03-23', '1143068400', 'Books', 'Uncle Bernac', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', 'Novel', '-1.0', '', '1897'),
|
||
('2006-04-05', '1144188000', 'Books', 'Room Full of Mirrors', 'Charles Cross', 'Biography', '2.0', '', '2001'),
|
||
('2006-04-14', '1144965600', 'Books', 'My World', 'Jonny Wilkinson', 'Sports', '-1.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2006-04-24', '1145829600', 'Books', 'The Mystery of Things', 'A.C. Grayling', 'Essays', '1.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2006-05-05', '1146780000', 'Books', 'The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', 'Crime', '1.0', '', '1927'),
|
||
('2006-05-07', '1146952800', 'Books', 'How Art Made the World', 'Nigel Spivey', 'Art', '2.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2006-05-11', '1147298400', 'Books', 'Alpha and Omega', 'Charles Seife', 'Science', '-1.0', '', '2003'),
|
||
('2006-05-18', '1147903200', 'Books', 'Leonardo', 'Martin Kemp', 'Biography', '-1.0', '', '1989'),
|
||
('2006-06-01', '1149112800', 'Books', 'Napoleon and the Hundred Days', 'Stephen Coote', 'Biography', '2.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2006-06-23', '1151013600', 'Books', 'The Little Book of Philosophy', 'André Comte-Sponville', 'Philosophy', '2.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2006-07-26', '1153864800', 'Books', 'Six Questions of Socrates', 'Christopher Phillips', 'Philosophy', '0.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2006-08-20', '1156024800', 'Books', 'The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', 'Crime', '1.0', '', '2017'),
|
||
('2006-09-04', '1157320800', 'Books', 'Sir Nigel', 'Arthur Conan Doyle', 'Novel', '-1.0', '', '1906'),
|
||
('2006-10-10', '1160431200', 'Books', 'Fermat''s Last Theorem', 'Simon Singh', 'Science', '2.0', '', '1997'),
|
||
('2006-10-12', '1160604000', 'Books', 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance', 'Robert Pirsig', 'Philosophy', '-1.0', '', '1974'),
|
||
('2006-10-13', '1160690400', 'Books', 'The Bang-Bang Club', 'Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva', 'Biography', '2.0', '', '2000'),
|
||
('2025-01-11', '1736550000', 'Books', 'How To Stop Time', 'Matt Haig', 'Novel', '1.0', 'The premise reminds me of the film ''Man from Earth'': an almost immortal man drifting through time. I think we can''t escape the cage of our short lives, as much as the author tries. A four century-old view that feels very Mayfly to borrow the term used for us normal people. He imagines broadly and the story is well told between time periods, but a part of me thinks this is ant''s view of a life long lived.', '2017'),
|
||
('2006-10-20', '1161295200', 'Books', 'Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire', 'Niall Fergusson', 'Non-fiction', '-1.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2007-01-06', '1168038000', 'Books', 'Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind', 'Charles Nicholl', 'Biography', '2.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2007-03-01', '1172703600', 'Books', 'The Meaning of Things', 'AC Grayling', 'Philosophy', '1.0', '', '2001'),
|
||
('2007-03-15', '1173913200', 'Books', 'Scipio Africanus: Soldier and Politician', 'HH Scullard', 'Biography', '0.0', '', '1970'),
|
||
('2007-03-30', '1175205600', 'Books', 'Of Warriors, Lovers, and Prophets', 'Max du Preez', 'Non-fiction', '3.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2007-04-07', '1175896800', 'Books', 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez', 'Novel', '-1.0', '', '1967'),
|
||
('2007-04-03', '1175551200', 'Movies', 'Thank You For Smoking', 'Jason Reitmann', 'Comedy', '1.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2007-04-23', '1177279200', 'Movies', 'Jarhead', 'Sam Mendes', 'Action', '-1.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2007-06-05', '1180994400', 'Books', 'Philosophy and Everyday Life', 'Laura Duhan Kaplan', 'Philosophy', '1.0', '', '2001'),
|
||
('2008-08-25', '1219615200', 'Movies', 'The Usual Suspects', 'Bryan Singer', 'Crime', '-1.0', '', '1995'),
|
||
('2007-08-29', '1188338400', 'Books', 'Things Fall Apart', 'Chinua Achebe', 'Novel', '-1.0', '', '1958'),
|
||
('2007-09-12', '1189548000', 'Books', 'Blink', 'Malcolm Gladwell', 'Non-fiction', '2.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2007-09-22', '1190412000', 'Movies', 'Finding Nemo', 'Andrew Stanton', 'Animation', '0.0', '', '2003'),
|
||
('2007-09-25', '1190671200', 'Movies', 'Lord of War', 'Andrew Niccol', 'Action', '-2.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2007-10-06', '1191621600', 'Movies', 'Number 23', 'Joel Schumacher', 'Thriller', '2.0', '', '2019'),
|
||
('2007-10-06', '1191621600', 'Movies', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Francis Coppolla', 'Action,', '3.0', '', '1979'),
|
||
('2007-10-09', '1191880800', 'Movies', 'Smoking Aces', 'Joe Carnahan', 'Action', '-1.0', '', '2006'),
|
||
('2007-10-29', '1193612400', 'Movies', 'The Last Kiss', 'Tony Goldwyn', 'Romance', '0.0', '', '2006'),
|
||
('2007-12-12', '1197414000', 'Movies', 'American Gangster', 'Ridley Scott', 'Crime', '1.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2008-01-15', '1200351600', 'Movies', 'The Ex', 'Jesse Peretz', 'Romance', '-2.0', '', '2006'),
|
||
('2008-01-17', '1200524400', 'Movies', 'I Am Legend', 'Francis Lawrence', 'Action', '1.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2008-01-22', '1200956400', 'Books', 'The End of Poverty', 'Jeffrey Sachs', 'Money', '2.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2008-04-02', '1207087200', 'Movies', 'Platoon', 'Oliver Stone', 'Action', '2.0', '', '1986'),
|
||
('2008-03-02', '1204412400', 'Books', 'In The Valley of Elah', 'Paul Haggis', 'Action', '2.0', '', '2021'),
|
||
('2008-08-30', '1220047200', 'Movies', 'Why We Fight', 'Eugene Jarecki', 'Documentary', '2.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2008-03-30', '1206831600', 'Television', 'The Boondocks S2', 'Aaron McGruder', 'Animated', '1.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2008-04-04', '1207260000', 'Movies', 'My Blueberry Nights', 'Wong Kar Wai', 'Romance', '1.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2008-04-13', '1208037600', 'Movies', 'Match Point', 'Woody Allen', 'Drama', '-1.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2008-04-12', '1207951200', 'Movies', 'Zeitgeist', 'Peter Joseph', 'Documentary', '-1.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2008-05-15', '1210802400', 'Movies', 'She Hate Me', 'Spike Lee', 'Drama', '0.0', '', '2004'),
|
||
('2008-06-30', '1214776800', 'Movies', 'Flags of Our Fathers', 'Clint Eastwood', 'Action', '2.0', '', '2006'),
|
||
('2008-06-30', '1214776800', 'Books', 'Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy', 'Douglas Adams', 'Science Fiction', '0.0', '', '2012'),
|
||
('2008-07-01', '1214863200', 'Books', 'The Relief of Unbearable Urges', 'Nathan Englander', 'Shorts', '2.0', '', '1999'),
|
||
('2008-07-12', '1215813600', 'Movies', 'Hancock', 'Pete Berg', 'Superhero', '2.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2008-07-27', '1217109600', 'Movies', 'The Love Guru', 'Marco Schnabel', 'Comedy', '-3.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2008-12-31', '1230678000', 'Movies', 'In Bruges', 'Martin McDonagh', 'Comedy', '0.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2008-12-31', '1230678000', 'Movies', 'Quantum of Solace', 'Marc Foster', 'Action', '-2.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2008-12-31', '1230678000', 'Books', 'Amsterdam', 'Ian McEwan', 'Novel', '-1.0', '', '1998'),
|
||
('2008-12-07', '1228604400', 'Books', 'Midnight''s Children', 'Salman Rushdie', 'Novel', '2.0', '', '1981'),
|
||
('2008-12-08', '1228690800', 'Movies', 'Jerusalema', 'Ralph Zilman', 'Crime', '2.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2008-12-11', '1228950000', 'Books', 'A Distant Shore', 'Caryl Phillips', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '2003'),
|
||
('2008-12-16', '1229382000', 'Books', 'White Teeth', 'Zadie Smith', 'Novel', '2.0', '', '2000'),
|
||
('2008-12-27', '1230332400', 'Books', 'Indaba, My Children', 'Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa', 'Mythology', '2.0', '', '1965'),
|
||
('2008-12-29', '1230505200', 'Books', 'The Sea', 'John Banville', 'Novel', '-1.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2009-12-12', '1260572400', 'Books', 'On Beauty', 'Zadie Smith', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2009-12-15', '1260831600', 'Books', 'The Asimov Chronicles: Volume II', 'Isaac Asimov', 'Shorts', '2.0', '', '1989'),
|
||
('2009-12-31', '1262214000', 'Movies', '9', 'Shane Acker', 'Animated', '1.0', '', '2009'),
|
||
('2009-12-31', '1262214000', 'Movies', 'District 9', 'Neil Blomkamp', 'Science Fiction', '2.0', '', '2009'),
|
||
('2009-12-31', '1262214000', 'Movies', 'Lions for Lambs', 'Robert Redford', 'Drama', '-1.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2009-12-23', '1261522800', 'Books', 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet', 'Salman Rushdie', 'Novel', '0.0', '', '1999'),
|
||
('2009-12-27', '1261868400', 'Movies', 'Unbearable Lightness of Being', 'Philip Kaufman', 'Drama', '-2.0', '', '1988'),
|
||
('2009-12-27', '1261868400', 'Movies', 'Master & Commander: Far Side of the World', 'Peter Weir', 'Action', '-1.0', '', '2003'),
|
||
('2009-12-29', '1262041200', 'Books', 'Spirit Brides', 'Kahlil Gibran', 'Shorts', '1.0', '', '2017'),
|
||
('2009-12-29', '1262041200', 'Movies', 'Blindness', 'Fernando Meirelles', 'Drama', '2.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2010-01-11', '1263164400', 'Books', 'The Black Swan', 'Nassim Nicholas Taleb', 'Non-fiction', '2.0', '', '2005'),
|
||
('2010-01-15', '1263510000', 'Books', 'Nightfall', 'Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg', 'Novel', '1.0', '', '1969'),
|
||
('2010-01-16', '1263596400', 'Movies', 'Sherlock Holmes', 'Guy Ritchie', 'Crime', '0.0', '', '2009'),
|
||
('2010-01-22', '1264114800', 'Books', 'Tomorrow is Another Country', 'Allister Sparks', 'History', '3.0', '', '1995'),
|
||
('2010-01-25', '1264374000', 'Books', 'How Life Imitates Chess', 'Garry Kasparov', 'Biography', '1.0', '', '2007'),
|
||
('2010-02-14', '1266102000', 'Movies', 'Avatar', 'James Cameron', 'Science Fiction', '0.0', '', '2009'),
|
||
('2010-02-14', '1266102000', 'Movies', 'More Than A Game', 'Kristopher Belman', 'Sports', '2.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2010-02-14', '1266102000', 'Movies', 'New York, I Love You', 'Various', 'Romance', '2.0', '', '2008'),
|
||
('2010-12-31', '1293750000', 'Movies', 'Chronos', 'Ron Fricke', 'Documentary', '1.0', '', '1985'),
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('2010-07-19', '1279490400', 'Movies', 'La Dolce Vita', 'Federico Fellini', 'Romance', '-3.0', '', '1960'),
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('2010-07-19', '1279490400', 'Movies', 'Paper Heart', 'Nicholas Jasenovec', 'Romance', '1.0', '', '2009'),
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('2019-12-31', '1577746800', 'Books', 'Medium Raw', 'Anthony Bourdain', 'Essays', '1.0', '.', '2010'),
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||
('2016-11-01', '1477954800', 'Television', 'Atlanta S1', 'Donald Glover', 'Dramedy', '3.0', '.', '2016'),
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('2022-05-19', '1652911200', 'Movies', 'Atlanta S3', 'Donald Glover', 'Dramedy', '3.0', '.', '2022'),
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('2022-12-31', '1672441200', 'Television', 'Atlanta S4', 'Donald Glover', 'Dramedy', '3.0', '.', '2022'),
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('2022-12-31', '1672441200', 'Television', 'Severance S1', 'Ben Stiller', 'Thriller', '2.0', '.', '2022'),
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||
('2022-05-19', '1652911200', 'Television', 'Atlanta S3', 'Donald Glover', 'Dramedy', '3.0', '.', '2022'),
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||
('2022-12-31', '1672441200', 'Television', 'The Expanse', 'Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby', 'Science Fiction', '3.0', '.', '2015'),
|
||
('2014-12-31', '1419980400', 'Television', 'Breaking Bad', 'Vince Gilligan', 'Crime', '0.0', '.', '2008'),
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||
('2010-12-31', '1293750000', 'Television', 'The Wire', 'David Simon', 'Crime', '1.0', '.', '2002'),
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||
('2013-12-31', '1388444400', 'Television', 'Fringe', 'JJ Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Robert Orci', 'Science Fiction', '2.0', '.', '2008'),
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||
('2010-12-31', '1293750000', 'Television', 'Scrubs', 'Bill Lawrence', 'Comedy', '3.0', '.', '2001'),
|
||
('2014-12-31', '1419980400', 'Television', 'The Boondocks', 'Aaron McGruder', 'Animated', '2.0', '.', '2005'),
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('2021-02-05', '1612479600', 'Movies', 'Malcolm & Marie', 'Sam Levinson', 'Romance', '-1.0', 'The actors did an amazing job, but the script is a white guy writing black words. It''s trying too hard to mine the black relationship experience.', '2021'),
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('2021-12-31', '1640905200', 'Television', 'Ghosts (UK)', 'Baynton, Farnaby, et al', 'Comedy', '1.0', '.', '2019'),
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('2022-12-31', '1672441200', 'Movies', 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery', 'Rian Johnson', 'Crime', '-1.0', '.', '2022'),
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||
('2013-12-31', '1388444400', 'Movies', 'Don Jon', 'Joseph Gordon-Levitt', 'Romance', '-2.0', '.', '2013'),
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('2025-01-28', '1738018800', 'Books', 'Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent', 'Jean-Claude Ellena', 'Non-fiction', '0.0', 'Am easy read, but felt lightweight. Like I was missing chapters. Starts with the magic and ends with hard industry facts, without some of the secret sauce.', '2009'),
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('2025-02-06', '1738796400', 'Movies', 'The Brutalist', 'Brady Corbet', 'Drama', '3.0', 'A wonderfully expansive film about the immigrant experience. From the joy of arrival, to the poverty that greets, to being the constant outsider, to the predations of natives, and the change that the passage imbues in you. Some rough scenes and low points, but so deftly put together that you barely notice the 215 minutes. Not a fan of the Israel stuff, but I get where it fits into the story.', '2024'),
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('2025-02-09', '1739055600', 'Books', 'Everbody', 'Olivia Laing', 'Non-fiction', '2.0', 'It sinks into the body slowly. But when it did it was exhilirating. A book about bodies that exhilirated the body. Scared me too, some passages about the creep of facism recall our current time. I wish she wrote more the midwest artist who lived alone. The author sounds tired and defeated. There is a heavy realism to the beautiful protest. I felt like the arc of progress is broken by the end of the book.', '1965');
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