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One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiralling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder.This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.

I know that there is a whole slew of people who object to reading adaptations and abridged versions of classics. And for a mature audience, I'm against abridged versions too..... but I've chosen to use adaptations, re-tellings and abridged versions of certain classics with my son as a first exposure.... I've done this with Homer's Odyssey and the Iliad - and he will tell you that the Odyssey is his all time favorite story. Mission accomplished - when he's older and ready to tackle Homer - he'll do so with fond memories and a bit of knowledge with which to work from...instead of feeling intimidated!I'm choosing to do the same thing with Shakespeare... my strategy will be to introduce a child's adaptation and then to watch a child-friendly production as an introduction to some of the Bard's works.... hoping that he'll grow up knowing that he loves Shakespeare...Bruce Coville's adaptation of A Midsummere's Night Dream was fantastic... the pictures were captivating and the wording gave just the perfect flavor as a first intro to this play! I look forward to reading more of his adaptations!

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* The Restaurant at the End of the Universe* Life, the Universe and Everything* So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish* Mostly HarmlessSuppose a good friend calmly told you over a round of drinks that the world was about to end? And suppose your friend went on to confess that he wasn't from around here at all, but rather from a small planet near Betelgeuse? And what if the world really did come to an end, but instead of being blown away, you found yourself hitching a ride on a spaceship with your buddy as a travelling companion?It happens to Arthur Dent.An ordinary guy from a small town in England, Arthur is one lucky sonofagun: his alien friend, Ford Prefect, is in fact a roving researcher for the universally bestselling Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... and expert at seeing the cosmos on 30 Altairian dollars a day. Ford lives by the Guide's seminal bit of advice: Don't Panic. Which comes in handy when their first ride--on the very same vessel that demolished Earth to make way for a hyperspacial freeway--ends disastrously (they are booted out of an airlock). with 30 seconds of air in their lungs and the odd of being picked up by another ship 2^276,709 to 1 against, the pair are scooped up by the only ship in the universe powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive.But this (and the idea that Bogart movies and McDonald's hamburgers now exist only in his mind) is just the beginning of the weird things Arthur will have to get used to. For, on his travels, he'll encounter Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-President of the Galaxy; Trillian, a sexy spacecadet he once tried to pick up at a cocktail party, now Zaphod's girlfriend; Marvin, a chronically depressed robot; and Slartibartfast, the award-winning engineer who built the Earth and travels in a spaceship disguised as a bistro.Arthur's crazed wanderings will take him from the restaurant at the end of the Universe (where the main dish of the day introduces itself and the floor show is doomsday), to the planet Krikkit (locked in Slo-Time to punish its inhabitants for trying to end the Universe), to Earth (huh? wait! wasn't it destroyed?!) to the very offices of The Hitchhiker's Guide itself as he and his friends quest for the answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything ... and search for a really good cup of tea.Ready or not, Arthur Dent is in for one hell of a ride!

When I was young and dumb--even dumber than I am now--I spent a summer as a live-in staff member at a prestigious, World's-Top-Hideaways-list-making New Zealand luxury lodge, waiting tables and working housekeeping. For a hundred bucks a week in my pocket. This is one of the numerous downsides to having incredibly shitty parenting; no one to tell you, when you are young and dumb, that it is illegal for employers to pay less than minimum wage, that legally the lodge was allowed to charge me 9% of my gross wage for room and board and not a cent more, and that I was about to be exploited all to hell. Ah, rich people. Before I arrived I dreamed of long summer evenings, hanging out with the other staff, swimming in the river, finding a cute local summer boyfriend, and having a great growth experience. Reality was slightly different. I was the only staff member living on site, no one hung out together, the lodge was a billion miles from civilisation (duh) and I only had a pushbike, all the male staff were married, and the locals were hostile (again, duh!).That was the first Christmas Day I spent without seeing another human being. Also without eating anything, because staff meals were in the kitchen, which was (triple duh) closed for the day, because the whole lodge was closed for the day, and this had not occurred to me, literally, until Christmas morning.Well, thank fuck for Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series. If I was prepared to turn myself into a sweat-dripping, overheated mess (and I was) I could cycle into the tiny local public library (where I BEGGED to be allowed to join, against all the residency rules: thank you, kind librarian), and I read my way through their entire fiction section (it was one wall). I lived for each week's Spellsinger volume. What could have been more apt for me than a story about a fish-out-of-water human with hidden magic talents, transported to a strange and hostile land. The hope that I too could be a speshul snowflake kept me from crying more than once a week (maybe twice . . . okay, three times). I have never tried to re-read the series, because I fear Spellsinger isn't actually objectively particularly amazing, but I still have an overstrong affection for the song Sloop John B, and call the tiny moving dots in the side of one's field of vision 'gneechees'. Thanks, ADF.

Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks.For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth was no fairy tale. He alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and got some fast! - he would be exiled. Forever!But the Good Magician Humfrey was convinced that Bink did indeed have magic. In fact, both Beauregard the genie and the magic wall chart insisted that Bink had magic. Magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or by Good Magician Humfrey - or even by the Evil Magician TrentBe that as it may, no one could fathom the nature of Bink's very special magic. Bink was in despair. This was even worse than having no magic at all..and he would still be exiled!

Interesting factoid: the first six Thieves' World collections should appear in the Kindle store in February 2020, thanks to the efforts of Open Road Media. The task of securing rights was probably significant.I'd be curious if this experiment--a shared setting and usable set of characters--has ever been repeated. The logical conclusion would be open-source or copylefted material, and the only thing I know of is the Jenny Everywhere project. Sadly the most common example these days is tie-in novels and licensed properties.So the essay itself, "The Making of Thieves' World", is the standout piece, as being partially a fascinating insight on wrangling together this material, as well as a bit about how this outstanding example of worldbuilding came together. On this reading (versus decades ago) the best stories trade places with the others, with the hardscrabble, character-driven ones being more involving and resonant than the boilerplate sword-and-sorcery adventure stuff that attracted me originally.Strangely, the story that I most remembered, "The Secret of the Blue Star", has aged poorly because of real-world changes to gender politics. The drama circling Lythande's "Secret" is so particularly heavy-handed and telegraphing that one wonders if any reader at the time was truly surprised by the twist ending. But I'm curious what this story would look like if written today. Also, the later accusations made against Marion Zimmer Bradley are only highlighted by the fact that a character here, Bercy, is concocted as a romantic or sexual object but her description signals her as being inappropriately young.

Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy...

Beloved intergalactic rogue Stainless Steel Rat aka Slippery Jim DiGriz had to start his criminal life and training somewhere. Here the multi-talented expert in karate and fast-change fast-talk artist narrates three great exploits. A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born describes how the lad graduates from Bit O'Heaven porcuswine farm to jail, finds and rescues a mentor, stowaways to slavery, then helps interplanetary League Navy Captain Varod defeat medieval Capos. Conscripted again in The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, he tries to help a planet of peace, inspired by the philosophy of logical robot Mark Forer IV, defend against the invading army, led by the sadistic killer of his mentor, The Bishop. In The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues, Jim, disguised as a futuristic rock-and-roller, must retrieve a missing alien artifact or lose his life.

In the previous book as a result of Skeeve being an asshole (sorry but there is no more polite word to better describe his behavior) his mentor and friend Aazh left for his own home. Skeeve finally got off his head out of the clouds (see, I did manage to find more polite-sounding place for the guy's head) and decided to go to Aazh home dimension to apologize. Here is where the trouble began. Skeeve was alone in the wold populated by scary huge lizards with big teeth called Pervects (called so by themselves; other races insisted on calling them Perverts). His previous adventures had not prepared him to survive in a city reminding me of a cross between New York and Moscow during the time of the Soviet Union and populated by Perverts, I mean Pervects. Try to imagine finding a person in New York City (pop. 8.5 millions) or Moscow (pop. 17 millions) having no clue where to start and you will see what I mean.The first half of the book was funny; funny to the point that it made me hope I somehow forgot about how great the book was after my first read a long time ago and that Asprin managed to recapture the magic of the first 5 books. And then the second part came. My boring rant follows. Skeeve began growing up. I said it before countless number of times, but it is well worth repeating: growing up is boring. When you were a kid you could make great new friends all the time, every day brought new and exciting discoveries (from my personal experience: you cannot even imagine our excitement when we discovered an unguarded way into a local junk yard), summer vacations were long and great, and even getting sick meant you would have some school-free time. Now the adulthood came. You have to go to soul-sucking work every day, your boss is a jerk, your wife nags non-stop, and your husband is lazy good-for-nothing waste of human being. You have to think in long boring words like Politics, Financial Investments, Retirement, Stock Performance, and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Sounds exciting? I did not think so. If you are still in doubt compare the last two pictures: which one makes you think of an adventure? So Skeeve's growing up took the second part of the book and this is exactly where the tale stopped being funny and became boring. It is not completely hopeless as we learn some of Aazh's background and get to meet the the newest member of M.Y.T.H. Inc. Pookie. 3 stars aka what ever happened to Robert Lynn Asprin's humor.

Completely revised by the author...the new second book in his warlock Series.Here's Gramarye, a gentle planet where, in the Thirty-first Century, people choose the life-style of medieval England; except they're prejudiced against and persecute their witches and warlocks (espers, naturally).Rod Gallowglass (dubbed High Warlock in spite of himself) is stationed there as an agent of the intergalactic DDT--Decentralized democratic Tribunal--to protect the precious esper colony from its primitive fellow Gramaryans, and to insure a gradual integration.This already whacky society is stirred up with a batch of paranoid esper Neanderthals led by the strane King Kobold, brought in by alien futurians to destroy those espers so vital to DDT's future.When this unhealthy mess starts brewing, our warlock-cum-everyman is the one to watch.

The book starts off as typical sci-fi/fantasy fodder: An undercover agent, Rodney Gallowglass, discovers an entire planet of earth-descended espers who cut off communications with their home planet centuries before. By the time Rodney finds them they've structured their civilization based on a medievel monarchy. Rodney's use of technology gets him branded as a wizard and he finds himself balanced between the monarchy and a large group of "witches" and "wizards" who are, in actuality, regular people with telekinetic, teleportation and mind-reading abilities.But then it gets interesting because Rodney finds himself battling to protect a monarchy that is slowly blossoming into a democracy against two factions, both from the future. One is comprised of Anarchists, the other, of Dictators. Both factions want the esper powers of the citizens at their disposal. The reason I liked this book was because 1.) Rod Gallowglass is a smartass. 2.) It examines the very interesting question of how a democracy forms and the myriad of ways any government can take a turn down any number of politically structured roads. And 3.) Rod's main sidekick is a robot named Fess who happens to have one gigantic flaw: when confronted with too much input or with input that he cannot logically assimilate, Fess has a "seizure" which incapacitates him until he can be reset. As you can imagine, this happens and some very inopportune times. The character development is awesome and the dialogue can make you think without feeling the need to run to the nearest dictionary or encyclopedia.

The life of a young magician's apprentice becomes amusingly complicated when his mentor is assassinated soon after summoning a 'demon.' The assassin fares no better than his target, vaporized by the magician's fireball. The summoned demon remains unscathed, other than for losing his magic. As they say, those who can't do, teach, so he becomes the apprentice's new mentor. These first two books of the Myth Adventures series are better than I remembered. Actually, It's been so long since I first read them that I didn't remember much about them at all. Obviously, I must now put all the others in the series on my TBR list for this year. :-)

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but: time travelers, talking dogs, alcoholic vampires, cybernetic aliens--and a group of people who really, truly care about each other. It's the rare kind of place where bad pun are as appreciated as good conversation.Time Travelers Strictly Cash is their policy, but then again everybody pays cash at Callahan's. Lay your money on the bar, name your poison, step up to the line drawn on the barroom floor, and after drinking make a toast and throw the glass into the fireplace. It's an odd tradition (don't worry about the cost--Callahan gets the glasses at a bulk discount), but one's that's led to some interesting stories.Callahan's Secret may be something even the regulars would never guess. then again, it may be as simple as listening to those post-toast stories. After-all, like Callahan says, shared pain is lessened and shared joy in increased--a simple concept that could, after a few drinks, lead to saving the world....This omnibus edition contains the trio of books that introduced the world to Mike Callahan, Jake Stonebender, Doc Webster, Mickey Finn, Fast Eddie Costigan, Long-Drink McGonnigle, Ralph Won Wau Wau and the rest of the regulars of Callahan's Place in the stories that helped Spider Robinson to win both a John W. Campbell Award and a legion of fans.

Now that M.Y.T.H. Inc. became a reality it is time for the company to take on some assignments. The said company took quite a diverse range of them - as diverse as the members of Skeeve's outfit. Let me count them: finding a thief who steals from a factory wholesale, collecting a debt, decorating a hotel, helping an old friend to get out of a really bad contract, and protecting shipping goods. Each assignment is a self-contained story and is told from a different POV of a person/being performing it. I feel my review of this installment would come out harsher than it needs to be so let me say from the beginning that regardless of what I am about to say it is still good enough for 3 (weak) stars. It has a couple of amusing moments as well as one laugh-out-loud (Tananda's visit to a bar frequented by hardened criminals). It is also short so it is over before the reader gives up on it. This book is noticeably weaker than the previous one and I already proclaimed that the previous one does not quite reach the level of the first five novels. Skeeve grew up. His growing up signifies his development which is nice and dandy, but he grew up to be a boring person and an asshole to boot. He became a president of a company and being an asshole comes with the job, but this does not make it any more entertaining to read.I did not like multiple POVs. Skeeve (the teen) was the sole narrator before and his outlook on life really shined. Here some of the POVs are quite boring. Speaking about boring, so are some of the stories. The ones that were not boring were predictable and cliché. Even the only funny moment I mentioned above was cliché, but its execution was top-notch reminding us that Robert Asprin knew how to write genuinely funny stuff. This is my second time I read this book and it did not become better on the reread. It is time for me to take a hiatus from the series. I finally recalled why I did not finish it on my first attempt.

Picked this up off a book swap shelf at a railway station, and now I understand why it was left there. Complete rubbish. The blurbs on the back cover claim readers will "laugh down the walls" and that "the field needs more humorists of this calibre". No, it really doesn't. The attempted humour in this book is clumsy, absurd and over-egged, and I say attempted because I never even smiled while reading it; the most I got out of it was an occasional eye-roll at Guxx's terrible rhyming.There's barely any plot, and no truly cohesive narrative; it's very clear even without reading the copyright page that half the chapters were pasted together from the author's other short stories - and that doesn't work at all well here.This book has been compared by other reviewers to Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. I don't recommend it to Discworld fans, or anyone else. The only real similarities between the two are the genre and that the cover art - which, frankly, is almost better than the story in this case - was drawn by Josh Kirby. There's really no comparison. Pratchett's sense of humour is subtle, edged, satirical and entertaining, where Gardner's is slapstick, about as blunt as his character's big club, and really not that interesting. The only reason I bothered to finish this was that I'm stuck on a train with little else to do. And I'll be putting it back on that railway swapping shelf, the very next chance I get.

Skeeve tried to fit into a new neighborhood he recently moved (don't we all?) For this reason he accepted an invitation for a friendly game of Dragon Poker- I will talk about the game itself later. Another reason was that all the people that kept Skeeve out of trouble were otherwise occupied and the guy could not miss the opportunity - to get into the trouble that is. As people familiar with the series know if trouble Skeeve asks trouble Skeeve gets; and a big one too. Sufficient to say he won and one of his IOUs created endless and practically unsolvable problems for him. When I talk about the series I keep saying that its quality declined as it went along. This is the place where it all started. It is still good enough, but not on the level with the first five installments. Where do I start? Skeeve is growing up and not surprisingly growing up is boring.  There are some parts of the book where the story just stops and Skeeve or his friends sit down and do some philosophical pondering about life and its meaning. These places really feel like screeching half of the tale. The very last sentence dropped all pretenses of being funny and left Skeeve and the readers sad and confused. This was also the start of Skeeve friends' practically worshiping him as a demigod who Can Do No Wrong - a somewhat undeserved reputation among the people/beings who should know better. This only becomes worse in the following books. I really have to mention Dragon Poker as I promised above. It was referred to as the most complicated card game ever invented and I agree. On the surface it looks like good old Poker with six cards instead of five. However there are modifications for the hands and they are numerous and great. To give an example one of them states something like this, "You have a pair and he has straight, but you sit facing south and his last name contains letter K, so your hand wins". Sufficient to say, I want this game. As I already mentioned this does not mean the book is hopeless; in fact it was good enough for 3.5 stars.

Aazh took a leave to take care of his family problems. Skeeve thought it would be easy to live a couple of days without his mentor and for some short time it looked like he was right. Right until the moment his employer the King showed up and asked his court magician to substitute for him while poor overworked king takes a short vacation. Not a big deal, right? Wrong. It turned out the king was about to get married to a woman who would think nothing to kill a husband or two that had a misfortune to be in the way of her plans. So the real king thus escaped and Skeeve ended up with a bloodthirsty bride. Now would be a very good time to use the most famous quote of the series - something Skeeve said in this installment, "When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse." Sure enough as soon as the bride arrived it turned out the poor guy had much worse problem on his hands: the Mob came and showed its interest in him. I do not need to say that even in the fantasy land if the Mob takes an interest in you your lifespan is about to get much shorter. This time Skeeve is truly on his own. My short review: it is funny; probably not as funny as the last book, but almost as much. We get to meet even more colorful characters that will play major roles down the road - most notably a couple of Mob goons. Massha got a permanent position in the series. Skeeve matured. He managed to solve half of his problems on his own until they became big enough for him to ask his friends for help. His confrontation with Aazh in the middle of the book also showed it. All in all this is a good installment of the series which fully deserve 4 stars.

After the events of the last book Skeeve and Aazh as partners got themselves a very nice base of operations with just one tiny little problem: one of the doors in their dwelling (the kind they use in banks for safe vaults) led into an unknown and potentially deadly dimension. Circumstances forced Aazh to go in to investigate while Skeeve was tricked to be left behind. When Skeeve learned Aazh had stuck in a jail with a murder charge he rushed after his partner almost blindly accompanied by his goon/bodyguard (on a load from the Mob) and Massha. For those unfamiliar with the series, the second companion is a very colorful character who uses her countless jewelry items she wears to perform magic. The said items tend to malfunction often and in the most inappropriate moments. Hilarity ensures. Now that I reread the book I realized it contains some very subtle signs of the series decline down the road. None of the new characters, including the ones who will reappear later are not as good as already established ones with only possible exception of a werewolf who did not get enough screen time; he reminds me of this guy:Skeeve's love interest came out completely unbelievable and weak. Who needs a love interest when Tanda is always close by, anyway???However the escape scene has got to be one of the best in the series if not THE best. It really saves the book and earns it an extra star. I challenge anybody to read it, picture it in your head and try not to smile at least at the absurdity and hilarity of the situation. I would like to use the opportunity to rant a little. I keep saying that the word "racist" is really overused these days to the point where sometimes it loses its original meaning and just becomes "a person who does not agree with me". I was looking at the reviews for this book and stumbled upon a real gem and a proof of what I just sad. Both author and Skeeve were accused (I am taking seriously here) of being racist towards vampires and werewolves. Now I have seen everything; I will just shut up.

Skeeve and Aazh were minding their own business in an inn they ended up owing as a result of the events of the first book. Their leisure time was interrupted by a soldier who brought an invitation to the great and powerful magician Skeeve (ha!) to accept a position of a court magician in a nearby kingdom. As everybody is well aware a government job is the best one there is: it is stable, secure, and usually little or no work is involved; do not let me started on benefits. Aazh talked Skeeve into accepting the job. The first thing they realized upon arriving is that they are not the only applicants for the position and a job interview is in order. After successfully passing the latter due to Aazh skillful coaching the duo realized they ended up with the job and a problem which would put such powerful magicians as Gandalf, Allanon, Dumbledore, Lady, Macros, and Rand al’Thor taken together in a very tight spot. Let me remind you that Aazh had lost his magic powers and Skeeve was just a novice apprentice. Not a problem for the two, right? I cannot think of much to say here except that I laughed reading the book. Hard. It was a reread by the way, and not the first one. This series belongs to a dying breed of humorous fantasy which is funny and which does not require a bunch of people to die or bad puns to be funny. The dialog between Skeeve and Aazh never fails to deliver. Even when it does not make you laugh out loud, it makes you chuckle. The characters – new and old – are colorful and interesting (how is about a mercenary who is so old he falls asleep all the time including during his guard duty, but whose skill with a bow would make William Tell die of envy?) Skeeve and Aazh both have good development and feel like living beings and not just caricatures. To make a long story short this is a really underrated humorous fantasy. If you have not read it yet and are in the mood for something lighthearted: the first five books provide excellent mindless entertainment. This installment is not a 5 star classic, but it firmly stands in 4 star rating range.

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  This review is dedicated to Iceland team of UEFA Euro 2016. Guys, you showed everybody you do not have to be a high-paid pro to play a good game.\
 “When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.Every chapter of all the books of the series starts with a funny epigraph; I could not resist using one of them above. Anyhow, Skeeve was bored out of his skull doing his job of a court magician (this means doing nothing). It did not help any that it was raining non-stop in the capital of the kingdom which employed Skeeve. Luckily Tanda showed up (for unfamiliar with the series think about a super sexy alien with a green skin from the original Star Trek – this is exactly Tanda). She invited Skeeve to help her with her shopping in other dimensions. And so Skeeve went despite Aazh gloomy and pessimistic prediction of an upcoming disaster resulting from the trip. Aazh was right of cause. A bold theft went very wrong and Skeeve barely escaped back home to ask Aazh to help him get Tanda out of a tight spot. Their rescue attempt resulted in a lot of absurd situations – each one is more hilarious than the previous – and culminated in a very memorable game vaguely resembling football/soccer, thus my dedication in the beginning. Yes, the picture above gives a fairly good idea about that game. It would be sufficient to say the novel made me laugh out loud in a public place, several times. Strictly speaking it does not exactly reach 5-star level, but anything making me laugh during the reread deserves an extra star. In other good news we get to meet even more interesting and colorful characters, Massha first and foremost. General Badaxe got himself a girlfriend and we learn a very interesting and unexpected tidbit about Tanda’s origins and see her brother up close and personal (hint: he does not need to be seen up close as he is very hard to miss even from a great distance). It is hard to believe for this subgenre, but there are interesting character developments (for the main characters anyway). Both Skeeve and Aazh grow; even Skeeve’s pet baby dragon does (it takes about 300 years for the little guy to become mature). For this reason the series needs to be read in order. I really cannot say anything more than the following. Are you looking for a funny fantasy? Are you looking for a funny read and do not mind reading fantasy? In both cases you are looking for this. I am also sorry to say, but I like this one (at least first several books) more than Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld – Myth series is funnier in my opinion. 

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After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.

1987 film by Joel Schumacher, Richard Donner

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

1975 drama film based on the novel by Ken Kesey

The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.

A delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.

A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.

1995 German-American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Bryan Singer

The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

2010 computer-animated musical fantasy-comedy film by Disney

A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

1971 dystopian crime film directed by Stanley Kubrick

Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s.

With the help of long presumed dead Captain Kirk, Captain Picard must stop a deranged scientist willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix.

After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally discover the shocking truth of the world around them.

2016 American science fiction adventure film directed by Robert Schwentke

John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere.

The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.

Snow White's mother, the Queen dies when she is born. Her father, the King, remarries a beautiful but vain lady. The new Queen has a magic mirror that she asks every day, who is the fairest one of all? When it answers Snow White, the

1955 German film directed by Erich Kobler

Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

1995 American science fiction film by Terry Gilliam

An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.

2001 British-American fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

1980 superhero film directed by Richard Lester

The Buggles are an English new wave band formed in London in 1977 by singer and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes. They are best known for their 1979 debut single "Video Killed the Radio Star", which topped the UK Singles Chart and reached number one in 15 other countries and was chosen as the song to launch MTV in 1981.

The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music band from Braintree, Essex, formed in 1990 by keyboardist and songwriter Liam Howlett. The band's line-up has included MC and vocalist Maxim, dancer and vocalist Keith Flint (until his death in March 2019), dancer and live keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill (who left to pursue a solo career in 1999), and dancer and vocalist Sharky (1990–1991). Along with the Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy are credited as pioneers of the breakbeat-influenced genre big beat, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s. Howlett's rock-inspired drum rhythms infused with electronic rave music beats/breaks were combined with Maxim's omnipresent mystique, Thornhill's shuffle dancing style and Flint's modern punk appearance.

Starting over isn't easy, especially for John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of joining the LAPD. As their oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from those who see him as just a walking midlife cri

Three sisters discover their destiny, to battle against the forces of evil, using their witchcraft. They are the Charmed Ones.

American supernatural drama / fantasy television series (1998–2006)

An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits.

A modern take on the cases of Sherlock Holmes, with the detective now living in New York City.

A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.

1997 American supernatural drama TV series

The adventures of a film stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter when movie work is slow.

A famous "psychic" outs himself as a fake, and starts working as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation so he can find "Red John", the madman who killed his wife and daughter.

American crime television series (2008-2015)

Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles - the City of Angels.

A century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.

American science fiction television series from 2001–2005

After her mother disappears, Clary must venture into the dark world of demon hunting, and embrace her new role among the Shadowhunters.

2016 American supernatural drama television series

David Haller is a troubled young man diagnosed as schizophrenic, but after a strange encounter, he discovers special powers that will change his life forever.

An exploratory ship from Earth faces intergalactic challenges 400 years in the future.

Xena, a mighty Warrior Princess with a dark past, sets out to redeem herself. She is joined by small town bard, Gabrielle. Together they journey the ancient world and fight for the greater good against ruthless Warlords and Gods.

American–New Zealand fantasy series (1995–2001)

A look at the personal and professional lives of a group of women who perform for a wrestling organization in Los Angeles during the 1980s.

The misadventures of a struggling pop group.

1966–1968 American situation comedy television series

Welcome Back, Kotter is an American sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as a sardonic high school teacher in charge of a racially and ethnically diverse remedial class called the "Sweathogs". Recorded in front of a live studio audience, it originally aired on ABC from September 9, 1975, to May 17, 1979.The show stars stand-up comedian and actor Gabriel "Gabe" Kaplan as the title character, Gabe Kotter, a wisecracking teacher who returns to his alma mater, James Buchanan High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, to teach a remedial class of loafers, called "Sweathogs". The school's principal is referred to, but rarely seen on-screen. The rigid vice principal, Michael Woodman (John Sylvester White), dismisses the Sweathogs as witless hoodlums, and only expects Kotter to contain them until they drop out or are otherwise banished. As a former remedial student, and a founding member of the original class of Sweathogs, Kotter befriends the current Sweathogs and stimulates their potential. A pupil-teacher rapport is formed, and the students often visit Kotter's Bensonhurst apartment, sometimes via the fire-escape window, much to the chagrin of his wife, Julie (Marcia Strassman).

Highlander: The Seriesis a Canadian-French fantasy science fiction action-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the eponymous "Highlander". It was co-produced by Rysher Distribution in the United States, Gaumont Television in France, Reteitalia in Italy, RTL Plus in Germany, and Amuse Video in Japan. An alternate sequel to the 1986 feature filmHighlander, it features a storyline in which the protagonist of that film (Connor MacLeod, a member of a race of "Immortals") has not won "the Prize" sought by all Immortals, who still exist post-1985. Christopher Lambert reprised his role as Connor in the pilot episode, which introduced series protagonist Duncan MacLeod, an Immortal who was taken in by the same clan of Scottish Highlanders who had found and raised Connor generations before.

A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed.

A contemporary prequel to Psycho, giving a portrayal of how Norman Bates' psyche unravels through his teenage years, and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma, truly is.

American drama thriller television series

The staff of an Army hospital in the Korean War find that laughter is the best way to deal with their situation.

American TV series about the fictional 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

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