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The first and second editions of Complete Idiot's Guide to Bridge by H. Anthony Medley comprised the fastest selling beginning bridge book, going through more than 10 printings. This updated Third Edition includes a detailed Guide to Bids and Responses, along with the most detailed, 12-page Glossary ever published, as well as examples to make learning the game even easier. Click book to order. Available in all bookstores and on Kindle. | |
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle (3/10) by Tony Medley Runtime 141 minutes R The first was a surprisingly good spoof of James Bond movies. This sequel, however, is simply ridiculous. There’s no satire here, no clever, funny lines, in fact there’s nothing at all. It’s almost 2 ½ hours of nothingness, but lots of silly fights and exploding people. I guess that director Matthew Vaughn, who co-wrote with Jane Randall (at least he took a writing credit for himself; who knows how much he actually wrote; come to think about it, though, why would anybody want writing credit on something like this?), think that things like Supervillainess Poppy (Julianne Moore) surprisingly killing one of her henchmen by putting him head first into a meat grinder and then forcing her newest henchman to eat a hamburger made out of his remains was, what, funny? Disgusting? Who knows? I would vote for the latter, which makes the scene in vogue with the rest of the film. It’s based on a comic book and what Vaughn has done is make a worse comic book out of it. But it does take a certain amount of capacity (to be charitable) to make a movie that’s 141 minutes long out of as little as is presented here.
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