Last week's episode was good, but this one is a real corker!
that last race was a real corker!
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The brainy story pits 007 against two of his most fearsome adversaries: Robert Shaw's stocky hitman Red Grant, whose Orient Express showdown is a slow-burn corker, and Bertolt Brecht veteran Lotte Lenya (of ''Mack the Knife'' fame) as unforgettable shoe-dagger-wielding Rosa Klebb.—Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Jan. 2026 Penned by Aaron Sorkin, this corker of a suspense film stars Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon and more.—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025 The second number of the show was, if not as much of a surprise, equally a corker… and a thematically appropriate choice for the followup choice in the set.—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025 Based on a script by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon, Ransom is a corker of a paranoid, father’s-worst-nightmare thriller in which Gibson plays Tom, a one-percenter who discovers that his son has been kidnapped.—Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025 Anyway, Breville doles out sales sparingly, and this little corker is $50 off for the spring sale.—Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025 The final scene — a real corker — was filmed at City Hall.—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025 Understatement has its merits, but so too does a bolt of pure whimsy—just ask model Abby Champion (near right) and her corker of a Stefan Cooke hat; stefancooke.co.uk.—Sean Thomas, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024