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{5/5} “Why you stuck-up half-witted scruffy-looking nerf herder!” Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, released in 1980 The Rebels have retreated to Hoth, a snowy world. Darth Vader has sent out probes looking for them. Han and Chewbacca destroy a probe they find, but they also realize that the Empire probably knows where […]
{5/5} “I’m one with the Force, the Force is with me.” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released in 2016 Jyn Erso was a young girl when she saw her mother killed and her father taken away by the Empire. Years later she’s rescued from the clutches of the Empire by a Rebel team. At […]
{4.5/5} “Maybe he was right. What he believed — that it was December 2059, that the world was at peace, and that we were contentedly cisgender — seemed so much more plausible than what I believed: that a third world war had broken out, five hundred years had passed, an extrasolar asteroid was on a […]
{4.5/5} “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, released in 1977 R2-D2 and C3-PO are on Tatooine, having been sold by Jawas to Luke Skywalker and his uncle. R2-D2 plays Princess Leia’s message and Luke is intrigued. When they make their way to Ben Kenobi he tells them […]
{4/5} “We may be their guests but we are not safe.” Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, released in 2026 Din Djarin and Grogu are working for the New Republic, tracking down people who still want to restart the Empire. His boss wants them brought in alive so that she can get information from them, […]
These songs are not necessarily my favourites to listen to, but ones where the song is at least catchy and the video is stunning. Warning: there are lots of music videos, possibly even famous ones, I haven’t seen. Best of the best a-ha’s Take On Me A nice little story told with a combination of […]
Humans were hunters and gatherers for around 300 000 years. Then, fairly suddenly in the grand scheme of things, they started doing things differently 10 000 years ago. This video explains it brilliantly in a way I haven’t seen before. After the last ice age ended things warmed up and it became easier to grow […]
{5/5} “A Holmes does not disappear without leaving clues for a Holmes.” Enola Holmes 3, released in 2026 Enola is in Malta for her wedding to Tewksbury — in fact she’s on her way to the church — when Dr. Watson informs her that Sherlock has been kidnapped. Previously Sherlock wasn’t happy that she’s marrying […]
Here’s an update to this list. The Alien and Predator movies are in the same universe. Alien The quadrilogy Alien 1979 -> 3/5 (+) Aliens 1986 -> 4.5/5 (+) Alien3 1992 -> 3.5/5 Alien Resurrection 1997 -> 4.5/5 Ridley Scott’s prequels Prometheus 2012 -> 4/5 Alien: Covenant 2017 -> 4/5 The new movie Alien: Romulus […]
{5/5} “If you think I’m going to lead you in the mountains on some sort of revenge plot, turning you into a psychotic child murderer, then you must be, as they say ‘on glue.’” Supergirl, released in 2026 Kara Zor-El is an intergalactic party girl — she parties hard, then comes home and sleeps with […]