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Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy (s1)

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{4/5} “It’s a trap.” Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy season 1, aired in 2024 Sig and Dev are nerf herders who stumble across an old Jedi temple — they grab a bright piece that looks tempting. Unfortunately that collapses the temple and it was keeping the universe together — now everything is different. Dev […]

The Legend of Ochi

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4/5} “The ochi took my wife. And for that, I have no son to call my own. But if you give you little hearts to this cause, as true as I live, you are all my sons.” The Legend of Ochi, released in 2025 On the island of Carpathia humans have been fighting ochi forever. […]

Echo

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{4/5} “Generations are echoing, reaching out to us, at a time when we need them the most.” Echo, aired in 2023-24 Maya Lopez has shot Wilson Fisk because he killed her father. She was shot too. Now she’s gone home for the first time in 20 years. Her cousin Biscuits finds her at her grandmother’s […]

The Endless

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4/5} “All that happens here is that people live long and healthy lives. Because of that, they grow to be the people they want to be.” The Endless, released in 2017 Aaron and Justin were in a cult when they were kids. They got themselves out, but they’re having a tough time making a living. […]

Moana 2

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4/5} “You will be destroyed, and your Wayfinder too.” Moana 2, released in 2024 Moana’s community is alone on an island and they don’t know where any other peopole are. Moana becomes a Wayfinder, and it’s her job to go out and break the curse from the storm god Nalo that hid communities from each […]

ST: A Year To The Day That I Saw Myself Die

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4/5} “Without a unifying philosophy, our civilization was trapped in an endless cycle of struggle. Our conflict perpetuated itself for its own sake, just as a flame seeks fuel to sustain its burning. For the survival of our species, Sokor, we must break the cycle — or be consumed by it.” (from “Sundering” by David […]

The Great Wall

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4/5} “A man must learn to trust before he can be trusted.” The Great Wall, released in 2019 William and Tovar are in China, looking for the black powder that they have heard of but not seen. They are attacked by a creature — William cuts off its arm with his sword and it falls […]

U. S. Marshals

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4/5} “Seems we have ourselves a bona fide federal fugitive out on the lam.” U. S. Marshals, released in 1998 When Mark is in an accident and his gun is discovered in his truck, the police inform him his fingerprints have been found at the scene of a double murder in New York. Mark says […]

A Bug’s Life

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{4/5} “You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up.” A Bug’s Life, released in 1998 Every year the ants harvest a bunch of food and leave it for the grasshoppers, who come and eat it and then leave. But this year Flik accidentally knocks over the pile of food […]

The Secret World of Arietty

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4/5} “You forgot something.” The Secret World of Arietty, released in 2010 Arietty is 14 and goes with her father on her first borrowing expedition. They go into the area of the house where the humans live. The humans are giants compared to them. They grab a sugar cube in the kitchen, but then drop […]