Archive for the ‘Reviews of movies’ Category
Star Trek Beyond
{4.5/5} “We will find hope in the impossible.” Star Trek Beyond, released in 2016 Kirk is a bit tired of being in space and thinking of taking a vice admiral position. Spock, having found out that Ambassador Spock has died, thinks he should help out on New Vulcan. Before they get a chance to tell […]
Star Trek Into Darkness
{4.5/5} “Jim, you’re not actually going down there, are you? You don’t rob a bank when the getaway car has a flat tire.” Star Trek Into Darkness, released in 2013 Kirk has to reveal the Enterprise to primitive people in order to save Spock’s life. Starfleet is unhappy — since he broke the Prime Directive […]
Star Trek
{5/5} “Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives including your mother’s and yours. I dare you to do better.” Star Trek, released in 2009 Kirk and McCoy are still at the academy when they go onboard the Enterprise under Captain Pike and Lieutenant Spock. They are responding to […]
Finding Dory
{4.5/5} “Suck it, bipeds!” Finding Dory, released in 2016 Dory remembers that she’s from the Jewel of Morro Bay, California and Marlin and Nemo help her find her way there. It turns out it’s a marine life institute. Dory has been tagged. She runs into a grumpy octopus with 7 legs named Hank, who says […]
Juno
{5/5} “I guess normalcy isn’t really our style.” Juno, released in 2007 Juno finds out she’s pregnant but she’s only 16. After a distressing visit to a clinic she decides to have the baby. But she realizes she’s too young to raise it herself — she’ll give it up for adoption. Not to just anyone, […]
Shakespeare in Love
{5/5} “Good title.” Shakespeare in Love, released in 1998 In 1593 Will Shakespeare is having a bit of writer’s block. His patron is demanding a comedy, and soon. He has a title — “Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter” — and that’s it. Meanwhile, Viola wants to be an actor so much she will pretend […]
Deadpool
{5/5} “That guy was already up there when I got here.” Deadpool, released in 2016 Wade Wilson had found his true love Vanessa, but soon afterwards he was diagnosed with cancer. He calls a mysterious stranger who says he can heal him — which he does, but at a great cost. Wade has been turned […]
Sommersby
{5/5} “I never loved him the way that I love you.” Sommersby, released in 1993 Jack Sommersby returns from the Civil War finally after 6 years. His wife Laurel had thought he was dead. Everyone is happy to see him back, except Orin who was courting Laurel. The farmland is all dried up from years […]
Jack of the Red Hearts
{4.5/5} “What else can you do, girlie, huh?” Jack of the Red Hearts, released in 2015 Jack breaks her younger sister Coke out of her foster home, but she can’t really take care of her since she doesn’t have a home herself. Until she spots an ad for a live-in caretaker for an autistic child, […]
Anomalisa
{4/5} “I love pressing the buttons… It’s so, I don’t know, buttony.” Anomalisa, released in 2016 Michael is an author who flies into Cincinnati for a day to give a presentation about customer service. He calls up his ex-girlfriend whom he hasn’t seen in 10 years but that doesn’t go well. He has a bit […]