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{5/5} “‘Do you think I have a big ego?’… ‘Well, let’s see. One time, you were so obsessed with work that you didn’t raise me for 18 years.’” Shrinking season 2, aired in 2024 Jimmy’s client Grace is in jail for trying to kill her husband. Jimmy finds a lawyer for her but she’s not […]
{4.5/5} “I can’t hear you over the nuclear accelerator!” Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, released in 2024 Gary, Callie, Trevor, and Phoebe are working as Ghostbusters, keeping New York clean of ghosts. Still, the mayor isn’t happy about the damage they cause. Also, the mayor demands that Phoebe stop being a Ghostbuster since she’s a minor. Ray […]
{5/5} “You wouldn’t like it. The words are way too cute. You might die of cuteness.” Where’d You Go, Bernadette, released in 2019 Bernadette used to be an architect and now lives in a big old house that’s kind of falling apart with her husband, daughter, and dog. Her husband Elgie works for Microsoft. Her […]
{4.5/5} “‘I’ve waited all lifetime for George Altman to ask me on a date and I guess I’m just a little nervous.’ ‘Why? You’ve dated plenty of men who are better looking and sexier and beefier and brawnier and more cut and darker skinned and longer hair and taller and richer and more successful and […]
{4.5/5} “She could not in fact cook, which was no surprise in a votary of the Order of the Pure Moon. They were not one of the useful orders that reared goats and taught children mathematics. Every tokong of the Pure Moon that Tet Sang had ever known had been supported by a numerous establishment […]
{4.5/5} “That was what music was like, she’d always thought. You’d see some old lad like Charlie Fisher, about as commonsensical a man as you’d care to meet, all plain talk and plain facts, but when he brought out his box and woke a tune from the buttons and bellows, well then it was just […]
{5/5} “It’s not possible to escape your past. It clings to you like dust settling into the once clean carpet of your future. And the Hoover of change has poor suction.” Extraordinary season 2, aired in 2024 Jen starts seeing a coach who is going to help her find her power — he takes her […]
{4.5/5} “Everything he said sounded fantastical and unreal. The sea was little more than a myth, and the idea of crossing it to another land was the stuff of childish dreams. But next to Feather sat a man who had been walking the Wall, so everything was possible.” The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by […]
“‘I’ve never even heard of Juilliard.’ ‘Well, that may be the case, Mr. Bolton, but evidently Juilliard has heard of you.’” High School Musical 3: Senior Year, released in 2008 I don’t usually review movies that I didn’t watch all of, but this one was requested — I watched about half of it. I would […]
{5/5} “We just going to ignore the fact she broke the fridge or…?” Extraordinary season 1, aired in 2023 Practically everyone in the world has a power but not Jen, and she’s not happy about it. She finds a cat, who turns out to be a man who had shapeshifted into a cat and forgot […]