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{4.5/5} “Not since the merge. Now it’s all like, ‘Do your job. Show up on time. Quit challenging Terrence to rap battles.’” — Kimchee Kim’s Convenience season 3, aired in 2019 Mrs. Kim buys a new dishwasher but Mr. Kim has a plan for buying the same one at a cheaper price. Jung finally decides […]
{5/5} “The only thing that can move across dimensions like time is gravity.” Interstellar, released in 2014 Cooper was a pilot, until the world didn’t need pilots any more. It needed farmers, so he became a farmer. Until a gravity anomaly led him to a top-secret facility — NASA — where they want him to […]
{4.5/5} “Anybody else want to negotiate?” The Fifth Element, released in 1997 Evil is threatening the galaxy, and only the Fifth Element can stop it. Through a complicated series of events Leeloo, the Fifth Element, crashes into Korben Dallas’s taxi and he rescues her instead of turning her over to the police. They travel to […]
{4.5/5} “The siliconic gel seemed to be breaking the raindrops apart as they fell, forming thousands of colors seemingly in midair. Shimmering, tiny rainbows that under different circumstances would have been beautiful. At the moment it was just making her more scared, making it clear to her that what was surrounding her home was something […]
Here’s a fascinating TED talk about the discovery of a new species of human ancestor called Homo naledi. They lived around 300 000 years ago — at the same time as homo sapiens. The speaker is paleoanthropologist Juliet Brophy: How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution | Juliet Brophy
{4/5} “You know, eventually you’re going to have to trust me.” Prospect, released in 2018 Damon and his teenage daughter Cee have been in space for years. When their ship experiences trouble and they land unexpectedly, Damon locates a gem that other prospectors have carelessly left behind. Cee thinks they should cash in and leave […]
{4.5/5} “Gamma Night was due any moment now, and if it caught him in midtransport, he’d be stuck in the pattern buffer until the particle storm’s disruptive influence was over. It was theoretically possible to survive a lengthy stay in the buffer, but he wasn’t willing to try it for anything less than a life-or-death […]
{4.5/5} “You know anything about a lady blowing up a Blockbuster? Witnesses say she was dressed for laser tag.” Captain Marvel, released in 2019 Vers is a Kree soldier, dedicated to serving her commander and Supreme Intelligence, the AI that rules their society. She doesn’t have any memory before 6 years ago, though. When she […]
Here are all of the movies in this series, which stars Matt Damon as the title character. Except for The Bourne Legacy, which features Jeremy Renner as a different character similar to Bourne. I’ve seen all of them more than once. The first one is loosely based on the book by Robert Ludlum, and there […]
{4.5/5} “They’re mad at God, or fate, or Evan Pardonett for not protecting them from what everybody in Starfleet already knows — that the frontier isn’t romantic or poetic or glamorous. It’s just hard. Starfleet is just the easiest place to aim that anger, since they don’t want to aim it on themselves.” Star Trek: […]