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{2.5/5} “Yeah, we’ve got a lot to talk about.” Time Trap, released in 2018 Professor Hopper is looking for his parents, who disappeared decades ago. He finds their van, and goes looking in a cave. A couple of days later a pair of his students and their friends go looking for him. When they find […]
{4.5/5} “I must have the sun.” Ocean’s Eight, released in 2018 Debbie Ocean, Danny’s sister, plans a heist while in prison. When she gets out she puts together a team of eight to pull it off. During the annual Met Gala they will steal priceless diamonds off the neck of a famous actress. One of […]
{4.5/5} “What is going to happen when we meet up with an alien race that doesn’t have two arms and two legs and doesn’t think like we do, doesn’t organize concepts the way we do?” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rosetta by Dave Stern, published in 2006 The Enterprise comes across aliens who make it clear […]
Here are all the movies in this series, which stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. I’ve seen the first 5 more than once. Mission: Impossible 1996 -> 4.5/5 Mission: Impossible II 2000 -> 3.5/5 Mission: Impossible III 2006 -> 5/5 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2011 -> 5/5 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2015 -> […]
{5/5} “Why is he running in circles?” Mission: Impossible — Fallout, released in 2018 A group remaining from the Syndicate calling themselves “The Apostles” is planning a nuclear attack. Ethan Hunt gets his hands on the plutonium they were going to use but he saves Luther’s life instead of hanging onto it. Because the CIA […]
{4.5/5} “It’s a sad truth, and one with no consolation to it, that someone must always be the last casualty of a war. All too often it’s an even more unfortunate truth that the last casualty of a war occurs after the armistice has been signed.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Indistinguishable from Magic […]
{5/5} “My targ won’t even recognize me.” Star Trek: Enterprise season 4, aired in 2003-04 A group of genetically engineered humans has commandeered a Klingon ship and rescued the man they think of as their father, Arik Soong. Meanwhile, when T’Pol returns to Vulcan she finds her ex-betrothed still wants to marry her. When Trip […]
{5/5} “Are you OK to drive? A minute ago you were dead.” Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, released in 2015 Ethan Hunt has been pursuing a terrorist organization known as the Syndicate. But the Syndicate has discovered his identity. Meanwhile, the IMF is dissolved and the head of the CIA is after Hunt and doesn’t […]
I was recently in Washington State, where we made several excursions to visit scenic areas. The state is separated into a western and eastern part by the Cascade mountains. Chelan is in the eastern part. Chelan this is a city around a long lake with low mountains all around we went up a road that […]
{4.5/5} “‘Every day, Appa is looking out the window. You know what he looking for?’ ‘Illegally parked Japanese cars?’” Kim’s Convenience season 1, aired in 2016 Mr. and Mrs. Kim came from Korea years ago and they own a convenience store in Toronto. Mrs. Kim sometimes volunteers at their church. Their son Sung was kicked out […]