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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4/5} “Hold my horse.” Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, released in 2023 Indiana Jones’s friend Basil was obsessed with the antikythera, built by Archimedes. The two of them took half of it from the Nazis in the old days. Now Basil’s daughter, Helena, has taken it from Indy and intends to sell it […]

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

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{4/5} “‘Why do you always get to read the top story, Morbo?’ ‘Because viewers trust a deep male voice, and huge throbbing forehead veins.’” Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, released in 2009 Everyone’s having fun at Mars Vegas, which is owned by Amy’s parents. But Fry finds he can hear people’s thoughts, until he […]

Futurama: Bender’s Big Score

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{4/5} “Finally, I get to save the Earth with deadly laser instead of deadly slide shows.” — Al Gore’s head Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, released in 2007 After Professor Farnsworth falls prey to an email scam, he finds that aliens have taken over his company. Bender has downloaded a virus so he now obeys the […]

The Addams Family 2

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{4/5} “I didn’t want to be an Addams. I struggled with feeling different. But now I realize that being different is the most Addams-y thing there is.” The Addams Family 2, released in 2021 The Addams family decides to go on a road trip. A lawyer comes to tell them that Wednesday may have been […]

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

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{4/5} “If you want to be a good archaeologist, you’ve got to get out of the library.” Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, released in 2008 A Russian named Irina Spalko gets away with the corpse of a Roswell alien from Area 51, and Indiana Jones barely gets away with his life. […]

I’ll Follow You Down

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{4/5} “Every time I try to commit to this life, something tells me that I shouldn’t.” I’ll Follow You Down aka Continuum, released in 2013 When Gabriel doesn’t return from a conference, Marika gets worried and calls the hotel. He’s still checked in — he’s not in his room but his stuff is there. Her […]

Infinity Chamber

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{4/5} “I don’t know what you think I’ve done, or who you think I am, but it’s a mistake.” Infinity Chamber, released in 2016 Frank wakes up not knowing where he is — he was shot in the back by a stun gun. He’s been detained for some reason by the ISN and he can’t […]

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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{4/5} “There’s something I should have told you.” Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, released in 2023 While Scott Lang was gone for 5 years during the blip, his daughter Cassie was investigating the quantum realm. When the Langs and the Van Dynes get together to talk about it, Janet is about to warn them about […]

Avatar: The Way of Water

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{4/5} “‘When I met your father… I tried to kill him.’ ‘It was love at first sight.’” Avatar: The Way of Water, released in 2022 Jake and Neytiri have 4 kids and have a happy life on Pandora. Then humans return to the planet and start battling the Na’vi again. Colonel Quaritch is dead, but […]

Children of Memory

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4/5} “Heorest Holt was forced to admit that nobody had thought it through properly back on Earth, because you couldn’t have, not really. Not being as ignorant as they had been of what was waiting out among the stars. And a lot of people had desperately bought into the idea of pre-prepared Edens because what […]