what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “I wouldn’t put much truck into what that Mr. Briggs told you. He isn’t quite the full tin of biscuits.” Murdoch Mysteries season 6, aired in 2013 Darcy refuses to grant Julia a divorce — Julia and William decide to wait. George kisses Emily in a moment when he thinks they might not survive. […]
{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, […]
{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 […]
{4/5} “‘I have never failed on a mission, Commander. Any mission.’ ‘In that case, Major, one of us is bound to end up gravely disappointed, because neither have I.’” The Spy Who Loved Me, released in 1977 A British nuclear submarine has disappeared — they believe the Russians are behind it. They send their best […]
{5/5} “It’s true. The whole world does have paid maternity leave, except for the 2 countries too poor to afford it — Papua New Guinea and this place [the US].” Where to Invade Next, released in 2015 Michael Moore visits countries around the world that have some ideas he believes Americans should consider adopting. He […]
For many years I boycotted the movies of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwartzenegger. I believed — and I still believe — that their movies, on the whole, were detrimental to society. The extreme violence is not good for anyone to watch, and I wanted to make some sort of protest of its existence. To watch […]
{4.5/5} “Life isn’t some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and all your insipid dreams magically come true. So let it go.” Zootopia, released in 2016 Judy Hopps is a determined bunny — she’s the first bunny to graduate from the police academy. Assigned to parking in Zootopia, she inserts herself into a […]
This list continues from part 6. Here are some actors who starred in movies and later in a TV show, and I started watching that TV show because of them. Geena Davis I haven’t seen Davis in that many movies, but she particularly wowed me in A League of Their Own. It was because of […]
{5/5} “All families were a composite of stories, and yet her own, it seemed, comprised more layers of tellings and retellings than most. There were so many of them, for one thing, and they all liked to talk and write and wonder. Living as they had at Loeanneth, a house rich with its own history, […]
This list continues from part 5. Drew Barrymore Barrymore first wowed audiences as a kid in E.T. but has done much more interesting work as an adult. She also directed Whip It. Masterpiece 50 First Dates Great movies Charlie’s Angels Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Ever After Everybody’s Fine The Wedding Singer Whip It Good […]