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{4.5/5} “Someone’s got to return the van after he kills you all.” Mr. Right, released in 2015 Martha found out her boyfriend was cheating on her, so she’s pretty upset. She meets a funny guy in a store and they go on a date. They find that they’re clicking well together. He says he’s a […]
{4/5} “I thought she was with you.” Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, released in 2016 Batman and Superman have been noticing each other’s exploits, and they each see the flaws in the other. When Lex Luthor gets his hands on some Kryptonite, Bruce Wayne decides to steal it. Meanwhile, Lex has also gotten his […]
{5/5} “I’ll tell you this much: I am going to ask Father Flood to preach a sermon on the dangers of giddiness. I now see that giddiness is the eighth deadly sin. A giddy girl is every bit as evil as a slothful man, and the noise she makes is a lot worse.” Brooklyn, released […]
{5/5} “They’re just going round and round.” The Truman Show, released in 1998 Truman is an insurance salesman whose dream is to visit Fiji. But he can’t leave the island his town is on — his dad died in a boating accident when he was a kid. Unbeknownst to Truman, his whole life has been […]
{4.5/5} “The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you’re the pilot.” Cashback, released in 2006 Ben’s in art school and wants to be a painter. Ben and Suzy break up, leaving Ben devastated. He can’t sleep, so he starts working a night shift at a supermarket. Each of his colleagues […]
{4.5/5} “We’re human, after all. We’ve all got our little quirks.” The Garden of Words, released in 2013 Akizuki is a high school student who dreams of becoming a shoemaker. He likes to sit in the park when it’s raining, which is where he meets Yukino. She’s a mysterious young woman who eats chocolate and […]
{2.5/5} “‘Who’s funeral is this?’ ‘Yours.’” Live and Let Die, released in 1973 When three agents are killed, James Bond is sent to New York to investigate. M believes the murders are all connected to Dr. Kanaga of the Caribbean island of San Monique. Bond later travels to San Monique and New Orleans in pursuit […]
{5/5} “The end of the world is speeding up — it is happening earlier in every life. That implies that the cause is changing, and what, we must ask, is the cause of change?” The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, published in 2014 When Harry dies he finds himself back where […]
In the last few months I’ve tried watching a few shows that I decided not to continue with. They’re not bad — in fact, they’re good. They’re watchable, if there’s nothing better to watch — the point is, there are better things to watch. Heroes Reborn — They tried very hard to make this an […]
{4.5/5} “You-Gotta-Believe Me. That is, mind control. Weak, social forms of YGBM drove all human history. For more than a hundred years, the goal of irresistible persuasion had been a topic of academic study. For thirty years it had been a credible technological goal. And for ten, some version of it had been feasible in […]