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{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 […]
{5/5} “So why don’t you go do what you do best, me ol’ mucker? Step on some toes and upset people.” Murdoch Mysteries, season 2, aired in 2009 When a new dinosaur skeleton is unveiled, a murdered man is in its mouth. When Murdoch is injured Crabtree steps up to take his place as acting […]
{5/5} “The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone — anyone — feel a little better. After that, it’s all about the people that you let into your life.” Scrubs season 8, aired in 2009 Since Dr. Kelso resigned as chief of medicine, a replacement needed to […]
{4.5/5} “That’s what I like about you, Pee-wee. You’re normal.” Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, released in 2016 A motorcycle-riding actor named Joe comes into the diner where Pee-wee works and orders a milkshake. When the two of them get talking they realize they have some things in common. Joe invites Pee-wee to his birthday — in […]