what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “We… are the people who make sure things happen according to plan.” The Adjustment Bureau, released in 2011 David ran for the senate in New York but lost. On the night of the election he ran into an intriguing woman — a few months later he runs into her again. David finds out her […]
{4.5/5} “The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty — we all have it.” Dark Places, released in 2015 Libby was 8 years old when her parents and sisters were killed in their sleep. Her brother Ben has been sitting in jail for the last 28 years. A man named Lyle writes […]
{2.5/5} “Weren’t you a blonde when I came in?” Diamonds Are Forever, released in 1971 James Bond investigates a diamond smuggling ring operating in South Africa. He heads to Holland, though, because of intelligence that one of the smugglers is going to be there. He impersonates the smuggler, Franks, even wearing fake fingerprints thanks to […]
{4.5/5} “If your house in insured for $100 000 and a tornado carries it away, it carried away one house — it didn’t pick up every stick of furniture and destroy it in a separate incident. If that is what you are saying, well, then there is never any limit to our liability and that […]
{4.5/5} “Rent tended to be cheap out on the rim, despite being the only place where you could get uninterrupted views of the vast Martian plain — people preferred to live near the center, if they could afford it, so that they could see something human instead of the vast unchanging monotony of the world […]
{5/5} “I need you to go to the video store and get me anything with Viggo Somethingsen. I need white chocolate, strawberry seltzer, peppercorn brie, and a polaroid of the tomato plant that I planted last spring, because I’m worried it may have snails. Oh, and if you see that neighbour Lena from down the […]
{5/5} “Victoria, for your hand in marriage I’d cross the wall and I’d bring you back that fallen star.” Stardust, released in 2007 Tristan goes through the wall that separates England from Stormhold. He finds that a fallen star has taken the form of a woman who calls herself Yvaine. Meanwhile Lamia, a witch who […]
{4.5/5} “Tension and anticipation filled the cockpit around Ghemor, almost as though the Ascendants in the vessels spread out in space behind her had propelled a wave of desperation ahead of them. She understood that many of them believed her, but even if some didn’t, she knew that they all wanted to believe. That was […]
{5/5} “I’m not sure that I agree with ya 100% on your policework there, Lou.” Fargo, released in 1996 Jerry is a car salesman who’s in need of some money. He comes up with a scheme to have some less than savoury characters kidnap his wife. His wife’s wealthy parents will pay the ransom and […]
I went to FASS’s annual performance, this one titled “Who’s Afraid of the FASS?” FASS stands for Faculty, Alumni, Staff and Students. It’s an organization at the University of Waterloo that reconstitutes itself each year to put on a musical. This year’s theme was that we were watching a TV show investigating various claims of […]