what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “It’s a novel about how complicated life is. Sort of.” Chinese Puzzle, released in 2013 Xavier’s novels are doing well, but his personal life isn’t so great. Wendy, his wife of 10 years, has left him. Then she decides to move from Paris to New York — and take the kids with her. He’s […]
I went to the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s concert “Scheherazade.” Usually when I go hear an orchestra live I’m going to hear at least one piece that I already know. This time I didn’t know any of the pieces — but with brilliant composers and a terrific orchestra, you can’t go wrong. It was a concert of […]
{4.5/5} “Sometimes you gotta get through your fear to see the beauty on the other side.” The Good Dinosaur, released in 2015 Arlo and his family are farmers — they’re also dinosaurs. His mom and dad built a silo to keep their food away from scavengers. When they were done, they put their marks on […]
{4.5/5} “‘Because you were born at a turn of light,’ the dragon said. ‘As such, you belong to the Verge as well as Marrowdell. The Verge is where I am from. It is–‘ As he paused to search for words, she waited, her heart hammering in her chest, for what he told her was strange […]
{4/5} “I believe that you will find all of your answers… and I will be there when you do.” The X-Files season 10, aired in 2016 Skinner asks Mulder and Scully to return to the FBI and the X-Files. They meet someone who’s the opposite of a werewolf — he was a creature, a man […]
{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 […]