SF & fantasy TV shows
Here’s an updated version of my list of science fiction and fantasy TV shows I’ve watched. 5/5 Angel 5 5 5 5 5 5 Babylon 5 4.5 5 5 5 4.5 4.8 Battlestar Galactica 5 5 5 5 5 […]
Penn & Teller: Fool Us (season 2)
{4.5/5} “The first rule of magic is: you never do you same trick twice… So we’re gonna.” Penn & Teller: Fool Us season 2, aired in 2015 Even though it’s been 4 years since season 1, this show is back — with more magic and more fun. Penn and Teller, even with their encyclopedic knowledge […]
Pitch Perfect 2
{4.5/5} “Your sweat smells like cinnamon.” Pitch Perfect 2, released in 2015 The Barden Bellas have been shut down due to an unfortunate incident in front of the President. Their only hope is to win the world a capella championship in Copenhagen. But Americans have never won, and the reigning champion German team is fantastic. […]
Zoe’s Tale
{4.5/5} “Actually, Enzo had a perfectly good reason to be utterly terrified of Hickory and Dickory, who were already vaguely suspicious of him and would happily cycle him out an airlock if he did anything stupid with me. But there was no reason to let him know that yet. Good rule of thumb: When your […]
KW Symphony’s “Beethoven Marathon”
The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony is celebrating its 70th season. To kick it off, they had 3 Beethoven concerts over this weekend. All of the pieces played during these concerts, except for “O Canada,” were by Ludwig van Beethoven. The symphony is conducted by Edwin Outwater. Beethoven wrote 5 piano concertos — all 5 were played during […]
Scrubs (season 3)
{5/5} “A-a-a-anyway, something weird’s been going on with me lately: I have been sleeping more, I’ve been drinking alone… less… I’ve even started complimenting people.” Scrubs season 3, aired in 2003-04 Elliot changes her image and tries to make a long distance relationship work, JD dates Danni who happens to be Jordan’s sister, and Turk […]
Thunderball
{2.5/5} “I thought I wore a hat when I came in.” Thunderball, released in 1965 Emilio Largo is now number 2 at SPECTRE. He has an audacious plan to get millions of dollars out of NATO — steal two of their nuclear weapons and hold them for ransom. He steals the weapons, and James Bond […]
The Last Colony
{4.5/5} “Humans — the few who knew the story anyway, — naturally regarded Boutin as a traitor, a man whose plan to topple the Colonial Union would have caused the slaughter of billions of humans. The Obin equally and naturally regarded him as one of their great racial heroes, a Prometheus figure who gave them […]
The Age of Adaline
{4.5/5} “‘Tell me something I can hold on to forever and never let go.’ ‘Let go.’” The Age of Adaline, released in 2015 Adaline Bowman doesn’t age, so she has to move every few years, change her name, and restart her life. The FBI caught up with her one time, wanting to run tests on […]
Goldfinger
{4/5} “This isn’t a personal vendetta, 007. It’s an assignment, like any other. And if you can’t treat it as such, coldly and objectively, 008 can replace you.” Goldfinger, released in 1964 Bond is assigned to figure out how Auric Goldfinger is smuggling gold between countries. When Goldfinger kills a woman Bond was involved with, […]