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The directors in this list, like the ones in part 1, have a good chance at bringing new amazing stories to the screen. Each of these 10 directors has directed between 1 and 3 masterpieces. J.J. Abrams In TV land Abrams created Alias, Lost, and Fringe. Masterpieces Mission: Impossible III Star Trek (2009) Great movies […]
Sometimes you don’t necessarily pay attention to the director of a movie, but there are some directors who have a habit of directing great movies — so you might want to know who they are. Each of these 10 directors has directed 4 masterpieces. There may be some off-by-one errors in my ratings for movies […]
{4.5/5} “You get off the boat for the first time and you realize you’re literally on another planet — the air smells different, the water tastes different, the moon’s the wrong size and it rises too fast… After a few weeks or months people get disoriented on some deep level. So they turn around and […]
{5/5} “Suddenly I was running a fully functional family practice, and most of my patients were people who had looked deeply into the Reality of the Spin and confronted it with courage and resolve… Before long I began to consider myself one of them, part of the work of extending human influence into the raging […]
{5/5} “All these facts and opinions look the same. I can’t tell them apart.” Inside Out, released in 2015 Riley is an 11-year-old girl. Inside her head, her emotions try to keep things under control. Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger all have their role to play. When Riley moves to a new city she […]
I have enjoyed watching America’s Got Talent in the past but I’m not sure I will watch it in the future. Although I realized that other reality shows aren’t very close to reality, I assumed that on this show what they were showing us resembled reality fairly closely. But it seems large parts of the […]
{3.5/5} “There’s a guy like me on every mining operation all over this system.” Outland, released in 1981 O’Neil is a marshall who’s just been assigned to the mining colony on Io. Soon after he arrives his wife leaves him, telling him that she thinks their son should grow up on Earth. After a couple […]
You don’t see photos from the top of the Giza pyramids every day. Because of how many people were killed climbing up, they made it illegal. But occasionally people do it anyway. Here are some amazing photos from 3 Russian photographers: Secret Photos from Atop the Pyramids
{5/5} “Not everyone is fortunate enough to understand their own talent. But you know yours. Well, use it — for your family, and for your country.” Shackleton, aired in 2002 It’s 1914 and war seems imminent. Ernest Shackleton has made one journey to the Antarctic but he had to abandon his goal of the South […]
{4.5/5} “‘I think I see a scenario where we both get out of here with acceptable losses.’ ‘What exactly is your version of acceptable?’ ‘Breaks and punctures, possible loss of a limb, no major organ damage.’” Chuck season 1, aired in 2007-08 Chuck works at a big box store fixing computers, and tries to escape […]