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{4/5} “Don’t laugh, I’m being cool.” Chappie, released in 2015 Crime has gotten so bad in Johannesburg that they’ve decided to try something completely different — a robotic police force. When Scout 22 is hit by a grenade he’s sent to be crushed — but he’s rescued by Deon, who’s going to transfers his brand […]
{4.5/5} “And yet, whoever the ark-makers were, they, too, had failed. One of their arks had crashed, the crew killed, its cargo of lifeforms never released. If something could defeat the ark-makers, what chance did Quintaglios have against the fate that awaited them?” Foreigner by Robert J. Sawyer, published in 1994 Novato is exploring the […]
{4.5/5} “We’re trying to save our entire race! It’s only knowledge that will let us do that. We have to shed our superstitions and fears the way a snake sheds its skin. We can’t cower in the face of what we might discover.” Fossil Hunter by Robert J. Sawyer, published in 1993 Afsan had convinced […]
{4.5/5} “All that time in undercover. Pretending to be someone else. Telling lies like they’re the truth. Having to believe they are the truth. Sometimes I wonder… if I can really believe anything you say.” Motive season 2, aired in 2014 What would make a person who seems normal murder someone? It doesn’t make sense […]
{4.5/5} “I did it myself because I got tired of waiting for someone to do it for me.” Tomorrowland, released in 2015 NASA is dismantling a launchpad and when they do Casey’s dad will be out of a job. Casey sneaks out at night to sabotage the dismantling equipment. After a brief visit to jail, […]
{4.5/5} “‘We should wait for backup.’ ‘Yeah, we should.’” Motive season 1, released in 2013 Angie and her partner Oscar are detectives who work homicides. They do whatever it takes to solve their cases, ignoring rules occasionally. Betty is the medical examiner they work with, who is always coming from a date when she shows […]
{4/5} “In your last letter you questioned whether it’s my responsibility to join this fight. The truth is, we all became responsible the day we created the Cylons.” Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, aired in 2012 William Adama has joined the war against the Cylons as a pilot. After boarding the Battlestar Galactica he finds […]
{3.5/5} “What I’m about to tell you, Nic, you may find a bit disturbing.” The Signal, released in 2014 Nic and Jonah are helping their friend Haley move across the country. While they’re on the road they notice that a hacker has gotten into their computer. They — capable of hacking, themselves — trace the […]
{4.5/5} “Some of the moons moved quickly across the sky, others took several tens of nights to cross from horizon to horizon. All went through phases, waxing and waning between the extremes of showing a fulling lit circular shape and appearing as simply a black circle covering the stars. What did it all mean?” Far-Seer […]
{2/5} “Time is the single most precious commodity in the universe.” Jupiter Ascending, released in 2015 Jupiter Jones works cleaning houses. One day she’s stunned to find out that people from another planet are trying to kill her. She’s even more stunned to find out that she’s the reincarnation of a queen who lived for […]