what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
I recently played the board game Clue. I’m not sure I’d ever played before — if I had, it was decades ago. In my mind for some reason I imagined it would be a fun game, but it’s not particularly. Kids might like it, and that’s fine, and it’s certainly not close to being the […]
{4.5/5} “A metropolitan mind may be less susceptible to extended juvenile self-regard.” Jane Austen wants to be an author, but she’s led a sheltered life in the country. She doesn’t want to marry any man who asks her just because he has some money. Tom Lefroy comes from the city to stay with her family […]
{4.5/5} “Did he just throw my cat out the window?” An author visits the Grand Budapest Hotel in 1968 and stumbles upon Moustafa, the owner of the hotel. Moustafa proceeds to tell him the story of how he became the owner. It starts in 1932 when he became the lobby boy, taken under the wing […]
{4.5/5} “You have the heart of a chief and the soul of a dragon.” Hiccup and Toothless explore new lands while his friends engage in dragon racing. Hiccup comes across dragon trappers who reveal that someone named Drago Bludvist has a dragon army. Meanwhile Stoick has decided to retire and make Hiccup chief of the […]
{4.5/5} “When did everything… get so strange?” Emily is participates in jump rope competitions, and she won the most recent regional competition at her school. But no one in her family was there to cheer her on, even though she left them all post-it notes as reminders. She believes that her parents have become not-so-good […]
{5/5} “My name’s Hiccup. Great name, I know. But, it’s not the worst. Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls. Like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn’t do that.” Hiccup is a Viking. He lives in Berk, a small hillside village whose people fish and herd sheep. But occasionally fierce dragons come […]
{5/5} “The advances of science — which is supposed to expand our knowledge of the universe — will, if not carefully controlled, destroy the world as we know it… Our technological ambitions have not only driven us to the brink of catastrophe, the catastrophe has already begun.” FBI Agent Olivia Dunham joins the Fringe Division, […]
{5/5} “What I am about to tell you sounds crazy. But you have to listen to me. Your very lives depend on it. You see, this isn’t the first time.” An alien race called the Mimics has invaded Earth. Major Cage, whose specialty is communications and not fighting, is forced to participate in an attack […]
{4.5/5} “This corn is like an angel.” Dan is an advice columnist, and he has three daughters — Jane, Cara, and Lilly. He doesn’t want his oldest daughter to drive, he doesn’t want his middle daughter to date boys, and he’s happy his youngest daughter is still young. Dan takes his daughters to a family […]
{4.5/5} “Agrippina had seen Gaul; she knew what the future would hold. From this beginning the roads would spread across the country like ivy over a wall, bifurcating and firing off their straight-line segments, until every corner of the land was reached. Messages would flash along the roads fast as thought, and the next time […]