what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “To say of a man that he was sailing to Sarantium was to say that his life was on the cusp of change: poised for emergent greatness, brilliance, fortune — or else at the very precipice of a final and absolute fall as he met something too vast for his capacity.” The emperor summons […]
This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. At the same time as these young people are playing their instruments they’re marching in such a way as to create stunning moving images when seen from above. The precision is mind boggling, and must take a lot of practise. Every routine they do […]
{5/5} “I am nobody’s little weasel.” Amelie’s mother died when she was young and her father wasn’t very sociable so she spent a lot of time using her imagination. She’s now a waitress — she has some interesting coworkers and customers. She finds a box of knick knacks hidden in her wall and vows to […]
{4.5/5} “Why do you refuse to talk?” George is a big silent movie star. Peppy bumps into George and they get their picture taken with her kissing him on the cheek — this picture is on the front page of the paper the next day. Peppy wants to be an actress, and she starts by […]
{5/5} “There is no spoon.” Neo is a hacker who knows that something’s wrong with the world. He’s approached by some mysterious people, Trinity and Morpheus, who say they can tell him the truth about the world — if he’s ready to hear it. The truth is that he’s been living in the Matrix, a […]
{4.5/5} “There’s too much at stake to let your unfiltered thoughts leave this station.” It’s the future. A race known as the Formics attacked Earth but Earth eventually defeated them. Another war is inevitable, so children with great tactical minds are taken to the orbiting Battle School to have their skills honed. A brilliant tactician […]
I went to the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s performance of “John Williams and Spielberg.” What this means, of course, is that they played the music of John Williams that he composed for movies that Steven Spielberg directed. As I’ve noted recently, Williams is one of my favourite movie composers. Not all of his great scores are for Spielberg […]
{4.5/5} “There are four types of people who join the military. For some, it’s family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next you have those who just need a job. Than there’s the kind who want the legal means of killing other people.” A sniper kills five people, seemingly at random. They track him […]
{4/5} “If you lived with a secret, and the secret meant that you must always lie and be alone and you’d always lived that way, and yet you longed for change — what would you do?” Clara and Eleanor, mother and daughter, have been vampires for 200 years. They have to drink the blood of humans, so […]
{4.5/5} “People don’t like to admit that they made a mistake.” Betty Anne works as a waitress but she’s also back at school studying law. Her brother Kenny was convicted of murder but she believes he’s innocent and she’s the only one who can help him. Betty Anne and Kenny have had a difficult life […]