what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
Here are what I think are the best soundtracks of the year, along with runner ups and honourable mentions. I’ve got a tie for winner twice, in 2009 and 1989. I stopped at 1977 because I don’t have anything for 1976. Prior to that notable soundtracks include The Pink Panther, The Godfather, The Good, the […]
My favourite actor is Harrison Ford. I’ve seen all of his movies all the way back to The Empire Strikes Back which was in 1980. He only films about one movie a year but he’s done an extraordinarily good job at picking movies — in 33 years he only made one movie that was truly bad. […]
{4.5/5} “So it was a time machine, if kind of a useless one. Unless you could find a way to reverse it — go up fifteen years and come back with the day’s stock quotations. Or a list of who had won the World Series every year in between. But simply putting yourself in the […]
{4.5/5} “The recruiting office was a small storefront in a nondescript strip mall; there was a state liquor store on one side of it and a tattoo parlor on the other. Depending on what order you went into each, you could wake up the next morning in some serious trouble.” John Perry joins the Colonial […]
I went hiking for a week in Algonquin Provincial Park. This vacation was similar to the one I took last year, to Killarney. What’s the difference between the two parks? Killarney has more rocks and Algonquin has more trees. They’re both beautiful places. I hiked most of the day trails — there are other longer […]
{5/5} “Clear skies with a chance of debris.” Ryan is a medical engineer who’s doing a spacewalk high above the Earth. Matt is the astronaut in charge of the mission. When some debris is accidentally sent their way, they’re cut off from the shuttle and have to make their way back. The debris leads to […]
{4.5/5} “He was a hunter, I was a gatherer. It was quite the scandal.” While their neighbours have died, Eep’s family has survived due to her father Grug’s strength and his rules for keeping them safe — they do the same things every day. But Eep wants more to life than just being alive, and […]
{3.5/5} “Just think of me as your bodyguard.” — a small Japanese woman, to Wolverine Logan has left the Wolverine behind and vowed to never hurt anyone again. But when he comes across hunters who shot a bear and left it in pain, he’s ready for a fight. He’s interrupted by a mysterious Japanese woman […]
{4/5} “You know, you really should announce your weapons after you fire them, Mr. Gru.” Gru has given up his villainous ways and he’s now developing a line of jellies and jams, with the help of his minions. But a secret lab has disappeared and the AVL (Anti-Villain League) wants Gru to find it. The […]
{3/5} “I don’t get vests. What, is it winter in your torso but summer in your arms?” Flint Lockwood has a chance to work with his idol Chester V. Chester V tells him that he has to go home because his machine, the FLDSMDFR, is still running — and it’s producing dangerous food/animal hybrids that could […]