what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “One of you is this cancer obsessive and the other one can’t face showing up at the hospital. Which is fine, I get it. But neither of you are what I need. You’re just wasting my time.” Tessa is 17 years old and dying of leukemia. She’s understandably angry, and the people around her […]
{5/5} “All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, […]
{4.5/5} “America is going to be so surprised at what they see” — Howie Mandel America’s Got Talent season 8, aired in 2013 As with previous seasons I watched the audition shows. Two new judges have joined Howie Mandel and Howard Stern. Mel B, best known for being one of the Spice Girls, has judged […]
{4.5/5} “I appreciate your initiative and can-do spirit but the driving thing has to end now.” Janie’s mom has to get herself clean of drugs so she leaves her with her dad. But Janie, 13 years old, has never met her dad before. Ethan is on tour with his band. He’s not sure Janie is […]
{4.5/5} “There’s nothing wrong with nepotism as long as you keep it within the family.” The One Percent was released in 2006. It’s a documentary about the huge gap between the rich and the poor in the US. The title refers to the fact that one percent of the people in the US control roughly […]
{4.5/5} “If we’re going to Virginia why don’t we drop by Fort Knox? I could fly a helicopter through the lobby and set it down right inside the vault.” Ethan Hunt is part of a team of covert operatives who are members of a top-secret organization called the IMF. On a mission in Prague, his […]
{4.5/5} “Your mother and I believed Krypton lost something precious — the element of choice, of chance. What if a child dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended? What if a child aspired to something greater? You were the embodiment of that belief, Kal.” Clark Kent is not an ordinary man. He […]
{5/5} “Somewhere out there is a lady who I think will never be a nun. Auf Wiedersehen, darling.” At the convent everyone likes Maria — except when she’s difficult. The Mother Superior decides to send Maria out into the world to be a governess, to see how she does at that. So Maria becomes a […]
{4.5/5} “They’re on the side of life — boring, old-fashioned, biological life; smelly, fallible and short-sighted, God knows, but real life. You’re ruled by your machines. You’re an evolutionary dead end. The trouble is that to take your mind off it you try to drag everybody else down there with you. The worst thing that […]
Here’s a good argument for outlawing tipping… Why tipping should be outlawed