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{4/5} An aging illusionist travels from town to town by train to put on shows, but sometimes there are very few people in the audience. People are more interested in seeing rock bands. He meets a young woman who’s working at a hotel he’s staying at and they form a bond. She sneaks away to […]
{4.5/5} “It’s fear that makes us lose our self-awareness.” Marjane is a young girl in Iran when the Shah is overthrown. Everyone is hopeful that the new government will be much better — unfortunately it turns out to be much worse. With the heavy restrictions on what you can say and do, and the war […]
Here are 3 different groups commenting on movies in an interesting way. Rifftrax The people who made the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 are still doing the same thing except they’re not on TV anymore. They make sound files that you can play while you’re playing a movie — each one typically costs $3.99. […]
{4.5/5} “We spared no expense.” Alan, Ellie, and Ian are three scientists who are invited to give their expert opinions on a new theme park that’s getting ready to open. To their surprise, the theme park has real live dinosaurs in it — made from dinosaur DNA found in amber mixed with modern amphibian DNA. […]
{4/5} “You’d think they’d never seen a girl and a cat on a broom before.” Kiki is a young witch in training — that means, at age 13, she leaves home to live somewhere else for a year. She finds a town where the people initially seem unfriendly but she eventually finds some friendlier residents. […]
{4.5/5} “We hide from the Shing. Also we hide from what we were. Do you see that, Falk? We live well in the houses — well enough. But we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars, and now we dare not go a hundred miles from […]
{4/5} “No sudden movements. And no questions for tonight. The first night is always the most difficult.” Peter and Lorna decide to infiltrate a cult in order to expose it — Maggie, the woman the cult was formed around, claims to be from the future. Every time they go see her they have to go […]
{4/5} “You can experience nature’s contrasts as struggle and dissent, or as unity and harmony.” Elderly married couple Hermann and Anna don’t want to live without each other. When Anna gets sick, they decide to transfer their minds into younger bodies. The young people, Apolain and Sarah, have supposedly consented to this act — their […]
{4.5/5} “They looked at her. She had heard that farborns would meet one’s eyes straight on, but did not put the story to test. At least none of them stopped her; her clothing was not unlike theirs, and some of them, she saw in her quick flicking glances, were not very much darker-skinned than men. […]
{4.5/5} “Still trying to figure out if you’re supposed to kill me or give me a pep talk.” Like Jason Bourne, Aaron is part of a top-secret program run by the CIA. Unfortunately that program is being shut down — which means all operatives are killed. Like Bourne, Aaron is smart, fast — and he […]