Parks and Recreation (season 1)

Posted on December 15th, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  1 Comment »

{4.5/5} “This is where the rubber of government meets the road of actual human beings.” Leslie is the deputy director of the Parks and Recreation department in Pawnee, Indiana. When she discovers a pit that’s been abondoned she vows to turn it into a park. Ann, a nurse and the girlfriend of a man who fell […]

Skyfall

Posted on December 11th, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{5/5} “What did you expect, an exploding pen?” A hard drive is stolen from MI6 that has on it a list of agents embedded in terrorist organizations around the world. James Bond chased the person who stole the hard drive and is wrestling with him on top of a train when another agent has them […]

Grosse Pointe Blank

Posted on December 6th, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{5/5} “They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they’ve all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? ‘I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How’ve you been?’” Martin is a professional killer. Initially […]

Before Sunrise

Posted on December 5th, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{4/5} “Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you’re married. Only your marriage doesn’t have that same energy that it used to have, y’know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you’ve met in your life and what might have happened if you’d […]

Mystic River

Posted on December 3rd, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{5/5} “The reality is we’re still 11 year old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped.” When Jimmy, Dave, and Sean were kids they wrote their names in wet cement. An official-looking guy caught them and scolded them — he then told Dave to get in his […]

God, the Devil and Bob (season 1)

Posted on December 2nd, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{4.5/5} “Some mornings you don’t feel very evil but you get out of bed every day whether you like it or not and you destroy souls because… that’s your job.” In “Date from Hell” the Devil dates Bob’s daughter — of course, Bob is the only one who knows it’s the Devil. In “The Devil’s […]

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Posted on December 2nd, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{5/5} “I have a macaroni on my head!” Flint is an inventor, but his inventions don’t work out the way he originally intended. One day he invents a machine that can turn water into food. The machine is accidentally sent into the clouds, and it starts raining food. The town embraces their new weather phenomenon, […]

Mary and Max

Posted on December 1st, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{5/5} “When I was young, I invented an invisible friend called Mr. Ravioli. My psychiatrist says I don’t need him anymore, so he just sits in the corner and reads.” Mary is an eight-year-old girl in Australia who picks Max’s name out of a New York phone book and writes him a letter. Mary has a […]

Men in Black 3

Posted on November 30th, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{4/5} “A miracle is what seems impossible but happens anyway.” Boris the Animal breaks out of prison on the Moon and then goes back in time to kill the man who shot off his arm — Agent K. When Agent J realizes that the timeline has changed he also goes back in time to try […]

World changing ideas and innovation

Posted on November 30th, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

This web site has some really cool ideas on it — both things that are fun and things that will help make the world a better place. From an exoskeleton to help paralyzed people walk again to 10 steps for improving capitalism to an index of difference-making nonprofit organizations, these are ideas that are worth […]