One Day

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

{5/5} “If I could give you just one gift, do you know what it would be? Confidence. That or a scented candle.” Emma and Dexter went to the same school and ran into each other a few times. On graduation day they almost get together but decide to be friends. Dexter attains fame and fortune […]

Angel & Faith 1: Live Through This

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

{4.5/5} “Now I get it. We get punched so many times our faces are one big bruise, so we blend in with the night. Best plan ever.” Angel and Faith are working together, helping the helpless. Angel is trying to bring you-know-who (I don’t want to spoil it if you don’t know) back from the […]

Battlefield Earth

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

“I really look forward to getting back home where you can walk around without a suit or mask, where the gravity gives you something to push against, where everything is a beautiful purple and there’s not one bit of this green stuff. My papa used to tell me that if I wasn’t a good Psychlo […]

Card games

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

A while ago I talked about the type of board games I’ve been playing in the last 7 or 8 years or so. Before I discovered those games I played a lot of card games, and I still play cards on occasion. The number one rule in any real card game is you have to […]

Stargate Atlantis (season 3)

Posted on August 9th, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{4.5/5} “Nothing renews your appreciation for the military like the threat of invasion from life-sucking aliens.” In “The Return” they discover a ship going by that has Ancients on it — when the Ancients return to Atlantis, they decide to keep it. In “Common Ground” Sheppard is imprisoned next door to a Wraith — they […]

X2: X-Men United

Posted on August 7th, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{4.5/5} “Have you tried… not being a mutant?” A mutant gets extremely close to the President of the United States, an event that turns even more people against mutants. Stryker is a military scientist who’s trying to get rid of mutants — and although Wolverine has forgotten, Stryker is a figure from his past. When […]

Movies that had the wrong title

Posted on August 7th, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

Alice in Wonderland I’m talking about the Tim Burton movie from 2010. The Alice in Wonderland story is a very well known story (written by Lewis Carroll) that’s been filmed many times. But this isn’t that story — this is a sequel that takes place when Alice is a young woman and about to be […]

When do you get a shiny new robot body?

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

Possibly sooner than you think. Scientists are working on it, and in particular some Russian scientists think it can be done by 2045. The head of the project, Dmitry Itskov, is asking the world’s richest people to consider financing the project. The ultimate goal is to transfer human consciousness into an artificial brain, allowing you […]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1: Freefall

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

{4.5/5} “This is what I’m talking about, Buffy. You don’t realize how the destruction of the seed affected everyone. You only think about how it affected you. All the Slayers, even the demons with magical mojo. You all got to keep your power because it was inside of you. But everyone else got cut off […]

The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway

Posted on July 31st, 2012 by Dave Switzer  |  No Comments »

{4/5} “I know you are but what am I?” Pee-wee would like to be able to fly like his friend Pterri (the pterodactyl). His friend Sergio hooks up cable so he can connect to the internet on his computer. And his friends Miss Yvonne and Cowboy Curtis like each other but are too shy to […]