what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4/5} “Mission failure imminent. Please record your last words.” Lightyear, released in 2022 Buzz Lightyear’s ship gets stranded on a planet with giant vines that try to strangle you. He and his team take a year to gather the resources on the planet that they need in order to fix their ship. His first test […]
{4.5/5} “After the objects came on board, everyone’s mood has lifted noticeably, but to them it’s something special. To us, the objects are like an artificial postcard from Earth. To them, they’re a postcard from the future.” The Employees: a workplace novel of the twenty-second century by Olga Ravn, published in 2020 Some objects from […]
{5/5} “I found the new one. She stabbed me, so I think she has potential.” The Old Guard, released in 2020 Andy heads a team of 4 — they rescue good guys, and kill bad guys. Now they’re going to South Sudan, to rescue a group of captured students. The whole team is killed. But […]
{4.5/5} “But as long as I’m breathing, I swear I’ll never lose the hope that lies just beyond the horizon, the unknown that calls us to empathy, not hate.” Star Trek: Year Five — Odyssey’s End by Jackson Landing & Collin Kelly, Brandon Easton, and Jody Holiser, published in 2020 Captain James T. Kirk and […]
{4.5/5} “Some of us still remember what Vok did to our world in the Before Time, how they all but destroyed our civilization, forcing us to waste millenia clawing our way back from the wreckage. If not for Vok, we’d be more advanced than your Federation by now, or the Klingons or the Romulans. We […]
{4/5} “You’re only using the other worlds to apply special skills, do you understand? If you fall for the temptation you can invite contradiction, chaos… You could die, or far worse.” Everything Everywhere All at Once, released in 2022 Evelyn runs a laundromat, she looks after her father, and she’s planning a Chinese New Year’s […]
{5/5} “We happen to be in a little bit of a feud. A big feud, actually!” — Rogelio, about Britney Spears Jane the Virgin season 2, aired in 2015-16 Jane has had her baby, a boy named Mateo. A fake nurse grabbed Mateo and took him to Rose, aka Sin Rostro. Rose calls Michael and […]
{5/5} “Bunny had a secret elevator? Where does it go, Hell?” Only Murders in the Building season 2, aired in 2022 When Bunny is murdered and Mabel is found leaning over the body with Bunny’s blood all over her, Mabel, Charles, and Oliver are all arrested. They’re interrogated, but the police haven’t found the murder […]
{5/5} “‘They’ll tell you I’m mentally unstable and violent and dangerous and it will all sound very convincing.’ ‘I’m already convinced.’” Knight and Day, released in 2010 June is going to her sister’s wedding. She runs into a handsome man named Roy at the airport a couple of times, and then ends up on the […]
{4.5/5} “Most people are wide awake only now and then — on special occasions, as you might say. But a magician is wide awake all the time, on call for everything, which is why post people call him a magician. And he is never more so than at the moment of his own death.” The […]