Family Weekend

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4.5/5} “When did everything… get so strange?” Emily is participates in jump rope competitions, and she won the most recent regional competition at her school. But no one in her family was there to cheer her on, even though she left them all post-it notes as reminders. She believes that her parents have become not-so-good […]

Arrested Development (season 4)

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{4.5/5} “I like the plan. I just wonder if we’re not in a treason-adjacent place where the government will retaliate and execute us.” Michael and George Michael are both in college — in fact, they’re roommates. Michael later gets involved with making a movie based on his family — of course, he has to get […]

Modern Family (season 5)

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{5/5} “Two things I bring to every open house, my lucky pen and a smile. I haven’t sold a house all month. Do you see me saying ‘I’m done’? Never. Because there is no ‘done’ in Dunphy.” Cam and Mitchell decide to get married — Cam starts planning an absurdly elaborate wedding. Manny and Luke […]

Bottle Rocket

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{4.5/5} “One morning, over at Elizabeth’s beach house, she asked me if I’d rather go water skiing or lay out. And I realized that not only did I not want to answer that question, but I never wanted to answer another water-sports question, or see any of these people again for the rest of my […]

The Big Bang Theory (season 7)

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{5/5} “Who knows? You said you’d be home yesterday, but came home three days ago. You say you’re taking me to work, but for all I know I’ll end up in a deserted amusement park, or a cornfield maze or a back alley dog fight. You tell me.” While Leonard is away at sea for […]

Castle (season 6)

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{5/5} “Everything I’ve ever done, every choice I’ve ever made, every terrible and wonderful thing that’s ever happened to me, it’s all led me to right here, this moment with you.” Beckett decides to take the job in Washington DC, but she also accepts Castle’s marriage proposal. Can Beckett and Castle make their relationship work […]

New Girl (season 3)

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{4/5} “Have you seen a girl who looks like me, but with chaos in her eyes?” Nick and Jess have just decided they’re a couple, so they run off to Mexico to spend some time together. Schmidt finds he can’t choose between Cece and Elizabeth, who both say they love him. And Winston finds out […]

Easy A

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{4.5/5} “Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80’s movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from ‘Sixteen Candles’ waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because […]

Parks and Recreation (season 6)

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{5/5} “Who wants to stay in the greatest town in the world with her best friend and be happy forever when she can abandon her soul sister like an old shoe and move to a garbage city full of jerks?” Ron asks Diane to marry him. A competitor opens across the street from Tom’s rental […]

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

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{4.5/5} “Pirate of the Year is just… commercialized nonsense. Real pirating isn’t about trophies. It’s about fighting up staircases backwards. It’s about sliding down sails with a knife in your teeth. Beard glossiness!” The Pirate Captain would like to win Pirate of the Year but the other pirate captains have once again managed to plunder […]