Out of Sight
{4.5/5} “It’s like seeing someone for the first time, like you could be passing on the street, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there’s this kind of a recognition like you both know something. The next moment the person’s gone, and it’s too late to do anything about it. And […]
Don Jon
{4.5/5} “Maybe it’s time to try something new.” Don Jon works out, hangs out with his friends, keeps his house clean, has road rage, visits his family, and goes to church. He has had one night stands with lots of women but never a relationship. Then he meets Barbara. He can’t stop thinking about her, and […]
RED 2
{4.5/5} “I was very touched that you cried at my funeral.” Marvin discovers that people want to kill him because of something he supposedly did in 1979 but he doesn’t know anything about — something called Nightshade. So he fakes his own death, and later recruits Frank and Sarah to help him out. How will […]
Burn Notice (season 2)
{5/5} “If we looked for everyone who tried to kill you, we’d do nothing else.” Michael’s new handler Carla demands that he do jobs for her once in a while — meanwhile, he tries to find out everything he can about her. Fiona decides to stop trying to be Michael’s girlfriend. And Sam’s girlfriend Veronica wants him […]
The Hudsucker Proxy
{4.5/5} “You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it’s a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o’clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock […]
The Devil Wears Prada
{4.5/5} “Did someone eat an onion bagel?” Andy, fresh out of school, goes to New York to be a magazine writer. The only job she can get is assistant at a fashion magazine. Even though she doesn’t know anything about fashion she’s whimsically hired by the editor, Miranda, who’s big in the fashion world and […]
Burn Notice (season 1)
{5/5} “Covert intelligence involves a lot of waiting around. Know what it’s like being a spy? Like sitting in your dentist’s reception area twenty-four hours a day. You read magazines, sip coffee, and every so often someone tries to kill you.” Michael Weston is on a mission in Nigeria when his contact tells him there’s […]
The IT Crowd: The Internet is Coming
{3.5/5} “Does it ever seem to you that the things that happen to us are sort of strange?” Roy has a girlfriend who’s knowledgeable about comics, Jen swoons over a server at a coffee shop, and Moss is making videos of board game reviews (which no one likes). Douglas thinks Jen is his assistant Joan and […]
Amelie
{5/5} “I am nobody’s little weasel.” Amelie’s mother died when she was young and her father wasn’t very sociable so she spent a lot of time using her imagination. She’s now a waitress — she has some interesting coworkers and customers. She finds a box of knick knacks hidden in her wall and vows to […]
The Artist
{4.5/5} “Why do you refuse to talk?” George is a big silent movie star. Peppy bumps into George and they get their picture taken with her kissing him on the cheek — this picture is on the front page of the paper the next day. Peppy wants to be an actress, and she starts by […]