The Way Way Back
{4.5/5} “Yeah, you’re going to have to take off. I’m getting complaints. You’re having way too much fun. It’s making everyone uncomfortable.” The Way Way Back, released in 2013 Duncan goes with his family to a beach house for the summer, but he doesn’t like his mom’s boyfriend. As one character puts it, summer at […]
If I Stay
{3.5/5} “There are two types of people in the world, Kim. Those who like real coffee, and those who like froufrou drinks with ridiculous names.” If I Stay, released in 2014 Mia’s parents are rock and rollers but she prefers classical music — and plays the cello. When Mia is in a car crash she […]
Robin Hood
{4.5/5} “What has eighteen legs and isn’t going anywhere?” Robin Hood, released in 2010 Robin is an archer in Richard the Lionheart’s army. At one last battle with the French, Richard is killed. Robin and his friends head for home, England, not really knowing what they will do. When Robin returns a sword to a […]
Sherlock (season 3)
{5/5} “I’m not a hero, I’m a high-functioning sociopath.” Sherlock season 3, aired in 2014 Most of the world, including John Watson, thinks Sherlock Holmes is dead. But he’s not — he faked his own death and set about ridding the world of Moriarty’s network of evildoers. Now Sherlock is back in London and ready […]
Sherlock (season 2)
{5/5} “‘Do you just carry on talking when I’m away?’ ‘I don’t know, how often are you away?’” Sherlock season 2, aired in 2012 After surviving their first encounter with Moriarty, Holmes and Watson are back solving crimes. They’ve become a bit more famous, because of the blog Watson writes about their cases. They have […]
Sherlock (season 1)
{5/5} “I know you’re an Army doctor, and you’ve been invalided home from Afghanistan. You’ve got a brother worried about you, but you won’t go to him for help, because you don’t approve of him, possibly because he’s an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife, and I know your therapist […]
A Birder’s Guide to Everything
{4/5} A Birder’s Guide to Everything, released in 2013 David, a member of a birding club at school, thought he saw a duck that’s supposed to be extinct. So he and his friends head out to try to find it again. Meanwhile his dad is getting married, a year and a half after his mom […]
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
{4/5} “‘You weren’t kidding. You are in the CIA.’ ‘Somebody has to be.’” Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, released in 2014 Jack Ryan is a financial analyst who secretly works for the CIA. When he discovers a Russian plot to devastate the US economy he flies to Moscow to do whatever he can to stop it. […]
Freaks and Geeks (season 1)
{4.5/5} “You know, there was a girl in our school… and she had premarital sex. Know what she did on her graduation day? Died! Of a heroin overdose!” — Lindsay and Sam’s dad Freaks and Geeks season 1, aired in 1999-2000 This show only lasted 1 season. It takes place in the 1980s. Lindsay is […]
Safe House
{4/5} “That house was a secure location. Whoever crashed it didn’t stop by a gas station and ask for directions to the nearest safe house. They were invited. Someone told them, Matthew. Think about it. Someone you know, so you better ask yourself, can you trust your landlord?” Safe House, released in 2012 Tobin used […]