Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
{4.5/5} “The Secretary is dead. The President has invoked Ghost Protocol. We’re shut down. No satellite, safe house, support, or extraction. The four of us and the contents of this car are all that remains of the IMF.” Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, released in 2011 The Mission: Impossible team is disavowed after they’re blamed […]
Promised Land
{4.5/5} “We have nothing left to sell and we can’t afford to buy anything. You came here to help us. Offer us money… All we had to do to get it was be willing to scorch the earth under our feet.” Promised Land, released in 2012 Steve travels around making deals with landowners for drilling […]
The Missing
{4.5/5} “There’s an Apache story about a man that woke up one morning and saw a hawk on the wind. Walked outside and never returned. After he died he met his wife in the spirit world. She asked him why he never came home, he said ‘Well, the hawk kept flying.’” The Missing, released in […]
Life of Pi
{4.5/5} “I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.” Life of Pi, released in 2012 You will believe that a boy can survive on a life boat with only a tiger for company. Suraj […]
Sherlock Holmes
{4.5/5} “‘Why are you always so suspicious?’ ‘Should I answer chronologically or alphabetically?’” Sherlock Holmes, released in 2009 Watson pronounces murderer Lord Blackwood dead at his hanging but later it seems that he’s been resurrected. Holmes and Watson eventually figure out that his next plan is to kill everyone in Parliament. It was a bit […]
Transsiberian
{4.5/5} “Kill off all my demons, Roy, and my angels might die too.” Roy and Jessie have been in China helping kids through their church. As part of their trip back to the US, they decide to take the Transsiberian railway from China to Moscow. Roy likes trains a lot and he thinks Jessie will […]
The Tall Man
{3.5/5} “He was like an ancient legend, something from a book of fairy tales or an old song. Everyone talked about the Tall Man all the time, because everyone was afraid of him. People were always afraid he’d strike again. And when he did, they’d thank their lucky stars he took somebody else’s kid.” Cold […]
Everything Must Go
{4/5} “I’m no different than any of you. I just don’t hide in my house.” Nick has a problem with alcohol. After being sober for 6 months while on a business trip he accepts a champagne after a successful negotiation. Then things go downhill, culminating in losing his wife and his job — on the […]
Political Animals
{5/5} “Most of life is hell. It’s filled with failure and loss. People disappoint you, dreams don’t work out, hearts get broken, innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going.” Elaine Barrish […]
The Human Stain
{4/5} “Granted, she’s not my first love. Granted, she’s not my great love. But she is… my last love. Doesn’t that count for something?” Coleman has quit his job as a professor and his wife has died. He befriends Nathan, a writer, initially hoping that he would write a book about him. He also begins […]