Starter for 10
{4/5} “Ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted to be clever. Some people are born clever, same way some people are born beautiful. I’m not one of those people.” Brian is just starting university and he’s excited to be on the challenge team, who competes in a televised quiz show that he used to watch […]
Burn Notice (season 3)
{5/5} “You know, Michael, I’d appreciate it if when you stopped by it wasn’t only to lose your police tail.” Since Michael is no longer being protected by Management, the police are taking an interest in him. Michael is still trying to get his old job back, which Fiona isn’t particularly happy about. Michael, Fiona, […]
The Girl in the Park
{4/5} “I am happy for you… Can I go home now?” Julia’s daughter disappeared in the park one day. Sixteen years later she works a lot, eats by herself, and resists meeting her son’s fiancée. She meets Louise, a young woman who’s crying in a restaurant, and listens to her story. Julia finds herself wanting […]
A Bridge Too Far
{4.5/5} “Actually the plan’s really very simple. We’re going to fly 35 000 men 300 miles and drop them behind enemy lines. It’ll be the largest airborne operation ever mounted. Quite frankly, this kind of thing’s never been attempted before.” It’s 1944. The Allies have cancelled a bunch of their recent plans for one reason […]
The Call
{5/5} “A lot of times you don’t know how it ends. When your units get to a scene you sign off and they take over. But you don’t know. Did they make an arrest, shoot the bad guy, did the PR live, did she die?” Jordan is a 911 operator. She’s good at her job […]
Man on Fire
{4.5/5} “I’m not been paid to be your friend, I’m being paid to protect you. So no more questions, that’s it. Period… And no crying.” Creasey has been having a tough time lately — for one thing, he has a drinking problem — so he goes to visit his old friend Rayburn in Mexico. Rayburn gets […]
The Town
{4.5/5} “I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we’re gonna hurt some people.” A bank is robbed in Boston. The robbers know what they’re doing, so things go smoothly. They take one hostage, in case they run into the police on the […]
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 […]
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
{4/5} “Some of you are non-vital.” Walter Mitty works at Life magazine in the negative asset department (as in, film negatives). Life is ceasing to print and going online. Walter has received a set of negatives from a brilliant photographer — one of them is supposed to be the cover for the final issue. But that one negative […]
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 […]