The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
{4.5/5} “Everything will be all right in the end… if it’s not all right then it’s not yet the end.” A group of retirees from Britain, previously unknown to each other, travel to Jaipur, India to live in a hotel. The hotel turns out to be a bit more run down than the brochure indicated. […]
We Bought a Zoo
{4.5/5} “This is what happens when people have a you-know-what occur in their lives. They wake up one day and they say, ‘I’m going to quit my job and try something completely different with my life.’ But then they wake up another day and they say to themselves, ‘Thank God my older brother didn’t let […]
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 […]
Jack Reacher
{4.5/5} “There are four types of people who join the military. For some, it’s family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next you have those who just need a job. Than there’s the kind who want the legal means of killing other people.” A sniper kills five people, seemingly at random. They track him […]
Conviction
{4.5/5} “People don’t like to admit that they made a mistake.” Betty Anne works as a waitress but she’s also back at school studying law. Her brother Kenny was convicted of murder but she believes he’s innocent and she’s the only one who can help him. Betty Anne and Kenny have had a difficult life […]
The Greatest
{4.5/5} “Our senior year I took piano, and he had soccer, so we would pass each other every day after school in the exact same spot. And it became something I looked forward to. So much so that I could tell you all the days that he was absent because those were the days I […]
Panic Room
{4.5/5} “I spent the last 12 years of my life building rooms like this specifically to keep out people like us.” Meg, recently divorced, and her daughter Sarah move into a new house in New York. It happens to have a panic room, a safe room to hide in if there’s a home invasion. Meg’s nervous about the panic […]
The East
{4.5/5} “We want all those who are guilty to experience the terror of their crimes.” Jane works for a private security firm. Her new assignment is to infiltrate an anarchist group known as the East. The East attacks major corporations — for example, they dumped oil in the house of a CEO of a corporation […]
The Majestic
{4.5/5} “That’s why we call it The Majestic. Any man, woman, child could buy their ticket, walk right in. Here they’d be, here we’d be. ‘Yes sir, yes ma’am. Enjoy the show.’ And in they’d come entering a palace, like in a dream, like in heaven. Maybe you had worries and problems out there, but […]