The Fall
{4.5/5} “You always stop at the same part, where it’s very beautiful. And interesting.” Alexandria is a young girl who fell and broke her arm and she’s at the hospital. She meets a man named Roy, also a patient, who tells her a story about Alexander the Great. Roy is paralyzed from the waist down […]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
{5/5} “Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were no one would ever talk to you?” Charlie’s aunt was killed in an accident and his best friend committed suicide a few months ago. Now he’s starting high school — most of the kids either ignore him or treat him badly. He makes […]
Now You See Me
{4/5} “The closer you look the less you see.” A magician, an escape artist, a mentalist, and a pickpocket from across the country are all invited to New York at a certain date and time — they all show up. It turns out that some of them already know each other. A year later the […]
Elementary (season 1)
{5/5} “Detection is not just a skill, Watson, it’s a point of view. You need to train yourself to be alert to the bizarre, the unusual, that which has no place in any given picture.” Sherlock Holmes is just out of rehab and his father has hired him a sobriety partner, Joan Watson, who used […]
Mud
{4.5/5} “There are things you can get away with in this world and there are things you can’t.” Ellis and Neckbone are young boys who live near the Mississippi River — they like to take their boat out to an uninhabited island. The island has a unique feature — a boat in a tree. One […]
Ginger & Rosa
{4.5/5} “She’s not disturbed, she’s interesting. And she’s my best friend.” In 1962 in Britain everyone is worried about a nuclear war. Ginger and Rosa are best friends who do everything together, having fun and trying new things. They’re the type of friends who often laugh when they look at each other. At the same […]
The Contender
{4.5/5} “You’re the future of the Democratic Party, and you always will be.” Governor Hathaway attempted to rescue a woman whose car plunged into a lake, but he was unsuccessful. Riding a wave of popularity, he thought the president would nominate him for vice president. The president instead nominated Governor Hanson, a woman. But there […]
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
{4.5/5} “I think the name ‘ping pong’ trivializes the sport.” Craig has been feeling depressed and he gets himself checked into a hospital because he’s worried he might commit suicide. He gets put in the wing for adults because the wing for teens is under construction. Once he looks around he’s not sure he wants […]
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{4.5/5} “Baseball was proof positive that democracy was real. A baseball box score after all, is a democratic thing. It doesn’t say how big you are, or what religion you follow. It does not know how you voted, or the colour of your skin, it simply states what kind of ballplayer you were on any […]
Passion Fish
{4.5/5} “It’s important that we have clean walls. I’ll be climbing them soon.” Mary-Alice used to be a soap opera star but she was in an accident and lost the use of her legs. When she’s able to leave the hospital she decides to go back home where she grew up in Louisiana. After several […]