Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4.5/5} “Holga doesn’t like to be disturbed when she’s eating her potatoes. That’s kind of the highlight of her day.” Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, released in 2023 Edgin and Holga escape from prison, not realizing that they were about to be pardoned. They return to Forge, who has become a lord and has […]

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

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{4.5/5} “All or none.” Shazam! Fury of the Gods, released in 2023 Billy is trying to keep his super team together but they all seem to be going in different directions. They manage to save a bunch of people from a collapsing bridge, but the bridge did collapse. Meanwhile, Hespera and Kalypso, daughters of Atlas, […]

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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{4/5} “There’s something I should have told you.” Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, released in 2023 While Scott Lang was gone for 5 years during the blip, his daughter Cassie was investigating the quantum realm. When the Langs and the Van Dynes get together to talk about it, Janet is about to warn them about […]

Sony Pictures Animation movies

Posted by Dave Switzer under My thoughts

Here are the movies I’ve seen from the studio known as Sony Pictures Animation. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movies Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2009 -> 4.5/5 (+) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 2013 -> 3/5 Spider-Verse movies Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018 -> 4.5/5 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023 […]

Authors all of whose books I have or will read

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There are a few authors for whom I’ve read all of their books, and a few that I’m very close on or intend to be. Here they are: Douglas Adams I’ve read 5 of his 7 novels plus 1 nonfiction book. I’ve reread 2 of them. David Brin I’ve read 11 of his 15 novels. […]

Vivo

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{4.5/5} “I mean, I still think you really should be quarantined for ten days. But you did save us from an apex predator, so I’m going to let this one slide.” Vivo, released in 2021 Vivo is a kinkajou who fell off the back of a truck and was rescued by AndrĂ©s. The two of […]

Wolf

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{4.5/5} “‘Not all who are bitten change. There must be something wild within. An analogue of the wolf.’ ‘Well, that lets me out. Among my people, I’m known as the guy least likely to have an analogue of the wolf.’” Wolf, released in 1994 Will was bitten by a wolf, and now he’s feeling different. […]

Meet Cute

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{4.5/5} “It’s OK for things to be messy sometimes.” Meet Cute, released in 2022 Sheila and Gary meet and a bar and they start chatting. Sheila tells Gary right away that she’s a time traveller from 24 hours in the future — of course, he doesn’t believe her. After a nice dinner and talking about […]

Poker Face (season 1)

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{5/5} “”I think I’m going to hit the road. You going to be all right in the kitchen without me?’ ‘It’ll probably be easier.’” Poker Face season 1, aired in 2023 Charlie can tell when people are lying — all the time. She used to win at poker but the boss at one casino learned […]

League of Super-Pets

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{5/5} “You’ve reached the Justice League emergency line. For Earth One press one, for Earth Two press two…” League of Super-Pets, released in 2022 Superman and his dog Krypto have been best friends forever but now he’s getting closer to Lois Lane. When Superman is kidnapped, Krypto can’t rescue him alone — he’s lost his […]