Birds of Prey
{4.5/5} “I’m telling you, if you want boys to respect you, you have to show them you’re serious. Blow something up. Shoot someone.” Birds of Prey aka Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, released in 2020 Harley Quinn and the Joker have broken up. While drunk, she decides to blow […]
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
{5/5} “It was like an earthquake that didn’t disturb a single blade of grass, an eclipse that didn’t cast a single shadow, a vast but invisible change. A sudden breeze plucked the edge of the diary. It smelled of salt and warm stone and a dozen faraway scents that did not belong in a scrubby […]
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
{4.5/5} “Just because someone stumbles and loses their way doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.” Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, released in 2022 Doctor Strange fights alongside a young girl in his dream and then he meets her the next day. America says the dream wasn’t a dream but something that happened in another […]
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (season 1)
{5/5} “Did you guys rob an Asgardian construction worker?” She-Hulk: Attorney at Law season 1, aired in 2022 When Jen and her cousin Bruce Banner are in an accident, they are both cut and Bruce’s blood accidentally drips on her — she becomes a Hulk. Bruce takes her to his compound in Mexico and trains […]
Gypsies
{4.5/5} “‘You could walk out of the world if you wanted to.’ The Gray Man stopped and bent at the waist to looked into Michael’s eyes. ‘The world has angles other people don’t see. Corners and doors and directions. You could step sideways and never be seen again. Like this.’” Gypsies by Robert Charles Wilson, […]
Three Thousand Years of Longing
{3.5/5} “I wish I could forget I ever met you.” Three Thousand Years of Longing, released in 2022 Alithea is a narratologist, trying to make sense of the world’s stories. While in Istanbul to give a talk, she buys a glass bottle in a shop. Back in her hotel room, while cleaning it the top […]
Indiana Jones
Here are all the movies featuring archaeologist Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford. The first 4 were directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written by George Lucas. I’ve seen the first 4 more than once. I also read 3 of the novels. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 -> 3.5 (+) Indiana […]
Locklands
{4.5/5} “But then there were the ‘deep commands,’ which allowed one to make a sudden, abrupt, inexorable change to reality itself, an edit so swift and complete that the world never even knew it’d been changed. Yet the deep commands came with a price: human life.” Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett, published in 2022 Berenice […]
Spectral
{4.5/5} “‘She’s hoping it’s cloaking technology. What do you think it is?’ ‘Something none of us have thought of yet.’” Spectral, released in 2018 Clyne invented a new type of goggles for soldiers to use on the battlefield. Now soldiers are seeing things on the goggles that they won’t be specific about — he has […]
The Green Mile
{5/5} “What happens on the Mile stays on the Mile.” The Green Mile, released in 1999 In 1935 Paul was a prison guard working on death row where prisoners were electrocuted. The chair is nicknamed “Old Sparky” and they have killed some men who did very bad things. When John Coffey, an enormous black man […]