Loki (season 2)

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{4.5/5} “Thor’s not that tall.” Loki season 2, aired in 2023 Loki is back at the TVA, but he keeps appearing and disappearing at different times. He tells Mobius about He Who Remains. Mobius takes him to a technician he hasn’t seen in 400 years who should be able to help. There are lots of […]

Loki (season 1)

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{5/5} “I can’t offer you salvation. But maybe I can offer you something better.” Loki season 1, aired in 2021 When Loki steals the Tesseract from the Avengers, he ends up in Mongolia. He’s about to make a change to the Sacred Timeline, when members of the Time Variance Authority show up to apprehend him. […]

Moana 2

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4/5} “You will be destroyed, and your Wayfinder too.” Moana 2, released in 2024 Moana’s community is alone on an island and they don’t know where any other peopole are. Moana becomes a Wayfinder, and it’s her job to go out and break the curse from the storm god Nalo that hid communities from each […]

The Life Impossible

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4.5/5} “The willingness to be confused, I now realise, is a prerequisite for a good life. Wanting things to be simple can become a kind of prison, it really can, because you end up staying trapped inside how you want things to be rather than embracing how they could be. You end up closed. You […]

Captain America: Brave New World

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{4.5/5} “‘Sir, you invited me here to work together. So let’s work together.’ ‘I’m afraid that offer expired when your friend tried to kill me.’” Captain America: Brave New World, released in 2025 Thaddeus Ross is now President, and Sam Wilson is now Captain America. In Mexico Sam and the Falcon, along with a team, […]

The Gorge

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{4.5/5} “I’m telling you there have been 9 Soviet/Russian heads of state and 13 US presidents since the coalitions were formed. And not one of them has known about the Gorge.” The Gorge, released in 2025 Levi is a sniper who’s recruited and taken by plane to an unknown location — he parachutes out, walks […]

Starling House

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{5/5} “He doesn’t know why it would want her, of all people: a freckled scarecrow of a girl with crooked teeth and holes in the knees of her jeans, entirely unremarkable except for the steel in her eyes. And perhaps for the way she stood her ground against him. He is a ghost, a rumor, […]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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{4.5/5} “Ever since I sold out and got famous, we have gotten closer.” Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, released in 2024 Lydia Deetz hosts a ghost-hunter show, and one day she sees Beetlejuice in her audience for a second. Her stepmother Delia informs her that her dad was eaten by a shark after surviving a plane crash. Lydia’s […]

Beetlejuice

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{4.5/5} “I’ve seen The Exorcist about 167 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it!” Beetlejuice, released in 1988 Adam and Lydia are looking forward to a vacation at home when they die in a car accident. When they realize they’re dead, at first they think it’s not so bad. But then […]

The Great Wall

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{4/5} “A man must learn to trust before he can be trusted.” The Great Wall, released in 2019 William and Tovar are in China, looking for the black powder that they have heard of but not seen. They are attacked by a creature — William cuts off its arm with his sword and it falls […]