Pushing Daisies (season 2)
{4.5/5} “There are complicated issues in this situation that you don’t even know nothin’ about. Except that their complexities are so complex they make this shallow conversation absurd.” Ned and Chuck continue to try to make their relationship work, even though they can’t touch each other. Olive can’t deal with all the secrets she’s learned […]
Pushing Daisies (season 1)
{4.5/5} “Do you think dying has made me morbid?” Ned can bring people and animals back to life by touching them. But if he touches them a second time they’ll go back to being dead. And if he doesn’t touch them a second time within one minute then someone else will die — to make […]
All-Star Superman
{4/5} “I know I promised I wouldn’t waste my intellect on kryptonite robots and elaborate super-death traps… But three months ago, I looked in the mirror at those nasty little spiderwebs of lines around my eyes, and I realized something… I’m getting older and… and he isn’t… So, if I want to die happy, it’s […]
The Secret of Kells
{3.5/5} “You can’t find out everything from books, you know.” Brendan lives in a monastery where his uncle Cellach is the abbot. Uncle Cellach is focussed on building a wall around the monastery, to keep the Vikings out. The other monks, as well as Brendan, are more interested in illuminating manuscripts. When Aidan arrives with the […]
Wicked
{4.5/5} “I want you to consider your futures. I would like to name you, to baptize you as it were, as a trio of Adepts. In the long run I would like to assign you behind-the-scenes ministerial duties in different parts of the country. I am empowered to do this, remember, by those whose boot […]
9
{3.5/5} “Some things in this world are better left where they lie. But if you know where to look, these ruins are full of riches.” There’s been an apocalypse, and all the humans are dead. 9 is a doll-like creature, somehow given life by a scientist. He finds a small group of creatures like himself, […]
Wonderfalls (season 1)
{4.5/5} “You’re spiteful in a way the definition of ‘spiteful’ doesn’t quite prepare you for.” Jaye works at a gift shop in Niagara Falls — her degree in philosophy didn’t really get her anywhere. One day a clay lion starts talking to her. She’s not sure what its goal is but it seems to want […]
Tooth and Claw
{5/5} “I don’t think you realize how different it is for me than for you. You can make your way by your own wits and claws, while I must always be dependent upon some male to protect me. Wits I may have, but claws I am without, and while hands are useful for writing and […]
Ruby Sparks
{4.5/5} “The situation is crazy. I am not.” Calvin wrote a bestselling novel when he was 19, and he’s been struggling to come up with another ever since. After a suggestion from his psychiatrist, a character named Ruby appears to him in his dreams — and he becomes obsessed with writing about her. The day […]
Megamind
{4.5/5} “Imagine the most horrible, terrifying, evil thing you can possibly think of… and multiply it by 6!” Metro Man and Megamind have been fighting each other for a long time. On the day that Metro City is opening a new museum devoted to its defender Metro Man, Megamind puts his new plan into action. […]