Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
{4.5/5} “‘Oh I’m sorry. I should have asked what was bothering you. I’ve been kind of preoccupied.’ ‘With what?’ ‘Well, I went to another universe and fell in love with a giant octopus, and now I’m pope of a new religion.’” — Fry & Bender Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, released in 2008 […]
Futurama: Bender’s Big Score
{4/5} “Finally, I get to save the Earth with deadly laser instead of deadly slide shows.” — Al Gore’s head Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, released in 2007 After Professor Farnsworth falls prey to an email scam, he finds that aliens have taken over his company. Bender has downloaded a virus so he now obeys the […]
The Invention of Lying
{5/5} “So that’s it, it’s Coke. It’s very famous, everyone knows it. I’m Bob, I work for Coke, and I’m asking you to not stop buying Coke.” The Invention of Lying, released in 2008 Mark realizes he can tell a lie, but no one else in the world can. When he tries to explain it […]
The Village
{5/5} “There are secrets in every corner of this village.” The Village, released in 2004 A small community that lives simply always has someone in the watchtower. There are dangerous creatures in the woods — they call them Those We Don’t Speak Of. If anything red is found growing in the ground they quickly bury […]
Butter
{5/5} “When I think about butter, I think about family. Why? Like the thread of a grandmother’s quilt, butter is the centrepiece of a family dinner. And family, in turn, is the thread that holds our great country together.” Butter, released in 2011 Bob Pickler has been carving things out of butter for years, winning […]
Tetris
{4.5/5} “I played Tetris for five minutes. I still see falling blocks in my dreams.” Tetris, released in 2023 In 1988 Henk is trying to sell the video game Go at the Consumer Electronic Show but no one is interested. Then he plays Tetris, invented by a Russian — he’s very impressed. He buys the […]
Robots
{4.5/5} “‘To be honest, I think I preferred you with ice skates on.’ ‘Yeah, well I preferred you when you had glass eyes and a brain powered by Intel.’” Robots, released in 2023 Having a robot that looks exactly like you is illegal, but some people are doing it anyway. Charles has his robot double […]
Asteroid City
{4.5/5} “Some of our information about outer space may no longer be completely accurate.” Asteroid City, released in 2023 In 1955 in a place called Asteroid City in the desert an alien appears briefly. The government makes all the people who witness it stay there while they come in and conduct interviews. They’re trying to […]
Hatching Pete
{2/5} “The magic is in the mystery and once the mystery is gone, so is the magic.” Hatching Pete, released in 2009 Cleatus wears a chicken suit as the Brewster High mascot but he’s allergic to it and doesn’t really want to do it. He convinces his best friend Pete to wear the suit and […]
Suzume
{3.5/5} “We don’t have any cats.” Suzume, released in 2022 Suzume stumbles across a man, Souta, who asks her if there are any abandoned areas with doors around. She tells him where one is, and then follows him to see what’s going on. It turns out his job is to close magical doors when something […]