Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
{4.5/5} “It’s a recessive gene carried down through families. Yet many generations can pass without a peculiar child being born. And alas, peculiars have been persecuted through the ages. Hence, we live in places like this.” Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, released in 2016 When Jake’s grandfather Abe dies he travels to the place […]
Bridget Jones’s Baby
{4.5/5} “Hello, you. Is that your ear or your foot? You have got very big feet. Oh, look at you. Waving already. You’re the best thing I’ve ever seen.” — Bridget, to her unborn baby Bridget Jones’s Baby, released in 2016 Bridget Jones is 43. She has a nice apartment, a decent job, and good […]
Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year
Here’s an updated version of this list, including movies I watched in 2016. Year Winner Runner Ups 2016 Arrival Captain America: Civil War Kubo and the Two Strings Deadpool Equals Finding Dory Star Trek Beyond X-Men: Apocalypse Zootopia 2015 Inside Out Advantageous Mad […]
Best movies of the 2010s
Here’s an updated version of this list, including movies I saw in 2016. Best of the best 50/50 About Time The Adjustment Bureau American Hustle Arrival Barney’s Version The Boxtrolls Brooklyn The Call Captain Fantastic Crazy, Stupid, Love. Deadpool The Descendants Despicable Me Detachment Edge of Tomorrow Ex Machina Gone Girl Gravity Her How to […]
Mission: Impossible III
{5/5} “I’m assuming it’s like a code name for something he’s about to sell to an unspecified buyer, for $850 million by the way. Or maybe it’s not a code word, maybe it’s just a really, really expensive bunny appendage.” Mission: Impossible III, released in 2006 Ethan Hunt is engaged to Julia, and he doesn’t […]
Mission: Impossible II
{3.5/5} “If you look at Hunt’s operational history, and I have, you’ll notice that he invariably favours misdirection over confrontation.” Mission: Impossible II, released in 2000 Ethan Hunt’s mission is to recover something called Chimera, which he eventually finds out is a deadly virus. It’s been stolen by another IMF agent, Sean Ambrose. One of […]
The Living Daylights
{4/5} “I’ve had a few optional extras installed.” The Living Daylights, released in 1987 When General Koskov decides to defect from the Soviet Union, James Bond is sent to assist in extracting him from Czechoslovakia. Koskov reveals that his superior at the KGB, General Pushkin, is starting spies on a path that may lead to […]
Captain Fantastic
{5/5} “The absurdity of being eulogized by someone she didn’t know has exactly the kind of comedic flourish that Leslie would have cherished.” Captain Fantastic, released in 2016 Ben and his six kids live in the wilderness. He’s home schooling them, giving them assignments that are intellectually and physically challenging. When Ben’s wife, who’s bipolar, […]
Inside Man
{5/5} “I have a small problem which requires someone with very special skills and complete discretion.” Inside Man, released in 2006 During a bank robbery in New York all the hostages are forced to wear the same jumpsuits as the robbers, so the police have a difficult time telling them apart. It turns out that […]
Arrival
{5/5} “If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?” Arrival, released in 2016 Twelve alien spacecraft arrive on Earth. Louise Banks, a linguist, is asked by the US army to join the team that’s trying to communicate with the aliens in the craft that’s in Montana. […]