Star Trek Into Darkness
{4.5/5} “Jim, you’re not actually going down there, are you? You don’t rob a bank when the getaway car has a flat tire.” Star Trek Into Darkness, released in 2013 Kirk has to reveal the Enterprise to primitive people in order to save Spock’s life. Starfleet is unhappy — since he broke the Prime Directive […]
Star Trek
{5/5} “Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives including your mother’s and yours. I dare you to do better.” Star Trek, released in 2009 Kirk and McCoy are still at the academy when they go onboard the Enterprise under Captain Pike and Lieutenant Spock. They are responding to […]
Pixar movies
You might not usually pay attention to which studio produces a movie, but one studio worth paying attention to is Pixar. Without a doubt, they have the best track record of any studio in terms of percentage of brilliant movies. I’ve seen all but one of them. When other producers of movies realize they have […]
Finding Dory
{4.5/5} “Suck it, bipeds!” Finding Dory, released in 2016 Dory remembers that she’s from the Jewel of Morro Bay, California and Marlin and Nemo help her find her way there. It turns out it’s a marine life institute. Dory has been tagged. She runs into a grumpy octopus with 7 legs named Hank, who says […]
Juno
{5/5} “I guess normalcy isn’t really our style.” Juno, released in 2007 Juno finds out she’s pregnant but she’s only 16. After a distressing visit to a clinic she decides to have the baby. But she realizes she’s too young to raise it herself — she’ll give it up for adoption. Not to just anyone, […]
Shakespeare in Love
{5/5} “Good title.” Shakespeare in Love, released in 1998 In 1593 Will Shakespeare is having a bit of writer’s block. His patron is demanding a comedy, and soon. He has a title — “Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter” — and that’s it. Meanwhile, Viola wants to be an actor so much she will pretend […]
X-Men movies
X-Men is currently the 7th highest-grossing film franchise. I haven’t read any X-Men comics, although I’m certainly tempted to at least read the ones by Joss Whedon. The X-Men and Avengers characters are both part of Marvel but it seems they live in separate universes when it comes to the movies. The 1st X-Men trilogy […]
Deadpool
{5/5} “That guy was already up there when I got here.” Deadpool, released in 2016 Wade Wilson had found his true love Vanessa, but soon afterwards he was diagnosed with cancer. He calls a mysterious stranger who says he can heal him — which he does, but at a great cost. Wade has been turned […]
Sommersby
{5/5} “I never loved him the way that I love you.” Sommersby, released in 1993 Jack Sommersby returns from the Civil War finally after 6 years. His wife Laurel had thought he was dead. Everyone is happy to see him back, except Orin who was courting Laurel. The farmland is all dried up from years […]
Jack of the Red Hearts
{4.5/5} “What else can you do, girlie, huh?” Jack of the Red Hearts, released in 2015 Jack breaks her younger sister Coke out of her foster home, but she can’t really take care of her since she doesn’t have a home herself. Until she spots an ad for a live-in caretaker for an autistic child, […]