Timeless: The Miracle of Christmas

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{4.5/5} “What’s the point of saving history if we don’t save the people in it?” Timeless: The Miracle of Christmas, aired in 2018 Lucy and Wyatt from the future give the team Lucy’s journal in order to help them rescue Rufus. Lucy, Wyatt, Jiya, and Flynn first take the new time machine back to 1848 […]

Smallfoot

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{4/5} “A life that’s full of wonder is a wonderful life.” Smallfoot, released in 2018 The yeti live happily on top of the mountain. Until Migo runs into a smallfoot. He tells everyone in the village but the Stonekeeper banishes him because according to the stones the smallfoot don’t exist. Migo then runs into a […]

Fahrenheit 11/9

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{5/5} “You know Trump was looking at this whole Flint water poisoning and he’s got to be thinking, ‘Wow, the governor got away with poisoning a majority black city. What will I be able to get away with?’” Fahrenheit 11/9, released in 2018 Michael Moore wants to remind you of horrible things about Donald Trump […]

Star Trek: Enterprise — A Choice of Futures

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{4.5/5} “Reluctantly at first, not without anger… but we talked, and after a while we started to listen. And that paved the way for more of us to be willing to talk, and to listen. And both our peoples began to understand that what we hated each other for was far in the past, no […]

Proof

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{5/5} “I thought I should get all those ideas down while they were in my head.” Proof, released in 2005 Catherine’s father has passed away. He was a mathematical genius who was sick for many years. Hal, who works in the math department that her father worked in, wants to look at her dad’s notebooks […]

Star Trek: Enterprise — To Brave the Storm

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{4.5/5} “Home wasn’t usually far from his mind, but on this day of all days — Valentine’s Day marked not only the fourth anniversary of the successful resolution of the Xindi crisis, but also the passage of three years since his ‘death’ aboard Enterprise — he was particularly aware of the immense gulf that separated […]

Searching

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{4.5/5} “I didn’t know her. I didn’t know my daughter.” Searching, released in 2018 David’s teenage daughter Margot goes missing. He gradually finds out she was not the person he thought she was. She’d stopped taking piano lessons, and she didn’t have any friends. He methodically contacts every acquaintance of hers on her computer and […]

Star Trek ENT: Beneath the Raptor’s Wing

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{4.5/5} “These survivors were mostly silent, stifling their desultory conversations as Archer and T’Pol advanced slowly through their nearly stationary ranks… As he passed them, Archer could feel the quickly accumulating weight of their gazes falling upon his back, hard stones of summary judgement cast by an army of the unquiet dead.” Star Trek: Enterprise […]

Venom

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{4.5/5} “Apparently I have a parasite.” Venom, released in 2018 Eddie Brock was a reporter, but he made a big mistake — he lost his job, his girlfriend’s job, and his girlfriend all on the same day. He’s having trouble figuring out what to do with his life when someone from the Life Foundation tells […]

Race

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{5/5} “The moment that gun go off can’t nothin’ stop me. Not colour, not money, not fear, not even hate. There ain’t no black and white. There’s only fast and slow.” Race, released in 2016 Jesse Owens goes to Ohio State to run track with the best coach, Larry Snyder. With Owens’s natural talent and […]