Star Trek: DS9 — Force and Motion
{4.5/5} “‘I know what I will probably say any other time anyone ever asks me this question for the rest of my life, but I also know that, in some small way, I’ll be lying a little bit if I don’t admit that the best day I ever had’ — O’Brien raised his glass — […]
Men in Black
{4.5/5} “I’ve never seen sugar do that.” Men in Black, released in 1997 James is a NYPD officer who chases down a crook who turns out to be an alien from another planet. He’s then recruited by K into a secret organization that monitors and polices aliens on Earth. From now on he will be […]
The Imitation Game
{5/5} “Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” The Imitation Game, released in 2014 Alan Turing is a mathematical genius who’s trying to crack Enigma, the German decryption machine. If he can, the Allies might just have a better chance at winning World […]
The Terminal
{5/5} “I don’t let anyone look at my trash without an appointment.” The Terminal, released in 2004 Victor Novarski arrives in New York to discover that there’s been a military coup in his home country of Krakozhia. His passport is no longer valid. As a man without a country he has to stay at the […]
Captain America: The First Avenger
{4.5/5} “Whatever happens tomorrow you must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.” Captain America: The First Avenger, released in 2011 Steve Rogers wants to fight in World War II because he doesn’t like bullies. He’s short, skinny, and has a few other […]
A Hologram for the King
{4.5/5} “This is sales. You make estimates and you make plans. But then you get there and everything changes. But you make the sale.” A Hologram for the King, released in 2016 Alan is in Saudi Arabia to sell an IT solution to the king for his new city. But he has no idea when […]
Lock In
{4.5/5} “I felt that sensation unique to Hadens, the vertigo that comes from perceptually being in two places at once. It’s much more noticeable when your body and your threep are in the same room at the same time. The technical term for it is ‘polyproprioception.’ Humans, who generally only have one body to deal […]
Murdoch Mysteries (season 8)
{5/5} “All right. Lying is one thing. Attacking the integrity of the great sport of wrestling, that is quite another.” Murdoch Mysteries season 8, aired in 2014-15 Thomas Brackenreid has retired after being beaten and left for dead — he’s taken up painting. Julia and Emily have joined the movement to get women the vote. […]
Mission of Gravity
{4.5/5} “Intellectually he knew that the thing would not fall — he kept telling himself that it could not; but having grown to maturity in an environment where a fall of six inches was usually fatally destructive even to the incredibly tough Mesklinite organism, his emotions were not easy to control… After all, it was […]
Ultima
{4.5/5} “I feel… as if I were a child, plummeting a hub-mountain glacier, out of control… We have both already walked away from our worlds, the very reality we knew, the history, the culture. Now here we are speaking of walking off into the dark. To our deaths — or unknowable glory.” Ultima by Stephen […]