Everything Must Go
{4/5} “I’m no different than any of you. I just don’t hide in my house.” Nick has a problem with alcohol. After being sober for 6 months while on a business trip he accepts a champagne after a successful negotiation. Then things go downhill, culminating in losing his wife and his job — on the […]
I Love You Phillip Morris
{4.5/5} “Sometimes you have to shave a little off the puzzle piece just to make it fit.” When Steven is in a car accident he decides to make changes in his life — he comes out of the closet and lives life as a gay man, leaving his wife and daughter. When he finds himself […]
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
{4.5/5} “I love my wife. I want her to be happy. I want good things for her. But there are times…” John and Jane have been married for 6 years and are just a bit bored with each other. Both of them have a secret — they’re assassins, and the other doesn’t know it. One […]
Becoming Jane
{4.5/5} “A metropolitan mind may be less susceptible to extended juvenile self-regard.” Jane Austen wants to be an author, but she’s led a sheltered life in the country. She doesn’t want to marry any man who asks her just because he has some money. Tom Lefroy comes from the city to stay with her family […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel
{4.5/5} “Did he just throw my cat out the window?” An author visits the Grand Budapest Hotel in 1968 and stumbles upon Moustafa, the owner of the hotel. Moustafa proceeds to tell him the story of how he became the owner. It starts in 1932 when he became the lobby boy, taken under the wing […]
How To Train Your Dragon 2
{4.5/5} “You have the heart of a chief and the soul of a dragon.” Hiccup and Toothless explore new lands while his friends engage in dragon racing. Hiccup comes across dragon trappers who reveal that someone named Drago Bludvist has a dragon army. Meanwhile Stoick has decided to retire and make Hiccup chief of the […]
Family Weekend
{4.5/5} “When did everything… get so strange?” Emily is participates in jump rope competitions, and she won the most recent regional competition at her school. But no one in her family was there to cheer her on, even though she left them all post-it notes as reminders. She believes that her parents have become not-so-good […]
How To Train Your Dragon
{5/5} “My name’s Hiccup. Great name, I know. But, it’s not the worst. Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls. Like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn’t do that.” Hiccup is a Viking. He lives in Berk, a small hillside village whose people fish and herd sheep. But occasionally fierce dragons come […]
Fringe (season 1)
{5/5} “The advances of science — which is supposed to expand our knowledge of the universe — will, if not carefully controlled, destroy the world as we know it… Our technological ambitions have not only driven us to the brink of catastrophe, the catastrophe has already begun.” FBI Agent Olivia Dunham joins the Fringe Division, […]
Edge of Tomorrow
{5/5} “What I am about to tell you sounds crazy. But you have to listen to me. Your very lives depend on it. You see, this isn’t the first time.” An alien race called the Mimics has invaded Earth. Major Cage, whose specialty is communications and not fighting, is forced to participate in an attack […]