Dan in Real Life
{4.5/5} “This corn is like an angel.” Dan is an advice columnist, and he has three daughters — Jane, Cara, and Lilly. He doesn’t want his oldest daughter to drive, he doesn’t want his middle daughter to date boys, and he’s happy his youngest daughter is still young. Dan takes his daughters to a family […]
Emperor
{4.5/5} “Agrippina had seen Gaul; she knew what the future would hold. From this beginning the roads would spread across the country like ivy over a wall, bifurcating and firing off their straight-line segments, until every corner of the land was reached. Messages would flash along the roads fast as thought, and the next time […]
The Institute
{4/5} “The more I pulled on threads, the more the lines were blurred between what I viewed as the insanity I was… experiencing and the insanity of the real world.” A few years ago in San Francisco something unusual happened. Posters started appearing that led people to a particular building where they would be “inducted.” […]
Political Animals
{5/5} “Most of life is hell. It’s filled with failure and loss. People disappoint you, dreams don’t work out, hearts get broken, innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going.” Elaine Barrish […]
The Human Stain
{4/5} “Granted, she’s not my first love. Granted, she’s not my great love. But she is… my last love. Doesn’t that count for something?” Coleman has quit his job as a professor and his wife has died. He befriends Nathan, a writer, initially hoping that he would write a book about him. He also begins […]
Arrested Development (season 4)
{4.5/5} “I like the plan. I just wonder if we’re not in a treason-adjacent place where the government will retaliate and execute us.” Michael and George Michael are both in college — in fact, they’re roommates. Michael later gets involved with making a movie based on his family — of course, he has to get […]
Burn Notice (season 7)
{5/5} “A deep cover job changes you in ways that are hard to describe. To become another man for months or years, it’s impossible to go through and not be affected at the most basic level.” Things have changed. Jesse is back at work in security, Fiona is back collecting bounties and has a new […]
X-Men: Days of Future Past
{5/5} “So many battles waged over the years… and yet, none like this. Are we destined to destroy each other, or can we change each other and unite? Is the future truly set?” In the future sentinels — immensely powerful robots — were created to kill mutants but now they’re killing everyone. Some of the […]
KW Symphony’s “Superheroes!”
I went to the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s performance of “Superheroes!” I didn’t know what the exact lineup would be but I expected it to contain many familiar pieces. The selection of pieces was a bit more eclectic than I expected, but it included some less familiar pieces that I’m glad I got a chance to hear. […]
Modern Family (season 5)
{5/5} “Two things I bring to every open house, my lucky pen and a smile. I haven’t sold a house all month. Do you see me saying ‘I’m done’? Never. Because there is no ‘done’ in Dunphy.” Cam and Mitchell decide to get married — Cam starts planning an absurdly elaborate wedding. Manny and Luke […]