Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4.5/5} “Ever since I sold out and got famous, we have gotten closer.” Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, released in 2024 Lydia Deetz hosts a ghost-hunter show, and one day she sees Beetlejuice in her audience for a second. Her stepmother Delia informs her that her dad was eaten by a shark after surviving a plane crash. Lydia’s […]

Young Sheldon (season 4)

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{5/5} “First, we must determine the maximum velocity achievable without breaking a sweat. Sweating is for jocks and for those who are worried the jig is up.” Young Sheldon season 4, aired in 2020-21 Sheldon graduates high school after being there for 2 years — since he has the top grade, he gets to be […]

Beetlejuice

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4.5/5} “I’ve seen The Exorcist about 167 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it!” Beetlejuice, released in 1988 Adam and Lydia are looking forward to a vacation at home when they die in a car accident. When they realize they’re dead, at first they think it’s not so bad. But then […]

Sweet Harmony

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{5/5} “There were actors and actresses, models and singers who ostensibly went for the naturalists’ approach, who were genetically beautiful from birth and didn’t need to worry about what they ate — if you believed the magazines. Harmony didn’t, but even if it was true, she knew that the natural look could never send such […]

Miniatures

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{5/5} “I try to look at it philosophically. Seventy-six years is a fine run. And now I’m sort of the spokesperson for an entirely new class of objects: The dwarf planets. I understand it’s meant to be something of a consolation prize, but you know what, there are more of us dwarf planets out here […]

Young Sheldon (season 3)

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{5/5} “Actually, I was the winner. We spent the whole day doing everything I love — drafting contracts, arguing about rules, and, most importantly, never leaving the house.” Young Sheldon season 3, aired in 2019-20 Mary tells Sheldon that Dr. Sturgis has mono so he wouldn’t want to visit, but John’s actually at the psychiatric […]

Radiant

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{4.5/5} “I was a wet-behind-the-ears Explorer Third Class. Tut was not only more experienced than I, but he outranked me: as an Explorer Second Class, he was my superior officer. Protocol demanded that the captain address all Explorer matters to Tut, who would then bring me in if he chose. Going over Tut’s head to […]

Young Sheldon (season 2)

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{5/5} “Ignoring things that irritate me isn’t my strong suit. Obsessively fixating on them, now that’s what gets me out of bed in the morning.” Young Sheldon season 2, aired in 2018-19 Sheldon is bothered by a noise coming from the fridge, so he gets a book a fridge repair and takes the fridge apart. […]

Young Sheldon (season 1)

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{5/5} “It was at that moment I decided I was not cut out for teaching. I consoled myself with the knowledge that I was wonderful at everything else.” Young Sheldon season 1, aired in 2017-18 Sheldon Cooper is 9 years old but he’s already going to high school. The first thing he does in class […]

The Road to Roswell

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{4.5/5} “Where was everybody? … You couldn’t go ten miles without running into construction. She should have come across some by now. Unless every single person in New Mexico had been grabbed getting into their cars, forced to drive to the aliens’ flying saucer, and been spirited off to their home planet — and for […]