Burn Notice (season 2)
{5/5} “If we looked for everyone who tried to kill you, we’d do nothing else.” Michael’s new handler Carla demands that he do jobs for her once in a while — meanwhile, he tries to find out everything he can about her. Fiona decides to stop trying to be Michael’s girlfriend. And Sam’s girlfriend Veronica wants him […]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
{4/5} “I fear this quest has set in motion forces we do not yet understand.” Gandalf the Grey comes to the home of Bilbo Baggins to offer him an unexpected opportunity — go on an adventure. A group of dwarves has decided now is the time to reclaim their home, which has been taken over […]
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
{4.5/5} “Everything will be all right in the end… if it’s not all right then it’s not yet the end.” A group of retirees from Britain, previously unknown to each other, travel to Jaipur, India to live in a hotel. The hotel turns out to be a bit more run down than the brochure indicated. […]
We Bought a Zoo
{4.5/5} “This is what happens when people have a you-know-what occur in their lives. They wake up one day and they say, ‘I’m going to quit my job and try something completely different with my life.’ But then they wake up another day and they say to themselves, ‘Thank God my older brother didn’t let […]
The Hudsucker Proxy
{4.5/5} “You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it’s a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o’clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock […]
The Devil Wears Prada
{4.5/5} “Did someone eat an onion bagel?” Andy, fresh out of school, goes to New York to be a magazine writer. The only job she can get is assistant at a fashion magazine. Even though she doesn’t know anything about fashion she’s whimsically hired by the editor, Miranda, who’s big in the fashion world and […]
Shadows in Flight
{4.5/5} “The human race had encountered only one alien species, ever, and had fought a war of extinction with them. According to a story told by the writer of The Hive Queen under the pseudonym ‘Speaker for the Dead,’ the Formics had not meant to wipe out the human race at all. But Carlotta wasn’t […]
Star Trek Typhon Pact: Brinkmanship
{4.5/5} “In many ways… Venetan culture is a better fit with the Tzenkethi than the Federation. Both civilizations are very stable and achieve that stability through a certain degree of conformism on the part of their members rather than encouraging individualism… Your Federation explorers and we Ferengi entrepreneurs are perhaps somewhat baffling to the Venetans. […]
Star Trek Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn
{4.5/5} “In a career that had taken him from the lowest foot soldier to the supreme commander of the Romulan military forces, the admiral had learned to identify most of the real enemies in the galaxy: ego, arrogance, self-righteousness, a hunger for power, a lack of compassion and perspective, an unwillingness to understand. In his […]
Star Trek Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night
{4.5/5} “The idea of such obvious power, so distasteful to her in the way that it for so long had been applied in Romulan society, seemed to mock her. Though she did not crave leadership, neither did she wish to be deposed. Having risen to the office of praetor, she wished to fashion her government […]