Star Trek Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within
{4.5/5} “Yeah, but after Andor, if I screwed up this alliance, Admiral Akaar would transfer me to maintenance detail in the center of the nearest star, and then put my vaporized atoms on report for dereliction of duty.” Captain Picard is hoping the Talarian Republic will join the expanded Khitomer Alliance. Jono, the human who […]
Lord of Emperors
{5/5} “He is not an old man by any means, but he is sufficiently advanced in years to hear horses and chariots in the night: the distant harbingers of an end to mortal tenure. There is much to do before he hears — as all true and holy Emperors are said to hear — the […]
Burn Notice (season 1)
{5/5} “Covert intelligence involves a lot of waiting around. Know what it’s like being a spy? Like sitting in your dentist’s reception area twenty-four hours a day. You read magazines, sip coffee, and every so often someone tries to kill you.” Michael Weston is on a mission in Nigeria when his contact tells him there’s […]
The IT Crowd: The Internet is Coming
{3.5/5} “Does it ever seem to you that the things that happen to us are sort of strange?” Roy has a girlfriend who’s knowledgeable about comics, Jen swoons over a server at a coffee shop, and Moss is making videos of board game reviews (which no one likes). Douglas thinks Jen is his assistant Joan and […]
Thor: The Dark World
{4.5/5} “You must be truly desperate to come to me for help. What makes you think you can trust me?” Malekith’s race was defeated by Odin’s father but he has been in hibernation, waiting for the day when he can get his hands on a powerful weapon called the Aether. Malekith will take advantage of […]
DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Evening Song”
I went to the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s performance titled “Evening Song,” the start of their 15th anniversary season. I didn’t know any of the pieces, but the choir was splendid as always. There were a couple of pieces for solo clarinet: Rhapsody — Willson Osborne “Prelude” from Ten a Penny Pieces — Clifford Crawley One piece […]
Sailing to Sarantium
{5/5} “To say of a man that he was sailing to Sarantium was to say that his life was on the cusp of change: poised for emergent greatness, brilliance, fortune — or else at the very precipice of a final and absolute fall as he met something too vast for his capacity.” The emperor summons […]
Amelie
{5/5} “I am nobody’s little weasel.” Amelie’s mother died when she was young and her father wasn’t very sociable so she spent a lot of time using her imagination. She’s now a waitress — she has some interesting coworkers and customers. She finds a box of knick knacks hidden in her wall and vows to […]
The Artist
{4.5/5} “Why do you refuse to talk?” George is a big silent movie star. Peppy bumps into George and they get their picture taken with her kissing him on the cheek — this picture is on the front page of the paper the next day. Peppy wants to be an actress, and she starts by […]
The Matrix
{5/5} “There is no spoon.” Neo is a hacker who knows that something’s wrong with the world. He’s approached by some mysterious people, Trinity and Morpheus, who say they can tell him the truth about the world — if he’s ready to hear it. The truth is that he’s been living in the Matrix, a […]