World War Z
{4.5/5} “Each and every one of these people are here because they serve a purpose. There’s no room here for non-essential personnel. If you want to help your family, let’s figure out how we stop this.” An outbreak of a new disease spreads around the world quickly — the disease basically turns people into zombies. […]
People Like Us
{4.5/5} “I hope you never have to know what it’s like to love someone and then find out you’re not enough.” Sam works for a company that facilitates barters between companies who have leftover stock. He’s a great salesman but he made a mistake on one of his deals and now he has to bribe […]
Aliens
{4.5/5} “Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?” Ripley’s escape pod drifted through space for 57 years until someone rescued her. When she told the Company about the aliens she encountered on LV-426 they didn’t believe her. But now contact with the colony on LV-426 has been lost. The marines are sent in to investigate, and […]
Your Sister’s Sister
{4.5/5} “I really think your face is going to annoy me right now.” Jack’s brother has died and he’s having a tough time. His friend Iris invites him to stay at her family’s cottage for some alone time. When Jack arrives he’s surprised to find that Iris’s sister Hannah is there — she’s just broken […]
Sword of the Deceiver
{4.5/5} “Samudra felt another numbing moment of pure disbelief. The Huni were digging in on the northern border, his treaty with one of their father’s protectorates was shattered, a royal woman was threatened and humiliated in public. He, Samudra, had been all but accused of harboring traitorous designs, and the emperor of Hastinapura was having […]
Flight
{4.5/5} “The FAA and the NTSB took 10 pilots, placed them in simulators, recreated the events that led to this plane falling out of the sky. Do you know how many of them were able to safely land the planes? Not one. Every pilot crashed the aircraft, killed everybody on board.” Whip is a highly experienced […]
Iron Man 3
{4.5/5} “The old days, I never thought they’d come back to bite me. Why would they?” Tony Stark is having trouble sleeping, and when he does sleep he has nightmares. In his spare time he creates new and different versions of his Iron Man suit. When a new terrorist emerges calling himself the Mandarin, Tony […]
Penn & Teller: Fool Us (season 1)
{4.5/5} “We have to figure out how they did the trick seeing it once — and seeing it once from just the angle we have in the audience. We’re not watching monitors, we don’t have sneaky camera shots. We don’t have any information in advance. It’s just us sitting there. You come on and you […]
Side Effects
{4.5/5} “You don’t know what it’s like. OK, every afternoon it’s like… it’s like there’s this poisonous fog bank rolling in on my mind, and I’m paralyzed.” Emily’s husband Martin has just been released from prison, where he went for insider trading. She wants to resume her life with her husband. But she has battled […]
The Prisoner (season 1)
{3.5/5} “I will not make any deals with you. I’ve resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.” After a man resigns from his job, he’s drugged and whisked off to a town that’s called “the Village” where he finds himself a prisoner. The people in […]