Playing By Heart
{4.5/5} “Talking about love is like dancing about architecture.” Paul and Hannah have been married a long time. Paul just found out he has a brain tumour — he doesn’t want to talk about it, and there are other things he doesn’t want to talk about either. Joan and Keenan just met but they like […]
The Ghost Writer
{4.5/5} “Forty thousand years of human language, and there’s no word to describe our relationship. It was doomed. ” A writer is hired for a lot of money to do some work on the memoirs of Adam Lang, former Prime Minister of Britain. The previous writer who was working on it mysteriously drowned. The writer […]
Never Let Me Go
{4.5/5} “It had never occurred to me that our lives, so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart. ” Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth attend a boarding school that seems almost normal. There are a few strange […]
Star Trek: Rough Beasts of Empire
{4.5/5} “Modern Vulcan culture focuses on the individual mastery of emotion as well as an everyday reliance on logic… This, of course, contrasts with Romulan cultural norms.” Spock is on Romulus, promoting the reunification of Vulcans and Romulans, when he’s attacked by a Reman and almost killed. Who sent the Reman to try to kill him? Romulan […]
Stargate Universe (season 2)
{4.5/5} “Out here on the edge of the universe who you are and what you believe is everything, so it’s up to you to decide if this is a blessing or a curse.” In “Trial and Error” Young has vivid recurring dreams about the same situation but no matter what choice he makes the ship […]
Star Trek Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
{4.5/5} “What do you propose I do about it? Do you expect the warrior caste to intimidate the local star into better behavior?” The starship Titan under the command of Captain Riker has discovered evidence that an ancient civilization had technology like the Genesis device to convert planets from lifelessness to life. Meanwhile the Gorn […]
Night at the Museum: Battle of Smithsonian
{3/5} “‘What, did they run out of U’s on your name plate?’ ”I dunno, did they run out of jokes at the Interesting Joke Store that you shop at?” A few years ago Larry was a night guard at a museum in New York when a strange thing happened — all the exhibits came to […]
Star Trek Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game
{4.5/5} “‘In Simon Says, the losers don’t get shot in the head.’ ‘They do in the original Klingon version.’” Dr. Julian Bashir has been recruited for a dangerous mission — infiltrate the Breen and sabotage their development of the slipstream drive. His accomplice is Sarina Douglas, who works for Starfleet Intelligence — Bashir has met […]
The Eyes of the Overworld
{4/5} “I dimly recall that I inhabit a sty and devour the coarsest of food — but the subjective reality is that I inhabit a glorious palace and dine on splendid viands among the princes and princesses who are my peers. It is explained thus: the demon Underherd looked from the sub-world to this one; […]
Looper
{5/5} “‘I’m going to France.’ ‘I’m from the future. Go to China.’” Time travel hasn’t been invented yet but it will be in 30 years. In the future a criminal organization uses time travel to dispose of people they want killed — they hire loopers in the current time to kill the people that show […]