The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway
{4/5} “I know you are but what am I?” Pee-wee would like to be able to fly like his friend Pterri (the pterodactyl). His friend Sergio hooks up cable so he can connect to the internet on his computer. And his friends Miss Yvonne and Cowboy Curtis like each other but are too shy to […]
Movies that are supposed to be funny
There are a few movies lately that I started watching but didn’t finish. They were all supposed to be comedies but I didn’t find them funny. It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World This is a 1963 movie in which a dying thief tells the people around him where a lot of money is (that […]
A Fine and Private Place
{4/5} “Caring about things is much more important to the dead because it’s all they have to keep them conscious. Without it they fade, dwindle, thin to the texture of a whisper. The same thing happens to people, but nobody notices it because their bodies act as masks. The dead have no masks.” Jonathan lives […]
The King of Comedy
{3.5/5} “Better to be king for a night than shmuck for a lifetime.” Rupert Pupkin wants to be a stand-up comedian. He practises in front of a fake audience in his basement. One day he manages to have a conversation with famous and beloved talk show host Jerry Langford. Rupert wants to be on Jerry’s […]
The Dark Knight Rises
{4/5} “A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.” It’s 8 years after Batman took the fall for the death of Harvey Dent — Bruce Wayne is a recluse in his […]
The Day After Tomorrow
{4.5/5} “Sir, I am president of the Electronics Club, the Math Club, and the Chess Club. Now if there’s a bigger nerd in here, please… point him out.” The politicians don’t listen to the scientists, and a huge disaster hits the largely unprepared people of Earth. A sudden climate shift begins with a series of […]
Political Animals (premiere)
{5/5} “I hate campaigning. It’s an Olympic sport in hypocrisy. Fat smokers frowning on and on about their… medical coverage. Smiling when babies with runny noses are shoved in my face. And most of all, I hate lying… telling people that things are going to get better when they never will.” Elaine almost becomes the […]
The Sirens of Titan
{4.5/5} “Winston Niles Rumfoord had run his private space ship right into the heart of an uncharted chrono-synclastic infundibulum two days out of Mars. Only his dog had been along. Now Winston Niles Rumfoord and his dog Kazak existed as wave phenomena — apparently pulsing in a distorted spiral with its origin in the Sun […]
China Mountain Zhang
{4.5/5} “I am impure, a mongrel. I am an imposter. And there is more that he doesn’t know. When I tell him what I am, he will look foolish because he has mistaken me for Chinese, he will lose face. We will pretend that nothing was ever said. Then when this job is finished he […]
Stargate Atlantis (season 2)
{4.5/5} “I’m not crazy, I just have another consciousness inside my brain.” In “Aurora” they find an Ancient ship with all of its crew in stasis. When McKay discovers that they’re communicating with each other in stasis, Sheppard goes into stasis himself to find out what they’re saying. In “Duet” McKay and Laura Cadman are […]