The Big C (season 3)
{4.5/5} “I can remember thinking in my dream: Wow, I have to remember when I wake up that I can fly.” The Big C season 3, aired in 2012 Cathy’s cancer treatments are working but she’s still having trouble getting her life together — one thing she would like is to have another baby. Husband […]
Stargate Atlantis (season 1)
{3.5/5} “You’re right. If only we had a magical tool that could slow down time. I foolishly left mine on Earth — did you bring yours?” Stargate Atlantis season 1, aired in 2004-05 I watched all of Stargate SG-1 last year so I thought I’d check out the rest of the Stargate franchise before moving […]
Dallas (premiere)
{4.5/5} “Bobby’s not stupid… but I’m a whole lot smarter.” Dallas premiere, aired in 2012 As I said, I won’t normally review single episodes of TV series, but I’ll make an exception for a series premiere. The original Dallas lasted 14 seasons. I was too young to watch it in its early years but was […]
Dandelion Wine
{4/5} “So, with the subtlest of incidents, he knew that this day was going to be different. It would be different also, because, as his father explained, driving Douglas and his ten-year-old brother Tom out of town toward the country, there were some days compounded completely of odor, nothing but the world blowing in one […]
Attack the Block
{4.5/5} “Even if it is an alien invasion, they’re four foot high, blind and got kicked to death by a bunch of kids. We got nothing to worry about.” Attack the Block, released in 2011 Moses is the leader of a gang of teenagers in London. They start the evening by mugging a woman named […]
Prometheus
{4/5} “Big things have small beginnings.” Prometheus, released in 2012 Archeologists have found evidence in multiple places on Earth that aliens have visited in the past. It’s possible that the aliens even left us a clue as to where to find them. In the late 21st century the Weyland Corporation sends a ship to that […]
Random Hearts
{4/5} “What’s the last thing that you can remember about your husband that you know to be true?” Random Hearts, released in 1999 It’s only on rare occasions now that I will watch a movie that’s on TV, with my viewing interrupted by commercials — this is one of those occasions. This was my second time […]
Wonder
{4.5/5} “Although we seemed to exist in different universes, I came to understand that to be an illusion. I am as much a part of the Milky Way Galaxy as she is; the electrons and photons of which I am made, although intangible to both her and me, are real… Despite these disparities of space […]
Watch
{4.5/5} “Back on the African savannah, those who mistook every bit of movement in the grass for a hungry lion were more likely to survive than those who dismissed each movement as nothing to worry about. If you always assume that it’s a lion, and nine times out of ten you’re wrong, at least you’re […]
Wake
{4.5/5} “Anyway, check it: I’ve got this transceiver attached to my optic nerve, just behind my left eye. When it’s turned on, it’ll grab the signals my retina is putting out and transmit them to this little external computer pack I’m supposed to carry around, like, forever; I called it my eyePod, and at least […]