Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
{4.5/5} “If you aim at nothing, you hit nothing.” Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, released in 2021 Shaun does valet parking and sings karaoke with his friend Katy. When some guys come out of nowhere to attack Shaun on a bus, Katy discovers he is an incredible martial artist as he defeats […]
Turning Red
{4.5/5} “You’re so fluffy!” Turning Red, released in 2022 Meilin is 13 — she sometimes feels like doing her own thing, and sometimes feels like doing what her mom wants her to do. She does well in school, and has some good friends she hangs out with. She also helps her mom give tours of […]
The Future of Another Timeline
{5/5} “Watching women demure to men in public and suffer the consequences of their abuse in private, it was hard to believe we were at a transition point in history when women’s growing power could unsettle a long-established social order. But change is never linear or obvious. Often progress only becomes detectable when it inspires […]
Star Trek: Picard — The Dark Veil
{4.5/5} “For some time, Romulan ships have been coming across anonymous caches of survival resources and material, left near border worlds where the refugees have been relocated. Medicines, replicators, and the like. Deposited there by some unknown benefactors, who have diligently scrubbed out any evidence of their origin. Almost as if a handful of Starfleet […]
DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Be Like a Bird”
I attended DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Be Like a Bird.” Here’s the program: Be Like a Bird — Abbie Betinis One Ruby-throated Moment — Leonard Enns Mid-Winter Songs — Morten Lauridsen * Lament for Pasiphae Like Snow She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep Mid-Winter Waking Intercession in Late October Ondine (Prelude, Book 2, No. […]
Star Trek: Discovery — Wonderlands
{4.5/5} “The enormity of this hit her at last when she transported onto the bridge of what was plainly an old science vessel. Even this far into her own future, something of the basic design remained familiar. The curve of the bridge, the various stations, the captain’s chair. Every console was dark, every system was […]
Star Trek: Discovery (season 4)
{5/5} “We are both justified in our anger. Allowing it to be our focus, however, only prevents us from achieving those things which serve the greater good. It is a struggle, yes, but a worthy one.” — Saru Star Trek: Discovery season 4, aired in 2021-22 Discovery is bringing dilithium to planets that haven’t had […]
Old
{4/5} “My mom might let me Facetime you. Then we can be friends. You can come over to my house and make up stories. Then we can go to the same college together, and become neighbours with mortgages.” Old, released in 2021 Guy and Prisca are on a tropical vacation with their kids, Maddox and […]
News of the World
{5/5} “I guess we both have demons to face, going down this road.” News of the World, released in 2020 Captain Kidd was a soldier in the civil war, and now he goes from town to town reading the news. He’s able to calm the room when people get upset. He comes across a girl […]
World Engines: Creator
{4.5/5} “This… this super Earth in a lifeless Solar System, stuffed with samples of lost life from the real Earth. To show us what we missed? This is clearly a comparative exercise. But I doubt very much it is for our benefit.” World Engines: Creator by Stephen Baxter, published in 2020 Reid Malenfant and his […]