TV #40 of 2016: The West Wing, season 3 My wife and I are still making our way through this show for her first time and my nth. The third season holds up pretty well, even though this was the one that began airing shortly after 9/11. There are definitely some plot decisions that I’m …
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Movie Review: The Martian (2015)
Movie #12 of 2016: The Martian (2015) This was my second time watching this movie, but my first time since reading the book it was based on. (I normally like to read a book before I see its movie adaptation, but the waiting list at my library for this one was super-long, and I really …
Movie Review: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Movie #11 of 2016: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) This is at least the third time I’ve seen this film, and the initial thoughts I jotted down in 2015 still stand: “This is such a good movie on every level, from character to worldbuilding to plot to sheer pulse-pounding spectacle. I still have the film …
Movie Review: Ghostbusters (1984)
Movie #10 of 2016: Ghostbusters (1984) My wife had never seen Ghostbusters before, so her family insisted on fixing that. (She seemed to like it a lot, especially when Rick Moranis ended up having a bigger part than she initially thought he was going to.) As for me, I saw this movie all the time …
Movie Review: Thor (2011)
Movie #7 of 2016: Thor (2011) I was only rewatching this film to look up the scene where Coulson mentions linguistics, but by the time I found it there were only about 20 minutes left, so I went ahead and finished. I feel like this is one of the less memorable MCU titles, and it …
Movie Review: My Fellow Americans (1996)
Movie #6 of 2016: My Fellow Americans (1996) This is one of those movies that my family watches ALL THE TIME. (Or at least, we did back when I was growing up. It’d been several years since the last time I saw it, though.) And as such, we quote it all the time. But my …
TV Review: Doctor Who, season 9
TV #5 of 2016: Doctor Who, season 9 I know I just watched it as it first aired, but last year’s season of Doctor Who was just as incredible the second time around. My review from a month ago stands: I know a lot of people have cooled on Doctor Who lately — or perhaps …
Movie Review: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Movie #17 of 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) [review originally posted 5/25/15] This is such a good movie on every level, from character to worldbuilding to plot to sheer pulse-pounding spectacle. I still have the film score roaring through my head, and I might need to go back and see it again in 3D. …
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