Criminal defense attorney Arthur Jamison (Sir Anthony Hopkins) wants to get a divorce from his wife Louise Jamison (Blythe Danner). He knows that the downside would be the hefty alimony payments his wife would receive from him. Instead of facing this monetary dilemma, he comes up with an imaginary alter ego to help him plan the perfect murder of his wife.

Spinster septuagenarian Ella Bishop, on the brink of retirement from her fifty-two year career as the freshman English teacher at small town Midwestern University, her alma mater, wants to look toward the future, but can't help reflect upon her past, what brought her to this point. Although she always wanted to be a teacher and was both surprised and ecstatic when her mentor, Midwestern's then President James Corcoran, offered her the English teacher opening upon graduation, she only saw it as one short phase of her life until she got married and had a family, unlike her younger cousin, Amy Saunders, who solely needed romance and love to feel fulfilled. She thinks about the two men with who she was mutually in love and would have married if she could have if it not for one circumstance or another, and the one man whose love for her was and is unrequited, at least in the romantic sense, but who was and has always been there for her. Although never haven given birth to a child of her own, she thinks about the many to who she has acted as a mother or grandmother either in a practical and/or emotional sense, including her many students, some who have gone on to great things, her niece Hope who she practically raised, and her grand-niece, Gretchen. She also thinks about having stayed at Midwestern in her home town, her career which was not always smooth sailing, especially with the changing times.

My Trekkie friend gets out of the car, "Hey I have a present for you.""Oh?""Well, I mean, you can't keep it."Now at this point I'm wondering what sort of present is not kept.She hands me a book, "It's a Star Trek encyclopedia."Seasoned Trekkie from Trekkie family loans a Trek encyclopedia to a relatively new watcher who is (sadly) only 17 episodes from the end of TNG.A comment on being almost done with TNG: I want to watch DS9, but I'm really going to miss Data. I love Data.Now, my Trekkie friend and her family are very against spoilers, yet they have loaned me this giant encyclopedia. I hate spoilers.Am I going to read this encyclopedia anyway?Yes. Because it looks amazing.Also because I will have to give it back and I don't think I have time to watch the rest of the Trek franchise before a reasonable loaning period has passed.

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Salia

Including related genres that are basically the same thing, like dieselpunk and whalepunk

Steampunk

Leaning towards movies that feature the more philosophical, sociological, or horror aspects of war than the standard blockbuster.

War Movies

I generally don't like romcoms, because the comedy detracts from the movie IMO

Romance

Mostly Sci-Fi, but included some things that may not technically fit. There's also some Sci-Fi stuff not on this list, but I tried to include my favorite stuff.

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Bookmarks are being cluttered by things I've already seen, so I'm putting uncategorized stuff that I've already seen here. Some are movies I didn't quite like enough to actually "like", and some I haven't seen recently enough to judge them accurately.

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Philosophical conflicts / Moral Dilemmas 

Time travel, warped memories, hallucinations, and/or dreams (or the possibility of one of those). Basically anything twilight zoney (plus some fun time travel stuff).

Mind / reality bendy

I'm somewhat particular with horror. I don't like gore, and prefer psychological thrillers, suspense, and mysteries.