5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)

5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)

starring Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondou, Satomi Hanamura

written and directed by Makoto Shinkai

62 minutes

This movie consists of three stories. The first is about Takaki (Kenji Mizuhashi) and Akari (Yoshimi Kondou). They met when they were in 4th grade. They bonded to the point that others teased them about being married. Her family moves away but they stay in touch through letters. Takaki decides to visit Akari after he learns that his family is going to be moving very far away.

Takaki takes the train to see Akari one day in March. It snows. The train gets delayed but he eventually gets their, hours late. She is waiting for him. They share some food, go for a walk, kiss under a tree, and then spend the rest of the night huddled up together. He goes back home the next day.

Ranma 1/2 (2024) 1.01

Here’s Ranma

Mr. Tendo announces to his three teenage daughters (Kasume, Nabiki, Akane) that one of them is going to have to marry Ranma Saotome the son of his friend Genma Saotome. His daughters are both annoyed and then surprised when Ranma shows up but is a girl instead of a boy and is accompanied by a panda bear.

The three Tendo sisters quickly learn that all is not as it seems. Genma and Ranma were both cursed. Genma is transformed into a panda and Ranma into a female version of himself when they are doused with cold water. They change back to their original forms when they are dowsed with warm or hot water.

Nabiki and Kasume decide that Akane will have to be the one to marry Ranma. Akane has no interest in marrying Ranma. She is a devoted martial artist, like her father, but not at his level or the same level as Genma or Ranma Saotome.

Dark Winds 1.03

K'e

A big part of this episode is a ceremony that Nanobah, Emma and Joe Leaphorn's niece, goes through. The ceremony happens because she recently had her first period. Her father doesn't know how to deal with it so she turns to Emma for help.

Joe hires Raymond Begay, who was a diver in the Navy, to see what he can find in the reservoir behind Hosteen Tso's home. It takes a while but he finally turns up something.

Lieutenant Leaphorn goes to Flagstaff to meet with Special Agent Whitover. Leaphorn tells Whitover about the missing Mormon family. Whitover is content to let Leaphorn deal with it. Joe returns home with the bodies of Anna Atcitty and Hosteen Tso. He turns Anna's body back over to her parents. He buries Hosteen Tso when he can't find his grandson, the priest.

Chee and Manuelito spend time talking and working together. They also help out with the ceremony for Nanobah. 

Doctor Who (1963) 2.02.02

The Daleks

(aka The Dalek Invasion of Earth - Part Two)

The Doctor and Ian are taken prisoner by the Dalek and the Robomen. They are taken taken to the Daleks’ flying saucer. They are thrown in a cell with Craddock, another prisoner. Craddock tells them all about how the Daleks took over the Earth.

The Daleks identify the Doctor as having above average intelligence. They place a device in his cell. He uses it to escape from the cell but it was just a test. The Doctor does not get more than a few steps outside his cell before he is recaptured. 

The rebels take care of Susan and Barbara. The rebels are planning an attack on the saucer where the Doctor and Ian are being held prisoner. Dortmun, their wheelchair bound leader, has made some bombs which he believes will be very effective against the Daleks.

Some of the humans disguise themselves as Robomen, an idea that Barbara thought up, and they use that scheme to allow them to get close to the saucer without being detected. They use the bombs and break into the saucer. 

The Doctor is taken against his will to an operating room. He is sedated and operated on as the attack on the saucer begins.

Moonlighting 2.09

Atlas Belched

Maddie gets an offer from another agency that wants to buy Blue Moon Detective Agency. David advises her against selling but she does anyway. David runs into a man, Phil West, who is about to lose his job. His story is that a rolodex was stolen off his desk. It's a rolodex with a lot of phone numbers for very important people, worldwide.

David helps Phil find the rolodex and then finds out that Maddie sold the company. David goes to Phil's boss and tries to impress him by pointing out that he's the one who found the rolodex. It is then that David learns that someone is holding the rolodex for ransom. Phil's boss assumes that Phil is the one ransoming the rolodex and accuses David of colluding with Phil.

David runs out of there ASAP. Maddie, meanwhile, discovers that everything has changed at the office since she sold the company. She doesn't like it. Maddie and David track down the rolodex and Phil. They talk him into giving it back. They promise to tell his boss that he was held hostage along with the rolodex.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.35

Bilko's Prize Poodle

Doberman buys himself a dog, a poodle that he names Louise, to keep him company after his girlfriend dumps him. Bilko gets the impression, due to a mix-up, that the poodle has an impressive pedigree. He makes plans for the poodles but his plans get derailed after Doberman gets transferred to Alaska.

Louise isn't the same after Doberman leaves. Bilko scrambles and gets Doberman back in time for the dog show. Louise's mood improves enough to place first at the dog show. Bilko's plans fall apart and when the truth comes out about Louise's pedigree.

Thoughts

Colonel Hall is not in this episode. 

This was decent. It wasn't the best but it was a good episode.

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

starring Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano

directed by Zelda Williams

102 minutes

Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) was still in shock over the brutal murder of her mother when her father married Janet. She was forced to move and change schools for her final year of high school. She starts to wake up to the world around her with some help from Janet's daughter Taffy (Liza Soberano) and her father, when a mute but animated corpse (Cole Sprouse) enters her life.

The corpse is incomplete. It is missing a hand and an ear. Lisa helps it correct these deficiencies. She uses a combination of her sewing skills and Taffy's tanning bed to perform surgery on the corpse. Fixing the corpse isn’t enough for Lisa. She has other ambitions and, although she doesn’t realize it at first, the corpse has ambitions too.