The Outer Limits (1963) 1.25

The Mutant

starring Larry Pennell, Warren Oates, Walter Burke

written by Allen Balter, Robert Mintz

directed by Alan Crosland, Jr.

Dr. Evan Marshall arrives on Annex One, a planet where the sun never sets. The atmosphere is breathable. Marshall joins an expeditionary team that has been there for a couple years and was led by the recently deceased Philip Griffith. Marshall is there to check on them, see how they are doing.

Noir City DC 2026 - Week 1

Noir City DC 2026

Week 1

The theme of this year's edition of Noir City DC was Face the Music! Eleven films about musicians in noir films were shown during the first week. I made it to eight of them and watched a ninth one on Tubi. The two I skipped were both films that I watched in the past few years. The first six screenings I saw were introduced by Eddie Muller. 

Thursday

• Hangover Square (1945)
• Blues in the Night (1941)

Friday

• The Man I Love (1946)
• Gilda (1946)

Saturday

• Nora Prentiss (1947)
• The Crimson Canary (1945)

Sunday

• Nocturne (1946)

Monday

• Black Angel (1946)

Tuesday

• All Night Long (1962)

My favorites from the first week were Gilda (1946), Nora Prentiss (1947), and All Night Long (1962). The two movies I skipped were To Have and Have Not (1943) and A Man Called Adam (1966) because I had seen both of them in the past few years and I wasn't dying to see them again.

For more about movies I've seen at prior editions of Noir City DC click on the NCS tag below or see the following posts

• Noir City DC 2025
• Noir City DC 2024
• Noir City DC 2023
• Noir City DC 2022
  

Party Down 2.03

Nick DiCinto's Orgy Night

The Party Down team caters a recently divorced man's orgy night. None of the guests realize that's what is supposed to be going on. Roman offers to help get people in the mood. Ron does nothing but act sad because he just got dumped. Kyle gets rejected by one of the women Nick hired to stand around topless. Lydia is interested in Nick but gets nowhere with him.

Thoughts

This was an okay episode. The topless women were a little distracting. I laughed a few times. Not my favorite episode but not bad.

10/14/26 - 22:10

The Twilight Zone (1959) 1.29

Nightmare of a Child

starring Janice Rule, Shepperd Strudwick, Terry Burnham

written by Rod Serling

directed by Alvin Ganzer

Schoolteacher Helen Foley (Janice Rule) finds a little girl (Terry Burnham) sitting on the steps outside her apartment. She invites the little girl in for some hot cocoa. The girl, whose nickname is Markie, knows things about Helen. Markie runs off, out the back door to the apartment when someone else comes the door, a man named Peter Selden (Shepperd Strudwick).

Mr. Selden knows Helen but she doesn't remember him. He knew her mother. He killed her mother. He's there to finish the job he started years ago when he murdered Helen's mother.

All Night Long (1962)

All Night Long (1962)

starring Patrick McGoohan, Keith Mitchell, Betsy Blair, Paul Harris

written by Paul Jarrico, Nel King

directed by Basil Dearden

91 minutes

Drummer Johnny Cousin (Patrick McGoohan) wants to break away from band leader and pianist Aurelius Rex (Paul Harris). He wants Rex's wife Delia to sing for his band. Cousin knows that Rex doesn't want her to work anymore. Johnny, at a party celebrating Aurelius and Delia's first wedding anniversary, manipulates Rex, Delia, and Rex's road manager Cass (Keith Mitchell) to make it look like Cass is irresponsible and having an affair with Delia.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2.24

The Collaborator

Vedek Bareil visits Deep Space Nine in the days leading up to the election of the new Kai. Information surfaces that he might have been the one responsible for helping the Cardassians to locate and destroy a camp of Bajoran resistance fighters during the war. Kira, who loves Bareil, is tasked with finding out the truth.

Vedek Winn also visits the station. She seems to accept that Bareil will be elected Kai but she also does things to irk Kira. 

Kira gets some help from Chief O'Brien, Odo, and Quark in accessing old records to see what she can learn about what happened on board the space station years before. The trail of information points to the fact that the records she seeks were destroyed by Vedek Bareil. She believes at first that this means that he was the one who helped the Cardassians. She passes what she had learned on to Vedek Winn.

Tales from the Crypt 2.06

The Thing from the Grave

starring Miguel Ferrer, Teri Hatcher, Kyle Secor

written and directed by Fred Dekker

Photographer Devlin Cates (Kyle Secor) earns the ire of Mitch Bruckner (Miguel Ferrer) after he shows an interest in and then starts an affair with Stacy (Teri Hatcher), Mitch's girlfriend. Mitch kills Devlin but the photographer mysteriously comes back to life and comes after Mitch.

Thoughts

This is not a very good episode. It looks like it was made on a very tight budget based on the way it was shot. The characters are paper thin. It felt like all three of the leads were just reading their lines. I'm not sure how this episode could be made better but as is it does not work for me.