The Drop (2014)

The Drop (2014)

starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini

written by Dennis Lehane

directed by Michael R. Roskam

106 minutes

Bob Saginowksi (Tom Hardy) works for Marv Stipler (James Gandolfini) who runs a bar named Cousin Marv's in Brooklyn. Marv used to own the bar but years ago he had to sell the place. The current owners are Chechen mobsters. They use the bar as one of many drop spots.

Bob finds a young puppy in someone's trash can one night while he is walking home. The owner of the trash can Nadia Dunn (Noomi Rapace) comes out to see what's going on. She doesn't want the dog but she helps Bob (who knows nothing about caring for dogs) with the dog that he names Rocco.

Brain Smasher... A Love Story (1993)

Brain Smasher... A Love Story (1993)

starring Andrew Dice Clay, Teri Hatcher, Yuji Okumoto

written and directed by Albert Pyun

Fashion model Samantha Crain (Teri Hatcher) is chased by Wu (Yuji Okumoto) and several other Shaolin Monks who want the flower that her sister Cammy sent her. Samantha hires Ed "Brain Smasher" Molloy (Andrew Dice Clay) to protect her as she runs around Portland, OR trying to evade Wu and the other monks and reunite with her sister.

Thoughts

I wish this movie was comically bad but unfortunately it is not. It just bland. Most of the movie takes place over the course of one night. Many of the fight scenes move so fast and were shot is such low lighting that i had time following the action.

Steven Universe 2.01

Full Disclosure

Steven tries to avoid Connie, in the aftermath of the fight with Jasper. He doesn't want to tell her the truth about what happened after he sees his father freak out after he tells him about what he and the others went through. Connie eventually finds him and he tells her about what happened.

Thoughts

This is basically just an aftermath episode. It is kind of an epilogue to the last couple episodes.

Adventure Time 5.27

Jake Suit

Jake gets tired of Finn abusing his body when he wears Jake's body like a suit of armor. Jake bets Finn that he can teach him to hate it if he wears Finn like a suit of armor. Finn accepts the wager and Jake goes to work. They visit Flame Princess who has some of her relatives over for a visit. Jake acts inappropriate but let's Flame Princess know what's up before he and Finn leave.

He takes Finn to a volcano but he chickens out at the last minute and doesn't throw them into a pool of lava.

Thoughts

This was good, but not great. I enjoyed it but it didn't really make me laugh or move me much.

Fumo Chitai 1.06

aka The Waste Land

Episode 6

Iki and his team work hard to get the ships that Mr. Huang has requested. Iki knows that they are in competition with Samejima and Tokyo Trading. Iki gets Vice President Satoi to agree to approve the purchase of the ships if he can get them for less than 400,000 a piece. Iki goes to Nitto Trading and gets the ships for 350,000 but he has to agree that Kinki Trading will import Israeli oranges for Nitto for the next three years.

A Man on the Inside 2.05

Thanksgiving Break

Charles invites everyone over to his place for Thanksgiving dinner. It starts out as a family thing (Emily plus her husband and kids) plus Mona and Calbert. Julie calls in a panic and Charles invites her to come over and bring her mother and Apollo. She also brings Megan. Julie drops off Calbert but winds up staying a while. One of Emily and Joel's kids invites someone he met online.

Everything is going well but then Julie insists that her mother tell everyone why she and Julie never had Thanksgiving like this when Julie was young. Vanessa does. The whole mood shifts and Julie gets angry.

Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation (2022)

Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation (2022)

directed by James L. Hussey

78 minutes

Through interviews with people in the art world and a couple of artists whose work Lichtenstein appropriated and used to create paintings that sold for millions of dollars, this documentary makes the case that Lichtenstein profited from the works of others without ever publicly offering attribution or financial compensation to the artists from whose works he lifted.