Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The Good Place 1.03

Tahani Al Jamil

Chidi tries to teach Eleanor to be good. Eleanor isn't a very good pupil. She thinks that Tahani is the one who left her the note. 

Michael tries to help Chidi find a hobby but all Chidi wants to do is finish writing the book he's been working on for close to two decades. 

Eleanor bonds with Tahani despite having her doubts about her. Michael asks Eleanor to be his assistant after Janet proves to be incapable of serving in that role.

Eleanor finds out that the person writing the notes is Jianyu. He talks for the first time and tells her that he also doesn't belong there and it's freaking him out.

Doctor Who (1963) 8.05.X1

The Devil Rides Out: Making The Daemons (2012)

29 minutes

A number of people were interviewed for this documentary including
  • Terrance Dicks, script editor
  • Barry Letts, producer and co-writer
  • Katy Manning, Jo Grant
  • Richard Franklin, Captain Mike Yeats
  • Damaris Hayman, Miss Hawthorne
  • Sue Heddon, assistant Floor manager 

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.17

The Older Sister

starring Joan Lorring, Carmen Matthews, Polly Rowles
written by Robert C. Dennis, Lillian de la Torre
directed by Robert Stevens

Reporter Nell Cutts (Polly Rowles) visits Lizzie Borden (Carmen Matthews) one year after she was acquitted of murdering her parents with an axe. Nell wants the truth from Lizzie. She first meets Emma (Joan Lorring), Lizzie's younger sister. Emma is in a rush to leave town but feels obliged to answer Ms. Cutts' questions.

Monday, March 23, 2026

Indomptables (2025)

Indomptables (2025)
aka Untamable

starring Thomas Ngijol, 
directed by Thomas Ngijol

in French with English subtitles

81 minutes

Police Commissioner Zarchary Billong investigates the murder of a police officer while his home life starts to unravel. Neither the investigation nor his home life are in great shape. The men he has working for him are rougher than necessary with the suspects. The corrupt and negligent actions of one of his men leads to the death of a top suspect. His relationship with Arthur, his oldest son, is rocky at best and comes apart until his son leaves home and goes to live with Adeline, Arthur's older sister, who similarly flew the coop when her father got to be too rough on her.

Amazing Stories (1985) 1.01

Ghost Train

starring Robert Blossom, Scott Paulin, Gail Edwards, Lukas Haas
written by Frank Deese, Steven Spielberg
directed by Steven Spielberg

Fenton (Scott Paulin) and Joleen Globe (Gail Edwards) bring his aged father, Clyde Globe (Roberts Blossom) home to live with them and their young son Brian (Lukas Haas) in their new house. The house is built on a piece of land through which the the railroad used to pass. Clyde doesn't like it. He takes his grandson around and figures out exactly where the railroad track used to be. He calculates that the tracks ran right through where the house stands now.

Sunday, March 22, 2026

La Règle du jeu (1939)

La Règle du jeu (1939)
aka The Rules of the Game

starring Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost
directed by Jean Renoir

110 minutes

in French with English subtitles

Robert (Marcel Dalio) and Christine de la Cheyniest (Nora Gregor) invite friends over for a weekend at their palatial home. The guest list includes former and current lovers of both spouses. The infidelity extends beyond the party guests to the servants including Lisette Schumacher (Paulette Dubost), Christine's chamber maid, who despite being married finds herself attracted to Marceau, a new addition to the staff. Ultimately the infidelity leads to tragedy as one of the guests is killed by Lisette's husband who thinks he witnesses Lisette being unfaithful with one of the guests.

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Kraft Suspense Theatre 2.02

Operation Greif

starring Claude Akins, Robert Goulet
written by Jerome Ross
directed by Jack Smight

German commando units infiltrate the allied lines in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge and sow confusion. Five American soldiers who barely know one another but are traveling together by chance start to suspect one another of being German. The paranoia rises to a point until one of them is caught in a lie.

He turns out not to be a German but one of the other soldiers does. The German spy murders a French teenager who catches on to his true identity and almost succeeds in his mission to blow up a US Army fire direction center.