Good Time (2017)

starring Robert Pattinson
directed by Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Connie and Nick, his mentally challenged brother, hold up a bank. They don't get away with it. Nick gets caught. Connie tries hitting up his girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh) for some money to get Nick out on bail. Nick gets into a fight while he is in jail and beat up badly. He is taken to a hospital. Connie tries to break him out of the hospital with disastrous results. It just gets crazier from there.

Knights of Sidonia 1.01

Commencement

Nagate Tanikaze, a teenager, lives on Sidonia a city that travels through space. He has lived his whole life in the underground portion of the city. He was raised by Hiroki Saito, his grandfather. He ventures to the surface for the first time after he runs out of rice. He is injured and apprehended running from guards in the rice factory. He escapes, only to be recaptured. Ochiai, an agent of the Immortal Council, finds him and takes him to Captain Kobayashi.

He is quickly added to the pilot training program, at Captain Kobayashi's request. He is assigned to a dorm where he meets Lala Hiyama, the dorm mother. She looks like a bear that wears clothes and has a mechanical hand. Soon after that he meets Izana Shinatose, who is neither male nor femaile and is one of Nagate's classmates. Izana informs him that usually it is very difficult to get in the pilot training program.

Young Justice 2.06

Bloodlines

Bart Allen arrives from the future traveling in a time machine. The machine arrives in Mount Justice. Nightwing, Robin, and Beast Boy are there when he arrives. They don't trust that he is who he says is is, at first. They manage to capture him, but he escapes before too long. He adopts the name Impulse and tells them who he is, the grandson of Barry Allen (the Flash), before he leaves.

Taking of the Pelham One Two Three (1974)

starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo
directed by Joseph Sargent

The Pelham 1-2-3, a New York subway train, is hijacked by four armed men who identify themselves as Mr. Blue (Shaw), Mr. Green (Balsam), Mr. Grey (Elizondo), and Mr. Brown. They want one million dollars and only give the police an hour to cough up the ransom. If their demands are not met then they will start shooting hostages.

Transit Police Lieutenant Zachary Garber (Matthau) runs the operation to try and rescue the hostages and capture the hijackers. He gets some assistance from Transit Police Lieutenant Rico Patrone (Jerry Stiller).

Chris Claremont's X-Men (2018)

starring Chris Claremont, Louise Simonson, Ann Nocenti, Tom McLean, Peter Sanderson, Jim Shooter, Sean Howe
directed by Patrick Meaney

The story of Chris Claremont's contributions to the X-Men comic books is told in this documentary through interviews with all of the people named above and several others. Claremont wrote hundreds of issues of X-Men and X-Men related comic books from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. His contributions to the main comic books series and others should not be underestimated. Two of the editors Claremont worked with, Louise Simonson and Ann Nocenti, both of whom also wrote for Marvel during the 1980s, provide lots of detail that help to color in the picture of what it was like working with him.

Fargo 3.08

Who Rules the Land of Denial?

A few more details are filled in about what caused the bus crash. Yuri stepped out into the road as shown in 3.07 but, with some help from Meemo and Golem (the fake cop who tried to kill Nikki in jail), he set up a makeshift device that helped the bus to crash.

GLOW 3.10

A Very GLOW Christmas

The women of GLOW play the Secret Santa game. Ruth gets Carmen but Carmen knows it. She wants to do a GLOW version of A Christmas Carol for the last show of the year. Ruth is against it but reluctantly agrees to do it.

Samurai Jack 3.13

XXXIX: Jack and the Labyrinth

Jack enters a pyramid in search of an artifact which will help him return to the past but he is not alone. There is another man in the labyrinth inside the pyramid who seeks the same artifact. The two men eventually meet. They argue. They are attacked by the guardians of the pyramid. They flee together. They escape but the artifact is destroyed.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 1.09

No Princess Left Behind

Adora teams up with Perfuma, Mermista, Entrapta, and Seahawk to rescue Bow and Glimmer from the Fright Zone. Adora puts together a plan although it doesn't go exactly according to plan.

Entrapta gets very distracted by all the technology in the Fright Zone and wanders off on her own. She befriends a Horde robot, which she names Emily. She eventually regroups with the others.

Mermista swims through the sewers, much to her disgust, to open a gate into the Fright Zone.

Edge of Seventeen (2016)

Starring Hailey Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson
Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig

Nadine (Steinfeld) goes a little around the bend when Krista (Haley Lu Richardson), her best and only friend, starts dating Darian (Blake Jenner), Nadine's older brother. She doesn't get along with her mother (Kyra Sedgwick). Her father has been dead for a few years. She directs her angst at Mr. Bruner (Harrelson), her history teacher. She has a number of conversations with him over the course of the movie.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver
Directed by J. J. Abrams

Rey, Finn, Po, and friends continue to lead the rebellion in the fight against the First or Final Order. Kylo Ren attempts to consolidate his hold on the forces of the First or Final Order. A familiar face from from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi returns. Rey finally learns about her biological heritage. Ben Solo makes peace with the ghost of his father. Rey, Finn, Po, and friends journey takes them back to Endor where they find some of the remains of the Deathstar.

Thoughts

There are moments I like in this movie. Some made me laugh and some got me a little choked up.

I still don't understand the affinity that Rey and Ben have for one another or their psychic connection. Finn and Po felt like third wheels in this movie. Rey and Ben/Kylo were the stars.

This was just a little too much. I would prefer a simpler movie that doesn't attempt to over complicate things by including a cast of millions.

Dear White People 1.08

Chapter VIII

Lionel follows Troy around for a day and part of the night. He's trying to write a piece for the school newspaper about his roommate, the president of the student body, even though Silvio, his editor, gave that assignment to another staffer, Brooke.

Fargo 3.07

The Law of Inevitability

It is Christmas Eve. Varga opens all the packages under the Christmas Tree at Emmit's house. He stays there and waits until Emmit comes home.

GLOW 3.09

The Libertines

Ruth goes to Los Angeles for an audition for Justine's and Sam's movie. She thinks it goes well but then she realizes that they aren't just going to give her the part. She leaves after agreeing to meet with Sam in a couple hours. Sam, Justine, and the producer talk about Ruth but Sam is the only one who wants her to get the part.

UFO Robo Grendizer 1.14

Boss Borot is Here!

Everyone gets up early on New Year's Day and goes to the top of a mountain to watch the sunrise. They are dressed in kimonos. They return to the ranch to celebrate after the sun has risen. Danbei has a little too much to drink and falls asleep.

Hikaru flirts with Daisuke. She doesn't say it but it is pretty clear that she likes the way he looks in a kimono.

Boss, Nuke, and Mucha, three of Kouji's friends from his time with Mazinger Z, come to visit in their robot, Boss Borot. The Vegans send a minifo to investigate Boss Borot. They quickly decide to destroy it. They plant bombs on it and then send Dorio Dorio, a saucer beast, to destroy it.

Samurai Jack 3.11

The Birth of Evil

XXXVII: Part 1

A dark shape is chased through space by three gods (Ra, Rama, Odin). They attack it. It fights back but they strike it down. They seem to have destroyed it but a piece of it survives and makes its way to Earth. It crash lands on Earth in the time of the dinosaurs.

Fargo 3.06

The Lord of No Mercy

Ray and Nikki talk about the guys who beat her. She is still in bad shape. The pain is intense. Ray wants to kill them. They locate Yuri and Meemo and follow them from the office of Stussy, Inc. They see them meet with Varga. Ray is ready to get out of the car with murderous intent but Nikki convinces him that they need to wait for the right moment.

Meemo meets with the IRS auditor. He acts as if he is the lawyer for the company and chases off the auditor.

NewsRadio 3.19

Office Feud

The new upstairs tenant is a not-for-profit organization that is making lots of noise. Beth thinks that there are a bunch of hot guys upstairs. Joe thinks that they are the ones playing practical jokes on WNYX, at least two of which blow up in his face.

Bill starts doing radio spots for Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor with a "street" accent. Catherine gets him to try the drink. He gets plastered. She then talks him into modifying the radio spots by using new slang that she makes up.

Lisa spends the day at the White House covering the Easter Egg Roll. She tries interviewing a bunch of kids but none of them are cooperative.

Dear White People 1.07

Chapter VII

Sam and Reggie don't show up for the protest at the pep rally. Gabe is left wondering what happened. The ones who do show up to protest can't get in because it is a ticketed event. Gabe starts to see things in how Sam and Reggie are acting towards one another. He starts imagining things, sexy things, involving Sam and Reggie.

GLOW 3.08

Keep Ridin’

The show shifts forward in time. It opens with a celebration of their 50th show. This is followed by a time lapse scene which features Ruth in the foreground removing her makeup while everyone else does other post show stuff around her. When the time lapse scene ends they have just finished their 200th show and it shows. No one wants to celebrate.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 1.08

Princess Prom

Adora and Glimmer go to the All Princess Ball aka Princess Prom. Bow goes too but instead of going as Glimmer's plus one he goes with Perfuma. The event is hosted by Frosta, Princess of the Kingdom of Snows. They run into a number of people who have shown up in earlier episodes including Perfuma, Mermista, Sea Hawk (he claims to be her plus one but she says he's just her ride), Entrapta, Scorpia, and Catra. Scorpia got an invite because she is a princess. Catra is her plus one.

Glimmer spends most of the episode angry because Bow is hanging out with Perfuma. Adora tries unsuccessfully to talk Frosta into joining the Princess Alliance. There are no weapons allowed at the Princess Prom so Adora has to leave her sword at the door.

UFO Robo Grendizer 1.13

Grendizer Is in Danger

Daisuke is busy getting ready for New Year's celebrations on the farm when Giro Giro, the latest Vegan saucer beast, attacks. Giro Giro uses the power of the sun to charge up. It proves to be a little too much for Grendizer. Double Haken, one of Grendizer's weapon systems is knocked off line.

Grendizer escapes the fight before Giro Giro can deliver the killing blow. That night Kouji locates Giro Giro and tries to destroy it while it is immobile. Giro Giro proves to be a little more resistant than Kouji thought it would be.

Star Blazers 2199 1.13

The Wolf from Another Dimension

The Yamato is pursued by a transdimensional submarine of the Gamilan fleet, the UX-01 commanded by Captain Flaken. The Yamato hides in an asteroid field waiting for the enemy to expose itself. The enemy does the same until Captain Flaken grows tired of waiting. The UX-01 uncloaks and leaves the system but then sneaks back.

General Domel assumes formal command of the Milky Way Theater Operations. Domel's predecessor, Goer, who was last seen leaving his men behind while he fled in 1.10, is now his second in command.