Friday, April 30, 2021

The Limey (1999)

starring Terence Stamp
directed by Stephen Soderbergh

Wilson (Stamp) travels to Los Angeles after getting a word from a friend of Jenny, his daughter, that she's dead. She was killed in a car crash. Wilson is out for blood. He blames her boyfriend Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda) and starts looking for him. He gets help from a couple of Jenny's friends.

Elena (Lesley Ann Warren) helps to fill in some background. Eduardo (Luis Guzman) is an ex-con, as is Wilson. He helps Wilson get some guns and drives him around. They infiltrate a party at Valentine's home. Wilson fantasizes about killing Valentine but settles for throwing one of his flunkies off a balcony. They leave the party in a hurry. Avery, Valentine's security expert tries to stop them but Wilson and Eduardo get away.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Captain Harlock (1978) 1.07

The Pyramid on the Ocean Floor

Captain Harlock and his crew detect something strange in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle. They go underwater to investigate and discover a pyramid on the ocean floor. It has the same symbols on it as the pennant that crashed in Japan. They try to leave but a glowing light on the pyramid makes their ship crash into the pyramid.

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

The Phil Silvers Show 1.22

Dinner at Sowici's

Sgt Bilko gets nervous that Sgt Hogan, whom he has been dating for a year, is interested in getting married. He does what he can to convince her that it would be a bad idea for them to get married.

Bilko takes her for dinner at Sgt Sociwi's home after he sees how much Sowici argues with his wife. Things don't go exactly as Bilko had planned.

Monday, April 26, 2021

Invincible 1.04

Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out

Darkblood continues to investigate Omni-Man. Nolan pays Darkblood a visit. He tries to warn him off. Darkblood tells him that Debbie suspects that something isn't right. 

Mark goes on a date with Amber. It goes well. 

The new Guardians of the Globe move into the headquarters of the old, murdered team. Robot continues to act suspiciously. He takes a blood sample from Rex Splode without telling him.

The surviving Mauler Twin sets up a new headquarters. He starts working on a new clone of himself.

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Orange Is the New Black 4.09

Turn Table Turn

Cindy has to continue to play along now that the picture of Judy King kissing her has gone public and sold to a magazine. She isn't crazy about it. The way Cindy sees it Judy King is getting more out of it than she is.

Piscatella is angry about the picture. He puts Luschek in charge of a sweep of the prison. Luschek performs the sweep which turns up a box full of cell phones but not the one that has the picture on it.

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Star Trek: The Next Generation 2.08

A Matter of Honor

Commander Riker volunteers for an exchange mission on a Klingon ship. He does his best to prepare for the mission. He doesn't expect it to be a cake walk. He is challenged by the second officer aboard the Pagh, the Klingon ship, soon after boarding. Knowing how the Kilingon's do things Riker attacks without warning. 

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Samurai Jack 4.04

XLIII: The Aku Infection

Jack gets infected with some of Aku's evil. Aku was sick and coughed up a little bit of his evil which Jack accidentally inhaled. Jack slowly starts to transform into an Aku-like being. The transformation is almost complete when he arrives at a monastery. The monks try to help him but ultimately Jack has to cure himself. 

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

The Invaders 1.06

Vikor

A construction worker sees something he wasn't meant to see at Vikor Enterprises in Fort Scott, Florida. A security guard gets to him before he can escape but before he dies the construction worker tells one of his coworkers about the glowing man he saw.

Sunday, April 18, 2021

The Phil Silvers Show 1.21

The Rest Cure

Sgt Bilko cooks up a scheme to convince the top brass at the Pentagon that his unit is burned out and needs some R&R. He gets everyone in on the plan but he doesn't tell everyone what is going on. Captain Barker does his best to derail Bilko's plans. Major Friend comes from the Pentagon to investigate Fort Baxter and is stunned by what he finds.

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Invincible 1.03

Who You Calling Ugly?

The funeral for the Global Guardians happens. Cecil asks Robot to form a new team to replace the Global Guarbians. He takes the task seriously but some interpersonal drama between Rex Splode and Atom Eve causes problems. Eve walks in on Rex and Dupli Kate in the shower. Eve is selected for the new team, as are Rex Splode and Dupli Kate but Eve refuses to be on a team with them.

Orange Is the New Black 4.08

Friends in Low Places

Someone stole from Red. 

Chapman calls Cal, her brother. He and his wife are expecting. They have a ways to go and don't know yet if it is going to be a boy or a girl.

Judy King has a guard assigned to her now. He has to follow her into the bathroom when she showers.

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Captain Harlock (1978) 1.06

The Phantom Mazone

Captain Harlock reviews the video of the encounter with the captured Mazone warrior. He goes looking for Daiba and finds him asleep in his bunk. He rouses Daiba and together they go on a reconnaissance mission. They are attacked by a Mazone ship but they blow it up. The wreckage bears a symbol that indicates the ship came from Uranus. 

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

The Replacement Killers (1998)

starring Chow Yun Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker
directed by Antoine Fuqua

87 minutes

John Lee (Chow Yun Fat) is hired by Terence Wei to kill Stan Zedkov (Michael Rooker), a police detective, who killed his son. John accepts the job but doesn't have the heart to go through with it after he sees the cop playing with his family.

John turns to Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino) for help. He needs documents that will help him get back to China. She agrees to help him but they are interrupted by a squad of Mr. Wei's enforcers. John escapes but Meg gets caught by the police.

Monday, April 12, 2021

Freaks and Geeks 1.06

I'm with the Band

Mr. Fredericks, the gym teacher insists that everyone in his class needs to shower after class. Sam doesn't want to and talks Neal and Bill into not showering either. That works for a day. Bill and Neal decide to shower after that. Sam keeps avoiding the shower and making excuses for why he can't shower.

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Call My Agent! 1.01

Cécile

Gabriel Sarda flubs it when he needs to break bad news to one of his clients, actress Cécile de France. She was supposed to star in Quentin Tarantino's next movie but Tarantino has decided that at 40 she is too old for the part. Gabriel doesn't know how to approach Cécile. She winds up finding out inadvertently from Camille and then fires Gabriel.

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Justice League 2.10.B

Hereafter - Part 2

Superman wakes up. He can't seem to reach anyone on his communicator. The sun is red. His superpowers don't work. He assumes that he has been transported to another planet.

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Freaks and Geeks 1.05

Tests and Breasts

Sam gets embarrassed by Mr. Fredericks, who is teaching his Sex Ed. He calls Sam, Doctor Love, in front of the whole class. Some of the guys in his class continue to call him that outside of class which just causes more problems for Sam.

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Justice League 2.10.A

Hereafter - Part 1

Toyman, Live Wire, Weather Wizard, Kalibak, and Metallo team up to get revenge on Superman. They cause a disturbance in Metropolis in the hopes of luring the Man of Steel into their trap. Superman shows up eventually but he is preceded by the rest of the Justice League. Live Wire and Metallo are defeated. Kalibak puts up more of a fight. Weather Wizard's wand causes all sorts of destruction until Batman strips him of it.

Monday, April 5, 2021

The Invaders 1.05

Genesis

A motorcycle cop pulls over a station wagon with a couple teenagers in it. One of their headlights is busted. The teenagers try to talk him out of looking in the back of the car but the police officer insists. 

David Vincent arrives in Newport, Rhode Island. He goes to the hospital to see the police officer who stopped the station wagon, Sgt Hal Corman. Joan Corman, Hal's wife, and Lt. Greg Lucather, his co-worker, are there with him. Greg is instantly suspicious of Vincent. He runs him off but Vincent tracks down Joan Corman and talks her into taking him to see her husband. 

Sunday, April 4, 2021

Invincible 1.02

Here Goes Nothing

The GSA shows up and tries to bring the Guardians of the Globe back to life, without any success. Omni-Man is in a coma and bad shape but still alive. They take him to a hospital in the Pentagon.

Mark's mother stays with her husband at the Pentagon. He responds to an alien invasion. He gets some help from another superhero team, the Teen Team. The combined might of Invincible, Atom Eve, Rex Splode, Robot, and Dupli-Kate doesn't look like it will be enough to stop the aliens but then suddenly the aliens start getting weak and quickly leave through interdimensional portals.

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Orange Is the New Black 4.07

It Sounded Nicer in My Head

Chapman dumps Hapakuka and joins the Aryan Sisterhood. Chapman quickly starts to realize that she made a mistake. She tries to put some distance between herself and the Sisterhood but it is too late. Word has already gotten around about her and her friends.

Friday, April 2, 2021

Star Trek: The Next Generation 4.15

First Contact

Commander Riker is injured while on an undercover mission on Malcor. He is taken to a hospital. The doctors don't know what to make of him. He claims to be from a distant city and that his physical abnormalities are just abnormalities but word starts to spread in the hospital about him.

Captain Picard and Lieutenant Commander Troi beam to the surface of Malcor and approach Mirasta Yale, the scientist in charge of Malcor's warp drive project. They take her to the Enterprise to prove to her that they are who they say they are.

Thursday, April 1, 2021

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 4.03

Flutterina

Catra has nightmares about Adora and Entrapta. She soldiers on and doesn't tell anyone about them. Catra introduces Hordak to Double Trouble. Hordak still isn't completely on board with Catra's plans.

Adora, Bow, and Swift Wind go to a party thrown in their honor by the people of Elberon. Adora meets Flutterina, a girl who almost faints when they shake hands. The party gets interrupted by the news that there's a really big Horde robot in the area. She-Ra and Swift Wind leave the party to deal with the robot.

The robot proves to be a little more trouble than She-Ra and Swift Wind imagined it would be because it regenerates. They have to use their combined might to defeat it. They return to the party only to discover that the robot was just a distraction. Almost everyone is gone. They were taken prisoner by the Horde.