Teen Titans 3.13

Titans East (Part 2)

Cyborg quickly learns that his new teammates have been brainwashed by Brother Blood. They attack him. He tries calling his old teammates for help but his signal is being blocked. He tries to talk the other Titans East into resisting Brother Blood but it is too late.

Robin, Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy show up just when it seems like all hope is lost. The two teams fight one another. Cyborg gets pulled aside into a fight with Brother Blood. Cyborg tries his best but Brother Blood seems to have his number. He cuts off Cyborg's arms and legs. Brother Blood shows him how his new teammates have defeated Cyborg's old teammates.

Brother Blood still isn't satisfied. He still wants to know how Cyborg resists his brainwashing. Cyborg explains that it doesn't have anything to do with he mechanical body parts and then he uses a power that he has never exhibited before to repair himself and defeat Brother Blood.

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen 

directed by Lee Unkrich

103 minutes

Andy has graduated from high school and is getting ready to go to college. His mother insists that he clean up his room before he leaves. He has three options for his toys: take them with him, put them in the attic, or throw them away. There is a fourth option, donate them to Sunnyside Day Care Center.

Andy's toys almost get thrown out by Andy's mother but instead they wind up at Sunnyside. Woody isn't happy there he decides to leave but Andy's other toys decide to stay. Woody doesn't make it back to Andy he winds up with Bonnie, another child.

The other toys quickly learn that life at Sunnyside isn't quite as much fun as they thought it would be. They are assigned to the caterpillar room where the youngest kids play with them, very roughly. Lotso Hugs, a plush bear who smells like strawberries, is in charge. He has Buzz reset to factory mode and imprisons the other toys.

Woody learns from Bonnie's other toys about Lotso's past and what's he's really like. Woody sneaks back into Sunnyside and helps to engineer a prison break from Sunnyside for himself and his friends.

Slip 1.04

The Imposter

Rose invites Mae into her house. Mae is at a loss for words. Rose is not and talks a mile a minute. She has prepared all sorts of food. She shows Mae around the house. Elijah is a successful poet in this reality. Rose and Elijah want to have child. Mae is still confused until the door bell rings. It turns out that Rose thought Mae was a social worker from the adoption agency.

Mae takes off running. She scrambles over several fences in an effort to escape from Rose, who calls the police. Rose and two police officers chase Mae. She eventually evades them, for a time, with some help from Eddie, a guy she meets. She hangs out with Eddie and his sister until Rose spots them. Mae takes off running again. She escapes from Rose once again and by chance runs into Gina.

Alphaville (1965)

Alphaville (1965)

starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff

directed by Jean-Luc Godard

French with English subtitles

109 minutes

Lemmy Caution travels to Alphaville from the Outer Countries. He travels under the name of Ivan Johnson and claims to be a correspondent for Figaro-Pravda. He checks into a hotel where he meets Natacha Von Braun.

Lemmy goes looking for someone he knows. He quickly finds out that he is being tailed. He finds his friend and questions him about Natacha and her father, Professor Von Braun. According to his friend it is the professor who has remade society in Alphaville which includes getting rid of the artists. Lemmy's friend hands over a book (Capital de la Douleur) just before he dies and tells Lemmy that he should make the Alpha 60, the great supercomputer, destroy itself.

Star Trek: The Next Generation 5.03

Ensign Ro

Captain Picard is saddled with a new crew member, Ensign Ro Laren, by Admiral Kennelly after a Starfleet outpost is attacked by Bajoran terrorists. Ensign Ro was serving time in a Starfleet prison prior to the assignment. Captain Picard is given the task of finding the Bajoran terrorists who attacked the outpost and bringing them to justice.

Ensign Ro, who is also Bajoran, helps Captain Picard to contact the terrorists. All is not as it seems. Ensign Ro finally comes clean and tells the Captain about how Admiral Kennelly has stayed in contact with her. Captain Picard doesn't care for the Admiral's interference. He does what he can to interfere with the Admiral's plans with some help from Ensign Ro.

Schitt's Creek 2.11

The Motel Guest

Roland and Jocelyn's marital spat spills over into Johnny and Moira's relationship. Roland takes the room next door to Johnny and Moira at the motel after Jocelyn kicks him out. He plays loud music until 4 AM.

David helps Alexis check out an apartment for rent. It looks great but it has a draw back. There is something in the history of the apartment that is a major turn off.

Thoughts

Good but not great. This one felt a bit like filler. The character moments are good but there isn't much going on here.

Captain Harlock (1978) 1.36

The Eve of the Showdown

The Arcadia heads towards Mars where the advance force of the Mazone lies in wait. The main fleet of the Mazone is still outside the solar system. 

Doctor Zero looks after the Arcadia's new passenger, Shizuka Namino. He doesn't know it but she has earrings that are recording everything she sees. the information is sent back to Queen Lafresia. Everyone aboard the Arcadia seems to accept Shizuka without question except for Miime, who suspects that it is a mistake for Doctor Zero to give her a tour of the entire ship.

Doctor Who (1963) 11.04.01

The Monster of Peladon - Part One

The Doctor and Sarah Jane arrive on Peladon a place he has visited before. Peladon joined the Galactic Federation since he was last there, about 50 years prior to this visit. The Federation is in the midst of a war with Galaxy Five. The Federation is starting to mine trisilicate, a valuable mineral which would be very useful in the war. A couple miners have died under mysterious circumstances.

The Doctor and Sarah are accused of being the source of the trouble by Ortron, Queen Thalira's advisor. Ortron is ready to have them executed when Alpha Centauri, a one-eyed alien who was also there the last time the Doctor visited, shows up to vouch for him.

Teen Titans 3.12

Titans East (Part 1)

Cyborg travels to Steel City to help the Titans East get their headquarters up and running. Aqualad, Bumblebee, Speedy, and Mas y Menos make up the Titans East. Their HQ is a mess and they don't function very well as a team. Cyborg helps them to rectify both problems.

Cyborg is getting ready to leave Steel City when Brother Blood attacks Titans Tower East. He has brought with him his HIVE robots which look a lot like Cyborg and were built with the help of the plans to Cyborg's machinery that Brother Blood stole. The Titans East are able to repel the intruders including Brother Blood.

Chewing Gun 2.01

WTF Happened?

Three months have passed since the end of Season One. Tracey has a job working in a convenience store. She hasn't seen Connor in a few months. She sees pictures of him with another woman. Connor stops by the shop. He wants to talk. She tries to make like she has a celebrity boyfriend, Stormzy. She gets help from her cousin Ola faking the celebrity boyfriend routine. 

Thoughts

It has been about six years since I watched the first season. I think it was on Netflix at the time. I took a break from Chewing Gum after I finished the first season. The show was pulled from Netflix soon after that. It's available on Hoopla now. That's how I watched this episode.

The Glass Key (1935)

The Glass Key (1935)

starring George Raft, Edward Arnold

directed by Frank Tuttle

80 minutes

Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold) is accused of murdering Taylor Henry, the son of the Senator John T. Henry, the political candidate Madvig is backing in the upcoming election. Ed Beaumost (George Raft) does what he can to keep Madvig, his headstrong boss, out of trouble. Madvig, the political boss in town, is trying to lock everything down which has earned him some enemies. Shad O'Rory whose gambling house was shut down recently at Madvig's request, is his biggest enemy.

The situation is complicated by the fact that Madvig is fond of Janet, Senator Henry's daughter, although she does not reciprocate his feelings or have much interest in him.  The fact that Opal Madvig, Paul's daughter was dating Taylor and giving him money to help pay off gambling debts that he owed to O'Rory twists things up even more.

Beaumont does his best to protect his boss from self-sbotage, as difficult as that turns out to be.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.06

Bilko's Double Life

Bilko unknowingly changes places with multimillionaire Herbert Penfield III, who looks just like him. Bilko leaves Roseville with Barbella and Henshaw and heads to New York City. He owes a number of people money. Penfield leaves New York City and goes to Rosevile to get away from it all. Both men get treated like one another. 

Penfield gets the rough treatment that Bilko has earned. Bilko lives it up as Penfield once he realizes the mistake that is being made. 

Thoughts

Penfield is played by Phil Silvers. There is one scene at the very end of the episode where the two men cross paths.

Slip 1.03

The Mother

Mae is helped by Sandy, the woman with whom Vanessa was fighting. They go into the lesbian bar from which Sandy and Vanessa emerged. They start to talk. Sandy owns the bar. Mae tries to explain why she feels so disoriented. They wind up having sex in the bathroom.

Mae wakes up and finds out that she is married to Sandy and has a daughter with her. It is their daughter Eva's birthday. Eva wants Mae to help her with everything. She gets indignant when Sandy tries to help her.

Mae has to take Eva to school the next day. She realizes she doesn't know where Eva's school is. She digs through Eva's backpack and finds something that has the school name and address on it.

Mae drops Eva off at school and then walks across the street. She knocks on the door of the house, the same house where she lived with Elijah. A woman answers the door, Rose, Elijah's wife. She doesn't look real happy but she also doesn't look surprised by Mae's arrival at her doorstep. She tells Mae that Elijah will be back soon.

Hard Boiled (1992)

Hard Boiled (1992)

starring Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung

directed by John Woo

128 minutes

Tequila (Chow Yun-fat), a maverick police officer, teams up with Alan (Tony Leung), an undercover cop who is posing as a hit man for illegal arms dealers. Together they work to take down Johnny Wong, one of the top illegal arms dealers in Hong Kong. They work with Police Superintendent Pang and Teresa, Tequila's ex-girlfriend who is also a police officer. Johnny Wong has an army of men working for him including Mad Dog, a top notch killer.

Un Village Français 3.12

Règlements de comptes

or Settling of Scores

Marcel walks out into the woods with Suzanne. He pulls out the gun he was given but he doesn't kill her. He lets her go and does his best to make it look like he killed her and buried her body. When he meets up with his friends they want to know where her wedding ring is.

Crémieux comes to see Bériot. He needs a favor. He learned from someone else that the school has a printing press. He wants to use it. Crémieux uses a bit of coercion to convince Bériot to consider helping him but at the same time Bériot seems interested in doing something. Lucienne is nervous about doing anything for Crémieux that might endanger them. Bériot promises her that he told Crémieux that he wasn't going to help him but that isn't true.

Auntie Mame (1958)

Auntie Mame (1958)

starring Rosalind Russell

directed by Morton DaCosta

Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell) is entrusted with the care of her nephew Patrick after her brother dies suddenly and unexpectedly. She is unmarried and has no children at the time. Dwight Babcock, a bank official appointed by her brother's will, hampers her efforts to raise Patrick as she sees fit.

Mame tries various lines of work. She meets Beauregard (Forrest Tucker) while she is working in a department store. They fall in love and get married. 

Patrick grows up and goes to university. Beauregard dies while mountain climbing. Mame’s friends encourage her to write a book about her life. Patrick decides to get married but Mame does not approve of his bride to be or her parents. 

Dexter's Laboratory 1.09

1. Doll House Drama

Dexter shrinks himself down so he can spy on Dee Dee but she spots him and makes him play with her dolls.

2. The Justice Friends: Krunk's Date

Krunk goes gaga for a supervillain, She-Thing, one of Comrade Red's teammates.

3. The Big Cheese

Dexter uses a device to study French while he sleeps but it malfunctions and he wakes up only able to say one thing, omlete du fromage (cheese omlet).

Schitt's Creek 2.10

Ronnie's Party

Moira tursn to Ronnie for help after she finds out that Jocelyn had a successful fundraising dinner. David has to look after his boss's stepdaughter for one evening. Alexis starts to work for Ted.

Thoughts

Overall pretty good. I laughed more than once. Alexis did much better than I thought she would. I love how Moira tried to adjust after she learned that not all the women at Ronnie's party were lesbians.

Captain Harlock (1978) 1.35

The Beautiful Mysterious Woman

The Arcadia heads back towards Earth. Mayu teaches some of the crew members how to play the Ocarina.

Commander Mitsuru Kiruta, back on Earth, meets with a Mazone who gives him what she says are the Mazone invasion plans for Earth. She knows that he doesn't care for the Prime Minister and suggests that he join forces with the Mazone. He refuses and kills her.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.04 Extras

Running from the Tax Man: The Making of the Sun Makers (2011)

24 minutes

The people interviewed for this documentary include

• Louise Jameson, Leela
• Michael Keating, Goudry
• Pennant Roberts, director
• Dominic Sandbrook, writer and historian
• Marek Kukula, public astronomer

The subjects discussed in this documentary include

• what motivated Robert Holmes to structure the story the way he did
• how it appeals to everyone regardless of their political affiliation
• the status of the planet Pluto
• the meaning of the title
• roof top scenes
• cost constraints 
• problems with props
• level of violence

Slip 1.02

The Lush

Nothing is as it was in Mae's life. She is married to Eric, a celebrity DJ, who is getting ready to go on tour. She has a drug problem in this reality. Mae tries to find Elijah, without success. She finds out that she doesn't work at the museum and never has. Gina is a part of her life but also doesn't work at the museum. She gets followed on the street by a paparazzi. She confuses Eric with her behavior. She runs into Vanessa, her boss from her former life, who doesn't recognize her.

Thoughts

I'm thinking I will stick with this show but I hope that there will be some sort of development in the next episode. This episode seemed to be all about how hard of a time Mae is having trying to adapt. It was weird but it wasn't funny, for the most part. It felt very disorienting but I think that's how it was supposed to feel. I will be surprised and disappointed if the next episode is more of the same.

Brief Encounter (1945)

Brief Encounter (1945)

starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard

directed by David Lean

86 minutes

Laura Jesson and Alec Harvey meet by chance in the Milford train station. She has something caught in her eye. He gets it out. They meet a second time by chance. They both pass through the Milford train station every Thursday although they travel in from opposite directions to get there. Both are married to others. Both have children.

Over the period of a few weeks they continue to meet, go to lunch together, go to the movies, and spend time together. They lie to their loved ones in order to keep meeting and spending time together. Their physical infidelity goes no further than rare kisses but their emotional infidelity runs much deeper.

They both think about ending the relationship but feel themselves drawn to one another. Ultimately it is a job offer that Alec receives in South Africa that ends their relationship.

Un Village Français 3.11

Le traître 

or The Traitor

31 Oct 1941

Hortense comes to see Daniel in jail. He tells her that he wants a divorce. Hortense goes to Heinrich and tries to talk him into releasing Daniel. She insists that he not torture her husband. He agrees not to touch Daniel. Muller goes to see Daniel. He demands that Daniel tell him where Marcel is. Daniel tells him that he doesn't know and that he wouldn't tell him even if he did.

Raymond buys a farm for Marie and her sons. Things are still rocky between Raymond and Jeanine.

DeKervern gives Marchetti the results of his investigation. Marchetti rejects the conclusion that Raymond Schwartz is the murderer. Schwartz is a good example of Franco-German collaboration. Marchetti decides to hand the investigation over to someone younger. 

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Iron Man 3 (2013)

starring Robert Downey, Jr., Gwynneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce

directed by Shane Black

130 minutes

Bern, Switzerland - 1999 - Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) is partying at a conference with Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall), a scientist, when he is approached by Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), who tries to get Tony interested in his research project, Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM). Tony blows him off. 

Malibu, California - 2013 - Killian resurfaces. He shows up at Pepper Potts' (Gwyneth Paltrow) office unexpectedly. He tries to get her interested in his latest project. She listens to his pitch, unlike Tony, but doesn't commit to anything. Happy Hogan follows one of Killian's bodyguards and gets badly injured in a blast. The Mandarin, the leader of a terrorist organization, takes responsibility for the bombing. Tony is asked by the press about the attack. He lashes out and tells the Mandarin via the press, what his home address is.

Tony is making plans to investigate the Mandarin when Maya Hansen shows up at his house. She wants to talk to him. Before the conversation can get very far three helicopters attack Tony and Pepper's home. Tony, Pepper, and Maya just barely escape but the house is demolished. Tony zooms out of there (once he knows that the two women are safe) in one of his suits of armor.

Teen Titans 3.11

Bunny Raven... or... How to Make a Titananimal Disappear

The Teen Titans battle Mumbo while he is in the process of robbing a bank. He zaps them into his top hat. He changes Raven into a bunny. He changes Robin into a monkey. He changes Starfire into a cat. He changes Cyborg into a bear. He tries changing Beast Boy into an animal but Beast Boy keeps reverting to his human form so instead he changes him into a lamp.

The Titans are without their powers and for the most part helpless to try and stop Mumbo from doing whatever he wants to do. Raven comes up with a plan, in the end, that frees them from Mumbo's hat and helps them capture him.

Schitt's Creek 2.09

Moira's Nudes

David gets a car. Johnny owes money to the cafe. Alexis gets a job, working for Ted, her ex. Johnny asks David for a loan. Moira turns to Stevie for help finding the nude photographs taken of her (decades ago) on the internet.

Thoughts

Jocelyn and Roland aren't in this episode. The raw milk (from last episode) gets a mention but no more than that.

This was pretty good. I like the awkward familial interactions. That probably isn't the first and hopefully won't be the last time I make that statement.

UFO Robo Grendizer 3.06

The Appearance of a Fake Grendizer

or Grendizer, The Demon!

or Le sosie (The Double)

The Vegans bring another saucer beast to Earth. They disguise it by making it look exactly like Grendizer. They also make the pilot look just like Duke Fleed. The real Grendizer attacks a group of midifos. The Vegan ships flee into space. Greendizer follows them. The Vegans have a trap ready for Grendizer out in space. They surround the giant robot with magnetic asteroids that immobilize Grendizer.

Slip 1.01

The Wife

Mae feels that her marriage of thirteen years to Elijah is a bit stale. She has been supporting Elijah, who is a writer, for years. One night she goes home with Eric, a DJ she just met. She has amazing sex with him. She wakes up the next morning only to discover that the world has changed and now she is married to Eric.

Thoughts

Interesting premise. I'm curious to see where this goes. I'm not sure if I will watch all seven episodes or not. Based on what I see on IMDb it looks like Mae is the only character who is in all seven episodes. No one else appears in more than four episodes and many only appear in a single episode. 

Doctor Who (1963) 15.04.04

The Sun Makers - Part Four

The Doctor saves Leela from getting steamed to death. The revolution takes off in earnest. The Collector is disappointed when he doesn't hear any screams as Leela is steamed to death. He orders Gatherer Hade to do something. Hade tries but before long he thrown off the roof of a building. The Doctor and Leela investigate the Collector's office.

The Doctor has a chat with the Collector once he returns. The Collector is more than happy to tell the Doctor about his operation on Pluto and how he has more or less enslaved the humans who live there. The Collector is an Usurian, a fungal race and he reverts to his original form once he realizes that the odds are stacked against him.

The Doctor and Leela say their goodbyes to Mandrel, Cordo and the others and then depart with K-9 in the TARDIS.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.05

The Big Man Hunt

Bilko is trying to get out of town to go to Topeka for a poker tournament. Red, an old friend of Bilko's, who just struck it rich and whose life Bilko saved at Guadalcanal is looking for him. Ernie gets nervous when he hears that someone is looking for him. Eventually he meets up with Red but then Red gets some bad news.

Thoughts

This was a decent episode. I wasn't surprised that Bilko wasn't rich at the end of the episode. It was nice to see that they actually, more or less, wrapped things up and took the time to include an epilogue of sorts.

Black Dynamite (2009)

Black Dynamite (2009)

starring Michael Jai White

directed by Scott Sanders

84 minutes

Black Dynamite discovers a trail of drugs and evil deeds when he goes looking for the killer of his little brother. He ultimately discovers a conspiracy that leads him to the White House.

Thoughts

I have not seen many blaxploitation films. Based on what I have read and the one blaxploitation film I have seen in the past few years, Dolemite (1975), this is clearly inspired by the genre.

Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987) 1.05

Dark Victory

This episode starts with b-movies, moves on to film noir, and ends on the subject of the black listing of screen writers, producers, and directors who were accused of being communists and who refused to play ball with the congressional committees questioning them. Things really started to change at RKO in 1948 after Howard Hughes bought the studio.

Un Village Français 3.10

Par amour

or For the Sake of Love

Marcel finds out that Gustave ran away. He finds a phone and calls Daniel. He talks to Daniel and to Gustave. He promises to come see them that night.

Kurt returns but only briefly. He can't stay long. He asks Beriot to pass a message on to Lucienne to meet him at a place where they met before. Beriot doesn't tell him that he and Lucienne are planning to get married.

Heinrich breaks the bad news to Hortense. He is about to get shipped out to Minsk, unless he captures Marcel. She goes to visit Daniel. She sees Gustave and learns from him that Marcel will be there that night. She passes that information along to Heinrich.

Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston

directed by John Huston

126 minutes

Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), Bob Curtin (Tim Holt), and Howard (Walter Huston) pool their resources and go prospecting for gold in Mexico. They find what they are looking for but that isn’t all they find or that finds them. They are driven apart by forces within themselves and by people they meet on their journey. 

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

starring Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson, Eddie Izzard

directed by Ivan Reitman

96 minutes

Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) impresses Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman) when he chases down a guy who snatched her purse on the subway. They go out on a date. Their relationship seems to be developing nicely until Professor Bedlam (Eddie Izzard), an old friend of Jenny's, shows up.

Matt decides he doesn't want to be with Jenny anymore, after he finds out that she is the superhero known as G-Girl. She doesn't take his rejection very well. Matt jumps straight into the arms of Hannah Lewis (Anna Faris), one of his coworkers, which really irks Jenny.

Teen Titans 3.10

Can I Keep Him?

The Teen Titans return to the Tower after doing battle with Johnny Rancid and his robot dog. The Tower has been trashed. They start to look for the culprit. It turns out that the culprit is Silkie, a creation of Killer Moth (see Teen Titans 2.06). Beast Boy kept the little bundle of joy and now he asks Starfire to hide it for him.

Schitt's Creek 2.08

Milk Money

Alexis runs into Ted. He's looking much better than he did the last time she saw him, when she broke off their engagement.

Jocelyn goes clothes shopping. She gets some help from David picking out something to wear for her campaign for city council.

Johnny gets interested in getting into selling raw milk. He tries to get some help from Alexis but she kind of blows it.

Moira brings a bottle of vodka to the Jazzy Gals rehearsal.

Thoughts

Pretty good. Not great but good. I laugeed a few times. Everyone was really good. I think Ted will show up again in the near future. I'm not as certain about the raw milk.

UFO Robo Grendizer 3.05

The Ferocious Beetle

or Roar! My Monster

or Le monstre et l'enfant (The Monster and the Child)

A Vegan task force, led by Zuril, arrives in Tokyo at night. They set up in an abandonded building. They are spotted by Kiyoshi, a young boy, who is home alone with Budo Budo, his pet beetle. Zuril sees the boy watching them.

The next day Zuril finds Kiyoshi with his beetle in a park. Zuril hypnotizes the boy and takes him and Budo Budo back to his temporary headquarters.

Dexter's Laboratory 1.08

1. Babysitter Blues

Dexter is has a crush on Lisa, his babysitter, and tries to get her interested in reciprocating his feelings for her.

2. The Justice Friends: Valhallen's Room

Valhallen has lost his guitar, the source of his strength. Major Glory and Cronk search Valhallen's room for the missing musical instrument. 

3. Dream Machine

Dexter uses a dream machine to help him sleep better but it doesn't exactly work.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.04.03

The Sun Makers - Part Three

Leela tricks the guards into thinking that she, Cordo, and Bisham are ready to surrender. The guards approach and are blasted by K-9 who remained hidden around a corner. Leela and the others take the guards' vehicle. They crash through a checkpoint that is in the process of being taken down but Leela gets shot, falls off the vehicle, and is taken prisoner.

Mandrel is ready to interrogate the Doctor. He suspects him of being in league with Gatherer Hade. Cordo and Bisham return in time to help convince Mandrel that the Doctor is on their side. They come up with a plan to foment a mass uprising by disabling the power in Main Control. This would have a cascading effect on the plants that pump chemicals into the air, the chemicals that helps the company to control the people.

Johnny Belinda (1948)

Johnny Belinda (1948)

starring Jane Wyman, Lew Ayers, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Bickford

directed by Jean Negulesco

102 minutes

This is the story of Belinda MacDonald (Jane Wyman) a deaf mute woman who lives in a small town in a remote part of Nova Scotia. She learns to use sign language thanks to Dr. Robert Richardon. He brings her out of her shell. The locals don't know about what Dr. Richardson has done for Belinda and continue to look down on her. They call her the dummy.

Locky McCormick, one of the locals, rapes Belinda when she is at home by herself. Belinda becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy. Locky tries to get the boy from her. He has the backing of the town council but he underestimates Belinda.

NewsRadio 5.22

New Hampshire

Jimmy returns to announce that he has sold WNYX. He wants Dave to move to New Hampshire and run the local radio station which he just bought. Dave turns down Jimmy's offer but recommends that Jimmy hire Matthew in his place. One by one, Jimmy convinces everyone at WNYX (except Dave) to leave New York and move to New Hampshire.

Thoughts

This was a decent end to the show. It actually wrapped things up. There were some unresolved issues and things that were left a little ambiguous but it could have been much worse. I like a little ambiguity.

This episode was also funnier than the previous one.

The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman (2005)

The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman (2005)

directed by Barry Avrich

102 minutes

This documentary is about (mostly) the rise and (to a lesser degree) the fall of Lew Wasserman as a major figure behind the scenes in Hollywood from the 1940s to the 1990s. He came from a poor family in Cleveland, OH. He was the child of immigrants He quickly made an impression on people in the entertainment industry. He had connections with people who were known to be part of organized crime. He never wrote anything down and did not give interviews.

Wasserman became the head of MCA in the late 1940s. He made deals that increased the company's business greatly in the movie and television industries. Everything did not go MCA's way forever. MCA eventually got in trouble with the US Government because it exerted too much control in Hollywood. MCA was forced to reinvent itself. Wasserman missed opportunities later in his life that could have kept the company relevant. He was forced out in the end after he lost control of the company.

The Big Sleep (1946)

The Big Sleep (1946)

starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall

directed by Howard Hawks

115 minutes

Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by General Sternwood to figure out who is trying to blackmail his younger daughter, Carmen, and pay them off. Marlowe finds a tangled web of blackmail and murder. He is pushed by Vivian Rutledgs (Lauren Bacall), the general's older daughter, to drop the investigation once it seems that her father is satisfied. Marlowe isn't satisfied and continues to investigate.

Philip and Vivian are attracted to one another. He catches her in a lie on more than one occasion but that doesn't keep him from wanting to get closer to her.