Doctor Who (1963) 8.05.03

The Daemons - Part Three

The Doctor scares off Bok, the gargoyle, with a piece of iron. It seems to believe that it has magical powers even though it doesn't. The Master is very disappointed.

The Doctor and Jo return to the village. The Doctor explains to Jo, Miss Hawthorne, Sgt Benton, and Captain Yeats about the forces that the Master is trying to call forth. It isn't the Devil or occult magic, as Miss Hawthorne seems to believe, but aliens who arrived on Earth 100,000 years ago.

The Master calls a meeting of the leading villagers. He explains to them that he needs their help. He promises to reward them if they will do his bidding. The Squire, one of the village elders decides he's had enough. The Master punishes his insolence by calling forth Bok who vaporizes the Squire.

The Twilight Zone 1.13

The Four of Us Are Dying

starring Harry Townes, Phillip Pine, Ross Martin, Don Gordon

directed by John Brahm

Arch Hammer (Harry Townes), a man who can change his appearance at will attempts to use his superpower to his advantage but it gets him into trouble, lots of trouble; the kind of trouble that gets him killed!

Arch starts off by impersonating a dead man, musician Johnny Foster (Ross Martin). He uses Johnny's appearance to seduce Maggie, a lounge singer. Next, he makes himself look like gangster Virge Sterig (Phillip Pine) and strongarms a mob boss out of some money. The mob boss's henchmen come after him so he changes his appearance once again. This time he makes himself look like Andy Marshak (Don Gordon).

Bleach 41 / 2.21

Reunion, Ichigo and Rukia

Ichigo wakes up and finds Yoruichi sitting near him. Yoruichi tells Ichigo to rest but Ichigo doesn't. He freaks out when Yoruichi transforms into her human form and is revealed to be a naked woman. He takes a magic rod she shows him, against her protestations, and uses it to fly to the Senzaikyū.

Ichigo doesn't arrive until after Ganju has attempted to deal with Sixth Squad Captain Byakuya Kuchiki. Captain Kuchiki knows that Ganju is hopelessly outclassed. He goes easy on Ganju until he learns that his opponent is of the Shiba Clan. He then unleashes the full power of his Zanpakutō. which disperses the blade into a thousand pieces that fly at Ganju and cut him up. Ganju collapses, unconscious or dead.

Four Star Playhouse 1.08

Knockout

starring Broderick Crawford

directed and co-written by Blake Edwards

Boxing manager Mike Dundee (Broderick Crawford) takes a chance on Bobby Gregory, a very raw talent. Julio, Dundee's trainer, gets Gregory into shape. Gregory does well as a professional boxer but he gets thrown a curveball on the night before his first big fight when he learns that the champion he will be fighting has been paid to throw the fight by a gangster named Bulloti who has waged $200K on the match.

Thoughts

This is a decent episode. It ended a little too abruptly to fully satisfy me but I enjoyed it more than most of the previous episodes of this show.

Aontas (2025)

Aontas (2025)

starring Carrie Crowley, Brid Brennan

directed by Damian McCann

92 minutes

in Irish with English subtitles

Mairéad (Carrie Crowley), Cáit (Brid Brennan), and Sheila hold up a local credit union in a small Irish town. Dara and Colly, owners of the recently closed local quarry, are in the credit union at the time of the time of the stickup. There is more to the actions and identities of the robbers and the customers present than meets the eye.

The Phil Silvers Show 4.30

Doberman, Missing Heir

Bilko convinces Lord and Lady Rockford that Private Duane Doberman is their long lost missing son. Doberman is opposed to the idea at first but once he gets accepted by Lord and Lady Rockford he starts to like it and gives Bilko the cold shoulder. Bilko introduces Doberman to Dixie, a burlesque dancer, in the hopes of being able to sponge off of Doberman by proxy once Doberman and Dixie get married. Everything falls apart when the real long lost son of of Lord and Lady Rockford turns up.

Thoughts

Corporals Henshaw and Barbella are in this episode but Colonel Hall is not.

Adventure Time 5.13

The Great Bird Man

Finn and Jake go looking for the Great Bird Man. He finds them after they collapse while trekking through the desert. It turns out that he is someone that they have met before. He was previously known as Xergiok the Goblin King. He lost his eyes since he last encountered Finn and Jake and changed his life. He went to live with large birds that live in the mountains.

Finn and Jake can see that Xergiok's missing eyes are in his beard. They debate whether to tell him or not but eventually they do. Xergiok puts his eyes back in and turns evil again. Ultimately he decides to remove his eyes. He wanders off into a reservoir where he meets a mermaid.

Steven Universe 1.39

Future Vision

Steven learns that Garnet can see possible future outcomes of his actions. At first he thinks its cool but then he gets freaked out after he learns how fatal some of the future outcomes could be. Steven gets paralyzed by indecision until he finally comes to terms with reality and the role he plays he determining his own future.

Thoughts

This was an okay episode. It felt a bit like an afterschool special. I guess that another possible ending could be one where Steven got distracted and completely forgot about he worries over the future. I guess that this ending is better than that one but at the same time I didn't find it to be terribly rewarding.

Better Call Saul 6.10

Nippy

Gene finds Jeff, the taxi driver who recognized him from his Saul Goodman days in Albuquerque. He talks Jeff into helping him run a heist in a department at the mall where the Cinnabon is located. Gene plans the heist. He makes friends with the security guards on duty during the night. Jeff gets into the department store using a scheme that Gene set up.

Jeff takes enough stuff to net them some money but not enough to generate suspicion. Things almost go sideways but Gene steps in and distracts the security guard on monitor duty long enough for Jeff to finish what he started. Gene talks to Jeff after the job is over and done. He explains that there won't be another. Jeff agrees although he looks crestfallen as he does so.

No Ordinary Heist (2026)

No Ordinary Heist (2026)

starring Eddie Marsan, Éanna Hardwicke

directed by Colin McIvor

99 minutes

Richard Murray (Eddie Marsan) and Barry McKenna (Éanna Hardwicke) employees of the Bank of Northern Ireland are given little choice after Richard's wife and Barry's mother are kidnapped by thugs who demand that they rob the bank for them. Murray, the manager of the bank, and McKenna, who works in the vault, come from very different backgrounds and do not get along.

Three Keenings (2024)

Three Keenings (2024)

starring Seamus O'Hara

directed by Oliver McGoldrick

10 minutes

A professional mourner cares for his father in between gigs.

Thoughts

I saw this short as part of the 2026 Capital Irish Film Festival at the AFI Silver Theater. It was given the Norman Houston Award at the festival for being the best new short film from Northern Ireland from the past two years.

This was pretty good considering how short it was. It made me laugh and while it didn't make me cry it also had a serious side. 

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.12

The Borderland

starring Philip Abbott, Gladys Cooper, Nina Foch, Barry Jones, Gene Raymond, Peter Mark Richman, Alfred Ryder

directed by Leslie Stevens

Dwight Hartley (Barry Jones), desperate to make contact with his son who was killed in a car accident, hires a couple psychics Mrs. Palmer (Gladys Cooper) and Mr. Price (Alfred Ryder). Their attempts to make contact with Hartley's son are shown to be fraudulent by scientist  Lincoln Russell (Philip Abbott). Hartley, still desperate to make contact with his son, bankrolls the experiments of Russell and his partners Ian Fraser (Peter Mark Richman) and Eva Fraser (Nina Foch).

Alcoa Theater 3.04

Operation Spark

starring David Wayne, John Larch, John Hoyt

directed by Walter Grauman

A plot to kill Adolf Hitler, in the midst of the Second World War, led by German Army Major General von Tresckow (David Wayne) goes according to plan up to a point. Major von Tresckow manages to convince Field Marshall von Kluge (John Hoyt) to look the other way but other things interfere with their plan. Colonel Brandt (John Larch), who is loyal to Hitler discovers something is up before the plotters are able to succeed.

Doctor Who (1963) 8.05.02

The Daemons - Part Two

The Doctor and Professor Horner are caught in the outpouring of cold air from within the chamber that the professor opened up. The professor dies. The Doctor survives but goes into a coma. Jo gets the Doctor transported away from the site of the dig, Devil's Hump, and back to the village of Devil's End. He eventually recovers.

Jo gets in touch with Captain Yates and Sergeant Benton. They make their way to Devil's End the next morning in the Brigadier's helicopter. They see (from the air) what look like enormous hoofprints. They rendezvous with Jo who fills them in on what's been happening.

Sergeant Benton goes to have a look around town. He finds Olive Hawthorne tied up in the church. He unties her but then the deacon, who works for the Master, comes looking for them. Benton and the deacon get into a fight. Benton loses the fight after stepping on an evil spot in the basement of the church where the Master conducted a ceremony the night before.

Bleach 40 / 2.20

The Shinigami whom Ganju Met

Ichigo and Kenpachi both fall to the ground, seriously injured and unable to continue fighting. Yachiru Kusajishi, Kenpachi's lieutenant, picks him up and carries him away, after thanking Ichigo for fighting with her boss. Yachiru and Kenpachi reminisce while he lies on the ground unable to move, for the most part.

 

Ichigo lies where he fell until Yoruichi arrives. Yoruichi promises to take care of Ichigo and then starts to glow as he starts to transform.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.15

The Big Switch

starring George Mathews, Beverly Michaels

directed by Don Weis

Sam Dunleavy (George Mathews) makes plans to kill Goldie (Beverly Michaels), his ex-girlfriend. He's sore at her for starting to date another guy while he was out of town, trying to avoid the police. Sam is being watched by the police but he gets some help from Barney, an old friend who owns a nightclub. Barney agrees to be Sam's alibi while he sneaks out of the club and kills Goldie.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.07

Where Pleasant Fountains Lie

Mariner and Boimler are sent on a mission to escort AGIMUS, an evil computer, to the Daystrom Institute. On the way there they crash land on a desert planet. AGIMUS tries talking them into letting it help out. Boimler is all for it but Mariner is against it. They fight. Boimler stuns Mariner with a phaser after he learns that he wouldn't even be on this mission if it wasn't for her.

Rutherford goes on a mission with Billups to repair the engines of Hysperian Queen Paolana's starship. Billups, Rutherford's supervisor, is the crown prince of Hysperia. His mother is desperate to have him take her place but as long as he remains a virgin she can't force him to assume the crown.

Def by Temptation (1990)

Def by Temptation (1990)

starring James Bond III, Kadeem Hardison, Bill Nunn

directed by James Bond III

Joel (James Bond III) travels from North Carolina to New York City to visit his friend K (Kadeem Hardison) who moved there years before to pursue an acting career. Joel's straightlaced nature sticks out like a sore thumb in the Big Apple. K does what he can to help his friend fit in to his new surroundings.

A rift develops between Joel and K after a woman (who had previously shown an interest in K) now gives him the cold shoulder in favor of Joel. K starts to suspect that there is something supernaturally evil about the woman. K's worst fears are confirmed by Dougy (Bill Nunn) an undercover cop who clues him in to the fact that any man who goes home with her is never seen again.

Steven Universe 1.38

The Test

Steven, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl have just finished playing a game of Citchen Calamity, which Steven won, when he finds out that one of their previous missions was a test for him and he failed. Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl come up with another test for Steven. He is close to completing it when he discovers that it was too easy. There's no way he couldn't pass it.

Steven gets angry because he feels like they are going too easy on him but then he softens his stance after he overhears them talking about their own insecurities.

Thoughts

The test from a previous mission that they refer to in this episode occurred in 1.03 Cheeseburger Backpack.

Adventure Time 5.12

Vault of Bones

Finn takes Fire Princess on a dungeon crawl to help ease her anxiety over her father's influence over her. She likes it at first but when she starts to get bored he let's her lead the dungeon crawl. She goes all fiery, which scares him but he plays along, gets captured but then she, using something he taught her, rescues him.

Thoughts

This was a fun episode. Dungeon adventures always make we think of Dungeons and Dragons.

Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (2007)

Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (2007)

directed by John Logsdon     

90 minutes

This documentary celebrates the 40th anniversary of Star Trek by looking back the five of the six shows that had aired up to the time this film was made. There is no mention or acknowledgement of the existence of the 1970s Star Trek cartoon. There are lots of clips from the five shows (Star Trek, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise) that did merit recognition.

Several members of the casts of the various Star Trek shows appeared in this documentary

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.03

Taboo

Yoshino, a former maiko returns to the house. Yoshino's outgoing and rule breaking nature disrupts the household's gentle balance.

Thoughts

Kiyo doesn't play as big a role in this episode as she did in the first two. There doesn't seem to be any more question as to her role in the house. A fair amount of this episode seems to revolve around Yoshino and her antics.

Once again I had to pause the the show a few times to look up words.

I kept waiting for someone to put Yoshino in her place but the maiko were all too polite to say anything.

Better Call Saul 6.09

Fun and Games

The episode opens with a montage showing Jimmy and Kim moving on with their lives and Mike and his men cleaning up the messy apartment to remove all evidence of what happened there.

Gus meets with Don Eladio, Don Bolsa, and Don Hector, and the twins. Hector claims that Lalo survived the attack on his home in Mexico and that he talked to him. The evidence says otherwise. The twins didn't overhear the conversation with Lalo so they cannot corroborate Hector's version of the truth. Don Eladio assumes that Hector just wants to blame someone and lets Gus leave.

The Six Million Dollar Man 1.07

Eyewitness to Murder

Steve is waiting for a taxi cab when someone nearby is shot and killed by a sniper. He goes after the sniper but the sniper gets away. Steve turns to Oscar for help. Oscar is a little put out that Steve woke him up in the middle of the night until he learns that the intended target wasn't the man who was killed but Mr. Sandusky, an important attorney in the district attorney's office who is about to bring charges against a bit time mobster.

Oscar and Steve offer assistance where they can. Oscar stays close to Mr. Sandusky while Steve goes looking for the sniper. He catches up to Hopper, the sniper, and the police bring him in for questioning but they are forced to release him when it turns out that Hopper has an airtight alibi. He was on a live broadcast television program on the night that the attempt was made on Sandusky's life.

Doctor Who (1963) 8.05.01

The Daemons - Part One

The Doctor gets very interested in the happenings at the Devil's Hump, the site of an archaeological dig.  He learns of it thanks to the coverage of the dig by a news team from BBC3. The Doctor suspects that Professor Horner, who is in charge of the dig, may unearth something that might cause quite a bit of trouble. The fact that the professor has chosen to do said unearthing on Beltane (May 1) seems to increase the Doctor's anxiety. He rushes with Jo Grant to get to the site of the dig before midnight, when Professor Horner plans to break through a wall that has remained intact for thousands of years.

Miss Hawthorne, a local white witch, also fears that the Horner might cause problems with his stunt. She turns to the local vicar for help. The Master, disguised as the vicar, tries to hypnotize her but her abilities prevent him from succeeding in that venture.

Kraft Suspense Theater 1.10

The Hunt

starring Mickey Rooney, James Caan

directed by William A. Graham, Robert Altman

Surfer Rick Peterson (James Caan) is driving cross country when his car breaks down in a rural area. Sheriff Mac Williams (Mickey Rooney) is in the midst of a manhunt for an escaped prisoner when he and Peterson cross paths. Peterson witnesses the sheriff's dogs tearing the escapee to pieces.

It quickly becomes clear that Peterson isn't a local. Williams gives Mac a hard time but seems content to leave him alone until Mac's car has been repaired. Peterson tries to leave town but Williams comes after him. The sheriff finds a rifle that belongs to Maynard, the mechanic who fixed Peterson's car, when he searches Peterson's vehicle.

The Phil Silvers Show 4.29

Bilko's Small Car

Bilko is sent into town to pick up Colonel Hall's new car. The car gets impounded by the police when they find gambling equipment in the trunk. Bilko has his men throw together a substitute car. It fools the Colonel but then Bilko gets the idea of going into business making cars. The catch is that they will use parts from jeeps in the manufacture of the cars. Eventually the Colonel catches on to what Bilko is doing and calls in the MPs.

Thoughts

This was an okay episode. I thought the story drifted a little too much. Not a favorite of mine but I guess I've see worse.

Bleach 39 / 2.19

The Immortal Man

Time freezes and Zangetsu (the spirit of his zanpakutō) appears before Ichigo. He takes the injured Ichigo into his world and makes Ichigo fight his shadow self before he will allow Ichigo to wield him once again. Zangetsu explains that they are linked. It rains in Zangetsu's world when Ichigo is distressed. Zangetsu doesn't like rain.

Ichigo bests his shadow self and then with Zangetsu's help he returns to the Seireitei. Zaraki is stunned to see that Ichigo has recovered. Their fight continues but it quickly becomes clear that Ichigo is much stronger and more capable now. Zaraki understands that at last he need not hold back. He removes his eyepatch, which keeps his power in check.

Together, Ichigo and Zangetsu fight with Zaraki and nameless sword. Buildings around them come crashing down but the fight goes on.

The Twilight Zone 1.12

What You Need

starring Steve Cochrane, Ernest Truex

directed by Alvin Ganzer

Fred Renard (Steve Cochrane) notices that wandering salesman (Ernest Truex) seems to know exactly what people need. All the salesman has are knickknacks but he always seems to pull out of his box exactly what people need. Renard decides he's going to capitalize on this. The first thing he gets from Renard is a pair of scissors. He takes them but he's highly doubtful until later his scarf gets caught in an elevator door and he needs the scissors to cut his scarf before it strangles him.

Schitt's Creek 5.05

Housewarming

Patrick throws a housewarming party. David, Stevie, Alexis, Ted, and a dozen or so other people make it. Things get a little weird during a game of spin the bottle when Ted kisses David. It irks both Alexis and Patrick.

Johnny volunteers to look after Roland Junior while Roland and Jocelyn go for a couples massage. Moira was planning to go out but winds up staying home. She lets Johnny take care of the baby.

Thoughts

This was a fun episode. It wasn't my favorite but I laughed a few times.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.06

The Spy Humongous

Captain Freeman and Shaxs attempt to negotiate a treaty with the Packleds but the Pakleds don't seem to understand a thing that the two Starfleet officers are saying. The Pakleds repeatedly refer to Freeman as Captain Janeway.

Mariner, Tendi, and Rutherford wind up on anomaly cleanup duty. They encounter all sorts of weird stuff and almost die on multiple occasions.

The Red Shirts, a group of aspiring junior officers, invite Boimler to join their ranks. They want to know all about what he learned while serving under Captain Riker aboard the Titan. They encourage him to act more inspiring. He decides in the end that he doesn't like hanging with them because they look down on his friends.

Four Star Playhouse 1.07

The Officer and the Lady

starring Charles Boyer

directed by George Jenkins

Andre, a pickpocket, runs into Fingers, an old friend. Andre wants to go straight. Fingers has other ideas. Andre meets Sidonie, a young woman. Fingers steals her purse while she is talking to Andre.

Andre (Charles Boyer) wants to return the purse, which doesn't hold any money. He changes clothes and pretends to be a soldier home on leave. He then goes to Sidonie's apartment and introduces himself to Jean, Sidonie's young son who has less than a month to live and has never met his father. He says that he is Jean's father. Sidonie is grateful.

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.02

Guardian Spirit

Kiyo is told that she isn't doing well enough in her efforts to become a maiko. It looks like she will have to leave but once everyone takes notice of her cooking skills that problem is pushed aside and she is made the Makanai, the cook for the house.

Thoughts

Once again I found myself pausing the show to look up terms that are not explained. The terms I looked up were all dishes that including Oyakodon, Tamago Kake Gohan, Omurice, and Senjyu Senbei.

I get the impression that this episode and the previous one might originally have been broadcast as one episode or intended to be broadcast that way.

The Night Strangler (1973)

The Night Strangler (1973)

starring Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland

directed by Dan Curtis

Reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) moves to Seattle where he runs a familiar face from Las Vegas, Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). Tony is now working as an editor for a Seattle newspaper. He hires Kolchak and assigns him to cover a recent murder. The killer strangled an exotic dancer while she walking home late at night.

Researcher Titus Berry helps Kolchak establish a supernatural angle to the crime. Vincenzo refuses to buy the angle so Kolchak digs deeper (with a lot of help from Berry) and finds a pattern: every 21 years (going back to at least 1889) six women have been murdered in the same way (strangulation) within an eighteen day period. Vincenzo refuses to accept that the murders from decades ago have anything to do with the current string of murders.

Adventure Time 5.10

Little Dude

A wizard accidentally transforms Finn's hat into a sentient being. Finn names it Little Dude and it goes on a bit of a tear first through Finn and Jake's House and then the Candy Kingdom. Finn, Jake, and wizard attempt to prevent it from wrecking any more harm than it already has.

Thoughts

This was a fun episode although seeing inanimate objects come to life can be a bit scary, especially as depicted in this episode.

Steven Universe 1.37

Alone Together

Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl try to teach Steven some dance moves in the hopes that it will help him to fuse with one or more of them. Nothing seems to generate any fusion.

Steven teaches Connie how to dance and they wind up fusing into Stevonnie, accidentally. They love it. They show the Crystal Gems, who are a bit stunned that Steven merged with a human. Stevonnie leaves the house and runs around by themself. They get invited to rave where everyone is astounded by Stevonnie's dancing. The attention they get eventually proves to be a little too much and they split back into their individual selves.

Thoughts

This was a really neat episode. It wasn't exactly what I expected. There were no fights. All the action was of the dance variety.

Better Call Saul 6.08

Point and Shoot

The episode opens by the beach. Howard's shoes are there along with a few other belongings and his car. There is no sign of Howard's body

Lalo tells Saul and Kim to sit down, calm down, and listen to him. Lalo wants to send Saul to kill someone. Someone with dark skin and who wears glasses. He wants him to take pictures of the dead body and then return. He gives him one hour to do it. Saul begs and pleads and ultimately convinces Lalo to send Kim instead. Kim is horrified by the idea, she protests but Lalo agrees that she would look less suspicious than Saul.

Star Trek (1966) 1.29

Operation -- Annihilate!

The Enterprise arrives at Deneva where Captain Kirk's brother Sam lives with his family and where a generalized madness has stricken the inhabitants. Deneva isn't the first planet to afflicted by the bout of insanity. The source of the problem is unknown. A number of other colonies on other planets have been destroyed by the madness.

Kirk beams down with Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and two other crew members. They try contacting the colony before hand without much luck. They find Sam, Kirk's brother, dead. Aurelan, Sam's wife, and Peter, Sam's son, are still alive. Kirk and McCoy take them back to the Enterprise. Kirk tries questioning Aurelan, she responds but only with great difficulty and then she dies.

Bleach 38 / 2.18

Desperation! The Broken Zangetsu

Sado is down for the count and almost dead. Eighth Squad Captain Shunsui Kyōraku decides to leave Sado there and orders Nanao Ise, Eighth Squad's lieutenant, to have him transported to a jail cell.

Ichigo runs from 11th Squad Captain Kenpachi Zaraki in fear. He tries stopping to fight but each time he stops and fights he feels the fear return. It isn't until he senses that Sado is near death that he remembers why he is there and how he has people counting on him. It is only then that he finds the strength to stand and fight.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1.14

A Bullet for Baldwin

starring John Qualen, Sebastain Cabot, Phillip Reed

directed by Justus Addiss

A file clerk named Stepp shoots and kills Nathaniel Baldwin, his boss, after Baldwin fires him. They are the only ones in the office at the time. Stepp closes up the office and goes home. He expects that he will get arrested. The next day at 10:30 AM he gets a call from the office asking him why he isn't in yet. He is surprised but rushes into the office. Baldwin is there and looks very much alive.

The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970)

The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970)

narrated by George Roy Hill

directed by Robert Crawford Jr.

42 minutes

George Roy Hill, director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, goes over the process of making the movie. Paul Newman and Paul Newman were also interviewed for this feature but for the most part it is Hill that does the talking. All of the images in the film are either taken from the movie or footage show on location of the while someone is talking over it. There are no shots of people talking directly into the camera.

Hill talks about the casting, the music, the cinematography, the stunts, and other challenges that he, the cast, and the crew encountered while making the movie. It isn't as polished as documentaries are today but I found it to be very informative. I really enjoyed getting to see how some of the scenes and stunts were shot.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford

directed by George Roy Hill

Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford), robbers of banks and trains, find themselves on the run from a posse hired by the owner of the Union Pacific railway. Their only refuge is the home of Etta Place, Sundance's gal. They decide, after a long chase during which they were doggedly pursued by the posse, to move to Bolivia. Etta goes with them.

They try to make a living robbing banks in Bolivia. Etta, the only one of the three who speaks Spanish, functions as their translator in everything including bank robberies. News of their exploits spreads.

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.11

It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

starring Scott Marlowe, Kent Smith

directed by Gerd Oswald

Professor Stuart Peters goes to work for NORCO, a west coast research lab. He is killed and then later revived during his first day on the job. The killing is done by an unknown energy source over which the scientists at the lab have some degree of control. He is revived and kept alive with a pacemaker. Everyone else at the lab is in the same condition, alive but only thanks to a pacemaker.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.05

An Embarrassment of Dooplers

The Cerritos is tasked with taking a Doopler emissary to Star Base 25. Dooplers have a tendency to duplicate when they get embarrassed. Everything goes fine until Captain Freeman says something negative about the emissary not realizing that he is standing nearby. He starts duplicating and pretty soon there are Doopler emissaries everywhere. The Cerritos is barred from docking at Starbase 25 until the situation with the Dooplers is resolved.

Mariner and Boimler secretly beam over to Starbase 25 in the hopes of sneaking into the legendary Captains After-Party. They get side tracked when Malvus an old acquaintance of Beckett's recognizes her.

Steven Universe 1.36

Warp Tour

Steven thinks he sees comething while he and the other Crystal Gems are warping back to their house in Beach City. They try to convince him that he didn't but he persists. He can't sleep the night after they get back. He fears that whatever he saw is going to come and attack him.

The next night Steven sees an orb crash through the roof of the house. He tries to stop it but it does something to the warp pad and then uses it. Steven and the orb disappear via the warp pad. Steven gets tossed out of the warp stream.

Steven is rescued by the others. They no longer doubt him. They arrive in Galaxy Warp and then hide when they see someone come through the Homeworld Warp, which was broken until the orb and dozens more like it fixed it.

Adventure Time 5.09

All Your Fault

Finn and Jake travel to the Earldom of Lemongrab on behalf of Princess Bubblegum. They find things in disarray as there is no food. Lemongrab and Lemongrab 2 have used some information Princess Bubblegum left behind to make all their food into sentient beings. Finn and Jake give them the seeds that they brought with them but the Lemongrabs mash the seeds together and then turn that into a sentient being.

Thoughts

I enjoyed this episode but it was another weird one. There were all sorts of really strange characters in the Earldom of Lemongrab.

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

starring Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey

directed by Travis Knight

102 minutes

Kubo (Art Parkinson), a one-eyed, 10-year-old, street performer with magical abilities that are linked to his shamisen (Japanese stringed instrument) goes on a quest with talking monkey (Charlize Theron) and a human-sized samurai beetle (Matthew McConaughey) after his mother is killed by her sisters. He seeks his deceased father's armor, helmet, and sword but his aunts and the Moon King (his maternal grandfather) do everything in their power to stop him.

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.01

Change

Kiyo and Sumire, friends, both 16 years old, move to Kyoto where they hope to become maiko, apprentice geishas. Sumire takes to the training very well. Kiyo does not. She instead finds herself applying her cooking skills when the middle-aged woman who usually cooks for the house (where they live with several Maiko and Maiko hopefuls) cannot do her job.

Thoughts

This show is based on a manga called Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House. There was also an anime series based on the manga. The anime series has the same name as the manga and consisted of 12 episodes. This live-action series consists of 9 episodes.

True Detective 1.08

Form and Void

Marty interrogates Steve Geraci, after showing him the videotape that he showed Marty in the previous episode. They learn from him that his predecessor, Sheriff Childress, is the one who buried the Fontenot case.

Rust and Marty continue to work the case. Their work leads them to an old house in the middle of nowhere. Marty checks the house. The only person inside is a woman. He wants to use their phone but it doesn't work.

Rust looks around the grounds. He spots the man with the scarred face. The man takes off running. Rust follows him into a building buried by nature. Rust eventually catches up to him but the scarred face man gets the drop on Rust, almost kills him. Marty who by then has gone looking for Rust, shows up, distracts the man with the scarred face. Marty almost gets killed but Rust recovers in time  to shoot the man in the head.

Heavy Metal (1981)

Heavy Metal (1981)

90 minutes

This animated anthology consists of seven stories. They all have to do with the Loc-Nar, a sentient, glowing, green orb. In the first story a man brings it home with him from a trip in space. He wants to show it to his daughter but when he takes it out of the case it kills him. It then proceeds to tell her stories  about itself.

Harry Canyon - A taxi driver (Harry Canyon) tries to help a woman who is being pursued by gangsters who want the Loc-Nar and know that she is the only one who knows where to find it.