Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Batman Be-Leaguered (2014)

Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Batman Be-Leaguered (2014)

22 minutes

Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, and Cyborg are forming a team, the Justice League. They invite Batman to be a member but he isn't interested. Members of the Justice League start to disappear which pushes Batman to investigate their disappearance and who might be behind it all.

Thoughts

This is one of several Lego DC Super Heroes short films. It doesn't feel like a film. It feels more like an episode of a TV show. 

My verdict is not great. I wasn't crazy about The Lego Batman Movie. This is in that same vein but not even remotely as funny or good (in any possible way) as the feature-length movie. I don't feel any desire to try any of the other short Lego DC Comics Super Heroes movies.

NewsRadio 5.13

Towers

Matthew turns 30 and gets distressed. He changes his look and starts acting very different. Mr. James decides that he wants to build his own twin towers that will look like his initials JJ.

Thoughts

I've seen worse from this show but this wasn't a great episode.

Mulan (1998)

Mulan (1998)

starring Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong

directed by Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft

87 minutes

Mulan (Ming-Na Wen) takes her father's place in the army when the Huns invade. Her father is physically weak and she, not wanting to lose him and not looking forward to the life her parents and her society want her to live, takes the opportunity to take a different path. She has to conceal the fact that she is a woman. She has some help from Mushu (Eddie Murphy), a small dragon, who is sent by her ancestors.

Mulan proves to be a better soldier than most of her compatriots but she is eventually found out. She is dismissed from her service in the army by Li Shang (BD Wong), her commanding officer. She is getting ready to return home when she realizes that Li Shang and the others are in great danger.

The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

starring William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette

directed by Michael Curtiz

73 minutes

Philo Vance (William Powell) investigates what at first glance looks to be a suicide. Vance quickly determines that it must have been murder, even though the victim was locked in a room with no clear way that the killer could have escaped. The chief suspect is the victim's brother but then he turns up dead in the same building, his brother's home, when he was supposed to have been hundreds of miles away.

Vance follows numerous clues and interviews a number of people who came into contact with the original victim in the last 24 hours before he was killed. More than one person seems to have had probably cause to kill.

The Orville 1.07

Majority Rule

Commander Grayson, Doctor Finn, Security Chief Kitan, and Lieutenant LaMarr take a shuttle to Sargus 4. They are there to retrieve a couple of Planetary Union anthropologists. The team disguises themselves as locals but quickly run into trouble. LaMarr gets arrested for insulting a national hero. His fate is to be decided by popular vote.

Captain Mercer turns to the Planetary Union for permission to break LaMarr out but that request is denied even though it could result in John getting lobotomized. Commander Grayson stays near to LaMarr while Security Chief Kitan and Doctor Finn turn to a local for help. They take her to the Orville. She gives them some advice on how they could sway the voting.

Captain Harlock (1978) 1.25

Dr. Zero and Mii

The Arcadia comes into contact with the Mazone fleet. Three comets passing nearby jam everyone's instruments. Dr. Zero decides that it is time for him to be more than a doctor and join the fight. The Arcadia launches fighters and attacks the Mazone fleet, once the comets have ceased to jam their instruments.

The Arcadia goes after the largest ship in the fleet, believing it to be the Queen Lafresia's flagship. The humans discover that it is a passenger ship, loaded with Mazone civilians.

Atlanta 4.01

The Most Atlanta

Darius tries to return an air fryer while the department store he takes it to is getting looted. He gets chased by an older white woman in a motorized wheelchair. He's still got the air fryer that he was trying to return. She thinks he stole it.

Alfred goes on a scavenger hunt that ultimately leads him to the funeral for another musical artist, Blue Blood.

Earn and Van get trapped in a mall where they keep running into people they've dated before.