Body and Soul (1947)

Body and Soul (1947)

starring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks

directed by Robert Rossen

104 minutes

Charley Davis (John Garfield) aspires to be a professional boxer. His father, the owner of a small candy store, is killed by mob violence. Charley's mother does not approve of her son's chosen life style but Charley is determined.

Charley meets and falls in love with Peg (Lilli Palmer), a painter. She, unlike his mother, tries to be supportive. Charley has his heart set on making it in boxing to the point that he accepts an offer from Roberts, a fight promoter, to fix some fights. Charley can't see the dangerous path he is taking, even after Ben Chaplin, another boxer, gets seriously injured.

Charley's devotion to his career drives a wedge between himself and Peg. He starts hanging out with Alice (Hazel Brooks) who like him seems most interested in money. Charley eventually goes back to Peg after Ben dies. The climax of the film is a fight in which Charley has to defend the championship belt. He has already made a deal with Roberts to throw the fight and has to decide whether to honor that deal or be true to himself.

The Tick (2016) 1.05

Fear of Flying

Arthur gets the wings out and starts to fly but he had trouble controlling the suit. He calls Dot and gets her to put the Tick on the phone. Arthur explains the situation and that he needs help. He doesn't want Dot to know what's going on.

The Tick and Dot get in her car and go out looking for Arthur. Overkill becomes aware that Arthur is flying over the city but he doesn't know who he is at first. Ramses and several of his men are using a tracking device to follow Arthur's flight path.

Arthur is pulled out of the sky by Overkill while he is trying to land near a water tower. The Tick and Dot arrive near the water tower moments later. The Tick and Overkill almost get into a fight but then Ramses shows up with his men. Overkill and the Tick fight with Ranses and his men.

Orange Is the New Black 6.12

Double Trouble

Barb and Carol do not fight. They are eventually let out of the cell and returned to their respective parts of the maximum security section of Litchfield. They both start planning for war once they get back home.

Linda gets Fig's help in organizing a video shoot. It is all part of a branding campaign to improve what used to be MCC (and is now PCC) look better. Linda tasks Fig with ranking all the employees. Fig turns the work over to CO Hopper. 

Baddison continues to give Chapman a hard time. Chapman has a plan but Vause tries to talk her out of it, once she hears what it is. Chapman goes ahead with her plan and approaches CO Hopper. She tells him about the heroin that Baddison planted in her cell. He is confused but she doesn't get a shot or sent to the SHU.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.05.02

Underworld - Part Two

The Doctor's plan works. The R1C, the spaceship, blasts its way out of the debris that is forming around it. The crew uses the last of the fuel to escape from the debris. They pick up the signal from the P7E and follow it. They crash through the soft crust of a planet. They sink below the surface until they find the solid core of the planet.

There are people living down there. Some of the people are workers, others are guards. The crew goes out to do to a little reconnaissance. They insist that the Doctor and Leela stay behind in the R1C. The Doctor only hesitates briefly once the others have left before heading out for a look around.

The Doctor and Leela are spotted by the guards but manage to get away. Idas, one of the workers, runs away from the guards. He gets into the R1C. The Doctor and Leela find him there and try to help him. The Doctor heads out again even though it is clear that the area around the R1C is being fumigated. He collapses after being overcome by the smoke, while tinkering with some machinery he finds.

Invincible 2.00

Presenting Atom Eve

This is the story of Samantha Wilkins, the girl who became Atom Eve, how she got her powers, and what happened to her real mother. Samantha's birth mother was part of a government experiment to create a super-weapon. Samantha was supposed to be the super-weapon. Dr. Elias Brandyworth, the scientific head of the project, experienced a change of heart when Samantha's mother was close to being ready to give birth.

Dr. Brandyworth broke Samantha's mother out, of the government lab where she was being kept, and took her to a normal hospital. She died but Samantha survived. She was switched with another child and was raised by the Wilkins who never knew the truth about Samantha's origins.

Moonlighting 1.03

Read the Mind -- See the Movie

David and Maddie have been hired by SRT, a company that is developing a weapon for the US military. They get fired after a test goes horribly wrong. David is ready to move on but Maddie, who found the work, insists that they figure out what went wrong.

She has dinner with the president of SRT's number one competitor. She asks him how he found out what SRT was developing. He tells them he found out from a psychic. Maddie and David visit the psychic. David steals the psychic's appointment book which reveals that Brian, the current head of SRT, has been visiting the psychic.

David and Maddie return that night and stake out the psychic's home. They learn that night that the psychic has been helping Brian to convince his aging father, who owns SRT, that Vivian, Brian's sister, is incapable of running SRT.

Maddie and David are spotted while surveilling the house. They flee by undressing and jumping into the pool. Later that night they get a call from Vivian. She asks them to meet her at SRT. She tries to kill them with a laser gun but ends up bringing down a piece of the ceiling on herself.

The Seventh Seal (1957)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

starring Max von Sydow

directed by Ingmar Bergman

96 minutes

Swedish with English subtitles

Antonius Block, a knight, and Jof, his squire, return from the Crusades and discover how the plague, the Black Death, has changed the land they left ten years before. The knight meets Death but he is not ready to go just yet. He challenges death to a game of chess.

Block and Jof are traveling back to Block's castle. Along the way they collect a few people who travel with them (an actor, an actress, and their child; a blacksmith and his wife; a teenage girl whom Jof saves from a predatory priest). They also cross paths with a young woman who has been accused of being a witch and is to be sacrificed for causing the plague, as her captors put it. 

Block encounters Death more than once. Each time they meet their game gets a little closer to ending.