Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Invincible 2.02

In About Six Hours I Lose My Virginity to a Fish

Mark, Amber, Eve, and the rest of their class graduate from high school. He is still working for Cecil. His mother doesn't like it. She is still adjusting to her life post Omni Man's rampage.

The Global Guardians continue to train under the tutelage of the Immortal. They get a new teammate, a Martian who calls himself Shape Smith but doesn't reveal that he is really a Martian.

Cecil sends Mark to an underseas kingdom to face justice for something his father did. Mark thinks they want him to marry the queen. They don't. They make him fight a giant sea monster. 

Atom Eve goes home to see her parents/ Her father has lost the job he had for 20 years. He now works at Burger Mart, a fast food joint. She tries to help them but they don't want any assistance if involves her superpowers. Her father feels especially strong about not accepting his daughter's hand outs.

The episode ends with another view of Angstrom Levy and the Invincible of another dimension.

Monday, December 4, 2023

Moonlighting 1.06

The Murder's in the Mail

Roy Hirsch, a CIA operative, returns to the US only to discover that the flight he was originally scheduled to take crashed, killing everyone aboard. He heads home but something one of his neighbors tells him in the lobby of his building leads him to suspect that someone is trying to kill him. Hirsch leaves without entering his apartment.

Maddie and David squabble over bills. He reveals that he has found some more work for them collecting bills for a collection agency. The second person they go to collect from turns out to be Roy Hirsch. He is home by then but he is murdered between the time he buzzes them in and the time they get up to his apartment. Maddie and David try to get the police involved but the killer has already covered his tracks and moved the body.

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

starring Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld
directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

117 minutes

Teenager Miles Morales gets bit by a spider while hanging out with his Uncle Aaron. He thinks nothing of it until he discovers he has acquired super powers. He can stick to walls. He stumbles across a fight between Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and the Green Goblin.

The Green Goblin is working for the Kingpin and is trying to stop Spider-Man from interfering in an experiment being conducted by Dr. Olivia Octavius, who is also working for Kingpin. She is attempting to open an inter-dimensional portal. Spider-Man gets killed but entrusts Miles with a thumb drive or goober (as he calls it) which if used properly can shut down Dr. Octavius' portal.

Friday, December 1, 2023

Cruel Intentions (1999)

Cruel Intentions (1999)

starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon
directed by Roger Kumble

97 minutes

Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe) makes a bet with Katherine (Sarah Michelle Gellar), his step sister, that he can seduce Annette (Reese Witherspoon) into sleeping with him. Annette wrote an essay that was printed in Seventeen in which she explained why she was planning to stay chaste until she got married. All three of them are students at an elite prep school in New York City. Annette knows nothing of the bet,

Sebastian gets close to Annette but things get complicated when he finds himself falling for her. She gives him an opening which would win him the bet but he feels conflicted. He is with her one minute and not the next. He breaks her heart and then sends her his journal which explains everything about the bet, Katherine, and Cecile another girl he seduced.

Annette is ready to forgive Sebastian when he is hit by a car and killed. She was in the vehicle's path. He pushed her to safety but was unable to escape the speeding car.

Thursday, November 30, 2023

The Tick (2016) 1.07

Tale from the Crypt

The Tick can't find Arthur. He finally checks Arthur's apartment. He finds Overkill and Dot there but Arthur is nowhere to be found. The trio go back to Overkill's sentient boat and come up with a plan. Tick stays in the boat. Overkill and Dot go looking for signs of Arthur in a cemetery.

Arthur is chained up. The Terror plays the drums. Arthur escapes with some help from Ms. Lint, although it turns out she is doing it because the Terror told her to. Arthur gets out of his cell by using the key that Ms Lint gave him. He finds the flying suit and puts it on. 

Dot Finds a sign of Arthur. The Tick comes flying in and breaks into the Terror's underground lair, which is below the cemetery. Dot stays outside to keep watch while the Tick and Overkill go looking for Arthur in the underground lair.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Doctor Who (1963) 15.05.04

Underworld - Part Four

The Doctor, Leela, Idas, and the crew of the R1C break into the P7E. The crew of the R1C fight with the guards while the Doctor, Leela, and Idas go after the golden cylinders which contain the race banks of the Minyan people.

The seers decide to release Herrick and give him the golden cylinders. A temporary truce is declared. Herrick returns with the others and the cylinders (which turn out to be fakes) to the R1C.

The Doctor finds the real golden cylinders and has a chat with the oracle, the P7E's computer. It doesn't give up the golden cylinders willingly. The Doctor, Leela, and Idas return to the R1C. The fake golden cylinders are bombs, according to K-9's analysis. The Doctor returns them and comes back with all the Trogs.

The R1C blasts off and leaves the planet. The P7E blows up.

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Invincible 2.01

A Lesson For Your Next Life

Angstrom Levy, a scientist who has the power to travel between dimensions, breaks the Mauler Twins out of the detention facility where they are being held. He wants their help. He has grabbed alternate versions of himself from other dimensions. He wants to know everything that his alternate selves know.

Invincible is still recovering from the fight with his father, from the end of the previous seasons. He wants to work for Cecil but Cecil tells him to cool his heels. He isn't ready to trust Mark just yet. Cecil eventually changes his mind. The New Global Guardians aren't as effective as he would like them to be. He brings in the Immortal to train them.

Invincible is sent to stop the Mauler twins. Cecil doesn't know that it's them but the energy readings coming from their new lab are off the charts. The Maulers have built a device that should help Levy to learn everything that his alternate selves know. He has altruistic motives but Invincible's interference changes things.

Levy bore no ill will towards Invincible, until now.