After Life (1998)

After Life (1998)

starring Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima

directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu

119 minutes

Japanese with English subtitles

Twety-two people arrive, after dying, in a reception center. They are tasked with telling the staff about their favorite memory. They are given a few days to make their choice. Their one memory will get recreated for them by the staff of the reception center. Their one memory is the only one that they will be able to take with them when they leave.

Some people have an easy time choosing, others do not. The people who work at the reception center are also people who died in the past, some recently, some not so recently. The movie is as much about the staff of the center as it is about the people who have just arrived there.

The Tick (2016) 1.11

The Beginning of the End

Doctor Karamazov explains how he thinks the Terror plans to kill Superian. He also fixes Arthur's flying suit, while Tinfoil Kevin helps to get all of the Big Bismuth off of the Tick.

The VLM gets closer and closer to the city. Dot rescues Overkill from Ms. Lint who has been torturing him and trying to convince him to help her kill the Terror. Ms. Lint is just about ready to finish Overkill off when Dot shows up.

The episode ends with the Tick and Arthur about ready to put Doctor Karamazov's plan into action, although it will put them in considerable danger.

Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes 1.10

De-Mole-ition

New York City is invaded by a gigantic creature from undergound. The Fantastic Four go looking, after immobilizing the creature, and discover that the Mole Man lured it above ground. He didn't want it underground when its eggs hatched.

The Mole Man captures the Fantastic Four but the Invisible Woman escapes. She returns to the surface and helps the gigantic creature find the egg that the Mole Man placed in the Baxter Building. She then returns with the creature. She helps to free her teammates and together they prevent the Mole Man's plan from succeeding.

Doctor Who (1963) 11.05.04

Planet of the Spiders - Part Four

The Doctor is badly injured but he recovers thanks to Sarah Jane. She retrieves a device from the TARDIS that he asks her to get but she is captured by Lupton who takes her to the spiders. Arak brings the device that Sarah retrieved from the TARDIS. The Dotor uses it to help him recover.

Mike Yates, back on Earth, tries to reason with the employees of the meditation center but they knock him out and tie him up. The blue crystal starts while Tommy is looking at it. He falls down and when he wakes up he seems much more intelligent.

The Doctor goes to find Sarah Jane. Lupton tries to stop the Doctor but the guards arrest Lupton and take him to the queen. More guards take the Doctor to Sarah Jane who is bound with spider webs. She is happy to see him until she notices the guards.

UFO Robo Grendizer 3.16

Maria in the Snow Storm

or Maria in the Blizzard

or La grande douleur (The great pain)

Zuril starts to build a new base of operations on Hokkaido, the northern most of the four large islands of Japan. He has his second in command, Kane, send out a saucer beast to wreck havoc. in the area around the mountain where the Vegan base is being built.

Danbei is on Hokkaido buying horses and spots the saucer beast. He rushes to get a message to the Space Science Center. The Vegans catch him and chase him through the snow. They abandon the chase when they think he was killed after falling off a cliff.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.17

Doberman the Crooner

Bilko discovers that someone at Fort Baxter has a beautiful singing voice. Bilko sees a way to make money and goes looking for the crooner. Bilko doesn't know that it is Doberman. He gets a number of false leads. He thinks it is Col. Hall, Zimmerman, and Papparelli before finally figuring out that Doberman is the one with the beautidul voice.

Bilko runs into a snag when he discovers that Doberman's voice only sounded that nice because he had a cold. 

Thoughts

This is a fun one. It is a little more straightforward and focused than most of the previous episodes from this season.

Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes 1.09

World's Tiniest Heroes

Johnny brings a neighbor's dog into Reed's lab while he performing an experiment that involves shrinking technology. The dog starts running around the lab knocking things over. The next day the team wakes to find themselves smaller. They continue to shrink as they try to make their way to the lab.

HERBIE, the Baxter Building's computer, doesn't recognize the team in their reduced state. It concludes that they must be vermin and attempts to dispose of them. Dr. Hank Pym (aka Ant-Man) shows up and lends the team a hand before they shrink out of existence or get killed by HERBIE.