Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Doctor Who (1963) 1.03 Extras (Part 3)

Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS (2006)

10 minutes

People who were interviewed
  • Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman)
  • William Russell (Ian Chesterton)
  • Ray Cusick, designer
  • Verity Lambert, producer
  • Waris Hussein, director
  • Richard Martin, director
  • Frank Cox, director
  • Brian Hodgson, sound supervisor

Monday, February 26, 2024

Broadchurch 1.06

Episode Six

The episode opens with the funeral for Jack Marshall. Alec and Ellie keep their eyes open at the funeral and at the reception afterwards. Alec approaches Tommy, Ellie's son, and talks to him for a few minutes until Tommy's father sees them talking and gets Danny away from Alec.

Karen White tries to apologize to Ollie. She ran off for a few days after Jack Marshall was found dead. She feared that she would be blamed. Ollie isn't too impressed by her disappearing routine or by the fact that she didn't respond to his texts or e-mails.

Alec does some research and discovers that Paul Coates, the priest, is a recovering alcoholic. Alec suspects that Paul is hiding more than just that and asks him to come in so that he can get a genetic sample.

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Abbott Elementary 2.04

The Principal's Office

Melissa tries to teach Janine how to cook. Janine tries to fix Melissa's relationship with her sister. Gregory has a student who keeps acting up in class. He tries taking the student to Eva only to discover that it doesn't help at all.

Thoughts

Jacob, Barbra, and Mr. Johnson are also in this episode. 

This was a very good episode. I really enjoyed it. I really liked the two endings.

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Five Came Back 1.01

The Mission Begins

This three-part documentary series is based on the book of the same name by Mark Harris. It is about five movie directors who served in the armed forces during World War 2:
  • John Ford
  • William Wyler
  • Frank Capra
  • George Stevens
  • John Huston.
The documentary series is a mix of archival newsreel footage from the 1930s and 1940s, archival interviews with the five directors shot from the 1950s to the 1980s, and clips from some of the movies they made from the 1930s and 1940s. Additionally there are clips of interviews with five current filmmakers (Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Greengrass, Guillermo Del Toro, Lawrence Kasdan) about the five who served during World War 2.

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Barthlemess, Rita Hayworth
directed by Howard Hawks

Bonnie Lee (Jean Arthur) gets off the ocean liner on which she is travelling in Barranca, somewhere in South America. She explores the town and winds up at an airport run by an American flying company owned by Geoff Carter (Cary Grant). She ends up sticking around for a week after she lets the ocean liner take off without her, in part because she has developed a fondness for Geoff.

Life at the airport gets more complicated after one pilot is killed when his plane crashes. His replacement, Bat MacPherson (Richard Barthlemess) and his wife Judy (Rita Hayworth), have ties to the crew of the airport. Judy dated Geoff before she got married. Bat bailed out of an airplane in a parachute once, leaving the other man in the airplane to die when the plane crashed. Kid (Thaomas Mitchell) is the brother of the man who died in that airplane crash.

Twentieth Century (1934)

Twentieth Century (1934)

starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard
directed by Howard Hawks

91 minutes

Playwright Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) pushes Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard) to change her name to Lily Garland and become the star of his latest Broadway play. She accepts his mentoring in stride but after she has more than proven her abilities on the stage she rebels from his heavy handed approach. Oscar is not ready to let Lily go and seeks to get her back into his next production.

Friday, February 23, 2024

Finding Nemo (2003)

Finding Nemo (2003)

starring Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres
directed by Andrew Stanton

100 minutes

Nemo, a young clownfish, gets separated from Marlin (Albert Brooks), his father. on the first day of school. Nemo is captured by a scuba diver and taken to Sydney, Australia. He wakes up in a big tank with a bunch of other fish.

Marlin goes on a quest to find Nemo. One of the first fishes he meets is a blue fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres). She travels with him on his voyage to Sydney. Together they meet sharks, jellyfish, sea turtles, whales, pelicans, and lots of other creatures. Eventually they make their way to Sydney.