Batman Returns (1992)

Batman Returns (1992)

starring Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Keaton

directed by Tim Burton

126 minutes

Oswald Cobblepot abandoned by his parents (who find him disgusting) is adopted by penguins that live in the sewers beneath Gotham. Decades later he allies himself with criminals from the Red Triangle Circus.

Selina Kyle (Michelle Pfeiffer), secretary to Gotham industrialist (and all around bad guy) Max Shreck, displeases her boss one too many times. He pushes her out a window. She falls several stories but miraculously comes back to life. She designs herself a costume and starts calling herself Catwoman.

Black Mirror 1.02

Fifteen Million Merits

Bing lives in a world where he rides an exercise bicycle for a living. He earns merits riding the bicycle for a living. He uses those merits to pay for everything he wants and needs. He has a little over fifteen million merits.

Bing meets Abi, a woman who also rides an exercise bicycle for a living. She has a really nice singing voice. He encourages her to go on Hot Shot, a talent search type show. She doesn't have the money but he does. He insists that she take it. Abi refuses at first but Bing keeps encouraging her to and eventually she agrees to take the money.

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford

directed by Irving Kershner

124 minutes

The rebellion, despite blowing up the Death Star in Star Wars (1977) is still on the run from the Empire. The leaders of the rebel alliance are hunkered down on the icy planet of Hoth when the Empire catches up to them. Pricess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and many others escape the Empire's latest attempt to capture them (after a battle on Hoth) by the skin of their teeth.

Adventure Time 4.21

Who Would Win

Jake and Finn decide that they must train so they can defeat The Farm, a champion fighter. Jake doesn't take the training seriously. Finn gets angry at him and they get into a fight. Jake gets angry at Finn because he breaks his portable gaming device.

Finn and Jake get worn out fighting each other and pass out. They experience a shared dream in which they are given the key to defeating The Farm.

Thoughts

The Farm is a huge guy who wears a barn as his only article of clothing.

This was fun.

Steven Universe 1.17

Lion 2: The Movie

Steven and Connie have plans to go see Dogcopter 3 in 3-D. Steven says that Lion will take them there. Lion takes them somewhere else, through a magical portal, to a cavern. They are trapped there for a time but they eventually make it to the movie theater. A creature from the cavern follows them. They defeat it using a combination of Lion's magic and Connie's tennis skills.

Thoughts

Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl are in the opening minutes of this episode but it is mostly Steven, Connie, and Lion.

I like this episode. It doesn't completely make sense but it works for me.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter

directed by Don Siegel

80 minutes

Dr. Miles Bennell returns to Santa Mira where he discovers that more and more people seem to be reporting that there is something wrong with their family and friends.

Miles shrugs it off at first but after a date with Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter), He gets a call from a couple friends, Jack and Teddy, who have found a body that looks remarkably like Jack.

Un Village Français 5.07

La Livraison

or The Delivery

Marie and Suzanne meet with Antoine in the woods. They ask for his help. He agrees to help them but Claude thinks that it is a bad idea.

Heinrich confronts Hortense about her source for the morphine. He tells her that he knows she is lying. She tells him that he got it from Chassagne. He kicks her out because he feels as if he can't trust her.

Lucienne starts to have second thoughts about trusting Marguerite after she discovers that Marguerite lied to her. She goes looking in Marguerite's room when she isn't there and finds a picture of Camille, Marguerite's ex. Marguerite told Lucienne that Camille was a man but the picture she finds is of a woman and has Camille's name on it.