Lady Bloodfight (2016)

I'm not sure how this movie made it's way on to my Netflix queue but it had been sitting there for a while when I finally decided to watch it this weekend. I wasn't dying to watch it. It was more of a case of me deciding to give it a try and then sticking with it.

Jane is from Pittsburgh where she waits on tables. After getting into a fight with some patrons of the diner where she work she is fired. She then leaves Pittsburgh and travels to Hong Kong to fight in a women's martial arts competition and search for her father. In Hong Kong she meets Shu who fought in the same competition the year before. Shu trains Jane for the competition. Wai, Shu's rival, trains Ling to win the same competition.

The first half was a bit of a slog to get through. The acting in this movie is pretty bad but there are a few emotional moments in the second half of the movie that got to me a little bit. I did like the music and how they used it, especially towards the end. The fight scenes within the competition and outside of it were decent. I'm not sure what I really expected to get out of this movie. Most of it felt forced. I shouldn't have been moved by it, even though I was. There were lots of short cuts taken, lots of things left unexplained.

UnReal 3.01

Oath

Rachel returns to Everlasting after a 6-month hiatus. She has spent the time on a farm, taking care of animals and working on telling the truth. Quinn talks her in to coming back to work on the reality TV show. Rachel talks Quinn into accepting Chet's idea: have a female (instead of male bachelor at the center of the show. Serena, the female bachelor, is loaded and makes her money investing in tech companies. She hasn't had much experience dating, or at least that's the impression I get.

Atlanta 1.10

The Jacket

Earn wakes up the morning after a party in a stranger's house. He is missing his jacket. He needs to find it. He tries retracing his steps. He goes to a strip club where he, Alfred, and Darius hung out the night before. He talks to a bouncer and a stripper, but doesn't have any luck finding his jacket. Eventually he finds out the Uber driver from the night before has it. Alfred gives him a ride over to the driver's place. Darius is in the back seat. The driver doesn't show. Alfred senses that something is wrong but when he tries moving his car several police vehicles swoop in and block their way.

Cowboy Bebop 1.11

Toys in the Attic

Something is aboard the Bebop, something more than just the usual five. Jet is the first one to get bit by it. He was investigating what looked like a fridge of unknown origin in the cargo hold at the time. It gets him in the back of the neck. Spike takes a blood sample and tries crosschecking it against the ship's database of known diseases without any luck. Faye thinks that Jet and Spike are being overly dramatic. She is the second victim.

The Phil Silvers Show 1.01

New Recruits

Sgt Bilko needs money. He lost all the money he had in a poker game, which included money he had borrowed from Corporal Barbella and Corporal Henshaw. The rest of men are very reluctant to fork over any money.

Things start to look up after the Col. Hall puts Bilko in charge of a squad of recruits who are very green and have plenty of cash. Bilko's conscience gets in the way of his vices when they trust him to look after their money

I think I saw an episode or two of this show way back when, probably in the late seventies or early eighties. The show originally aired in the mid-to-late fifties.

GLOW 2.03

Concerned Women of America

Ruth and Debbie work on a public service announcement (PSA) to be aired during the show. They are pushed to do it in response to a complaint from the faceless Concerned Women of America who feel that the show is setting the wrong example for young women. Ruth and Debbie develop a PSA about teenage pregnancy. Most of the women of GLOW are in the PSA. Justine plays the teen in the PSA who is being pressured by her boyfriend (played by Bash) to have sex. Carmen plays the role of the baby.

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

This is basically a very loose remake of The Seven Samurai that is set in space. The premise is that an evil warlord threatens Akir, a peaceful planet. A young man from Akir goes seeking help. He returns with a motley group of heroes who pledge to help defend the planet.

There are a number of familiar faces in this movie, well, familiar to me. George Peppard (whom I know best from the A-Team), John Saxon (who was also in Enter the Dragon, which starred Bruce Lee) and Robert Vaughn (who was also in The Magnificent Seven, an earlier remake of the Seven Samurai) are the three actors I know best. There are a couple others that I recognize: Richard Thomas (whom I associate mostly with The Americans) and Sybil Danning (I heard her recently on an episode of the Double Page Spread podcast talking about her career including about 5-10 minutes about this movie).