Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Good Time (2017)

starring Robert Pattinson
directed by Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Connie and Nick, his mentally challenged brother, hold up a bank. They don't get away with it. Nick gets caught. Connie tries hitting up his girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh) for some money to get Nick out on bail. Nick gets into a fight while he is in jail and beat up badly. He is taken to a hospital. Connie tries to break him out of the hospital with disastrous results. It just gets crazier from there.

Knights of Sidonia 1.01

Commencement

Nagate Tanikaze, a teenager, lives on Sidonia a city that travels through space. He has lived his whole life in the underground portion of the city. He was raised by Hiroki Saito, his grandfather. He ventures to the surface for the first time after he runs out of rice. He is injured and apprehended running from guards in the rice factory. He escapes, only to be recaptured. Ochiai, an agent of the Immortal Council, finds him and takes him to Captain Kobayashi.

He is quickly added to the pilot training program, at Captain Kobayashi's request. He is assigned to a dorm where he meets Lala Hiyama, the dorm mother. She looks like a bear that wears clothes and has a mechanical hand. Soon after that he meets Izana Shinatose, who is neither male nor femaile and is one of Nagate's classmates. Izana informs him that usually it is very difficult to get in the pilot training program.

Monday, December 30, 2019

Young Justice 2.06

Bloodlines

Bart Allen arrives from the future traveling in a time machine. The machine arrives in Mount Justice. Nightwing, Robin, and Beast Boy are there when he arrives. They don't trust that he is who he says is is, at first. They manage to capture him, but he escapes before too long. He adopts the name Impulse and tells them who he is, the grandson of Barry Allen (the Flash), before he leaves.

Taking of the Pelham One Two Three (1974)

starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo
directed by Joseph Sargent

The Pelham 1-2-3, a New York subway train, is hijacked by four armed men who identify themselves as Mr. Blue (Shaw), Mr. Green (Balsam), Mr. Grey (Elizondo), and Mr. Brown. They want one million dollars and only give the police an hour to cough up the ransom. If their demands are not met then they will start shooting hostages.

Transit Police Lieutenant Zachary Garber (Matthau) runs the operation to try and rescue the hostages and capture the hijackers. He gets some assistance from Transit Police Lieutenant Rico Patrone (Jerry Stiller).

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Chris Claremont's X-Men (2018)

starring Chris Claremont, Louise Simonson, Ann Nocenti, Tom McLean, Peter Sanderson, Jim Shooter, Sean Howe
directed by Patrick Meaney

The story of Chris Claremont's contributions to the X-Men comic books is told in this documentary through interviews with all of the people named above and several others. Claremont wrote hundreds of issues of X-Men and X-Men related comic books from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. His contributions to the main comic books series and others should not be underestimated. Two of the editors Claremont worked with, Louise Simonson and Ann Nocenti, both of whom also wrote for Marvel during the 1980s, provide lots of detail that help to color in the picture of what it was like working with him.

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Fargo 3.08

Who Rules the Land of Denial?

A few more details are filled in about what caused the bus crash. Yuri stepped out into the road as shown in 3.07 but, with some help from Meemo and Golem (the fake cop who tried to kill Nikki in jail), he set up a makeshift device that helped the bus to crash.

Friday, December 27, 2019

GLOW 3.10

A Very GLOW Christmas

The women of GLOW play the Secret Santa game. Ruth gets Carmen but Carmen knows it. She wants to do a GLOW version of A Christmas Carol for the last show of the year. Ruth is against it but reluctantly agrees to do it.