Sunday, July 30, 2017

Viewing: The Italian Job (2003)


2e6395198dCharlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

Viewing: Top Gear America 1x01 "Made in America"


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Viewing: I Spy 1x02 "A Cup of Kindness"


8b5de77b1aOne of their own has joined the adverse party, so Scott & Robinson are sent to Hong Kong after him.

Viewing: Seinfeld 2x03 "The Jacket"


F143d2d1f6Jerry buys a real expensive new suede jacket with a colorful inner lining. George has a song from Les Miserables that he just can't get out of his mind. Kramer is supposed pickup a magician friend's doves, and needs someone to help him for two minutes; Elaine takes on the job. Kramer promises she'll get "a lift" to the hotel where Jerry and George are meeting her and her father, Alton Benes, an author cut from Hemingway cloth. Jerry and George suffer while waiting with Elaine's father. When it begins to snow, Jerry turns his new jacket inside out, to protect it, but Alton Benes doesn't want to be seen on the street with him.

Viewing: Seinfeld 2x02 "The Pony Remark"


63e97ccdb9Jerry's parents come to town for a 50th anniversary party. Jerry bets Kramer that he won't complete his plans to renovate his apartment with levels in a month. Jerry takes Elaine to the dinner and he makes an observation about children who have ponies, this remark offends the guest of honor. When she dies soon afterwards, Jerry wonders if he should go to the funeral or go to his championship softball game. Elaine wonders about the fate of the apartment, when she hears the widower is moving to Arizona. George wonders if it will ever be possible for him to have sex again.

Viewing: Seinfeld 2x01 "The Ex-Girlfriend"


D6e0b45c20George has doubts about his current relationship that he broke off. Elaine is curious about a relationship that she has with a guy in her building that has degenerated over the past two years. Jerry is reluctantly drawn into George's ex-relationship when he picks up some books left at her apartment. Although he wants to break it off with her, she has this "psycho-sexual" hold over him and he becomes worried about what George might think if he lets this relationship develop. Elaine confronts the guy in her building and Jerry's relationship maybe in jeopardy when his girlfriend sees his act.

Viewing: Spotlight (2015)


908ba45bbdThe true story of how The Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child abuse and the cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Viewing: The Departed (2006)


7e8fd4e88cTo take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Viewing: Gorgo (1961)


44f5915ecdNever take a baby from his mother. You'll see why in this action-packed monster thriller as young Gorgo, a creature from the sea, is relocated to London from Ireland, with rampaging mommy-dearest not far behind.

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Viewing: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)


68ba31bee8The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 science fiction film directed by Eugène Lourié and stars Paul Christian, Paula Raymond and Cecil Kellaway with visual effects by Ray Harryhausen. The film is about an atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle that unfreezes a hibernating fictional dinosaur, a Rhedosaurus, that begins to wreak havoc in New York City.

Monday, July 24, 2017

Viewing: Seinfeld 1x05 "The Stock Tip"


8e896177cdAfter George receives a stock tip, he and Jerry take the financial plunge. Elaine and her allergies battle her boyfriend's cats. Meanwhile, Jerry's weekend getaway with his new girlfriend proves to be a relationship killer.

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Viewing: 11.22.63 1x01 "The Rabbit Hole"


9857d9f841Jake Epping is burned out and lost. His ex-wife has moved on, his students are always distracted, and his novel went nowhere. Then one of his dearest friends, Al Templeton, shows him the rabbit hole, a secret time portal that leads back to 1960. Al asks Jake to head back to the past and create a better world by stopping the Kennedy assassination. Jake heads down the rabbit hole to begin his mission but finds that changing the past is far more dangerous than he ever would have dreamed.

Viewing: I Spy 1x01 "So Long, Patrick Henry"


D69631215aA defector in old Hong Kong claims the attention of Robinson & Scott.

Viewing: Seinfeld 1x04 "Male-Unbonding"


71a1c86e93Jerry tries to "break-up" with his obnoxious childhood friend but his pathetic weeping leads Jerry to give him another chance. Elaine helps Jerry come up with excuses to avoid him.

Viewing: Seinfeld 1x03 "The Robbery"


841763f725Jerry is robbed after Kramer fails to close the apartment door. Elaine talks Jerry into looking at a fabulous apartment in the hopes that she can then have Jerry's place. Things are further complicated when George decides he wants the new place too.

Viewing: Seinfeld 1x02 "The Stake Out"


C261767666Jerry meets an attractive woman at a party but by the time she leaves, he has only learned where she works. Jerry stakes out the mystery woman's office with George so that he can "casually" bump into her.

Viewing: Seinfeld 1x01 "The Seinfeld Chronicles"


31171a4b6aThe very first episode. Jerry is ecstatic that a woman he met on the road is coming to stay with him in New York. George and Kramer weigh in on how Jerry should best approach the situation.

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Viewing: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)


1560667661Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend – and Indy's colleague – Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.

Viewing: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)


47db256eac'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Viewing: Third Watch 2x19 "Walking Wounded"


Bd8b12d05eFaith and Bosco hunt down the dealer who distributed a batch of lethal heroin; depressed over Bobby's death, Kim attempts suicide.

Viewing: Third Watch 2x18 "Honor"


9c407a58d2The firefighters take on a rival firehouse for touch football bragging rights; Brooke files for divorce; Jimmy worries that he may be a father again.

Viewing: Third Watch 2x17 "The Self-Importance of Being Carlos"


5bbbf58aa8Doc and Carlos attend a stress debriefing; Carlos meets up with Bosco when he's ordered to attend sensitivity training.

Viewing: Third Watch 2x16 "Unfinished Business"


42a490657bBobby's attempt to keep Paulie away from drugs ends tragically.

Viewing: Third Watch 2x15 "Requiem for a Bantamweight"


D104ad6f8fBobby comes to the aid of his old friend Paulie after Paulie's sister begs Bobby to help her brother with his drug addiction, but becomes enraged when Paulie breaks into Bobby's mother's house and robs her to support his habit.

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Viewing: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)


96a47207e7We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.