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Movie - The Devil to Pay! [UK] (1930)

  My views Plot After selling his house and belongings in  East Africa , Willie Hale returns home to England, where he buys a dog with most of his remaining money. Lord Leeland, his wealthy father, is frustrated with Willie's many failed ventures but gives him £100 in spending money. After seeing his old girlfriend, theatre star Mary Crayle, Willie meets family friend and heiress Dorothy Hope. He takes Dorothy and his sister Susan to  the Derby , where he wins a great deal of money on a 50-to-1 longshot. Dorothy then breaks her engagement to Grand Duke Paul because she finds the bankrupt Willie far more charming. Willie is reluctant to become romantically involved with Dorothy, but when her father insists that he will disinherit her if she marries Willie, he proposes to her. She accepts, but only if he will promise to never see Mary again. Willie is unable to deliver the news to Mary by letter or telephone, so he waits for her outside the theater. At her home, he is final...

Movie - It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

  My views Plot Lawrence and Sylvia Stevens are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. In a flashback to the 1890s, Lawrence Stevens is an  obituary  writer unhappy with his job. He is given  tomorrow's evening newspaper  by an elderly newspaper man named Pop Benson, though he does not bother to read it. After work, he and his co-workers go to see a mind-reading act starring the "Great Sigolini" (Oscar Smith) and his beautiful assistant Sylvia. Lawrence is enchanted with Sylvia and manages to get her to agree to a date the next day. He finally notices the newspaper's date, but dismisses it as a mistake. However, he notes the weather forecast is for an unseasonable snowfall, which occurs, and later an advertisement for a waiter which precedes the firing of one. Then he reads about a robbery at a theater's box office during a performance in an article under his  byline . He writes the article beforehand. His editor refuses to publish it at first, until a...

Movie - The Bishop's Wife (1947)

  My views Plot Bishop  Henry Brougham, having difficulties funding the building of a new  cathedral , prays for divine guidance. His plea is seemingly answered by a suave  angel  named Dudley, who reveals his identity only to the clergyman. Dudley's mission turns out, however, not to be to help construct a cathedral, but to guide Henry and the people around him spiritually. Henry has become obsessed with raising funds, to the detriment of his family life. His relationships with wife Julia and their young daughter Debby are strained by his focus on the cathedral. Everyone, except for Henry, is charmed by Dudley, even the non-religious Professor Wutheridge. When Dudley spends time cheering up Julia, though, an unexpected development occurs: he finds himself strongly attracted to her. Sensing this, Henry becomes jealous and anxious for his now unwelcome guest to finish and depart. He reveals Dudley's true identity to Professor Wutheridge, who urges him to stand up...

Movie - Some Like It Hot (1959)

  My views Plot In Prohibition-era  Chicago , Joe is a jazz  saxophone  player and an irresponsible, impulsive gambler and  ladies' man ; Jerry, his anxious friend, is a jazz  double bass  player. They work in a  speakeasy  owned by local Mafia boss "Spats" Colombo. Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie, the police raid the joint. Joe and Jerry escape, but later accidentally witness Spats and his henchmen gunning down Toothpick and his gang in revenge (an incident inspired by the  Saint Valentine's Day Massacre ). [ 7 ]  Spats and his gang see them as they flee. Broke, terrified, and desperate to leave Chicago, Joe and Jerry  disguise themselves as women  named Josephine and Daphne so they can join Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed by train to  Miami . On the train, Joe and Jerry befriend Sugar Kane, the band's vocalist and  ukulele  player. Joe and Jerry become obsessed ...

TV Serie - Prime Suspect [UK] (1991) Season 2

  My views Log Episode 2 - 2025-Mar-06 Episode 1 - 2025-Mar-06 Plot

Movie - The Next Three Days (2010)

  My views Plot In  Pittsburgh ,  Pennsylvania , Lara Brennan is sentenced to  life in prison  for murder. Three years later, her young son Luke ceases to acknowledge her during prison visits, despite the efforts of her husband John. Following the failure of Lara's appeal, her lawyer urges John to accept the evidence: after a public fight with her boss, Lara was seen leaving the parking lot where her boss was bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher; though Lara claims to have bumped into the real suspect, her fingerprints were on the murder weapon and the victim's blood was found on her coat. Out of legal options, Lara attempts suicide, and John becomes determined to  break her out of prison . John consults former inmate Damon Pennington, who wrote a book about his seven prison escapes, and makes the necessary preparations over the next three months, studying the routines inside  Allegheny County Jail . Attempting to buy fake passports from a drug dealer, ...

TV Serie - Prime Suspect [UK] (1991) Season 1

  My views Log Episode 2 - 2025-Mar-05 Episode 1 - 2025-Mar-05 Plot

Movie - Godzilla Minus One | Gojira -1.0 [JP] (2023)

  My views What a movie. There is a plot. There is character development. Plot In 1945, near the end of  World War II ,  kamikaze  pilot Kōichi Shikishima lands his  Mitsubishi A6M Zero  for repairs at the Japanese base on  Odo Island . Lead mechanic Sōsaku Tachibana deduces that Shikishima is feigning technical issues to flee from his duty. That night,  Godzilla , a large dinosaur-like creature, attacks the garrison. Tachibana tells Shikishima to fire at the monster from his plane, but he panics, fails to shoot, and is knocked unconscious. When he awakes the following day, he finds Tachibana is the only other survivor, who is furious at him for failing to act. Shikishima returns home to find his parents were killed in the  bombing of Tokyo . Plagued by  survivor's guilt , he begins supporting a woman, Noriko Ōishi, whose parents also died in the bombing, and an orphaned baby, Akiko, whom Noriko rescued. He finds employment aboard a...

Movie - Thelma & Louise (1991)

  My views When cinema had a story to tell us. Plot Two friends, Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer, set out for a weekend vacation at a fishing cabin in the mountains to take a break from their dreary lives in Arkansas. Thelma, a housewife, is married to disrespectful and controlling carpet salesman Darryl, while sharp-tongued Louise works as a waitress in a diner and is dating easygoing musician Jimmy, who is on the road most of the time. On the way, they stop at a roadhouse bar, where Thelma dances with a flirtatious stranger, Harlan Puckett. He takes her to the parking lot and tries to rape her until Louise intervenes and threatens to shoot him. As the women walk away, Harlan yells he should have continued the rape, causing Louise to fatally shoot him in a fit of rage. The two women immediately drive off. At a motel, they discuss how to handle the situation. Thelma wants to go to the police, but Louise fears that no one will believe a claim of attempted rape as Thelma was drink...

TV Serie - Whitstable Pearl [UK] (2021) Season 1

  My views Log Episode 6 - 2025-Mar-04 Episode 5 - 2025-Mar-03 Episode 4 - 2025-Mar-03 Episode 3 - 2025-Mar-03 Episode 2 - 2025-Mar-02 Episode 1 - 2025-Mar-02 Plot Local restaurant owner Pearl Nolan sets up a local detective agency after undergoing police training in an earlier career. She is soon embroiled in her first case when she discovers the body of her close friend Vinnie.

Movie - Se7en (1995)

  My views Plot In an unnamed city overcome with violent crime and corruption, disillusioned police Detective Lieutenant William Somerset is one week from retirement. He is partnered with David Mills, a young, short-tempered, idealistic detective who recently relocated to the city with his wife, Tracy. On Monday, Somerset and Mills investigate an obese man who was forced to eat until his stomach burst, killing him. The detectives find the word " gluttony " written on a wall. Somerset, considering the case too extreme for his last investigation, asks to be reassigned, but his request is denied. The following day, another victim, who had been forced to cut one pound (0.45 kg) of flesh from his body, is found; the crime scene is marked " greed ." Clues at the scene lead Somerset and Mills to the  sloth  victim, a drug-dealing  pederast  whom they find emaciated and restrained to a bed. Photographs reveal the victim was restrained for precisely one year. Somers...

TV Serie - Virdee [UK] (2025) Season 1

  My views Log Episode 6 - 2025-Mar-02 Episode 5 - 2025-Mar-02 Episode 4 - 2025-Mar-02 Episode 3 - 2025-Mar-02 Episode 2 - 2025-Mar-02 Episode 1 - 2025-Mar-01 Plot