vendredi 22 mai 2020

The Survivors 2.8 - Reunion Part II


The Survivors : Reunion - Part II

Genre : Sci-Fi / Mystery / Drama
Showrunner: Tomas Alfredson
Writer : Mo Buck
Based on the French Canadian series
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Logan Lerman, Cara Buono, Odeya Rush, Jodelle Ferland, M. Emmet  Walsh, Owen Vaccaro, Krysten Ritter, Clancy Brown, Michael Mando, Zeljko Ivanek and Peter Stormare

Plot: Sarah (Odeya Rush) runs to Gerald (Brendan Fraser) and Charles (Logan Lerman) and hugs them for a long time. She says she’s been dreaming about seeing them again for a long time already and she assumed it would be under different circumstances. She says she missed them like crazy and so did they. She’s horrified when she sees Charles’ missing finger and even more when she sees Arthur (Zeljo Ivanek), dressed as a homeless man. She asks what the hell is this place and what the hell happened. Gerald says they have so much explaining to do, so she better settle in, as he embraces his daughter one more time. Marco (Owen Vaccaro) enters too and he’s met with the same lovely welcome. Sarah says they don’t have much time, she thinks Mary may have called the cops because she thinks her and Marco are in trouble. Gerald smiles and says that he recognizes his Mary alright, but Sarah assures her that she’s changed, for the better. Arthur stops the family reunion and asks Sarah if she really called the cops. She says she’s not sure, but if she knows her mother well, it’s definitely the type of thing she would do. Charles and Gerald also qualify it as a “Mary move”. Arthur starts to panic and calls someone from his phone. He then tells them to get out of here before the police comes in. He thanks Sarah for ruining everything and she ask him again who he is, but he doesn’t have time to answer. 

Mary (Cara Buono) is worried sick and pacing around the kitchen while Horace (M. Emmet Walsh) reminds her that it’s time to cook dinner, they are all starving in here. She says it’s not the time and she immediately jumps on the phone when it rings. It’s Marco’s soccer coach and he asks her if she knows he wasn’t at soccer practice today and she says she knows, he’s been sick all day and she didn’t send him. He says it’s alright. Horace tells her she shouldn’t have lied, God doesn’t like liars. She says screw God. She prayed all her life and look where it got her. She hears the door rattle and goes over to see who it is, but she doesn’t recognize the man, it’s John (Peter Stormare). She doesn’t want to let him in, thinking it will start all over again and John begs her to let him in he’s one of the good guys. She refuses to comply and hides, so he breaks the glass and unlocks the door himself. He orders her to shut up and do as he says, but she won’t stop crying. Judy (Jodelle Ferland) comes out of her room with her baby and asks what the hell is going on.

Arthur leads the way in a secret passage out of the sewers with Charles, Gerald, Sarah and Marco behind him. They think the place is disgusting and Arthur says it’s a passage they didn’t intend to use anymore, but they had too because someone brought the police to their secret cave. Gerald asks what’s the harm in that and Arthur says it’s bad. He sees he has seen dozens of scenario of how it would all happen and all of them who involved the police didn’t end well, much less when they were led directly to their cave. He asks why he wouldn’t prevent it if he saw it coming, but he says that never happened. He asks Sarah how did she find them and she says she was simply driving Marco to soccer practice. Arthur says not one scenario involved his kid falling in love with soccer, of all sports.

Behind them, Gina McRae (Krysten Ritter) followed the blood trail and found the room where they were before. She requests backup as she sees the blood on the table and she takes a look around. She sees various photographs and is particularly drawn to the ones of Gerald’s family. She sees a lot of pictures of buildings, but one stands out in particular and she recognizes them all from her father’s old collection of photographs from his cases. One building is circled in red and stands out from the rest. She requests all available backup to that location and heads out to go there herself. 

Gerald and the gang go back to their house and he grows nervous at the idea of seeing everyone else again. He starts to freak out when he sees the broken glass out front and Arthur says John may have forced his way in if they didn’t comply. Gerald asks him what him what he means and he says he’ll see for himself. They get in and everyone is sitting on the couch. Mary jumps in Gerald’s arms and the family emotionally reunites. John says his wife is one tough cookie, pointing out his cut lip. John says they have some explaining to do, so they better sit down and talk about it.

When Krysten arrive at the old building, she decides to wait for backup as she sees some movement inside. She waits for the cavalry to arrive and tries to enter. No one is there to answer. Inside, Victor (Michael Mando) and Chartwell (Clancy Brown) are pissed off that the police is there. Chartwell says he will distract them for a while, Victor knows what to do. Chartwell grabs his gun and starts shooting at the cops through the window. Gina runs for cover and hides behind a car. A garage door opens and Victor open the truck of their van and shoots at them with a mounted machine gun. Chartwell goes down in the garage and starts driving away. All the cars broke down and can’t be utilized. Gina does her best to try to get the license plate, but she’s not able to.

Back at Gerald’s house, they are done with telling them what happened during all they’re done with the catching up. Gerald asks John and Arthur where’s Steven and he says things are complicated with Steven right now. Outside, they don’t see it, but Chartwell and Victor just pulled up in the street and parked in front of their house.







The Survivors 2.7 - Reunion - Part I


The Survivors : Reunion - Part I

Genre : Sci-Fi / Mystery / Drama
Showrunner: Tomas Alfredson
Writer : Mo Buck
Based on the French Canadian series
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Logan Lerman, Cara Buono, Odeya Rush, Jodelle Ferland, M. Emmet  Walsh, Owen Vaccaro, Krysten Ritter, Michael Mando, Zeljko Ivanek and Yaya DaCosta


Plot: Mary (Cara Buono) is on her way out of the office building with her colleague Rita (Yaya DaCosta) and on their way to the parking lot, Mary receives a call on her cell phone and requests Rita’s help to answer. She gets a call from Sarah (Odeya Rush), asking her to come by immediately. Mary starts to panic and asks if anything happened and Sarah says it’s about Charles. She enthusiastically asks if he’s back and she says it’s in the video they got. Mary isn’t impressed and she says that she shouldn’t watch that video over and over again. Sarah says something about it changed. Mary hangs up calls the home phone to speak with Horace (M. Emmet Walsh) and asks him what’s going on with Sarah and Charles and he says the kid is missing a finger in the video. She hangs up and tells Rita to drive faster, there’s something going on at home. Rita asks if anything’s alright with her husband, she hasn’t seem him for a while after all. Mary gets uncomfortable and changes the subject, indicating she hasn’t told Rita that Gerald left with Charles. When Mary gets home, she runs straight to Sarah’s room where she watches the video with her and Judy (Jodelle Ferland). She asks them if they’re sure he wasn’t missing a finger before and they say they’re positive. Mary thinks it can’t mean anything. It must be people messing with them, nothing would surprise her anymore. She shuts down Sarah’s laptop and asks her to drive her brother to soccer practice, she can’t do everything in this house. 

Once the car appears on top of Mount Royal, Victor (Michael Mando) throws Gerald (Brendan Fraser) and Charles (Logan Lerman) out and disappears as quickly as he arrived. Gerald is covering Charles’ finger so it doesn’t bleed out. With no cars or means of transportation around, they have no choice but to leave by foot, heading for the city.
In pain, Charles has a hard time to move and says he should get to a hospital and Gerald doesn’t think they can get in a hospital just like that with a missing finger, they’re going to ask questions and it’s going to be hard to justify. People start giving them weird looks and they ask if they need help. Gerald keeps walking and tells everyone they’re alright. A man touches Gerald on the shoulder and he pushes him away because of the tense situation, but he keeps coming back. He calls Gerald by his name and it catches his attention. He turns around and he recognizes Arthur (Zeljko Ivanek) who says he can help him.

Sarah is driving her brother Marco (Owen Vaccaro) to his soccer practice. As Marco looks outside, he says out loud that he likes it here and he secretly wishes they never go back. He says he has his friends here and everything is more fun and simpler. Sarah says she feels the same way, but she misses Gerald though. Marco says he misses him too and he wishes he’d be with them now so everyone can be happy. Sarah stops at a red light and looks to her left and in an alley. She sees three men going down a manhole and she recognizes Gerald and Charles. She turns left on the red light and nearly gets hit. She parks the car and they leave on foot to try to catch their father and their brother. Marco asks her if she’s sure it was Gerald and Charles and she swears it was them. Sarah calls her mother and says she has seen Gerald and Charles. Mary thinks her daughter is going crazy, but Sarah is confident that it was them. She asks her daughter where she is and Sarah says she saw them go down a manhole and she wants to follow them. Mary doesn’t want her too and Sarah reminds her that she’s almost an adult now and she can do what she wants before hanging up and going down the manhole.

Not far away from there, Gina McRae (Krysten Ritter) is answering to call a disturbance and all clues indicate it was Gerald and Charles, but Gina doesn’t know they were there. She quickly dismisses the case, saying whoever it was they’re going to turn up in a hospital somewhere and it’s a waste of resources to have her chase two men and one missing a finger. They could be anywhere by now. She gets a call on her personal phone and on the other end is Mary, who asks if she remembers her. Gina says of course she remembers them, it’s not everyday that you meet people who traveled in time. She asks them if everything is alright and Mary says that’s why she was calling. She tells them everything that happened in the past few months and that Sarah claims to have seen them go down a manhole and now she’s afraid something is going to happen to her daughter. She asks Gina if she can go over and make sure everything is alright. Gina says it’s a big ask, but she can do that, her family has been through enough already.

Sarah is careful in the sewers, but is unsure where to go next. Marco is right behind her and he notices blood droplets on the ground with his cellphone light. They follow the trail and once they get closer, they start hearing screams of pain coming. Sarah runs in that direction and asks for Marco to stay behind, but he insists on following her. She finds herself in front of the door and opens it, with her father and brother standing in front of her.









Hitman 3.8 - Requiem for a Clone


Hitman: Requiem for a Clone
Genre: Action
Director: Francis Lawrence
Writer: Dwight Gallo
Based on the video game series
Cast: Ed Skrein, Charlotte Riley, Joseph Mazzello, Chevy Chase,  Matt McCoy and David Harewood

Plot: Agent 47 (Ed Skrein) returns to his trailer to find Diana Burnwood (Charlotte Riley) waiting for him. 47 pours himself a glass of wine and sits down. Before long, 47 begins convulsing and foaming at the mouth. Leland Alexander (Chevy Chase) emerges and congratulates Diana on a job well done. Alexander orders his men to pack up the body. They're going to hold a funeral for the biggest thorn in his side at his house.

Rick Henderson (Joseph Mazzello) is in the office of his editor, Harold Langston (David Harewood), at the First Edition offices. Henderson is telling Langston that Leland Alexander said that the clone assassin Agent 47 is the one who tried to kill President Steward. Langston says that he thinks Henderson has spent too much time around a former spook like Alexander. A messenger makes his way through the office and delivers a certified letter to Henderson, who opens it in front of Langston. It's an invitation to Agent 47's funeral.

When Henderson arrives at the funeral he sees Leland Alexander cheerier than ever before, finally having captured his prize: Agent 47. Diana is present as well. She appears upset at the sight of 47's dead body. Alexander asks Henderson if a dead body is enough proof for him. Henderson is stunned to see the deceased body of the perpetrator of so many murders.

Leland Alexander invites each of the guests to say a farewell to Agent 47 before he is cremated. When it is Diana's turn, she rubs a balm on her lips and prized Silverballer pistols across his chest, supposedly as a sign of respect. Diana then gives 47 a kiss on the lips. Suddenly Agent 47 wakes up and uses the guns to kill every single guest at the funeral aside from Diana.

On national television, President Thomas Steward (Matt McCoy) announces the that a great American patriot, Leland Alexander, has died peacefully in his sleep. He says that Alexander will be missed, but he certainly won't be forgotten for his contributions to the American intelligence community.

Diana sets up shop again in her office at the ICA offices overlooking the Copenhagen harbor. She looks at a picture of Agent 47 from his file before tucking it away in a secret compartment in her desk. She receives a call asking her if she has a location for 47. Diana says that she does not know his current location, but that she imagines he'll be in touch sooner rather than later.

Agent 47 walks through an exotic marketplace and into a rundown building. 47 walks up to a desk and asks the man behind it what he has to offer, preferably in the back.

jeudi 21 mai 2020

Call My Agent 3.7 - Here We Go Again


Call My Agent : Here We Go Again
Genre : Comedy / Drama / Satire
Showrunner: Jason Reitman
Writer : Dominic Wilkins
Cast: Lesley Manville, Caroline Dhavernas, Rainn Wilson, Brian d'Arcy James, Chris Colfer, John Glover and John Hawkes

Plot: Desmond (Chris Colfer) is forced to do overtime tonight. The phone is constantly ringing, and it doesn’t look like he will out of here anytime soon. Everyone calls for the same thing. They all want to speak with Bob, saying he’s a former murderer and he shouldn’t be allowed to be working in the industry anymore. Desmond reminds them that Bob didn’t murder anybody, and he was wrongfully accused, to no avail. Desmond lets the phone go straight to voicemail and he calls Miranda (Lesley Manville) to ask her if he can leave. Miranda, who still lives with Desmond, says it’s alright, but they should do something about that, or else Bob might never recover. When Desmond gets back home, he asks if he can sleep in his bed tonight and she says he can’t. Desmond argues that he’s been working all day and Miranda says he only answered the phone. He asks her what she has done today that would justify her sleeping in the bed. We see a flashback sequence of Miranda not doing anything productive today. She budges and lets him sleep on his bed. This event forces Miranda to start looking for a house, but she realises that because of her generosity towards the agency and Bob, she’s broke and doesn’t have money for a house. She tells herself she must do something about it. 

Bob (Rainn Wilson) is the first one to arrive that day at the office, as he has an early meeting with a long time client. He gets annoyed when the phone doesn’t stop ringing and sends it straight to voicemail, but it’s full. He welcomes his client, John Hawkes (John Hawkes) and they go in the conference room for the meeting. The place is still quiet, other than the constant phone ring in the background. Bob tries to abstract it, but he keeps hearing it. It doesn’t seem to bother John, who keeps a serious look and tone. John says he doesn’t know how to tell him this kindly, but he doesn’t think he can work with him again. Bob asks him what’s the issue and John says he heard all the rumors about him and it doesn’t goes along his values. Bob reminds him that didn’t kill anyone and John says it has never been proved and he hasn’t been cleared. Bob says that’s nonsense, his hands aren’t dirty, he’s not a violent man. He excuses himself for an instant and he goes to Desmond’s desk and violently unplugs the phone and throws it across the room and the phone breaks a window and lands in the parking lot. He goes to John, who points out that he just destroyed a phone out of rage and he doesn’t want to work with violent people, it’s against his values. He tries to leave office, but he bumps into Miranda, Desmond, Wilson (Brian d’Arcy James) and Andrea (Caroline Dhavernas) and at Bob’s request, they keep him inside. Bob asks Andrea and Wilson to keep him company while he talks to Miranda, but Wilson says he won’t be able to, he just got hit in the head by a phone and he’s feeling dizzy.

Bob tells Miranda that he will take a few days off and follow up on her advice and sue the government for his wrongful arrest and attempt to clear his name. Miranda is happy that he came to her for her legal services and Bob says that’s not the case, he’s only here to ask for a few days off. She says the agency stayed afloat without him during his absence, they should manage for a few days. She asks him if it still counts for a good action and Bob says it sure does and puts the sticker in Miranda’s notebook himself. 

While Bob leaves, Andrea asks John if he likes his new role in 7 Days and he says he absolutely hates it and he’s thinking about dropping out of the movie. Andrea laughs awkwardly and reminds him that he’s contractually obligated to honor the contract. He says the movie glamorizes violence and is filled with hardcore scene, nudity and horrible violence. Andrea reminds him that the violence in the film is almost a character by itself and it helps further the character’s descent to madness, plus, it helps sell tickets. John disagrees with everything that he says, saying anyone who is in favor of violence like that shouldn’t be allowed to make movies. He then becomes all fed up about Hollywood’s glamorization of violence and how everything has to violent these days to be successful and he storms off. Andrea realises he makes some good points. 

Wilson and Desmond are listening to the messages left in their voicemail and they realise that it’s always the same thing, like someone hired bots to flood their answering machine of the same thing. They ask Miranda, who is applying nail polish to her toenails if they can all delete them and do something else instead, but she refuses to, in case they have an important message. They ask if she can help them and she says she’s doing important work. They point out she’s literally painting her toenails in her office and she says she can’t have a meeting without having nail polish on her toes, or else, what will people think? That she’s poor? She can’t allowed that and Wilson says that no one will ever think she’s poor. She agrees and throws them out of her office. 

Bob enters a dirty bar adjacent to a cheap motel and he sits at the bar, ordering two glasses of whiskey. He takes a look at his right and fakes being surprised to see his old lawyer (John Glover) there. He asks him how he was able to find him and he says his former colleagues told him where to find him. The lawyer asks Bob how is he going to ruin his life today and Bob says he’s here to do the opposite. He has a golden opportunity for him to finally have a big win. Bob whispers and says he wants to sue the government and the lawyer says he’s interested. Bob asks him his name, he never quite got it and he says his name is Sirius. 


Showtime 2.10 - Retribution Part II

Showtime - Retribution Part II Genre : Drama / Comedy / Sports Showrunner: Steven Soderbergh Wr...