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Movie: Battle Beyond the Stars

[TRAILER] A farm boy recruits a band of outlaws to save the planet Akir from forces that threaten to wipe them out from the face of the universe. A battle stretching beyond the stars begins here. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on May 12 at 12:27 PM - 11 comments

Doctor Who: The Devil's Chord  Season 1, Episode 2

The Doctor and Ruby meet The Beatles but discover that the all-powerful Maestro is changing history. London becomes a battleground with the future of humanity at stake.
posted by EmpressCallipygos on May 10 at 8:22 PM - 25 comments

Fallout: The Ghouls  Season 1, Episode 4

Death to Management [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 on Apr 16 at 9:46 AM - 23 comments

Star Trek: Discovery: Mirrors  Season 5, Episode 5

An unusual wormhole leads to the next puzzle piece, stored on a relic of another place and another time. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on Apr 25 at 1:31 PM - 23 comments

Star Trek: Discovery: Face the Strange  Season 5, Episode 4

It's a clip show! (It's not really a clip show) Moll and L'ak's new delaying tactic has Discovery jumping around in time, and it's up to Michael, Rayner, and Stamets to put things right without changing the past. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on Apr 18 at 12:31 PM - 13 comments

Palm Royale: Full Season  Season 1 (Full Season)

In 1969, an ambitious woman aspires to cross the line between the haves and have-nots to secure her seat at America’s most exclusive, fashionable, and treacherous table: Palm Beach high society. [more inside]
posted by jimw on May 13 at 6:38 PM - 6 comments

Star Trek: Discovery: Jinaal  Season 5, Episode 3

Burnham and Co. take a trip to Trill to find the next piece of the puzzle. Rayner is ordered to bond with the crew. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on Apr 11 at 9:58 PM - 15 comments

Hacks: Season 3  Season 3 (Full Season)

Our story resumes: the continuing adventures of Deborah Vance, legendary Las Vegas stand-up comedy diva, and Ava Daniels, a young comedy writer.
posted by BlahLaLa on May 12 at 1:24 PM - 5 comments

Star Trek: Discovery: Erigah  Season 5, Episode 7

The Federation captures Moll and a badly wounded L'ak, but the Breen come to claim their own. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r on May 9 at 10:47 PM - 10 comments

Taskmaster: Season 17 (Full Season)  Season 17 (Full Season)

Flanked by his efficient assistant Alex Horne, Greg Davies returns to remorselessly judge five quaking comics desperate to get their hands on his fabled golden head trophy. [more inside]
posted by merriment on Mar 30 at 7:39 AM - 56 comments

Welcome to Wrexham: Notts Again  Season 3, Episode 3

The Wrexham Women's Team adapt to life in the top Welsh league as the men prepare to face Notts County, their fiercest rivals from the National League.
posted by kitten kaboodle on May 12 at 8:26 PM - 2 comments

Doctor Who: Space Babies  Season 1, Episode 1

(Note: Russel T Davies is re-starting the series numbering with this series.) Ruby learns the Doctor's amazing secrets when he takes her to the far future. There, they find a baby farm run by babies. But can they be saved from the terrifying bogeyman?
posted by EmpressCallipygos on May 10 at 8:20 PM - 18 comments

Movie: X-Men: First Class

[TRAILER] In the early 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, a mutant named Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) meets a fellow mutant named Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender). Despite their vastly different backgrounds -- Charles grew up with a wealthy family, while Erik lost his parents at Auschwitz -- the two become close friends. As the world teeters on the brink of a nuclear war, Charles and Erik join forces with other mutants to save humanity. However, a situation soon tears the friends apart. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 30 at 2:29 PM - 14 comments

Sugar: The Friends You Keep  Season 1, Episode 7

Sugar's fears for the safety of his friends lead him to a clandestine gathering where he learns a dangerous secret -- and the truth about Olivia. [more inside]
posted by Molesome on May 10 at 12:12 PM - 7 comments

Movie: History of Evil

2045: In the backwoods of an America ruled by right wing militia groups, a small family of resistance fighters takes refuge in a remote house that may be more dangerous than the world outside.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Feb 24 at 8:23 PM - 9 comments

Delicious in Dungeon: Hag/Nightmare  Season 1, Episode 19

Confronted by the chimeric tallman catgirl, Senshi winds up conducting a rather unique lesson on etiquette, while Marcille winds up dealing with nightmares of the monstrous sort - forcing Laios to take a dangerous journey into her psyche... [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on May 10 at 1:31 AM - 7 comments

Movie: Pearl

Trapped on her family's isolated farm, Pearl (Mia Goth, who also co-wrote with director Ti West) must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this stunning, technicolor-inspired prequel to 2022's horror hit X. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 15 at 12:56 PM - 13 comments

Welcome to Wrexham: Goals  Season 3, Episode 2

New players take the pitch and a shocking departure surprises Wrexham as the team tries to find its footing.
posted by kitten kaboodle on May 4 at 2:39 PM - 2 comments

Special Event: Eurovision 2024 - The Grand Final

Good evening, Europe! Good morning, Australia! It’s the big day! The Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is today, May 11th, at 21:00 CEST/3:00 PM EDT. Come on in to discuss the highs, the lows, and the grand spectacle that can only be Eurovision. [more inside]
posted by PearlRose on May 11 at 9:41 AM - 289 comments

Movie: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

[TRAILER] Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 10 at 7:27 AM - 14 comments

Movie: Abigail

[TRAILER] After a group of criminals (Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Kevin Durand) kidnap the ballerina daughter (Alisha Weir) of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that what they're locked inside with is no normal little girl. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 19 at 12:16 PM - 12 comments

Movie: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on May 12 at 11:00 AM - 6 comments

Ripley: Narcissus  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 8

Tom reinvents himself again, creating an enviable life in Venice—as long as his lies hold. Special guest: Caravaggio! [more inside]
posted by sylvanshine on Apr 12 at 10:58 AM - 13 comments

Dead Boy Detectives: The Case of Crystal Palace  Season 1, Episode 1

Edwin Paine (d.1916) and Charles Rowland (d.1991?) spend their afterlife solving cases for the dead (and sometimes the living) and dodging the Lady herself, Death. When they meet psychic Crystal Palace, unlife gets a lot more interesting... [more inside]
posted by Kitteh on Apr 26 at 5:15 AM - 17 comments

Movie: The Idea of You

40-year-old single mom Solene begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet. [more inside]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero on May 2 at 11:06 AM - 5 comments

Fallout: The Beginning  Season 1, Episode 8

Two hundred years have passed since the beginning of the apocalypse. Leaving the atomic shelter that protected them will pave the way to an unknown world that will unleash a war for survival. [more inside]
posted by Pong74LS on Apr 21 at 4:49 AM - 37 comments

Movie: Stop Making Sense

A concert film for the rock group Talking Heads, filmed while on tour in 1983 to promote Speaking in Tongues. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 15 at 2:25 PM - 16 comments

Movie: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age. [more inside]
posted by cupcakeninja on Mar 23 at 3:16 PM - 9 comments

Interview with the Vampire: What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned  Books Included   Season 2, Episode 1

Louis recounts Claudia's quest to find Old World vampires amidst the backdrop of WWII Europe. (AMC summary) We're back, baby! New episodes stream on AMC every Sunday.
posted by merriment on May 12 at 10:54 AM - 2 comments

Movie: Late Night with the Devil

[TRAILER] Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) hosts a syndicated talk show Night Owls whose ratings have plummeted since the tragic death of his beloved wife. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, on October 31st, 1977, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other... unaware he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 21 at 8:58 AM - 18 comments

Our Flag Means Death: Mermen  Season 2, Episode 8

Stede, Zheng, Spanish Jackie and the rest of the Revenge crew team up to take down a nefarious common enemy threatening the world of piracy. [more inside]
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit on Oct 26 at 9:11 PM - 16 comments

Ripley: Sommerso  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 3

When Dickie and his father start seeing through his ruse, Tom resorts to drastic methods. [more inside]
posted by sylvanshine on Apr 8 at 10:11 AM - 7 comments

Book: God Emperor of Dune

Set several millennia after the events of the previous three books, God Emperor follows the latter days of the galactic reign of a transformed Leto II Atreides, son of Paul Muad'dib, and the society, and dissidence, that long rule has brought about.
posted by cortex on Mar 2 at 7:30 PM - 17 comments

The Lazarus Project: All episodes  Season 1 (Full Season)

George is the latest recruit to The Lazarus Project – a secret organization that has harnessed the ability to turn back time whenever the world is at the threat of extinction. George and his colleagues are the few people on Earth with the ability to remember the events that are undone when time goes back. But when a freak accident harms someone close to George, Lazarus won’t let him turn back time to undo it unless there is the threat of global extinction. Now George must choose to stay loyal or go rogue as he faces the question: if you had the power to re-write your past, what would you sacrifice to do it? [more inside]
posted by Kyol on Feb 22 at 5:53 AM - 4 comments

Movie: Minority Report

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge. [more inside]
posted by nubs on Nov 10 at 11:23 AM - 16 comments

Movie: I Trapped the Devil

A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on May 11 at 6:24 PM - 2 comments

Baby Reindeer: Season 1  Season 1 (Full Season)

This Netflix series follows Donny (Richard Gadd) on a downward spiral, as he meets a lonely woman named Martha (Jessica Gunning) who morphs from friend to stalker. Donny attempts to escape the grip of Martha's obsession, while trying to navigate the lingering effects of past trauma. [more inside]
posted by dianeF on Apr 23 at 5:45 AM - 26 comments

Movie: Creepshow

[TRAILER] Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen. In one story, a monster escapes from its holding cell. Another focuses on a husband (Leslie Nielsen) with a creative way of getting back at his cheating wife. Other stories concern a rural man (Stephen King) and a visitor from outer space, and a homeowner (E.G. Marshall) with huge bug problems and a boozing corpse. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 6 at 8:50 AM - 14 comments

Dark Matter: Are You Happy in Your Life?  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 1

Physics professor and family man Jason Dessen is abducted from everything he loves. [more inside]
posted by Kyol on May 10 at 6:46 AM - 8 comments

Special Event: Live Stream: Semifinal 2 (2024 Eurovision Song Contest)

Good evening, Europe! Good morning, Australia! Semifinal 2 begins Thursday, May 9th (today!), at 2100 CEST / 3:00pm EDT. Who will qualify for the Grand Final on Saturday? Which countries will be good, bad, or so bad they're good? Come on in to chat about the second round of performances! [more inside]
posted by PearlRose on May 9 at 8:31 AM - 148 comments

The Girls on the Bus: Full Season   Season 1 (Full Season)

Follow along as a bunch of reporters follow political candidates along the primary trail and wait for the drama to unfold. [more inside]
posted by sardonyx on Apr 11 at 6:47 PM - 5 comments

Abbott Elementary: Mother's Day  Season 3, Episode 12

Barbara invites Gregory to her family's Mother's Day brunch; Jacob scrambles to figure out how to organize a school field trip.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero on May 9 at 8:38 AM - 2 comments

Dark Matter: Trip of a Lifetime  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 2

Jason wakes to a life that makes no sense - he doesn't have a family and he's created something extraordinary.
posted by Kyol on May 10 at 7:13 AM - 2 comments

X-Men '97: Tolerance Is Extinction, Part 2  Season 1, Episode 9

Magneto is all out of fucks to give. Xavier is not very good at rallying the troops. Jean Grey goes bowling.
posted by 1970s Antihero on May 9 at 8:33 AM - 4 comments

Book: My Boyfriend Is a Bear

The story of Nora who, after a succession of terrible boyfriends, finds a much happier relationship with a 500-pound American black bear. A 2018 graphic novel by Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris. [more inside]
posted by 1970s Antihero on May 10 at 2:03 PM - 1 comment

Movie: Dune: Part Two

Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. [more inside]
posted by LizBoBiz on Feb 29 at 7:44 PM - 76 comments

Book: Starter Villain

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. [more inside]
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit on Dec 13 at 11:19 AM - 14 comments

Movie: Let Us Prey

Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. A hit-and-run victim brought into the station for safekeeping turns out to be altogether more than they bargained for. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 19 at 6:14 AM - 16 comments

The Apothecary Diaries: The Threat  Season 1, Episode 4

An imperial order is not one that can be refused, and so Maomao is assigned to the Crystal Palace to heal the ailing Wise Consort, Lihua - but her ladies in waiting may be the biggest threat to the Consort... [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum on May 9 at 3:39 PM - 3 comments

Encounter Party: The Very Private Passenger  Season 1, Episode 3

"One passenger is missing. One is locked away. One is under guard. None may be acting alone." (IMDB) [more inside]
posted by Saxon Kane on May 6 at 1:42 PM - 5 comments

Movie: Kindergarten Cop

A tough cop must pose as a kindergarten teacher in order to locate a dangerous criminal's ex-wife, who may hold the key to putting him behind bars. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on May 7 at 1:19 PM - 25 comments

The Big Door Prize: Full season  Show Only   Season 2 (Full Season)

About the residents of a small town called Deerfield, who one day discover a magical, destiny-predicting machine in their grocery store. [more inside]
posted by Kyol on May 1 at 5:47 PM - 3 comments

Fallout: The Target  Season 1, Episode 2

I know life can't have been easy up here. [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 on Apr 12 at 9:46 PM - 32 comments

Movie: Jawan

[TRAILER] A prison warden (Shah Rukh Khan), driven by a personal vendetta while keeping up to a promise made years ago, recruits inmates to commit outrageous crimes that shed light on corruption and injustice, in an attempt to get even with his past, leading him to an unexpected reunion. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 9 at 11:39 AM - 1 comment

Star Trek: Voyager: Meld  Rewatch   Season 2, Episode 16

Or, "The One Where Tuvok Finally Murders Neelix" [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Apr 20 at 3:16 AM - 19 comments

Abbott Elementary: Career Day Part 1  Season 3, Episode 1

Welcome back to a new school year. Janine's got plans. Ava's got a new outlook. We get to meet some of the people from the school district.
posted by jessamyn on Feb 8 at 7:52 PM - 9 comments

Movie: ...And God Created Woman

In sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on May 8 at 1:21 PM - 2 comments

Movie: The Gleaners & I

[TRAILER] An 1867 painting by Jean-Francois Millet inspired septuagenarian documentarian Agnes Varda to cross the French countryside to videotape people who scavenge. Taking everything from surplus in the fields, to rubbish in trashcans, to oysters washed up after a storm, the "gleaners" range from those sadly in need to those hoping to recreate the community activity of centuries past, and still others who use whatever they find to cobble together a rough art. Highlighted by Varda's amusing narration. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 15 at 10:54 AM - 4 comments

Abbott Elementary: Double Date  Season 3, Episode 11

Two teachers head out on a double date, but when they run into familiar bar patrons, it proves to be an unfortunate distraction; at Ava's first book club meeting, the group ends up in a debate over who would be the best post-apocalyptic leader.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero on May 9 at 8:37 AM - 3 comments