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Special: A Muppet Family Christmas

From 1987. Fozzy invites all of his friends to join him at his mother Emily Bear's farm for Christmas, disrupting her plan to vacation in Malibu and rent her home to a couple of boarders. They're joined by a few friends from Sesame Street and Kermit and Robin an interesting discovery below the house. [more inside]
posted by synecdoche on Dec 25, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: Empire of Light

A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
posted by ob1quixote on Mar 23, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: The Quiet Girl

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. [more inside]
posted by bunderful on Mar 21, 2023 - 2 comments

American Horror Story: Requiem 1981/1987 Part Two  Season 11, Ep 10

Adam struggles to understand what Hannah has learned, and Gino tries to come to grips with all that has happened.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Nov 17, 2022 - 9 comments

American Horror Story: Requiem 1981/1987 Part One  Season 11, Ep 9

Sam and Patrick face a reckoning.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Nov 17, 2022 - 5 comments

American Horror Story: Fire Island  Season 11, Ep 8

A much-needed getaway vacation makes everything worse.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Nov 10, 2022 - 9 comments

American Horror Story: The Sentinel   Season 11, Ep 7

Patrick and Gino close in on the Mai Tai Killer. Hannah's research leads her to fear the worst.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Nov 10, 2022 - 5 comments

American Horror Story: The Body   Season 11, Ep 6

Evidence appears, and Gino zeroes in on the killer. This always goes well.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Nov 3, 2022 - 3 comments

American Horror Story: Bad Fortune   Season 11, Ep 5

The players are confronted with terrifying auguries of their future.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Nov 3, 2022 - 2 comments

American Horror Story: Black Out   Season 11, Ep 4

On the hottest day of the year, New York plunges into a blackout.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Oct 27, 2022 - 9 comments

American Horror Story: Smoke Signals  Season 11, Ep 3

Hannah learns what may be the origin of the virus she discovered on Fire Island, as Gino and Patrick hunt for the killer.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Oct 27, 2022 - 2 comments

American Horror Story: Thank You for Your Service   Season 11, Ep 2

Efforts are made to identify the killer.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Oct 20, 2022 - 4 comments

American Horror Story: Something's Coming  Season 11, Ep 1

New York City, 1981. A serial killer stalks NYC's gay community. Elsewhere, a mysterious plague strikes wildlife.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Oct 20, 2022 - 2 comments

Movie: Dead & Buried

Dan Gillis (James Farentino) and his wife (Melody Anderson) have moved to small New England town Potters Bluff, where Dan is to be the new Sheriff. They quickly discover strange goings on: people who have turned up dead, presumably murdered, appear to turn up again shortly after, alive and well. An 80's cult favorite. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 22, 2022 - 3 comments

Robin Hood: Robin of Sherwood, Season 1  Season 1, Ep 0

Robin of Loxley and his followers fight for themselves--and the local peasants--in this 1984 BBC series. [more inside]
posted by mark k on Aug 1, 2022 - 8 comments

Movie: Revealer

Tensions rise when a stripper and religious protester are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980's Chicago. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 25, 2022 - 4 comments

Reply 1988: (aka Answer Me 1988) Eungdabhara 1988  Season 1, Ep 0

Reply 1988 centers on the lives of five families living in a small neighborhood in Seoul. No cell phones, just one TV in the main living area, and absurdly large family meals (frequently shared with the whole neighborhood). As with Hospital Playlist, Prison Playbook, and the rest of the Reply series, shows from this writer & director pair are about relationships; in Reply 1988 the relationships are between the childhood friends as they slowly mature, between parents & children, and across all the adults. It’s a slice of life drama, with a lot of comedy, romance, culture, and history mixed in. 20 episodes, most over 90 minutes. [more inside]
posted by kbar1 on Jun 21, 2022 - 2 comments

Movie: Liquid Sky

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. [more inside]
posted by infinitewindow on Mar 21, 2022 - 10 comments

Movie: Beverly Hills Cop

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills. [more inside]
posted by wabbittwax on Feb 27, 2022 - 2 comments

Movie: Lucas

A precocious fourteen-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time. [more inside]
posted by Stuka on Feb 19, 2021 - 2 comments

Movie: Aliens

Fifty-seven years after surviving an alien loose aboard her ship, first officer Ripley finds herself returning to the planet where she first encountered the creature. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Feb 17, 2021 - 53 comments

Movie: Romancing the Stone

A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Feb 15, 2021 - 24 comments

Movie: Ordinary People

Calvin, Beth, and their son Conrad are attempting to get back to normal after Conrad's return home from a psychiatric hospital. Conrad visits Dr. Berger who works with him to not push away his pain. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Feb 11, 2021 - 12 comments

Movie: Poltergeist

A typical American family discovers there is more than meets the eye in their suburban home. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Dec 29, 2020 - 21 comments

Movie: Michael Jackson's Thriller

A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Nov 25, 2020 - 8 comments

Movie: An Officer and a Gentleman

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Oct 26, 2020 - 10 comments

Movie: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake. [more inside]
posted by porpoise on Sep 17, 2020 - 9 comments

Movie: Cane River

A charming Romeo & Juliet love story, Cane River is set in Louisiana, in one of the first free communities of color. The young couple confront class and color divisions that continue to roil America to this day. Check out the trailer. On the Criterion Channel.
posted by latkes on May 18, 2020 - 2 comments

Movie: Absence of Malice

CAN A MAN BE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT? Suppose you picked up this morning's newspaper and your life was a front page headline... And everything they said was accurate... But none of it was true. The D.A., the Feds, and the Police set her up to write the story that explodes his world. Now he's going to write the book on getting even. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Mar 23, 2020 - 3 comments

Movie: The Verdict

Frank Galvin Has One Last Chance At A Big Case. The doctors want to settle, the Church wants to settle, their lawyers want to settle, and even his own clients are desperate to settle. But Galvin is determined to defy them all. He will try the case. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Mar 19, 2020 - 5 comments

Movie: Runaway

In the near future, a police officer (Tom Selleck) specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target. Written and directed by Michael Crichton. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 17, 2020 - 16 comments

American Horror Story: Final Girl   Season 9, Ep 9

AHS 1984 concludes.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Nov 14, 2019 - 5 comments

American Horror Story: The Lady in White   Season 9, Ep 7

In which Brooke and Donna make a new friend, Montana finds an old friend, and two faces we haven't seen around these parts in a while make a welcome return, one of them in maybe the worst wig this show has ever produced (which is saying a lot, if we're being honest).
posted by kittens for breakfast on Oct 31, 2019 - 2 comments

American Horror Story: Episode 100  Season 9, Ep 6

A Very Special Episode in which many random people are gruesomely murdered, Billy Idol is teased for a future appearance (seriously, do not let me down here), and a man is possessed by Satan after apparently stroking out on the toilet; so, actually, a Pretty Much Normal Episode of AHS.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Oct 24, 2019 - 2 comments

American Horror Story: Red Dawn  Season 9, Ep 5

The massacre at Camp Redwood reaches a bloody apex as everybody goes spectacularly homicidal...-er. Good times!
posted by kittens for breakfast on Oct 17, 2019 - 2 comments

American Horror Story: True Killers  Season 9, Ep 4

Metal.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Oct 10, 2019 - 0 comments

Movie: Running on Empty

The Pope family is on the run from the Feds. Consisting of the father Arthur, the mother Annie, older son Danny, and younger son Harry, they leave where they had been in hiding at the start of the movie and set up house in a new community where they face more than just staying one step ahead of their pursuers. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Oct 4, 2019 - 2 comments

American Horror Story: Slashdance  Season 9, Ep 3

No one is what they seem! Chet falls in a hole. Ray is a dick.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Oct 3, 2019 - 1 comment

American Horror Story: Mr. Jingles   Season 9, Ep 2

Mr. Jingles makes a bloody return to Camp Redwood, but he's not the only killer in the woods. Brooke shares a gruesome tale of her past with new friend Montana. A dark bargain is struck. [more inside]
posted by kittens for breakfast on Sep 26, 2019 - 3 comments

American Horror Story: Camp Redwood   Season 9, Ep 1

1984. A group of LA residents leave town to take summer jobs as counselors at Camp Redwood, apparently without ever having watched a Friday the 13th movie.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Sep 19, 2019 - 7 comments

Movie: Blinded by the Light

In 1987 Luton, in Thatcher's Britain, confronted by National Front racists on the streets and a stressed, angry father at home, a British Asian teenager learns to live his own life, get a new perspective on his Pakistani immigrant family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen. Directed and co-written by Gurinder Chadha (known for Bend It Like Beckham), with music by legendary Indian composer and film score creator A.R. Rahman. Inspired by a true story. [more inside]
posted by brainwane on Aug 17, 2019 - 9 comments

Movie: The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Jun 23, 2019 - 2 comments

Book: America Is Not the Heart

How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America–haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents–she’s already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn’t ask about her past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But their daughter–the first American-born daughter in the family–can’t resist asking Hero about her damaged hands. (Penguin Random House blurb) Elaine Castillo's debut novel, and well-regarded, from Kirkus Reviews to Bustle. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Feb 16, 2019 - 4 comments

The Little Drummer Girl: Full Miniseries  Books Included   Season 1, Ep 1

Based on John le Carré’s best-selling literary masterpiece of the same name and directed by visionary filmmaker Park Chan-wook, The Little Drummer Girl weaves a suspenseful and explosive story of espionage and high-stakes international intrigue. Set in the late 1970s, the pulsating thriller follows Charlie, a fiery actress and idealist whose resolve is tested after she meets the mysterious Becker while on holiday in Greece. It quickly becomes apparent that his intentions are not what they seem, and her encounter with him entangles her in a complex plot devised by the spy mastermind Kurtz. Charlie takes on the role of a lifetime as a double agent while remaining uncertain of her own loyalties. AMC [more inside]
posted by myotahapea on Jan 28, 2019 - 14 comments

Any interest in overthinking 'The Little Drummer Girl'?

This question refers specifically to the recent miniseries adaptation of the 1983 John le Carré novel of the same name. [more inside]
posted by myotahapea on Dec 19, 2018 - 5 comments

Movie: The Ice Pirates

In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father.
posted by Fukiyama on Dec 7, 2018 - 11 comments

Movie: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Romania, 1987, the brutal Ceausescu communist regime is in place; birth control is illegal and abortion is a crime punishable by death. Gabita is almost five months into an unwanted pregnancy and in meek desperation turns to her friend and roommate, Otilia for help in organizing an illegal termination. Unfortunate circumstances force the two women to use an unwanted male abortionist, Bebe. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 7, 2018 - 7 comments

Movie: Platoon

A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs on Oct 20, 2018 - 1 comment

Snowfall: You know I mean business  Season 2, Ep 0

Snowfall continues its riveting story about the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. Season two follows our ensemble of characters as they intersect and overlap within the mosaic of Los Angeles as we enter 1984, all of them working toward their ultimate goals of money, power and influence. [more inside]
posted by LizBoBiz on Sep 26, 2018 - 0 comments

Pose: Pilot  Season 1, Ep 1

In 1987 New York, Blanca Rodriguez pursues her dream of being a house mother and competing in the House Ballroom scene after a devastating medical diagnosis. Meanwhile, Damon Richards moves to New York with aspirations of joining a dance company. [more inside]
posted by roger ackroyd on Jun 5, 2018 - 9 comments

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