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Movie: Late Bloomers

[TRAILER] High School basketball coach, Dinah Groshardt, falls for the school secretary, Carly Lumpkin, and upsets the entire school in the process. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Go Fish

[TRAILER] Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging? [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: The Watermelon Woman

[TRAILER] Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

[TRAILER] Randy Dean (Laurel Holloman), a boyish lesbian who works at a gas station, has trouble performing in high school and is treated badly by bigoted locals because of her sexual identity. She begins an unlikely friendship with one of her school's popular girls, the affluent Evie (Nicole Parker). But when their friendship blossoms into a romance, the two find themselves struggling with the intricacies and pitfalls of discovering love, and having to reveal their relationship to friends and family. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Mission: Possible

[TRAILER] Chinese secret agent Da-hee receives intel that a large number of illegal firearms are being smuggled into Korea and is sent to investigate the case. She meets Su-han, who was supposed to help her with the case but due to his lackluster skills, they keep fighting over really trivial things. But as their witnesses are suddenly murdered, the two of them quickly become the prime suspects. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Okay Madam

[TRAILER] A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 8 comments

Movie: From Beijing with Love

[TRAILER] After a giant dinosaur skull is stolen, the head of the Chinese secret police decides to assign the case to the force’s most incompetent reject: a rural butcher who stands around all day drinking martinis (shaken, not stirred). With a trunkload of insanely useless gadgets and a contact who constantly tries to kill him, the young agent must locate the skull and find out just what is going on here. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Key of Life

[TRAILER] A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite international assassin. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Anacleto: Agente Secreto

[TRAILER] Security guard Adolfo has been dumped by his longtime girlfriend for having no ambition. Even worse, he has somehow become the target of Vázquez, a dangerous criminal just escaped from jail. To survive, Adolfo will need help from his father, who he always believed made sausages for a living. The truth though is that Anacleto is one of the world's finest secret agents. aka Spy Time. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Kill Boksoon

[TRAILER] A single mother who is a renowned hired killer finds it difficult to achieve a balance between her personal and work life. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 10, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: The Roundup

[TRAILER] The 'Beast Cop' Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 9, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Hi, Mom

Devastated after her mom's serious accident and grief-stricken because she hasn't become the daughter she wanted to be for her mother, Jia Xiaoling finds herself transported back in time to the year 1981, where she meets her young mother before she was her mom. Hi, Mom was only recently dethroned by Barbie as the highest film ever directed by a solo female director (it grossed over $825 million US dollars). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 9, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Extreme Job

[TRAILER} Narcotics detectives work undercover in a chicken joint to try and bust a gang of organized criminals. Things take an unexpected turn when their new recipe suddenly transforms the run-down restaurant into the hottest eatery in town. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 9, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Jawbreaker

[TRAILER} When an exclusive clique of teenage socialites accidentally murders their best friend, Liz (Charlotte Ayanna), on the morning of her birthday, the three girls responsible -- Courtney (Rose McGowan), Julie (Rebecca Gayheart) and Marcie (Julie Benz) -- conspire to hide the truth. As the trio make over nerdy reject Fern Mayo (Judy Greer) and groom her to take Liz's place, crack police Detective Vera Cruz (Pam Grier) launches an investigation that will turn Reagan High School upside down. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 6, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: All Cheerleaders Die

[TRAILER} When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Maddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. After a confrontation with the football team, Maddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 6, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: House Party

[TRAILER] Young Kid has been invited to a party at the home of his friend Play. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. None the less, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep. But Kid doesn't know that three of the thugs at school have decided to give him a lesson in behavior. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 6, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[TRAILER] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam (Emma Watson) and her stepbrother Patrick (Ezra Miller), become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 6, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: The Infinite Man

[TRAILER] A man's attempt to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfires when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 4, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

[TRAILER] Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 3, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Future Cops

[TRAILER] In the year 2043, an evil crime lord is trying to take over the world. Only one government official stands in his way, and plans to send him to prison, so The General and his minions Kent, Thai King, and Toyota travel to the year 1993 to kill the official before he has a chance to get into office. During a battle with The General's minions, the Future Cops Lung, Broom Man Ti Man, and Ah-Sing hear of their evil plan and devise a plan of their own to travel back in time to protect the official. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 3, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Summer Time Machine Blues

[TRAILER] The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 3, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Happy Accidents

[TRAILER] Just as Ruby (Marisa Tomei) is beginning to relish her first-ever healthy relationship, Sam (Vincent D'Onofrio) begins muttering about being a time traveler from the year 2470. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 3, 2023 - 8 comments

Movie: Waxwork II: Lost in Time

[TRAILER] Lovers (Zach Galligan, Monika Schnarre) flee through centuries on a time-trip of terror in a showdown with a demon lord (Alexander Godunov). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 3, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

An ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine. AKA Ivan Vasilyevich: Back to the Future. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 3, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

[TRAILER] While drinking at their local pub, three social outcasts (Chris O'Dowd, Dean Lennox Kelly, Marc Wootton) attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum. Also starring Anna Faris. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 3, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Up in the Air

An idea from a young, new co-worker (Anna Kendrick) would put an end to the constant travel of corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), so he takes her on a tour to demonstrate the importance of face-to-face meetings with those they must fire. While mentoring his colleague, he arranges hookups with another frequent-flier (Vera Farmiga), and his developing feelings for the woman prompt him to see others in a new light. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 15, 2022 - 5 comments

Movie: Street Trash

[TRAILER] A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking tainted sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 15, 2022 - 3 comments

Movie: Bagdad Cafe

German tourist Jasmin Munchgstettner (Marianne Sägebrecht) argues with her husband after car trouble strands them along a dusty highway in the American Southwest. Fuming, she storms off and travels by foot to the nearest outpost of civilization -- the Bagdad Café. Upon arriving, she butts heads with the owner (CCH Pounder), but they soon forge an unlikely friendship. What begins as a few days' respite becomes a prolonged stay as Jasmine finds her niche within this eccentric truck-stop community. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 14, 2022 - 2 comments

Movie: The Columnist

[TRAILER] Femke Boot (Katya Herbers of the US television series Evil) is a columnist who is obsessed with reading the endless abusive messages and death threats posted about her on social media. This obsession consumes her life and prevents her from concentrating on the novel she has promised to her publisher. One day, all her pent-up anger and frustration explode in a moment of shocking and unexpected violence. When this brutal and bloody act inspires Femke to write again, she surrenders to her rage and begins to lead a double life as a daytime writer and nighttime murderer. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 11, 2022 - 1 comment

Movie: Antonia's Line

[TRAILER] After World War II, Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy) and her daughter, Danielle (Els Dottermans), go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger (Mil Seghers), would-be suitor Bas (Jan Decleir) and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 11, 2022 - 5 comments

Movie: The Happening

When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister? [more inside]
posted by iamkimiam on Nov 10, 2022 - 11 comments

Movie: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

[TRAILER] Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 10, 2022 - 8 comments

Movie: Big Miracle

TRAILER Adam Carlson (John Krasinski), a reporter based in a small town in northern Alaska, can't wait to land a job in a bigger market. Then, the story of a lifetime practically lands in his lap: a family of gray whales is discovered near the Arctic Circle, trapped by rapidly forming ice. Along with the descending media comes Rachel Kramer (Drew Barrymore), an environmental activist and Adam's ex. Together, they try to rally an international coalition to save the whales before it's too late. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 10, 2022 - 3 comments

Movie: Slash/Back

(TRAILER) The sleepy village of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, nestled in the majestic mountains of Baffin Island in the Arctic Ocean wakes up to a typical summer day. No school, no cool boys (well... except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her ragtag friends, the usual summer is not in the cards when they discover an alien invasion threatening their hometown. These teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives but, using makeshift weapons and what they've learned from the movies, they show the aliens you don't fuck with the girls from Pang. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 10, 2022 - 7 comments

Movie: Metropolitan

In Whit Stillman's first movie, a group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up. [more inside]
posted by mark k on Nov 9, 2022 - 4 comments

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