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Movie: Spoiler Alert

Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. [more inside]
posted by soelo on Jan 4, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: Kiss Me Goodbye

Three years after the accidental death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiance Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when not only her old memories haunt her, but also Jolly's ghost, who doesn't approve of her new mate. Invisible to anyone but Kay, he tries to prevent the wedding. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Dec 1, 2022 - 2 comments

Movie: Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), a man of limited intellectual resources has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events... in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love (Robin Wright) eludes him. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 21, 2022 - 17 comments

Movie: The Amazing Spider-Man

Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance, leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Apr 22, 2022 - 9 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: The Boy  Season 1, Ep 10

A final mystery is solved. (Season Finale) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Apr 28, 2020 - 10 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: The Creator  Season 1, Ep 9

Simone, Peter and Janice explore new interests, while Fredwynn finds it hard to let go. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 24, 2020 - 2 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Lee  Season 1, Ep 8

"Lee is you if you ever had a regret so big you just couldn't shake it, no matter how hard you tried." [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 16, 2020 - 5 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Cave of Kelpius  Season 1, Ep 7

The team embarks on an underground adventure as they follow the Milkman; Peter and Simone try to come to terms with their feelings for one another as the players rally; Janice meets a mysterious individual who gives her a clue. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 9, 2020 - 2 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Everyone  Season 1, Ep 6

With time running out, the gang splits up in an effort to find Clara; Simone and Janice follow her artwork, while Fredwynn and Peter link the game to a large corporation. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Mar 31, 2020 - 3 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Clara  Season 1, Ep 5

The clues lead to a new tale that provides insight into the mystery behind the Elsewhere Society and its missing founder. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Mar 27, 2020 - 4 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

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Fredwynn  Season 1, Ep 4

Fredwynn takes matters into his own hands but he needs his teammates to move on. He searches for the next clue and asks the gang for help; they take it too far in their search for answers leading them somewhere unexpected.
posted by oh yeah! on Mar 17, 2020 - 4 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Janice  Season 1, Ep 3

While searching for Fredwynn at the Shareholders meeting, the gang has their first encounter with Octavio; Janice explores her past.
posted by oh yeah! on Mar 9, 2020 - 3 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Simone  Season 1, Ep 2

The game continues as Simone and Peter follow the clues and explore the city, the gang discovers that the game runs deeper than they thought and they have to make an important choice. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Mar 3, 2020 - 5 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Peter  Season 1, Ep 1

Peter is stuck in the everyday routine of his mundane life until the day he meets a group of strangers who all have something in common and together they begin an adventure into a world that has been hidden all around them. (AMC US broadcast) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Mar 1, 2020 - 10 comments

Movie: Norma Rae

Though already in decline in the US, union membership was still close to 30% in 1973 when Crystal Lee Sutton (then Crystal Lee Jordan), a 33 year old mother of three, faced retaliation for her efforts to organize the textile mill where she had worked since age 17. Her actions were part of an ongoing struggle by activists and workers to unionize the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, where three generations of Sutton’s family had toiled for low pay under poor working conditions. Before she left the plant, she made a final stand that would be immortalized in film. [more inside]
posted by theory on Aug 10, 2019 - 4 comments

Movie: Steel Magnolias

A tightly-knit group of women share their lives, loves and losses in Truvy Jones's Louisiana beauty parlour. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs on Mar 24, 2019 - 12 comments

Movie: Stay Hungry

Stay Hungry is a 1976 dramatic comedy film by director Bob Rafelson from a screenplay by Charles Gaines. The story centers on a young Birmingham, Alabama, scion, played by Jeff Bridges, who gets involved in a shady real-estate deal. In order to close the deal, he needs to buy a gym building to complete a multi-parcel lot. When he visits the gym, however, he finds himself romantically interested in the receptionist (Sally Field) and drawn to the carefree lifestyle of the Austrian body builder "Joe Santo" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who is training there for the Mr. Universe competition. [more inside]
posted by rhizome on Jan 26, 2018 - 2 comments

Movie: Smokey and the Bandit

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff. [more inside]
posted by valkane on Apr 22, 2016 - 19 comments

Movie: Lincoln

Lincoln is an epic historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography Team of Rivals, and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life, focusing on the President's efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of Representatives.
posted by growabrain on Nov 6, 2015 - 5 comments

Movie: Mrs. Doubtfire

After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife. [more inside]
posted by nubs on Feb 16, 2015 - 19 comments

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