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Person of Interest: Ghosts  Season 1, Ep 2

When they are given the Social Security number of a teenager who was killed two years ago, Reese and Finch begin to question the infallibility of The Machine. Meanwhile, Finch flashes back to The Machine's origin and how it was developed. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 20, 2024 - 0 comments

Person of Interest: Pilot  Season 1, Ep 1

When a drunk vagrant is attacked by a group of youths, he reveals impressive fighting skills. Back at the police station after the fight, they realize the man in question is connected to several crimes. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 20, 2024 - 0 comments

Person of Interest: Super  Season 1, Ep 11

Reese works the computer while Finch does the legwork with their latest POI, a building super who keeps too close an eye on his tenants. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 19, 2024 - 2 comments

Person of Interest: Number Crunch  Season 1, Ep 10

As Detective Carter deals with the fallout from her recent encounter with Reese, The Machine ups the ante for the duo by giving them four Social Security numbers instead of one. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 19, 2024 - 2 comments

Person of Interest: Get Carter  Season 1, Ep 9

The Machine identifies Detective Carter as a POI. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 17, 2024 - 5 comments

Person of Interest: Foe  Season 1, Ep 8

Reese and Finch hunt an escaped East German spy who is eliminating his former Cold War colleagues in retribution for betraying him and causing his wife's death. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 17, 2024 - 2 comments

Person of Interest: Witness  Season 1, Ep 7

The Machine identifies a teacher living in Brighton Beach as the next POI. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 17, 2024 - 8 comments

Person of Interest: Full 1st Season  Season 1, Ep 0

When a homeless alcoholic is attacked on a subway train, he reveals he has a surprising set of skills. Skills that attracted the interest of reclusive billionaire Harold Finch. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 15, 2024 - 23 comments

Movie: The Shadow Strays

[TRAILER] Codename 13, a 17-year-old assassin, is suspended due to a sloppy mission in Japan. She meets 11-year-old Monji, who loses his mother, and sets out to rescue him. A new thriller from relentlessly bloody Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 17, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: The Killer

An assassin tries to make amends in an effort to restore the sight of a beautiful young singer. Remake of the 1989 John Woo film, starring Nathalie Emmanuel and Omar Sy.
posted by rednikki on Aug 25, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: The Crow

In this modern re-imagining of the 1994 cult classic, "The Crow," soulmates Eric (Bill Skarsgård) and Shelly (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save her, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking... [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Aug 23, 2024 - 11 comments

Movie: The Cat

[TRAILER] Okay, imagine a remake of the 1978 Disney movie The Cat From Outer Space, only it's from Hong Kong exploitation company Golden Harvest, it's directed by Lam Ngai Kai (Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky), and it's filled with ultraviolence, goopy body horror VFX, a monstrous alien that seems to be made of tongues, and a fight between the strongest dog in the world and an alien cat named The General. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 22, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Cloak & Dagger

A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Aug 1, 2024 - 10 comments

Movie: Twisters

A retired tornado-chaser and meteorologist is persuaded to return to Oklahoma to work with a new team and new technologies.
posted by TheophileEscargot on Jul 19, 2024 - 23 comments

Movie: The Big 4

[TRAILER] Four retired assassins spring back into action when they cross paths with a straight-arrow cop determined to track down an elusive murderer. This action comedy from acclaimed Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto is "gory, gonzo, goofy and overflowing with the director’s signature mayhem" and "like The Three Stooges with bazookas". [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 2, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Thelma

When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her. Trailer
posted by queensissy on Jun 23, 2024 - 12 comments

Movie: Drive

[TRAILER] Maybe you saw Guillermo del Toro's recent tweet praising Drive as "an unbelievable, exhilarating film." Thing is: he isn't talking about the 2011 Drive with Ryan Gosling. He's talking about the bonkers 1997 US buddy comedy/Hong Kong-style action/sci-fi B movie gem with Mark Dacascos (whom we enjoyed kicking ass in John Wick 3), Kadeem Hardison (Dwayne Wayne from A Different World), and Brittany Murphy, doing one of those turns where she transforms a peripheral "the girl" part into something electric and weird. It's a lost delight that ticks a lot of the best B movie nerd boxes. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 23, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Top Gun

Trailer. As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot [Tom Cruise] learns a few things from a civilian instructor [Kelly McGillis] that are not taught in the classroom. [more inside]
posted by wnissen on Jun 11, 2024 - 26 comments

Movie: King Kong

[TRAILER] Peter Jackson's expansive remake of the 1933 classic follows director Carl Denham (Jack Black) and his crew on a journey from New York City to the ominous Skull Island to film a new movie. Accompanying him are playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) and actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), who is whisked away by the monstrous ape, Kong, after they reach the island. The crew encounters dinosaurs and other creatures as they race to rescue Ann, while the actress forms a bond with her simian captor. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 15, 2024 - 15 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, 2024 - 19 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, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Doomsday

[TRAILER] When the first outbreak of the Reaper virus hit Scotland, Eden Sinclair was one of the last to escape containment and had to leave her mother behind. Twenty-five years later, Maj. Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) leads a team back into the hot zone to find a counteragent to the virus, which has re-emerged in London. She and her comrades wage a desperate battle for survival against feral survivors, as they try to prevent it from ushering in a new dark age. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 6, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: The Fall Guy

Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) has to track down a missing movie star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life (Emily Blunt) while still doing his day job. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on May 2, 2024 - 26 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, 2024 - 14 comments

Movie: The Wolverine

[TRAILER] Lured to a Japan he hasn't seen since World War II, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) finds himself in a shadowy realm of yakuza and samurai. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 30, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

[TRAILER] After seeking to live a normal life, Logan (Hugh Jackman) sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 29, 2024 - 7 comments

Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand

[TRAILER] When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier’s former ally, Magneto. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 29, 2024 - 10 comments

Movie: X-Men

[TRAILER] Two mutants, Rogue (Anna Paquin) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 26, 2024 - 17 comments

Movie: Destry Rides Again

[TRAILER] The town of Bottleneck is ruled by corrupt and power-hungry saloon owner Kent (Brian Donlevy) who names the town drunk, Dimsdale (Charles Winninger), as sheriff. Dimsdale's old friend lawman Tom Destry sends his daring son Tom Destry Jr. (James Stewart) to Bottleneck to save the day. Frenchy (Marlene Dietrich), a saloon girl who is initially one of Kent’s followers, saves Destry’s life and becomes romantically involved with him. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 23, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

[TRAILER] Something something, nuclear weapons, Lex Luthor, Nuclear Man, something something, Golan/Globus cheapness, something something, Christopher Reeve as Superman. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 23, 2024 - 15 comments

Movie: [REC]4 Apocalypse

[TRAILER] Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco), the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days to verify she has not been infected. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 23, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: [REC] 3: Genesis

[TRAILER] Newlyweds (Leticia Dolera, Diego Martín) watch their wedding reception descend into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 23, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

The British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers (Henry Cavill, the Large Guy from Jack Reacher, Henry Golding) to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II. (Guy Ritchie directs.) [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Apr 19, 2024 - 10 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, 2024 - 14 comments

Movie: Dead End Drive-In

[TRAILER] In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 19, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Spy x Family Code: White

After receiving an order to be replaced in Operation Strix, Loid decides to help Anya win a cooking competition at Eden Academy, by making the director's favorite meal in order to prevent his replacement. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Apr 15, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Monkey Man

An anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systemically victimize the poor and powerless.
posted by TheophileEscargot on Apr 11, 2024 - 6 comments

Special Event: Rifftrax: For Love Or Death

MST Club presents a 2024 Rifftrax of a movie from 1996. A karate monk doesn't want to do the karate-monk thing any more and leaves their evil karate sect. They come after in the evil karate sect way. So he transfers his soul into a passed-out hobo, giving him his karate moves. I didn't know it was so easy! Neo's skills in The Matrix don't seem so impressive now. Wait... maybe this is the Matrix, and the robots got their brain files mixed up? Agent Smith is going to have to pull overtime to fix this. You know most of the work the Agents do is going to be dumb gruntwork like that. Anyway, 1996 karate hobo action flick go.
posted by JHarris on Apr 4, 2024 - 0 comments

Movie: Road House

[TRAILER] Ex-UFC fighter Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 21, 2024 - 12 comments

Movie: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[TRAILER] A team of extraordinary figures culled from great adventure literature (including Alan Quatermain, vampiress Mina Harker from Dracula, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, an American secret service agent named Sawyer, Captain Nemo, and Dorian Gray), are called to stop a villain intent on turning the nations of the world against one another. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 5, 2024 - 23 comments

Movie: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train

[TRAILER] Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it! [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 16, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Into the Night (1985)

Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum) used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer). Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive. [more inside]
posted by adamrice on Feb 10, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: The Baker

[TRAILER] An elderly baker (Ron Perlman) must do everything he can to protect his granddaughter from gangsters. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 5, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: [REC]2

[TRAILER] Moments after where the first film left off, a doctor and a SWAT team enter the quarantined Barcelona building where a virus has turned the residents into a pack of ravenous monsters. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 27, 2024 - 5 comments

Reacher: Fly Boy   Season 2, Ep 8

Reacher and Neagley make a final desperate attempt to save O'Donnell and Dixon, stop A.M. and avenge their friends' murder. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 21, 2024 - 30 comments

Movie: The Beekeeper

In The Beekeeper, one man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as "Beekeepers".
posted by TheophileEscargot on Jan 18, 2024 - 13 comments

Movie: The Whiskey Bandit

[TRAILER] Between 1993 and 1999, one man robbed 29 financial institutions in Budapest. Banks, post offices and even travel agencies fell victim to his crime spree. The police had no leads and no hope of finding him during his six-year stint. The only clue left behind at the crime scenes was the distinct aroma of whiskey. Never physically harming anyone, many began to eagerly follow his escapades through the media. A Transylvanian immigrant, who also happened to be a goalie for one of the city’s largest hockey teams, named Attila Ambrus, was finally identified as the “Whiskey Bandit.” The police had finally captured him… or so they thought. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 12, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: RED

[TRAILER] After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe (Morgan Freeman), crazy Marvin (John Malkovich) and wily Victoria (Helen Mirren) to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 9, 2024 - 12 comments

Movie: Rambo: First Blood

A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
posted by TheophileEscargot on Dec 20, 2023 - 28 comments

Special Event: Cinematic Titanic: THE RATTLERS

It's the last of the 12 episodes of Cinematic Titanic (we have skipped one to save for Christmas). The movie: rattlesnakes in a mineshaft are affected by abandoned military nerve gas that causes them to start attacking people. I don't know, seems like a negative quality of a military nerve gas, to make its targets attack people, but then I'm not a military nerve gas contractor. Next week we'll start in on the four episodes of The Film Crew!
posted by JHarris on Oct 26, 2023 - 2 comments

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