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Hank is thankful to have something in common with Bobby after his knowledge of beef earns him a spot on a college team bound for the state championships.
posted by box on Feb 3, 2025 - 1 comment

When Peggy's birthday celebrations promise to disappoint her once again, she decides to plan her own party aboard a train that features a murder-mystery play.
posted by box on Feb 3, 2025 - 1 comment

Peggy becomes friends with a local drag queen.
posted by box on Feb 2, 2025 - 2 comments

Hank is devastated when Peggy discovers that Arlen's founding mothers were prostitutes.
posted by box on Feb 2, 2025 - 0 comments

The Hills travel to Montana where Peggy attempts to make amends with her estranged rancher mother; Meanwhile, Hank clashes with the locals and Henry Winkler.
posted by box on Feb 1, 2025 - 5 comments

Hank lives his boyhood dream of driving a big rig when helping his mother move. Bobby tags along and, unfortunately, so do Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer; Meanwhile, Peggy and Luanne write a Christmas carol.
posted by box on Jan 31, 2025 - 1 comment

Luanne is wooed by millionaire Trip Larsen (voiced by Michael Keaton)... who has bizarre plans for her.
posted by box on Jan 30, 2025 - 3 comments

Nine Rivers, Arlen's all-Asian country club, is under pressure to have a non-Asian member, so Kahn tries to get Hank to join.
posted by box on Jan 30, 2025 - 1 comment

Hank is a proud Texan, which is all about to change when Cotton reveals to him he was born in New York City.
posted by box on Jan 29, 2025 - 1 comment

When Debbie, Buck's former girlfriend and lover, turns up dead in a dumpster, a city detective suspects Hank of murdering her.
posted by box on Jan 28, 2025 - 1 comment

Buck Strickland is getting a divorce. Since Texas is a community property state, he sells Sugarfoot's Barbecue to Hank until the divorce is final.
posted by box on Jan 28, 2025 - 1 comment

Hank and the boys become volunteer firemen, but when the firehouse burns down, they all have a different version of how the event took place.
posted by box on Jan 27, 2025 - 2 comments

Hank goes to war with a litigious Evangelical Christian woman (Sally Field) bent on banning Halloween and indoctrinating the kids by inviting them to a hell house, and Peggy gives Luanne a piece of her mind when a freshly-converted Luanne says Peggy does not have good morals and values.
posted by box on Jan 27, 2025 - 3 comments

Hank's promise to coach Peggy at the Texas State Boggle Championship is jeopardized when his buddies try to lure him away to the Ninth Annual Dallas Mower Expo. Meanwhile, Bobby and Luanne freak out when they leave a condensation ring on the new coffee table, but their efforts to fix it cause even more trouble.
posted by box on Jan 26, 2025 - 5 comments

[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

Follows a young rapper in the Detroit area, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem. [more inside]
posted by box on Sep 3, 2023 - 4 comments

Following the arrest of her mother, young Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon) decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton (Kiefer Sutherland). During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this dark, comedic modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 26, 2022 - 5 comments

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. [more inside]
posted by box on Aug 26, 2022 - 2 comments

A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil's popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 5, 2018 - 33 comments