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Movie: The Pope's Exorcist

Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe), the Vatican's leading exorcist investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican has tried to keep secret. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 10, 2023 - 19 comments

Movie: Bartleby

A manager (David Paymer) hires a strange employee (Crispin Glover) who, at first, is exceptionally efficient but then begins to reply to any request with "I would prefer not to." An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 4, 2023 - 6 comments

Movie: Polite Society

The feature film debut from writer-director Nida Manzoor (We Are Lady Parts) is a merry mash-up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action. Ria Khan (Priya Kansara, Bridgerton) practices martial arts in order to become a stuntwoman. But when her sister Lena (Ritu Arya, The Umbrella Academy) drops out of art school and suddenly gets engaged, Ria decides she and her friends must pull off a wedding-heist. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 23, 2023 - 22 comments

Movie: Renfield

Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as a lackey for Dracula (Nicolas Cage), Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) finds a new lease on life--and maybe even redemption--when he comes into the orbit of feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 17, 2023 - 22 comments

Movie: Mafia Mamma

An American mom (Toni Collette) inherits her grandfather's mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm's consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she "hilariously" defies everyone's expectations as the new head of the family business. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Apr 13, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: I'm Not Gay A Musical

[TRAILER] Misha (Hamilton's Sydney James Harcourt), always wanted to be a dancer, but childhood trauma pushed him the other direction, as he instead became the star of an underground MMA fighting club. Because of [plot reasons], he finds his dream home on Fire Island but will have to convince the neighbors he's gay for the owner to sell it to him. But is he actually gay? What is he repressing? And yes: it's a musical. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 13, 2023 - 2 comments

Misfits: Episode 23  Season 4, Ep 2

Finn isn't quite as innocent as he looks when a dark secret he's been hiding at home is revealed. Can Seth be persuaded to come out of retirement and take a power before someone gets forced into submission? Elsewhere, Rudy and Curtis go into battle over a beautiful blind girl, while Jess meets new super-sexy barman Alex. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 11, 2023 - 1 comment

Misfits: Episode 22 (Series 4 Premiere)  Season 4, Ep 1

Some lost, some moved on, the remaining members of the gang continue their community service. Two new offenders join the community service team: Jess and Finn. The new offenders quickly realize something is not right as the others have been infected with some sort of virus after a badly hurt man, with a briefcase handcuffed to him, stumbles into the community center and collapses at their feet. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 5, 2023 - 4 comments

Misfits: Episode Twenty-One (Series 3 Finale)  Season 3, Ep 8

Jonas, the newest superpowered person to turn up at the community center is a medium who can conjure the dead... bad news when you consider how many people the gang has bumped off over the years. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 5, 2023 - 6 comments

Misfits: Episode Twenty  Season 3, Ep 7

Seth gives Curtis the power to reanimate the dead, having him bring his dead & buried girlfriend back to life. That goes great. And hey, there's a new probation worker. Wonder how long she is going to... oh. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 4, 2023 - 3 comments

Misfits: Episode Nineteen  Season 3, Ep 6

After a drunken one-night-stand with a mysterious girl, Rudy discovers that he has a strange superpower-caused STD. With only 24 hours to undo the curse, Rudy enlists Simon to help him find the girl. Meanwhile something weird is happening with Curtis' gender-swap power, and Seth finally finds the superpower that he's been searching for. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 4, 2023 - 3 comments

Misfits: Episode Eighteen  Season 3, Ep 5

Kelly is accidentally body-swapped with a coma patient. Rudy gets anger management therapy. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 27, 2023 - 1 comment

Misfits: Episode Seventeen  Season 3, Ep 4

Elderly Jew Friedrich Hirsch, having purchased Curtis's rewind power from power broker Seth, travels back to 1930s Berlin to kill Hitler. He fails, in doing so, dropping his cell phone, giving the Nazis technology which alters history so Germany wins the war. In the altered present, Britain is under Nazi control, and none of the misfits know each other. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 23, 2023 - 3 comments

Misfits: Episode Sixteen  Season 3, Ep 3

Simon stops the mugging of a comic book fan named Peter. The two become fast friends until Alisha discovers Peter might be influencing Simon with powers of his own. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 21, 2023 - 2 comments

Misfits: Episode Fifteen  Season 3, Ep 2

Curtis uses his new power to bypass his ban on competitive athletics. Along the way, he meets Emma, a fellow athlete on whom he starts to develop a crush. Back at the community center, the gang confronts new girl Melissa as Kelly thinks she and Simon are having a secret affair. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 21, 2023 - 3 comments

Misfits: Episode 14  Season 3, Ep 1

Each member of the gang has acquired new powers. They meet Rudy, who has the power of having a double (who seems to be his more sensitive side). Meanwhile, the gang is confronted by an unstable girl who has the ability to freeze everyone around her. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 21, 2023 - 8 comments

Misfits: Vegas Baby! (One-Off Special Short)  Season 3, Ep 10000

Nathan and Marnie dash off to Las Vegas to make a fortune with Nathan's new power: the gift of being able to slightly alter reality. Back home, there's a new guy doing community service at the community center: Rudy (Joseph Gilgun). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 21, 2023 - 4 comments

Misfits: Episode Thirteen (2010 Christmas Special)  Season 2, Ep 7

The week before Christmas, and the gang see some graffiti that offers "Money for Powers." At the address advertised they meet Seth, a drug dealer who was also struck in the storm and now has the ability to deal powers. Also a man who can walk on water and claims to be Jesus attracts a following. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 21, 2023 - 2 comments

Misfits: Episode Twelve  Season 2, Ep 6

After the existence of super-powers are exposed to the world at large, the gang become celebrity super-heroes, known as the "ASBO Five." There is serious money to be made, as long as the gang can manage to handle their fame, but as they settle in at a luxury hotel, they find their renown has made them the target of... The Milk Guy? [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 15, 2023 - 6 comments

Misfits: Episode Eleven  Season 2, Ep 5

Not for the first time, Nathan is violently murdered. Jessica (Zawe Ashton), a charity worker who's all sweetness and light, is his prime suspect. The others are convinced that Simon is next on her list. While Kelly seems to have found her perfect man in Bruno (Richard Riddell), he's on the run from the police. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 15, 2023 - 3 comments

Misfits: Episode Ten  Season 2, Ep 4

New boy Ollie turns up to start his community payback and it turns out he has a power too, could the gang be getting a new member? When they are all out picking up rubbish on the street, they bump into Tim, who has a few anger issues, and he's soon ready to take it out on them. Meanwhile, Nikki has a heart-transplant which causes some interesting side-effects. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 15, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Marlon Wayans: God Loves Me

Filmed at the Center Stage Theater in Atlanta, Wayans delivers a hilarious hour-long performance, unleashing his spot-on impressions and fearless physical comedy to address one of the most infamous recent events in pop culture "the slap" that took place at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony. (Trailer) [more inside]
posted by riruro on Mar 9, 2023 - 1 comment

Misfits: Episode Nine  Season 2, Ep 3

Superhoodie saves Alisha from a mugging on the estate. It appears he is able to touch Alisha without being affected by her powers and she is intrigued. Alisha is determined to find out more about him, but soon discovers she's out of her depth. Meanwhile, Nathan, Kelly and Simon go to a tattoo parlour, where Nathan manages to offend Vince, the tattooist and, soon after, Nathan begins to act strangely. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 9, 2023 - 3 comments

Misfits: Episode Eight  Season 2, Ep 2

A stranger turns up and claims to be Nathan's half brother, Jamie, who might've made a misstep in his quest to patch things up with their father. Meanwhile, the group continue to try to find out more about Superhoodie, though where he leads them might not be where they expect. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 8, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Chris Rock: Selective Outrage

Comedian Chris Rock performs a live stand-up special in Baltimore, Maryland. [more inside]
posted by riruro on Mar 7, 2023 - 8 comments

Misfits: Episode 7  Season 2, Ep 1

With Sally presumed missing, a new probation worker named Shaun takes over her duties. Superhoodie returns with an important message. An art therapy class for the mentally ill is taking place in the community centre and one of the patients, Lucy, appears to be obsessed with Simon. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 7, 2023 - 5 comments

Misfits: Episode 6  Season 1, Ep 6

The gang notice that local youths have strangely stopped getting drunk, taking drugs, or having sex. Behind it is a cult-like organization called "Virtue," run by Rachel (guest star Jessica Brown-Findlay), a mysterious girl with a commanding storm-based power of suggestion. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 6, 2023 - 6 comments

Misfits: Episode Five  Season 1, Ep 5

The newest person to turn up at the rec center with powers is Finn, a 9 month-old baby who mesmerizes Nathan into wanting to be his daddy. Sally continues to manipulate Simon, in search of answers for what happened to Tony. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 6, 2023 - 3 comments

Misfits: Episode Four  Season 1, Ep 4

Curtis is confronted by his ex-girlfriend, who went to prison for the same drug incident that got him banned from the Olympics. Trying to make things right for her, and himself, Curtis finds that changing the past had unintended ripple effects. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 6, 2023 - 7 comments

Misfits: Episode Three  Season 1, Ep 3

Alisha finds her power always works, but that just makes connecting with the person she really wants that much more difficult. Simon's online flirtation with shygirl18 seems to be a catfish from someone close by with nefarious intent. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 6, 2023 - 4 comments

Misfits: Episode Two  Season 1, Ep 2

Nathan falls for a beautiful young woman at the home for the elderly where the team is doing community service. Is she a volunteer... or a resident? Curtis and Alisha keep flirting. Simon chats up someone calling themselves "shygirl18" online. Ominous notes threatening the gang imply that someone else knows what happened with the probation officer. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 3, 2023 - 9 comments

Misfits: Episode One  Season 1, Ep 1

[SERIES TRAILER] When a group of young adults on court-ordered community service gets caught in a freak storm on the first day, some of them discover they have superpowers. It's like X-Men, if instead of struggling with the responsibilities of their powers, they all just sort of went on with their crappy lives. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 2, 2023 - 13 comments

Movie: We Have a Ghost

[TRAILER] Finding a ghost named Ernest (David Harbour) haunting their new home turns Kevin (Jahi Di'Allo Winston) and his family (Anthony Mackie, Erica Ash, Niles Fitch) into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and Ernest investigate the mystery of Ernest's past, they become a target of the CIA. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 26, 2023 - 6 comments

Movie: Cocaine Bear

[TRAILER] An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 25, 2023 - 30 comments

Detroiters: Duvet Family Reunion  Season 2, Ep 3

Here's "Detroiters" S2.E3 on IMDb [more inside]
posted by elkevelvet on Feb 24, 2023 - 2 comments

Book: Strong Female Character

Stand up comedian Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she's had loads of boyfriends and is good at eye contact. This is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman.
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 23, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Dick Tracy

[TRAILER] Hard-boiled detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) is searching for evidence that proves Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice is the city's most dangerous crime boss. He may have found the key to unraveling the crimelord's illegal empire in Breathless Mahoney (Madonna), an enigmatic barroom singer who has witnessed some of Caprice's crimes firsthand. However, she seems more set on stealing Dick away from his girlfriend, Tess (Glenne Headly), than helping him solve the case of his career. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 22, 2023 - 17 comments

Special Event: Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark

Maron's latest comedy special. [more inside]
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints on Feb 14, 2023 - 12 comments

Movie: Magic Mike's Last Dance

[TRAILER] "Magic" Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite (Salma Hayek Pinault) who lures him with an offer he can't refuse... and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he--and the roster of hot new dancers he'll have to whip into shape--be able to pull it off? [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 10, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: A Man Called Otto

Otto (Tom Hanks) is a grump who has given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol (Mariana TreviƱo), leading to a friendship that will turn his world around. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 3, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: I'm Totally Fine

Vanessa (Jillian Bell) embarks on a solo trip to clear her head after the death of her best friend Jennifer (Natalie Morales). But her self-care vacation takes a detour when she finds the recently departed Jennifer standing in her kitchen, claiming to be an extraterrestrial. Together, they spend the next 48 hours partying and reminiscing on better days. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 3, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: 1941

After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, residents of California descend into a wild panic, afraid that they might be the next target. Among them are Wild Bill Kelso (John Belushi), a crazed National Guard pilot; Sgt. Frank Tree (Dan Aykroyd), a patriotic, straight-laced tank crew commander; Ward Douglas (Ned Beatty), a civilian willing to help with the American war effort at any cost; and Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell (Robert Stack), who tries his hardest to maintain sanity amid the chaos. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 2, 2023 - 8 comments

The Simpsons: There's No Disgrace Like Home  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 4

Homer does what he can to change The Simpsons into the ideal family. [more inside]
posted by chinesefood on Feb 1, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: You People

Follows a new couple and their families, who find themselves examining modern love and family dynamics amidst clashing cultures, societal expectations and generational differences. [more inside]
posted by bearette on Feb 1, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Upstream

A down-and-out actor is coached by a fading star when he is offered a part in a play in London. One of dozens of director John Ford's silent films, this backstage comedy was thought lost until a complete copy turned up in New Zealand in 2009. Many of the plot elements are said to echo the real-life Barrymore acting dynasty. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 31, 2023 - 0 comments

Podcast: The Pod F. Tompkast: All Episodes

Welcome to the Pod F. Tompkast! When night descends on the internet, Paul F. Tompkins keeps watch over all their is, fueled by the music of Eban Schletter's pianoforte. Together, these two sentries ail unseen towards the shores of day, passing the time with comedy type ramblings and bitlets. [more inside]
posted by mark k on Jan 28, 2023 - 8 comments

The Simpsons: Homer's Odyssey  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 3

Homer Simpson finds a new purpose in life when he starts advocating for a safer community. [more inside]
posted by chinesefood on Jan 25, 2023 - 10 comments

Book: Jeeves and the King of Clubs

Storm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security of the nation is in peril. Jeeves, it transpires, has long been an agent of British Intelligence, but now His Majesty's Government must turn to the one man who can help . . . Bertie Wooster. [more inside]
posted by DowBits on Jan 23, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: Around the World in Eighty Days

[TRAILER] Victorian-era Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) proclaims before his fellow members of a London gentleman's club that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days, further boasting that he will bet the princely sum of 20,000 pounds on the success of his endeavor. With his stalwart manservant Passepartout (Cantinflas) alongside, he goes forth on his adventure, pursued by a dogged Police Inspector (Robert Newton) who suspects Fogg of chicanery. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 23, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: You Can't Take It with You

[TRAILER] Sweet-natured Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur) falls for banker's son Tony Kirby (James Stewart). But when she invites her snooty prospective in-laws to dinner to give their blessing to the marriage, Alice's peculiar extended family -- including philosophical grandfather Martin Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), hapless fledgling ballerina sister Essie (Ann Miller) and fireworks enthusiast father, Paul (Samuel S. Hinds) -- might be too eccentric for the staid Kirbys. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 23, 2023 - 5 comments

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