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Movie: Career Opportunities

Jim is the dorky son of a local cement contractor who lives at home and has no direction. Josie is the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy businessman who dreams of leaving town. They find they have a lot in common. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Feb 8, 2025 - 6 comments

Movie: Murphy's Romance

Emma moves to a ranch with her son after a divorce and befriends the older Murphy, but things turn complicated when her ex shows up. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Feb 7, 2025 - 5 comments

Movie: The Year of Living Dangerously

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Feb 7, 2025 - 8 comments

Movie: Clean and Sober

A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehabilitation to escape trouble with the law and realizes that it's exactly what he needs. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Feb 5, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: Smile

A social comedy about a beauty pageant for young Californian women, held annually in Santa Rosa, and how it affects the locals and participants. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Feb 4, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: The Damned

A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Feb 3, 2025 - 3 comments

Movie: Last Man Standing

A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 30, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: Absolute Beginners

In London in 1958, a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 30, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: Runaway Train

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 27, 2025 - 8 comments

Movie: Demon Seed

A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 27, 2025 - 8 comments

Movie: Presence

Showcases a suburban house inhabited by a mysterious entity. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 26, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: Crimes of Passion

A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men: a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 24, 2025 - 6 comments

Movie: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 23, 2025 - 19 comments

Movie: Queen of Hearts

A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 20, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: Last Summer

Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 19, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: Slingshot

Casey Affleck (yeah, I know) and Laurence Fishburne are on a space mission to Titan. Complications ensue.
posted by Lemkin on Jan 18, 2025 - 0 comments

Movie: Year of the Dragon

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 18, 2025 - 0 comments

Movie: Altered States

A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
posted by Lemkin on Jan 17, 2025 - 11 comments

Movie: Band of the Hand

Five juvenile lost causes are sent to the Everglades where a war veteran tries to reform them using survival tactics. Their new skills and resolve are tested when a Miami drug lord targets them for trying to clean up their neighbood. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 16, 2025 - 3 comments

Movie: Womb

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 12, 2025 - 3 comments

Movie: Barfly

Directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, the film is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles.
posted by Lemkin on Jan 9, 2025 - 6 comments

Movie: Anarchy TV

Reverend buys daughter's public access station airing shows he deems inappropriate. When protesting fails, teens stage a nude broadcast for attention, gaining national exposure. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 8, 2025 - 0 comments

Movie: Hardly Working

After The Day The Clown Cried fell apart, Jerry Lewis stopped directing for the rest of the Seventies. Then he launched a comeback with this episodic comedy about an unemployed circus clown trying to find employment. Roger Ebert called it "one of the worst movies ever to achieve commercial release in this country". [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 6, 2025 - 11 comments

Movie: Molli and Max in the Future

A sci-fi romantic comedy about a man and woman whose orbits repeatedly collide over the course of 12 years, 4 planets, 3 dimensions, and one space-cult. [more inside]
posted by kliuless on Oct 10, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Spirit of Fear

2023 horror flick in which a man wakes up confused in an empty family home with one arm bloody, then finds post-it notes scattered around saying things like "Don't stay in here too long", "Don't go outside", "Run?" and "Fight?" while water runs down the walls, something claws at a shower curtain and he has vague memories of a woman and daughter somewhere. The tension, confusion and horror build. Debut from director Alex Davidson clocks in at a quick 75 minutes. On Tubi with no ads.
posted by mediareport on Jun 30, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: Panic Room

A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house's safe room when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune. [more inside]
posted by skycrashesdown on May 22, 2024 - 7 comments

Movie: Appaloosa

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow. [more inside]
posted by skycrashesdown on May 1, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Nocturne

An incredibly gifted pianist makes a Faustian bargain to overtake her older sister at a prestigious institution for classical musicians. [more inside]
posted by skycrashesdown on Apr 30, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: BlackBerry

Two mismatched entrepreneurs — egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie — joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone. [more inside]
posted by General Malaise on Feb 25, 2024 - 10 comments

National Museum of the American Indian Native Cinema showcase online

Streaming now through Friday, Nov. 24: The National Museum of the American Indian online Native Cinema Showcase. With eight days of online screenings, the program includes 35 films (six features, 29 shorts) representing 22 Native nations in six countries: U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and Colombia. [more inside]
posted by gudrun on Nov 17, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: Ikarie XB 1

Awesome 1963 Czech scifi film directed by Jindrich Polák about a spaceship crew bound for Alpha Centauri, based on an early Stanislaw Lem novella. It's been called an influence on 2001 (we know Kubrick saw it) and Star Trek. It includes eerie encounters with alien spacecraft, fantastic sets and costumes, a wonderful experimental electro-acoustic score by Zdeněk Liška (who later scored Jan Svankmeyer shorts), and the 2nd best outer space dance scene ever, complete with casual drug-sniffing. Available in a beautiful 2016 restoration from Second Run DVD with neat extras, and currently up at YouTube. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Nov 5, 2023 - 13 comments

Movie: Viking

A sly, deadpan Canadian comedy about a team of non-astronauts sent into isolation in a desert on Earth because their personalities match the members of an actual ongoing Mars mission that's having interpersonal conflicts. The earthbound team is tasked with mirroring the real astronauts' behavior and coming up with solutions to the Martian team's psychological problems. 100% on RT with 9 reviews, free on Tubi and other options, mostly in French with English subtitles.
posted by mediareport on Oct 24, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Dangerous Liaisons

Stephen Frears' 1988 adaptation of Laclos' 1782 French novel stars Glenn Close and John Malkovich as two awful aristocrats scheming to destroy morally upright Michelle Pfeiffer, with young innocents Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves as collateral damage. Nominated for Best Picture, it won 3 Oscars, including the costume and production design awards. 94/83 on RT. Includes rape and sexual manipulation. Also includes a Keanu/Malkovich swordfight. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Oct 11, 2023 - 20 comments

Movie: Adam

Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani's 2019 debut is a quiet, understated exploration of the evolving relationship between 2 women in a poor neighborhood in Casablanca: the unwed, pregnant Samia, who's looking for work and a place to stay, and Abla, a widowed baker with a young daughter. Beautifully and sensually filmed, with excellent performances, a sharp sense of place and a neat thread about baking running through. Trailer. 87% at Rotten Tomatoes. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Aug 3, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Red, White & Royal Blue

An LGBT romance based on the novel by Casey McQuiston, the story revolves around the character of Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of The President of the United States, and his romantic relationship with Prince Henry, a British prince. [more inside]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero on Jul 6, 2023 - 17 comments

Movie: Proof (2005)

The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, comes to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. [more inside]
posted by Stuka on Feb 7, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: Desert Hearts

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
posted by skycrashesdown on Jan 21, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: The Lost City

A reclusive romance novelist on a book tour with her cover model gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that lands them both in a cutthroat jungle adventure. Full of 80s adventure movie tropes, a glitter jumpsuit and Daniel Radcliffe proving he is both a silly actor and a serious one. [more inside]
posted by fiercekitten on Mar 31, 2022 - 17 comments

Hilda: Hilda and the Mountain King  Season 3, Ep 10000

When Hilda wakes up in the body of a troll, she must use her wits and courage to get back home, become human again and save the city of Trolberg. (Netflix)
posted by curious nu on Dec 31, 2021 - 4 comments

Movie: The Vast of Night

In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, a young switchboard operator Fay and charismatic radio DJ Everett discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever. [more inside]
posted by fiercekitten on May 30, 2020 - 24 comments

Movie: Family Weekend

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
posted by ruben on Apr 12, 2020 - 2 comments

Movie: Furie

Veronica Ngo stars as an ex-gangster who is lying low in the countryside after becoming a mother, but she can't escape her violent past when her daughter is kidnapped. [more inside]
posted by Gorgik on Feb 17, 2020 - 4 comments

Mystery Science Theater 3000: THIS ISLAND EARTH  Rewatch   Season 7, Ep 7

Carl is a Serious Scientist who's been sent a parts catalog in the mail, but the parts are crazy-pants, and further the catalog describes how to build an "Interociter." which apparently can perform housework? and display video communications? Rather than returning that thing right back to Archie McPhee Carl decides to order the parts and build it. Amazingly, rather than being a hilarious practical joke at his expense, it presents the smiling face of Exeter, who invites him to join with other Human Scientists at their Laboratory. From there, let's just say the dominos have been set in motion, and a trip to space and a confrontation with Scrotor is inevitable. In the history of the show, this episode actually isn't the show, but MST: The Movie. It's been written up on Fanfare before, here. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Dec 5, 2019 - 9 comments

Movie: Dora and the Lost City of Gold

Dora, a teenage explorer, leads her friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold.
posted by selfnoise on Nov 30, 2019 - 3 comments

Movie: Joker

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
posted by cozenedindigo on Oct 6, 2019 - 56 comments

Book Comparison Discussion

A place to compare any of the novels, novellas, graphic novels, short and long form presentations, or whatever else for the Hugos. [more inside]
posted by dinty_moore on Jul 22, 2019 - 7 comments

Movie: The Art of Self-Defense

Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
posted by julthumbscrew on Jul 20, 2019 - 4 comments

Movie: Deadwood

The residents of Deadwood gather to commemorate Dakota's statehood in 1889, ten years on from the end of the series. The railroad and the telephone lines have civilized the town; at least on the surface, old wounds still ache. [more inside]
posted by Iteki on Jun 1, 2019 - 38 comments

Movie: Brightburn

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
posted by Faint of Butt on May 28, 2019 - 12 comments

Movie: Nine to Five

Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton work in a corporate office. Their boss is a pig. When they manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep him tied up?
posted by Emmy Rae on Feb 15, 2019 - 17 comments

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