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December 13

Person of Interest: Prisoner's Dilemma   Season 2, Episode 12

While Carter engages in mental warfare with the FBI to help Reese evade Agent Donnelly's narrowing focus, Reese crosses paths with foes both old and new. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 10:08 AM - 0 comments

December 12

Silo: Descent  Show Only   Season 2, Episode 5

Sims finds himself with a new position. Juliette learns Solo isn't being honest. Bernard and Lukas make an important discovery.
posted by tjgrathwell at 10:43 PM - 3 comments

Movie: Poltergeist II: The Other Side

[TRAILER] The Freelings (JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson) have escaped their haunted house, which is now being studied by paranormal investigators, including shaman Taylor (Will Sampson). When Taylor realizes that the Beast, masquerading as the Rev. Kane (Julian Beck), knows where young Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) now lives, he goes to warn the family that their daughter is in danger again. To protect Carol, her family must plot to take down the Beast. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:21 PM - 4 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Fissure Quest  Season 5, Episode 9

AKA The Trouble With Harrys [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:20 PM - 18 comments

Creature Commandos: Cheers to the Tin Man  Season 1, Episode 3

All G. I. Robot wants is to hang out with his boys. And kill nazis.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 5:27 PM - 2 comments

Movie: The Walking Dead

[TRAILER] Down-on-his-luck John Ellman (Boris Karloff) is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor (Edmund Gwenn, aka Santa in Miracle on 34th Street) uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is not as expected. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:29 PM - 0 comments

Movie: Red One

[TRAILER] After Santa Claus -- Code Name: RED ONE -- is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security (Dwayne Johnson) must team up with the world's most infamous bounty hunter (Chris Evans) in a mission to save Christmas. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:32 AM - 13 comments

Movie: The Prisoner of Shark Island

[TRAILER] John Ford's 1936 drama presents a highly whitewashed and fictionalized version of the life of Maryland physician Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter), who treated the injured presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth and later spent time in prison after his unanimous conviction for being one of Booth's accomplices. Co-stars Gloria Stuart ("Old Rose" from Titanic as Mudd's wife, Peggy.) [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:56 AM - 3 comments

December 11

Movie: The Curse of the Cat People

[TRAILER] In this ostensible sequel to "Cat People," Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) is married to the lovely Alice Moore (Jane Randolph). The couple has a daughter, Amy (Ann Carter), a withdrawn young girl with a vivid imagination who soon begins talking to visions of her father's deceased former wife, the cursed Irena (Simone Simon). When Amy unintentionally incurs the wrath of a mentally unstable woman (Elizabeth Russell), the girl's relationship with Irena's apparition comes into play. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:35 PM - 9 comments

All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: December 11, 2024: Winter Is Coming  Season 6, Episode 11

AEW is keeping the WIC episode name for the fifth year in a row! Tonight the Continental Classic continues with Ricochet vs. Brody King (!) and Will Ospreay taking on Claudio Castagnoli (!!) Mariah May will have to defend the AEW Women’s World Championship against her former friend Mina Shirakawa, plus pale friend Kyle O'Reilly vs. spray-tan friend Adam Cole. [more inside]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 4:39 PM - 4 comments

Movie: He Ran All the Way

[TRAILER] Nick (John Garfield) and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot, and Nick shoots a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs (Shelley Winters). They go back to her apartment, and he forces her family to hide him from the police. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:13 PM - 2 comments

Person of Interest: 2Πr  Season 2, Episode 11

Finch goes undercover as a high school substitute teacher to protect a teen genius POI as Carter undertakes a dangerous mission to stop the FBI from determining that an imprisoned Reese is the "Man In a Suit." [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 11:15 AM - 9 comments

Stargate SG-1: Within the Serpent's Grasp  Rewatch   Season 1, Episode 21

A threat looms over the human race, so O'Neil and his friends decide to investigate. They pass through the Stargate which is threatened with closure and fearfully discover that the Goa'ulls are about to launch their hunters on the land. [more inside]
posted by Carillon at 10:43 AM - 4 comments

Stargate SG-1: Politics  Rewatch   Season 1, Episode 20

The US government sends a senator to Stargate base to notify SG-1 of the end of the Stargate programme. Now is not the time to condemn the Stargate as the Goa'uld are indeed preparing to destroy Earth. [more inside]
posted by Carillon at 10:37 AM - 4 comments

Movie: Nutcrackers

[TRAILKER] Just as Mike (Ben Stiller) is on the heels of closing the biggest deal of his career, he's pulled away from his bachelor life in the big city to a farm in rural Ohio in order to help his recently orphaned nephews find a new home. Will this selfish city slicker learn the true value of family and Christmas? [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:26 AM - 8 comments

December 10

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: Very Interesting, As An Astrogration Problem  Season 1, Episode 3

A mysterious stranger offers to help our heroes.
posted by Monday, stony Monday at 6:38 PM - 16 comments

Movie: Dear Santa

[Trailer] 6th grader Liam writes to Santa asking him to prove that he's real. But Liam is dyslexic and accidentally sends his letter to Satan (Jack Black) instead. Get it? Because he's dyslexic. So Satan gives him three wishes or some bullshit.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:06 PM - 7 comments

Movie: The Woman in Green

[TRAILER] Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:24 AM - 3 comments

Movie: Mad Love

[TRAILER] A disturbed surgeon (Peter Lorre) becomes obsessed with actress Yvonne (Frances Drake). When the woman's pianist husband (Colin Clive) has his hands horribly damaged in an accident, Dr. Gogol replaces them with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives... and kill. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:54 AM - 3 comments

Person of Interest: C.O.D.  Season 2, Episode 9

Finch and Reese's surveillance skills are pushed to the limit when a New York City cab driver's number comes up and any one of his passengers could be involved in the impending crime. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 6:20 AM - 5 comments

December 9

Only Connect: Hopsters v Al Frescans  Season 20, Episode 18

It's the knockout stage, so one of the teams will be going home, but not before grappling with clues such as 1000 is ALL, 100 is CV, 10 is J. What's next in the sequence?
posted by Carillon at 8:06 PM - 2 comments

Interior Chinatown: Willis. Wilis Wu.  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 10

Willis tries to write his own ending. [more inside]
posted by mcstayinskool at 7:01 PM - 4 comments

Interior Chinatown: Bad Guy  Show Only   Season 1, Episode 9

Lana gets an unexpected message. Willis gets a promotion. [more inside]
posted by mcstayinskool at 6:59 PM - 0 comments

Somebody Somewhere: Full Season  Season 3 (Full Season)

Sam’s friends seem to be finding their way in life, with new relationships, or in the case of Sam’s sister, newly single. But where does that leave Sam?
posted by larrybob at 5:30 PM - 7 comments

Person of Interest: Shadow Box  Season 2, Episode 10

While the FBI refocuses their efforts to catch "The Man in the Suit," Reese's latest POI becomes a personal quest after he learns that she's the sister of a soldier who was killed in action. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 11:32 AM - 10 comments

Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

The apocalypse will be televised! You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero at 3:53 AM - 8 comments

December 8

Movie: Acasa, My Home

A raw, unexpected Romanian gem! A quiet documentary (with no music score!) about a family of feral Romas (9 kids and their stubborn parents) who live isolated from society, in a nature reserve just outside Bucharest. Filthy, proud, tight-knit and independent, they are eventually chased out of their shack and subsistence living, and struggle with their integration into the system. [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 11:19 PM - 0 comments

Special Event: Special Event: Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Final Concert December 8th

Grainy live stream here. show starts 740 ish PST (keep checking in case she comes on early tonight) [more inside]
posted by St. Peepsburg at 6:37 PM - 3 comments

Special Event: Cheesy Holiday Made-For-TV-Movies Thread

I'm going to start a catchall thread if anyone wants to discuss Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, or other holiday movies they've seen this year, since I'm being slow to watch them all. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon at 4:22 PM - 11 comments

Abbott Elementary: E7: Winter Show and E8: Winter Break  Season 4, Episode 7

Abbott Elementary host their first-ever holiday show. Jacob's brother pays him a visit. Melissa hosts a Schemmenti family dinner.
posted by simonw at 2:21 PM - 5 comments

AEW Collision: December 7, 2024 (& Rampage, Dec. 6)  Season 2, Episode 24

In the men’s Continental Classic, Mark Briscoe needs a win to stay competitive, Komander is subbed for an injured Juice Robinson, and Kyle Fletcher faces Kazuchika Okada once again. On the women’s side, Willow Nightingale faces Serena Deeb, and Mina Shirakawa battles Emi Sakura. [more inside]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 11:36 AM - 3 comments

Movie: A Creature Was Stirring

A nurse taking care of her daughter's mysterious affliction struggles to hide her secrets when uninvited strangers take shelter in her house during a lethal blizzard. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 7:35 AM - 0 comments

December 7

Person of Interest: Til Death  Season 2, Episode 8

The team is spread thin when a husband and wife's numbers both come up. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 7:15 PM - 3 comments

Interior Chinatown: Ad Guy  Season 1, Episode 8

Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. [more inside]
posted by mcstayinskool at 1:16 PM - 2 comments

Silo: The Harmonium  Show Only   Season 2, Episode 4

Juliette sets out on a dangerous quest to retrieve a suit so she can return home and save her silo. Mechanical plans a meeting with Judge Meadows. [more inside]
posted by tjgrathwell at 12:04 PM - 9 comments

The Sticky: Chapters 1-6  First Watch   Season 1 (Specials)

A (very) fictionalized retelling of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, starring Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr. Ruth Landry is a tough middle-aged maple syrup farmer, who turns to crime when the bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves. She teams up with a hot-tempered Bostonian mobster, and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard to carry out a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec's maple syrup surplus. [more inside]
posted by Monday, stony Monday at 12:02 PM - 2 comments

The Agency: Hawk from a Handsaw  Season 1, Episode 3

Henry questions Martian's thinking. Bosko is briefed on a top-secret operation. Poppy makes a startling discovery. Martian confronts Sami about why she's in London and finds a needle in a haystack before a heated session with Dr. Blake.
posted by extramundane at 11:34 AM - 0 comments

Movie: The Enchanted

[TRAILER] Royce returns home to the backwoods of Florida to look after a house that was once his late father’s. At first welcomed back by longtime family friend Booker, Royce begins to falls for a mysterious woman from a strange family living in the nearby woods. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:31 AM - 4 comments

December 6

Podcast: Old Gods of Appalachia: Episode 71: Season Five Prologue

Old Gods of Appalachia returns with an enticing prologue for its newest season set during the Satanic panic era of the 1970s. [more inside]
posted by Atreides at 2:33 PM - 3 comments

Movie: Embrace of the Serpent

This was the first Colombian film ever to receive an Oscar nomination (in 2015). It tells of an indigenous shaman, the last of his tribe, who accompanies two travelers deep into the Amazonian jungle, in search of a magical plant. In crisp B&W, except of a 2001-style "Stargate" coda in astonishing colors. [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 10:17 AM - 4 comments

December 5

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Upper Decks  Season 5, Episode 8

The Lower Deckers have a pumpkin carving party. Meanwhile, the bridge crew get their time to shine! Not necessarily saying that they do, they just get their time. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:46 PM - 18 comments

Special Event: Rifftrax: THE FANTASTIC ARGOMAN

MST Club presents! Argoman is a superhero with an unfortunate weakness: whenever he has sex, he loses his powers for six hours. Surely that wouldn't be so bad, right? Apparently though he's hornier than a moose, and the self-titled Queen Of The World has figured out his Achilles Prick, and plans to take advantage of his post-coital fatigue to steal a valuable gem... and then use it somehow to cause terrible inflation? The money kind that is. Rifftrax released this riff quite recently, on November 22, 2024.
posted by JHarris at 4:18 PM - 1 comment

Movie: Terminal Island

[TRAILER] After being convicted of a crime she didn’t commit, a woman is sentenced to life on the aptly named Terminal Island, an anarchic prison where murderous men make the rules and women fight back… [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 3:27 PM - 3 comments

Creature Commandos: The Tourmaline Necklace  Season 1, Episode 2

While Ilana continues her pursuit of Flag, The Bride shows Nina the place where she was created. [more inside]
posted by 1970s Antihero at 2:30 PM - 2 comments

Person of Interest: Critical  Season 2, Episode 7

The Machine gives Finch and Reese the number of a brilliant surgeon, but they soon discover that a resourceful third party has raised the stakes for this POI, forcing them to turn to an unlikely source for help. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 10:41 AM - 5 comments

Person of Interest: The High Road  Season 2, Episode 6

Reese and Zoe pretend to be a married couples living in the suburbs to get close to this week's POI. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 8:13 AM - 4 comments

Creature Commandos: The Collywobbles  Season 1, Episode 1

Amanda Waller tasks General Rick Flag Sr. with leading a team of non-human combatants, codenamed “Task Force M”, to enter Pokolistan and help their heiress, Princess Ilana Rostovic, and stop the Amazonian supervillain Circe. [more inside]
posted by 1970s Antihero at 6:41 AM - 4 comments

Movie: Blind Chance

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life. Written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, the Three Colors trilogy guy. (1987 (1981) Poland 114m.) [more inside]
posted by fleacircus at 6:34 AM - 2 comments

Movie: The Girl on the Broomstick

Saxana, a young incompetent witch facing 300 years detention, plans to escape to the human world for 48 hours and causes mayhem with her magic powers and questionable judgment. (1972 Czechoslovakia 76 minutes.) [more inside]
posted by fleacircus at 4:36 AM - 2 comments

Movie: The Teachers' Lounge

Carla, an enthusiastic new teacher, decides to do something about the petty thefts plaguing the teacher's lounge. It doesn't go great tbh. (Germany, 98min, IMDB 7.4 24k, currently on Netflix.) [more inside]
posted by fleacircus at 3:22 AM - 4 comments

December 4

All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: December 4, 2024  Season 6, Episode 10

Yours truly forgot completely about the Dynamite before Thanksgiving last week (apologies!), but this week's episode will be a lesson in consequences as Max Caster pays the bill for mouthing off to Swerve Strickland. The Continental Classic Tournament continues, Anna Jay wants to prove that a few losses haven't shaken her, and Jay White has a first-time ever against PAC. [more inside]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:57 PM - 2 comments

Movie: Hot Frosty

Widow Kathy (Lacey Chabert) magically brings a snowman, Jack (Dustin Milligan), to life. His innocence helps her heal and find love again. They bond before the holidays, but he's doomed to melt. Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti and written by Russell Hainline. Streaming on Netflix.
posted by edencosmic at 5:31 PM - 11 comments

Person of Interest: Bury the Lede  Season 2, Episode 5

Reese must protect an investigative journalist through surreptitious means to avoid becoming part of her story. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 4:04 PM - 2 comments

Stargate SG-1: There but for the Grace of God  Rewatch   Season 1, Episode 19

SG-1 discovers a world made uninhabitable by the Goa'uld. O'Neill asks his team to move as quickly as possible towards the Stargate but Daniel Jackson touches a strange mirror and finds himself projected into a parallel reality. [more inside]
posted by Carillon at 3:34 PM - 9 comments

Person of Interest: Triggerman  Season 2, Episode 4

When The Machine gives them the number of a mob enforcer whose life becomes endangered, Reese and Finch must decide whether to intervene or allow karma to balance the scales of justice. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 7:32 AM - 4 comments

December 3

Person of Interest: Masquerade  Season 2, Episode 3

With Finch back in the Library, Reese returns to field work, only to face a POI who steadfastly eludes his attempts to protect her. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin at 2:56 PM - 9 comments

Movie: Wagon Master

[TRAILER] Two horse traders (Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.) are hired by a Mormon elder (Ward Bond) to guide his group's wagon train to the San Juan Valley. Along the way, they encounter rugged terrain, a stranded medicine show, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:43 AM - 1 comment

Movie: Never Let Me Go

The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking. [more inside]
posted by kokaku at 10:47 AM - 3 comments

Movie: The Narrow Margin

[TRAILER] Tense story of a tough cop attempting to transport the widow of a gangster to the trial in which she'll testify. They undertake a rail journey from Chicago to Los Angeles with their lives constantly under threat from hit men on the train, who will stop at nothing to prevent her from testifying. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:55 AM - 2 comments

December 2

Only Connect: Harmonics v Cat Cows  Season 20, Episode 17

The knockout stage has arrived, and it's a rematch. Yes, thanks to the series structure, these teams have played each other before. They're facing such questions as Arkana, Astana, Nur-Sultan, what comes fourth in the sequence.
posted by Carillon at 11:44 PM - 1 comment