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January 20
Abbott Elementary: Testing Season 4, Episode 10
Janine's class fails their practice test. Jacob tries to engage a student, and has a fractious relationship with his bus driver. Mr Johnson trains his intended replacement.
Movie: Benedetta
17th century France! A grimy place of plague of brigands. But situated in the countryside, a charming convent where we meet Benedetta, a young and devout nun whose relationship to Christ is unusually personal, and whose relationship with a novitiate is definitely not something Mother Superior needs to know about. It's Benedetta!, a movie whose title does not end with an exclamation point, but ought to. [more inside]
Movie: Three... Extremes / Sam gang 2
[Trailer] An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors. --IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Nosferatu the Vampyre
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror. Directed by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani.
Movie: The She Beast
A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.
Movie: About Dry Grasses
"A young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life." [more inside]
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]
Movie: Scream 3
[Trailer] While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them. --IMDb [more inside]
Special Event: Trump Inauguration #2: Inside Freezing Crowd-o-Matic Boogaloo
January 19
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]
Movie: Big Game
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.
Movie: Birdy (1984)
Two high school friends return home from the Vietnam War, one seriously wounded, the other mentally traumatized and obsessed with becoming a bird. [more inside]
January 18
Movie: Chasing Chasing Amy
In 2018, Sav Rodgers gave a talk "The Rom-Com That Saved My Life". That rom-com was Chasing Amy.
Chasing Chasing Amy is the documentary they made after, examining the movies production and legacy from a queer perspective, and Sav's deepening relationship with girlfriend Regina. [more inside]
Movie: Chasing Amy
Holden and Banky are successful Superhero comic book artists. Everything is going great until Holden meets Romance comic book artist Alyssa. Holden falls for her, but there's a problem... she's a lesbian! Can they be friends while constantly talking about sex and comic books in the mid 90s? [more inside]
Movie: Slade In Flame
Struggling musicians form a band named Flame, and are picked up by new, slick management, only to break up at their peak. A depiction of the rock band business in the UK starring the 70s glam band Slade, as the fictional band. [more inside]
Movie: Bird
"Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn't have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere." [more inside]
Person of Interest: Mors Praematura Season 3, Episode 6
Now free, Root receives a directive from the Machine that requires Shaw's assistance – by any means necessary – and takes extreme measures to gain her compliance. Also, Reese and Finch look for clues as to why a mild-mannered estate investigator’s number has come up. [more inside]
AEW Collision: January 18, 2024: Maximum Carnage Season 2, Episode 29
Powerhouse Hobbs may have lost his shot at the AEW World Championship on Dynamite this week, but now he's got a posse together to vent their frustrations on the Death Riders and Jericho's Learning Tree. The consequences of Harley Cameron getting evil-misted by Julia Hart will (probably) start unfolding, and Okada defends his International belt against his former CHAOS teammate in Tomohiro Ishii. [more inside]
Columbo: An Exercise in Fatality Season 4, Episode 1
In which we learn the importance of using safeties. Always lift with a buddy. [more inside]
Movie: Slingshot
Casey Affleck (yeah, I know) and Laurence Fishburne are on a space mission to Titan. Complications ensue.
Columbo: Negative Reaction Season 4, Episode 2
In which Dick Van Dyke is revealed to be the villain we always knew he was.
The Great Pottery Throw Down: Mantelpiece Clock and Blindfold Challenge Season 8, Episode 2
Episode 2 of the current season.
Person of Interest: Razgovor Season 3, Episode 5
When Shaw is tasked to stay close to a 10-year-old identified by The Machine, she grudgingly develops respect for the young girl's skills in surveillance and realizes it could be the very reason why her number has come up. Meanwhile, Carter's mission to bring HR to justice risks exposure. [more inside]
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]
Movie: The End
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble. [more inside]
January 17
Movie: Altered States
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Laid: Season One Season 1 (Full Season)
Everyone Stephanie Hsu has ever slept with is dying, one by one. In the order she slept with them. And Zosia Mamet is here to help crack the case. (With cameos from John Early, playing himself, and Simu Liu, not playing himself.) [more inside]
The Agency: The Rubicon Season 1, Episode 9
Martian tricks Langley. Blair and Owen are looking for the White Rabbit. Osman increases the stakes. Henry commissions Dr. Blake for an evaluation. Danny makes an irreversible decision. With Bosko's green light, a trap is activated.
Silo: Into the Fire Show Only Season 2, Episode 10
The rebels make their move-and so does Juliette. [more inside]
The Pitt: 9:00AM Season 1, Episode 3
Samira does her best to keep Whitaker on the right track. A teen overdose sparks conflict in the ER. [more inside]
Podcast: Old Gods of Appalachia: Episode 74: The Good Shepherd
The days grow darker in Baker's Gap as allies from different generations meet face to face. [more inside]
Columbo: By Dawn's Early Light Season 4, Episode 3
A sweaty head of a military academy, played by Patrick McGoohan, will not put up with his institution being turned into a co-ed junior college. [more inside]
Movie: Instruments of a Beating Heart
First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: performing "Ode to Joy" at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders. Little girl Ayame, who often struggles to keep up with the group, is determined to play a major part - the big drum. [more inside]
Movie: Trenque Lauquen
Laura Citarella's Argentinean masterpiece is a slow exploration of love, the stories we tell about ourselves, the stories we tell about each other, and cryptids. The centerpiece is the disappearance of Laura (played by Laura Paredes, who also helped write the film); at the start, we follow her boyfriend Rafael and her colleague/assistant Ezequiel in their search for her. This search, however, leads only to many more layers of story. [more inside]
January 16
Severance: Hello, Ms. Cobel Season 2, Episode 1
Mark returns to work under different circumstances. Secrets from the Outie world come to light. [more inside]
Special Event: Rifftrax Live: THE RETURN OF SWAMP THING
MST Club presents! Features a blooming relationship been a lady and a plant monster. It's a sequel to the Wes Craven cult classic, but it isn't itself directed by Wes Craven, so beware! Movie released in 1989, riff released November 2022.
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]
Movie: Inland Empire
[TRAILER] Nikki (Laura Dern), an actress, takes on a role in a new film, and because her husband (Peter J. Lucas) is very jealous, her co-star Devon (Justin Theroux) gets a warning not to make any romantic overtures -- especially since the characters they play are having an affair. Both actors learn that the project is a remake of an unfinished film in which the stars were murdered. [more inside]
Movie: Lost Highway
[TRAILER] David Lynch fashions two separate but intersecting stories, one about a jazz musician (Bill Pullman), tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, who suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. The other is a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that the women in both are played by the same actress (Patricia Arquette). [more inside]
Movie: Dune
[TRAILER] In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom. This post is for the 1984 adaptation by the late David Lynch. [more inside]
Movie: The Stuff
[TRAILER] A dairy conglomerate hires David Rutherford (Michael Moriarty), an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called "The Stuff," a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it's made or what's in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's a delicious flavor to die for in Larry Cohen's wild satire of food industry capitalism. [more inside]
Movie: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Kevin Costner's first chapter in a multi-film story depicting a history of the American West, which focuses on events occurring in the Wyoming and Montana territories to the north and those situated around hopeful dreams of establishing a town called Horizon in the Southwest. [more inside]
January 15
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: January 15, 2024: Maximum Carnage Season 6, Episode 16
If tonight's Dynamite had a theme, it might be "returns", as Kenny Omega has his first (AEW) match since 2023, and The Hurt Business' MVP has his first (televised) match since an episode of Monday Night Raw in 2022. Then again, it might be "consequences", since Mariah May's opponent for Grand Slam Australia will be determined in a Casino Gauntlet, and HOOK will finally get in a ring with Christian Cage. [more inside]
Movie: The Suspect
Genial shopkeeper Philip (Charles Laughton) endures constant abuse from his quarrelsome wife Cora (Rosalind Ivan) while secretly yearning for a pretty young stenographer (Ella Raines). When Cora turns up dead and it looks like Philip might be behind it, a ruthless blackmailer (Henry Daniell) and a low-key detective (Stanley Ridges) both turn their attention on the shopkeeper. [more inside]
Stargate SG-1: Prisoners Season 2, Episode 3
When the team investigates a rather insignificant planet, a decrepit resident asks for protection from a pursuer. As it turns out, however, it is a murderer and SG 1 ends up together with him, on trial.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: The Real Good Guys Season 1, Episode 8
A journey filled with adventure comes to a surprising end.
Peacemaker: The Suppressed Truth Season 1, Episode 1
The Suppressed Truth is the first episode of a riveting 10-part Finnish TV series (Rauhantekijä). Scripted mostly in English, this dark Finnish thriller debuted in 2020, and features a silver-coiffed female protagonist struggling to piece together a dark intricate story — and multiple impossible choices. [more inside]
January 14
Movie: Desire
An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief. [more inside]
January 13
Night Visions: A View Through the Window/Quiet Please Season 1, Episode 3
Night Visions is a short-lived Twilight Zone wannabe anthology series from the early 00s hosted by Henry Rollins. This particular episode (which you can watch on youtube here) is an especially fun and creative 42 minutes of cheesy outre television and I think more people should know about it. [more inside]
Movie: Phantom Lady
[TRAILER] Scott Henderson's (Alan Curtis) innocuous evening with a strange woman becomes crucial when he is later accused of murdering his wife on the same evening. When Scott's story is disbelieved and a trial fails to bring forth the phantom lady, Scott's devoted secretary Carol (Ella Raines), begins her own investigation with the aid of police inspector Burgess (Thomas Gomez). [more inside]
Person of Interest: Reasonable Doubt Season 3, Episode 4
The team gets the number of a prominent New York lawyer and has to determine whether she orchestrated the death of her recently murdered husband, or if she is being framed. Meanwhile, Carter faces an issue with her new partner, Laskey. [more inside]
Movie: The Last Showgirl
A seasoned showgirl reflects on her past and looks toward her future when her Las Vegas dance revue abruptly closes after a 30-year run.
The Knick: Knick Season 1 Rewatch Season 1 (Full Season)
A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century, directed by Steven Soderbergh, with cinematography by Peter Andrews (aka Soderbergh) and edited by Mary Ann Bernard (aka Soderbergh). Staring Clive Owen, André Holland, Eve Hewson, and many, many others. [justwatch, wiki]
January 12
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]
Movie: The Quatermass Xperiment
1955 Hammer film production of the 1953 BBC TV production of The Quatermass Experiment by Nigel Kneale. Stars American actor Brian Donlevy as Professor Barnard Quatermass, and Richard Wordsworth as the doomed surviving astronaut, Victor Carroon. [more inside]
Movie: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
When both he and a colleague are about to lose their job, Walter takes action by embarking on an adventure more extraordinary than anything he ever imagined.
Movie: Freaked
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist. [more inside]
Movie: The Beast Within
Ten-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of an ancient forest. After witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret that they've so desperately tried to conceal. [more inside]
AEW Collision: January 11, 2024 Season 2, Episode 28
"Rated FTR" and Jericho's Learning Tree continue to circle each other like two old boxers starting a fight in an alley, which leads to collateral damage. Hangman Page draws Christopher Daniels into further down the spiteful spiral, Daniel Garcia continues to distinguish himself in title defenses, and Harley Cameron moves towards that special niche marked "crazy as a loon but surprisingly babyface". [more inside]
Movie: A Real Pain
Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. Available to stream in Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video and YouTube. Official Trailer.
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